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whoech is losing that 20 cents? sometime a value. >> let me give you an example. if somebody bought a bond i mimode to refer to my notes. in upon 20 between a taxable bonlt. that matures in 2021. they can sell that to somebody else. will not receive the money back. somebody else is sell bonds with higher rates. the value of the bonds bought in
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2020 have gone down. many buy they want to hole them. they will get the interesting and 100 cents on the dollar. but because -- they are -- the bank or because -- they simple low see other victim opportunity that are better. m they may want to sell and get the proceeds and invest in other things. bonds are sellings the marketplace ours are being sold in the market place. we see that pricing and our -- communal advisor and bankers assist us in terms of minimizing the cost this is we pay. but -- tell be a cost that --
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incent sunrises people to participate and produces savings. of course, by policy. you have -- adopted a policy this provides minimum savings target of 3%. to proceed we have -- trucked our team minimum of 5%. now it depends which bonds are presented. generally 8% based on numbers we have been seeing. you got temperature you just i'm going to simple pie it for myself and you tell me. we are buying our own bond for example they bought it for i dollar and from them. for 80 cents?
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so the loss is on them but trying to figure out if than i can take that moncompetence invest it in something else that would pay off more. that's what happening in the process. >> and we are advertise to provide the opportunity.
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i was wondering if the green bod market and the general bond market are than i having the same movements? how are than i functioning? when are the differences? do we care? like i'm trying to figure out. i was curious with the silicon valley bank it difficult on go under and figure out which are green and which are general. how they function. do you have insight. i think you can all publish proud that you are one of the leading issuers of green bonds in the nation among
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municipalities. we continue to be frustrate thered is no more of a pricing difference in the green and nongrown this guess become to how this concept was sold to the investors. make the same aim regardless of which they buy. >> and then the municipalities were promised some day they will be a difference. as the marketplace grow and funds are created that have to invest in green bonts we should see a pricing difference when we are already seeing.
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as the orders came in they gravitate ed the green bonds there was a preference for those and -- we will have one public comment for the 3 items and 3 different motions. public ment on 7, 8 and 9. >> 2 minutes of remote comment on items 7, 8 and 9 press star 3 to raise your hand to speak.
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there is one call are wish to speak. >> okay. you have 2 minutes. >> i lean. speaking on my own behalf. regarding agenda item 9, this funding goes become to 2015 bonds. which begs the question why you waited up to 8 years to refund some of the bonds. regarding item 8, refer to selling and refunding bonds. your those fund and refunding bonds commingleded in the same item. on june 14 the board of supervisors budget appropriation mittee heard the puc request to
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authorize additional. although the item was moved forward to the board. a positive recommendation. this item has not different heard at the board at today's meeting and the full board on union 20, juneteenth the full board has not approved the puc request, is this puc item premature? all city departments have capitol needs include aging infrastructure and climate change. that's why the capitol plan has low, medium and high scenario with reduction of the proposed capitol plan if the puc headed for the same fiscal cliff as the mta? for the operating revenue to get ratio, it is leading to the pu
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xrshgs make policy decisions such as potable water and adequate stewardship on the tuolumne. thank you. public comment on 7, 8 and mine is closed >> can i have a motion and second to approve item 7? >> move to approve the agreements in item 7. >> second. >> can we have a roll call. >> president ajami. >> aye >> vice president maxwell. >> aye >> commissioner paulson. >> aye >> commissioner stacy. >> aye. >> 4 aye's >> item passes. could i have a motion and second to approve item 8? >> mech a motion to approve item
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8. second. >> roll call. >> president, jamy. >> aye. >> upon vice president mechanic wel. why aye >> commissioner paulon. why aye >> commissioner stacy. >> thank you. item passes. could i have a motion and second on item 9. please. >> move to approve item 9. >> second. >> thank you. a roll call. >> president ajami. >> aye. >> vice president maxwell. >> aye >> commissioner paulon. >> aye >> commissioner stacy. >> aye >> you have 4 aye's. >> excellent. >> item 9 passes. thank you, can we have the next item. >> item 10, adopt resolution transparency environmental acontability and labor state your names for california community power agency and direct the manager to copy the
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resolution transmitted to the california community power agency. >> good afternoon barbara hail general manager for power thank you for hearing this item guidance to staff in anticipation and discussions and actions with theince joint power authority california community power. we participate in cleanpowersf program. the agenda item short and productive history we had as member of the jpa. you will hear more about this in the next item i will not go into this. this resolution i will point out that part of the benefits are the fact that -- we have committed to new to be constructed power supply. because of that, this resolution would communicate to cc power the commission's commitment to workforce and environmental justice and cc power energy practices.
