Presents United In Health: Artists, Clergy, Healthcare Workers, Legislators, and Community
A Community Health Fair
Ella Hill Hutch Community Center
1050 McAllister Street @ Webster
San Francisco, CA 94115
Free!
Screenings and Information:
Saturday, August 13, 2011, 10 am -1 pm
For more information: afrosolo.org or call 415-771-2376
BEETS is a green job training program for 15-19 year olds, primarily living in the Western Addition of San Francisco. The program provides structured internships and occupational training, for young people with barriers to employment, through a variety of workshops, field trips, and hands-on experiences. Attend workshops on Resume Building, Interviewing, Cover Letter Writing, and Finding a Job. Gain handson experience working in community gardens and parks. Assist with CommunityGrows garden and cooking classes for elementary-aged youth, and more.
To request an application contact:
Lisa DroginBEETS Program
Coordinatorbeets@communitygrows.org {preferred}
415.320-957
The San Francisco Department of the Environment would like to inform you of an exciting new solar group purchasing program for small businesses and commercial property owners in San Francisco called Solar@Work.
This volume discount model makes it possible, for the first time, for small- and mid-sized businesses and commercial property owners to pay less for solar power than they pay for electricity from the grid. In addition to a significant 20% discount, members of the buying group can also take advantage of the program’s streamlined solar lease option to install solar for little to no money down. Listen to this short KQED story about the program launch or read this in-depth article by Forbes
Limited-Time Offer:
The Solar@Work enrollment window is open through October 2011. Projects are expected to break ground by the end of 2011
What Businesses Receive:
– Over 20% discounted group price on solar electric systems for program participants
– Special pre-negotiated solar equipment lease option, with a buy out option
– Performance guarantees to ensure long-term energy production and savings
– Reach clean energy goals and demonstrate leadership to clients
Help Spread the Word to Your Members:
– Invite the SF Dept. of Environment to present a regular meeting or host a brown bag event
– Forward attached Solar@Work brochure to your business members
– Publish an article or blurb in your e-newsletter featuring Solar@Work
– Post a link on your website or to your social network channels (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
Attend an Information Session
Wednesday, August 17 at 12:30pm via Webinar.
Register: www2.gotomeeting.com/register/342717394
Tuesday, August 23 at 4:00pm at SF Dept. of Environment
11 Grove Street, San Francisco, 94102. RSVP: tyler.espinoza@sfgov.org
TBA, Week of August 29 in the Bayview neighborhood.
Details forthcoming. RSVP: tyler.espinoza@sfgov.org
Solar@Work: Commercial Solar Made Simple + Affordable Through Group Purchasing
Friday, September 30th,7:00-10 p.m.
Mercury Cafe Parklet Fundraiser
Mercury Cafe at 201 Octavia is hosting a parklet fund raising party. A parklet is a temporary deck built over two parking spaces. Ours will include a bench, tables, chairs, planters and even a small bike corral. Consider it a small urban park. This will increase foot traffic and spread business along the commercial corridor that is Octavia Street.
The evening will include food provided by Straw restaurant, live music by Even Taylor and other local artist, art, a silent auction including items donated from Hayes Valley business and much more! Come, have fun, and meet your neighbors.
If you are interested in donating any items for the event or would like more information please contact lindsey@hayesvalleyfarm.com.
Six days a week, in conjunction with the Off the Grid collective of food trucks and food carts, there will be a rotating group of food vendors serving lunch and dinner at the Proxy Project, just off of Patricia’s Green on Linden Alley. There is not yet a schedule for the trucks, so just head over there and see what’s for lunch today!
The SFMTA is seeking to improve bicycle access between the Panhandle bike path and the “Wiggle” by providing bikeways on Fell Street and/or Oak Street between Scott and Baker that are physically separated from motor vehicle traffic by a buffer space or vertical element. Similar bikeways were installed on Market Street in 2010, and the SFMTA has received positive feedback on the level of comfort that the bikeways provide. Many cyclists currently use the Panhandle bike path and the “Wiggle” bike route, yet the connection between these two routes is insufficient in many peoples’ minds because the existing bike lane on Fell St does not feel comfortable for many cyclists and there is no bikeway on Oak St.
