the more appropriate approach. because that way you are trying to, as much as possible, take politics out of the mix so that it's not a power struggle between, you know, elected officials on the board and the elected mayor but it's actually just left exclusively to the voters to make that decision. i really appreciate that and i think that it's really hard for me to understand the opposition, though i respect that there are different perspectives on this one, but having run in two different elections i can tell you that there is a real advantage when you are running as an incumbent and i am glad this proposal takes that advantage away and levels the playing field so voters have an opportunity to decide for themselves who gets to fill that vacancy. thank you. >> thank you. i think what i've heard is arguments on both sides of this discussion and that we're moving from a

possible one system into another system. at this point i haven't completely made up my mind whether one system is better than the other. however, i'm open to moving this legislation to the full board with no recommendation so that we can consider it. by that time hopefully i will have ample time to think about it more and have discussions with other people that aren't in this room. so i'd like to make a motion that we move this item to the full board with no recommendation. >> so moved. >> with no objection, motion passes. thank you. so, madam clerk, can you please call items 2 through 5?

>> item no. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are charter amendments for the november 4, 2014 election to renew the children's fund and extend expiration date for 25 years, increase the property tax set aside from 3 cents to 4 cents, provide services for disconnected transitional age youth, 18224 years old, revise the planning process for expenditures (inaudible) working group, create a renew and extend the public education enrichment fund and change the allocation for universal preschool to an al location for early education and create a reserve. >> thank you very much. our staff reviewed the latest draft and provided minor corrections and cleaned up text to the city attorney's office. again i want to express my thanks to

tom holan, who has been work being very diligently with us on our amendments. i guess you made the final reviews and we have copies of the item. >> i believe the clerk has copies for the supervisors. >> thank you. so supervisor avalos, would you like to make any comments about this before i take public comment? >> sure, just very, very briefly, i just wanted to recognize all the work that has gone to these amendments. the new charter amendment that we're going to move forward to the full board i believe will be a consolidation of peace and rainy day and children's fund and children's council and i am perfectly fine with the merger of those and when it comes to the other charter amendments that are still on the rules committee i am fine to still

have those be tabled, to have the one consolidated measure move forward and i want to thank supervisor yee, chair yee, for your work in bringing people together and making this happen and i look forward to final passage. >> any other comments? seeing none, public comments? >> good afternoon, supervisors, barbara carlson from the department of early care and education. there is one amendment that i mentioned to miss low from supervisor yee's office that didn't make it in this version and i'd like to mention it now. on page 30, line 10, there should be a statement that refers to an equity analysis of services and resources for children. is that correct? because i don't have the latest version. so the office would like to ask that the

office be charged with an equity analysis for early childhood. this line reads services for children and families and we don't provide services to youth and youth is in there still, i think. >> page 30. >> line 10. >> the plan shall. >> the plan shall include an being quit analysis of services and resources for children, youth and families, and the office is not charged with serving youth. thank you very much. >> any other public comments on this item? seeing none -- mr. owen. >> tom owen, city attorney's office. just to be clear you are asking that the word youth be stricken at the beginning of line 11 so it would read the plan shall include a plan for equity analysis for children

and family, correct? >> that will be included as part of the amendments that we will make. okay, no other public comments, public comment is now closed. again, most of these amendments that we're introducing today to the children and families first initiative really are what we consider minor amendments but it had to be done to make sure that we do everything correctly. so one of the major things is that we're including a rainy day reserve in there and referencing it to the general preamble for the combined ballot initiative. then for the children youth fund amendments we just wanted to further clarify the role of children youth and their families oversight and advisory committee. the committee would be allowed to review and approve the department's budgets and grants as a package. however, the board of

supervisors would ultimately need to approve the department's budget for disbursement to proceed. specified or simplified lines -- the other thing we did was to simplify as much as possible the deadlines for the 5 year planning cycle in order to allow for dcyf, or the department for children youth and families more flexibility while still allowing for flexibility in the process and for children's fund amendments it's allowing for flexibility in the fund for the universal access for early education to be used for access of children to zero degree and (inaudible) include the local control funding formly and determines the student funding targets. then for the children and families council amendments would be

including an equity analysis when our children or families council creates the city-wide children and families plan of san francisco. we also renamed the evaluation of the council's work for the kids first ayen today -- agenda to be the children and families progress report. so those are some of the amendments we are introducing plus striking the word youth on the noted place that miss carson pointed out. so i'd like to have, i'll make a motion for these amendments but before we do that, supervisor campos. >> thank you, mr. chair. again, to echo everything that's been said i want to thank chair yee, supervisor avalos, supervisor kim and everyone who has been working on this and all the city agencies and the coalition.

