my future depends on the go solar sf program. i ask that you take that into consideration that the future of the youth are in the hands of view, the beholders. thank you. supervisor chu: next speaker. joshua, james, steve, and jeremiah dean. >> good afternoon. my name is jacob. i want to speak on behalf of asian neighborhood design construction program. i would like to say that the go solar sf program is a wonderful program. it has already set in place a lot of installations and already established that it is successful. cutting down a successful program is saying ok, you are doing a good job, but not good enough, so we are going to take what we have given you and take it back. i feel like that's not right. if it is successful, may be more funds should be allocated because it is successful, instead of being cut. i understand there are a lot of financial issues and separate entities that determine whether or not it should get the funding, but you should look at the success rate and also what it could do for the city as far as hous

i was hired through the work force development go solar sf program. i'm here today because go solar sf gave me an opportunity to not only change my life but to build a career in the solar industry. i am asking that the go solar sf is not cut, but been fully funded so we can continue to grow and help our environment. thank you. >> hello, supervisors. my name is melissa mcdermott. i was also hired through the work force development go solar sf program. i'm one of the low-income single moms this program has benefit. i do not need to get into where i was a few years ago, but i can assure you i was not paying taxes and you never find me in a place like this. i needed to get into something and i needed to do it quick in order to save my relationship with my family and be able to progress and make a difference in. my. -- in my life. in turn, i've also seen things from different perspectives professionally. i've seen families be able to install solar on their homes that would never in a million years be able to do that if it was not for this program. they are

it was based on fe bic -- based on feedback from the sf puc. per supervisors cohen's request, we provided a one-for-one replacement for the existing preschool child care space on site. this is to clarify the notice of special restrictions that would be recorded against that property to ensure that no matter what, over time, there will always be 4000 square feet of preschool on the site, even if the service had to be moved. nsr would essentially say it does not have to remain in a particular location, but there always has to be 4000 square feet on the site. supervisor mar: it does not mean that the school that currently exists will be there, but it locks in a future child care center. >> correct. presumably any number of child care providers could bid or offer to use that . we are not going to predetermine who the ultimate user is. as section 3.15 added, at request of supervisor chu, this agrees to contribute seed money to the school project. this will accelerate pedestrian safety improvements on sunset boulevard. section 4.1.3. we've clarified

i fully recommend the continued funding of go solar sf for these reasons. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. from here on behalf of a leader in one of the fastest-growing areas of solar in the country, residential solar. . we were born in san francisco in 2007. one of the founders of our company installed solar on his roof in the mission. since then, we've outgrown the two offices and we continue to relocate within san francisco. we now employ over 100 people. you know, as the solar industry developed, policies, obviously, have a significant role in the nature of the market of element. policies have shavetail we expand and grow. we now have over 10,000 customers over eight states. the policies also implement where we keep our roots. go solar sf has been a great sign of leadership on behalf of san francisco. companies are very attractive and want to be anchored in places that are known and seen by the broader industry and by the public as leaders in their support for solar energy. i just want to offer two additional fiscal considerations as you talk ab

currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application.an go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francisco. you can search by address and find incidents of crime in san francisco in the last 90 days. we have [inaudible] which allows you to click on a map and get nchldz like your supervisor or who your supervisor is. the nearest public facility. and through the sf applications we support from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. you can drill down in the neighborhood and get where the newest hospital or police or fire station. >> we are positive about gis not only people access it in the office but from home because we use the internet. what we used to do was carry the large maps and it took a long time to find the information. >> it saves the city time and money. you are not taking up the time of a particular employee at the assessor's office. you might be doing things more efficient. >> they have it ready to go and say, this is what i wa

tomorrow morning, i will be attending a meeting put on by sf jazz director, rob beckert -- rebecca.ll see how we can collaborate in offering arts education. finally, what makes carnaval special? i know i am preaching to those who know. carnaval is participatory. in other words, it is open to everyone. this is the beauty of it. for me, it is the regional social networking platform. i do not care who you are. there is a place for you in carnaval. there is a zimbabwe saying that says if you can walk, you can dance. it will help you find your singing voice, and it will help you find your dancing feet. carnaval is open. the brazilian groups of many non brazilian participants. and so on. if you are into the culture and like having fun, you are going to be welcome. it is diverse. i know that word is used a lot, but i am at a loss for words. i have been to trinidad carnaval and brazilian carnaval, but i want to be in san francisco. finally, carnaval is good for you. dancing, building a float, they are good for your physical body and her spiritual happiness. so i just once again want to than

