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service and inclusiveness i want that today not some distant. >> my name is e my understanding is the vision how the organization should be reflected and so we feel that we're there almost there so basically the way i look at it if you have a vision where you want to be and identify the goals to get you there and the objectives what you need to do to achieve the 0 goals we can look at it again and make sure that. >> are you thinking commissioner president vietor we're there. >> well, i think there is something about you know when i read it it says we are and an innovation active utility but this is both the aspirationaasp
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of them are confusing those from the consultants. >> i'll turn to peter as long as the feedback you're okay with the content. >> on the strategic goals to commissioner kwon's point i'd like to see what is engaged the workforce and how fiscal not how happen but how engaged they think they're connected. >> something in there that would be great under the fiscal workforce and obviously i didn't see anything b around training and professional development. >> we went back and forth how to how much to show you maybe for the sake of the content we can include the other level to
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get a flavor around the action because there are look around training the action items. >> i want to make sure that was not lost and the reliable service piece something around resilience that feels important and not just for the capital prospective but i saw a different level when you talk about the reliability resilient as well anything else. >> a couple of things for the employee we larger hear the commission get the quality i think of sentiment but i'm curious do you have an index you measure what the person was saying the engagement of the staff you know are they managed
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for a specific you're talking about performance management leaders as far as metrics on performance or gives me the tools i need do you have those things and also is there reward and recognized within the puc as it pertains to you know just not celebrating large projects but individual achievement for the line staff, if you will, do those things exist. >> within varying degrees so different enterprises and bureaus frankfort, kentucky track them and i know that commissioner courtney and the entire commission talked about the new recognize program that will be launching this year to kind of a stated version of the work but again, i think we do
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the climate survey every several years and give us a sense of are the staff supported do they feel - >> is it institution. >> it is institution. >> yeah. the climate the whole organization but i also want to also appoint as part of a recognition program financing there is the n pb the negotiations with the manages kind of give a monetary you know amount to people who perform well, so this is oath performances. >> yeah. the management. >> thank you. >> commissioners? any other questions >> yes. commissioner. >> thank you for the work and the presentation
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one thing i attended i have a problem tracking of through the plan let me tell you what an example of my issue when you look at slide 5 and yet the strengths and witnesses and opportunities and threats those are specific either descriptions our current investment or looking into the future we think there are opportunities or threats but fairly specific and a lot of these things are change forces that but want to you know tampering of your strength and improve our weaknesses and void the threats so a lot of action that come out of that bend you get do slide 12 you have a
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series of goals that are quite generic and you could almost have this list irrespective of slide 5 so the thing i'll find useful and not know how to community based about it for example, on slide 5 the threats starting the new business the competitive marketed and above that the communication with pg&e if we wanted to comfort ourselves this plan is responding to that threat how do we do it. >> in order to do that you have to break down into multiple areas so one you have to build a workforce or have - so spread
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out in multiple areas to talk about the competition in the marketplace so financial there are components that will make that happen throughout you know each one of the objectives and goals. >> is there any physical linkage. >> we can make the linkage cerebrodid slot and the types of action items underneath as well as most of the individuals have a plan and informed we thought about that if you look at the cpa business plan and the other plans a lot of them we're mitigating the threats they've articulated in our plan so we can make the connections to the individuals and the strategic plans is around the financing piece a lot of or the asset management a lot of it came
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through the conversations as your moving into a new area of work we need the consistently with a pipeline of people coming in so those are reflected underneath we can make the connections for the commission overall. >> i recognize that gets into several other document that deal with similar issues with the business plan and a bunch of them in terms of - bending by the end you can measure that is a good outcome if at the other tends o end you're trying to say what is our program for dealing with a new business enterprise that is for a comfortable competitive environment do we think we're addressed that adequately. >> that is a harder question
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to answer and there's a whole love examples the regulatory change and the power change 10 years ago and the word is coming down are we are doing everything to address the strategic challenges as well. >> one of the things i want to point out each one of the enterprise will eventually do the strategic plan and business plan you know would be nice to do all of those and do the whole organization we wanted to do an organization and i think that most of the course stuff is here but there maybe specific things like regulatory reminded that can be shared across the organization but is more specific to each one i agree that maybe some
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connections from how to you know being you know having a new line of business would do we need to do we need to develop a workforce or do a transparency and get our finance that is here but maybe something that is not specific in here because juliette said not everything is in here the document would be two large but i think the specific strategic plan for each one of the plans will be more specific to that enterprise and align to the document and that's the hope we're trying to accomplish. >> can i add that definitely will love for i guys to look at this and if you have any more
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comments give us that information as we move forward and trying to finalize it as juliet mentioned hopefully, we'll bring back you'll feel comfortable you'll hold me to it i'm holding my staff to it and the mayor's office will like to submit a strategic plan to the eric mar's the mayor is looking at the alignment of other departments liquor workforce there is a common thread across departments there is an opportunity. >> great thank you. >> any public comment on this item yes. >> good afternoon, commissioners nicole ceo in looking at the presentation that p ms. eric prepared one
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thing that was not clear under the public interest category the sierra club our a wholesale customer and the verbiage you have a lot of customers the city power and retail water and other customers out of the city but as a group of stakeholders your wholesale customers are the latter group and certainly have a different set of interests it might be useful to incorporate them here. >> we talk about dispensing customers we have a lot of customers or users that actually don't pay bills we want to take input so i think wanted to define and talked about how to define maybe not only our customers but all the users when we come back to the ouvenz we'll
