I want to think bmw for being here. We are in negotiations to get us into our fleet so we can utilize. Unless we do it with the latest technology, people will not appreciate the mayor driving a bmw. [laughter] but we are doing it for the right reasons. I want to showcase that as we lead this country into a thought process, a challenge that our major cities, our urban settings can have solutions to our parking problems, have sustainable mobility as part of our alternatives in the vehicles and carsharing as a principle for us to join our automobile makers as well as our Vehicle Owners and rentals as we challenge the public to say there are better choices coming forward with our partners in the industry. Thank you, bmw. I know that ian and his team are here to announce this thing but i wanted to thank our environmental divisions, our car enthusiasts, our technology. We are the Innovation Capital of the world. Clearly there is a major role for our manufacturers to use that technology to fi
Life skills, met so many great people that have provided me a job in working parttime doing work for a spanish broadcast. So what city college does is enumerable and great. I know some people have said about city college that it truly is the harvard on the hill in San Francisco. Thank you. Next speaker. Anyone else who would like to speak. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Public comment at this time, members of the public may address the board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the board will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting with one exception. When the agenda item has already been reviewed in a public hearing at which members of the public were allowed to testify and the board has closed the public hearing, your opportunity to address the board must be exercised during the Public Comment portion of the calendar. Each membe
That happen any longer. Weve got to build mixed Income Housing and keep our promise to the residence. Theyre going to save Housing Housing networks, maintained for generations to come. Not only is a promise we were doing that. We are doing that as we speak. [applause] yes, while were taking care of our residents we are also once again being a model to the nation by welcoming immigrants and empowering new citizens by launching an initiative called, pathways to citizenship, to ensure 100,000 san franciscans who are eligible for citizenship and pursue their new opportunities and be part of building our citys economy. When president obama conference of Immigration Reform is good for the country we begin by saying, here in San Francisco and it begins with citizenship. Thats the goal that we have. Everybody must fully participate in our economy. [applause] we continue to be one of the most diverse cities in the country. That diversity helps us maintain our strength, our voices to be heard an
This is not for action, but i can see that we are going to have a lot of stuff to work through around the green purchasing and the conversation of the item that we are continuing tonight, should that end up in the policy committee and i just throw out there that this is something that commissioner stephenson is interested in in the Top Priorities that if commissioner wald is into the idea to think about agendaizing all of the policy Committee Meetings because you never know when we might want to engage and show up and it will be properly noticed to have more than three commissioners present. If we could do that i would have absolutely no objection to it and i assume my fellow commissioners would not either and we would welcome the attendance of others. So we can do. I agree. Commissioner josefowitz agrees. What do you think . Fine with me. All right. All right. So, Public Comment on this item . And seeing none, and dr. Jackson just came in, dr. Jackson no comment on the policy report,
All of the commissioners who were able to. And so we had other city agency and community, partners, and funders, and volunteers, staff, and it was a really wonderful celebration to show case how we are really walking the walk with the new space and living our values and our new office and so definitely welcome everybody to come if you have not seen it. Thank you. Commissioner stephenson . Just a quick question, on the fundraising grant, did any of these grants help us to makeup the shortfall that we still have the budget last time . Yes, actually this top two, then. Great job. Thank you. Melanie, and one, quick question about the party which was great, you know, we at one point there was 200 folks and at one point, i noticed that there were four commissioners, just as a point of clarification from the city attorney, what is mr. Brown and his brown act say about the four commissioners . We can say hey what is going on, i like your shoes and good party and we cant talk about the Environm