just had a quick question about the amendment that was just made around youth. so as i understand it, that amendment is appropriate because it deals with access to universal -- to early education. is that right? but when it comes to let's say transitional age youth there's still an equity component that that goes into that, right? so that's not just for purposes of this section. just wanted to make that -- thank you. >> so i have a motion to make, introduce the amendments. is there any objection? seeing none, the amendments are passed. again i'm going to show my deep appreciation next week when we hear one more last time before we hopefully send it out to the full board, but for today, what i'd like to do is continue the item, right? i guess all the items

to the call of the chair. okay? so do i need to make a motion? that's a motion. no objection, motion passes. madam clerk, is there anything else? >> that concludes our business for today. >> all right, meeting adjourned. (meeting adjourned).

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awareness and money and fork for a good accuse. we have this incredible gift probably the widest range of restaurant and count ii destines in any district in the city right here in the mission intricate why don't we capture that to support the mission youths going to college that's for the food for thought. we didn't have a signature font for our orientation that's a 40-year-old organization. mission graduates have helped me to develop special as an individual they've helped me figure out and provide the tools for me that i need i feel

successful in life >> their core above emission and goal is in line with our values. the ferraris yes, we made 48 thousand >> they were on top of that it's a no-brainer for us. >> we're in and fifth year and be able to expand out and tonight is your ungrammatical truck food for thought. food truck for thought is an opportunity to eat from a variety of different vendor that are supporting the mission graduates by coming and representing at the parks >> we're giving a prude of our to give people the opportunity

to get an education. people come back and can you tell me and enjoy our food. all the vendor are xooment a portion of their precedes the money is going back in >> what's the best thing to do in terms of moving the needle for the folks we thought higher education is the tool to move young people. >> i'm also a college student i go to berkley and 90 percent of our folks are staying in college that's 40 percent hire than the afternoon. >> i'm politically to clemdz and ucla. >> just knowing we're giving back to the community. >> especially the spanish

speaking population it hits home. >> people get hungry why not eat and give [gravel] >> i'd like to call this meeting of the public utility commission to order at 1:35. you can be assured that some people will be paid to do it. we'll try to make this a quicky and as always, we hope everyone will be satisfied. madam chair, will you please call the role. city clerk: president courtney. >> here. >> city clerk: commissioner vt vietor. speaker: here. moran. >> here. >> torres. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you donna. the first item is approval of meeting minutes of

june 10, 2014. commissioners. >> i'll second. speaker: it has moved and second. any discussion? >> any public comment on number 3, approval of the meeting minutes of june 10. seeing none, public is now closed. all those in favor, signify by saying aye. the motion carries. madam secretary, next item. city clerk: item 4, general public comment. >> i have three speaker cards. if you're interested in speaking, please fill out a speaker card and hand it to the secretary. the first card i have is from joan gerado. >> welcome back, joan. >> thank you. i wanted to speak on an issue not on the agenda today. the transition of the francisco reservoir property to the recreation park department. and the memorandum of understanding was

made public on eight days ago, and most people have not looked at it yet. i wanted to say that many of us citizens believe that the spuc should take the risk and go to planning and the board of supervisors and get zoning and the height in bulk to allow housing and open space on this site. the site is two blocks from aquatic park. there's enough room in this space to put a children's play ground, but it's an insult to rate payers to not explore the possibility of selling the soft for development once you get the

entitlement and allowing some housing there. in a couple of days we're going to be experiencing rather increases and i've heard private developers saying that just three acres of this would probably bring 60 to $80 million if it was bid on the open market. that would wipe out rate increases for four years for residential rate payers. i think it's reasonable and appropriate for the puc is explore having a hybrid of a combination of housing, development and open space even if this takes a little bit of time. the property has been left the way it is for 70 years and we don't see a rush to make any decisions right away. everything has been done behind closed doors until now and as i say, court documents were made public eight days ago. that's my comment. i wish that

you would explore a hybrid of housing and getting the entitlements to do that and open space. thank you. >> thank you again for being here. the next card i have is from lorraine lucas. good afternoon, lorraine. >> good afternoon, everyone. i also want to speak on the franciscan reservoir. i just read the appraisal's report. i just got it last week and what they say is the best use for the property would be as joan said, a hybrid. what they're talking about, a development of 47,200 square feet with open space of 200,000 square feet. that would give the neighborhood plenty of open space and a park. it will generate to the housing