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identify the types of customers and that strategy so thank you. >> thank you. >> any other public comments next item, please. >> mr. general manager. >> so the next item is an update on the wastewater enterprise capital program quarterly and while kathy howe is up there talk about the hetch hetchy championship quarterly report good afternoon commissioner for the wastewater capital program there are no more projects that are behind or over budget i want to point out the quarterly we report on the sewer improvement program so this is where a lot of the red that you see the schedule and cost so i wanted to point out that our program director mccain will be coming to the commission
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at the next meeting to go over the baseline of the sewer system improvement program and the changes and the scope of the refinement since your endorsed the program in 2012. >> okay. >> i noticed a lot of red dots too so - >> we're forecasting what is going to be presented. >> at the next meeting. >> yes. >> so is that it on that item and talk about it in detail. >> we'll talk about it in detail what happened you endorsed on overall program at the $6.9 billion in phase one and phase two and phase three we didn't identify specific dispute projects but started reporting on that the quarterly and so things have changed and they were moving we thought that
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would be good to establish a baseline to see to endorse moving forward. >> okay. >> thank you. >> so for the hetch hetchy capital program i want to point out that a lot of the rim fire projects look lake hair behind schedule most of the construction is paperwork dealing with fema and those will look like behind schedule but until we resolve our work with fuming and get reimbursement that will show the red. >> anything else on that report besides the fuming reimbursements. >> there is one project that came in on the low bid came in over the engineers assessment that was for san joaquin that was showing lower than the
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baseline i want to for mountain tunnel we still have the 30 projects we're report on the added and assess improvements which the awarded the contract and they're hoping to issue the n p t february 12th actually should have and there's a construction meeting that is scheduled and for the inspection and repair the plans and specifications for that are being completed now and so we're hoping to advertise that in april and then for the last project which was the planning for mountain tunnel bypass they're starting the planning effort for planning the should you for the first inspection which is supposed to happen january, february timeframe of 2017.
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>> okay. so we took item c and d watering and hetch hetchy watering we've continued until next meeting and hetch hetchy any public comment on either of those items. >> commissioners. >> hearing none, next item, please. >> mr. general manager. >> so the next item we would like to present the project labor agreement for the sewer system improvement program. >> so we had a very successful project agreement for the water system improvement program and in respect a lot of people behind that one of them is mr. moderating coney so talk about how to use that labor agreement for the sewer system improvement
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program. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners infrastructure division as kathy mentioned we want to provide you with a quick update with the labor agreement for the sewer system improvement program and our agreement for the extension of the improvement program really quickly go over the benefit for the sewer improvement program some of the key elements for the water system project label and the benefits of extend it to the sewer system improvement program some of the high result and including conclude with a instantaneously for a successful agreement for the sewer program first why it make sense for the i p as detailed in the memo before you i think that is a size and scope of technical
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capacity to be covered by the project agreement that allows the project contractor for the skill as you can see in the memo given the booming construction both on the public and private side and historically low employment rates we have a high demands for skilled labor to the p l a has skilled qualified workers from the construction trades the p l a minimized the risk of project delays and importantly it allows all contractor the union and non-union and important for me and this general manager that allows the local businesses and contractors to participate as well as training and jobs for san francisco residents so some of the key terms of the water system profit p l e and the benefits of extending one of the most important our local
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krarth community the brothers and sisters the trades and union and as well as our community members our staff are all familiar with the terms of the agreement our project manager and construction managers those are important policies and procedures for every single project we do we hold and prejob kwfrn we have contractor and all sorts of people and building and trade herpes virus appear with their affiliate that helps us to coordinate the projects and has jurisdictional language and a joint committee that is really, really successfully allows us to address the issues for the complicated projects and finally of popper for me and this general manager we have a job training and opportunities program that works with the trade and the cbos to put our
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community residents as mentioned regional and local workers on our projects so, now i'll give you specific quantitative results from the project labor this month that labor agreement is in effect effect for 9 years and put a lot of hours if and complete labor unit's and no stops and have a - awhile we've done that we've put 12 thousand workers important to the regional and local economies 6 thousand have been san franciscan we've paid out $450 million in wages and benefits we're experienced an economic- those were performed by the partnership with the
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trades and 70 percent of the henry's hours were in our territory and finally a couple of tragedies for the successes for ssi p we'll continue to work with the local businesses and put them to work at the contract assistance center and focus on southeast residents to put them to work one great partnership we have around now the partnership with the office of economic workforce development and their excuse me. city build that is led by patrick that is lead and that leadership is louis us to work with the cbos and put our community workers to work on the projects and another really, really more dynamic this is lead by harlan kelly is the partnerships are the building trades and mike and their
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affiliates allows us to do trainings and partnership are the trades we've begun a training program in partnership with the tracks and a gps training with the operating engineers and charley labor and a concrete training with the carpenters and one finally which was a dynamic one that told the story how we do the trainings the recent completed a cohort with the laborers that was around the recession habitat and on the training we worked with the trades and the cbos throughout san francisco and had cbos do the soft work and get folks that really wanted to engage and have careers in construction we built ulcer up the workers with the recruitment and the laborers worked with the contractor and you are project manager to develop projects that
