[Sustain] Transpo/Sustainability Meeting Mon, Jan 19?

[Eric Brooks]

Here are some proposed agenda items:

On Transportation

- Leveraging Obama stimulus dollars for mass transit
- Averting a likely fare increase and Muni's growing disrespect for 
transit riders (especially disabled riders)
- MTA increasing fare inspectors instead of revenues - and our need to 
act to get the new supes on our side right away for a -big- revenue 
boost to Muni (with concurrent build out) with no fare increases
- The BART police shooting of passengers and the general morphing of 
local transit into a Homeland Security police state (and what to do 
about this) (Ammiano and Yee have proposed legislation re BART police.)
- The New York City proposal for free mass transit and how we might 
apply it to SF

On Sustainability

- The Mayor bailing on the SFPUC biofuels program to subsidize a huge 
private biofuel factory which will turn animal agricultural products 
into biodiesel and will be run by the largest multinational rendering 
corporation (Darling International) which has a long history of illegal 
polluting and ignoring local laws.
- Sophie Maxwell's measure to close the Mirant plant and replace it with 
a clean energy program that adopts the Prop H clean energy benchmarks. 
(This needs to be extensively amended and we need to meet on it as an 
action item.)
- SFPUC's appointment of a former PG&E employee to run the Community 
Choice project and making making sure that LAFCo does not wimp out and 
accept this which there is a danger of, and so keeping Community Choice 
on track and strong, which suddenly seems very uncertain
- SFPUC staff's move to defund the nonprofit/low-income portion of the 
Mayor's solar program and increase private subsidies

John-Marc Chandonia wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:07:03PM -0800, Eric Brooks wrote:
>   
>> Who's up for a joint Transportation/Sustainability meeting on Tuesday 
>> the 20th at 6:30pm?
>>
>> (Keep in mind the 20th is inauguration day.)
>>     
>
> I'm available, on the off chance that I don't get transported bodily into
> heaven when the Messiah takes office.
>
> What's on the agenda?
>
> JMC
>   

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