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The department. What are the departments doing in terms of consumption and conservation and who is doing well and not. No. 4, how are we protecting the water system, maintaining and updating and improving the water structure and guarding for fire and funding for immediate projects. No. 5, longterm planning. How are we planning for population growth. What are we doing to find sources water whether it be desaulization and i know puc grant was putting a proposal on hold and i would like to hear mor...

Would like to invite up our City Attorney mr. Herrera for some comments. Thank you, mr. President and members of the board and thank you for the opportunity to come and spend a couple minutes to talk about this Legislation Forum today. First i want to thank and congratulate president chu for all of his hard work over the last year. You may recall that supervisor chiu and i introduced this legislation last year and at the time announced it was our belief that thises the most important ethics legi...

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...

Water conservation and the sf puc is distributing these materials to all teachers who are interested in San Francisco and also make it available on their website. Our water class presentations not only are teefrps teachers doing this but our office as well. We have given eight presentations to assemblies targeting about 8,000 students in San Francisco and developing a curriculum to take it to further grades to allow students to be fully engaged in the process. Lastly one of the other aspects we ...

Sheets about environmental topics including Water Conservation and we distribute information directly to teachers and have these items posted on our website for people to download. We are adding more tips on Water Conservation. Plus when we provide this information, we encourage kids to take the tips homes and have conversation with their parents around how to save water. One of the most successful aspects to get these fifth graders to be fully engaged from the process and from our account its b...

That if we need it. And we have water basically is what we used to supply the irrigation districts with water to maintain water in hetch hetchy reservoir. That water depends on the reservoir. It didnt look like much in flow and that water wasnt worth much. Precipitation has been normal for february. More is needed. We basically need this weekend storm to be strong and one or two more series of storms so i will be able to sleep throughout night. Until then, we have to worry about the water condit...

That we do here when we do the citys business and finally the legislation i think goes absolutely best in making sure that our community is as informed as possible when it comes to the business going on here in city hall. We have enhanced Public Information provision and requirements with respect to reporting financial nonfilers and Publishing Campaign guide so there can be transparency when it comes to Campaign Fundraising and we also strive to make sure that we have full language access. So th...

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 california Public Utilities commission as well as the Environmental Protection agencies. We are now home to more than 35 Solar Companies and...

Mayors in iowa, in indiana, in alabama and in florida, saying that theres a lot for immigrants to contribute to this country. We also have to have the talent come here as well. A lot of Technology Companies are reaching out to talent across the world and they need that talent to stay here to build the companies so that more jobs can get created. Thats part of the immigration bill along with family, along with pathways to citizenship for those that are technically not legally here. How do you spe...

But 55 was a credit, not a deduction. So, you took it right off your state income tax. Probably the biggest incentive that has ever been provided. But over the years times change, but still california at that time was leading the way in solar and building efficiency, and then very shortly after 1982 promulgated appliance efficiency standards. So, we did get the sense of Renewable Energy, efficiency, elegance in the way we handle resources. Today, of course, we know a lot more. We know about Clim...