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was specificly relevant and folks got the training and come out on the training and 100 percent is working at trades with cowerier jobs we'll have a phone call on maximizing women participation the trades and 3rd of cohort through that was women that were apprentices and harlan and i say we worked invest in careers but sustainable careers that led to meaningful wages for the workers and the communities so that's the type model we want to continue as we go to into the ssi that that concludes my update we said to provide did stakeholders with any thirty days from now inform give us feedback or thoughts on this we're not supposing taking
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action if we continue to receive the support around the proposal we hope to return the future with the resolution authorizing the general manager to negotiate and extend the water improvement program ssi p i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> when will we see that resolution. >> we're going to provide thirty days and depending on the amount of feedback than something in april but provide the transparent process to receive the feedback we'll return depending on that. >> okay. >> okay. >> thank you. >> commissioners? we have public comments here >> charley. >> good afternoon you good afternoon,
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commissioners harlan. >> first of all, congratulates the sfpuc and the workforce on the p l a and speak in support of expanding that p l a-1 of the successes at the inclusion of the bid specks as the calaveres dam contracts and operating engineers and the operating engineers apprenticeship partnership with the providing the opportunities foreclose the city residents with the last technologies what really excited me the focus on the self-communities the bay area we drew on cadets from the
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build and cypress and alameda to pucs credit they monitored this and taken the feedback and make a bunch of improvements and the second training we were doing a gps training the district for san mateo a training in alameda for people working on the calaveres dam so a lot of changes to travel to sacramento to get that opportunity working with the puc we've made that opportunity available to the residents the local area and the pucs engagement with the cadets themselves i know some the cadets by name they're female
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candidates that have training and pursuing their training and pursuing their criteria opportunities going forward it is an exciting great feedback loop we work on the projects and get the jobs and spends our money the city so really hope that the commission goes forward and expands into the circulation of the system. >> thank you, thank you very much. >> mike. >> commissioners michael san francisco building and construction trades the gentleman said a lot of the power points should be extended to the sewer program i'll talk about one appreciative expedition on a smaller scale that was illustrated the reasons sunshine this should be stent
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you've covered the water media change out the plumps are here representative of local 38 will talk about the workforce side but i wanted to point out a this was entirely in san francisco and b that project was performed by a non-union contractor successfully and has been many beamed with the ferry building you'll probably get from you outside the area the contractor was an out of state contractor that fully offend the workforce from out of state under the local owners that is entirely permissible but we're not counting against the numbers in this instance we the collective bargaining agreement can institute procedures that limit the built to bring in out
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of state contractor we did that with that p l a the contractor also ultimately performed the work successfully and the number of the workers became members of local 38 they liked what they saw in local 38 it was good for our point of view one of the things about non-union contractors working under the original city contracting we the trades have no assurance that if we send american people apprentice to a contractor first of all, the apprentice will seek the appropriate training and the apprentice posture e point of view they know they'll not get credits towards benefits for health and retirement so even though this is theoretically appropriate under the law to those contractors the apprentices can - we're not force them to do so one of the
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benefits of the project agreement we know if it is not a union project this is more comfortable been dispatching the apprentices and will dispatch them and the apprentice is comfortable the apprentice knows they'll get their benefits and so when you hear the argument about benefits under the architecture it is important that is a key xhoenlt for us and the apprentices and makes it more comfortable from it in take those few points and i'm available to answer any questions, of course. >> thank you, bill blackwell. >> i am the business agent i dealt with the non-union company that did the project at the hip
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65 workers working on that project 40 percent were apprentices over that 40 percent 50 percent of them were from san francisco we - the end of the project i know we were the highest percentage the san franciscans that has been done in san francisco that company brought in 70 core workers from out of the state 3 of which are apprentices once they saw the benefits they wanted to ask can we give them that opportunity i hope you continue this project thank you. >> thank you. >> pat mulligan. >> hi i'm the director the city build and the office of economic workforce development and want
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to thank the puc and general manager and staff thank you for the opportunity to integrate you are workforce training programs with the infrastructure projects and project labor union not only for the city build our our modular specialized training including the tunnel training and the concrete framework as well as the technical training by the project engineers it as honor to work with michael the trades council and all the affiliated locals with mike and on the engineers and carpenter and with the puc in bringing out those strong outcomes associated with the water system improvement project we look forward to stronger outcomes moving with the sewer system
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improvement project thank you, again. >> great. thank you very much any other public comments on this item? >> briefly commissioners i'm mike i've had the luxurious of working part of the g ac for this project i've had an opportunity to do some of the largest sector agreements on puc project this is a precedent the project has 4 extensions starting with $4 billion in 1998 and had two major out takes that had to extend into lake merced and every year 5 years they've extend their agreement and now up to $20 billion because they've had some of the same
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great opportunities that for local hire contractors and they've found over the last 5 years that most is of bias have been lower as the continuity of the agreement and the metropolitan water district did the east side dam they have similar reaction as this program and extend to the inland feeder for a total of $5 billion so you have what you have groundbreaking and the community has been well rewarded for it. >> thank you. >> future comments commissioners? >> i wanted to - >> working.
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>> good idea. >> check. >> i wanted to action the work obviously harlan spent a lot of time on this the data kind of speaks for itself i know we'll be waiting thirty days but to hear if bill and mike and pat and charlie think that we we're excited about moving forward i think you teed it up nicely to show what the benefits not only for the workers but the community and the san francisco employed that we'll be hiring on the sewer system i noticed that martin is the room i'm looking forward to martin working with us from department of human services but i'm not 100 percent in support this is not an action item. >> thank you, commissioner.
