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. Eric Brooks wrote:
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
-- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara
-- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara