, the east end would not get as much benefit from a why didn't sidewalk because they would have this dedicated way. there is a block from taylor to jones street, which would region it goes in and out just a bit. that does not quite show it. and i will show the other one. and again, it stays in a dedicated travel way and eliminates the conflict that often occurs now where bicycles go over the rail tracks and there are a lot of slick and falls as wheels get caught in it. it removes the hazard and create a freer moving zone. and to dump this is a wonderful project. it looks like a lot of thought has gone into this, but as far as the funding, i thought i saw there are 900,000 available, but this will take 27 million? take a right now there is a $5

million limit. let's do with materials and finishing work. it is anticipated to come from the city general funds. we're not here to ask the port for money. [laughter] >> that is on the record. thank you. >> i am going to challenge you on the son of the north side of san francisco. there is very little son in san francisco. -- very little sun. >> in terms of accommodating the businesses that are along they're unloading and loading, have we put plans? >> i will refer back to the taylor street improvement plans that were done a year or so ago where a very intensely-use sidewalk along the west side of taylor street, and the entire

street was reconstructed. we faced the project to maximize the amount of -- we major businesses have access at all times. it was done with a complicated phasing plan to address business concerns. we have the same construction manager, and a very experienced and talented people that have been given priority of this tragic to address of the same way. we did not anticipate the problems will be quite as bad, because a number of the sidewalks along the north side were recently reconstructed to handle issues that came up, in other words, the building is above street level. there have been sidewalk improvements that were done with in the past three years, and those would remain. it would allow that situation to be easier, hopefully to minimize disruptions to existing tenants.

>> any other existing comments? >> item 10, new business. president woo ho: any new business? there is one thing i would like to comment on. that is the comments on port contrasting and the fact that we're supposed to give quarterly updates on the contracting activities. i do not think we have had one this quarter. there is not one listed. and i think it is something we need to do it so that we can lead the public know how well we're doing with the contracting activities. that would be great. any other new business? to go item 11, public comment. -- >> item 11, public comment. president woo ho: dan guzulo.

>> good afternoon. in 1995 i signed a lease with the port on pier 45 to open up a fish distribution company. my lease expired in 2005. there were arguments going on about mezzanines and aprons. i was not involved in it. i signed my new lease and continue to pay rent. in february 20132012 i got a letter from the port saying i had not signed a new lease and that i had -- basically letting you know on a month-to-month basis that i owe them more money. also, they wanted my security deposit increase to $7,000 that they want help.

i call them and set aside one of these, what are you doing? i guess you have change property managers quite a bit. i am not quite sure. after scrambling and me having to pay approximately $14,000 in security deposits and back of charges that they have never charged me ever, we thought it squared away. ok. we will go along with that. we go along a little bit further and i get another document saying another registered letter comes to me in february 13 from a 2012 saying i have an undocumented subtenant. they said you have a company subtenant that we know nothing about. i said i have the agreement. i had it on my first place and still have it. -- first lease.

>> so i gave them a sublease agreement i copied from the original sublease agreement. they said that was not good enough. i said why? they gave me this forum, which is a listing application. i said you want me to give this to my tenant? i said i would tell you where to stick it did that was me. i said i am willing to try it. then they asked me to give them -- this is what they wanted. they wanted name, address, illegal composition. three years of financial statements. a list of credit references. current financial statement of the subtenants. leasing application. a sublease agreement, even though the court does not have

one. my question is, why do they need three years of financial statements? if i do not pay, you are coming after me, not my subtenant. i am asking why i am getting these letters? i did not have time to keep getting this stuff if you people are reducing paperwork. i cannot seem to get across to them. >> thing here. i appreciate your bringing that to our attention. and thank you. mr. decasta. >> commissioners, i want to say to you all very clearly about the first people, and one of you commissioners has heard me speak

about them. this land is a lonely land, the land of the first people. some of this think that history began to hundred years ago. the reason why i bring this to the attention of the commission is that some of us have not treated this land with respect. it is shocking. i am the director of environmental justice. it is shocking for me to read the report on pier 70. i think each one of you that our present knows about this, but i do not know if you understand the ramifications where very contaminated toxic soil is going

to be kept or very because they want to save money. commissioners, this is wrong. this is totally wrong. they tried it at hunters point and did not work. it will not work. they tried it at mid-village. it will not work. don't you ever think you have the technology to vary that much of contaminatebury that much ofd soil and i can go on and on, because i have the record. we cannot do such a thing in the year 2012. commissioners, some of you have been supervisors. some of you have been in the union. some of you have been in non- profits.