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>> any other commissioner comments hearing none, we look forward to the next step and ref further comments and the resolution before us the coming week next item, please. >> my last update is clean power update barbara hale. >> good afternoon, commissioners barbara hale assistant general manager for power i have 3 items on the cleanpowersf i want to update you first enrollment and some work underway and finally how we're doing on our schedule for service on may 1st so on enrollment i want to report that we've issued the second of the 4 notifications that we are required to send to the customers they were mailed out last week this is for service to customers that will begin on may one we h have seen so far on this 22 customers opt out of being provided service by clean power
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there is a 7 thousand 5 hundred and 74 service points that will be serving under the program given the opt out around less than one percent of those accounts have signed up for supergreen we have a number of expressions of interests if supergreen that we're helping customers evaluate that number maybe go up at this point this is where wiring we're at and looking at the second set of enrollment for phase one part of program and this will occur august 1st, we'll close enforcement for the next set of customers we'll serve those are customers that will serve on november 1st so to make sure that we're all tracking megawatts for the first phase of the program, the consumers that are served on may
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one make up thirty of the megawatts and august 1st, we want to have an additional 20 megawatts lines that up for service to begin service on august 1st if you're reader in making sure you want to sign for clean power.org before august 1st and serve you on november 1st so that's where we are at in terms of that oh, he neglect to tell you so far 90 points of service they've raised their hand and said serve me on november 1st so we're starting to build the line a accuse of folks that will receive the service the second portion of the phase one and the next topic of the work underway staff
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participated a workshop hosts at the california public utilities commission on the low charges of p ccii c i a we'll give you an update but that workshop is telegraph hill prarment with a number of the stakeholders and, of course, our collaborating operating cac sonoma and lane cast we are dpw a project to bring to you and seek our adoption in april that will be available to customers the may 1st service trnlt and our marketing and outreach efforts continue we have had staff working commercial corridors so engage with our customers and participating in association meetings and group meetings to talk about the project to make sure that customers and potential customers know what it is we're up to and offering in
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supergreen at a slight premium and green with 35 percent thought that content from the renewal resources at a slight discount than they were participating in the pg&e project where we're on track for may 1st i have only good news there. >> that's my presentation i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> well, thank you for the excellence news so is that sorry what was the percentages people that opted out out. >> i didn't give you a number but 75 hundred. >> only 22 so far and the projections were higher. >> we projected fwoe percent opt out if you're opt out stays as planned our first may 1st
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we've been severely thirty percent of megawatt customers. >> that's great news i signed up for supergreen and encourage money that is watching and commissioners to do the same we can utilizing use supra push to get our 100 percent renewal customers online as quickly as possible i think we should focus on congratulations on the gums will is where we have a launch party i know one press conference but you may be in order to encouraendorsement. >> we have weekly meetings we talk about the approach of the marketing so maybe 51 we show
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come back and talk about at the next meeting strategies. >> that would be great. >> commissioners? thank you thank you any public comment on this item? mr. freed hello >> jooifd wanted to thank the leader for doing a good job i think the opt out rate is a testament that people are accepting we need to do looked at for to get the supergreen number that that will come as we get more information as you recall the market team you talked about ramping up not like off the wall at the beginning and ramping up you'll see that more as you know, more of the community strait programs are going on and getting out there and you'll see that number
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improve i was at the pcia meeting a robust subject i'll leave it up to your staff to give and just want and thooebd but there was a lot of at least last but not least from the non-restricted iuoe side to create a more stable structure for the plaintiff cia it is important for the future planning made it difficult for the launch of our own program in november and december we'll be adopting the plaintiff cia and trying to launch and put everything in place the january opt out phase so hopefully, we'll get adjusted for a better improvement thank you. >> thank you very much. >> any other comments on this item. >> next speaker, please. >> item even is the go solar
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linkage fine go solar and clean power barbara hale assistants general manager before us is a presentation entitled by commissioner questions how cleanpowersf and go solar how that works how we'll link it we'll go over some of the background mostly on the slor sf i get briefed frequently on cleanpowersf but we'll talk about how to link the two programs and thankfully the programs are common goals you'll see on the screen both programs are important to san francisco overall compliment
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goals like cleanpowersf but the go solar goals were laid out in policy statements that now embodied in city code so those policy statements and directions came to us back in 2007 when the board of supervisors adopted the initiating owners and designated puc as the program administrator and asked we appropriate 2, $5 million every year to the program over a 10 year period and directed us to adjust the incentives how they're going the marketplace over the 10 year period and also directed us to cooperate the administration of the paroling program of the go solar with the implementation and administration of the cac program that is now kind of with
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the cleanpowersf. >> the programs has combotsdz those goals and directions in overall program objectives and that's what you see here very consistent with the goals you know and encourages installation of valor panels and jobs for san franciscans supporting accelerator projects for low income households and supporting loca businesses so let's take a minute to see who is eligible the for the go solar program and how the incentives will exclusive those objectives so the incentives are sdielgd to encourage the solar panels to increase the mechanically was the installed we help to pay for
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the system the bigger the system size which is shown across the top of the slides the column hekdz the birthdays the incentive we provide jobs to san franciscans by requiring installers to be ignite for the payments we support the solar projects for low income households to have installations on low income residential properties the eligible for the sizeable add on you see that listed on the column other than the left the blue you see the ad on if it is an eligibility low income household and then we support the local businesses similarly and adds an incentive for city installers the installer must meet the log business requirements in san
