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Dist. 8 race upset: Laura Spanjian drops out of race

March 11, 2010 by Elizabeth Weise

March 11, 2010

**PRESS RELEASE**

LAURA SPANJIAN TO BECOME HOUSTON SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR

Will end campaign for District 8 Supervisor and resign from SF DCCC

Laura Spanjian, Assistant General Manager for External Affairs for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), has accepted an offer from Houston Mayor Annise Parker to become the Sustainability Director for Houston, Texas—the fourth largest city in the US—beginning next month.

“Laura Spanjian brings years of municipal experience in crafting innovative environmental policies that green our cities and save people money,” said Mayor Annise Parker. “Her knowledge of city government and her key role in creating and promoting major environmental projects will be invaluable assets as we strengthen our focus on making Houston one of the greenest cities in the nation.”

Spanjian will resign next month from the SFPUC, where she has served since 2004. She is responsible for the agency’s sustainability planning, legislative affairs at the local, state and federal level, communications and public education. She will begin work as Houston’s Sustainability Director in April.

“I am overjoyed to have the opportunity to work directly with Mayor Annise Parker and her staff and contribute to a cleaner environment which is, of course, not just a local issue,” said Spanjian. “Sadly, this also requires me to move from our wonderful city and end my campaign for District 8 Supervisor. I am deeply appreciative of the hard work of the many supporters, volunteers and donors who have contributed to my campaign.”

At the SFPUC, Spanjian oversees the legislative and public outreach efforts in support of some of the City’s most important environmental and economic projects. She oversees a nearly $6 million budget and more than 45 staff members. She played an instrumental role in securing environmental, project, financial and rate increase approvals for over 80 projects in a ten-year $4.3 billion Water System Improvement Program. She led final negotiations and approval for an urban 5 MW solar project, giving San Francisco the nation’s largest municipal solar installation. She launched innovative environmental initiatives that help residents and businesses go green and save money, including GoSolarSF, a $10 million solar incentive program, and SFGreasecycle, a program that recycles restaurant grease into biofuel. She also directed the passage of numerous state legislative bills, including the expansion of indoor and outdoor graywater use and ensuring replacement of inefficient water fixtures in residents and businesses.

Prior to joining the SFPUC in 2004, Spanjian coordinated government and community affairs for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, where she managed and secured approvals and community support for multiple multi-million dollar projects, including the Third Street Light Rail project, Alternative Fuel Vehicle Program and numerous financial and development projects.

In addition, her local government experience includes serving as chief legislative aide to San Francisco Supervisor Leslie Katz.

Following a transition from the SFPUC, Spanjian will officially begin as Sustainability Director for Mayor Parker on April 19, 2010.

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Saturday’s Glen Park Greenway Work Party is Cancelled.

“I’m very sorry to say that
we have cancelled our Work Party for this Saturday July 12, along with all organized volunteer activity on the Greenway until further notice.
As you may have read in the news, our fiscal sponsor, San Francisco Parks Alliance (SFPA), has shut itself down. Just as SFPA has shut itself down, the Greenway, as an organized part of SFPA, has also been “shut down.” We are busy looking for a suitable alternative fiscal sponsor that is willing to replace SFPA. That search is going well but it is a slow process. We had hoped to find temporary ways to enable the Greenway project to function responsibly as a community activity without a fiscal sponsor. Sadly, despite our best efforts and the help of many others in Glen Park, we have failed. That is why we must cancel our Saturday Work Party and discontinue future work parties and other organized volunteer activity on the Greenway (like weeding and watering) until further notice. We recognize that the Greenway is public open space and that the organizers of the Greenway project have no control over the activities of you or of anyone else on the Greenway. However, if you do venture onto the Greenway to satisfy your urge for outdoor recreation, please be aware that your activity is not in any way organized or sanctioned by the organizers of the Glen Park Greenway project. I’m well aware of the efforts that many of the
Greenway’s supporters are making to get the Greenway organized with a new fiscal sponsor and I’m confident that this will be arranged within weeks or perhaps a few months.
However long it takes, I will contact you with news of our progress.
Many thanks for all that you do for the Greenway.”

Nicholas Dewar, volunteer Project Director

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Wonder what’s stopping just organizing it separate from that non-profit. It seems like the volunteers largely come from Glen Park.

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It was a beautiful day for the annual #july4th celebration on Laidley street!

📷: Photos courtesy of Michael Waldstein

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