Some of that is going for feed the people who dont have other access to food in the city and it is heartening and fantastic presentation and then finally, we discussed the Community Meeting that we had and we learned as to whether or not the staff could accommodate that level of work, whether it was too much work to put the Community Meetings together and talked about what worked but didnt, and donny said that they had learned a lot from the first two that we had down about nine months apparent and that he felt that while there was a learning curve that made the work and the task for the department had to under taig take harder to know that they had it under their belt a little bit and we could show case what the department is doing would be a good way to go forward, a good meeting great. Thank you. Any meants or questions about the Operations Committee report . Any Public Comment on the Operations Committee report. Next item please. Policy committee report. Chair report highlights of
Reimbursements and incentives and i just want to note that commissioner wan and i were in a very wonderful meeting and i, myself had a pretty impactful tour yesterday, where i saw the sros of china town and some of of them, and i had never been inside of an sro i didnt understand that you can put your arms out and touch each side of the room, and that is where not only one person may live, but an entire family may live, so that was very impactful to me and we got a grant, the department of the environment and the planning department, together, got a grant with ccdc, to work on greening china town, and doing that, in a very thoughtful way, that engage the community, and with a particular focus on the pings, and that the housing, and the Public Housing, that was part of the housing authority, is going to be going over, and to ccdc for their management and so this is a pretty phenomenal opportunity for the department to work closely with those organizations in china town, and see how they
Public comment. None. Next item, future agenda. And i am just wondering and sort of how, the city and planning works. But, how do we ask for more general fund money and is that something that we talk about as a commission, in the future to and i think that it will be a good discussion for the Operations Committee to dig into, and maybe even we could invite somebody to help us understand that or joe could help us and again fer as well. I appreciate you flagging it and offering to help because it is going to take, as you know, general fund money is very competitive, and we need to make the case, why this is the best use. And i understand that, we decided to give it up on purpose. I mean that it was something that we stepped away from, originally, commissioner wald. I want to say as i always do at this point in the agenda is that i want to talk about the joint meeting with the puc but i also want to endorse an idea which director brought up at the policy committee, which was having kather
Residents, to take advantage of their property tax assessment, as a way to pay for energy and in an earthquake, and water upgrades. We have this in the commercial sector but we have not been able to implement it on the residential sector and we have worked on it now for several years and we have reached a very important point in time where the mayor is introduced a resolution, that would authorize the city to join with some existing providers, and we once we work through those, milestones, or those hurtles we expect that in december, it will be taken up by the board of Supervisor Budget Committee once it is adopted by the board of supervisors we can go and start to have the contracts put together with the financing entities and offer this to the residents of San Francisco. So it is a very important piece if we are going to promoting the responsibility that we all have to retrofit our homes, to whether it be for energy or water, or to retrofit in terms of earthquake safety and we need t
Commission and status, thereof and there was a 2015 meeting schedule for your commission and Committee Meetings and upon request of the commissioner king on the september 30th meeting, a member from the commission, listing the guidelines that are used to compile Meeting Minutes. Thank you. And thanks very much for getting this all to us in writing and any comments or questions on the secretarys report . I just want to say, how much i appreciate getting this legislative report. And thank you for that. And not to put you on the spot, but are there any items that you want to highlight that the department was involved in, and i cant tell from this report which ones we influenced and which ones just kind of happened in spite of us. Commissioners rodriguez for the record. The report that the commissioners get is one that i put together on a weekly basis. And looking over at all of the items of interest that the department either Program Staff or senior staff may have, with respect to the hap