Apprenticeship graduates and city departments announced the plans to extend the Program Going forward, and an opportunity to serve even more members of the community and forcing the potential for the environment and the environment now graduate and now, therefore be it resolved that the San Francisco on the environment and come mend the labor union and the first class on this historic occasion and which the Program Continued Success going forward. Okay. Thank you very much. [ applause ]. Courtney, john and others from 261. All right. Thank you. I want to thank the commission for taking the time out of your busy schedule to acknowledge this program. And i want to be very brief and respectful of your time. And by just giving you a little bit of information about the program and about why we think that it is relevant to your mission. First it is really important for me to introduce the people that make the program work and that is not myself, teresa is a business representative and works,
Will come from is coming out of the biomethane. And if you have any questions, and i have blasted through the presentation and i will be happy to answer any questions. Thanks, bill. Questions . Thank you. Thank you, bill. Commissioner courtney . Well, i think that. One quick question, and does the city or the city and county of San Francisco offer tax rebates for owners of electric vehicles . Do we know that . Good question. Bill . Or todd . Question from commissioner tores . Do they give rebates. Not at this time, they usually come through the state and from the California Energy commission, carb and sometimes through the air district. But the bay area air quality district. And we manage, a lot of those grants. And we had a very Successful Program that you will notice that all of the taxis are hybrid and there was a program that was started by the department of the environment that works for the hva, where we gave it a 2,000 grant to taxi drivers to buy the hybrids and to get the proc
A huge benefit that we can realize depending on how we and or in the, or sorry in the use of bio methane for the vehicle fuels and so we are working with the puc staff right now to kind of get a balance on that. And the rebuilding of the south east plant is one of the big sources of bio methane and one of the other areas where it will come from is coming out of the biomethane. And if you have any questions, and i have blasted through the presentation and i will be happy to answer any questions. Thanks, bill. Questions . Thank you. Thank you, bill. Commissioner courtney . Well, i think that. One quick question, and does the city or the city and county of San Francisco offer tax rebates for owners of electric vehicles . Do we know that . Good question. Bill . Or todd . Question from commissioner tores . Do they give rebates. Not at this time, they usually come through the state and from the California Energy commission, carb and sometimes through the air district. But the bay area air qu
Courtney, john and others from 261. All right. Thank you. I want to thank the commission for taking the time out of your busy schedule to acknowledge this program. And i want to be very brief and respectful of your time. And by just giving you a little bit of information about the program and about why we think that it is relevant to your mission. First it is really important for me to introduce the people that make the program work and that is not myself, teresa is a business representative and works, and the Business Manager of the labor 261 and she is really the muscle behind the Public Sector and i dont know is our coordinator and he is on the field and on the ground making sure that these people are signed up and doing what they need to do and taking care of the work to be done and also getting the curriculum covered at the city college of San Francisco. And i am honored to be here and honored to represent 261 but i do have to admit that it was actually oscar before him that worke
Five million over the capitol plan and that is a directly installed program and so we identify together with the customer departments and the opportunities for the Energy Efficient improvements and we perform 100 percent of the Work Associated with that and it is the opportunity for the general Fund Departments to work with us and they provide us access to their facilities and we take of Everything Else and it is a program. And we also fund and are implementing improvements on our street light system, you know, we have an aging street light system and we have about, 18,500 street lights that are cobra street lights in San Francisco that we will be converting to, you know, switch out the lamp, and the old style lamp and put in an led lamp. And a wireless controlled so we will be able to operate. And not only from the hours perspective but from a person perspective because the life of the led lamps is longer the Enterprise Customer and these are customers that range from the port, facili