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department and budget reports and even the developers of the land selling you on something that they could not clean up, so i ask you to be concerned. we are concerned in the neighborhood. thank you. >> thank you, mr. woods. thanks for being here. >> i have a question. >> vice president caen. >> if this property is not developed, what are your discussions for the property? >> mr. woods. >> i said what would your suggestions be for the property? do you want to still sit there and the old -- >> no. i would say if any
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property in the city and county of san francisco is too valuable to sit, clean it up. clean it up to a point where it's residential conditions and residential status and where people can live and live safe and if you have to repair any lines that you bury in a trench to service that area, then i would say then you don't have to worry about the community being exposed to repairs of a line that needs to be repaired because one thing that does happen, we run into repairs on sites whether we like it or not, whether it's new sites or old sites, eventually something will go wrong, so if the whole entire thing is to clean up the residential standard then you won't have to
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deal with that. can i - >> general manager kelly sglchl as we move forward and we identify the infrastructure that needs to be in place, we mentioned about utility corridors, and so that is the area in which we are going to make sure that is free of contaminant. so it's not that they're going to bury the pipes in contaminated soil and then put the contaminated soil so that if something happens, our workers goes back out there. i wanted to get some concurrence and articulating that correctly. >> i'm sorry, specifically -- >> what was the question, mr. kelly specifically that you wanted concurrence on? >> one of the things that we talked about is a utility corridor, and
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the concept is that when we're putting in infrastructure in or as the developer puts infrastructure in, they're putting it in, but they're not putting it in in a way that they're excavating the contaminated soil and putting back the contaminated soil so if something happens, our workers won't be exposed to the contaminated soil. >> what you're saying is correct. we have most of the clean utility corridors completed, and we have a little bit more to do, but this is the case when we're done speaker: can i have a question as well. 22 years you have been doing this, have you done a lot of ground site redevelopment? >> yes. >> have you seen anything adverse health conditions? is this all
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part for the choir. >> it is a very typical project. san francisco ball park is a great example of a brown field's project that has been completely, you know, a success and everybody is protected. there's metals in the ground, under the ball park. >> we just planted a garden. this is very typical of projects that we do. >> is there any other further public comment? i'll have one more after this. >> so one of the commissioners asked and so did some others, what's so unique about this project? on one side, you have a rail, it's about ten feet, 20 feet away.
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constant traffic of rail traffic. not very far from this project, you have huge tanks containing petroleum and there's certain rules that govern this. on the other side, you have a road that's five feet away, ten feet away to be on the safe side, many of acres. you need to go over there and check it out. when someone was given the presentation and said he's been involved with this since 1999, once of the commissioners asked a question, why not this big mall -- wanted to built a building there for supplies. and some people do not want that. so what i'm saying is
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right now the most important thing is this land, if you look at the water shed, that used to be the bay. so we're not talking about a water shed on the left side of san francisco. that used to be the bay. not very far is a garbage site. do you know what garbage is. you put garbage and you put some little soil. if you look agenda of the public hearing, it gives you a wide area. i don't want to read it. it talks about -- it gives you a wide area. we have midway, not very far- about a mile away and people getting cancer, but i'm here really
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for the children. the children, we adults to have to defend the children. again and again in the city, adults impact them. what about the principal and what about the mayor act. have you studied it. why are we putting our children in harm's way, why are we putting our senior's in harm's way. because they don't have a voice. because someone stole $8 million and now is in china and wants to invest in this thing. come on. get real. look at the children. look at the children and say whether you want to rubber stamp this project. i'm sick of this. >> i have -- thank you francisco. i have a card from martin. hi, fran.
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>> hi. >> well, he already said it. but name is fran martin and i'm with the green way alliance. i'm a member of the dts which looks at site. 15 years ago, they challenged the proposal to big a store at the toxic slaej lots brown field and we won. our group advocated for that site and it will bring affordable housing and bring jobs and parks for under served community. slaj lock is a gaping wound in the heart of the vegetation valley. we fought to make sure that site is cleaned up and we're in threshold of seeing it cleaned up to unify our community. sleigh lock -- it will be inter goal to the transportation in the south.
