, and the green business program. and my name is sueellen at tkinson and impart of the clean team and i manage the clean business ordinance. >> there we go. >> five years ago san francisco adopted the ordinance for the suitable transportation for the people commuting to and from the city. >> it requires employers with 20 or more employees nationwide to offer commuter benefit to all full and part time employees in san francisco. those commuter benefits could be as a pretax deduction and employer paid subsidy or a provided transportation program. >> the ordinance passed with strong support from the business community, and in a vote by the board of supervisors. over the past five years, we have engaged in very extensive out reach and education initiative including partnerships with the chamber of commerce. >> and these out reach in education, programs include our commuter benefits website and tabling events for both business and commuters and brochures, and free, one on one consultations with employers about our programs

they are trying to do another template program on how it can join their program. it could potentially decide to join apa in marine and be part of that program. there would need to be discussions that occur with them and in the city and county. >> we can do that with the public utilities commissioners and not being part of that process. >> there is a commissioner there and if it's power related, what's in the charter. i'm not a lawyer. >> i think that would be something worth exploring and maybe at the lafco meeting can be presented to us as a possibility and what the process was for the richmond city council to be able to join the marine cca program. >> i can do research on behalf of that and i can ask the city attorneys office for guidance on that part. >> if i might add, the point is well-taken, i would suggest a two prong approach. i think, i think we should send a letter to the mayor pointing out the misrepresentations. if sf puc staff doesn't feel comfortable doing that, we should do that. i think lafco staff should do that and perhaps the chair would go to t

and, again, i want this program. i want to take advantage of this program. and i want to live in san francisco. again, i want to thank mayor lee, supervisor mark farrell, sheriff's department, our sheriff ross mirkarimi, the union, the [speaker not understood] association, managers association msa, for everything, they come up with a plan to help first responders. and i believe that it's a god send gift program for us because we want to live in the city because we want to serve the city. this is where we belong. and again, as i said, i made my decision when former sheriff mike hennessy swore me as a peace officer. i decided this is where i belong. and, again, i want to thank [speaker not understood] san francisco and everybody for being here today. and again, it's a lot of work. ~ voters of san francisco and i hope that the mayor of housing department and also mark farrell, supervisor mark farrell has enough money to assist us all who want to live in san francisco. not just 10 people or five people or two people. i believe that everybody deserves a chance. t

they are going to talk about this program. let's give them some -- let's give them some relevant, strategic, targeted values or ideas. >> okay. so, i respect everybody's opinion. at this point in time, either we're crafting or we're dropping. so, i would like to say that, you know, towards the beginning of the statement that you were crafting, commissioner wald, i don't see there is necessarily a problem to say, you know, we will be monitoring or we have some concerns about the things that you mentioned. and then say the things that, you know, and then the list of things that came after that. i see no problem with saying that there are some -- you know, there are some concerns about some things. we are watching some things. we are evaluating some things because that gives us a foothold to come back to those things. if there is an issue in the future. so, i see no problem with that. what i'm asking everybody is u the next person that speaks, we are either crafting this thing or not ~. so, i say i like where commissioner wald's

this is what a green power program should look like. through a combination of truly green power, mostly produced right here in california, san francisco's cca would have made great progress towards our city's shared environmental goals. but that's not the deal with the shell oil that the puc commission just rejected. the program that they said no to included only 25% true renewable energy. this is a serious degradation of the environmental benefits. the san francisco public utilities commission took a look at the deal that the staff had negotiated with shell and the commissioners decided that using 75% renewable energy credits or recs did not provide the green benefits this board of supervisors had repeatedly insisted upon. recs, as you know, supervisor, are like certificates. they can be traded from one wall street speculator to another. they derive their value from commodity trading just like stocks. by the time those recs reach our community choice aggregation program, their environmental benefits are far removed. we're not even sure

if you look at the program, like the licensed vocational program, city college is a 18-month proo program. if you look at the same level of program it's $30,000. there is a cost barrier in terms of the program. in terms of the population we looked at esl students and graduated. in spring 2013, there were many students who did not have a high school diploma. just for the impact on student, if the city college were to close and they were not able to get a higher equivalency on program and we looked at data and compared to high school and non-graduate wages and it's almost $9,000 per year for individual. there is 16,000 non-esl students in the non-credit program, this is about half the enrollment. there are some non-profits. there are some other programs that do provide esl courses. but if city college were to close and students weren't able to access other programs there is a wage cost and we base this on a u.s. census bureau study that had 9 english workers. these had a good command of the language and the annual wage is about $13,000 per year. >> before you jump to the big picture economi

