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for the san francisco party on the water committee of the san francisco chapter of sierra club i'm not speaking officially, however, open the sierra club simply that is off-the-cuff we e it takes along for us to make speaking, however, i was at the water committee meeting last week where we had a long discussion about the drought and the regional water system and what we're being asked to do around the drought i want to put-down forwarding the concept that the people working on the environmental communities are facing basically someone came to our meeting and said to us the smelt and the salmon are in danger of going extinct if i folks don't crack down on our water reviews and need to get our people to do that i agree we
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should use the drought and bosco to use the drought for its customers brown about we should say to our urban computers and use this moment look we need to save a lot more water we as agencies need to do a lot more we've only touched the tip of the eyes beggar on recycle so, yes we need to say that to all our customers whether in urban assistance but it is agriculture 40 percent of use in california we had not mentioned agriculture what about agriculture and that person said they're not allowed to draw surface water they're drawing ground water we correctly appointment to the
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person look we could use that ground water in the emergency to save the smelt and slam and we said do big agree have significant restrictions on the way they use water the answer was no i'll calling on puc and bosco to pound the pulpit that the impunity of water use is no longer acceptable and big agreeing needs not to be raising beef and other things to not constantly going to our urban customers saying you and your personal use are not only the only problem as agriculture we need the agencies to start saying that loud and clear thanks
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thank you thank you, mr. brooksworks. >> the march 24th meeting of sfruksz sfruks is now back in session we're going to deal with item 11 that is consent calendar item 11 is the consent calendar consent agenda are considered by the board to be routine and will be enacted by one resolution in the form or forms listed below. if discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the consent agenda and will be considered separately. 11 a approve the specifications
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and with regard contract in the amount of one million dollars plus to the scared construction and b the modification program for the counteracting for the duration by one hundred and 50 consecutive calendar day and c readvertise the contract. >> is there any requests to remove any item from the consent calendar. >> i move the total. >> second. >> okay. any requests from the public? seeing none, i'll call for the question all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the motion carries. >> what did i do wrong. >> i already asked for.
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$20 (laughter) >> oh, dear. >> okay moving on to the next item. >> 12 for the updating of the policies and procedures. >> in the time limit i'll move for approval it changes around the interests that conform with the major changes. >> all right. >> second. >> yeah. i was fascinated by the green bond. >> we'll do the power issuance in may we got approval on december 9th and come back on april 28th to give you an update of the contribution we'll talk about the green box we'll only doing inform the facilities.
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>> do i have any public comment. >> not being called green bond they're really power bonds. >> green is the designation of power bonds. >> is that on designation. >> a term that is being verified internationally more so than in the united states the municipal bond issuers like ourselves have using the bonds that coyote and- >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. >> thank you. >> next item, please. >> item 13 approve the amendment increasing the agreement by had millions in an extension of 4 years.
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>> good afternoon, commissioners this item allows us to continue some important work many performing on behalf of airport contract supports the power enterprises green mission building program the program provides the design and construction services to the airport and other municipal customers the customers pay the puc for the serviced we're receiving the airport effort that underway to terminal one experienced some scope changes with the u.s. green council misdemeanor their requirements to include a building enclosure xhishgs he element so we through the amendment to the contract providing the airport with the capacity to complete the terminal one redevelopment captivity about u.s. green
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building council requirement that original contract was approved by the civil service commission for $9.07 year duration extension of $4.02 years is under the previously authorized 50 percent with that i hope you support this. >> again any questions we have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> any public comment on this item. >> (laughter). >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the motion carries. >> okay next item 14 please. item 14 to the all the time increasing the amendment by one hundred and 50 thousand with a time extension of 3 years.
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>> good afternoon michael deputy general manager a crack with spur from the ocean beach we want to continue to have spur if a role to sustain us in casing that plan for the record to fruition i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> questions? comments >> i'd like to move the item. >> second. >> public comment on this item? all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the motion carries. >> thank you next item oh, next item are power business plan workshop is going to be postponed we have to discuss. >> in the interest of time in that we want to cover a lot of important topics we'll reschedule the workshop when i'm
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present so we'll work on that and it will give us more time to fine-tune the presentation. >> there was a suggestion that we do the whole workshop together at another date and had have that a workshop session. >> we can definitely do that. >> well, we'll talk about that all right. could you please read the items for closed session and item 18 public appointment hiring arrest position to be filled it is assist general manager for the public utilities commission and item 19 for the gas and electrical company vs. the city and county of san francisco and versus gas and electrical and city and county of san francisco 22 pacific gas
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and trek vs. the city and county of san francisco 23 exciting rehabilitation for the city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas and electric 24th pacific and gas and electrical and 25 existing rehabilitation for pacific gas and electrical and 28th existing litigation for pacific gas and electrical 26 will not be heard any public comment on closed session. >> mia any motion to assert. >> all in favor, say i..
