done. and to let people know that we are with them and no matter what the resources are. we are with them. frankly speaking, i would start with the board of supervisors. and then i would move from there to people in the community who have resources to try to make sure that some of the people who have places and churches that have to draw on those of their resources, that we find ways that they would come to understand that we are not putting them out from our city. we are drawing them into our city. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i have a little something that i've wanted to say. i believe everyone has a spiritual beliefs. i believe that the metering on sundays is another form of racial profiling. it would hurt the ethnic communities and ethnic churches in our area and throughout the city. it profiles the african community. we all know that churches start up late, sometimes in the afternoon. it is another door been shut. when i look at genocide, the devil is always working. it drives people farther away from god. god says,, as you are. -- come as you are. >> next speaker. >> thank you for your time. i feel like the parking meter enforcement on sundays present an undue hardship and burden on the inner city, lower income residents. i do not know -- they said the benefit was this it would be a $1.9 million increase a year. what kind of price are we going to put on a sense of community that we lose? presence in the tenderloin rely heavily on the -- residence in the tenderloin rely heavily on the sense of community created by the church. it is vital to their daily life. i feel that price tag is a very cheap price tag, considering the loss to the community. we are dealing with people with fixed incomes. it is an unterberg in and hardship on those people who already have -- an undue burden and hardship on those people who already have limited resources. some churches do get out later in the afternoon. if nothing else, maybe we could help set the time a little later in the day. most of the members leave by 1:00. we do make sure that everybody is out of there by 1:00. as a last resort, that consideration, but it does not address the issue over all four other churches who have later services. >> thank you. next speaker. >> ♪ it is a tragedy it when you got no parking and you have no money from your job or salary it is hard to explain the money is going away it is a tragedy when you lost your job and got no money salary the money is gone, it is just going away and hey ♪ ♪ jive budget topalking nobody believes what you say why don't you give it a way we're going to need some help bring it today there you go with your budget jive all your jive budget talking maybe to the church bring it their way blaming it all on city hall blaming its bid all on the budget highway bring it to the city we needed our way in this crazy town go ahead and hate your neighbor go ahead and cheat your budget friend do it in the name of heaven you will justify its in the end you know it is going to happen one budgets soldier rides away ♪ ♪ >> thank you. next speaker. >> i sat on not seat or you are sitting right now. as a member of the board of supervisors. i sat there to be concerned about everybody in this city. it would be most unfortunate to that this finance committee would adopt a budget of the transportation authority that is divisive, exclusionary, and it is mean-spirited. number one, the stakeholders were not invited to the table. never was this issue vetted. no one heard about it in the faith community. we do not matter. it appears, friends, that of the faith community, african- americans, are excluded from this democracy. sunday, for us, is a day not only of rest, but it is a day to engage people for the empowerment of doing things for the good of the whole city. if there were an earthquake, our facilities would be used as a place of refuge. we have housed the homeless, fed the hungry, counselors to those who have been breakers of the law. for us, $1.9 million -- >> thank you. >> i deserve the respect for you to hear me through. i would do the same thing for you that has been done for others. >> thank you. as you know, we have to afford every single speaker the same amount of time. >> i know about the time. >> if there is a question? >> i have a question. maybe you could share with us your final thoughts. >> my final thought? it is not final, it will continue. i will never let this thing go. if you want to hear that -- >> yes, we would like to hear it. >> of this measure, this budget's, should be sent back to the metropolitan transportation authority, because they have been mean to our community. the closedown churches continuously. there is no prior arrangements to give alternatives to churches, revenue is lost. they do not have their house in order. in terms of relating to this community. that is their basic stand, that is their basic wrong. they do not respect us, they do not consider us. when you talk about language, we should be language user- friendly, but there are people in this town -- is there any translations for those people who happen to be of african origin? nope. we need to go back to the drawing board and make sure that all means all in this city. in miami, florida, people do not have to pay to park around churches. in atlanta, georgia, they do not have to pay to park around churches. even in new york city, with 12 million people, they are so user-friendly that they will give faith leaders permission to place placards on their automobiles. this city is increasingly proven that it is mean-spirited, unkind, and not inclusive of people who -- for people of faith. this is not just a christian and thing. the muslims are with us, the jews are with us. they are saying the same thing. you do not care about this. >> thank you, reverend brown. next speaker, please. >> i am a native san franciscan. our sunday meters have been something i have been proud of. i could say to people feel -- i could say to people that you do not have to pay today. it is something that allows the community to develop and time to be spent with family and to take one thing off of your mind. i'd been proud of this city in many ways. that we consider the human being. this is not considering the community. putting wealth and the wrong pockets. considering wealth in the wrong way. we should consider our people more than our bottom line. i hope the supervisors and that the parking and traffic can consider that above what that amount of money can bring to the city. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. they have been a great collaborator on several key issues. they have exceeded expectations beyond the 20% minimum threshold that was required in the first year. the second issue is clean power sf. the third and most recent issue is the idea of solar incentives. as we have seen, there is exciting progress being made. solar is a multi-craft occupation. this has overturned the controversial reservoir decision that existed a while back. the budget cuts front in the progress that we have made in the solar industry. this has been indicated in the statistics. the success of the program, before 2007, san francisco ranked dead last in terms of solar installations per residence. now it ranks first with over 5 megawatts in stalled over thousands of homes. hundreds of jobs provided for it through the solar industry. that not only includes the 82 economically disadvantaged residents that have been hired as a result, but also the ability to respond to climate change. again, affirming the importance of the program, and hoping that we can seek a resolution to restoring the $2 million in cuts that have happened. >> thank you. >> good evening. i and the pastor of the broad street baptist church in san francisco. i am president of the san francisco baptist ministers' conference. i lived in a little hollywood for the past 40 years. i want to talk to you about what mta is doing. before i went into the ministry, i spent 25 years with the pacific electric and gas company as a manager and i ran my own consulting business for 10 years. when i heard the presentation from mta, so many questions come into my mind. when they talk about implementing parking meters on sunday, what is the rate of return? the cost of implementation, the cost of installing new meters versus, it's money they're going to get back. i do not think the dollar's add up. the other part is that you look at the impact it will have on the communities that are being involved and the ill feeling that will be created. the value will come up to be a loss instead of a positive. a lot of this stuff, you have small businesses that are involved and it is gone to impact them, which is going to affect their revenue. i am asking for the board of supervisors to support us. i want to thank supervisor wiener. it is important because a lot of our churches, the service is run from 9:30 until about 6:30 in the evening. from 12:00 until 6:00 is the main meat other service. the people coming into san francisco on those days, i think it says to those folks is that we really do not want you here. >> thank you. >> so we're going to kick you out. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. [applause] >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am representing the san francisco green party. i want to chime in and to do whatever it takes to fully fund solar sf. as most of you know, i have been a cheerleader for clean power sf. that is going to be the game changer. that will give us hundreds of megawatts of renewables and direct jobs, 4000 jobs a year, for at least the first four years. however, that stuff is not coming on line for a year or two and some of its longer, and we need something to prime the pump. we need a project that has been this successful. has hired people, hired local people. we have 5 megawatts of solar that we did not have before. it will be able to plug into clean power sf and help but get off the ground. -- help it get off the ground. we need to do both. we need to support those programs. one other point on water, puc said a lot of good things about water and wastewater. a new thing they did not talk about that we need a test pilot for is composting toilets. if every toilet in san francisco was an urban composting toilet, we would save 5 billion gallons of water per year. i would encourage you to encourage puc to do a test on that. it could do a lot to decrease our water use. >> thank you. >> i want to speak with respect to the puc presentation earlier. to find funding to restore the cuts to the goal solar sf program. some comments have been made before. what i really want to say is that we are working with the general manager to find some solutions. the program has created similar opportunities for 500 homeowners. businesses, low-income families. that number dropped to 250 and the funds ran out about eight months into the year. i do not mean to paint the overly daughter nature to you to say that it is not impossible -- dire nature to you to say that it is not impossible. we are working with the general manager, and he spoke about how the local hire numbers are phenomenal on the project. you did not hear it from the general manager, but we know what happened. even though our new headquarters is not covered by the new local hire policy, i want you to treated as such. he give local hire policy a great trial run to show that it can work. the assistant general manager helped deliver the message to the contractor. we are working great with the general manager to do that. one thing to tee up to the community -- to the committee to think about, multiple trade unions can now be involved in solar. it might help us to organize the solar to go union. thank you. >> thank you. are there other members? i have one more card. if you have not submitted a yellow card, but would like to speak, please line up in the center aisle. these are for public comment for items 1-11. budget items are related to the port, airport, rent board cut public utilities commission, department of the environment, and the mta. >> good afternoon. thank you to the board for their ferro -- thank you to the board. thank you for hearing me. i came here to support glide. in their support, they have done a lot of great work for the community. they feed people. they except many people that are overlooked. -- accept many people that are overlooked. i want to thank muni for deaf great job they have done. i am a -- for the great job they have done. i am a san francisco resident. muni has done a fantastic job. most of the people who drive the buses are polite and drive carefully in consideration of their clients. many people come from all over the world, across the state, to see glide celebrate life. perhaps the income drawn from the parking meters could be turned over to the church, to all the churches. one day of rest is necessary. thank you. >> thank you very much. are there other members of the public who wish to speak? public comment is closed. ok, colleagues. we have the items before us. let's make sure we're going through all of them quickly. to the mayor's budget office, with regards to item number three, my understanding on that is they are all existing cro prp j's. >> [inaudible] >> the comptroller's office did analyze each of these and all the services have been contacted out for a number of years. there is a significant savings in each and every one of these contrasting proposals. therefore, we are recommending that the board accept the certification. >> thank you very much. on item number four, colleagues, we heard from the puc earlier today. the area of concerns we raced had to do with the plans going forward for this huge project would be. one of the suggestions that i had put forward and the general manager had suggested on that item, appropriation of the $588 million, was to put on reserve value to allow them to go towards the boards in their summertime. i would like to entertain a motion to reserve year 2. that value is $255 million. do we have that motion? we can do that without objection? thank you. on items #5 and items #6, i believe public utilities commission had articulated a number of amendments quickly to those items. i would like to ask the controller's office to reiterate them. >> [inaudible] 4 item #5, -- four item number five, page 8 online 11, the financing cost would be changed to $18,951,686. that amount excludes the rboc amount. for the next item, item number six, which is the appropriation for the $141 million -- on page 7, line 10, at the end of that line, we would add under rating agency disclosure cost, we would add the words "$29,912 for the revenue bond oversight committee cost. " this amendment identified specifically the amount the are appropriated for the revenue bond oversight committee. those would be the two amendments. >> great. i believe these are not rigid these would not require a continuance. do we have a motion to that effect? we have a motion to amend items 5 and 6. we will take that without objection. finally, with regard to amendments on items number 11, we talked about amending the document to take away the additional pass through. that was something that was already articulated