and i will end by saying he would be so happy that the giants are in the world series and i'll be thinking of him when i'm watching those games. so the board wants to express our condolences to him and to his family and the community and a rosary will be held tomorrow evening during the world series at 7:00 at driscoll's, 1465 valencia street, and a funeral mass thursday, october 28 at 10:00 a.m., st. paul's church, 29th and church street and a gathering will follow. and i just want to express my love of mauricio. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner. meeting adjourned.

>> it has been amazing. the people have been so gracious and so supportive of what we're doing. the energy here is fantastic with so many couples getting

married. it's just been an absolutely fantastic experience, so wonderful. >> by the power vested in me, i declare you spouses for life. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> to actually be able to get married and be a part of this time in history and time in our history is amazing. >> this is a momentous occasion for us to be able to actually have this opportunity to have equal rights. >> we have been together for 14 years. everyone is so welcoming. it's been all set up and people have guided us from step to step. it's been easy. there was live music. people are so friendly and excited. so excited for us. >> it's really great. >> yeah. >> and salvador is party a here to known as party a. >> on the out it looks pretty

simple. you come in, you made your appointment. you pay. you go here for your license. you got there to get married. you go there if you want to purchase a certified copy. behind the scenes, there was just this monumental just mountain of work, the details into everything that we had to do and we quickly realized that we were not ready to issue the numbers of licenses that people are anticipating that we would need to issue. we definitely did not want people waiting in long lines. this is somebody's wedding. you want to be able to plan and invite your family and friends. know what time you are able to get your marriage license, know what time you're going to have your ceremony. >> thanks for volunteering. >> we got city volunteers, we got members of the public

volunteering. we had our regular volunteers volunteering. we had such an overwhelming response from city employees, from the members of the general public that we had way more volunteers than we could ever have hoped for. we had to come up with a training program. i mean, there are different functions of this whole operation. you were either, you know a check-in person. you were a greeter. you were part of the license issuing unit. you were deputy marriage commissioner, or you were on the recording side. each one of those functions required a different set of skills, a different oath of office if they needed to be sworn in as a deputy county clerk to issue marriage licenses or as a deputy county recorder if they were going to register the marriage licenses or the deputy marriage commissioner if they were going to be performing ceremonies. >> donna, place the ring on her ring finger. >> the marriage commissioner training was only about a half

hour. it was very simple. very well run, very smooth and then we were all sworn in. >> they said we would get our scheduled sunday night and so 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, you know, i got it at 11:00. this person who was orchestrating all of the shifts and the volunteers and who does what, you know, said from her office sunday night at 11:00. they are just really helping each other. it's a wonderful atmosphere in that way. >> have you filled out an application? >> not yet. you want to do that. >> take this right over there. >> all right. >> take it tout counter when you're done. >> very good. >> congratulations, you guys. >> for those volunteers, what a gift for them as well as us that they would take up their time and contribute that time, but also that they would in return receive so much more back because they're part of the narrative of someone else's love and expression of love in

life. >> this isn't anything that we had budgeted for, so it was basically we asked our i.t. director to do the best you can, you know, belling, borrow, steal if you have to and get us what you need to do this. and he knew what the mission was. he knew what our goal was. and, you know, with our i.t. grids and our software vender, they really came together and pulled it together for us. it made it possible for us to be able to serve as many couples as we have been. >> so once you're ready, you and your husband to be or wife need to be need to check in here and check in again, ok. are you also going to get married today? >> yeah. >> let's process you one by one. do your license in, exit and re-enter again check in at that desk. >> our wedding is at 3:00. >> as long as we get you in today. >> we're getting married at 2:30. >> don't worry about the time

line. we're greeting people at the doorway and either directing them to the services they need on this side which is licensing or the services on this side which is actually getting the ceremony performed. >> this is an opportunity to choose to be a part of history. many times history happens to us, but in this case, you can choose to be a part of it. this is a very historic day and so i'm very, very proud to be here. >> i have been volunteering. last monday i performed 12 different marriage smones. the least amount of time that any of the couples that i married have been together is two years. most of the couples have been together eight, nine, 10, i'd say 70% have been together at least that long if not longer. >> there is a lot of misconception about who gay and lesbian people are. it's important that people see that we love our husbands and

wives to be and love our children and have the right to have families just like everyone else. >> it's important that we have experienced our own families, our own friends, and the excitement of the volunteers when we get here has made us feel wonderful and accepted and celebrated. >> there is a lot of city agencies, city departments, divisions that offer up their employees to help us out since overwhelming response, it's unbelievable at how city government works. this is the time that san francisco city employees have really outshined san francisco's clerk's office didn't need to hear from the mayor to say what's your plan. they offered a plan and said here is our strategy. here is what we can do. we can add all of these computers here and there. we can connect our databases, we can expand our capacity by

x. we can open up early and stay late and stay open on the weekends. it's unbelievable. we can coordinate all of the training for our volunteers and them in as deputy marriage commissioners and make sure it's signed and certified. that's an example and a model for others. this is -- what happens is when people prove that things can be done, it just raises the bar for what is possible for everyone else. >> it kind of went cooled plan and this is what we planned for. in some respects, people have kind of commented to me, oh, my god, you were a part of history and how many couples did we mary? how many families did we start? how many dreams did we make come true? the whole part of being part of history is something that we are here and we are charged with this responsibility to

