Ensuring our community has access to choose clean and safe public water. And by reinvesting in and promoting public water over bottled water, San Francisco will set an important example for other cities and people across the country. The bottled water industry has had misleading marketing [speaker not understood]. Public water is much more regulated than bottled water and is the best way to ensure access for water to everyone. Not just those who can pay a market price. Water is a public good, not a commodity to be bought and sold. And as of 2007 executive order, the ripple of this leadership will be felt in cities and towns across the u. S. A strong stand in this ordinance for public water and making a powerful statement about the urgent need to invest our [speaker not understood] public service. So, thank you. Thank you very much. Ms. Bobbitt. Hi, supervisors. Nice to see all of you, and thank you for hearing this item today. Im Karen Bobbitt representing the sierra club, currently th
The puc after Public Comment on that particular issue around street fairs because it seems on the public streets because that is a more challenging place to access water. Yeah, i am michael davis. Im the owner and founder of u. S. Pure water which is a company that is a Mission Driven company to help people get off of bottled water. So, this is an issue that we deal with all the time. We have a contract with the city and county of San Francisco and have helped replace bottled water in their offices and theyve been responsible for making sure that thats a successful situation. And it saved a city over a Million Dollars by doing that. That actually, when that happened, its kind of key to the importance of doing Something Like what youre proposing to do. Im very supportive of what youre talking about here. We originally had the contract with the city ask county, but nobody was proactively changing from bottled water to bottleless Water Systems until gavin newsom issued that executive orde
Ac transit, bada, caltrans, muni, we he da who will be managing the Ferry Service as well as the Transportation Authority and tida. ~ weda if you have additional questions on the plan or the recommendationses to designate the Transportation Authority as the timma, be hatch toy answer those. Aloe okay, thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions he . Supervisor mar. ~ happy to answer mr. Beck, i just wanted to ask about the congestion management. I know that the Transportation Authority has to develop plan. Do you have any concept of how that would work . We are working with the Transportation Authority already on some preliminary studies for the mobility management and congestion pricing. There are a number of variables that were looking at. But the main vehicle to managing the congestion pricing is calling on and off of the island. Were looking at the question of whether those tolls should be collected only when leaving the island, when arriving on the island, when leaving and arri
Ceremony i wonder if i can get the shovelers back here well get one more picture thank you for coming and stand but for the for wednesday, march 26, 2014. My name is mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. I am joined by vicechair eric mar and Committee Member john avalos. We want to thank the members of sfgovtv covering this meeting Nona Melkonian and jonathan and the clerk of the committee ms. Linda wong. Madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes he, mr. Chair. Silence cell phones. Completed speaker cards and copies of documents it to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will be on april 5, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay, thank you, madam clerk. Can you please call item number 1 . Time number 1 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the Fleet Management division of the General Services agency to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 384,000 from Alameda County for electric vehicles
Okay, thanks very much. Is it tom from Fleet Management . Thanks for being here. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Good morning, chair, and supervisors. My name is tom fong. Im the fleet manager at the Fleet Management division of the General Services agency. Im here today to seek your support to accept and expend grant funds for the local government electric vehicle fleet demonstration project which will help bring 14 new electric vehicles to the San Francisco municipal fleet. In 2010, the metropolitan Transportation Commission issued a grant announcement for electric vehicle demonstration project. 10 public agencies in the bay area joined together to apply and later awarded the local government electric vehicle project ~ which was funded for 2. 8 million a total of 90 vehicles. For this particular project Alameda County is acting as the lead agency for participating partners. As a partner to the demonstration project, the Fleet Management division of the General Services agency was