one more time commissioners, eric brooks local green party, our city. first i would reiterate what bruce wolf said anat

one more time commissioners, eric brooks local green party, our city. first i would reiterate what bruce wolf said and that should be included in the legislation and then for on future agenda items when you do have your next joint meeting with the sf puc this is just kind of a point of information -- especially i think the supervisors might be clued in on this but the public members i want to make sure you know about it. in the scott wiener london breed legislation that cleared authorizes the puc to sell express hetch hetchy power in the city to make money and bring clean energy to the city. >> >> originally when that

one more time commissioners, eric brooks local green party, our city. first i would reiterate what bruce wolf said and that should be included in the legislation and then for on future agenda items when you do have your next joint meeting with the sf puc this is ju

. >> good afternoon, supervisors eric brooks brooks i take it the sustainability chair for the green parties it is important with we move forward pieces of legislation like this we're not telling me rec and park and the planning department they've got cart blank to cut down trees with the climate crisis we need to stop that policy we can't just keep cutting down large trees like the eucalyptus 80 that gaths gather carbon monoxide 0 more than any tree i'm not saying which wyoming way to vote but not to allow the clear cutting of the trees if our parks system. >> thanks. >> is there any additional public comment on item one seeing none, public comment is closed and supervisor kim would i have a motion to forward to the full board we'll take that without objection. without observation that will be the order. >> item 2 is a approving of an easement with the surface project on 923 fulsome street. >> we have the department of real estate. >> this authorizes the grant of a sub surface tieback and surface access to fulsome which is where fire station number one is located the just a minute property

eric brobz san francisco green party and our city i have a thought near the end of the report when the commissioner president caen asked the question seems like we've got a couple of years and it makes sense to see if there's opportunity to as the new facility is built maybe bring it opening o'ly, that might be on line or bring it online to some stent and try to close some of the most problematic parts of the old facility now my guess is staff will say now you've got to do it all at once i want them to get directions to study the possibilities for shutting down the worst parts of the facility early. >> any other comments seeing none, the next item, please. >> item 10 a citizens advisory committee update. >> good afternoon, commissioners arrest my name is wendy i'm the chair of the citizens advisory committee i wanted to talk about our year in review for 2014 in 2014 the citizens advisory committee made up of members representing neighborhoods across the city worked to achieve the following 2014 new membership we curiosity have 16 out of 17 seats filled with various inheritance and pass

>> eric brooks san francisco green party and local organization and our net and we worked in the mid2000's of making sure we keep the internet systems public and not sell them to private corporations anymore and along those lines we think this study work could be used as a launch pad to get to the bigger discussion of revamping the ammiano study done several years ago so it's up-to-date so we can start talking about city wide broadband for everybody in the community through partly fiber and other methods, and i know you've heard this before. i think the next step now for the commission is that i would strongly urge you commissioners to go online and look up in chattanooga tennessee, the gig. that's the first city wide major public brand ban network for the citizen reef the community. it gives us the picture of where we need to goally. >> >> and this report doesn't encompass but but it's the launch point to get there right away so i urge you to look up the gig in chattanooga and check it out what is possible because it's an amazing situation where they're getting enough revenue from the s

eric brooks representing san francisco green party and our city and representatives here of san francisco clean energy advocates. our message today is this report is clear and decisive evidence that we can now move forward. all of the issues that were brought up by staff and i have read all their comments on the red line document are as you say talking about clarity. none of them in any way question the findings of this report so what we have now is two different -- over the last couple of years two different consultant reports that show 9,000, 10,000 jobs, huges amounts of megawatt energy at the same or lower rate than pg&e the way it's looking like now and we resolved the issues that sf puc came up last year around jobs creation. we might want to remember that the controller last year said there might be negative 100 jobs. now we have ted egan saying this is right and we're claiming thousands of jobs and where exactly the jobs are and the exact number is not as important as moving the program forward. we see that it's more sensible idea to do what sonoma and marin have done and do 50%,

stands which got him up in the polls, where he actually got more votes than whatever went to the green party? but you see, even the most sophisticated political analyst never looked at the preelection day dynamics. there have been some social scientist studies who have concluded that i actually, by pushing him to do what lieberman didn't want him to do... >> hinojosa: mm-hmm. >> ...by challenging the drug, oil, you know, insurance companies in speeches-- remember "the people, not the powerful," that was his slogan-- that he got more votes than if i wasn't even in the arena. but it's such a ridiculous discussion, because let's all put our best foot forward to the voters and let's have a good, competitive election and not say, "oh, someone siphons votes." when somebody said, "did you siphon votes from gore," i said, "no, no-- gore siphoned far more votes from me!" ( laughing ) >> hinojosa: so would you do it again? i mean now, because this is one of the things that people will... and people-- many of your supporters who were die-hard ralph nader supporters said, "okay, that's it; i'll never fo

