Particularly want to thank supervisor mar for his early leadership on this issue when the program was put forward a number of years ago and ultimately stalled. So, this year after nearly six months of groundwork various stakeholders of the environment and finance and labor communities, on november 26, mayor lee and i held a press conference to announce San Franciscos intention to kick start green finance sf once again. A program that will continue our tradition of being at the forefront combating Climate Change, push our city further down a path of meeting our aggressive Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction goals, put san franciscans to work in our neighborhoods, and help San Francisco Property Owners finance Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy projects in their homes. Known as green finance sf, it is a special form of financing that will help to overcome market barriers that exist to Energy Efficiency upgrades, spreading Cost Recovery with saving realized over the life of the improvem
Economy. I am particularly want to thank pat and josh for their strong work on this work force component perspective. And despite the federal Housing Finance agencys concerns, we are confident that San Franciscos program now can move forward. Again, weve seen other jurisdictions do this throughout the state of california. And because the fhfa concerns are doing all we can as a city to protect our owners and give them the comfort and certainty they need to participate in this program. Governor brown recently passed in his budget a reserve fund for pace programs in the state of california that will address the fhfas concerns and ensure that fannie mae and freddie mack will noting negatively impacted by these programs. San francisco will be participating in the state reserve fund so that our Property Owners here in San Francisco are fully protected. In the end of the day green finance sf will further cement our citys National Role as a leader in reducing the adverse effectses of Climate C
With [speaker not understood] that ensures local residents are working with local contractsers on local projects so we keep monday and i work flowing inside of San Francisco and continue to boost our local economy. I am particularly want to thank pat and josh for their strong work on this work force component perspective. And despite the federal Housing Finance agencys concerns, we are confident that San Franciscos program now can move forward. Again, weve seen other jurisdictions do this throughout the state of california. And because the fhfa concerns are doing all we can as a city to protect our owners and give them the comfort and certainty they need to participate in this program. Governor brown recently passed in his budget a reserve fund for pace programs in the state of california that will address the fhfas concerns and ensure that fannie mae and freddie mack will noting negatively impacted by these programs. San francisco will be participating in the state reserve fund so tha
There are six straight wins earned courage the norcal championship and demonstrates to us what hard work and teamwork can do together. First of all, girls, the board of supervisors would like to say congratulations to you for really understanding the true meaning of hard work and for representing us as a city of San Francisco at the state and playing three games a day is no small task. And to be champions at the end is really something thats remarkable. I want to thank the coaches, mary and lawrence, for their endless time and guidance and support of these teams, and special thanks for today to a good friend of mine and fellow parishioner, aaron barnes, for organizing this event today. And lastly, and very much personally, thank you to the parents of the team members. So many of you that are out in the audience, you know, i know the time spent taking your children to and from practice in games in manteca, thats a whole different world. [speaker not understood] for our children, i can i
New york Stock Exchange, on the dow, stocks shaving off early gains, down 35 points, at the new york Stock Exchange, what are you looking at . Dagen, first thing you noted, this could, in fact, be the fourth straight day of losses for the dow and the s p. Thats the longest losing streak of the year, 2013, dating back to december of last year, so if, in fact, we do finish lower on the dow and s p, it will be the first time we had four Straight Days of losses. Dont forget, coming off the six straight weeks of gains, and the bulls had a nice run hitting the record highs, but, certainly, profit taking has been underway. Weve gotten in plenty of earnings, market moving events, and the dollar is lower today. Dow jones industrials, names like caterpillar, microsoft doing well. Up over 2 , american express, home depot, plenty of winners to speak whats weighing on the dow here are big guys, chevron, at t, ibm, intel, and jpmorgan, in the news with the mortgage backedded securities in the mortga