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>> move no did inform disclose. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. >> other new business for the commission. >> seeing none this meeting is adjourned at
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>> can everybody hear me thank you for hosting us all i'm john the councilmember gloria vice president and along with my much nor talented colleagues and
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megan our program managers i offer see the responsibility of zen detect when we they moved no inviting one of the things we've heard loud and clear was the importance of the hiring locally and many technology growing companies we're distancing in search of specific talents those are hard to find in the bay area in the neighborhood of san francisco but as you sit here now detection has a great relationship with the office of economic workforce development and currently sits on the investment board this is where we learned ambassador tech sf graduation and the local jobs
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training program to provide relevant skills several conversations led us to the realized the faster way to create zen dick technology to train the san franciscans on our product that will fast track them to an important job in as you sit here now deck some of the tens of thousands of people that use as you sit here now deck if not employed while having still have a foundation in customer support and experience as well as the state of the art i'm to introduce mayor ed lee that as you sit here now deck has a terrific relationship the mayor ed lee
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has impressed on the importance of job creation like the opening up pathways in the tech industry so welcome mayor ed lee (clapping) john thank you for that introduction and i'm glad to be here and this is great to see this is the third cohort of our folks coming through tech sf he want to go through the boat came but jonas passionate as i am i've not had to work that hard as you sit here now deck and it is a lot of passion for the building of strong neighborhoods thank you to the leadership give my best to the entire staff there
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because as strons as passionate in the job training for the 21st century jobs we need partners that are more experienced as you that kind of citizens of volunteerism is takes the hours and weekends and the attitude to folks that are in the community looking to see if they can gain skill sets with the new jobs and what they're doing in the clooks with tech sf starbucks a good training for people to see i have the confidence i don't have to be at the best engineering schools to get a job and we've often said the tonnage industry
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establishments 4 or 5 jobs in their applications or establishing all the technology kinds of industries we're also seeing happen in middle school middle market and throughout the city it is one of the many what did you say and he know that as you sit here now deck is not only focused on job training a huge amount of philanthropic work for the lowest incomes and the institutions allowing for the use of community space as a reflection of they're very strong volunteerism within the community agreement and their work is great because along with my again friend benny hoff set the standard for what we want to
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happy in the city and we need it technology for many years and i think people in the room remember those are room we talked about the digital divide how we'll be able to catch with tomcast or those internet essentials they're providing or 12 companies they're going so fast he didn't think the jobs were going to be driver's license we need this link if you will, so those jobs i emphasis your programmers you can be folks helping with customer service center to be of great support and those days more and more as companies establish their companies they
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need the mechanism and this is why the third and i hope tenth cohorts of trainers that come out with the skill sets to repeating really join in a comfortable way the movement towards the digital jobs that are present here in the city and that we also will signal to the companies that i look forward to their literally going through tech sf and hiring the folks that are out the basic training i'm all for a what he can excitingly see those weeks of boat camping is allotting a truly a boat camp you're going right into job opportunity there and our tech companies don't have to be looking across the
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water but right here in san francisco and be part the promise that the prosperity in the city can be shared with those basic things we're doing honoring training and having an open door policy and having a good neighbor policy and go benefits as forefront as the success of a company as getting their points out and designed and engineered and sold i can't thank supervisor kim enough she's a strong advocate we start this confidence about mid-market and seeking strong, strong indications coming to fruition not everything is there it takes time we have a lot of folks on line their k59 their support i love the fact we're beginning to focus on the staff black women and other different groups that we know have gaps in
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their ability to connect up with our technology industry and with other jobs more and more we're seeing the technology into the health care industry the hospitality address the local manufacturers you can't see a line of manufacturers without the ipad overlay and censoring autopsying all the aspects of merchandising so this is a great year to embrace those kinds of programs and thankful to the bay area coalition as well as tech sf for joining us as a city and partnering up with as you sit here now deck so provide support and congratulations (clapping.) >> thank you mayor ed lee for being here today. >> thank you to your staff and
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as you sit here now deck and especially to all the students who are graduating today from the zen deck train and i'm the executive director it is a pleasure to see you when we partnered with czechoslovakia deck with the employer driven training it makes sense because not only because we're the coordinator for the city of san francisco but because they've actually been providing employer driven technically e tech and media industry for more than 15 years i was chatting with the folks and we trained folks from places like mother jones and all kinds of tech and media companies other than the city and we've been doing this for many years in many, many ways and another thing offering
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networking event like gloun this is something we came up with to provide opportunity for contract workers or who are newly trained to meet people that are hiring and zen deck is generous for two of the flounz so for so so thank you to zen deck i want to mention little initiative through the sf tech program for the contractor workers and helping folk up their skills and help them with their taxes and with the full union in new york we have more than 5 hundred members are eligible to get health care and other kinds of insurance next year it the amazing program i feel like our mission of
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hoping folks to tell their stories has been happening for 39 years it is important to be a technology organization that's been around for that long the reason we've been around that along bus of the as you sit here now deck train so thank you, again, for zen deck go with that i'm going to turn it over to the trainer from zen deck to start the graduation (clapping) and thanks i'm joe i work as zen deck about 3 years i'm going to present the certificates to the graduates first up patrick
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(clapping). rose marie (clapping) gary (clapping) there's gary michael >> winston (clapping) sorry winston. (clapping.) >> now (clapping) kit (clapping) emmanuel (clapping)
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marseille (clapping) thank you, everyone all right. >> (clapping) photo op. >> ready everyone here congratulations
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test. >> good afternoon, everyone the mocking i'd like to welcome you to accident regularly scheduled meeting of land use commission