he has supported the infrastructure for green city government. the first began working for the city and county of san francisco in 1989 as the investigator for the city's first whistle-blower ordinance. after that, he served in several positions including the executor of the director of human rights, the director of city purchasing, and director of the department of public works. prior to being appointed to the city administrator in 2005. at this time, we will show a short video clips and then we will introduce the mayor. >> it is my pleasure to introduce the mayor of san francisco, ed lee. [applause] >> good morning. thank-you for that introduction. i would like to welcome i very good friend to san francisco. i want to acknowledge our board president and some of the other supervisors. one of the tenants that i have in helping run the city is to do this test team work and i have enjoyed this special relationship with the board of supervisors and i hope it continues through the whole year. i have known gene for many years. but we both worked very c

he has supported the infrastructure for green city government. the first began working for the city and county of san francisco in 1989 as the investigator for the city's first whistle-blower ordinance. after that, he served in several positions including the executor of the director of human rights, the director of city purchasing, and director of the department of public works. prior to being appointed to the city administrator in 2005. at this time, we will show a short video clips and then we will introduce the mayor.

we were the first designated green city in the state. quickly, the schools are -- we had an aggressive effort. we don't run our schools. most cities have separately elected school boards to run the schools. we need to help the schools. if you don't help them, people don't move into your neighborhoods. if you don't help the schools, no businesses come to your community. be involved in your schools. we are focused on our schools and there's a series of programs we did. if you have a question, we have time for questions afterwords. but we wound up going from jeb bush starting the program of grading our schools, a, b, c, d, f and we had 0a elementary schools to 16 out of 27 schools with a's and an increase on the number of a and b schools and we passed the suburbs in some cases which is a hard, hard thing to do. focus on the schools, and i'd be glad to talk about it today if you'd like. fourth is economic development. i'll end with this. you know, when we approached economic development, you know, you have to believe in economic growthment jo

the first green city by the way in the state of florida it's not a feel-good thing it is actually likea lead certification for cities so it's a very serious program that we went through but it was all based on sound strategy. we did not do something unless we look at what is our pnac period for whatever we are doing so i can tell you that when we put l. eda traffic lights at all of the cities it cost $450,000 to receive $150,000 the city costs a year. that is a 33% return. anybody should do that. at every one of the energy savings we look at the payback and if the period was at least 12 years or less, so i got at least an 8% return, we did it and that's how we did all of the programs in the city and became the first designated green city and state. schools, i have to move quickly because i'm running out of time, with the schools, we had an aggressive effort, we don't run our schools. most cities in america don't run the schools, they have separately elective school boards that run the schools but we need to help our schools. if you don't help your school you're not going to get people

city. we have greens from little city gardens, a free-form, a number of backyard gardens or rooftop gardens actually. some support from the garden of the environment. they are here. any other forms or gardens i am forgetting? from across the city, that is actually pretty broad section of the city. this and salad dressing and plates and utensils. i hope we can raise a play or bold celebrate this new law. >> i would like to introduce karen. the key to this ordinance is that not only growing the fruit -- the food is illegal. it illegal. it is still illegal for the next five minutes. but selling it was the key to this. as you know, when it comes to local food production, san francisco has a lot of fight establishments that tried their best to use local food. the neighborhood gathering place in the district, she is here to talk about her work and her support of this. >> with my partner and amazing staff, we run it as a place i hope you'll will visit. i hope i don't start crying partly through what i have to say. the key for inviting me to be here and explain why the passage or the adoption of th

agricultural or water contamination does not signify a good environmental responsibility on our part as a green city. i also urge you to recommend a ballot measure to reform the 1932 ordinance. competitive bidding and a formal service agreement on all aspects of collection, hauling, and disposal is the best way to keep rates even here lastly, landfills should be a thing of the past. europe is using mass incineration that is both cleaner than a barbecue grill and transfers heat to warm their homes. once again, san francisco could lead the way and institute the green technology. i am submitting an article about this from the "new york times." thank you. commissionersupervisor campos: e any other members of the public like to speak, please line up. >> we represent longshoremen in san francisco and the bay area. we have marine clerks from local 34 and 75. we also have a union that is purge workers and backhands. we have heard a lot of stuff today but we have not heard it all. there has been no study detailed and complete on barging. you do not know what the cost would be for a 300-container barge. it is