>> good afternoon commissioners eric brooks and the sustainability chair for the san francisco green party and i also coordinate the grass roots organization of our committee here in san francisco i sent these comments and a very important study document to you through your secretary claudia gara please make sure you get these documents so you can read them and let me touch base on this just by reading it is the easiest way to go over it in the beginning. dear commissioners, studies show that vastly higher amounts of cancer causing dust is created when implosion is used for building rather than mechanical removal and prohibited in urban areas. i'd like to kick it up a notch and say you don't need a study because this kind of demolition absolutely should not be done in a in a city in an urban area in particular a 2005-case study by environmental health health health calgory states clearly problematic issues surrounding public health protection in effected areas that could extend 10 to 20 kilometers down wind think of the map you just saw and think about the fact that it totally did not acco

joining me now is a member of the european parliament for the green party.hank you for being with us. israel's prime minister said that today's vote shows europe and europeans have learned nothing from the holocaust. what do you make of that? >> thank you very much, first of all, for having me. i don't make much of that. i am no historian, but i can't really see what is the relationship. >> i think he is saying that europe is choosing not to support the world's only jewish state. >> europeans negotiating in these positions are supporting exactly the kind of two-state solution to which israel itself agreed. >> are you blaming israel for the lack of progress in these talks by choosing to bypass negotiations and recognize the palestinian state unilaterally? >> this is not a question of blame. it is simply leveling the field. almost everybody who has been there will say that. making recognition completely conditional on peace negotiations. >> israel said that this will encourage and embolden extremists and saying that this will in fact make israel less safe. wha

one more time commissioners, eric brooks local green party, our city. first i would reiterate what bruce wolf said and that should be included in the legislation and then for on future agenda items when you do have your next joint meeting with the sf puc this is just kind of a point of information -- especially i think the supervisors might be clued in on this but the public members i want to make sure you know about it. in the scott wiener london breed legislation that cleared authorizes the puc to sell express hetch hetchy power in the city to make money and bring clean energy to the city. >> >> originally when that legislation was drafted in july it did not include making cleanpowersf a priority customer of that power, and thankfully advocates approached supervisor wiener's aid and they graciously included an amendment that makes it clear that yes cleanpowersf is in the queue by that power and that is very important. even if cleanpowersf buys that power at full retail rate there are benefits from that because it helps -- we were discussing the wind p

. >> hello commissioners it's been a while eric brooks i'll represented green party the grassroots in our city i'm also a member of san francisco clean energy advocates all who make the representatives in this room just want to say speak to the jobs issue we may not to quickly about specifics on the jobs but what is noticeable about what is in the papers and the annex report before this report came out a couches years ago there was talk from go agencies in the city government they're not being jobs at all or maybe even a deficit of a hundred or so jobs now we've got that completely clarified for us in this report it is really clear of we got a fourth of the jobs that's a couple thousand of jobs that's not bad this is jobs positive in a bag way and a lot of those jobs will be local and fall under the local hiring ordinance, etc. so this report as jan and others indicated has cleared up all the things in question and the shell issue is no longer a an issue we know the puc can do this in house this jobs are there we know that we can get good rates we're heading towards the sensible ideas

dee dee workman from the chamber of commerce and the leg conservation voters and hang from the green party >> thank you, supervisor this is john with the sierra club we're in favor of this legislation and we thank you for putting 2 forward i think you mentioned really the reasons in our statement as to why we supported the reduction of green house gases and more funding for the public utilities commission department can't comment on the amendments because we haven't laboratory them they seem to be in line what we asked for a the ability of the clean power sf should it come to be to buy power from that so thank you again and we hope the supervisors approve it. >> thank you, sir. >> mr. cleveland. >> good afternoon, supervisors as you know i represent the building inspections and private property owners and developers we understand why you're putting forth this legislation but we have some serious heart burn with the mandate and specifically you know we talked about mature consent we worked with sf puc and the sf puc staff and are shthsd ousted language he said those agreements will be by ma

eric brooks representing san francisco green party the grassroots organization we're a a i city with the clean alliance my comments obey will be period of time annuity but you neglected to ask for comment on 6 i wanted to talk about todd pr and i think the report i saw is a reflection of what a tight ship todd with an ran really well idle machine there have been many times on the clean power sf issue when advocates had the item i read although we're not financial experts to disagree with regard to clean energy but it's important to note we wouldn't be able to talk about clean power sf if it had not been for ed and another gentleman to start getting serious about the board of supervisors to start getting the city agencies and other primary customers of hetch hetchy power to start paying for more power and that was something that no one thought would be done before todd and ed came along to deal with that and all it took was them showing the numbers and todd doing his job to show you and we as advocates did join in and make sure and came in support so together the environmental communi

the green party has captured the democratic party in no small part because big time green donors like dollars but as a result they will not -- barack obama can do a deal with fidel castro but he cannot do a deal over the keystone pipeline which would have employed tens of thousands of private-sector union workers. as a result of not approving keystone the international labour union which has 500,000 members has denounced the democratic party. the parties it keeps doing that is to. rich: said cheaper stimulus funded with taxpayer dollars but how will -- now we have senator elizabeth warren leading the charge. people have told me on wall street if she's elected president will be zero bank credit in this country because -- charles: she could beat hillary but also another point with democrats from your party of stupefy want to get to this thing with andrew cuomo speaking of people running for president lot of people said he has presidential ambitions. to me, what would destroy what the average american, think about gasoline prices, the greatest stimulus americans have gotten, a real authe

lately at the michigan daily where they figured they would start endorsing candidates from the green partye democratic party was getting too conservative. >> what was the problem with what you put in the michigan review? why was the michigan daily upset by what you put in the michigan review? >> now, their statements that i satire rickly mocked people on campus who used certain rit rick to identify themselves and fight against oppression. this rhetoric comes across as petty and divisive and i really think it's ridiculous and most people think it's ridiculous. now it offended some people to the point where i was told that i would had created a hostile environment among the staffers at the daily where i had threatened people and i had negated their existence. now, these aren't my words. i don't understand how an 800 word piece of satire harmless satire not naming anyone's name or any organization threatened anyone. and i have gotten hundreds of emails from liberals from minorities, saying, you know, you did nothing wrong. and that's another level of irony here where freedom of speech, which

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