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the intent to ensure this cc power continues to pursue supply with commitments. the program the programs representative to c c power staff will advocate for the commitments and future power solicitations that cc power issues. >> cc power has calendared a build it right workshop on september 29 we will have an opportunity to talk more about how c c power will pursue future procure am activities. this is keyed up nicely for us. to arm us for that conversation. and i want to point out the resolution before you builds from the resolution that the puc citizen advisory mittee made in recommendations to you presented late last year. i want to recognize the committedee's work and -- am. garcia and emily al ger.
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and the work of commissioner paulon i appreciate the time the commissioner facebook in reviewing and shaping the resolution as well. with that i like to recommend adoption and take questions you miff. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner maxwell. a comment. thank you, commissioner paulon and -- the advisory committee this is manage we have been talking about for a long time. thank you so much barbara and your staff for really making bringing all of us in to -- utility of the future. this is exactly what it should look like. thank you for your heard work. >> thank you. why thank you. why commissioner paulon. i like to say the same as american mechanic weland thank the community committee taxling this and the hour its took to forge this together the environmental the labor, community groups that sat down and put together this --
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important resolution that often in san francisco if adopted would be a first in terms of standing up for what inference france stands up for. thank you all for the w you is done. jop thank you. go ahead. >> i want to thank you and i know we talked on the phone i want to thank you and your colleagues for push and shoving behind the scenes to make this happen. >> excellents. i echo all. this is wonderful to see and it is certainly provides a blueprint for how we want to function. and in the future. for all our enterprises especially power. so with that, if there are no comments can we have public comment, please, thank you.
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we have members in the room >> chair of the p uc, ca c thank you for considering this residence loug. the next time i extend my thanks to members of my committee and to the members of public who engaged with our mittee in this process and to ib w local 6 and alex and thanks to commissioner paulson for shepherd this through to the point. i will be brooefr because this
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is a happy moment. this is -- really fwrat to see this progress i want to like everyone commends commissioner paulon and the c, c t. is i really want to under scorn unlike in other jurisdictions. this happened 3 weeks ago. see thanksgiving commission take the recommendation and work with the cac is refreshing because in other jurisdictions they are oshg upon febldz third degree nonelected or members who talked to people in their community bring proposal and to the commission. and a great you don't see that as a threat but asset and extend your ability to meet the needs of the community. >> 2 other things. one staff report notes tht work this you know the standards and the w we have been doing 2-1/2 years had impacts on prior
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projects. look forward it work with hail and with the rest of the committee special or the joint power's authority. too many acronyms. >> but we look forward to the september meeting and leadership. thank you very much to all of you and -- thank you. >> thank you. >> thshg this is peter tuolumne
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river trust. grit to hear. from the commission. my thanks to [inaudible] and alex from the c, c for their work i would love to see a similar resolution for the water enterprise. because they are a vacation for us. directed staff to produce documents which i have yet to receive. i feel thank staff are directed not to respond to us. i wonder why one of the stars involved in the vulner ability
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assessment met the puc i think he would have liked to earngauge and answer questions and talk about finance seems like he was cut off from that. in the earlier discussion. it was said the bay delta plan was the min driver in water supply. it said the demand was a wild card and said the design drought fles equal at this time increased demand. main number used was 23% higher than demand at the time of all of the graph you look the and say. current demand this is the impact of the bay dealt plan. we are in great shape. we asked about return period for the design drought. never got transaction from staff or the puc. we did get a response from record's act request 1 in 25,000
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yers i final report suggests [inaudible]. thank you for sharing your comments. peek not item heard. >> there are 2 additional callers. >> thank you. your line is open you have 2 minutes. why i'm [inaudible] network manager for the [inaudible] [inaudible] i'm alliance encouraging all of you to pass the standards because the actions will [inaudible] all we want to bring. thank you for your leadership. [inaudible] the successes of [inaudible] and this will help continue progress. on going leadership and we will