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francisco in terms of eligibility all of the our customers are hetch hetchy or pubically owned utility likely e inevitable for go solar and get g hd power all of pg&e's customers are eligible for go solar sf and with the introduction of clean power sf we'll evolving be enrolled as customers in that program and historically the residents of go solar sf funds are now all potential customers of cleanpowersf the linkage is starting to happen as we roll out cleanpowersf so what sources impacts are we seeing more the program we've talked about the objectives and how to get there for the next couple slides will talk about that again incentives have available
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for the power customers and non-customers so far 3 thousand 4 hundred plus installations completed in san francisco totals 12.3 megawatts of capacity a small portion of those 5 customers were customers of ours through the hetch hetchy customer service offerings of public utility for a small 0.25 mel was the we've accommodated one and 69 new jobs for sdaejsz san franciscans 39 folks are currently employed as of february 13th we're the process together with the mayor's office of economic workforce development mr. mulligan you heard from earlier we're the process of implementing a shift from the existing workforce requirements the program to applying san
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francisco's first source hire rules to the go solar sf program that will better align with the city programs so far we've paid out 22 point plus million dollars since the program was initiated in 2008, as you can see how it those payments breakdown amongst the eligible groups and this next slide with the largest portions to the residential customers through the residential protecting or straight up recipient or nonprofit residential so we're seeing less reliance on solar incentives than currently than we have in earlier years of the program and that you can see here this is our sort of program wide view what you're looking is the
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boars representing the kilowatts of installed and the lines shows the total dollars paid out through the years of the program and as you can see that the installed capacity far exceeds the pay out we're go solar is supporting more projects today with less budget and we're seeing less reliance on the go solar program to go to solar capacity installed in san francisco so that's our program wide look. >> why is that what would you say. >> i think that is a number of factors one shown the slide we'll go through and that's the fact that the cost of solar harassed come down drastically over this time period if you look at slide 10
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as you can see year to year what the total installed cost is the first column or rather the second column and what our incentive contribution was to buy down the cost with the states california solar incentive contribution to buying down the cost and the net cost or was for a system that is a 2 that the 5 kilowatt system as you can see when you look at the last column the net cost column that the cost in recent years have come down when you go over one dlum to the state incentives that is reduced to zero and the costs are still coming down and as you can see they came down from 2011 through 2015 when you look at the go solar incentive
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column the net costs have come down with the go solar not because we're getting more money from outside but the net costs have come down and the market is able to thrive even with reductions in the incentive payments both by the our program and by the state administered programs i think there is also a contributing factor to the go solar sf program we surveyed installers to get a sense of what the factors are and one of the factors listed was the champs presented by our workforce requirements and that's part of the reason we're modifying our workforce requirements to align with the city's hiring requirement. >> so the last change in
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incentives for the go solar sf program occurred in 2013 pr and that net costs have continued to decline without the state incentives and the overall the bottom line is that the current go solar sf incentive has helped to create the lowest costs the program history. >> so we've benefit talking about what is happening with our program on the last couple of slides overall what is going on in the marketplace slablt to the marketplace the california puc issued a report the majority of installations since in 2014 did not receive a state incentive yet 31 percent of those yes, sir - i'm sorry 31 percent greater
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than in 2013 there's been worry the marketplace was of the federal tax credit was due to expire and urban certainty where it was be extended that uncertainty is gone a thirty percent federal tax credit extended for that the next 3 empowers and the california public utilities commission was considering changes in the net energy metering program that created instability the market but now this is favorable to the terms for customers installing solar this is things are staking out there so with that update i think on the go solar sf program is it so time to start a discussion on
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segregating h integrating this is an opportunity to give me guidance not an action item we would like to get guidance from you and take that guidance to the stakeholder and solar task force and customers of the program both clean power and go solar sf and come back with potential program changes just to get the dialogue going one of your offer arching recommendation whatever changes we protect the goals of the two programs making sure we have affordable, cleaner power in san francisco that we are investing in local prongs and jobs that we continue to foster the program stability we're starting to see we recommend that since we have not changed the incentive levels since 2013 we
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need a step down on the incentives with the overall project costs that allows us to stretch the program budget some we're hoping to have more uptake with the cleanpowersf program and interested in making changes there we will recommend simplifying the incentive structure to you know when you saw that slide that had all the columns across the top those are size you know categories if we did it like the state program was on a dollar per kilowatt basis instead of of the unit size i think we'll have a more simplified program and we propose to simplify the that current table and get hopefully get a little bit less
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questioning on that by customers in terms of opportunities with clean power sf we'll to go enhance the program for customers of ours both our pubically owned and the hetch hetchy customers and our cleanpowersf customers some of the ideas we batted around providing a additional incentive to customers that are customers of ours to encourage their participation the program to reward them as our customers to set aside a portion of cleanpowersf budget for our committees there is dedicated funding available and to establish more attractive net metering terms for our committees than are available to customers of pg&e. >> to that's ideas to get the ball rolling and like to hear
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our thoughts either in reaction to those or creative ideas you have. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner courtney. >> that's very detailed and helpful for me you know forgive for saying this but go solar is the pilot program forever so i kind of just not really engaged you on some of the workforce concerns but now that we're starting to talk about go solar and cleanpowersf i would like to have very robust communicates about the workforce itself, who's in the workforce, how many hours they work per week pursuant to what agreement, what wage rates with what training and certification components
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because i think we jason we have not yielded dealt with those issues it is a little bit premature to do that but i think now probably is the time because we can focus on those individuals right here now full disclosure martin is here there are disputes in the private sector in connection with the systems we can resolve those last week any project labor agreement kind of i'll wormd but start with the current and get data i know local residents or not to begin the kind of flushing that out i have a strong superstition that people will be curious about what the job opportunities are with cleanpowersf now go solar folks don't work directly with the pg&e; right? so what would
