next speaker. >> hi, i'm katherine roberts. i am a small rental property owner in district five. i remember eight years ago when then supervisor mirkarimi got elected. i recently purchased my building, telling him it would take $30,000 give or take to put solar panels on the roof. i really wanted. i pay the utilities for the whole building because the way it is metered, my bills are extremely high. he said i would hold off because we will probably have community choice aggregation before the end of the year. then the next time he got re-elected i asked him again should i get solar panels. he gave me the same answer. so this clearly has been going on for a long time. i can't afford 30-plus thousand for solar panels. there are new models where you can loose but you need a higher credit score than the credit score i have. even just to pay to rent them would be more expensive, then i would only be renting them. i'm interested in the city getting some kind of program where if i pay -- i'm sure i would be paying probably the higher rate because i pay the bills for the whole building. c

. >> katherine roberts from san francisco apartment association member. it is wonderful organization. they have helped me with a ton of stuff. i'm eternally grateful to them for lots of things. this is actually the second time today i have disagreed on a policy issue. i'm really opposed to this legislation. i think it is a terrible idea for a lot of reasons. i have no parking in my building. but it took me five years literally to even find a house in the neighborhood that didn't have parking on the ground floor. i live in upper haight, a 100-plus year old neighborhood. almost none were built with garages, so any time there is a garage it's been converted. and they destroyed the front gardens, destroyed trees, destroyed on-street public parking for that matter to put these in their houses. i have seen the damage it's done to the neighborhood. i have seen, you know, the pressure it puts. the user conflicts, negative affect on muni and also seen how it has increased the value -- the prices of the property in the neighborhood to where most people can't afford

barbara raymond, katherine roberts, al winerup, nick freeman, christian ettiger. >> i'm rod block, executive director for golden gate restaurant association. i'm here in two capacities, the business community and as someone followed cca in 2004 when first voted for and i worked for supervisor pier. at that time cca was promised to create thousands of local jobs, green jobs, move the city to 100% renewable at better price than pg&e. eight years later we have a contract before you. a contract that is going to cost close to $20 million, not counting six million already spent, which the controller says will cost jobs, not increase, not create city and city-owned power generation and will cost residents 77% more for electricity generation. let's look at the players in this process. shell energy. so shell energy, pg&e, clean power sf and rate payers. shell energy we found out two days ago started drilling in alaska, also the largest investors in the canadian and carbon intense way. pg&e a local company has challenges. they have some problems. being an industry leader is not one of those -- industr

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. >> this weekend, katherine clinton on the troubled life of first lady mary todd lynnline. lincoln. >> robert kaplan discusses the role that joing agraph has taken in the future. this is ten minutes. >> good evening, welcome and thank you for joining us here. i'm richard fontaine, the president of the center for new american security. it's a real pleasure to welcome you all here to celebrate the publication of robert kaplan's new book, "the revenge of geeing agraph, what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate." i have heard it say you honor a great author not by reading their books but by buying them. you'll be happy to know that the books will be sold after the conversation on the stage in this room back here. bob kaplan's work is no doubt well known to many in this audience. he has been a senior fellow at cnas and in march of 2008, a foreign correspondent for the atlantic for a quarter century, and is currently chief geo political analyst at stratfor. i first became acquainted with his writing with a book that traces the westerners living and working in the midd