i have a long rap sheet on each one of you all. i do my homework. put your heads together and come up with the realistic solution. you cannot buried tons and tons of contaminated soil and expose innocent people to contamination. this land belongs to the first people. it was pristine. you can respect this land. thank you very much. >> [inaudible] >> my name is bruce juran. >> i am an old retired military guy who my first time seeing california was in the summer of 1973. growing up in a very small town i was easily impressed to see california and come back almost 30 years later and see san

francisco again. i was as really impressed about the local community. i have been very impressed to be able to start a company here in san francisco. what i am most proud of is i have had the opportunity to hire 12 people this past -- this past year from the bayview hunters point area, people that have been chronically unemployed, and police -- people that have had a very positive impact in being able to interact and show them there's a will. i will not tell you that i have data from our report that says you guys are meeting or exceeding, but based on the interaction i have with other companies like myself, the anecdotal data is not making it

to people like myself. and i've and ask -- my purpose is to make sure you redouble your efforts and be committed to making sure it is san francisco first. at the regional companies across the bay, the state companies, the national companies that come in that fly in and take these contracts they do it like everything else in america, efficiently as possible with no regard to the long-term reinvestment in the community. i think the thing i am doing is building the community and building for the future. although i do not have any grandchildren, one of these days my grandchildren may interact with people whose lives are being impacted by the decisions we make today. that is important to me. i hope to have grandchildren sunday, but i do not live to

see this, i least one to rest assured that i did all i could to make this place a better place than it was when i found this. all i ask is that you redouble your efforts. i am local, which means you can reach out and hold me responsible. when someone comes in, get the contract and leaves, there is no guarantee that any of that benefits anyone else. it is a commitment at every opportunity to continue to try to support those folks like myself. president woo ho: thank you. any other public comment? >> move to adjourn. president woo ho: meeting adjourned at 4:10 p.m.

>> which celebrated the electric vehicle charging stations and facilities in san francisco today. i am the deputy general manager for the san francisco public utilities commission and i am joined today by mayor ed lee, fiona maw, mila nutter and barbara hale. this has been sort of a team effort, it has taken quite a while to get here. we are thankful for her help on 631 that paved the way for putting in these stations.

as we go through this presentation today, i hope you take a chance to look at some of the electric vehicles today. i would like to thank several people that are here today, especially barbara hale's staff. our colleagues at the metropolitan transportation authority as well as the colleagues had reckoned harper installing these. at the department of public works colleagues. with that, i will turn it over to the mayor lee for a few comments. >> thank you, michael, and a thank-you for your stewardship. you and barbara, ed harrington, you have done a great job. when i was city administrator, asked mayor newsom if i could do the ev's. i liked working with our

department of environment, with melanie, with bob and others. they sat down and spend some good time talking about innovation for the city as to how we can get off of oil. i am glad the day that -- today that the chairman is here. a year ago, we announced that we wanted 100 of these charging stations placed throughout all of the public garages. that was the strongest signal that we could give that we were going to pave the way and be supportive of the national movement and be the bay area leaders of the ev revolution. we have 49 of these stations placed. does a wonderful goal. before the end of this year,

we'll have them -- an additional 33. we see that the private sector has also joined in. we have hotels, parking garages that are privately owned and other public areas where private interests are saying that they would like to install these ev chargers for their customers. in fact, one of my favorite hotels down near chinatown, a have a charger there that is in use. people are proud of driving their vehicles in there for that use as well. the label themselves as a green hotel precisely because of these ev charging stations. these chargers, because of their newness, they had to be introduced to interrupt the culture, i have had the pleasure of working with eight apartments

coordinating themselves together from our office of disabilities, public works, mta, puc, fleet managers. and including our own fleets, we can make sure that we transition. the weather is the chevy volt that i have had the pleasure of writing in or the nissan leaf that is the newest coming out in the market very soon, i believe that these are the cars of the future. while we embrace transit first in the city and it will be forever our number one priority, to the extent that we must use vehicles, at some of us have to to get around in different schedules, that we do so in the most environmentally supportive way. it is a reminder that we can get off of oil. the reason why i think the

popularity of these charging stations are coming at such a fast pace is because people like the assemblywoman have done what they can on the legislative side. she has passed a very valuable law that allows these stations not to be considered as utilities. that incentivizes the private sector to join the public sector. i want to remind everybody, i know that they have this on his mind. hydroelectric power is the cleanest power you can possibly have has a source. for us in the bay area, the strongest source of that has the dam. it is the one that we value the most because it produces clean and efficient energy. it is transmitted throughout the bay area.