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be the relationship with cleanpowersf how are those connected it seems like we're connecting them but they can be apples and oranges it is great we'll start to kind of have this confusion but probably just the tip of the iceberg. >> so make a couple of comments first of all, i think we now see a connection with go solar as it relates to hetch hetchy as it relates to the power enterprise one we were concerned that western providing hetch hetchy money to be used ton solar installation of pg&e consumers but now since we have cleanpowersf visually all of them could be power provides by isn't that cleanpowersf not pg&e
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they can be our customers eventually be our customers unless their opt out the second thing as you stated the go solar is not customers of ours it is really a contractors who know how to do the paperwork that will get the incentives and off savings to homeland security to get go solar incentives so recognizing that the third thing as it relates to cleanpowersf building its own renewables we had lafco working with us to talk about what projects we can talk about i think those are the projects that we can probably
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talk about you know if it is union you know what the workforce looks like and definitely talk about that and planning to bring a job report barbara you know people that have that. >> the next month. >> while bring the jobs report bans the actual numbers we'll definitely provide that but i think the main thing is that what is interesting when you look at it right now you're seeing more solar installations being insult without looking at the incentives because maybe from what we're hearing it is just more efficient for sun run solar city and folks that have the workforce to deploy them without doing the paperwork is in their best interests we want to hear from you some of the
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features we'll present and solicit the input we'll like to have a go solar program it is rated for the cleanpowersf folks those are our customers and really had had metering where if for example, over build on their solar panels so they can produce more power than can be used we can buy it back added a higher costs so it is an incentive we talked about the limitations that we're hearing also a lot of folks who are not putting solar on their roof they need a relief repair we talked about the bill finance as an option you can remove that as well so you can get you know to the - we were focused on the low - this is an
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opportunity to harvest more if reremove the barriers so coming back to you those opposed with open to investigate. >> so you know that's it helpful i'm focusing a lot of inclusively on the workforce we've kind of been the job it hadn't had that real connection to the utility that's my original comment been the pilot program but once the workers have greater legitimacy within the organization that's when all the question marks come i hope i was clear i'm looking for data on the work and what qualifies
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the folks to work and are sfthsz component do those components qualify them for other things are they the career pathway or the initial thing maybe we should think about ways to have over laptop with the construction industry i know that is a whole bunch to drop on you am i being clear and it's helpful input as i mentioned we're seeing the administration of the workforce component to city build and pat mulligan and his team we'll pull data if the historic practice not relevant to what we're proposing for the future we're making that shift but at least give you a flavor of the history in terms of the data points our q. >> i think there is a question
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on cac local build out we hadn't fully upcoming packed. >> let's do it now that's the ne freerlg. >> i think that is important on the method cast if he were to purchase a local project in the end result is we will buy certainty amount of kilowatts for cost it is up to them to build it and how they build it you life e kind of losses some of the control we may want to talk about the whole thing it may change the way we contract if we want to make sure certain
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requirements are being met. >> other comments commissioners one thing that kauths any attendance the original legislation in 2007 amended krovrpd go solar with cac and the time enforcement we didn't have a cac and the result was 3,0006 hundred and 602 customers that have solar panels installed in homes that were penguin customers with the program that was run by hetch hetchy so i looked that number of people you've said as much i want those as customers they have benefited from our task and should be our
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customers as well we should be aggressively going after them and as go solar go forward as a route part of their signing up additional customers for that sutter program will be signing them up as customers of cleanpowersf that didn't need to be market limiting not a burden i hope we could i know instead of i don't know what the percentage 5 out of 36 or 37 but clipping to one hundred. >> thank you. >> anything else commissioners public comment i have one comment card - i hope i said that right.
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>> good afternoon i'm with bright ryan line i want to make a question public comment on the workforce cleanpowersf the central part of program and many of the stakeholders involved i wanted to get it right from what we've heard from the partners the solar industry and the cfos the workforce development program they have been things that are imperfect hopefully what we're getting with this change to the workforce program a single point of contact that is providing candidates i know that is increasing the employer assess we're excited that city build will do that but to
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realize the vision we need a oewd and ask puc to work with other stakeholders and continue to find ways to improve the we have a motion and a second we appreciate all the work that pat mulligan and 0 others put into this program and looking forward to it xhovz as we go forward. >> mr. freed jason fried i'll directing your attention the last 3 believability points the ideas for the rewarding the complerz he fully support that i think you can 20/20 types of the bonuses a cca or smaller bonus that is signed that for the
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supergreen and give people more incentives for solar on the roof people are better late than never most the green attributes having them sign up for the supergreen we'll get the money for the other build outs that is an extra bonus not doing a large bonus but small bonus and give them the incentive and for the second one i fully support i'll take it a step further as the program is shifted to the new workforce model i see more people wanting to use the money that is available like the early years community based after the low-hanging fruit and we had money for the incentives for the money there should be a priority
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for the crack customers and over the others that are staying with pg&e your prioritizing your own customers of the hetch hetchy system whether it is be po u and get to commissioner, i agree those are good numbers but as the barbara hale said maybe not know what the future is sister-in-law we are switching the program over to pat mulligan and may not get the same incentives but incorporated what is changing how that is changing and what are the incentives and how it addresses the concerns that are legitimate and people are becoming unemployed so the comments are very good and with the shifting of the program it
