and if it watts wasn't for this program she wouldn't be here maybe doing something else but she'll talk to her friends and they'll get interested in the programs in san francisco. >> could you stand up please. well, welcome. >> and thank you, mr. anderson. >> christen wear. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is christen wear an engineer with m w h we specialize in the infrastructure and i wanted to comment on what a pleasure to work with the community

partnership we have commitments on 3 of the puc contract and our initiatives spread out, however, we're invested in supporting the mentorship opportunity especially to those who eased the underserved groups one of our core visions is improving the community 23467 we work and will and building that education is vital to the tools we need to participate in the community of future this fail we worked with the puc and spectators or sparks with the mentorship program i volunteered as a mentor i spent the time with my ment to see how ohio gone projection changed the energy i was impressed with her

engagement and enthusiasm to learn like difficult words i was proud to launch her and proclaim to her family to look at the bio gases and how the bio gases can create energy i enjoyed my time as a mentor and look forward to continuing with the team thank you. >> can you define that, too? (laughter) sue ross >> good job i'm sue is an i'm the director for the mission for girls and one of the interest rates we're thirty here to advocate for the continued next

summer our program was successfully and really surpassed our expectation we not only employed 12 youth how to conserve water they were able to influence the community by making the liking bike lanes to the restaurant and explaining ways to save water and also by putting on event where the community came and were able to save water and learn where they can recircle household grease not only they learned how to conserve water and recycle but were imposed to cease and now we have a couple of girl that are looking at as a viable way to

make a living in the future as you can see you see this impacts the youth that participated so thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners thank you for allowing me to speak my name is 4r5d i didn't a resident of the bayview hunters point i think that the contingency benefits program is very important because i've watched many of our young people and some of our saenld residents get employment employment that if this program was not a part of our community we wouldn't have funding so i thank you for putting us to work in a community that for a long time has been not thought about it's very important that we as a

people in all communities feel good about ourselves and the things we're doing and have self-would get and because which the benefits programs that allows. >> to feel good about who we are and the work we're doing with all the revitalization coming out our community its important we have an input on the changes that are going on and i thank you for allowing us to be able to do that >> thank you christine sandavol. >> hi good afternoon commissioner happy new year by the way sorry i get real nervous i see myself on the tv i'm christine sandavol a resident of hunters point this

community has lout me to live in the bayview to be a part of working in the bayview i also am a part of the bayview health clinic and have a side job with the urban academy we keep everything in the community and have our kids caught so the packing has wonderful events they've invited us to and get our kids educated in conserving and being a part of that so, please continue this thank you. >> thank you. >> let's see see sheryl da's office already spoke can you help me with that name. >> oh, is that her. >> thank you.

>> susan a with spark help me with our last name. >> good afternoon. i'm susan i work with spark a national nonprofit in philadelphia and los angeles and here in the bay area we're a youth empowerment program that helps the students in they're learning their hands on preven we have the privilege of mentors with san francisco unified school district and others success of our program was with the puc and their partner firms was due to the determination and hard work with the mentor put into the program in addition sfukts went above and beyond by helping to recruit our members and hosting the events called the discovery night it was

amazing to see the bond that students have over the course of the relationship morph the presence of family members was evidence of how meaning in law full this experience was one petitioner said i quote this has brought out the best in enjoying my daughter we thank you for allowing my students to have a positive experience in this time of their life we look forward to working with you in the future thank you. >> thank you so much. >> art taylor. >> good afternoon, commissioners informative my voice i've got a little bit of a voice aim art all the citizens advisory committee are represent in district 10 i want to let you

know that the presentations the cac has benefited the staff and my participation in many of the activities and events in particular the southeast working group all of those kill matt from the commitment from the puc all of that combined just railroads to me the need for the community benefits program i trust it will continue because it strengthens our community and that's all i have to see. >> is it true, mr. taylor and tom birmingham. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm tom birmingham a consultant with before a and caldwell we have two contracts with the puc and the bio sellers

contract we're g d with the consultants on one and large partners on the other we've heard a lot about the interns it is good to work with the interns two other things that wouldn't have taken plays was the programs is working with a small firm in the bayview we've worked with them to get 678 l d certified that's brought them in more work and allowed them to hire for youth we're prude of that and seen direct consequences we're starting a mou with the department of public health and ceqa to try to increase the food guardian program and increase it we look forward to being a good neighbor for district 10 and want to

