People are in their immigration courts and how much their funding whether it is Legal Defense or education out reach, that San Francisco absolutely leads in that. San francisco will be spending 6. 8 Million Dollars to help to provide money for the Nonprofit Organization to provide whether it is Legal Defense or education or out reach to our immigrant communities and so i just want to put that for the record that we are spending 6. 8 on an ongoing basis and, so criticize us for being conservative with the budget and unfair. And i wanted to vote down time and time again, and but i have supported each one of these, for the immigrant complunts and i want to make that very clear, when you look at boston, la, new york san jose, santa clara washington, d. C. , again, all of them are spending not only a combination of their spending mostly a combination of city as well as private dollars, we are spending 6. 8 of our citys dollars. Not even including any of the philintropic money coming through
Subcommittee of disability assistance and memorial affairs. Will now come to order. I first want to take a moment to welcome subcommittee members, especially those who are new to congress and new to the committee, and also those who are returning. Its my privilege to have been asked to be chairman of the subcommittee, and im grateful to chairman rowe for the opportunity. I want to explain that although i look forward to working with ms. Elizabeth essie from connecticut as our new Ranking Member. Ms. Julia brownley is still the subcommittees acting Ranking Member. My understanding is the full committee will schedule a business meeting to formalize familiarize formalize the subcommittee assignment and our new subcommittee Ranking Members soon. But since we have not got that, i need to see if we have also we also want to make sure that we know we have been joined by the Ranking Member, mr. Tim walsh, and thank him for being here. I want to ask unanimous consent for Ranking Member walsh, r
Thank you. Thank you very much, supervisor breed. My name is Laurie Mitchell and i manage the Renewable Energy group at sfpuc and we have slidess on the ordinance here. Im not sure if you can see it. There is something there we go. Really what were trying to do with this ordinance is to look forward and to expand on the success of the gosolarsf program to include additional programs such as rebates for electric Vehicle Infrastructure, Energy Storage and to expand upon our energyefficiency programs. So the new programs, as well as the current gosolarsf program is funded by the cleanpowersf and hetch hetchy power ratepayers. The agenda of what well cover today. One of the many things does is to integrate the program with the go solar sf program and its important to know that they have both common policy goals. Both programs seek continue vest in local programs and projects such as energyefficiency, storage, ev charging and affordable, cleaner, climateresponsibility electricity and to inv
Is im sorry to my right is supervisor aaron peskin and to my left is supervisor president london breed and i want to thank our committee i would like to thank our committees clerk, erica major and also recognize the staff of sfgovtv, Charles Kremenak who make our meetings available online, as well as transcript. Madam clerk, any announcements. Please silence all cell phones. Thank you, madam clerk and can you please call the first item. Item no. 1 is ordinance amending the environment code to adjust the incentive in the Solar Energy Incentive program. The author of this item is president london breed, if you would like to make opening comments. Yes, thank you i know we have Laurie Mitchell here who will be making a presentation shortly, but i just wanted to make a few comments about your go Solar Program in the city. Were making a few technical amendments to this program today. Despite the fact that other utilities around the state are ramping down their incentive like the city of palo
Statistics. We have got some terrible hotspots that not being addressed. 1500 valencia, which im you send a pco there within about two hours and giving out 1012 tickets. Day after day month after month, it was last april, it was this the summer. The only differences weve now changed the ticketing. Instead of giving the redthe bus ticket thats 288, we are giving a red zone ticket for 110. I dont understand how that is supposed to change ongoing bad behavior. The white stones, sounds fine but the metrics are not catching the traffic problems adjacent to these. When they are on arterials which are shared by muni buses the muni buses cannot get through because of the obstruction of traffic that goes on day after day. I live on a street with a habit. Thank you next speaker, please. [calling Public Comment cards] hello. Im in wellington. I may San Francisco native and 26 year resident of castro street. I just want to say that if this Program Continues there are some issues that need to be ad