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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140129

Efficiency in the city as soon as the application process goes forward. That is something you should be talking to the sfpuc about. It is my understanding through City Attorneys discussions it would be the sfpuc that would have to apply for that monday soy part of your discussions is why they not applying for this money as an asterisk or side note to that, my personal guess might be the cpuc might say no to this application because were not serving customers yet and do not have a plan to serve customers but it doesnt hurt to ask as a cca program can we have access to that money. I believe between the sfpuc staff and your staff at the department of the environment you could probably put together a very good program that could utilize that money and start working on that 15 of the goal thats going forward. I would also add in on the discussion of bart to achieve 100 [speaker not understood] the joint hearing from them they are having ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140204

Transportation to [speaker not understood] management . On your previous pie chart there was one slice for tdm and one slice for mode shift. Transportation demand management, i think thats it also includes pricing. Cal, you want to respond to that . Yes. So, Transportation Demand management a lot of the work our department does. So, its the car pool program, its ride sharing. Its gaunter benefits. As cal just mentioned, its sorry, managing demand. So, it can include congestion pricing. So, things we can do to lessen the demand for people driving alone. The mode shift is where we put all the policies that have to do with infrastructure investment. So, bike lanes, more muni buses, more lines for muni, things like that. So, in terms of better safer streets for pedestrians, so mode shift covers all those transportation infrastructure actions where demand management covers the more getting people just to not drive in the first p ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140201

So, the replacing the 100 renewable in our plan is going to be difficult. Now, there are some things that we can do around the edges. One of the slices there is bart 100 renewable by 2030. We can get them to go green, thats great. We have another 11 of the electricity that are direct Access Commercial customers where they could decide as businesses that the right thing for them to do is to go 100 green. So, if we can convince them, and that would be a voluntary activity on their part, that we might be able to reach another piece of the market. The question is how are we going to get to the rest of it. And thats a challenge thats been discussed at this commission and i know will be discussed in the future. So, im not going to go through each one of these parts. I will point out that urban forest is the light blue wedge at the top. Be great to see that expanded, or expanding any of these wedges. Some of them are under influence f ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140204

But if we dont need it we do it every year. I still request that at our next meeting we have a proposal to amend our bylaws to eliminate this requirement. If i may. Or article. Commissioner gravanis. While looking it up, quick question off the top of your head, roughly, how many people want to get information through snail mail as opposed to email . Two. Two, okay. [multiple voices] 200 or two . Two. Its the same people for 10 years. So, is it the will of the commission at a future date to look at removing this from the bylaws if deputy City Attorney ellen says its okay . Yes. Yes. Okay. Hell find out for us. Hes diligently looking it up. Maybe we can then deal with that and is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, any other discussion . All right. [gavel] can we call item this is where we now have item 9. Department of the environment director search process an ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140203

Its also been we looked at a couple other processes particularly in regard to a search that commissioner wan was involved with with the juvenile Probation Commission when she was commissioner over there. And they went through a search. But what i wanted to kind of share is where we currently stand in terms of the process. And several commissioners really wanted to be active in having this conversation here to talk about what questions we want to ask in this process and what we think were looking for as we go out there and try to find our next director to build upon the successes that melanie has delivered for the department. So, just in a quick summary and acting director osman can help me with any details that i might miss as i try to just be to the point. There was a look at using the search firm. I know that last time there was not a search firm and it was great deal of work, safe to say. He had a
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