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hope that this policy will pass and especially because you know from an environmental justice stand upon point we want to make sure those who have been harmed by the polluting industries to be the twhon benefit in our censored in the process. thank you for your time and leadership and encourage your passage of this. thank you for sharing your comments. i'm sierra club and here [inaudible] speak in support item 10. [inaudible] ask you to support our campaign efforts to urge the california community power agency to pass work foremans environmental policies and energy solicitations and open
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all projects the power board enengage in avoids mitigates the feasible controls environmentsal and environmental justice impacts of the project. [inaudible] and strong environment at justice policy as laid out in the resolution. and they are actions that will help us on out -- the green economy and hope to we hope to achieve and all help to repane tain the environmental goals and include business workforce. we look forward to have leadership from the agency as we continue to move forward with the resolution to the california community par board. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. there are no more callers in the
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queue. >> public comment on item 10 is closed >> commissioner stacy. >> i just wanted echo the thanks of the other commissioners to the cac to staff and commissioner paulon for your work on this. support city attorney's office for your work. i look forward to hear being about the advocacy and implementation.
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a motion and second. please. >> move to approve. a roll call. please. >> president ajami >> aye >> vice president maxwell >> aye >> commissioner paulon >> aye >> commissioner stacy. >> aye >> 4 aye's >> excellent. passes. and can i have the next item >> item 11 approve cleanpowersf payment of share of on going general costs for participation in theical cal communal power agency for amount not to exceed 100,000 per year. for i period of 21st years and authorizing the general manager
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to seek board approval. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm sheryl taylor the prescription's operation's manager for clone clean i'm here for approval of the cleanpowersf payment share of california community power general and administrative budget in the not to exceed amount 100 thousand dollars plus a 5% annual ~esque later fir 25 years. also seek authority for the yes or no manager to seek board of supervisor approval of the same. i would like to provide a brief refresh or the value of california community power for cleanpowersf cc power form in the 2021 combine commuter purwhich issing power for renowable energy and program and
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service. clone clean bipartisan a member in spring of 2021. proved by this commission and the board of supervisors. there are 9 members organizations of cc power. and you see on the map, we sort of cover a lot of california. cc power members represent 3 million customers across 148 municipalities from humboldt to santa barbara. and cc power is subject to the brown act all board meetings are open to the public. the major benefit is that it facilitates comp mroins with california utility commission orders to procure types and vol unanimous of renewable energy. last year the commission and board approved cleanpowersf participation in 4 new projects.
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2 long duration storage projects share was 20 meg watts and 2 geothermal or firm clean resource project and our share was 23 megawatts. >> last december the cc power board adopted a strategic business plan focused on key actions. first the most important was to hire a full time general manager. and this has been done. the next implement committed project and build capacity for further collaboration among membership. if and add to program and services when beneficial to members. this includes continuing to, cyst members to meet current and future requirements. and identifying an opportunity for efficiency and providing programs. >> to implement the business plan and the near term c c power
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projects fiscal 23/24 budget of 760 thousand dollars. this budget made of staffing, services and prescriptions of 585,000. and operating reserves of 175,000. cleanpowersf share is 85 then and there. and the not to exceed amount will provide head room for unexpected costs. today staff asked for approval for the following. to set the not to exceed general and administrative payment amount for cleanpowersf 100 thousand dollars annually plus 5% escalator for 25 years. that's to aline with the duration of the project commitments. that concludes my presentation thank you very much and i'm happy to answer questions. >> thank you. commissioner paulson. >> one question is this the first time we have contributed
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to a fee or dues to the organization? >> good question. thank you. no, when cc power started i believe we our share was. 50 thousand dollars you would set not to exceed of 50,000 for 3 years in 2021. and that come to an end june 30. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i don't have questions. >> can we are public comment on this item, please? >> members of public who wish to make 2 minutes of remote public ment on item 11 press star 3 to speak. hear a chime when there are 30 seconds remain and another when 2 minutes expired. noersss public ment is closed.
