department history and how we advanced from the beginning in 1867 to where we are today in 2011. as we approach 5:04, we would like to have a solemn moment. the deputy chief will bring the department fell three times. we will observe a moment of silence and reflect back to october 17, 1989. 67 lives were lost. thousands were injured. much property was devastated. people's lives were greatly affected. i will ask you -- [bell ringing three times]

♪ got it a pleasant day is tuesday, october 25, 2011. [ roll call] >> in accordance with rule 14,

the senior commissioner will be the acting commissioner. >> are there any additions or corrections to the minutes? the i have a motion? all those in favor? motion carries. at this point, i would call for public comment. >> we have a couple of speaker cards today. >> my name is espinola jackson. i come to you because the last time i have a conversation with you are when you have a combined meeting, this is dealing with

the community college. i would like to give you my history. we started the human rights commission in 1962. in 1972, the citizens of san francisco -- because of that, there was litigation. land was given to do what it desired to do. they first offered us the bill, and we said no. we wanted a community college. the subject would come up like nursing. the class's were closed. we knew what the needs were. we still have been fighting for

issues that we have been going through for 50 years. and i am tired. i want you all, as of this day, i want you to have your staff cease and desist, make a decision for what goes on at southeast community college. it is the responsibility of that commission, it was a mandate that we have a commission, and that the community with the desire what goes on in that college, and education and training facility. it is not for what ever you think you might want to have. once my commission says this is what the community wants, then they can come to you. but at this day, i want you have your staff to cease and desist because i went to a meeting last friday at the chancellor's dated to may, what you're talking about we can't do because they

said that we can only have the fourth floor. your staff doesn't make decisions on what happens to that college. when you were set up, i did not know you were being set up and because you weren't even established at that time. it was the public works and the water department. and there are a lot of other things that we were not informed of until 1996. i want you all just to stop because i am getting too old to be stressed. and have my community come to seme. the majority of them are not going to speak. i liked to stand a better in support of what i am saying to you today. thank you very much. >> ms. jackson, a couple quick

questions so i can get my arms around it. is mr. moses here? >> he had an operation a couple of weeks ago. if you look at when the commission was set up, it was the community that hired mr. moses. it was not the city. his own staff -- when he leaves, and i believe he has been there 20 years, he should be about ready to retire, it would be up to the community to decide who we want to make sure that we get what we started off -- we have not changed our plans. who >> let me ask you a follow- up question. when we were out there a few months ago, we had a chance to hear from them being.

-- the dean. he's here, right? >> no, he's not -- i don't think he's here. >> maybe i can help. as i think everyone here what it meant, that facility has been underutilized for some time. he community college district was failing to offer a number of class is, they were closing class is down. they have another center out and cutting other class is. we got involved because we have a responsibility to make that a vibrant building that is good for the things that you wanted to be. we have suggested a number of things to the community college district. we have met with the chancellor for a long time. based on our suggestions, they added classism and are starting to make it more vibrant.

but we don't think this is the only possibility for that building. so we have been looking at other choices that we plan on bringing back to the southeast commission and say that these things look like choices also. do they work? because of that, interestingly enough, the other genes have decided that since it is now a vibrant place, they want back then in a building they were planning on the abandoning in many ways. we're figuring out how to share the space. there have been afternoons were you seeing no one. it sits empty and having no one uses it is not to anyone's benefit. we're trying to figure out how to program the building to make sense, but nothing will be done without you folks to make sure that everyone is aware of what is going on. city college has flipped on that building so many times from

abandoning it to meeting all of it. they're not very good partners, frankly. >> can i make a correction? we have had several deans. they didn't do their job. we could not do anything about it until some of us learned what was going on. we had them removed and we demanded that we have a young man to become the dean of that school. he is not the dna. in order to talk to these young brothers and bring them in. to bring back the nursing program and bring back programs that we had. this young man was part of that movement. the reason it is going out is because of the change. they had to go get a woman that was the dean of that college. they had to get her out of