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solves some of the problems maybe not all but some that existed. >> thank you. >> thank you public comment. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is jennifer i'm the project manager at design the employment training center i've been there around for 40 years we had a apprenticeship with the construction that includes the solar installations train component and go solar sf is a program we've been active in since the beginning and seen a lot of our students and our grads hired just to be clear our population as sister program build academy in a sense we're having a training our participants they're also san franciscans but they don't require all the same requirements as if i go into
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city build our students manltd have their ged with the program maybe driver's license they tend to have more barriers to employment than the academies but have a desire to go into the construction and fields so we've seen like i said a lot of go solar program and the workforce continue to grow into the first program and we would like to see some focus on training dollars we've been doing solar training with our own resources and finally people signing them into go solar training without any specific resources from go solar sf into the train program we're not the only ones doing the training other cfos that are doing like programs so i would
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suggest that that be the step also how can we to our point fully train people to have the skills to be successful the solar trades so i just ask you keep in mind as you're looking at the proposals coming up i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. >> hello. >> thank you my name is jeanine i'm the co-founder with the design builder firm and san francisco's only solar contractor that is a certified b b e the first san francisco based on contractors to become workforce development
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through cleanpowersf and today to commissioner courtneys comments you know we have 50 percent of our crew leads come to us through office of economic workforce development and the first go solar back office hire that is doing during the expansion to insure that is no boats on the roof but incorporated women and others to have pastoring into careers in solar melissa is now has a staff of 3 that she manages and reluctance purchased a home and re-entering we're talking about transformative employment and careers in the best scenario what we've- i'm pleased that the
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sfpuc is look at the workforce development xhoenlt i agree with commissioner courtney that has not on the whole seen the placement and retention that is really necessary to drive the environmental and social justice components that i think dr. jackson wanted to see and expected of this program and holds them account recent to delivering the program so i'm encouraged by that i am concerned and that about replacing a mandate with good faith and while i first experienced in trying to hire through first source didn't work i'm you know
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have confidence in pat mulligan and confidence in laura to work with the solar employers to improve that process i welcome any comments you have. >> thank you very much any public comment on this item thank you all for your comments next item, please. >> item 11 is the bosco report. >> good afternoon, commissioners initiating bosca chief executive officer i have two items to talk about today first i'll calling your attention to may february 23rd statement that is
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in your packet in our correspondence packet for today, i hadn't planned to give it to you but i'll not reilly repeat it but as you may know bosca monitored the mountain tunnel situation i believe we've pushed to insure that it gets the focus it needs to insure the reliability to all your water customers and to that end i'm pleased that you've heard from kathy howe about the inclusion of the mountain tunnel the hetch hetchy cpi so you have the ability to see the progress on the capital improvement plan and one of the things that making piecework like yourselves southerner aware of that raises the issues to a critical nature i'm pleased to see that moving forward one area we're continuing to work on with our
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staff is the emergency the amounting emergency response plan chase essentially the man plan it says how about the puc provide water the emergency of a hetch hetchy from the mid-town fails how to provide water to the customers that is critically important and mr. richie put together a report from my vantage point that is where this commission awareness of it and awareness of what it means when you have such a plan and the relationship with other wholesalers the service area that jointly will be relying on that i hope you'll get an opportunity with a presentation and what it means it is very important i also want to thank mr. richie we've meeting monthly on amounting and give us the
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opportunity to really talk about those issues and flush them out it a very good model and look forward to the successful resolution of articles if i can have the slides so i the president to give you an update how the service area is in response to the drought that is the lastly data through january overall we see the 27 percent savings for the 15 percent cumulative savings it is down we expelled 31 percent it is hard to a safe that much water in the middle of january when the water use it low we'll seeing the numbers trickle down but a good response the ear and one way we looking at this the state has set a target
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volume of savings between the june 2016 and how much water to save and to date the boca agencies are achieved that by next october so this is a significant achievement and one that really is a test to the fact that the investment and the communities responses and just in total what that means they've saved almost 16 billion gallons a significant amount of savings one we're all dealing with the ramifications on the financial side but we want to continue to encourage the customers to do that the absence of knowing what the ohio electrical charges will be next year with that, that concludes my remarks. >> and thank you for all the hard work with the water savings
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we appreciate it. >> great so looks like we're ready for the consent calendar and he understand that commissioner courtney has a plane to catch we'll excuse them open him and let him go when he's ready and with that, if you wouldn't mind reading the consent calendar please. item 12 calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. 12 a approval amendment to agreement expediting the duration up to 6 months b approve the specifications the word contract number on a in the
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amount of of seven hundred 20 thousand to the lowest qualified responsive bidders and the specifications the award contract in the amount of of $30 million plus to the lowest quality responsible bidder d approve the modification to contract increasing the contract by $2 million plus e approve the modifications increasing the contract by $2 million plus, f the approval of modifications to the contract increasing the contract amount by one and 46 thousand plus and expectation to the contract duration by one thousand plus calendar days and approval the
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water ascertainment for the third street ocean wide central project h authorize the memorandum of understanding with the modesto and thank you, sir luck in the amount of not to exceed within an expiration date of 2020 that you thank you would any commissioners like to remove any of those items. >> is there a motion to approve the consent calendar. >> i'll make a motion. >> second. >> pichl on the consent >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? >> next speaker, please. >> item 13 approval for the agreement authorizing increasing the agreement by 50 thousand and agreement by one and $25,000 and a 3 year and six months time extension for the agreement.