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can i have a motion and second? move to approve the item before us. >> second. >> thank you. a roll call >> president ajami. >> aye >> vice president maxwell. >> aye >> american paulon. >> aye >> american stacy. >> had to step out. absent. >> yes. >> you have 3 aye's >> item passes. next item, please. >> item 12 approve the first amendment of the individual water sales contract with san francisco and redwood city in the first ma'am of the individual water contract with san francisco and the california water service company. >> good afternoon steve richie general manager for water this . is actually under the mission's authority an important action
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but mundane shifting 7 residents from redwood city service to cal water services service area. special correcting the maps part of the sales contract and making other updates to the maps those maps are very critical pieces of each of the contracts. we find that out all the time when we look at the maps and understand what is proposed. simple item. i recommend your approval. >> thank you. >> commissioner mixture wel >> why this help in the 2009? >> yes. one of the items acquisition of skyline water by cal water. and i think in the activity of mendzing the water supply agreement oversight at that point that's when the amendment was done and this item happened about the same time and it was just missed. and so take thanksgiving town to
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correct this oversight. >> okay. >> thank you >> the driver was the movement of the 7 residents. why yea. >> >> thank you. >> go ahead. >> why are the 7 residents so important. it is 7. >> they are no different than others in the service area it helps cal water line built cal water service build a now water main on the street and it became obvious to everyone cal water was better to serve them than redwood city was. >> okay. >> all right. >> thank you. >> if there are no further questions can we have public comment? >> member of public had wish to make remote ment on item 12 press star 3 to speak.
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there are in caller wish to be recognized the this time. >> public ment on item 12 is closed. >> excellent. can i have a motion and second to, prove this item? >> move to approve. >> second. >> thank you. can we have a roll call >> president ajami. >> aye >> vice president mechanic wel. >> aye >> commissioner paulon. >> aye >> commissioner stacy, absent. >> 3 aye's >> item passes. >> thank you. new 7 customers of cal water congratulations to them. so, can we have the next item. please. >> item 13. communication and information item.
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can we have the next item >> item 14 is general public comment. members of public who wish to make 2 minutes of remote comment in the jurisdiction but not on the agenda press star 3 to speak. speakers will hear a chime when well is 30 seconds remain pregnant another chime when time is expired is there anyone here for general public comment. go ahead. >> thank you. [inaudible]. hetch hetchy. we robbery meeting with the initial park service to try to improve public access and rescue rigzal opportunities at hetch hetchy. when we met last october, we discussed they would be renewing their memorandum of agreement with san francisco. regarding member of aspects at hetch hetchy. and we said, we mote in sfring we like to talk about that. when we just met.
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june first they told us. well we can't tell you what we are talking about this is top secret. >> so we drafted a letter to superintendent and will do general manager herrera regarding mark for identification our occurrence of things that should be in the agreement that don't comply with the letter and the spirit of the act. the fact this today if you want to walk out to the waterfall at hetch hetchy, you get out there you get to the bridge you can't see it around the corner. the falls are too height bridge is too close you can't go cross or seat waterfall that is a trail by the act in construction and maintenance. if you are staying at the hetch hetchy campground that water is provided by san francisco it is
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not drinkable. we think this is in the comply with the act. and in general, not beingably it get in hetch hetchy when you access the rest of the park. is in the consistent with the act. hope we get a response and life to talk to you about it in a polite conversation. thank you. >> thank you. and anymoring members here to provide comment? do we have callers? there are 3 callers in the queue. you have to minutes. >> eileen [inaudible] speaking on my behalf. the commission packet is sf goff tv for the board of supervisors committee meeting on union first. agenda item 3 was the civil
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grand jury report [inaudible]. the committee chair is dean preston and member is connie chan. the calif. report on [inaudible] recommendations [inaudible]. [echo, heard to understand]. long with the director of [inaudible]. the hearing was to accept the report ahern completed and closed the foil. for the chair staff did not repeat not sept findings of the reports. the hearing became contentious. when member chan noted that the current plans have been changed for d within. the pipe alignment and d 1 was unfunded. it was pertinent that the supervisor chan was irate.