build it. >> good thank you let's see the next speaker is jackie. >> good afternoon commissioners i'm jackie i'm here today to offer my full support to the picking benefits program i'm a resident of district 9 in the mission and also the president of the theatre at 24th and new york although hyperglycemia i'm here in support of the arts the arts has already been in jeopardy people that work in the arts are also struggling in the puc we've found a champion so i

ask you continue today thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker. is dj. >> good afternoon commissioners and commissioner president caen i'm going to do a dual i'll have a young people and i'll try to keep that within my two minutes so i work at the young community workers we've had a phenomenal relationship with the folks at puc over the course of the last few summers actually friends now that we've worked with with the puc and bierman and others we've actually built friendships with those folks he want to state i believe the puc has laid the foundation and blue print for the public-private community relationship that's what they do

and that's why the community benefits needs to stick around for years to medical cannabis i want to talk about the impact we talk about numbers and see them black or white but in this program from 2011 to 2014 we worked with many young folks in district 10 and the marshall academic and galileo and mission some of the high schools and uc merced and california state and physique university there was some of the colleges those are students attend and engineering communications and marketing and business administration that's what those kids are enrolling in so i want to say it's not just ben the community it's benefiting the lives the community so without further ado i want to introduce one the

interns just a little bit of background on her story and how she feels about the program. >> hello good afternoon my name is ruth i thank you you all for a allowing me to share any experiences last summer i worked with many successful engineers in the workplace and how to create pensions the overlay experience i'll remember and love being a part of sf i p we were highly encouraged go to network with our supervisors and peers and everybody and i'm not only carrying a 3.5 gpa but an administrative assistant awhile having the skills thank you commissioners again yourself time and i hope my peers are

able to enjoy more of the programs. >> thank you for talking with his good luck to you our. >> next speaker. >> is miriam solace. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is miriam as stated i'm a dock i don't like students with the city and planning on campus i collaborative with researchers that are tdr in how utilities are going to interaction with the utilities and utilities across the country are including the environmental jisz researchers like myself we like to say we do cutting-edge research and identified new models for equitable communities but in the fields like pickup

policy implementing researchers are only as cutting-edge as the field itself we are only writing about the initiative programming practices when they're leading the field in a new direction as a doctoral student i understand how the urban planning has glen eagle gotten to wrong i'm fume with the literature that saying that water planning has been a process that have completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. vertical entangled it's exciting to know buyout community benefits program the program is leading the field in a new direction and very exciting because as a result utilities across the country with looking at to the program for to know how they i know expand their role or enhance the role in

their own community but also instructive for researchers like myself and the audience that we hope to reach as we investigate and write about the work thank you. >> thank you >> next speaker. >> toy moses. >> good afternoon commissioners my name is toy i can't moses also a resident of bayview hunters point i want to take advantage of this opportunity to thank mayor ed lee and the san francisco public utilities commission commissioners and mr. kelly and the hard working staff i'm sure you're aware of i've been working at southeast for many years 0 now so it is hard to put this mouemorandum of

understanding together and from our commissioners william kennedy this is harkened and the mou was presented to the full commission on the 12 december of last year and happy to tell you there was in our pool we thank the puc for all the work they've been doing especially to help us to make sure that everything in bayview pushes hard what you do will continue to please continue to help us we ready need the help so thank you very, very much commissioners. >> thank you so much

eric mcdonald. >> good afternoon commissioners be eric mcdonald i'm wearing 3 hats first a native san franciscan a resident of bayview hunters point i appreciate the pro-active stand the puc has engaged the community supporting the nonprofits that support families everyday i'm reminded because the garden your commitment to our community, and, secondly i'm the ceo we're the lead agency with the mayor's office for 2 had had young people 2347201458 young people in the lead public agency in paving the way and building on the success of public pool and modeling the ways in which they annoys even though people to an

area of professional areas that frankly young people don't navigate towards and supporting by the deliberate, premeditated killing from y cd over the past summer i appreciate the investment that the puc has made and finally, there's commissioner for the rec and park department we certainly have been in partnership with the puc awhile perhaps distant from the community programs our partnership are camp mather has provided opportunity for families but tried to insure that young people f from the protecting have endorse to camp mather so thank you for that partnership i conclude by sigh the investment in our community benefits program not only what would i stepped it but it's been developed by the department not only simple compliances but in supporting our community thank

