conversation a round of the general fund the subsidy question, renewable and efficiency programs, moving forward from an environmental perspective. and early these questions we are bringing up around these hard policy decisions that we will need to be making as a city family, as a city body, it order to figure out how moneys will be best spent and protected the system. i hope this can be hand in hand, the cca. i hope this is just the tip of the iceberg of a longer conversation. >> commissioner avalos? commissioner avalos: if you could share with us the process

of the board of supervisors? >> assuming this item is approved by both commissions today, starting tuesday of next week, i will introduce the matter before the board of supervisors. legally, it has to sit for about 30 days. it is one of the reasons to mean the time lines with and working under for the last few months, to make sure that the introduction happens in october. it would set for 30 days and it would be heard by the board of supervisors sometime in november. process was, madame clerk, lafco first or puc first? >> on the lafco resolution has presented a. -- as presented.

>> we have a request of the term sheet reflects a 20-30. i don't know if it has to be made a motion with respect to the term sheet as to both the puc resolution and the lafco resolution. >> it is not stated in the resolution, it is just on the term sheet. >> this is nancy miller, the other text changes regarding the intent to authorize language would be a change to our resolution. we are taking of the resolution. >> we need a motion to amend the resolution as suggested by commissioner moran. we have the motion by commissioner avalos.

without objection? the resolution has been amended. >> on the resolution as amended. [roll call vote] >> for the record, do we need a vote from the alternate? no? the resolution passes. turned it over to president vietor. >> if you live entertain a motion to amend. >> it is the amendment the commissioner moran introduced. in favor? opposed? if there is no objection, all those in favor? the motion carries.

>> item number six. >> letter to governor brown and a california public utilities commission urging the fair and equitable methodology. >> this is a very brief item. i will make it brief. it is a resolution that has a letter attached to it. the letter is to urge the commissioners as was the governor to move quickly to actually resolve one of the issues that we spoke about today, what will be the method for calculating the performance bond associated with the cca. it has been outstanding since legislation was passed. as discussed here today, there

and others. >> commissioners, you have the letter before you. is there any member of the public that like to speak on item six? public comment is close. this letter is an item that is both before the puc and lafco. with that, madam clerk? >> [roll call vote] >> the motion passes. >> if you could entertain a motion to approve? >> it is a resolution that refers to the letter.

public comment? all those in favor? the post? -- opposed? it passes. >> item 7. >> public comment. >> is there any member of the public that led to provide general public comment on any item that is not on the agenda but in the jurisdiction of the commissions? >> erica trucks with san francisco green party. it got touched on a little bit but it wasn't an action item for you today, and i think it is important for the lafco to take it up. i would like them to take of this issue of the fact that as you can see from the charts, the city agencies and other agencies are getting a really sweet deal on electricity. even though we need to support

all those agencies, we need to figure out a way to increase what we are bringing in for electricity. the main reason for that is so that we can get ahead of the global warming curve, not to stop with cca, but a full build out of not only electricity but electrified mass transit. so that we can really take a bite, even as the city, by ourselves, out of global warming. if we do it right, we can get the extra revenues for electricity itself while we are installing things like solar panels and efficiency measures for those agencies that are currently getting a deal on electricity such that their

bills may not have to change that much. the idea is to start right now the figure out how we can get the extra revenues so we can start building out the efficiency. and figure out the big picture so that it does not cause pain to the agency's that have been leading the deal that they have got, but still supports a really robust renewable energy system and electricity system in the city. some of us end up supporting public power in the city as well. i am hoping they will take that up so we can start figuring out a way to get a lot more revenue that is badly needed for the goals that we talked about today. >> any other member of the public that like to speak? public comment is closed. the next item is lafco specific.

>> approval of minutes from september 23, 2011. >> you have the minutes before you. is there any public comment? we have a motion. can we take that without objection? can you call item no. nine? >> executive officer's report. >> there will be no report today. >> public comment is closed. item 10. i'm wondering, president vietor and commissioners, whether or not we should try to set up a joint meeting for december to the extent in the event that this item is decided or action is taken at the board of supervisors in november. there might be in need for a

joint meeting in december, and i am hoping that the clerks can maybe provide us with some possible dates so that we have something tentative schedule. >> it is probably a good idea. >> winter recess starts on the fourteenth. >> it would be before that. >> december 2 or december 9. >> what time? >> normally at 2:00. >> commissioners, and of the friday is not always good for you. -- i kjnonow that friday is not always good for you. >> neither are good for me.