retirement to come and go with me because of the fact that i am saying what has happened and what is going on. and she is making sure that she went back and told him, what was going on there. what mrs. jackson is saying is a fact. she did a report, and guess what? yes, they are on the road to recovery because of the fact that we passed and acted on a commission because they told they couldn't do anything. i said, yes, you can do something. that is the reason why i requested when roger it was the ceo to set up a commission that the department of public works into the water department would be responsible for that building. and when i come here this last year, i guess it was last year,

i am hearing that you own the building and you can do what you want with it? that is not true. you cannot do that. we are not the garbage dump for the city that we have been all these years. >> we are your partners. and we are the ones helping that building. >> when they had the meeting, i ask that you come into the meeting. that is why you got involved, because i requested it. have the meeting, a combined meeting with the college and your staff came. i am the one that gave that request because they were unaware of what they were supposed to be doing. i am a fair person. i want you to be fair with my community. i want you to listen to what we want and not what you may think will be good. i have people coming in that says that they are going into

the building. you're not going into my building because you're not an educational system. everything that we fought for we are still fighting for. just last week, i went to human rights. all those that were set up in 1962, is on their agenda. nothing has been done. everything that we ever got we have had to fight for. nobody is giving us nothing. don't shoved something down my throat and tell me that you're going to do this. we fought for it. you didn't do nothing. but make sure that that building would be taking care of with the services that we wanted. when you became a commission. i have never seen your charter.

>>, miss jackson, thank you. i'm just trying to get my arms around, because i take it seriously, the cease and desist order. the commissioners, we don't direct staff. i want to figure out -- >> new director general manager to wait until we come together. there is a meeting tomorrow and if you want to send one of your staff to the meeting, it is the governor's committee where we will be discussing what we need to be doing with you and everybody else in this city. >> and i want to work with you directly. the last time i found it not only educational, but in lightning. and the documents you distributed i went over with a fine tooth comb, and that is the history. promises that were made are promises that have to be kept. i am feeling like i need a little more help to help.

i want to be engaged. that way i can be a conduit home and assist you in the way you want. >> thank you very much. >> my name is oscar james, i am a bayview hunters point resident. i was a commissioner when we accepted the property for the college. we had a bayview hunters point college with city college courses, berkeley campus courses, and san francisco state courses. three months prior to it being opened, the defunded if. of the programs had to be self sustaining and that is why the city college is there by themselves now. when we had all those other courses and all of those other facilities, the place was

packed. you say you're having problems keeping the building filled. he brings some of those campuses back. it will help people for that area of education. he became a phd with some of the courses there. those of the type of things we need. but that is our property. we're not going to let anyone take our property. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> commissioners, my name is francisco decosta. i come from time to time to

address issues not only of the community but issues that have all of san francisco. espinola jackson, you know her very well. she has been not only a fighter, but a mother of the bayview hunters point. what i am saying is very simple, pretty well, including your attorneys. i know where you come from. we have to have focused meetings. as much as i think i know about sfpuc, when in doubt, i call my friends who work for puc. is this true? can you enlighten me on this

subject? so i am educated on issues. even though i know a lot about puc for the last 40 years. so we have some dealership here. we need to contact the right people who gather the right information so that what ever is going to happen has the blessings of the elders. in all indigenous communities, you have to get their blessings of the elders. that is just how is done. if the city and county of san francisco and some politicians want to do it some other way, then you know what? you're going to challenge the

community. and somebody challenged me with hunter's point. they learned a big lesson. i do not want to be an enemy of the public utilities commission. the general manager knows that. in all of my deliberations, i have never said anything about him because i want him to take us to a better place. i have stood by you. so what i am saying is, we have good leadership in the sfpuc. we have good leadership in the community. let's work together to take our community to a better place. thank you very much. >> next speaker.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. the last 10 years, i have been working here and honest to god, i thought i have seen everything. every day is a new surprise. you have heard from the previous speakers about how things work in this city. this is contract cs910. as of today, nothing in this contract has ever been implemented. [unintelligible] none of the other's have gotten