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our neighborhood has supported transportation to help eliminate the greenhouse gases to influence climate change. it brought us all here today. we initiated the redevelopment area and the valley development three. it has been a forefront for housing in san francisco and most other neighborhood do not want high dense neighborhoods of any sort. 700 housing is to be built. in 2010 the plan alliance received a ward. we have created new paradigm. it is time that our neighborhood after a long
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process of planning closely and watched mediation based on based scientific practices move forward with the development. after years of intense engagement, we have earned the right of your support. that's what i wrote after hearing what people are saying here. i have to respond. the green way project which is on puc land, as commissioner caen probably remembers, it's an outdoor classroom. i work with children in vegetation valley. we grow vegetables and there's no way that we're going to allow them to be put in harm's way at sleigh lock. i find that offensive. we have been on top of this process. we led the process. when nobody would help us in the city, we created our own planning department. i want you to know that we're going to
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continue being vigilant and there's no plan by the way to build community gardens on those two parks that rec and park has okayed already. that's it. >> thank you very much for being here. commissioners, any questions? it has been moved and seconded. there's no further conversation, i'll call for a vote. all those in favor, signify by saying aye. >> aye. speaker: madam, the next item. city clerk: item 13, the approved -- agreement number cs 392 g not to exceed $400,000 amount in the duration of three years. >> commissioners. >> moved. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is laura page and i direct the education of the sspuc in grades k-12. i was pleased to see the
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college high school interns here today. i'm here to talk about a grant to help us with environmental stewarts. this is an outdoor education program. we're required by regulators to provide educational lessons through students particularly in the area of water and pollution. we've had partnerships with other city -- we've lacked a comprehensive strategy to invest in education and elementary level. we have a new opportunity for that program. for the green skill bond unit that was voted on by voters in 2006 and 2011 to allow for the creation of 84 green school yards on sff school yards. it's a perfect opportunity for educator to teach students about the
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importance of water conservation and things offered. the goal is the program will reach 8,000 students, and it's a one year program with an opportunity to renew for the next three years. >> thank you very much. it has been moved. >> second. >> it has been seconded. any public comment on this item? dr. jackson. >> here you go again, oh, yes. let me say this to you, that was a report done in 2004 and it was done by the court authority about the so called heritage park. that area was dredge and someone passed about i and said, that looks like a [inaudible]. that's how the park
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got named, but it is. all you have to do, you yourself, get your staff to find out the results of health risk assessment. it is terrible. i pulled this off this morning and you know when you read it, it talks about death. the different diseases and things that people get and you die from it. you die from it. people are dying in my community. you have a health department, you have the malls and i said this to you before, my daughter died two years ago and i haven't got a report of what she died from. three weeks ago, 15 seniors died on third street within two months. people are still dying in bay view hunter's point. are you all caring
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about what's happening, the air? and you think i'm going to trust anything from the health department, epa, because they all do things for development. i can't do it. how can you all sleep at night when the people are dying. it is sad, but you know what, i tell people if it wasn't for the lord i would not be here. god anointed me to try and come to inform you and represent his children. and i'm doing a poor job of representing his children when i talk to you all because you all are not listening. children are -- small children are going to be playing there, and they did a report that you can only be in that area like a year or six months, or one hour at a time. you couldn't even be there no more than five
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or six hours. you need to check out these sites, what's going on. and ledge, when that young lady got that million dollars, do you know what she did? she left town. she didn't do it the job, but other people did. who was involved with getting that done was maxwell who was -- the community didn't get the money. it went elsewhere. it's sad. >> so we do listen. i'm going to ask that the record reflect that dr. jackson's public comment would be placed under the item number 12. i allowed it one time because we do listen. and you always have to balance the interest. this is item number 13. it has been moved and it has been seconded. it's
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relate today the outdoor education grant, so if there's any public comment on item number 13, let's hear it. >> commissioners, our children should be taken to areas where a lot of thought has been given. so we really have to be very careful about this. not too long ago there was associations taking our children to treasure island and saying those play fields were this and that and the other, but we proved them wrong, but in proving them wrong, the children who played on those play fields, you don't die in one or two or three years, you die years after you're close to it, so whoever is giving these grants
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or this money, you all should personally go to the sites. it behoves you to go to the sites because children will go where ever assaults take them. i've never seen these kashs that come hear saying we have this program linked to the san francisco unified school district, whatever, whatever, the san francisco unified school district would not allow anybody with intent to take children to a contaminated site when this great city we have so many sites where we can take the children. take them to golden gate park. they've been to other good sites. they don't take them to contaminated sites. and now, when we, the advocates
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come here, you look at the nay sayers. that's like the profits when the people heard the profits, they call them nay sayers. they even died. but you have to speak the truth. and i know you commissioners. when you all come up for this or whatever, they call [inaudible]. and i'm there which i used to do, i go and testify in your favor. because i want you all to represent, not the devil. not the people that rubber stamp, not the people who have no values, no ethics, no morals, no standards. i say that. maybe for the last 35 years you've seen me. do the right thing. look at our children, look into their eyes, and see if you have the morals to do the right
