list kaushik roy of shanti. i would add that name. and also michelle alcedo. >> chair kim: two more names, i think we're actually getting close to 15 and i have to count. but i'd like to add into the consideration scott hits you cana. we don't necessarily appointed this many people at a time. usually we do staggered terms but because this is a creation of a new task force that makes it a little more challenging. >> i think i have 15. >> chair kim: yeah. so we do have 15 applicants before us, currently. and i'm comfortable with this group. i think it represents a diversity in the lgbt community. it looks like it can be a consensus motion moving forward. i do want to say, and i'm sure my colleagues would like to speak as well. i think this is an incredibly hard choice and part of the consideration is not just your experience but also the diversity that you will add to the committee because we do want a diversity of perspective, whether it's from the medical field, as a social worker, as a senior, and also from the variety of different members of the lgbt communities, as was eloquently put by you think one of the committee members. but i want to thank everyone so much for your application. actually many of you work in the district that i represent, district 6 in the south of market and the tenderloin. i don't know what our communities would do without the services you provide either as a volunteer and staff member. i'm grateful as someone who represents our constituents particularly in the lgbt community, so many organizations to refer, so many of our constituents depend on the services i provide before they come to us. thank you so much for the work that you've done and the tremendous history, and depth that you've brought today. i want to thank the coauthors of this legislation. i think it's really highlighted the unique needs of our aging lgbt community, some of which i was not personally aware of and i'm appreciative of the many issues brought to light, whether it's the isolation and many of the experiences those going back in the closet to retain a lot of services that are needed for seniors. it's been educational for me and i hope will shape the services and the policy considerations that we as a board take to really take care of our communities, and particularly our senior community. supervisor campos and supervisor wiener. >> co-chair campos: madam chaish, i don't know if this motion has been made but i'm happy to make a motion to recommend the following individuals, and let me say before i read the names, that i am very, very thrilled by the caliber of the names that are being put forward. the sad thing to be honest is that i do think that we are leaving off the task force pretty impressive people that i actually think would be great to have them, whether it's nikos diaman, veronica fimbres and so many other folks here. i feel horrible about that but i hope you understand we're trying to make -- choose from a pretty amazing group of people. so the folks that would be a part of the motion to move their names forward with a positive recommendation would be ashley mccumber, daniel redman, felicia elizondo, jazzie collins, jorge rodriguez, kaushik roy, larry saxxon, lawrence michael costa, marcy adeleman, michelle alcedo, larry lange, scott haitsuka, tommi, and william ambrunn. do i have all of the 15? >> chair kim: so we have a motion to move forward these 15 names with positive recommendation. >> second that. >> chair kim: we have a second to that. supervisor wiene. >> supervisor wiener: this is a strong list and there are additional people who i think were disappointed on there. but to reiterate we said at the beginning i assume there will be an advisory committee so other people can be involved. in addition to -- we have various ways of measuring diversity but i think one of the important ways of measuring diversity here is political diversity. this town, and city hall, you know, it's a very diverse place in terms of people's politics. and as we saw with the housing trust fund, when we get a broad spectrum together and come up with a product, maybe not everyone's thrilled with everything, but everyone can get behind, we have a lot of strength. so i think on this task force when i look at the different people and different perspectives i think will make this task force incredibly strong. and have a product that will come out that -- as many people as possible, i can get behind. one thing that i -- in terms of -- and i'll say this to mr. nolan who will be staffing the task force, that the one thing that is missing from -- i think we only had one person who applied and she wasn't here. i was looking forward to advocating fer hear adele agostino. i don't believe there are people on the task force with a ton of background of housing issues. i was very much wanting to have someone on who actually -- someone who with an affordable housing developer, someone who had done the nuts and bolts of building, and creating physical affordable housing, because things like eitherura architectl barriers, is extremely important. the fact ms. agostino wasn't here and that's the way the cookie crumbles. i request the task force engine folks from that world -- engage folks from that world to be intimately involved because i think that's a very critical thing. thank you. >> chair kim: supervisor campos. >> co-chair campos: i don't want to belabor this point because we've been here long enough but i want to add two points that i'd like to direct to the task force. one is to encourage the members of the task force to maximize the use of the people who applied but who did not make it to the task force. i think that you will be well-served, if you have a very strong advisory committee that has some of these amazing people. i see ms. fimbres. everyone has something to offer. so i encourage you to do that. that's one thing. the seconds point, which i think is a very important one, at least for me, we're focusing on issues facing the elder seniors within the lgbt community. i think it's important to think about seniors generally but also within the lgbt community there might be opportunities or solutions that allow for inclusion of other segments of the lgbt community. i'm looking at tommi mecca, earlier today we were having a meeting talking about the issue of homelessness within the lgbt community and how the fact that 40% of all