he wrote a book called green cities, urban growth and the environment and his most recent book, climatoplis features cities in the era of climate change. fun facts about matt kahn, he likes to talk about how much he looks like quentin tarantino. [laughter] >> the truth hurts. [laughter] so, matt, here's my question. climatoplis is written in the breezy popular style, and it has a sort of breezy optimism to it. you write at one point and i'm quoting here, the innovative capitalist culture will allow us to make a faludi stifel these cade from climate change most devastating impact. what makes you so sure of that? >> my mother always told me to avoid wishful thinking, and i always try to be provocative to see if the folks are a week. i take climate change very seriously now that 12 minutes is up -- [laughter] i love good jokes. i take climate change very seriously. and my optimism is really -- the core of my optimism, and i don't want you to walk away thinking i am a 90 optimist is that when we anticipate a challenge that our minds in the world of 7 billion people, perhaps 9 billion people, if

city. the richmond district has not only great businesses like pete from green apple, which just installed the great crowd, but we hope to see many more of those all around the city, and i really will be working with the mayor and my colleagues on the board of supervisors to insure that the jfk drive dedicated improvements are instituted before the end of the year. they should have been done before, but we are going to make sure they are down by the end of the year. thank you so much to everyone for being here today and bicycle coalition for keeping us a biking friendly city. thank you. >> thanks, everyone. i want to say thank you to north dakota, mike, the entire group that came with me from district 2 -- i want to say thank you to andy. give me a call anytime. i'm happy to do it again, and thank you to the bicycle coalition and everyone here improving the infrastructure of our bike lanes, whether it be for the america's cup for our daily lives in sanford's is go. as critical to our future, and i look forward to working with everyone here to make that a daily part of our reality in san fra

we're the first designated green city by the way in the state of florida. it's not a feel-good thing. it's actually like a lead certification for cities. so it's a very serious problem. we cannot do something with what our pay back period is for what we're doing. when we put led traffic lights in all of our traffic lights. it cost $450,000. i saved 150,000 in electricity costs a year. that's a three-year payback 33% return. anybody should do -- anybody should do that. and so with every one of our energy saving things we looked at the pay back. if the pay back period was at least 12 years, 12 years or less, so i got at least an 8% return, we did it. and that's how we became the first designated city in the states. schools, i got to go quickly because i'm running out of time. the schools, we had an aggressive effort -- we don't run our schools. most cities in america run their schools. they have separately elected school boards that run our school but we need to help our schools if you don't help your schools you're not going to to get people moving in your ne

us being able to rise to the frofey standard of us being one of the most environmentally green conscious cities in this country and we would like to believe on this planet and at the same time alleviate and answer the large question about what are we going to do about congestion and about parking? we like very much the overtures that are being made about the -- certainly the complication, the challenge of congestion pricing. we really are very, very i think revved up by the federal government's gestures towards helping local governments like ours. we believe we have a great bookend strategy here about what we're starting on addressing congestion and congestion pricing and looking forward to the future leadership of the federal government and answering this in other cities around the country. and for us to expand our congestion pricing strategies here in san francisco. thank you very much. [applause] >> you now have the opportunity to introduce my chairman, man who served on the m.t.a. board of directors since 2006 and elected chairman in 2009. chairman tom nolan's background in policy making an

notably, to some degree, putting the city's green initiatives that will risk. we need to have a serious discussion about that in the near future.

i am eric brooks representing the green party and our city. i have worked intensively on this for the past seven years or so. i would agree with the commissioners that this is a milestone. however, i would also point out as i did in my letter that you received through emailed that we could be in a much better place if we were handling this differently. i want to get to some of the specifics that are raised in the email. -- that i raised in the mill. to the study data itself, some of the key flaws i indicated in my e-mail, it only gathers information from residential customers. most of the electricity sold in san francisco is too large commercial customers. without that information base, we are not heading in the right direction. we do not have the proper information base to make decisions like this. i would argue that because of that, the study itself has a big flaw in it. the biggest problem i see with the proposal of the san francisco public utilities commission itself is the idea that commissioner torres was getting at. that is the higher c

they also said they wanted us to expand the experience of bicycle riding, to make sure the city was green. all the young engineers -- they, too, said they loved the diversity of the city." that gave me a clear indication that is for the next generation of workers in the city, people who will build in the street, and then to realize what twitter and companies like that have done all over the world, being a conduit for some many events that have occurred, even the latest event that has occurred. they were still part of that. twitter was feeding information to the whole world about what was going on. and to have that product, that name-brand he suggested as a san francisco homegrown products -- we have not heard "made in san francisco" for a long time, have we? it used to be garland. to have an engineering, technology product sounds unique to me, with potentially 4 million users across the world. keeping a company like that, that will grow their employees from 350 to the expected 3000 in the next couple of years will be a fabulous contribution to the change we expect in the market. that is w

