Turewire on sf gov tv. [gavel] good afternoon. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, september the 17th, 2013. Madam clerk could you please call the roll . Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor avalos . Avalos present. Supervisor breed . Breed present. Supervisor campos . Campos present. Supervisor chiu . Chiu present. Supervisor cohen . Cohen present. Supervisor farrell . Farrell present. Supervisor kim . Kim absent. Supervisor mar . Mar absent. Supervisor tang . Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Yee present. Mr. President supervisor mar . Mar present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us for the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, do we have any communications . I have no communications, mr. Pr
Literacy services to break inter generational cycles of it literacy. There is also project money which is a great innovative program, learner driven approach to Financial Literacy in our communities ~ and the wednesday night readers project Read Book Club that promotes the joy of reading to new readers. The city and county of San Francisco has been pleased to recognize and honor the staff before, but i think on its 30th anniversary, i think its really fitting that later well have a resolution in honor of project read that well vote upon. But i think in todays Board Meeting commending them is appropriate as we celebrate the 30 years. So, before we close well be declaring hopefully with a unanimous vote december 10th, 2013 as project read day in San Francisco. I wanted to thank marisa [speaker not understood] for writing the great article the day after thanksgiving that gave a human side [speaker not understood] who the amazing tutors are and who makeup the program as well. So, tonight 3
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
Right now. So those of you who have been put in impossible situations well hopefully pass to legislation out of this legislation today but the fight will continue thank you. Okay. Colleagues is there any additional any comments or questions. So, now weve adapted 3 different amendments item 4 interest is there a motion to forward the Committee Report with few recommendation can we take those without objection . That will be due order madam clerk, call item 5. The zoning controls in the boundary of second and south van ness streets supervisor jane kim is the author of item 5. Thank you theres a theme in the Land Use Committee theres an incredibly 0 steep incline in evictions in our city. Many of my colleagues are working jointly or solely on different legislation to figure out how we can stop the bleeding in many cases. In district 6 the will district i represent in the midmarket neighborhoods our office started fielding any phone calls from residents living in zoned commercial building
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