And approve that without opposition. Okay. Could you please call item four madam clerk. Item four is a resolution retroactively authorizing the Arts Commission to accept a grant in the amount of 200,000 from Kaiser Permanente for the bayview opera house plaza renovation and rest raigdz for the period listed. Okay. We have ms. Axle to speak on this morning. Good morning. You have the resolution for the Arts Commission accepting this grant and this is the tail end of fundraising for the Capital Improvement project for the bayview opera house plaza restoration and renovation project. After years of securing public dollars we turned to the private sector and this Kaiser Permanente 200,000 reflects the tail end of that effort. I can tell you the renovation will work on the corridor and the concrete in the plaza footprint and childrens area and seating and performance venue and adding other green elements to the space. Groundbreaking is in early march, 2014 we hope you join us here and i wil
Analyst recommends approval and i am happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much. Supervisor mar any questions . Okay. Much appreciated. Mr. Rose could we go to your budget Analyst Report please. Yes mr. Chairman, members of the committee, supervisor mar as shown on page nine of the report and the requested authorization for the extended period under the agreement with bombardier is amount listed. That amount includes 38 million plus for base operations, maintenance, escalations and bonuses for the three year extended term and 3. 2 million as was indicated to cover the short fall of the existing budget for the initial five year term of the agreement. Funding for the proposed amended agreement will be provided from the airport operating budget. We recommend that you approve this resolution. Thank you very much mr. Rose. Any questions for the budget analyst . Seeing none. Lets open it up for Public Comment. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Can i have a motion and approve that
Private entities that negotiate administrative and Financing Agreements with the sponsoring government to basically provide capital to finance the improvements under our pace program in sort of a Public Private Partnership Model where the funds that are actually provided are coming from private investors at rates that are predetermined and agreed upon between the parties with other administrative rules in place, and where the city basically is able to uses it taxing authority to allow for this financing to happen. Then my last question chair farrell i know the focus is on panels for Residential Homes and buildings and can you talk about the importance and i know cal knows this from the department of the environment and the retrofits and it was mentioned Water Conservation too and Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation as ways to reduce our Carbon Footprint as well. Absolutely. The great thing about pace is its open to many different kinds of projects. Its not just a solar Financing P
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To pay for solar electric systems and solar Water Systems over the life of those systems and thats an impediment and right now the vehicle for that is Third Party Ownership and Investors Group and wallstreet owns the systems on peoples homes and only addresses the solar electric system and not how we reduce the natural gas usage, how we reduce hour water usage and how we decarbonize our transportation and those three issues are actually major issues with respect to Climate Change and how we respond to that, so we have a huge opportunity to respond to Climate Change and by engaging a local work force to do that work and skill people up. We have many Old Buildings in San Francisco. Many Old Buildings that would benefit from the upgrade of those buildings to be more efficient so people can spend their money other than on their utility bills. Right now the barrier to that is being able to pay for that. Paying for that over the lifetime of the system so that you can pay it with the savings