it preserves and generates the cleanest energy. it is not only the present use for the charging stations, i believe it will also be considered to be of great part of our future for electric charging. again, there are efforts in and outside of our city that suggest what i have considered to be an insane idea to get rid of our hech hechi dam. i believe that is misleading and false advertising. that is our future. i think that they need to understand the hydroelectric power is the way forward along with solar and the other sources that we are creating and the united states to be independent from oil. i enjoy working with the department of the environment. all of the different entities

that have come together to make sure that this works, how to make sure it works not only as an environmentally friendly system, but it has to work for every day people, persons with disabilities that are parking in our garages and ordinary folks that are trying to use or come to the fantastic art events. it works for a real thing that we do. this is one of my priorities, one that i am very happy to continue working with the various agencies and welcoming the new auto industry, one that complement's transit first. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. it is nice for the mayor to remind us that we have a guess- 3.

first, we need to a knowledge -- acknowledge fiona maw. she paved the way for -- >> one of the best part of my job is that i can work on things that i care about. i am on my fourth hybrid, and i am waiting to get an electric vehicle so i can save money on gas. as gas prices rise, i think the pressure is on to try to figure out how to get people around economically. i do want to thank the mayor for his leadership. he has been the head of many departments over the years and he knows how to bring people together to cut through the red tape and get things done. when advocates came to me in the community about 8631 saying that we have a problem, the problem

is we don't know how we're going to be regulated as electric vehicle charging stations, if we are going to be subject to the puc and calls to sacramento every time there is a change in leadership or commissioners or ideas, or whether we can operate like a free market similar to gas stations. we worked very hard for two years, which gives certainty to the electric vehicle charging station market that they will not be regulated as a public utility and will be able to have certainty and invest in these long-term investments. i do want to recognize the city and county as we are working on this bill. he told me about their ambitious project of putting in 100 charging stations in public facilities. they were leading the charge,

and the city and county in california that is as aggressive or as visionary as a san francisco. hech hechi power is so important. it was the vision of our forefathers, the engineering marvel that created that our system. it powers many or all of our city services in the city buildings, and i want to thank the mayor's leadership for not charging the public for a whole year for using these charging stations in the public facilities. he said it is going to be free until 2013 to encourage people to try at and to get used to it and demand more. i want to thank the mayor for his leadership and applaud the city team for working together on this very visionary and aggressive project.

>> last but not least, my colleague from the department of the environment. i would also like to recognize that staff person for their involvement as well. >> i was really pleased to be standing with the assemblywoman almost a year ago today to announce the city report. as you heard, this really is a critical piece of legislation for the state of california to enable electric vehicle infrastructure. that is what you need to address with legislation and that is exactly what assemblywoman maw did. in san francisco, it is a really critical project for environmental protection. about 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions and carbon emissions come from cars and trucks. finding an alternative for people that need to use a single

occupancy vehicles is a critical project. i am hoping to get people out of the cars, walking or biking. having an electric vehicle was a great option. all of our city chargers are powered through carbon-free power. mirren newsom did set a goal of our city being 100% renewable power in the next 10 years, and mayor li has in forethought with the task force looking at how we are going to get there. goomaking sure that is part of r system is going to help reach that goal. good when other elements i wanted to mention, the electric

vehicle chargers, this is also another critical element of our infrastructure, and the cars and plugged in are also helping reduce our gas emissions. statewide is becoming cleaner and cleaner, so cars are helping me the carbon emission reduction goals. i want to thank all the departments who have participated. i want to thank bob hayden, who has been essential as well as many of the conditions today, dpw, rec and park, the airport, all of those who have seized this opportunity, so i wanted to thank the assemblywoman as well

as the leadership to see that we become the electric vehicle capital in the u.s. >> that concludes our event for today. we're going to be available for questions, so thank you for coming. there is really, only one boy...

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