and it could have seven units of affordable housing. a lot of people don't like to say luxury housing, but seven units of housing is better than zero. it will not take away money from the open space. other neighborhoods need this money, so the rec and park is paying the puc and that money is coming from open space. it should be coming from developers and the russian hill neighborhood could have 200,000 square feet. they can have the children's play ground and a dog park and we can have housing and income coming in from the housing as tax revenue. so i hope that you will take another look at this mou. thank you. >> thank you for being here low rain. the next speaker card is from francisco. good afternoon, francisco.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. i thank each one of you all [inaudible] about three pages, chronologically giving you some important dates about water projects all over california. and the reason why i did that is again and again for most -- more than 55 years old, if you understand what happened at the lake and other projects, developers come and try to build thousands and thousands of units and try to delete our resources so when we come here and mostly you're dealing with projects and you all say aye or nay on

the project and that's fine. but we need to look far into the future. the legacy that you leave here is what good have you left for future generations? and some of you are [inaudible] because you know the mechanisms. you know the models. you have said it before. we all remember the six year drought. we're now into this three year drought, and some of us are still allowing people with large swimming pools, people using millions of gallons of water as part of their operations, like ibm and so on and so forth, and we need to bring it to their attention and this is the main thing that i want to bring to your attention that each drop of water in california belongs to

everybody. and this notion that this precious water that belongs to all of us as part of the comments and other acts like the public trust act, this notion that this water belongs to us californians, each one of us is fading away. i saw sexy ads from this commission that are going to be played out in the realm of the public on how to conserve water, yes. senator torres, very interesting. it brings to the attention of the public and we have to use subtle molds so that people know how precious water is. water is life. if you don't have water, you don't have life. thank you very much.

>> thank you very much for being here, francisco. the next -- yes, commissioner torres. >> i just want to thank you francisco because the history that you provided -- to all of us was informative. thank you. >> thank you again. >> the next card i have is from eddie. >> good afternoon, brother. >> good afternoon, president. i have copies that i would like to distribute to members of the commission. thank you. good afternoon, eddie on with bright line defense project. i'm before here before you to talk about [inaudible]. there was questions about numbers regarding the program and as a result of those questions, we sought out the sharpest minds who studied the programs, the solar industry and there's a report released just yesterday called the vote

solar progress report. running through a hand full of the numbers, it shows that 406 to 470 jobs are created as a result of go sp job. as well as the jobs for disadvantage workers and 62 being workers of color. we're saying for every $1, there's -- it's a phenomenal investment that actually ends up leading to $65 million over the long term. and finally on the question of greenhouse gas and missions, the report shows that over $172 million pounds are increases. this is impressive numbers and it's great to have them verified today and we like to thank the mayor for his initiative in wanting to fund the program and we thank the board of supervisors for reaffirming this and we thank you commissioner

for providing the leadership to make sure that the tireless efforts of advocates such as jackson who is here today, that we'll continue to have solar installed across the city on all households regardless of income. so thank you. >> thank you, mr. hon. >> i have no further speaker cards. are there any other folks in attendance what want to make a comment under this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. city clerk: item 5 is communications. >> commissioners. there's no discussion, i'll call for public comment on item number 5. any public comment on the communications. seeing none, public item is closed. next item. city clerk: other commissioner business.

>> the need for the commendation of brenda jones came after the agenda was publish. the committee may still entertain if a commissioner will do so. >> so moved. >> second. >> it has been seconded. any discussion. is there any public comment on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. all in favor, signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> the motion carries. general manager kelly. [inaudible]. >> thank you very much for being here. so there's a prepared remark, please bare with me. on behalf of the commission, i would like

to acknowledge brenda, bj jones who will officially announce that she's going to retire on july 1, 2014. bj, you began your career here in 1982 in the water department kuft mayor service bureau and went to work for the department of public works. the fire department, the health department and came home to the puc again in 1992. bj, you have worked throughout the puc most recently to the southeast community facility, southeast community and the southeast community facility commission. you were born a networker and event planner ex troid nature. many of you know bj for her organizing skills for events like the celebration of black american history luncheon and galla. the commission honors you today and everyone will miss your day-to-day presence and your vie va shs personality. i would like to

welcome mawulli -- supervisor cohen who is here to make a presentation to bj on behalf of the board of supervisors. thank you again for your service and congratulations. [applause] >> well, obviously i'm not her. but what i would like to do is take this opportunity to really express the closeness that bj and i have enjoyed over the ten years that i've been with the puc. when i started with the puc, i realized that bj was a large personality. in fact, i was wondering, i said who was bj's manager and then i realize that she managed her