Hi all,
In yesterday's MTA hearing, staff and board members began pounding the
drum for big service cuts, increased cash and pass fares (in all
categories) a possible 2010 fast pass up to $60 (It's already being
raised to $55), as well as a higher charge for passes with local BART.
The staff seems to have no concept of developing a plan to present to
the Supervisors that would directly raise revenues through new taxes,
and is only making recommendations for revenue and cutting measures
within the scope of Muni's physical operations...
To watch the section of the hearing on revenues and service cuts go to
http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=55
then click on 'Video' next to the 3/17/09 hearing date
then forward the video to the 53 minute mark.
I strongly recommend drinking some coffee before you try to watch, so
that you can stay alert during Sonali's -witheringly- dull monotone.
The presentation on cuts and fare hikes is about 20 minutes, and the
full presentation from that staring point to final board comments is
about an hour
cheers
Eric
--
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara
Hi all,
Just sending the group sign on that I indicated below was included. Now
it is properly attached.
previously I wrote:
Reminder, Hearing to save Clean Power SF!
Hi all,
At the clean energy hearing tomorrow, your first opportunity to give
public comment will be item 4, which is the SFPUC's report to the LAFCo
on its progress on CCA (Clean Power SF), and item 5 will also give an
excellent opportunity for you to comment on San Francisco's need to go
renewable now! The full hearing agenda is at
http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=100054
For various very important reasons, will be asking tomorrow for the two
actual contract items on the agenda to be postponed and that instead the
full set of tasks necessary for a proper RFP for Clean Power SF be voted
on at the -next- meeting.
Regardless, our main goal is to insist that all tasks for a
comprehensive RFP for Clean Power SF must move a head under a lead
contractor through the LAFCO by next month!
The hearing info is online at:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=100054
Attached is the group sign-on letter that was circulated and has been
delivered to the LAFCo.
Here is the hearing alert with talking points:
SHOW UP AND SPEAK AT THE HEARING:
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2PM, SF CITY HALL, ROOM 250
Attend the hearing and speak at public comment to insist that Clean
Power SF move forward now!
DIRECTIONS:
To get to the hearing, go to the San Francisco Civic Center transit
station at 8th and Market Streets and cross United Nations Plaza to City
Hall (on Polk Street between Grove and McAllister).
PUBLIC COMMENT TALKING POINTS:
- The SFPUC has been delaying Clean Power SF for five years! Enough is
enough!
- Access to Obama administration clean energy stimulus funds could be
lost if we don't act now!
- There are new reports every day that the global climate crisis is
becoming far worse, far more rapidly than scientists previously
believed. We cannot wait one more day to begin this project!
- Clean Power SF will become the largest municipal clean energy project
on Earth, setting a strong example for the rest of the world to get
serious about the climate crisis!
- 48 other California communities are waiting for San Francisco to take
the lead on clean energy, and as California goes, so goes the world.
Starting this project now is critical to leading the entire planet to
take rapid action to end the climate crisis!
- During the current drastic economic crisis and budget cuts, Clean
Power SF will create a green economy boom in San Francisco providing
hundreds of desperately need jobs to this community!
For more information about Clean Power SF see
http://our-city.org/campaigns/CleanPowerSF_e.html
Thanks as always for your help and support.
Eric Brooks
Reminder, Hearing to save Clean Power SF!
Hi all,
At the clean energy hearing tomorrow, your first opportunity to give
public comment will be item 4, which is the SFPUC's report to the LAFCo
on its progress on CCA (Clean Power SF), and item 5 will also give an
excellent opportunity for you to comment on San Francisco's need to go
renewable now! The full hearing agenda is at
http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=100054
For various very important reasons, will be asking tomorrow for the two
actual contract items on the agenda to be postponed and that instead the
full set of tasks necessary for a proper RFP for Clean Power SF be voted
on at the -next- meeting.
Regardless, our main goal is to insist that all tasks for a
comprehensive RFP for Clean Power SF must move a head under a lead
contractor through the LAFCO by next month!
The hearing info is online at:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=100054
Attached is the group sign-on letter that was circulated and has been
delivered to the LAFCo.
Here is the hearing alert with talking points:
SHOW UP AND SPEAK AT THE HEARING:
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2PM, SF CITY HALL, ROOM 250
Attend the hearing and speak at public comment to insist that Clean
Power SF move forward now!
DIRECTIONS:
To get to the hearing, go to the San Francisco Civic Center transit
station at 8th and Market Streets and cross United Nations Plaza to City
Hall (on Polk Street between Grove and McAllister).
