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Some of that is going for feed the people who dont have other access to food in the city and it is heartening and fantastic presentation and then finally, we discussed the Community Meeting that we had and we learned as to whether or not the staff could accommodate that level of work, whether it was too much work to put the Community Meetings together and talked about what worked but didnt, and donny said that they had learned a lot from the first two that we had down about nine months apparent ...

That motion. Okay, thank you. I didnt realize that, sorry. Second. Okay, seconded by commissioner mar without objection the item moves forward with a positive recommendation. Better . Thank you. All right, so lets go to the next item. Item no. 5, executive officers report. Jason fried, lafco staff, i know many of you want at some point to go see a giants game so ill make this quick. Next month we are approving a potential schedule for the 2015 calendar. We have the traditional dates weve met on ...

Reimbursements and incentives and i just want to note that commissioner wan and i were in a very wonderful meeting and i, myself had a pretty impactful tour yesterday, where i saw the sros of china town and some of of them, and i had never been inside of an sro i didnt understand that you can put your arms out and touch each side of the room, and that is where not only one person may live, but an entire family may live, so that was very impactful to me and we got a grant, the department of the e...

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With many of you on trying to get this program passed. I would reiterate what everyone has said that looking forward to a no later than that november launch date and for a utility rate. Something dawned on me. I worked on ab 32 in sacramento the Global Warming bill. Even though its set up the implementation of the state level, what cities do will feed into that. The more we can get clean power set up it will make the program in cal more effective and other states are looking to that and i hope t...

Ultimately, yes, we want our neighborhoods beautiful, yes, we want to underground utilities, but we dont want to limit access to those neighborhoods who need access to what we plan to underground. And i want to make sure that that divide does not take place as a result of our efforts. So, with that, are there any other comments or is there commissioner mar. Yeah, i just wanted to add id like the studies that eric brooks and bruce wolf referenced, if you could make sure that we have access to the...

Residents, to take advantage of their property tax assessment, as a way to pay for energy and in an earthquake, and water upgrades. We have this in the commercial sector but we have not been able to implement it on the residential sector and we have worked on it now for several years and we have reached a very important point in time where the mayor is introduced a resolution, that would authorize the city to join with some existing providers, and we once we work through those, milestones, or th...

Front of us, we could do a simple one. One of the things that i think commissioner arce suggested and what was read into the minutes was that we something about potentially giving approval to write a letter in support and i am very comfortable saying that we subpoena power support the intent of this and maybe we can include the language in the letter and i would be very up for that. So, we could, ask staff including that and many of the suggestions that were made this evening, and do i have a mo...

Transit, and we, at the 350 San Francisco are very much putting that on our agenda, as something that we want to push for support for Public Transit and also, we do have people coming through and i think that we do have a lot of fruit traffic of the people on vacation and this is something that they are not going to see this every day in their town but it will be something that they would take home with them from their travels and it is result in San Francisco, right . And among a lot of other D...

Mayor. Commissioner wald . I was so, i know that i am going to get another chance to say this, but i just have to say what a loss your leaving retiring, will be ruth, even if we get a grateful commission shortly after. You are the best environmentalist on this commission. Your knowledge of the San Francisco environment and the issues that are effect it as well as the broad sweep of relationships that you have built with the activists and the individuals and the environmental organizations and th...