the line shows our transition program that is my program. it shows how many curb ramps have been constructed over the past 3 years. there is a little bit of a down turn in this past year, 2013, part because of the aura funding and the school district funding and that project that's been done. health and -- also, we had a delay in contracts. the curb ramps under those contracts, were not done during 2013, they are going to show up in 2013-2014. we have delays in getting that into the data base. one thing it shows is the paving program that provides quite a bit of curb ramps constructed throughout the city. you can see that most of the curb ramps throughout the city are done by the the paving program. also the bottom line, the totals actually show that we are exceeding our expectation of at least for right now of 1300 curb ramps per year. >> and thank you, ken. could you elaborate a little bit about the paving program actually builds curb ramps, describe the projects and constitutional right in a that gets set. -- criteria. >>> anytime a pavin

they didn't ask what kind of program, what was taught in the program, how long the school had a programor whether students benefited from the program. it only asked did you have a program. that's really not an effective way to determine whether a program works. >> there are different types of programs and some may be more effective than others, but the fact that ther there was that kind of statistical outcome is significant. >> well, it's not significant because you haven't done a controlled study to see what bullying was like before the program was implemented. let me give a simple example of the study's design. if i went out to a group of people and asked if they were taking medication or not, and i found those taking medications were sicker than those not taking medication. you wouldn't conclude that medicatio before taking medication these people weren't sick. you need a group of subjects. some of them get the program or medication. some do not, and then you follow them over time. unless you do a scientifically valid control study, you're not entitled to conclude that a program does

committed to making this program a success. and this pilot not only offers the last minute solutions for computers, in san francisco, san jose and along the cal tran corridor and also provides a fun alternative to driving around town, bicycling is also, incredibly healthy. and the us, and the surgeon general recommends 30 minutes a day. and finally the bike share, pilot program is one of the first multicity bike share systems in the nation, and so proven successful this system could expand to other cities in the future. and to all of the current and future cyclists, pedal on, and so again, at mtc, we are thrilled to bring bike share to the bay area, and i am looking forward to seeing all of these beautiful bicycles around town, there you go, and so i am pleased now, to again, thank you all for the opportunity to join you in this great celebration. thank you, with that funding from mta and leader without from your commission we would not be celebrating this occasion, and the partners have played such a critical role in launching

shell contract is the program. it is not. the shell contract is 4%, less than 4% of the energy that will end up being provided under clean power sf after the next decade goes by. the shell contract is just priming the water pump, if you remember the old water pumps. and the idea here is that we need to use the renewable energy credits to make it cheap enough to compete with pg&e, to get that first small 30 megawatts out of the eventual hundreds of megawatts that we're going to build locally so that we can kick start the program successfully and still compete with pg&e. >> what was your type of concluding thought around? >>> so, here's the deal. ms. malcolm is getting us half of the goal. the thing that's going to get us to the green new deal and make sure that it happens right away is to show that the vision that you all saw from local power of about a billion dollar project over the next 10 years, that's what brings us the green new deal and the union jobs, so show that that can happen. sfpuc is making great progr

the total transformation program is a step-by-step program that shows you exactly how to change your child's behavior, and it works. it's how i changed my life, and it's how i've been helping kids get back on the right track for over 30 years. >> what do you see as the most common problem in children? >> the most common problem with children is that they can't solve problems, that life's problems come up-- whether that problem is going to your room, whether that problem is talking in the right tone, whether that problem is not hitting your brother or sister, whether that problem is doing your homework, whether that problem is responding to parental authority-- kids don't know how to solve those problems. most kids solve it by becoming compliant, by accepting limits... >> doing what they're told. >> but there's a group of kids that learn to solve the problem of authority through defiance. they defy the parent, they defy the teacher, they defy authority, and so what tends to happen with those kids is, they look to get their way by being defiant. and they actually train adults and teach

