first places you go to and get their buy in and agreement to purchase this locally generated or this local energy program. thank you so much. thank you. national next speaker please. hello, i m david mccord. a chair of the club of the san francisco base chapter of energy and climate committee and honored to speak with you today. we want clean power of s f to succeed that creates local jobs. among other cc a s across the country nearly all rates are below the standard rate of the local utility. among the few that are higher, modest premiums are significantly below staff s recommended rate, these include build out of local renewable and energy efficiency services by revenue. we are asking clean power sf to go beyond this. with the results of the customer survey, we believe it is essential. san francisco has an advantage. you already have authority to issue h revenue bonds for just this purpose. these bonds issued at a level which you can support will start signature build o
workers [speaker not understood] to make a commitment to the citizens we serve and to city college to get the education that s necessary to perform these functions in the park, which we don t get from the people we hire off the streets. and, so, the fact of the matter is when you tack about all these public service trainees, there s no training. there s no pathway. you bring these people in, you don t know where they are. you don t know who is supervising them. you don t know what work they re [inaudible]. it s disrespectful to these young men and women who they want to have an opportunity and career in rec and park. we don t have a mechanism, it s not connected, supervisors. it needs to be connected by management so you know what a trainee is, is that a pre-apprentice? is there a training component? who evaluates those people? how do they get accepted into the apprenticeship program? which members of your district get into those apprenticeship programs? because they re highl
em them the way we believe they re entitled to be served [inaudible]. and we negotiated this district captain ~ position for accountability sake. that died for two years. only after [inaudible]. where 25 or so district captains appointed to the current positions like last week. so, as much as, you know, we can talk about the powerpoint presentations and everything else. the facts are the facts [inaudible]. [inaudible]. before and after photos get real results that result in a camaraderie among the workers that are from our communities [inaudible]. and then go around that commitment and engage all these other programs which is what s been happening. there s no reason to hire at the journey level rate as an entry level spot when you have an already previously committed to apprenticeship [inaudible]. so, our concern was that the department insisted on hiring 34 17s instead of hiring 34 10s. and that s where our union put its money where its mouth is. we gave the wages. the appre
and then go around that commitment and engage all these other programs which is what s been happening. there s no reason to hire at the journey level rate as an entry level spot when you have an already previously committed to apprenticeship [inaudible]. so, our concern was that the department insisted on hiring 34 17s instead of hiring 34 10s. and that s where our union put its money where its mouth is. we gave the wages. the apprentices make 55% of the journey [inaudible] these workers [speaker not understood] to make a commitment to the citizens we serve and to city college to get the education that s necessary to perform these functions in the park, which we don t get from the people we hire off the streets. and, so, the fact of the matter is when you tack about all these public service trainees, there s no training. there s no pathway. you bring these people in, you don t know where they are. you don t know who is supervising them. you don t know what work they re [inaud
and i have two names to call up first. vince courtney. [inaudible]. before we go on to our public comment. hello, and thank you to the department and ms. callahan for the presentation today. i m sure we ll have a good discussion today about the apprenticeship program, which i know we all strongly support and [inaudible]. i also think it s important to sometimes step back and just look at where the rec and park department is. and i am very, very positive about the direction of this department. we had a budget hearing on the department s upcoming budget proposal. i think its was last week or the week before. and we were reminded of what we [inaudible]. in term of the budget of the department, in terms of [inaudible]. general fund support for rec and park, reduction in number of gardeners, totally inadequate park control staffing. you know, in a lot of cities in this country [inaudible]. to a parks department, you would start seeing probably park closures, dramatic reduction [