homeless youth in san francisco are queer or lgbt. so to the extent that you're talking about solutions that address specific problems or needs that seniors within the lgbt community have, there might be opportunities to do things that also address the needs of other age groups like our young people. so i hope that as the work continues that those opportunities are being considered. but i'm very excited and look forward to assisting the task force in any way possible. >> chair kim: thank you, supervisors campos and wiener. i'm also interested in how we address homelessness in our lgbt community as well, having spent time in many of our shelters. there are a number of lgbt homeless individuals in our shelter system and it's difficult to get them the services they need and of course other residents in our shelter. i would be interested in the work and recommendation in that arena as well. so we have a motion before us. we have 15 candidates to move forward to the full board with recommendation. and we can do that without objection. thank you so much to all the members of the public that are here and all th applicants. we look forward to working with you. we have several more items on our agenda so if you can take your conversation outside. i don't want to lose quorum -- i just lost quorum. we will recess for five minutes. s morning. my name is bob hayden. i am with the department of the environment and pleased to be the emcee of this event. you can tell from the display that this has something to do with some electric vehicles. so, i would like to start the program with our first presenter. and introduce to you a man who is certainly no stranger to bringing clean technology to san francisco and electric vehicles, are mayor, ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, bob. >> you for your leadership. good morning, everyone. we are going to be talking about something that i have been very interested in, and that is mobility. the ability to have technology work for you, like this microphone. we have worked hard for a number of years. i had the privilege of working with gavin newsom in the past to during his administration to create the electric vehicle infrastructure for the city and began the conversation and the collaboration with the other counties to bring an electric vehicle corridor. it signals our efforts to support the creation of infrastructure to the electric vehicle industry. of course we have encouraged the private automobile creators to join us. today is a wonderful opportunity to do that with a bmw. any of you who noticed the labels in this city, you will certainly noticed the popularity of bmw as a corporation, not only a great company but one that is also on the cutting edge of the use of technology. i want to thank them and welcome them to not only the electric vehicle stage, which they have been working on, but also to this great program they are about to introduce, the drive now and park now technology. joined -- joining us in the car sharing program for their members who want to use bmw products. this idea of cars sharing has been a part of san francisco's objective in creating a more sharing economy. like many other cities, we are congested in our parking. parking is really a challenge in the city. for people who own vehicles, and introducing people to car- sharing programs and ideas have been a wonderful experiment for us. as you know, we have been working to create not only public garages but also in congested neighborhoods. when a private company like bmw registers their interest in car- sharing, that is a complement to the direction we are heading to be morris -- more sustainable. 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 car-sharing 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 figure out and provide solutions to our parking challenges, to the affordability and everybody to participate so that they can use all of the different modes of travel to get not only around the city, but the bay area. we wish you have this as an opportunity to challenge all of the county's to get from, whether it is ma [ -- napa to oakland in all of the events we will host in years to come and have that mobility in all of the alternative ways of doing it and to do it smartly. i appreciate to bmw for this opportunity. we will be great partners with the rentals and the ownership, but also with the technology and the smart way of getting in and out of our city. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, mayor. to continue the introduction and welcoming of san francisco to bmw for this new program, it is my honor to introduce to you melanie nutter. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. my name is melanie and i am the director of the department -- we want to protect our environment -- let's try this gain. -- again. good morning, everyone. i am a director of the department of the environment. we are responsible for protecting the environment, safeguarding our public and environmental health, and helps san francisco lead the way toward a sustainable and resilience future. i am happy to be here today on behalf of the department and city. as you probably know, san francisco -- i am sorry. i joined the mayor in thinking t-- thanking bmw. as you probably know, a san francisco prides itself as being a leader an incubator of new ideas. new ideas that can help us be more sustainable and resilience every day. i wanted to take a moment to detail how san francisco is a sustainable seven -- city. being a sustainable city means we are less wasteful. we are leading the nation with over 78% diversion rate. 70% of our waste is recycled, compost, or diverted. being a sustainable city, we are energy-efficient. our energy program is a partnership that we have put together with pg&e and we help small businesses save money on energy bills and reduce carbon emissions. in san francisco, we are also renewable the powered. we have about 3000 solar installations throughout the city and county of san francisco, equalling 19 megawatts of solar. we are also working toward being 100% powered city in the next 10 years. finally, in san francisco, it means we are ev ready. we're making it easier for residents to take charge of their electric cars. the city now operates 50 publicly available charging stations at 15 locations. these are found at city parking garages, at the airport, treasure island, and