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Stevenson, nicholas, commissioners sarah wong, commissioner king is excused. Please call the next item. Please call for Public Comment. Opening remarks for item 3. Opening remarks by Public Utilities Commission Press Vince Courtney and xhis on the environment president joshua arce. Well call for Public Comment on this item, but before we do, commissioner arce . Thank you. On behalf of all of us at the San Francisco commission on environment, we are excited to be here today. Weve been talking about getting together with the puc for a long time and its been years since our committee met. I think...

Million which were always considered the absolute maximum co 2 load in the environment. I have to say that no one ever voted to remove the iconic you eucalyptus trees in San Francisco. It is shocking to go by an area that is under construction by recreation and parks to see trees removed from the area. People i have talked to about it have misconceptions. There are all kinds of things written and said about you can leadership eucalyptus trees that are not true. We are waiting to talk to the professors in order to get it together. I really think the eucalyptus as San Franciscos official tree. W...

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. ...

Received it. And, to conclude, the San Francisco Green Business program does offer many benefits to businesses in San Francisco. We as a program do strive to help the businesses go green and take advantage of the many free resources, services, audits and rebates offered by the city here. And so, from myself, and my colleagues, gabby and sue ellen thank you for having us here and we will take any of your questions if you have any. Thank you very much. Do we have any questions . I just want to thank all three of you for coming this evening. And one of the things that i would like to mention beca...

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 that will happen we want to have data because we dont know when we will have the o...