Will be presented by supervisor kim. Thank you. Were actually honoring a lot of upstanding individuals today while this individual is not an official member of the city family he is certainly a member of our city and a district 6 resident. Im honoring an individual today that many of you have probably read about in the press recently. His name is ben schwart z. Ben was attacked in our neighborhood after taking a stand at the verbal abuse directed at his girlfriend he was returning from a party Early Saturday Morning and passed a man making threats to her and after crossing to the other side of the street and being followed ben asked the perpetrator and punches were thrown and ben ended up being stabbed 9 times in the back, face and neck and arms with the knife narrowly missing his spinal cord but puncturing his lung. While there are many men and women women ben made a Public Statement and he and elevated this issue and in fact one that is so pervasive that theres a consensus not even s
And Energy Efficiency retro fits on local homes and businesses. As pointed out by enernex report this will create thousands of local jobs for city of San Francisco and local union jobs. We need the commission to set rates in place with clear timelines. Thank you, next speaker, please. Public speaker hello, im a Sierra Club Member and an advocate of Community Choice aggregation of 2006. In 2007 we were promised a program would be up and running. That didnt happen demand and in 2012 the board voted for this and now we are waiting again. I feel like a kid on a trip, are we there yet . Except this is critically important and the trip is fairly long. We are seeing Climate Changes globally and globally. Please stop dragging your feet. Set the rates now. Supervisor london breed thank you. I going to call more cards. Can you please lineup. Public speaker hi, my name is ramsey springel. Student at u c berkeley. I cant imagine an issue bigger than this one. Even as education, i graduate this yea
Probably am being a little bit redundant because i just want to make sure that i get as much information as i can. Again, this is a really important appointment, as you know and i want to make sure that we have a rate payer advocate and not a yes person, and someone who is going to be a fighter for rate payers and who is going to do the right thing and who is going to not just deal with clean power appropriately but deal with all issues of the puc appropriately and really, i mean i know that theres a hardworking staff at the puc but sometimes the details are not always brought to the surface and really pushing to bring the details to the surface that the public would be interested in hearing about, to be sure you are their advocate , to be sure you are asking the right questions and communicating the right message and really pushing the envelope as someone who is a true advocate for rate payers, so can i count on you to be that person if you are appointed to this seat . I want to use a
I personally love seeing just a normal regular resident who wants to contribute to our city and who is a rate payer and has experience of that in their job be a part of this. I think my question is i cant believe you want to do this, but really glad you are here and thank you for even considering this appointment. Thank you, supervisor tang thank you, mr. Kwan any last comments youd like to make . Im pumped, im very excited. I will put my shoel ter to the wheel for this. Im only one of five but i look forward to doing this. We are going to open this item for Public Comment and then move on with our discussion. I have a number of cards and if you can come up in the order your name is called. If we have a line it will be along this wall here. Dan flannigan, followed by calling names . Good morning, supervisors, my name is dan flannigan, i am coming here speaking as the executive director of friends of urban forest. I know you have looked at a very impressive resume and has a great amount
Item for Public Comment and then move on with our discussion. I have a number of cards and if you can come up in the order your name is called. If we have a line it will be along this wall here. Dan flannigan, followed by calling names . Good morning, supervisors, my name is dan flannigan, i am coming here speaking as the executive director of friends of urban forest. I know you have looked at a very impressive resume and has a great amount of experience in managing a Large Organization here in San Francisco but id like to speak on behalf of my experience with ike. Ike is ana Awesome Community organizer. We are working in district 4 to try to reduce as much sidewalks and concrete as possible and ike was very instrumental in trying to organize his neighborhood in trying to get enough people to buy into that program. Both my two of my staff were working with him in this process, they came back and they elected him the superman of all Community Organizers because they said he was not only