by the end of 2012, the city will add another 30-40 charges. of note, the public uses the stations, the cost will be free up until the end of 2013 and all of the stations are powered with power that is greenhouse-gas free. adding to the infrastructure, many charging stations are also being implemented on private property. so in retail stores, and other parking lot, there are an additional 44 stations at 22 locations. the department of the environment is making it easier for san francisco to charge their cars at home. are in apartment buildings or condominiums and we have a program that is called multi charge san francisco. it is a demonstration program where we are implementing 100 charging stations in these types of buildings to make sure that renters can also have access to easy charging. in closing, i wanted to thank bmw for recognizing the need to innovate in the area of urban transportation and developing new solutions that all of us can utilize now in in the future. i wanted to mention that according to the sustainability research center at uc-berkeley, households can save 0.5 tons of carbon emissions annually through car sharing. this type of program was certainly have an amendment to benefit. congratulations once again to bmw. welcome to san francisco and please call me welcome the doctor to the stage. [applause] >> hopefully this microphone is working. what a pleasant to surprised to see the sun shining. i am impressed with the connections you have. it is my pleasure to give you a bit of the background as to what we are actually talking about. i think there are many trends across the world but i will try to be brief in analyzing them. there is no doubt that there is a growing population in the world today. that population is being focused on cities. here we are in san francisco. if we look at any of the forecasts over the next 20 years, up to a half of the population, 3.5 billion people, will live in cities. they will live in an urban environment. it is already happening in asia and south america where there is a migration toward the great cities of the world. that will bring more and more congestion into those cities. as an industry, as a company, we can view this as a challenging in that congestion is going to increase. at the same time, or on the other hand, you will have many other developments. we know we are all connected to date. we know sustainability is not just a term people use. people believe in it and the environmental challenges that come with that means that as a company, as a city and a country we have to work together to find the solutions to this. as we look into the future, we could say that the current model of the car industry needs to change. at the same time, we believe that individual mobility is what people desire. that does not mean -- that means they will use the car in a different way. here in san francisco, statistics are always something -- potentially, there are over 500,000 people looking for 450,000 parking spaces. this goes for most cities, about 30% of all of the traffic are people looking for parking places. imagine if you could take away some of that uncertainty, you could relieve a lot of the traffic that sits on our roads. with that, of course you reduce not only the congestion and the co2, you make the issue much more sustainable. we started to think about this over the last couple of years as to how we could provide some of the solutions. one thing that is for certain, there is no silver bullet. there is no one thing that a company or city could do that would solve all of these problems. it is involving different ways of driving, different ways of ownership, different ways of power in cars. you heard that these are fully elected vehicles. the need to bring this into a holistic approach. what we have been doing under our solutions for the i brand, we have m brand, which is the most powerful actor in the alphabet. those products are well known. but the i brand is just coming. those vehicles are well into development now. the i 3 and i8 will be launched next year. they are carbon fiber and that will be made, not in this state, but just up the way in washington state. using fully environmentally sustainable energy. carbon fiber prevention will be shipped to our factories in europe or will be make carbon fiber cars. it is about 50% like you're than steel, 20% lighter than allen minium. you need the batteries ms. -- which makes the efficiency much more credible and also a strong business case. this part of the united states will play a strong part in the development of these vehicles. as well as we also started a venture firm. the venture fund operates out of new york. it started 15 months ago, we made our first investment in a company called my city way, which is working on intermodal transport. started in new york, now in 35 cities around the country and many cities around the world provided information to not only our customers, but also anyone interested in moving from a to be in a city. that has worked exceedingly well. as you have seen, we have been investing in other companies as well. the electric charging stations system is another one of those. as is our first in this and in parking. most of us leave our house is in the morning, go to work, part of our cars at work, leave a vacant parking space at home. if you can bring a marketplace together where someone can park under drive during the day, and of course, give them a certainty of where they will part, it works. many thousands of customers now are enjoying that has a potential different way of operating in the city. drive now was clocked 15 minutes -- months ago in munich. it is now in three other german cities. we have over 40,000 active users. what does that mean? well, they have an efficient way of experiencing a car. they may use intermodal transport, and they come in by the rail system, by other means, and then they find a car. they're effective, they use their ifid card, they drive and park wherever they want to go. that has worked exceedingly well. since june 30, we have had 70 elected vehicles here in san francisco, and we are already seeing a strong uptick with that fleet. i am sure following today's announcement we will make another big step to that. i am delighted also to say that i am delighted also to say that we are also now launching pa

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