PUBLIC COMMENT TALKING POINTS:
- The SFPUC has been delaying Clean Power SF for five years! Enough is
enough!
- Access to Obama administration clean energy stimulus funds could be
lost if we don't act now!
- There are new reports every day that the global climate crisis is
becoming far worse, far more rapidly than scientists previously
believed. We cannot wait one more day to begin this project!
- Clean Power SF will become the largest municipal clean energy project
on Earth, setting a strong example for the rest of the world to get
serious about the climate crisis!
- 48 other California communities are waiting for San Francisco to take
the lead on clean energy, and as California goes, so goes the world.
Starting this project now is critical to leading the entire planet to
take rapid action to end the climate crisis!
- During the current drastic economic crisis and budget cuts, Clean
Power SF will create a green economy boom in San Francisco providing
hundreds of desperately need jobs to this community!
For more information about Clean Power SF see
http://our-city.org/campaigns/CleanPowerSF_e.html
Thanks as always for your help and support.
Eric Brooks
PHONE CALL-IN DAY ALERT
(Please forward this message to every San Franciscan you know who cares
about ending the global climate crisis.)
Save San Francisco's Clean Energy Project!
Call Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi now!
This Friday, March 6th, the San Francisco Local Agency Formation
Commission (LAFCo) will vote on activating the Clean Power SF renewable
energy project, which was passed in 2007 to give the City 50% clean
electricity within the next decade.
But alarmingly, the LAFCo is poised to let the San Francisco Public
Utilities Commission (SFPUC) delay and weaken the project, thereby
killing large scale clean energy in San Francisco. We must demand that
the LAFCo vote a strong Clean Power SF project forward immediately.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Call LAFCo chairperson Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi today at
415-554-7630
with the following message:
"Please stop accepting the SFPUC's delays, and immediately hire, through
the LAFCo, the best qualified lead contractor to rapidly complete a
Request For Proposals for Clean Power SF."
(If you get a recording, or you are calling after business hours, just
leave your comment as a voice mail message.)
THEN:
SHOW UP AND SPEAK AT THE HEARING:
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2PM, SF CITY HALL, ROOM 250
Attend the hearing and speak at public comment to insist that Clean
Power SF move forward now!
DIRECTIONS:
To get to the hearing, go to the San Francisco Civic Center transit
station at 8th and Market Streets and cross United Nations Plaza to City
Hall (on Polk Street between Grove and McAllister).
PUBLIC COMMENT TALKING POINTS:
- The SFPUC has been delaying Clean Power SF for five years! Enough is
enough!
- Access to Obama administration clean energy stimulus funds could be
lost if we don't act now!
- There are new reports every day that the global climate crisis is
becoming far worse, far more rapidly than scientists previously
believed. We cannot wait one more day to begin this project!
- Clean Power SF will become the largest municipal clean energy project
on Earth, setting a strong example for the rest of the world to get
serious about the climate crisis!
- 48 other California communities are waiting for San Francisco to take
the lead on clean energy, and as California goes, so goes the world.
Starting this project now is critical to leading the entire planet to
take rapid action to end the climate crisis!
- During the current drastic economic crisis and budget cuts, Clean
Power SF will create a green economy boom in San Francisco providing
hundreds of desperately need jobs to this community!
For more information about Clean Power SF see
http://our-city.org/campaigns/CleanPowerSF_e.html
Thanks!
Eric Brooks
Co-Chair - SF Green Party Sustainability Working Group
--
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate
themselves." – Che Guevara
Hi Transpo Members,
Here is the correctly dated full alert for the emergency clean energy
hearing..
ALERT!
Save San Francisco's Clean Energy Project!
Attend Emergency Hearing
Friday, March 6, 2pm
SF City Hall, Room 250
Next Friday, March 6th, the San Francisco Local Agency Formation
Commission (LAFCo) will vote on activating the Clean Power SF renewable
energy project, which was passed in 2007 to give the City 50% clean
electricity within the next decade.
But alarmingly, the LAFCo is poised to let the San Francisco Public
Utilities Commission (SFPUC) delay and weaken the project, thereby
killing large scale clean energy in San Francisco. We must demand that
the LAFCo vote a strong Clean Power SF project forward immediately.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Attend the hearing, and speak at public comment, to insist that Clean
Power SF move forward now!
DIRECTIONS:
To get to the hearing, go to the San Francisco Civic Center transit
station at 8th and Market Streets and cross United Nations Plaza to City
Hall (on Polk Street between Grove and McAllister).