Given the right-of-way constraints on both Oak and Fell Streets, accommodating a wide bikeway and buffer space would require that changes be made to existing parking and/or travel lanes. At this point, the SFMTA has brainstormed a few conceptual design ideas that could be applied to either Oak St or Fell Street or both, depending on the feedback received from the community:
–Remove one travel lane to accommodate a separated bikeway
–Remove parking on one side of the street to accommodate a separated bikeway
–Create a part-time travel lane to accommodate a separated bikeway. Such a part-time travel lane would operate similar to other “tow-away lanes” that are common throughout San Francisco where parking is allowed except for during peak hours.
–Remove one travel lane to accommodate a two-way separated bikeway on either Oak or Fell St.
–Remove parking on one side of the street to accommodate a two-way separated bikeway on either Oak or Fell St.
As a first step in the planning process, the SFMTA is reaching out to community groups in the project area to solicit initial feedback on these conceptual design ideas and to gather questions and concerns. Feedback received from local residents and businesses will help the SFMTA refine these conceptual ideas and analyze their potential impact. The SFMTA will then host a public meeting on September 13th at 6:30pm at the San Francisco Day School (350 Masonic Ave) to discuss this project in more detail.
Please submit questions or comments to Luis Montoya at the SFMTA (Luis.montoya@sfmta.com, or 701-4376). The SFMTA hopes that you will join us at the community meeting on September 13th. We will be advertising this meeting through a variety of communication channels, but we appreciate you additionally sharing this information with anyone who may be interested.
Please join the Department of Elections in preparing voters for a successful November 8, 2011 Municipal Election.
Visit Department of Elections’ website sfelections.org for voting and election information, including:
How to register to vote: go here
Updated! Ranked-Choice voting information (including a video on ranked choice voting as well as an interactive flash demonstration on how to mark the three-column contest.) Go to this link for Ranked-Choice voting information
Brand New! Check out the Voting Tool Kit for look-up tools that allow voters to access everything they need to be ready to vote; including their registration status and correct polling place location. Voting Tool Kit here
Easy! On-line forms to request a vote-by-mail ballot and to check if a voted ballot has been received.
Information is available in English, Chinese, or Spanish, and in a variety of accessible formats.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which oversees all surface transportation in the City, including the Municipal Railway (Muni), today announced that, effective Thursday, Aug. 4, McAllister Street east of Hyde Street will be reconfigured. Also, Charles J. Brenham Place (7th Street north of Market) will be converted to two-way. The traffic reconfiguration and correlated completion of the overhead contact system (OCS) rehabilitation in this area mean that the nearly 16,000 annual 5 Fulton Muni trolley bus customers will now have a more direct trip downtown. The change will save the Agency more than $200,000 a year in operating expenses.
Effective Aug. 4, the new configuration will allow Muni, commercial vehicles and bicycles to travel eastbound on McAllister Street between Hyde Street and Charles J. Brenham Place. All other eastbound McAllister traffic will continue to turn right at Hyde Street. Only bicycles, taxis and Muni vehicles will be allowed to turn east on Market Street from McAllister Street. All other traffic will be required to turn right onto Market Street. All traffic will be able to make a right turn from northbound Charles J. Brenham Place (7th Street north of Market Street) onto eastbound McAllister Street to access the block between Charles J. Brenham Place and Jones Street. The attached maps show the changes in the traffic configuration.
The current 5 Fulton route requires inbound vehicles heading downtown to make a right on Hyde Street and then a left on Market Street. The new route, made possible by new overhead wires in the eastbound direction, will allow buses on this route to go straight to Market Street, saving up to three minutes per trip. The changes to the 5 Fulton route will take effect after the testing of the new OCS in August.
The SFMTA’s Capital Investment Program includes the rehabilitation of the aging trolley bus OCS in various parts of the City. This vital work includes replacing existing poles and overhead wires. Rehabilitation of the OCS improves safety and service reliability and helps keeps Muni in a state of good repair. The OCS construction began last summer and was part of the 21 Hayes Pole Replacement project.