Energy efficiency coordinating committee, the Small Business seat. I feel like this position and this seat and serving the committee could be in line with my personal and professional life in addition to the advocacy in my history being in the city for Small Businesses and affected communities. So my family has a corner store and building in San Francisco. I grew up there so ive been around the business since i was young and now im taking more of an ownership managerial role. We have equipment dating back to the 1970s in our store, and this is a pretty common reality for a lot of old Sole Proprietor independent businesses in the city. So ive had to assess upgrades for that establishment on its own in addition to working with other grocers and i sit on the board of the Arab American Grocers Association so i have a lot of relationships with Small Businesses and weve had interface with the department of environment on several different issues that relate to Small Businesses. So it is an a
Since you are a strong and viable candidate, we should probably table this particular seat. Or continue. Thank you very much. Just to continue it until we get the letter so that you can. So all three of you know, i dont come to any hearings that have any mess. So what i want to do to you all in front of you all is respectively decline to accept the position. Thank you. I did want the letter. Mr. Bryant, if you we cannot move without all the letters and we could be very well poised to support your position given the documents, but we cant legally move you forward without those documents and thats just not available for us to actually act on today. So when we say continue it, we would probably make a decision at the next rules committee meeting, which would be two weeks from today. Okay. Again, ive done too many years in the city to not to come before a board and feel as though i understand the requirements, i thought the requirement was going to be here, the letter, but it seems like a
Businesses to the area. So kind of a broad overview with that. Through this experience working through the state of california in various regions and across the nation on some nationwide projects such as with the recovery act grants working on green jobs Training Programs and such, have a broad variety of knowledge to be able to bring to the San Francisco experience and im excited to see how they can develop in San Francisco. Very good. What do you see as the conditions and opportunities in San Francisco for really maximizing our Energy Efficiency work and green jobs . Yeah, so in San Francisco theres, in looking at the Green House Gas analysis of San Francisco, for example, i see commercial buildings as being one commercial electricity use as being one of the big areas. That seems like a big opportunity for being able to improve the Energy Efficiency, reduce the Green House Gas emissions in the area, and that also creates a lot of Job Opportunities with retrofits and with doing Energy
Taking more of an ownership managerial role. We have equipment dating back to the 1970s in our store, and this is a pretty common reality for a lot of old Sole Proprietor independent businesses in the city. So ive had to assess upgrades for that establishment on its own in addition to working with other grocers and i sit on the board of the Arab American Grocers Association so i have a lot of relationships with Small Businesses and weve had interface with the department of environment on several different issues that relate to Small Businesses. So it is an area of interest for me personally, like i said, but additionally i think its in line with some of the work ive been involved with, with Healthy Retail sf and ive sat on the Advisory Board for conversations around formula retail as well, so im getting a broader sense of kind of the specific needs that Sole Proprietor Small Businesses need when it comes to, you know, looking for resources to improve their business and im really happy
With the funding of pcos and people know when there are no giants game, and so the ability to sustain the base level of service and float that extra event level is a financial concern, it requires having drivers that are assigned for these calendar events. And the ability to coordinate when there is demand, what we do through the transportation, tdm is a big part of what we talk about is set up agreements with these sponsors americas cup taught us a lot of lessons. What we did have is a combination of people on call knowing when they are supposed to be running buses and which need to be up and running, and if it not well maintained it will not do well. To know when it will be completed and the vacation schedules and so then the cost of that extra service and because that is expensive. And so you will hear from liz, about the financial strategies. You are correct in knowing that there are revenue and there are requirements of the project sponsors themself and through the transportation