In the city, economically and environmentally. And so, over the course of one year, our greens and businesses have reduced over 36 Million Pounds of co2 and diverted 1. 6 pounds of waste by composting and waters through the greening measures that we asked them for undertake because that makes sense by using less water and less energy you will save those as an Environmental Impact because if you use this you will have less utility costs and that helps a businesss bottom line. So with the program, we are there, each step of the way to help the businesses, and some of the direct out reach that we do, to businesses, are through, indepth phone consults and on site visits from january, 2013, to june of 2013, so far we have conducted 32 sfoen consults and help to educate, and answer questions and set up audits and offer the rebates to a variety of Small Businesses and also on a larger scale, the program puts out a quarterly newsletter that goes out to the recipients and we also have a Faceboo
Fewer than 100. In the coming year, our program is focused on enhancing our business collateral and improving the material to provide more robust information to employers about options for a complete Transportation Program including commuter benefits but also the other Transportation Programs that we offer. We are also focusing more on enforcement of the ordinance, to insure that all businesses that are required to offer benefits to their employees, understand the requirements and are working in these programs with us. And during a partnership of the office of economic and workforce development, smart will be conducting the out reach specifically targeted to businesses with neighborhood commercial corridor and this out reach will focus on commuter programs and also electric vehicle programs. And finally, the regional ordinance will be taking effect later this year, and that will effect the businesses with 50 or more employees in the 9 county bay area. And the San Francisco commuter ben
Finalize the scope in working with the consultants so the number one point is to choose neighborhoods that reflect the different conditions on the ground, the different economic levels different rates of activity and the different areas served so is this a regional hub . Is it a local hub, or a city wide district, and we want to make sure that we have a good balance and then, we want to make sure that the districts that are chosen in terms of comparison have it a balance of formula retail that we will study. So will there be Big Box Stores in addition to Smaller Stores . And we want to make sure that we have all of our possibilities covered in there including, perhaps, entities that are not currently considered formula retail but may be in the future. And for example, gas stations, or gyms or other personal service. And chains that we doents currently subject to formula retail controls but may in the future, we want to be sure that we have that to the extent that we can predict how tha
We felt that we did raise awareness around a local neighborhood area. In the coming year, we do hope to move forward with another campaign to increase awareness of the program. The program was able to connect with the Hotel Council of San Francisco and we are able in the partnership to put on a Green Business forum to put on hotels of San Francisco and their partners and the forum was very well received by the council and so we are actually moving forward with a fivepart workshop series to assist the hotels, to green themselves so this is a very industry specific out reach that we are trying to do here. And other items that the program is moving forward with, is a set of translated checklists for the Office Retail and the restaurant sectors we will be having those created in spanish and chinese and those are currently in the process at the moment and so we are hoping to complete them shortly and as wells the second thing that we are working on further is the businesses work very hard t
With us. And during a partnership of the office of economic and workforce development, smart will be conducting the out reach specifically targeted to businesses with neighborhood commercial corridor and this out reach will focus on commuter programs and also electric vehicle programs. And finally, the regional ordinance will be taking effect later this year, and that will effect the businesses with 50 or more employees in the 9 county bay area. And the San Francisco commuter benefits ordinance will work hand in hand with the regional ordinance to expand the availability of commuter benefits. To more employees in the bay area. And i would like to introduce gabby conas coordinator for our energy program, thank you. Good evening. Like my colleague said i am here to talk about the Energy Efficiency program. And implemented by the department of the environment. This program has not only helped the Small Business owners, save money by providing Energy Savings that directly support their bot