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>> is there a motion to approve that item. >> so moved. >> second. >> questions comments public comment on item number 13? hearing >> i. >> opposed? that item passes amazing next item, please. >> item 14 approval the amendment to agreement increasing a by $90,000 a time extension of 3 years and of months per agreement. >> is there a motion to approve that item. >> so moved. >> second. >> questions or comments from the commissioners any public comment on this item? >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? that item passes unanimously next item, please. >> item 15 authorize a new 7 year lease to extend the term
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for one year between clem could and the city and county of san francisco. the use of approximately 17 thousand plus office building for the parking at a rate of $38,000 plus per month >> is there a motion to approve. >> so moved. >> second. >> questions or comments any public comment on this item? >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? that item passes unanimously thank you item 16 approve the agreement between the city and county of san francisco active with the public works the state of california of 3 agreements for the sfpuc west side recycling of property on armory drive and authorize the sale agreement subject to the board of supervisors approval to convey the agreements for an amount not to exceed $25,000
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motion to approve second. >> any comments on this questions any public comment? >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? >> unanimously approved may i get a motion please to - what are we're going to do go into closed session. >> would you like the other items. >> items for closed session mitigated claims city of san francisco for the sf corporation are the irrigation from the city and county of san francisco, conference with real property new york city and judicial exchange for the lot 31 for 180 one jerald in san francisco and destruction price in terms of apartment and restore hetch hetchy versus city of san
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francisco and items 20 through 29 will not be heard. >> thank you. any comments on the items to be in closed session hearing none, can i get a motion to assert a attorney/client section the commission authorized the settlement of 19 no other action was taken can i have a motion as to whether or not to disclose the items if closed session. >> a i move we don't there is a motion and a second opposed the item that item passes is there other new
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congratulations [inaudible] for this amazing and beautiful building. i actually was here when it was a little less [inaudible] it is great to see the building up today. [inaudible] represent a dynamic and exciting part of san francisco. many probably heard we are building close to 80 percent of all the residential and commercial buildings in the city so this is a part of the city seeing tremendous growth so as we get the shape the future of what san francisco looks like, it is important to think about a balance and healthy neighborhoods include and with that [inaudible] medical care and that is why [inaudible] live a few blocks away from [inaudible] so much to keep
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our community a healthier, stronger and safer. [inaudible] inpatient care kaiser has been a partner with our communities on the ground and that [inaudible] so much to our community members [inaudible] converting [inaudible] in the tenderloin into a healthy corner store and supporting the business owners to change their business model from making profits from cigarettes and tobacco and soda to healthy produce and changing what the businesses look like. working on helping build more open space and recreational activities in the neighborhood. this is part of how we keep our neighborhoods healthy on a daily basis not just when they come in to see their doctor or
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[inaudible] also working close with us on the ground in the neighborhood so we can make the lives of the residence and families and seniors healthy every single day. thank you and congratulations. [applause] [inaudible] board of supervisors. [inaudible] of the mission bay medical offices today on february 25, 2016 signed by the entire board of supervisors. thank you. [applause]
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>> it is nice to be here. first of all, isn't this a beautiful place in mission bay? [applause] i want to follow up on supervisor kim's announcements and also i ran into supervisor cohen at the meeting as well and think everyone has smiles on their face that kaiser found [inaudible] mission bay that is one of the most exciting places that are happening in the city and i just wanted to clarify particularly for the employees of kaiser that you don't
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automatically get giants and warriors tickets, but if you want to get them you have to talk to bernard later. anyway, i'm happy to be here to celebrate this great opening [inaudible] have that opportunity to serve probably 80,000 people that it is set up to do. i do know it will make members like myself have more time to go because the excellent services and support and access to healthcare. it is incredible that kaiser was able to find this site and choose it for their new clinical offices. i know you will have more than just happy employees, you will have a lot of happy customers that don't have to trek across the city to get to the facilities they need. you will have a lot of city
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employees and will find it happy as well and many other employees who [inaudible] find a lot of great access. i tried out your new restrooms here and they work really well. pushing the [inaudible] and everything opens. great facility. i know it is [inaudible] because we have another lead goal designed building so people and your entire development team i have to say kudos to you because it is these buildings that we fiend more and more the energy efficient and modern and accessible and have tremendous value. being in mission bay is exciting too because as supervisor kim said things are happening. there thousands of residents are finding their home here and [inaudible] by
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adding other things that make it a community, not just in addition to. [inaudible] the partnerships you see, the tremendous bio and life science s and technology [inaudible] to compliment the people living here and the really nice housing we are building and affordable housing and a few blocks down we will create the new veterans as well. [inaudible] i just want to say in addition to welcoming kaiser here, it is also to say thank you to ocii. maybe you and staff and commissioners that are all here celebrating because they also have to be very innovative in their apruch approach to make sure [inaudible] like kaiser, so it
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is all working together very well and i know the future of mission bay wile always be [inaudible] we need another mission bay 2. we need areas like that that we reinvent itself. that take what used to be a block away my driving range and rail yard and have the city reinvent the area so people can [inaudible] but have medical facilities like this, they have invasion like this, they have it a few blocks away from the public safety headquarters and make sure we all work together in the healthcare environment that produces even more invasion. this is [inaudible] places like this causes people to be that much more innovative
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and customer caring and that is what kaiser has done for me. great institution not only to see the invasion going on and down the road we will be anal to see how kaiser and other healthcare providers [inaudible] and serve better and that is what is happening with the environment we created here in mission bay. with that, i would like you to join me and bernard, if i can have you and your staff come up. [inaudible] the key words is ladies and gentlemen, today is kaiser perm nenta san francisco mission bay [inaudible] [applause]
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