>> we don't have a schedule the next regular meeting because the next regular meeting date would have been the twentieth during the week of christmas. the 13 is the regular meeting. the 6 is a tuesday, but that's a board meeting day. >> what time does it start? >> 1:30. >> can we do earlier? is it sixth? an earlier meeting on the sixth? >> it doesn't matter, we don't have a commission meeting. the 11:00 give us enough time?

10:00? >> i need to make sure that the chamber will be available the morning. >> there is a transportation at 9:30, but how about a new -- noon? it would give enough time for that meeting -- >> is that enough time before the board meeting? >> noon on december sixth. tentative meeting scheduled for tuesday, december 6 at 12:00 p.m.. any member of the public of like to speak on this item? public comment is closed. >> item 11, adjournment. >> the meeting is adjourned, thank you to members of lafco, and members of the san francisco public utilities

commission. >> congratulations, i am very pleased. i want to thank the staff a lafco and the puc. it has been a long road, the activists and the stakeholders to get us to this point. i encourage you and urge you to stay involved with the board of supervisors and the conversation there because i think there is work to be done on figuring out and finalizing this issue. >> thank you to the rest of staff and advocates, meeting adjourned.

>> iould like to call this meeting to order. this is our quarterly meeting of the disaster council. i am anne kronenberg, executive

director of department of emergency management for the city and county of san francisco. before i have the mayor give his opening remarks, i would like to ask everyone who has one of these things to please turn it off, put it on silent or vibrate for us. that would be very helpful. mr. mayor? >> thank you. thanks, everyone. welcome to the second meeting of this year for our disaster council and, again, i want to signal my appreciation and i know supervisor chiu, our board president who's here today, is also welcoming of everyone here today to focus on national awareness month. we recognize events happen all over the world, not only new zealand, not only japan but what we all kind of felt the weird earthquake on the east coast, it's still a constant reminder

our percentages are going higher here as years go by that we have to be even more ready. i want to signal a very, very clear appreciation for the departments that anne is working with, your level of cooperation from our fire to police. but every other department and then as importantly, our utilities and our agencies that we're working together with as well. nonprofit world are just as important. it's my intention and goal in working with the board of supervisors to make sure everyone is prepared. and not only prepared for the 72 hours. we know we've got that down now as our city standard. but i want to make sure that we look beyond it. i want to make sure that people who are just arriving now to live in our city can immediately know that that's part of our culture here. and they also want to know that we're going to go well beyond response. we have to get people ready to recover as well because our whole city, survival will be on

thinking forward about the things that we can do now to really land a quick recovery. it's going to happen and we know it's going to happen, whether it's manmade or hopefully it's more of the natural disasters that we expect. but i know our police and fire and immediate public safety departments like d.e.m. are ready. we're always ready and perfecting that as we do the exercises that we go on. but it's really the community and the expectations and the new arrivals and the people who aren't paying attention every day, whether or not they understand our siren system, whether they understand our education, whether they understand our websites. hopefully in the multiple language that's we want to make sure that they understand that and getting themselves ready for something that we see all around the world, so many examples of people not being ready where they could have been and even on the east coast, they should be

ready as well. so they're learning from those lessons. i just wanted to share that with you as we go through the number of events that occurring this year, end of this year, the fall is obviously when we both celebrate, commemorate but also remind ourselves october, we have fleet week, where one of the most important things they're doing is the exercise that we're doing with the navy, with all of our response networks and agencies. so i want to welcome you again to the council and, again, thank you for everything that you're doing. and for your leadership and for also making sure that our whole city is unified in getting better prepared and also working for response. >> thank you. >> thank you, mayor lee. i will be brief in my remarks. i did enclose a director's report in your packet. it's the green sheet. i'm not going to read the entire thing but i want to highlight a

few things since our last meeting. we have been very busy. just most recently we did activate our e.o.c. on september 11. we were prepared for the worst and thankfully the wostt did not happen but we do take every opportunity that we can to activate and we get better each time that we do. the police department had their department operation center activated that day as well and whenever we activate, we learn new things. at our last meeting, i mentioned laura phillips had retired from the urban area security initiative as general manager. since that time, craig deasac, who worked in the assessor's office as attorney was on loan for a period of months and he did such a great job that the approval authority offered him the position, asked him to come on as permanent g.m. so that happened august 18th.