this program, to talk a little bit about the history, this program has been around a long time. it was established in 1900s. in the city charter it talks about this establishing an allowing 800 auxiliary police officers. that's the name of this program years ago and it's turned into what we now call the reserve officer program. doing a little history post world war ii in the 1950s we had over a hundred reserves in our department. so there are a lot of benefit to having a reserve program. i will talk about what we are doing here in san francisco and other programs that are happening in the state. reserve officers are individuals who have a desire to serve the public and contribute to the community by providing public safety services with no compensation. that's what's amazing about what they do. they really are the true believers, they are the ones that are committed to public safety, and want to make a difference in our community. it goes along with the saying that the public of the police and the police are the public. they are true examples of this by being reserve officers. o

it's an incredible program. i want to thank you first of all for the tremendous service you do for the city and county of san francisco and on a volunteer basis. you are a fabulous human being. thank you for your work. >> thank you for your terrific presentation and informing us on this on this important component of the department and then i would like to also echo commissioner turman's thanks and to put a face behind the presentation. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> so, welcome lieutenant o'connor to the department. it's nice to see the other officer, i don't want to mispronounce your name back there. it's good to see you from coming from this program into full time position with the department. so, welcome to you as well, officer. so, captain, how many people are like officer smothering who transition from the reserves into full time paid positions? is that somewhat of an objective for many of them? >> for some. for some they have decided they enjoy the current career they have. they just want to be part

manager for the green building program. and with me is rami co-worker and he has been with the environmental justice program and he does a lot of multitasking and works with the energy program as well. but, we are here to present and ask for your approval of the resolution to grant an award to black coalition on aids to perform brown field's out reach services some background united states epa awarded the department a grant to perform a community-wide assessment, and we will use this federal funding, to perform an inventory of the sites on the eastern side of the bay view community. and this is to support the green way, awarded of the open space corridor, e tending the bay trail south ward from att park to candle stick park and we are going to conduct the side investigations and we have a technical contractor. and urs corporation and we issued an rfp to get the services of a non-profit group to help with out reach. earlier this year, in may, i stood before you seeking your approval for an out reach grant award, that was con

reserve officer program. before i do i would like to acknowledge some very important people in the audience. first we have first lieutenant david o'connor new to the police academy of the professional development unit. o'connor overseas the program. and officer who has done a great job over seeing the program. they told me, captain, we want to come here, we want to support you this evening. so they are here this evening and they look very sharp and i'm glad that they are here. >> welcome. >> with that, we'll go ahead and get started with the presentation. >> i would like to talk about the organizational chart of the reserve officer program. the program falls under the administration bureau directly to the training division, the police academy, deputy chin is the deputy chief. then you met deputy o'connor and yeager who is the supervisor in the professional development unit and jeff smith is the officer coordinator and there are 26 reserve officers. this program, to talk a little bit about the history, this pr

and other programs at the department more easily known residents of the city. so they know what value they are getting from the great work that you all do. but in other words, did not have the packet from the annual report. but you know, maybe then the rolling thingy on the face of the website that said, did you know last year, we... >> director? >> great idea, commissioners and one of the things that we have been talking about is having a sustainable metrics dashboard where it is not buried on the website but right on the front so that is a great idea and we would love the support from the commissioners that could make that happen but it is partly technical and partly communication's exercise and something that we have talked about. >> all right. and then any comments from the public about this item and tonight's presentation. mr. brooks? >> i am eric brooks and it is spec tack lawyer to see that the department is doing the accident job of reducing the waste even though the volume is going up, and similar cases in cal where electricity is going up and we are k

we need to take another break on the program. >> welcome back to today's program. we will continue our conversation with the professor who is currently the minister and chairman of the atomic energy council. a lot of people say that taiwan is heavily dependent on imported oil and foreign energy sources. i remember reading one statistic a few months ago that nearly 98% of energy used is imported. that is an astonishing figure. because of that i think a lot of people are concerned about energy security. what is the long-term energy policy? can you share with us what is the long-term energy policy of the republic of china? >> that is a big question. i will explain briefly how the energy policy fukishima changed after the -- changed after the fukishima accident. there were 31 countries that have this. they all conducted reassessment and re-enhancement programs. most of the countries reduce their energy policy. there are 13 countries in belgium, sweden. they all announced the area. the u.s., canada and so on and so forth including south korea and so on. they decided not

shell contract is the program. it is not. the shell contract is 4%, less than 4% of the energy that