work on this contract. we spent roughly 2.4 and we have less than a year left. this is the cost proposal for the contract. none of the hours have been utilized. the price hasn't been utilized. it is a bid in your staff just threw it out the door. none of these were awarded except for one manhattan and. >> what is the nature of the contract? >> it is and on call cm contract. out of the five key staff that were asked for by name to qualify and be selective, eire

worked roughly 48 hours a week. everyone else did not get a job. for the record, one of our senior staff who worked on the program. never got a single hour working on this contract. some got hired by other team members. even other staff got hired. we're talking about corruption. this is an article from the business journal in denver. federal charges, there are paying $1.5 million for the following. the false claims, a kickback by the justice department. l.a. times.

the department of water and power. [chime] >> the artificially inflated the value of the work performed. this is another one of your distinguished companies. they had a settlement offered for $30 million in the commission rejected it for $120 million for that work. why am i bringing all this to you? this is a package. the change order. it was provided in the region. the change order goes then in a process the whole they are well aware of. >> time is up. >> i would like to state the

nature of the reason your coming before us. >> the nature is the scam that has been taking place here at the puc where taxpayer money is being given to charges as simple as liquor stores, food, in terms of change orders, you have five people have signed the change order and none of them have this document. what are they signing? we're not getting work because we would not be engaged in this kind of business. this is what it is. it does apply. i told them there is a document that i just got. on friday -- >> excuse me. i don't mean to be rude, but we have a time limit. your to present what you want to present within that period of time.

this is something that should be taken up with the general manager. this area is too involved for it to be discussed at this time. >> i will take a look and report back to the commission. >> if you don't want to hear it, i understand that. the puc has a certain way of doing business, but tell them this is how the money is being spent. i give up on your staff. >> excuse me. could you please take this up with the general manager? >> we have no other speaker cards. >> eric brooks with the san francisco green party, chair of the sustainability working group as well as the local grassroots

organizations. first just to back up what looks like a whistle-blower just said, also remember that it was the firm that was in charge of the asbestos in the first bayview hunters point development and was culpable for not turning those monitors on and maintaining them property. there are triangulations here, and i want to mention that it needs to take a long second luck. that gives me to the next point i want to make, just the folks from the southeast that have come up and said -- i have done some work on environmental issues at the southeast part of this community that was ground zero.

i know that as a white greeney from the western side of the city, i had listened to them and let them die the process. please take what they are saying as gold, because if that community doesn't run the process, it is not going to be a sustainable community. the people there need to be foundational to the process. the other thing i wanted to bring up is that i noticed in the general manager's report that there is no on clean power -- no note on clean power sf. the local power in the grassroots organizers about the test order for the part of the work.

grassroots organizers, you can just cut a little bit on where that is at, because there is a commitment very much for that. the task order will give us the full scope of work. and i want to reiterate the full scope of work. we don't need a little of the work for the task order. we need to make sure that local power -- of the work that is being done will be commissioned by the end of this month. if you can touch on that, thank you. once you have stepped in to this process, that is when it started working. i don't want to make it seem like i am on you, i just want an update.

>> next item will be communications. if any commissioner has any matters related, now would be the time to look up. we have a speaker card related to the item. there is some public comment. >> can we hear from item 5c2? >> assistant general manager for power. following up on questions we have received from commissioner vietor, a memo on the project.

the partnership project with the ports. in the development of the america's cup venue. what this describes in brief is that we have completed and have operational the power hookups at 27 and 29. because it will also use that same venue, the port is also looking at removing it for temporary periods, and the terminal itself, the shell, will be reconstructed. there will be demolition of the existing pier structure, reconstruction of the pier