you very much. >> thank you for your thoughts. >> next speaker. >> denny david. >> good afternoon you commissioners my name is david i'm the director we're a community center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenders we've had the pleasure of the last two years of being the greet for the living program and couple of things i want to share about the experience that's been unique we've done workforce development over 20 years but what's been stood out to our staff and the people that work with the puc has been the first level off appreciation our young people have for living in san francisco their told repeatedly coming if the low income neighborhood and the

bayview and hunters point a they leave the program as a nature investment feeling a sense of pride for their neighborhood the second the type of elapsing they have and the quality of learning and they have it because they have strong partners with the puc and strong assessing access to the facilities that's sparked dialog not only on the peers but also at the diner table what a water conservation look like those are conversation that have not happened before and the third thing the level of vision that our young people came away with therapy imposes is to careers and opportunities that can keep them here in san francisco and serving san francisco to keep ask a safe and beautiful investment and that stand in contrast to what they've experienced that has friends and

neighbors and families for the community those are beautiful outcomes and you want to encourage you to invest in the community process you're serving. >> thank you. next speaker. p f chrome. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm eco chrome a business owner in the bayview hunters point community and i've had the opportunity along with everyone else to look at the plan the community benefit strategy i want to say i'm really excited about it i'm excited about the broad range of priority you have the office of economic workforce development and the youth employment but i'm mr. taylor excited about is the

victim of crime development piece i know that learning it brings with the program programs such as the ssi p project which creates opportunities for dbi and local businesses to partner with the puc creating such opportunity by my estimation create the disposal income win the community like y cat see tare committed to hiring locally in tenor that creates that disposal income that ideally is used in the commercial corridor and did commercial district by any estimation it creates the opportunities for the average householder to send their graduating seniors to college away from home it creates opportunities for youth to go

and get education and come back and put that to use within the resame community they've grew up you think in that's what it is about i'm excited and appreciative of the pucs team and being really intentional and strategic about making the community investment i thank you guys it has any full support and hoping to move forward thank you. >> thank you >> next speaker. >> is - watching lawn. >> help me about our name. >> my name is why chin congress i'm here to support the puc's community benefits program under this program this summer last summer our organization was able to provide 144th of july

with immigrant background with points of education and wastewater management and in turn they educated over 5 hundred residents in chinatown and the chinese and other language videos on w5ir789 and the skepticism and give presentations to the seniors and the families and immigrants about the need to conserve water and the program provided the kwouth youth with leadership development opportunities to improve on the public presentation teamwork and research in funds and interactive ways for the health care headquarters and the eco center the program was extremely successful and we were excited about the opportunity and hope it will be continued this program thank you.

>> thank you. next speaker. is len in a miller. >> hi, i'm ms. miller i'm the co-executive director of the hoicht family where the bayview hunters point i'm a native of the community and again, i just want to objectively everybody's sentiment and really our appreciation for the community benefits program as part of puc they're a lot of capital investment in the infrastructure of bayview hunters point but there's really little investment in the social infrastructure this is one of the few places there's been a significant investment in the social infrastructure i know for the hypocritical family the puc invested in our first year of the landscaping

program over the the alice griffith program where people learned about the plants both the greenhouse and installed an irrigation system there are we're working with the puc for our 2000 program in the community to do urban architectural and pop up markets around the city and soil to give out to the community one of the things i appreciate about the puc community benefits team they've hung in there are and trying to found initiative solutions not just suicide stuff even when thanks have been uncomfortable they've been thoughtful and want to encourage which to think of innovative programs thank you. >> thank you. the next speaker i'm having trouble making out

the name looks like sue and the last name i can't make out. >> i think that was sighing and he already spoke. >> oh thank you. >> and the last speaker doctor jackson. >> thank you very much dr. espanola jackson i must say to you happy new year happy new year to this is going to be a good year i i would like to say most people are not aware i'm going to try to do it within the two minutes about the benefit program and how it came back about you know i don't like to see people say things happen that explicit happen but this came out of a visit digestors task force the first one that was set

up i'm the one that requested that we have community benefits for bayview hunters point and i had to come and say why and what the need was i know the program is a very good program i knew that would be but my concern is the fact that there were fund that were supposed to come to the community from the greenhouse after the bill was paid off that still needs to be discussions about the concerns of fund for where the digestors are and i tell people they're in zip code 94424 we're the ones that have been smelling it for the last 50 years i know that have and still do at times i get phone calls concerning the