between lead for homes presidentially obverses green point rated -- presidentially, versus -- residentially? it is the primary standard recognized by the city for residential consideration, and there is a memorandum of understanding. lead is the leadership standard and lead for homes is a harder level to achieve. green point rated is designed to be credible but more friendly, so if you were just green -- you would not meet the minimum bar for lead homes, but if you were home certified, you could be simultaneously green point rated. does that answer your question? in most cases, for the sake of simplicity, that felt optional, to achieve multiple certifications. some credible standard that they're home has been built to some verification. but you could optional we choose to get certified, and there are other standards, as well. >> but if you hit lead, you certainly hit green point rating. it is builder friendly. it is a checklist, certainly. meeting the lead standard requires that your design team comes up with an overall strategy and be very integrated into the project as a whole. >> it is complex, especially for a single-family home develop

at this point, the groups a represent -- green party, our city, san francisco tomorrow, and sierra club -- are all opposing this project. before the environmental impact report came out and during the environmental impact report, which raised serious questions about the claim that this is a transit-oriented development. it is not. it is above one to one parking. it is going to jam up the bay bridge. golden gate transit says it will create queuing on the bridge. it is already at maximum. there are many other problems with this project. but as far as transportation goes, these groups are opposing it because it is a transportation nightmare. the biggest and most important thing, and the reason you should postpone this, is that the financing of the project recently changed in a massive way. it was cut by 20%. because they are afraid redevelopment funds will not remain because of what the governor is doing with redevelopment, they have switched the financing mechanism for this project to something called infrastructure financing districts. that means a 20% cut in the funding for this project

eric brooks speaking on behalf of san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization of our city. those of you who have already heard me speak about tsunami danger please listen. the san francisco green party in our city also just as sierra club insists this e.i.r. be recirculated. it is extremely deficient. you have seen my remarks hopefully about sea level rise. since those remarks, we have seen the japan tsunami happen. we have seen reports and n many newspapers about what would happen in the case of a similar tsunami from alaska which would raise at least by 10 feet the water level in an immediate sense around treasure island in the midst of that kind of an event. since then, however, i have also learned, and please look this up before you make a vote on this e.i.r., you can look it up online. look up cascadia zone, the fault off the coast of canada, washington, oregon and california and it is a fault that if it had a serious earthquake, it had one 300 years ago. it has one ever 300 years. it is a tsunami events. we are due for one and it would raise the water levels much hig

cities are also fun, green, healthy. they are exciting places to be where the magic of human interactions tends to make place just so much more exciting. now if you -- the idea behind this book, the reason to claim that the book makes for why cities come back is that cities play to mankind to human kinds greatest asset. which is our ability to learn from people around us. we come out of the womb with the remarkable ability to learn from our parents withing from our peers, from sibling, from people around us that are doing things that are really smart from people around us who are screwing up. cities make that happen. they are the obvious sense of space between people, proximity, closeness, coming to the city, you sense the on rush of experience that teaches you. when we observe the wages of people that come to the cities, it's not as if they become more productive in the city overnight. year by year, month after month, they experience faster wage growth. they become more productive. that's capacitiable with the view that

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notably, to some degree, putting the city's green initiatives that will risk. we need to have a serious discussion about that in the near future. not today, but that is something that i think we need to have a discussion about. >> in an item for our retreat. commissioner moran: i think that would be fine. one of the things that would help with that is the tables you have our short-term tables, and if we had a 10-year extension of what this kind of erosion does to our financial picture over the next 10 years or so would be helpful. >> we could do that. >> any questions? >> i have a question. this is in the support materials further on it. page two, i noticed under the water enterprise that our debt service ratio is getting dangerously low. >> it is getting very low, and that as a result of the declining water sales in particular. that is why the item later on your agenda today, item 12 i believe it is, which is a water read item -- that is one of the reasons we have to also increase rates, is to satisfy the timing of the revenues for when the debt service is due

city. deanna green was playing softball when she touched a fence which electrocuted her. the family settled a lawsuit but the company did not admit fault. baltimore city claimed sovereign immunity and the judge excused the city from the case. family and the attorney maintain the city " -- withheld information. the problems go back before she died, they say. >> i still have some unrest because i would like to know that the city is going to be proactive in attending to the problems they have out here. not only out here, but on the sidewalks, on the streets. >> the department remains vigilant in making sure that we , as well as we ask the citizens to remain vigilant in letting of us know that they see any potential live wires. we have to work together on this. no one wants to see that tragedy happen again. >> the family says the city has not taken action to prevent other citizens from becoming victims like deanna. >> the constellation energy bill is raising questions from one coalition. they say the deal is great for ceos but it is bad for the city. we have more from downtown