so we now have new leadership there and things are going along very well. in june, we had the national uacy conference in san francisco. it was a huge success. it was the fifth annual conference and it was the biggest conference to date. everyone loves san francisco. people came. they spent money. it was wonderful. and the weather cooperated. you know, our weather this summer has not been the best but that particular week, it was outstanding. i wanted to just mention we're in the process of going to become e-map certified, which is the emergency management accreditation program certification. it's a long process. it's very complicated. it's involves self-assessment and it involves around the country.

we will be when we get through the process the first city on the west coast to be e-map certified and one of the very few in the nation so we're very excited about that. just to piggyback on the mayor's remarks about resiliency. we have been working as part of the clinton global initiative on resilient efforts with the harvard kennedy school and so this year, you will be hearing much more upcoming disaster council meetings about the plans that we're putting in place and we're very excited about that. going to roll it out beyond just emergency preparedness and into the economy and health and transportation and other areas. something that is very exciting, on i think october 15th, we're going to kickoff a new app, iphone app called s.f. heroes. and rob told me right before the meeting that the app was just approved by apple in two days.

is that correct, rob? >> 48 hours. >> inside of 48 hours, which is i guess unheard of. i'm not really that -- i don't have an iphone, but i guess that's really -- i guess that's pretty outstanding that they love the app and so we're very excited, yet again another tool to help our residents, people in san francisco be more prepared and be more aware of emergency preparedness. we are trying from every angle we can. as the mayor mentioned, we're doing a loma earthquake dedication and munich's deputy will be here as keynote heading that up. and just a reminder to everyone, shakeout is this month. it's the -- or in october rather. it will be the fourth annual shakeout. we practiced duck, cover and hold. so you will be hearing more

about that. please, if you have not signed that and you don't have your department or your organization signed up, please do that. we would like to break the amount of people who participated last year in the city, which was more than 350,000. that being said, that is the end of my director's report. and i would like to turn the presentation over to barry frazier, who is our inner operability manager for communication. and we have many exciting things happening not just in san francisco but in the region now to really improve communications between our public safety agencies and so barry is going to give us a little -- a little update on that. >> thank you, anne. thank you mayor lee. i'm barry frazier with the department of emergency management. and just 15-second update on who i am, i came over to the

department of emergency management in may. before that i was with the department of technology here with the city for about five years, where i worked on a variety of wireless and broadband and -- and fiber types of projects in addition to a lot of other projects for d.t. and before that, i was with county of san diego for about 12 years down there working in technology and cable television regulation and those types of issues. i'm very happy to be here today. i'm happy to be able to talk about the project that i have been working on the last several months. i'm really excited about it. it deals with the regional inner operability. and it is called the bay web, bay area wireless enhanced broadband. it will be a network data, broadband network, exclusively for public safety and first responders. hopefully i can work the technology here.

bay web is a public/private partnership. it is a partnership of the bay area public safety agencies, ten county bay area region. we're working with representatives from all of these counties to develop this partnership. another partner shmotorola and i will talk a little bit about motorola in a few minutes. they received an grant to build this network. finally we have bay area regional inner operability communications system, j.p.a., which is recently stood up joints power authority to oversee and govern the bay web project and anne kronenberg and chief sir are both members of the j.t.a. so we have great representation from san francisco. just a quick couple minutes on our current status. on communications and inner operable communications. we have our voice communications, land mobile

radio and they work really well. they're reliable, they're dependable. they serve a mission krill cal function. in the city, especially they're inner openable. our police and fire and first responders are able to communicate with each other extremely well. when you get out into the other counties, when you get out into mutual aid situations, we do a pretty good job there. but there are limitations in our voice network because we have what i call a system of systems. each county and the core cities have built their own networks and in some cases there are little quirks and differences in those networks that interfere with the ability to use our radios, say in oakland or for oakland's folks to come to san mateo county and use their radios but we're getting there. we're getting there on the voice side. we're able to -- to achieve a pretty good measure of inner operability in our voice communications today. in the broadband data side, it's a little different story.

most of the jurisdictions in the bay area rely on commercial services. your verizon air cards, your smart phones, commercial services that you purchase just like you purchase your smart phone today. so -- so in many cases, public safety and first responders have to share the network with commercial users. for that reason, they're not extremely reliable in emergencies. and i will talk about that in just a minute. and there are also subject to cost increases. i know some of you probably have your own smart phones or iphones or that type of thing and you know that the commercial carriers are moving toward a usage-based pricing model as opposed to an unlimited usage pricing model. and usage based means you pay by the amount that you use. and so for applications that and so for applications that would download video files or