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thing for our children. not for these devils who come here just because they get some money. what is money? what is money? >> thank you, francisco. again, on item 12, we authorize general manager. we gave authority related to agreement. item 13 is the education grant, k-5 outdoor education grant. it has been moved and it has been seconded. it there any further public comment on item 13. hearing none, item 13 -- public comment is closed on item 13. i'll call for a vote. >> all those in favor say aye. >> next item, please. clerk clerk item 14 is the increase of the construction price of 849,000 420 for contract number wd fire
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suppression for a cost of $1 million and authorize a general manager to approve future contract modification. >> i'd like to move. >> it has been moved and seconded. any public comment. hearing none, public is closed. i'll call for a vote. signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> the motion carries. >> item 16 is electronic signature process in the programs and projects speaker: commissioners. >> move. >> it has been moved. >> second. >> it has been seconded. any public comment on this item? speaker: which one is this? >> 15. >> hearing none, public is closed. i'll call for a vote. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> the ayes has the motion. madam next item. city clerk: item 16, to authorize a revocable license to the town of hillsboro and have findings in
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the monitoring act. >> commissioners. >> what is this? >> everybody wants to live in hillsboro, what are we doing for that? >> michael, deputy manager. it's a revocable license and we're bringing it because it's a [inaudible] as well. i read the item but i didn't understand exactly what we're doing. >> obviously you don't either. >> i apologize for that. >> i apologize for myself as well. >> i apologize for me. it's a revocable license and it's next to our hillsboro tunnel. they have to get a license from us to use
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our land. it's just like a permit. >> to do what? >> the sewer project. >> for the sue age of hillsboro. >> we're giving them an easement. >> we're giving them a license. >> to have an easement to flow. >> just to use your land on a temporary basis to do their sewer process. >> they'll sue age will not go over ours. >> no. >> it has been moved. >> i seconded. >> it has been seconded. any public comment. public comment is closed. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> oppose the motion carries. next item. city clerk: items 17 is a work shop presentation discussion on
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community choice ago gri gags. >> i'd like to call for a recess. [gravel] >> madam secretary, refresh our recollection, which item. >> item 17, work shop and the presentation and discussion on the aggregation operating in california and clean energy power. >> good afternoon, mrs. hale. >> barbara hale, assistant manager for power. and i'm going to do a
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brief introduction of our topic. we're going to give you real life experiences and share the successes. in today's presentation is going to cover this and where we are with the clean power program. the experiences this two ccaa, marine clean energy and clean power. and then talk a little bit about our next steps for consideration. the last time i spoke before you, our focus was on the financial stability of the power enterprise. we had a two year balance -- we have currently a two year budget moving its way through the legislative process. and a financial plan that improves that stability. it includes reserving funds to meet the clean power sf needs under a model that does
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not rely on the sinna contract. and it includes $4 million for clean power sf and for our go solar sf program. we have some financial stabilities to do. we have made some modest changes on increasing our rates and identifying new revenue sources and introducing our projected cost. we have been on pause in the clean power sf program. for members of the listening communities, what is clean power sf? what am i talking about. this program was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2004. it would allow us to under state legislation be the server of
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power on behalf of san franciscans. it was our platform. to make smarter decisions for san franciscans. when we last presented to you, the clean power sf program was august of 2013. it really was viewed as our key method to address climate change. it provides an opportunity for the city to offer green power choices to its residents. most of whom are low -- excuse me, most who are renters with relatively low electric usage and it doesn't make financial sense or they don't have the ability to put solar on their residents, it's not their property. so it allows clean power sf allows
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san franciscans to participate. we proposed it to start with 50 to 90,000 residents with a goal of reaching everyone. it creates an energy portfolio. the tough part was balancing our policy preferences, policy for affordable service, for the most green mix renewable sources possible, and for that local build. our general manager, kelly referred to that as the three headed monster at a recent meeting. it's hard to accomplish all three of those at once. when we presented the rate and the program to you back in august, we heard a series of concerns around the -- around getting that balance right. i just summarized those on slide seven. we've seen recent
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changes in the cca environment. we have clean energy with a successful track record with low rates and 60 megawatts of plan build out. we have market prices for energy renewable energy which has declined. we're looking at increase community -- so clean power has launched. they launch in may of 2014 with low rates and low opt out and able to take advantage of market suppliers that are comfortable with choice aggregation providers. when we sent out our request for supply bids, we had either no qualified bidders or very few who we coax into compliance. what i'd like to do at this point is turn the microphone over to
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jaime and to cordell. she's the communication director and cordell is the chief engineering manager. >> hi, jaime thanks for being here today. >> thank you for having me. i'm excited to be here. i'm the communications direct are for clean energy and i started working on the cca effort in 2007. so i got to see a lot of the process from the early beginning when we were just forming and determining if this would be workable in marine until today. so i'll get started with telling you about more about our program. so our agency was formed in december of 2008. and when we started up, we spent about a million and a half on