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Applause well, thank you and welcome to california. Its a great place to come and talk about solar energy because we are in the forefront of certainly the rest of the states, probably in fact, certainly in the western hemisphere, california is in the lead. And thats important. But being in the lead doesnt mean weve arrived at the goal. Got a long way to go and i hope the work you do here, the conversations, the relationships that are formed can help advance the cause of solar energy and Renewabl...

Quadrupled. We have over 3 40 that total 12 megawatts of power. And this is saving san franciscans more than 41 2 Million Dollars a year on their electrical bills and reducing 6,000 metric tons of co2 in the atmosphere annually. Thank you. applause every bit counts. And many of these installations are becoming the standard rather than the exception and were focused on installing them in all of our lowincome homes and Affordable Housing developments as we build in this city. And as jerry brown sa...

Market the very idea of solar energy. The very idea that we have all the energy we need, we have to develop the technology to utilize it without at the same time filling up our atmosphere with methane and co2 and nitrogen oxide and all the other emissions and pollutants that are going to reshape what life on earth is. When you hit 400 parts per million, as we did as reported by the monitoring stations over in hawaii, it hasnt been like that for 3 or 4 million years. When it was like that 3 or 4 ...

So, i guess i have to expiate my Many Political sins and i spent time in the wilderness. But i am back and i can reflect on how politics work, how it worked then, whats happened in the meantime, challenges we now face. I promoted solar energy back in 1975 when i signed a law that granted a 55 tax credit to the installation of solar. That time was mostly solar hot water. But 55 was a credit, not a deduction. So, you took it right off your state income tax. Probably the biggest incentive that has ...

Right now is i believe the best i can do for managing the resources i have. Okay. Part of it too is one of the things we want is the clubs to police themselves and we dont ask people to be pushed out into street. They have a responsibility for these individuals as they leave as well. So sean as another private companies do a good job of policing the streets and we leave it to the individual owners on any given night and i have said to other individuals as well that to take the temperature of you...

Of the public to please exit the room during the close session the committee voted to forward item 611 the full board with recommendations. Thank you cannot entertain the motion to close to close session. We can do that without opposition. Anything else on the agenda . No madam chair. Seeing none, meeting is adjourned. Okay. Meeting called to order. Roll call commissioner kimberly brandon. Here, adams here, leslie katz here. Approval for items minutes for 2012 meeting can i have a motion to appr...

Certifying the eir or such determination in such a way to require the additional review under the california quality act. The said record is in the reference and two, the board adopts as its own, the Planning Commission, findings which include the rejection of the project alternatives as a feasible and adoption of the overriding consideration and adopts the program, all is set forth in the Planning Commission, 18875, and said Planning Commission motion and the sequa findings in this motion by re...

We also passed a business tax exclusion for clean tech firms in our city. Weve taken advantage of our position as being in the center for business and innovation to become a hub for International Clean tech firm. Our historic strength and our city has been in finance, and, so, solar firm are moving here to San Francisco to be close to their Financial Partners and to major utilities and Government Agencies such as pacific gas and electric, our San Francisco Public Utilities commission, our califo...

Applause well, thank you and welcome to california. Its a great place to come and talk about solar energy because we are in the forefront of certainly the rest of the states, probably in fact, certainly in the western hemisphere, california is in the lead. And thats important. But being in the lead doesnt mean weve arrived at the goal. Got a long way to go and i hope the work you do here, the conversations, the relationships that are formed can help advance the cause of solar energy and Renewabl...

You. I guess its more of thinking about the fact that when everybody is released all at once, i think its a safety issue for employees too that are trying to get home for people working there. Its our jobs and you know its offending for myself with these bicycles and im offending for my life with people swerving. Im sure this is a room where if we took a vote, i would be in the minority. My job is to enforce the laws in the book. If it does change to 4 00. We will figure it out, but if in my opi...