chairperson mar: before i ask if johanna parton is here, let me say that we have five items on the agenda, but item four is on the treasure island/yerba buena development. we will move to continue that to next week. but we will still allow public testimony on that item. let me continue with item one. from the department of the environment, we have staff from the department of the environment. >> good afternoon, supervisors. which -- rich chen. i and the chair person for the greenfinancesf program. this is an iteration of american recovery and reinvestment act funding, released initially through the stimulus. that was supposed to go to the state energy program administered by the california energy commission to support residential green finance programs in california. as you are probably aware, we ran into major roadblocks. we are now in line to receive some grant funding through every appropriation of those grant funds to the california energy commission to do a commercial financing program in san francisco. this grant will basically provide reserve funding for the investments that will b

chairperson mar: from the mayor's office, johanna parton. >> i am the director of climate commit -- climate protection initiatives in the mayor's office. we strongly support the proposed ordinance. urban agriculture and local food production is seeing a welcome and dramatic upsurge in interest and is a key component of health and sustainability programs. the proposed ordinance was introduced by mayor gavin newsom and is now supported by mayor ed lee. it is an outgrowth of an executive directive which directed city departments to implement actions with the goal of improving food production in san francisco. the executive directive was put in place to promote local food for all residents, to reduce environmental impacts associated with food production, to create new opportunities for the use of fellow land in the city, and to foster local green jobs. based on discussions with the department of the environment, sfpuc, and a number of advocates, mayor lee would like to introduce a number of amendments in addition to those introduced by president chiu. the first is on page 3, lines 9 through 12.