i know in my program that 70 percent of people that enter the program complete a program and graduate and are 80 percent of employed and housed at the end of the program. we think that's good. and there are serial neeb rate programs across the united states. we have a call from ireland and alaska which begs the question how can you be homeless in alaska? but there are. if i were brought to a conference for the police, we'd have a very different point of view. if i was at a conference for the district attorney we might have a different point of view . the nice thing about this program is we are going to have a job. the police are going to arrest these. the attorneys are going to prosecute their cases and the public defenders is going to defend their client and everybody gets to do their job. they are going to do it legally, ethically, but we ask more that they do it morally. so, if i'm walking down the street and i'm pulling my dog's chain or i leave my dog outside in the cold and i don't feed it and it has health problems or i kick it and make fun of it and treat it harshly, you can a

and ultimately kill this program? >> well, i don't know that i would want to characterize their actions in any particular way or with any particular motivation. we did make several changes to the way this program was designed and the rates were set. for example, in response to some concerns that we heard from our commission from members of l.a. lack -- lafco and the board we tried to bring the rates down and in relation to build out. >> you tried to get the rate down? >> we got the rate down to 11.5 cents. when i joined the puc in april it was at 14.57 cent from 12.8 cents which is what general manager presented to the board of supervisors last september. we got the rate down primarily from changing the resource mix from the products we purchased from shell. we also reduced our own internal budget and there were some changes that happened in the market that allowed us to bring the customer rate down and finally shell agreed to a few changes to the contract that were favorable to us, small, but they made a difference.

green 50% renewable program or our deep green renewable program, those are three choices, right now in san francisco, there is only one, we bring in revenue and we are solely funded through a revenue stream of rate payers, not tax payers, our rates are competitive and lower than pg&e rates for almost all customer classes, i have a joint comparison that we compared with pg&e and mailed out to all customers in our shared territory last month and i'm happy to share that with you all. >> thank you. >> we have contracted for power since our launch from 17 different supply contracts. many of these are to build new california based renewable supply. quite a few of which have launched just in the last six months, that's again new renewable energy supply being built to serve our customers in california, that's what's happening with our agency, we're creating new jobs and creating more renewable energy under the grid under long term 20 and 25 year contract, our most recent power supply contract is with cal time for sonoma produced geothermal pow e it has 578 employees in northern california a

that's a great program. yes. i'm going to ask the entire panel now: if you were looking at a crystal ball, what would be your one area where you think that we need to improve? given everything that society is facing and given the challenges, the fiscal challenges, that we have, where should we be going in the future? kristen, i'm going to start with you. i really think we have to look at prevention and treatment as the investments that they are. i think too often, we wait until there's a national crisis, and then we spring to action. and, i think it's more important that we look at working with kids at the very earliest stages of showing that there's a problem, whether it's potential substance abuse or aggression or anxiety, which is a huge, huge problem, and that we intervene as soon as possible, and that we don't wait until a crisis happens. richard. well, i'll focus on general health care and i think where things really need to go, and they're already moving in that direction, is a much greater emphasis on the

one of our programs is gateway to college program. we work with sf unified students. they come to city college through the gateway to college program. there is the entire risk assessment program of city college which helps enroll students into city college while they are jrs and seniors. if you register you are much more likely to attend colleges. those are partnerships that have started 2 or 3 years ago. those are partnerships that would definitely be in danger and this is private money that is helping this through the gateway college programs. >> this is millions of federal funds as part of 11 million or more that would be lost to the city. >> everybody understand this. i just want to thank you for having this hearing. we say it's important to the economy, but having quantifiable numbers, the loss would be very important in terms of our on going dialogue with our state and accrediting commission. thank you for having this hearing. >> hi, my name is diana green, the chair of the fashion department which i started at city college 35 years ago. if city college were to

locking more into recircling back into the program. >> so the program has two criteria. so when it was amended to be eligible for t dr they put in the requirements that the revenue had to be used on

i did want to say that programs like eops and the various coaching and counciling programs at city college provides isn't only about the education there, but also getting people on the right track to as chris jackson says to pull people out of the poverty or out of a difficult situation orren cars -- incarceration. i want to say how lives are transformed and how city college has that latter for some level of mobility for being held in and locked into poverty. it's by losing the accreditation and to losing a college would be like kicking the ladder out of the most vulnerable populations. , not only the english learners but the five thousands that don't dip -- diplomas. it's losing the accreditation that would be destroying the bridge that many people rely on. for those testifying, thank you for bringing that voice about how much it helps people and for the seniors and those that have testified how critical it is for their connection and protection against isolation as seniors and people with disabilities as well. i will continue to work with our budget and legislative office and special tru