We felt that we did raise awareness around a local neighborhood area. In the coming year, we do hope to move forward with another campaign to increase awareness of the program. The program was able to connect with the Hotel Council of San Francisco and we are able in the partnership to put on a Green Business forum to put on hotels of San Francisco and their partners and the forum was very well received by the council and so we are actually moving forward with a fivepart workshop series to assist the hotels, to green themselves so this is a very industry specific out reach that we are trying to do here. And other items that the program is moving forward with, is a set of translated checklists for the Office Retail and the restaurant sectors we will be having those created in spanish and chinese and those are currently in the process at the moment and so we are hoping to complete them shortly and as wells the second thing that we are working on further is the businesses work very hard t
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. To more employees in the bay area. And i would like to introduce gabby conas coordinator for our energy program, thank you. Good evening. Like my colleague said i am here to talk about the Energy Efficiency program. And implemented by the department of the environment. This program has not only helped the Small Business owners, save money by providing Energy Savings that directly support their bot
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 because like commuter checks, we do those in my office and we started off with just five people, and now we are up to 47 of the employees that use the checks and they dont live in the city they live in the east bay and they use them on the ferry and that. And on your out reach, have you especially, with the green and everything, have you been going and contacting merchant groups to do these presentati
Themselves so this is a very industry specific out reach that we are trying to do here. And other items that the program is moving forward with, is a set of translated checklists for the Office Retail and the restaurant sectors we will be having those created in spanish and chinese and those are currently in the process at the moment and so we are hoping to complete them shortly and as wells the second thing that we are working on further is the businesses work very hard to receive this recognition and to achieve, the high Environmental Standards of the program and so we created a video to help the businesses market their green recognition to the clients and customers, so they understand what to do with the green recognition once they have 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
We created a video to help the businesses market their green recognition to the clients and customers, so they understand what to do with the green recognition once they have 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 because like commuter checks, we do those in my office and we started off with just five people, and now we are up to 47 of the employees that use the checks and they dont live in the city they live in the east bay and they use t