carry out. >> i am at harrington, general manager of d puc. i'm so happy to be here today where we will be building a new building for the puc and contributing to the green movement in our state. it is a wonderful place to be. i will be introducing a number of folks, but i want to start with introducing my commissioners. as i mentioned, this is one of those things where the puc has trained about a new headquarters building for i do not know how many years. buying one or building one, but it was always sitting out there because we have people in different parts of san francisco renting space, and

that is not a good thing for ratepayers ultimately. we are one of the leaders in green technology and water and energy conservation, and we should showcase that in our new building, and this building will give us a chance to do that. one of the proponents of this building since day one who was very excited to be here was a major gap in -- mayor gavin newsom, and i will turn it over to the mayor. [applause] >> the spirit of this announcement is the creation of literally hundreds of jobs over the next several years because of this kickoff of sorts on this project. this is a project, that is well over a decade in the making. you could say quite formally about nine years in the making since we acquired the site from the state, took an old dilapidated building that was

identified as such after the 1989 earthquake when candidly this process and formally began, and we decided to mark a process to consider design and orienting this building, but we never have the money, and we never had a framework to actually get the financing until about two years ago when we were at a point of absolute frustration. a lot of money have been spent on the design. i was looking back and choking off about some of my old files and various incarnations of ugly, ugly year, less ugly, dealers, an unbelievably expensive, never going to happen designs. nonetheless, we found some middle ground in one of the areas that i think was most important not to argue away or rather, i guess, value engineering away in the language of our time, some of the green components that had just spoken.

it is appropriate when you have a public utilities commission that really is a leader in terms of water conservation, and is a leader in terms of environmental stewardship that is in the process of becoming a steward and -- in a broader sense of the entire system, a $4.4 billion regional of great, that we would have a headquarters that represented those values not just figuratively but literally and substantively. two components that are probably most exciting -- i think that is why you see this modest wind component that will be hardly modest when it is incorporated in a larger scale into this building, is some of these innovative building construction strategies around incorporating not just traditional affordable pecs and not traditional strategy for waste water and rain water retention and recycling and the like, but also taking advantage of new technology are around wind and wind turbines. this may not generate as much energy as i think it generates interest, and let's be candid

about that. it is as much a demonstration of the future as it is the actualization of the same, but it is important, and there will be two big wind components on this project site that i think will truly get a lot of people excited and motivated and interested in doing similar things, even at their own residential homes or in any new construction, commercial and industrial projects in the city's future, so that is a component i am enthusiastic about. $170 million project. it is going to be financed with one of the lowest 4.17%. look at how proud they are. only bond people can even appreciate that. but 30-year fixed -- 4.17%, which is saving us a ton of money, money that we did not actually budgets as savings, so that we are now absolutely confident that we can meet our

commitment in terms of the overall project. that being said, it gives webcor no -- [laughter] -- you get my point. does not mean they can go over budget. i am confident with the outstanding leadership. 2012, they cannot get it done any sooner, but 2012, this project will be done. 1000 employees will come here on site, and finally, this is part of, for me, and anchor project to this larger civic center effort where we are working with the clinton foundation to incorporate some of the latest technologies in terms of environmental sustainability and creating a system. i guess that is the point. not just projects in isolation, but a system that connects our city projects with state and federal buildings, so this is a really big part of that promise

that we made a year or so ago. 600 permanent jobs. 1300 advertised. mike from building construction trades -- i think he can appreciate as much or more than anyone else the importance of this project. mike was in with my friend in the construction trade, say in what is the latest on this for about three years. here we are, finally, and real folks being put to work, and that is a wonderful thing. that is again i think the real excitement and enthusiasm that brings us here today. thank you all for coming out. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. thank you for your support. sometimes, you hear things about the best, the most efficient, all that stuff. to give you a few examples, example number one, energy use in this building compared to a building of this size in san francisco, we will be saving 2.1 million kilowatt hours a year. that is the equivalent of all

the power used in half the fire stations in san francisco pier will be saved in this one building. one reason we are able to do that is because of one of our partners doing this. also, the project director. [applause] >> thank you. we are so excited to be here today at this point in time in this whole -- because i love holes. particularly when we are going to pour some concrete, but in some foundations, and go up. i want to recognize jeff and had to put in some time working as number down. i think we have already saved about $40 million since we got involved in this project. mr. mayor was already working to save the city money. as far as the completion date, go back to with this arts and golden gate park where the mayor that me $1 -- one whole dollar

-- and i am going to plant that dollar on a wall in a picture frame, and he lost that one, and i intend for him to lose another because we are going to be the schedule we have out here. it is exciting to work with the puc on this wonderful building. not just the micro windmill that you see here, which a lot of people thought was a model of a building. it is a micro wind turbine. one of many features. photovoltaic panels. we have a concrete frame. there is a waste water treatment -- rainwater capture, utilizing a great water for flushing the toilet, so there is a lot of great features in this building. i am wearing my pink and tied today commemorating the california academy of sciences, -- i am wearing my penguin tie today.

we just love working with the department of public works. edgar is in the audience. wonderful partners. we are very excited to repeat the success we had two years ago. this is going to be in the platinum. it is going to be even better. there is going to be a monument not only for a san francisco, but the entire united states as an example of what government buildings should be and how much energy can be saved. thank you for making as part of this. [applause] >> thank you. one of the partners that has been here long as on this project are the architects. they started working on this many years ago. we have the principal director of kmz architects, and with him are two project architects. [applause] >> after nine years, you would think i would not have to put up with the abuse about what this

building looks like. i have to pinch myself. this has been a good chunk of my life, and i would like to acknowledge a couple of people. edgar lopez has been with me. bruck has been working as a project manager. my grisette, the project architect, and we have tom checking to back their, and brian stevens, lead designer. our partner in the architecture firm is miles stevens back there. so thank you all for all the work you have done over these many years. this building did not start out exactly like this. we started out with what we felt was a beautiful building, but it was not a building that was really trying to change the world. with the puc the building has been read up to a goal of being

the greatest urban building in the united states, and i would like to remind everyone that that is the goal of this project, to create a platform for new sustainable designs and a demonstration to the country that san francisco is at the cutting edge of sustainability. i think we will achieve that. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. one of the ways we will be doing that again, is at an average building, the use in that building is about 12 gallons per water per day per resident. this building will be using 5 gallons a day per person in the building, and that is because we will be taking tap water, recycling of on site, using it for toilets. we will have low flow toilets, waterless urinals, all the things you should be doing in buildings today. one of our partners in doing all of this -- and without this group, we would not be here at all -- the labor people in san francisco, and with us today,

the secretary-treasurer of the labor council. causin>> tim paulson, who is the secretary-treasurer of the labor council would not appreciate that. the longer the gestation of this one, you would think it would not be timely are arriving at a moment like this, but no project could be timely. right now, the kids are facing their highest unemployment that i know of since the 1970's and perhaps since the great depression. a project like this -- the big infrastructure project will put some of the trades back to work, but there are no carpets that will be laid on doral drive. there are no waterless urinal that will be installed. no high-volume air-conditioning systems. nothing of the sort. a project like this will put trades back to work that otherwise would be close to starting.

this project really could not be more timely in that regard. and followed by some of general hospital. it would be absolutely critical. but it is time it in another way as well. local government here, city government, and the federal government have talked about the future of work in this country being closely tied to green jobs. the building trades are among those occupations that are most heavily involved in grain jobs, and the public utilities commission should be the organization central to the great majority of green jobs in the city, and it is absolutely appropriate that that organization, the public utilities commission, should meet not just -- lead not just by mandate, but by example. which we will do with this building. we want to thank the board, the

commission, and webcor for its assistance in getting this project off the ground. thank you. >> speaking of banking folks, there are a number of people here from the public utilities commission. i would like to recognize them. and shelby campbell, who just joined us, but shelby is our new key person who is our project director. we keep talking about this thing over here, and i should mention that this is from blue-green

pacific wind turbine manufacturers, and they are in the bayview district of san francisco, and we hope to be using their wind turbines on this project, so we wanted them to be here today and there went turbines, so you could look and talk to them if you want to during the last speaker today as our other partners in this city from the department of public works, and he is also joined by edgar lopez. [applause] >> thanks. we are really excited and honored to be working with our partner on this project. the department of public works has been delivering capital projects to the people of san francisco for over 100 years from small 10 and improvements to large projects such as the academy of sciences, the renovation of city hall. we are particularly excited about this one because, first of all, we have been involved with this project since for a much today 19 years ago in getting

the design moving, getting the environmental clearance through, but we are also excited because the building sits so well with the mission of the puc, and it really will be an exemplary building, so we have got a great design team, great construction team, a great clients, great labor support, and we are certainly putting our a team on this project. though they have already been reference a few times. it is their job, along with mine, to make sure that this project is delivered to meet the operational and environmental very high standards that the puc has said and to make sure it comes in on time and on budget -- or i guess we are now hearing

at a time and under budget -- so that is our commitment to you. we want to thank the commission and the mayor for their leadership to get us to this point. we are excited to hit the ground. thank you. [applause] >> before we have the official ceremonial backhoe, are there any questions on this topic that you would like to ask? we will be are around and available for any types of comments or questions anybody has. >> in a traditional building, you are paying a lot more towards the operations. in a building of this magnitude, we will be spending -- and this is verifiable -- over the course of its life, 75 years, $118 million last in terms of the operation of this building. that is why green buildings make economic sense. this is not just making an % aesthetic point for a point about the environment, it is also making a strong dollar

arguments, and that is exactly the direction we need to continue to go in. we have a certified requirement in san francisco, not for public but also private buildings, but we have never done platinum for an urban commercial project of this type, so that is exciting and complement's the project. this will be an extraordinary model building but just for the state but for the country, so it is a very exciting project in that respect. >> the mayor will be joining tim from local 3.