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Very well attended [speaker not understood] and we also launch a one year Business Development program. The Business Development program that we launched about a year ago was designed to provide certified local business he with Technical Assistance and compete for city contracts. Most of the departments have assisted us with this and [speaker not understood] and the process [inaudible]. In contract tracking, the lbts, [speaker not understood], we are going to be the wbts was launched in july 1st and it will be reporting a Quarterly Report hopefully soon. We will be presenting this to the new l...

Discussion about whether right now 30 years after 14b has gone into effect whether were really thinking aggressively enough in how we achieve our goals. There have been suggestions we ought to have citywide goals for lbe participation. So, for example, there have been some who have suggested a 40 goal of all City Contracting dollars staying with local business he. There has been other suggestions that we ought to set aside at least 10 of our contracting dollars exclusively for local competition and other businesses. Our ordinances should not apply to funded city contracts, but public lands tha...

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 Renewable Energy or generally. Back when i was governor the first time, that was a long time ago some of you...

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 Renewable Energy or generally. Back when i was governor the first time, that was a long time ago some of you...

Nonmunicipal solar installations in our city that totaled about 3 megawatts. Today that number is nearly quadrupled. We have over 3 40 that total 12 megawatts of power. And this is saving san franciscans more than 41 2 Million Dollars a year on their electrical bills and reducing 6,000 metric tons of co2 in the atmosphere annually. Thank you. applause every bit counts. And many of these installations are becoming the standard rather than the exception and were focused on installing them in all of our lowincome homes and Affordable Housing developments as we build in this city. And as jerry bro...