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(a) The Department of Environment shall seek funding for the City to participate in demonstration and other pilot programs designed to test promising clean vehicle or related technologies where the Director of the Department of the Environment concludes that the City's participation in such programs may establish the viability of the technologies and/or advance their commercial availability.
(b) Contracts and grants or awards in furtherance of such demonstration or other pilot programs with a duration of no more than two years are not subject to the contracting requirements of the Administrative Code or Environment Code, but shall be subject to the requirements of the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance, Administrative Code Chapter 67.
(Ord. 278-10, File No. 101009, App. 11/18/2010)
The Department of Environment shall coordinate all grant applications on behalf of the City and County of San Francisco for grants to support clean vehicle and alternative fuel programs, except that it may assist the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco Airport, Port of San Francisco, and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority with grant applications only upon request.
(Ord. 278-10, File No. 101009, App. 11/18/2010)
The Department of the Environment shall implement programs to encourage City residents and private fleet operators to purchase and operate vehicles that have zero emissions, supper ultra low emissions, high-energy efficiency and/or use alternative fuels with low carbon intensity, including recommending legislation to the Board of Supervisors necessary to achieve these objectives.
(Ord. 278-10, File No. 101009, App. 11/18/ 2010)
Upon request, the Department of the Environment may assist the San Francisco Unified School District with developing bid specifications and other contract documents for more energy efficient, alternative fuel or best available emission control technology school bus services and with identifying possible grants for clean school buses.
(Ord. 278-10, File No. 101009, App. 11/18/ 2010)
Consistent with the Charter and other applicable State and Federal law, this Healthy Air And Clean Transportation Ordinance shall not apply to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco Airport, Port of San Francisco, or San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority to the extent its requirements would conflict with those laws or otherwise interfere with the discharge of those functions placed under the direct jurisdiction of the department.
(Ord. 278-10, File No. 101009, App. 11/18/ 2010)
(a) The City Administrator, or the Purchaser or Director of the City Fleet if so designated by the City Administrator, is authorized to enter into master agreements with vendors for the procurement of car sharing services to be used by authorized officers and employees of the City.
(b) Agreements for the use of shared vehicles shall contain a provision authorizing priority and potentially exclusive use of all available vehicles within the City and County of San Francisco by authorized officers and employees of the City.
(c) Designated agreements entered into pursuant to this Section 412 are not subject to the contracting requirements of the Administrative or Environment Codes other than the competitive solicitation requirement of Administrative Code Section 21.1, but shall be subject to the requirements established by Chapter 67 of the Administrative Code. It is, however, the policy of the City to make every effort to comply where practicable with the contracting requirements of the Administrative and Environment Codes when entering into such agreements.
(Ord. 278-10, File No. 101009, App. 11/18/2010; amended by Ord. 116-15
, File No. 140950, App. 7/15/2015, Eff. 8/14/2015)
Under the Healthy Air and Clean Transportation Ordinance, the City wishes to exercise its power to make economic decisions involving its own funds as a participant in the marketplace and to conduct its own business as a municipal corporation to ensure that purchases and expenditures of public monies are made in a manner consistent with the policy of improving the air quality in the City and doing its part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and curb global warming through the purchase and use of vehicles that have low emissions, high energy efficiency and or use alternative fuels with a low carbon intensity.
(Ord. 278-10, File No. 101009, App. 11/18/2010)
The Healthy Air and Clean Transportation Ordinance applies the City's Precautionary Principle Policy set forth in Chapter 1 of the Environment Code to the selection of vehicles and non-vehicular motorized equipment by creating a preference for vehicles and non-vehicular motorized equipment with super ultra low emissions, high energy efficiency or that use alternative fuels with a low carbon intensity that minimize impacts on human health and natural resources.
(Ord. 278-10, File No. 101009, App. 11/18/2010)
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the Ordinance. The Board of Supervisors hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each and every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any portion of this Ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.
(Ord. 278-10, File No. 101009, App. 11/18/ 2010)
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