structurally in decline. you ve got the rise of renewable energy, the fact that electric vehicles are now 50% of sales in china. so that ll be a fundamental challenge to anybody investing in fossil fuels a fundamental challenge to anybody investing in fossilfuels in a fundamental challenge to anybody investing in fossil fuels in the future. this is an industry which is clearly entering into its endgame. renewables are ultimately growing faster than fossil fuels, and that will mean that clean energy will win. now investors have got to act, we ve got to deploy huge amounts of clean energy, we ve got to build up the grid notjust in the uk, but all over the world. it s all about electrifying everything. if we can do that, that ll be the death knell of fossil fuels. marcus correct that market tends to direct the way the market goes. there are more clean energy plants in texas, an oil state, then there are in california because it s economically sensible to do it. but we ve got a f
Communities. With that said, that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer questions. As director [inaudible] the director of city build pat [inaudible] is here along with [inaudible] and will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Okay, first do we have any speaker cards . I have one speaker card, mr. Ace washington. Good afternoon everybody. I am puzzled here but will try to make my presentation short and direct. I have a wonderful presentation right here. Compliance specialist. As he mentioned he just came on board last year. Let me give you a upidate on what i gathered for over 20 years and up to the point where we are now. It bothers me even more to see your report. First of all let me start i had a wupderful meeting with director bohe and satisfied well move along with our supervisor london breed and trying to correct things in the Western Addition. Im not here to badger but want to upidate. We are not mentioned no where in here but a small segment whe
Togo up and talk about the real obligation. Let me go on here, these does not reflect anything from the Western Addition. Your good faith efforts or first conditioning that you give, you go uch and down fillmore people are doing [inaudible] we dont have no obligations. Go to city build, go to these other agencies. When i go to them i think that led to the report here. It will reflect there is nothing in the Western Addition that will say that anybody is monitoring or anybody give a dam n. My name is ace andime oron the case and looking forward to the agency so we can put the Western Addition on the map thank you. Are there any other members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on item 5 d . No. [inaudible] i came before you i guess about a month or 2 weeks back concerning the relationship we had on the Shipyard Site with the [inaudible] project and other situations we had that we were promised [inaudible] and they never came about. Mr. Lees report is excellent in what we broug
What we brought out but it doesnt range a reflection and special relationship your staff and the developers staff have with certain general contractors. It is not reflected in these reports and how certain contractors have been black listed and discriminated against because we come down here and give you testimony as to really what is taking place. It is not reflected in the reports what all the statistics and numbers. [inaudible] what is the reflection. Even some of the people they describe as Small Business or contractors who graduated from the status of being small contractors because they overstepped the financial boundaries which makes thome a small contractor, but between the developers staff and your staff they are allowed to have a relationship with the contractor where they give them a past overlooking the smaller contractor who is trying to [inaudible] they may be able to go past the thresh hold and become a larger contractor too so it doesnt show all this discrimination of h
Efeblthive at the end of august but never the less, we feel it is a challenge in termoffs getting local workforce with the local construction residence and as we understand it the city is facing similar challenges in city operated projects. In terms of corrective measures well continue to closely monitor contractor performances insureing that job request forms are submitted through sit city builds. City bill as been working with urban strategies and other organizations. They looked at conducting additional classes and they are working on increasing the employee pipeline with the industry and Community Partners and that is something that is a ongoing discussion since i have been involved last year. Finally, i just want to give you a upidate only the lbe program that is operated by the city of San Francisco. Under chapter 14 b the local Business Enterprise ordinance effective july 1 they did increase the size standards. They have not implemented a asperational goal of 40 percent on city