IF YOU CAN'T ATTEND THE HEARING:
Call LAFCo chairperson Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi today at 415-554-7630
with the following message:
"Please stop accepting the SFPUC's delays, and immediately hire, through
the LAFCo, the best qualified lead contractor to rapidly complete a
Request For Proposals for Clean Power SF."
PUBLIC COMMENT TALKING POINTS:
- The SFPUC has been delaying Clean Power SF for five years! Enough is
enough!
- Access to Obama administration clean energy stimulus funds could be
lost if we don't act now!
- There are new reports every day that the global climate crisis is
becoming far worse, far more rapidly than scientists previously
believed. We cannot wait one more day to begin this project!
- Clean Power SF will become the largest municipal clean energy project
on Earth, setting a strong example for the rest of the world to get
serious about the climate crisis!
- 48 other California communities are waiting for San Francisco to take
the lead on clean energy, and as California goes, so goes the world.
Starting this project now is critical to leading the entire planet to
take rapid action to end the climate crisis!
- During the current drastic economic crisis and budget cuts, Clean
Power SF will create a green economy boom in San Francisco providing
hundreds of desperately need jobs to this community!
For more information about Clean Power SF see
http://our-city.org/campaigns/CleanPowerSF_e.html
Thanks as always for your help and support.
Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City
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info(a)our-city.org
LAFCo is -Friday- at 2pm in the main SF City Hall Chamber, Room 250
Garrison Ann wrote:
> This may be a sustainability list item, but I don't seem to have the
> e-maiil address,
> and I'm not on the active list, so I'm sending it to Eric and Transpo.
>
> i just went to the memorial service for African American Green Steve
> Conley at St.
> Anthony's.
>
> Steve was involved with KPFA for many years, though not as much as
> those who loved
> him and his inclusive open mike work would have liked. A number of
> people from the
> KPFA community were there as a result, and I had a chance to talk to
> weekend KPFA
> News Reporter, and KPFA Local Station Board member Anthony Fest, who
> told me, for the
> first time, that his day job is at the California Public Utilities
> Commission (CPUC), so we
> talked about that a bit, then talked about the LAFCO hearing.
>
> I urged him to attend, told him I didn't think there was any more
> important local issue than
> clean power, and no issue where we have a chance to act locally with
> more global consequence,
> and he's going to try to get there with the thought of covering it on
> KPFA's weekend newscast.
>
> I'm going to see if I can find someone who might start covering the
> way that this unfolds for FSRN
> as well. Maybe even Josh Wolf. I'd pitch it to FSRN myself if I didn't
> plan to try to get down
> to speak at the hearing.
>
> My own thought about how to heighten the significance of clean power
> and community choice
> energy aggregation, which might seem to most like a very local,
> bureaucratic issue to most news
> reporters, an anti-war issue as well, because we're at war all over
> the world now for dirty energy
> resources, most of all now in Africa, which, in 2007, surpassed the
> Middle East as a source of U.S.
> oil imports. The wars for natural gas and uranium all over Africa are
> at a fever pitch now as well.
> The number of new uranium mines licensed and/or underway in Africa
> since October 2006 is really ghastly.
>
> Peace---Ann
>
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> If you had any doubt about whether to gather your time and energy and
> call Ross Mirkarimi's office and then get to the City Hall LAFCo hearing
> at 2pm March 6 for its critical vote on Clean Power SF, just take a look
> at the Sunday front page SF Examiner story on PG&E CEO Peter Darbee at
> http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/PGEs-Peter-Darbee-is-brimming-with-energy-4…
>
>
> I would strongly recommend going to
> http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/digitaleditions.aspx?tab=0&pid=…
>
> and clicking on the icon for the Sunday edition in the lower right of
> the page so that you can see the article the way actual readers of the
> Examiner saw it on paper, in order to grasp the article's strong visual
> impact.
>
> This article is extremely well done and extremely damaging to us. And
> there will be more assaults like it.
>
> We absolutely -must- get the LAFCo to launch Clean Power SF properly
> with a lead RFP contractor this Friday. Every day we wait, gives PG&E
> yet another day to launch torpedoes like this at the clean energy
> movement.
>
> Every day we have to waste organizing to get our 'allies' on the LAFCo
> to take action, is a day that we cannot gear up a strong public
> education campaign to reveal PG&E's lies and show how awesome Clean
> Power SF will be.
>
> We must act now.
>
> Here are the call-in and hearing details:
>
>
> ALERT!
>
> Save San Francisco's Clean Energy Project!
>
> Attend Emergency Hearing
> Friday, March 6, 2pm
> SF City Hall, Room 250
--
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara
