essentially, there are two different pathways. the first is to better seal the home against infiltration, a normal upgrade that has been promoted. we would hope to leverage those existing funding streams. the second stream that we are interested in is to take the forces in and create a better quality of circulation in the home, so that there is more illustration of particulate matter. our goal is to -- more filtration of particulate matter. our goal is to create homes with duct work, especially low- income homes, with families who have these health risks -- including as much, respiratory disease, and premature mortality. overall, it can only be in the home that receives these benefits.

by assessing them and addressing them as effective interventions, we can create ongoing policy for these developments, related to leveraging energy grants, helping us to comply. i think it is a great project on that level. it also takes the existing structure -- there have already been a number of services delivered for those results. the primary contract has been awarded through the process in the foundation. rfp's allow individual vendors to deliver individual purpose -- services. currently, bay view y, the

coalition on aids, those are some of the vendors that do the work. things like walking clubs, acupuncture, cooking classes, and healthy eating. the third project today, community gardens. the task force held their community meeting in march. it was about people interested in being self-sufficient. the housing authority resident in particular spoke about the british housing development in charge of future development. there is already quite a bit of investment going on to build a small community garden. they have already established a project where people can have a mineral sized miniature garden at their front door, promoting

more neighbor engagement and growing fresh food at your front door. that program is available for soil testing. something that we routinely do. bridging housing, working with public works and community parks, the park trust, to have been mou housing authority -- have an mou housing authority project. eventually other participants could partake on a participatory basis. the task force was instrumental in suggesting how we could utilize these funds.

at the hospital, all primary- care providers can refer to this. it had started as a half of the day clinic, it has expanded into a two and a half-day clinic. they have a medical social model where they used health workers to help families. we cannot spend enough time to solve the housing problems of every one. they also have a medical, legal partnership where they are assisting people with housing rights. with helping capacity, we will better serve those families, reaching out to the community and being a part of special moments. component day is about the health center, a partner of --

component a is about the health center, a partner of sf live, where we get your to your commitments from people who are just out of college and headed towards medical careers. they are terrific workers that can enhance the education in the community. the last component is a project that has already been started through the regional hope sf and housing. family development training, it is called kids talk. i have worked with them to provide environmental health expertise. she has developed a curriculum with parents at the housing

authority. that curriculum was turned into something of a day trainer model by consultants. the goal is to train community health leaders and have them invested in one topic and building activities around that topic. they became nutrition specialists, looking for ways to promote nutrition, along with community members that have hosted potluck dinner clubs or cooking class is. -- classes. promoting child development through reduction of urban stress factors and the reduction of toxic exposures to children, basically helping to promote activities that parents can do. once again, this is a health

improvement project for the community. supervisor chu: thank you very much. let's turn this over to the budget analysts report. >> on the bottom of page 9 of the report, expanding the funds over a three-year period, so that the budget submitted to us is strictly an estimate. on page 10 of the report, of course we consider this to be a policy matter. if the board of supervisors wishes to entertain more detail in funding to these specific

organizations, they would be placed on budget finalization for those eight bills. supervisor chu: let's open this up for public comment. are there members of the public at which to speak on this item? >> ♪ they found a $1 million bill on petrearearu hill and it will help the bill and the moon stood still on petreareau hill because you gave with such good

will ♪ supervisor chu: thank you, walter. that was one of my favorites, so far. [laughter] next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. i have been involved in the energy issues in the city, shutting down power plants, and so forth. this is definitely death by 1000 cuts. this was one that was identified, supervisor maxwell, who wanted to be the most impacted community.

we did include a piece on the pilot program because it was something that could never be gotten off the ground. i guess it is a little further south. what this has done, we have been able to cobble together many different programs that have shown success but have no, true, long-range support. i am very proud of everything that has been done to get us this far. there are funding things behind them, but at the end of the three years they will promote what has been successful and

what has not. thank you, i really support this. supervisor chu: next speaker, please. >> my name is emily wine steen, and i just want to express my support for this funding. there are two projects that are specifically geared towards the residence. they are development of community gardens and the expansion at the family resource center. also, the community health programs with a variety of other partners in the community. both projects have had significant involvement with the beginnings of programs in place now.

guaranteeing their ongoing suspended -- viability. thank you. supervisor chu: the next speaker. >> good morning, madame chair and members. i want to speak in support of the uses of this settlement. it recommends projects that have some hope of going beyond the three years that we have to spend the money. this way we are not relying on one time projects. this will be ongoing and helpful to the community. in terms of getting these power plants closed, i do endorse this

project and i thank you for your consideration. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is the douglasyap. i would like to thank the supervisor for delivering the $1 million to this neighborhood. we have to give her credit for the differing the goods. i thought that it was interesting that in this discussion, we were talking about cutting. i have not seen any community developments in the rich neighborhoods. i question why we need them in a low-cost neighborhoods.

this is the experience, in detroit, michigan, for they were at such a low level that they were forced to stop community gardens in detroit. hopefully this is not what will happen in san francisco. i hope that the department of public health, number one, is not going to waste funding and, number two, is not going to waste -- is not going to increase costs on the department of public health. also, rather than teaching people in this neighborhood to be gardner's, why not try to teach them to be doctors, lawyers, and nurses? i was told that third of martial was to be equivalent of

low wall, but obviously it did not happen. is it because the residents came from different neighborhoods? thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. were there other members of the public that wish to speak? seeing no one, public comment is closed. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, madame chair. in reference to public comment, it is an incorrect representation of supervisor maxwell. she very much facilitated the shutdown of the power plants so that it could then be processed. fortunately, supervisor cohen is here, but supervisor maxwell did

a hell of a lot of work in the community. this is not accurate, what i heard. supervisor maxwell does deserve a lot of the credit. supervisor chu: thank you. i would like to thank the department for bringing this item forward. given the community outreach that we have heard, including the members of the public that have come to testify, given that there were areas that we talked about back in 2009 and the fact that we have multiple budgets, it includes expenditures in these areas. i am not to take -- not inclined survey at this time. this will be sent to the full

committee before we take action. and the closing remarks? supervisor cohen: no, you have succinctly articulated my position. supervisor chu: is there a motion to send this for were supervisor mirkarimi:? motion to accept -- send this forward to? supervisor mirkarimi: without objection. supervisor chu: thank you so much. mr. young, are there any other items before us? >> that completes the agenda items. supervisor chu: thank you, we're adjourned.

>> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery

shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery

space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that.

here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of?

>> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you

encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time.

>> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley, only one earth. this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine,

what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell,

and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful things. anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team.

>> good afternoon. i would like to call the meeting of the commission of the environment to order. >> [laughter] >> wow, that popped up. >> back to the future. >> san francisco public utilities commission. >> to order at 1:46, october 11, 2011. next item, please. >> roll call. president vietor. commissioner moran.

commissioner caen. commissioner torres. i believe commissioner courtney is here and will be joining us momentarily. the next item as the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of september 27. if there are any additions, corrections, substitutions -- president vietor: you have the minutes before you. >> move to approve. president vietor: there is a motion. is there a second? second. questions are comments? all those in favor? opposed. thank you. the motion carries. next -- >> the next item is public comment, an item for members of the public to speak about items that are not within the commission's jurisdiction better not on today's agenda. we have no speaker cards. president vietor: no public comments. next item. >> communications. letter summary and the advanced calendar. at this me