it did not require all installations to have certified go solar sf work force development employees and now there's a requirement of 50% of the workers. what happened at the beginning of this fiscal year is that the sf puc made a number of changes reducing the amount of the incentive, expanding the jobs from just installer to back office and required that all installations have go solar sf work force development employees on the job. what that did is it witreduced e drop of the incentive. it is a good thing. it was a benefit to the program. it has been a good start ship of the program by the san francisco puc. supervisor chu: if i can ask you to wrap up. >> yes. ia while ago, earlier this year, there was less than $1.4 million in the pot. i anders and there was about $1 million that was earmarked for low-income projects that were going to go forward. in those projects, the san francisco puc was notified and it they were told that the project would not go forward. net absent that amount of money going back into the pot, the sf puc did a really good job of estimating how much money and at

on sf park we can tell immediately. timing for those are much shorter. for the other city-wide meters, it takes 2448 hours. supervisor avalos: how often according to a collection? >> it depends on the routes. some routes we go there daily. other routes, we go there less frequently. we deploy the forces as they fill up. supervisor avalos: so, generally it is about one week? when does that go citywide again? >> we are working currently from project experience. that should be out in the next 12 months or so. we expect to see this parking program in the city as consistent within the next 18 to 24 months. supervisor avalos: what about a system without meters where there could be ways of paying online or with your credit card? where you would not have a physical leader doing the work, monitoring how long you are staying parked? how what with this policy interact with that system? >> there are some areas, particularly england, that have experimented with broke ringleader -- removing meters complete. a space where they would propel through their cell phone. the

they're telling us that they would stay with clean power sf. we know that those customers use the most electricity and we would have rate increases of $98 a month. we would still have 17% say they would stay with clean power sf. as a follow-up to this question, we asked about a different scenario. instead of providing power that would be 100% greenhouse gas free, we asked them to consider a scenario that was 100% billable had 100% greenhouse gas free. we asked them if they would choose to participate in such a program given the rates you see on the slide. the rate impact is somewhat higher than the 40% renewable scenario. more than two in five customers indicate that they would opt in to the hundred% renewable scenario, and even when we get to talk about a potential rate increase, where 60 percent side that they would indicate they would choose the renewal option. it is interesting to compare the level of interest and participation than the respondents expressed in the 40% grenoble scenario, to the level they expressed. all five roads indicate

i feel the sf mta is not revealing certain things. that is the reasoning for tilting some of this. sfmta isn't reminded that all known addresses were supplied to correct errors. by concealing so-called inside information that was expected, but not revealed, this is still in question in one particular address where i see a conflict of who actually owns the property. thank you. chairperson nolan: thank you. next speaker. >> barry toronto. that is the last person who felt that a speaker card on this matter. >> good afternoon. as you know, the publicity on this item has been tremendous. it has been in the newspaper and on the radio. i don't know about tv. i have some concerns i want to address. first, the impact regarding the stable parking place. if a ramp taxi needs to use a spot to help a person briefly, or to help the person to their residents and back, or to help them with grocery bags because they have a walker, would that penalize the cab driver? this is been brought up in the past. i am concerned with the increase in the fine, whether it might create more enthusiasm, so to spea

yarne's comments earlier that the sf puc is able to address remaining changes through the puc process that will be coming up in june at our commission. with that, we do not need to see these amendments incorporated at the board today. we very much appreciate where the developers have come tthus far. i just wanted to make sure i was clear on what our intentions were at this point. thank you very much. supervisor mar: thank you. ms. marshall. >> good morning. my name is paul e. marshall. i'm the tenet commissioner on the san francisco rent board. i'm also a redevelopment and affordable housing attorney. i have a fair amount of expertise in areas i'm going to address. first of all, i would like to ask you, even beg you, to continue this item. the process is very unimaginable for people who are doing this like me on volunteer, weekend, and night *. i was told by supervisor chiu's aides that the city and developing attorneys were up all night negotiating the amendments that were just introduced. they were passed out to us at 10:00 a.m. this morning. i have been through them. i already see

it will be called sf promote. it is going to be simple. are working with staff in supervisor chu's office to make sure the explanations are clear, it is easy, it is accurate, and there are no excuses for not having are using registered promoters. as you might recall, the legislation does allow us to run the gamut of corrective action all the way up to revocation to discipline permit holders if they don't do the right thing. now we can actually use administrative citations on promoters as well. there is a monetary consequence on them. so we are hopeful that this will be another tool, essentially. i wanted to let you know the entertainment commission was involved in an event, basically, a workshop for health care for musicians in san francisco. that event was at the bottom of the hill at the end of march. we're recording and music program -- we were recording a music program and put together to a session on how the obama health care program will impact decisions -- will impact musicians in san francisco and how our universal care here in san

