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By the way I should clarify that the nonprofit/low-income solar program
was written and passed by Ross and so the SFPUC staff's defunding
proposal is to drain Ross's program in favor of the Mayor's subsidized
private solar.<br>
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Eric Brooks wrote:
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Here are some proposed agenda items:<br>
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On Transportation<br>
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- Leveraging Obama stimulus dollars for mass transit<br>
- Averting a likely fare increase and Muni's growing disrespect for
transit riders (especially disabled riders)<br>
- 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<br>
- 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.)<br>
- The New York City proposal for free mass transit and how we might
apply it to SF<br>
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On Sustainability<br>
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- 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.<br>
- 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.)<br>
- 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<br>
- SFPUC staff's move to defund the nonprofit/low-income portion of the
Mayor's solar program and increase private subsidies<br>
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John-Marc Chandonia wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Who's up for a joint Transportation/Sustainability meeting on Tuesday
the 20th at 6:30pm?
(Keep in mind the 20th is inauguration day.)
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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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