we want to see clean power sf running as soon as possible. i am very excited to see that it is 100% ruble and will have no dedicated nuclear power. that is very important to sierra club since we are against all forms of nuclear power. thank you. supervisor campos: public comment is closed. commissioners, this is a discussion item. unless there is anything else to add, madam cleark, please call item five. we can now hear from mr. campbell. >> and the director of the committee choice abrogation program. this is a brief item. a lot of it got covered in the discussion earlier. the big items -- one is the generational reflecting coming up. that has been discussed as a key element that will drive how we time the program and how we design our rates. the other is to give you a status update. the commission continues to move forward on -- the california public utilities commission continues to look forward on how it charges the fees charged to customers. we're hoping it will help the fees to be reduced. that is in the face before the proposed decision

dpw has become a regular attendee of meetings comprised of multiple city agencies, including the sf mta. dpw has also continued to work to identify implementation opportunities for the strategies in the final report. these strategies include a street master plan to address intersection and mid-block crossing signs and other safe facilities. we know the creaking safe and functional places for people to walk and bicycle can have a profound impact on health. some details are still being resolved. we recognize the importance of health and transportation planning. chairperson nolan: who is the next speaker? >> eric brooks. chairperson nolan: ahead. this is public comment time now. >> it is standard practice in most commissions for the coming to come after so we can, to what the presentation says. -- so we can comment to what the presentation says. this item is something you should postpone. 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 env

i am transferring to sf state in the fall. >> i am a fashion design student here at ucsf.transition was a little rough, but i found my way. i have not decided what school i am going to transfer to, but i am hoping fit -- f.i.t. in new york. >> i am from balboa high school. i am planning to go to city college this year. >> good morning, everyone. i came to america two years ago, i am planning to go to city college first and then transferred to ucla -- transferred to ucla. thank you. >> i am a graduate of balboa high school, and i am a student here at city college. >> ok, well, welcome, everybody. we thought what would be helpful for this -- those of us on this side of the park would be to hear from each of you one of two things. if you are in high school, tell us when you knew you were going to be a college student and what we either did to help or did not do to help to get you to that point. if you are in city college, it would be helpful to hear a similar thing -- what got you into city college, and what made it possible for you to stay? anyone who wants to start is welco

exhibit q, per the request of the sf puc power division, we met extensively almost every day last week and substantially amended that agreement to ease the administration clarity so that the sf power staff understood how they were to monitor and evaluate each some middle under the applications. puc will also have the right to validate energy usage projections. if necessary, changes will be made to account for the puc's feedback. supervisor mar: puc does have to approve this, but we can still move forward and they can do that at a later time? >> thank you, supervisor. i consulted with charles sullivan. there are some additional changes that staff at puc power want to continue talking about. we intend to continue the dialogue with the city attorney, charles sullivan, to confirm that they could make them prior to the sf puc's approval and we plan to continue the dialogue. additional clarifications were made based on the feedback from finance staff. specifically, the biggest changes are monitoring and implementation of how the credits and the subsidies would be received. we want to make it

go solar sf gave me the opportunity to get back on my feet. i feel like you should keep in mind -- cutting the program, you may be cutting some of our second chances and getting back into work and really doing something with our lives. thank you. [applause] supervisor chu: next speaker, please. >> hello. i am 22 years old, born and raised in san francisco. i attended asian neighborhood design and i'm currently not workinworking with luminal thano go solar sf. we would like to keep a full funding for people like me. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good afternoon. some of the people that have spoken today have installed on my house. i was the first to get solar in the neighborhood through puc. i was coined the name the ambassador of solar. i would like for you to write down three things. one is commitment. committed to funds. go back 40 years, prior to the puc to the department of public works. the expansion of the sewage plant in my community. i would like to say to you that from that expansion of the sewage plant in the 1970's, we got

supervisor mirkarimi: is it possible that this technology could adopt something similar, like sf park, where one could be made known in advance when a charter becomes available? in that potentially welcome problem that people are out surfing to find an available will trickle charge. >> two dancers. because of the location and miss their -- and communications built in, the charter companies themselves are developing applications where people can access where they are and whether they are available or not. we will be working with charter companies on how to really integrate that so that there can be a very good system, very much like sf park, perhaps integrated, so that it is part of the information that people confined. not only where it is located, but if it is available. that is coming. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. i would motion to adopt this with recommendation for the board. supervisor chu: we have a motion and a second to send forward with recommendation. i will ask the department to follow up with the individuals on the questions that they had another conversation between pr