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as puc not advised her the changes the puc did not state the this during the presentation. when a city commission from the dias disrespects the public stating they are old people saying the same thing. but they signed the actionses at the gao the puc is also known to districts members of the board of supervisors, thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. two minutes. >> thank you. peter, tell mow river trust. i want it dru your takening to a slide in the water supply update. the water available to the city.
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. as of june 20 nilinged 2.2 million acre feet. water to last 10 years. it is higher now and will grow higher and this would have been a great year for groundwater banking brought up in the earlier meant. despite fact we were 10 years from the groundwater management act. and the puc's position is that approved they will look at partnering with irrigation districts this is a lost opportunity. we have commented earlier that the puc is water rich. which is the case. and i would encourage you to direct staff to prowse a graph they have done similar showing the storage level of the residence virus over the years.
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but putting in the impacts of the bay dealt plan what was the storage look like had been in affect. i think that will tell you a lot xu will see how storage rich the puc is. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next caller, two minutes. >> i'm ylang warner regarding my early comment the gross negligence take in context we are luck tow have you serving i admire your engage export think you each bring valuable perspectives. when it is frustrating there has in the been action on the design and we are talking about 92mgd short fall. my ment is to thank you for looking at my letter from yesterday regarding the commissioners being short on
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oversight. given our increases in spending and declining sales with high rates you have leadership and oversight to contemplate exploring our financial future. on the leadership side if reports this is a mistake.
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there are no more callers in the queue. >> general public ment is closed. >> thank you. we have the next item. >> next is item 15 initialled by commissioners. >> any items? hearing none. i think that was the last item. why yes. >> thank you. we are adjourned see you in august. we this is our last meeting we are taking an among off and become on august 8. >> yes. why meeting of july, 11 and 25 cancelled. >> thank you.
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clear clear >> so i'm linda i'm part owner and manager of the paper tree in jeopardy an town. >> paper tree opened by my parent in 1968. so we other second oldest business in jap an town. at 55 years this year.
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we have beautiful papers from japan, thailand, italy, korea and the biggest selection of orgami. i do it because of my grand father and he wrote to the first english in it in the early 50s. he had an import business to import japanese goods and of course we had our line of paper. to go with the books he produced. it is something i have been doing since i was 5 and i'm happy to say i'm a designer now and of course having paper tree. it is grit. >> during the pandemic i wanted do something to make a statement to help combat the asian hate that was prevalent at that time. and so i put a call out to have a thousand hearts. this is a spin on the tradition
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of holding 1,000 cranes when you have a wish. well, a thousand cranes does not make a statement enough why not change it and a call for a thousand hearts? i created a website dedicated to the project. a video and fold heart instructions. people sent them in the first mont was 1,000 hearts. they kept coming in. and the next goal was 7, 698, which was the total number of case of reported hate by the ap i website. those were the reported case of hate. there are more not reported. that became the new goal. we achieved 2 months later. the hearts were coming in it it is a big project, we have it part of our store. anyone can come and fold an easy heart. keeping that part of the japanese tradition of this in that way here in japantown is
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pretty special. its great. >> ever wonder about programs the city it working think to make san francisco the best place to work and will we bring shine to the programs and the people making them happen join us inside that edition of what's next sf sprech of market street between 6th is having a cinderella movement with the office of economic workforce development is it's fairy godmother telegraph hill engaged in the program and providing the reason to pass through the corridor and
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better reason to stay office of economic workforce development work to support the economic vital of all of san francisco we have 3 distinctions workforce and neighborhood investment i work in the tenderloin that has been the focus resulting in tax chgsz and 9 arts group totally around 2 hundred thousand square feet of office space as fits great as it's moved forward it is some of the place businesses engaged for the people that have living there for a long time and people that are coming into to work in the the item you have before you companies and the affordable housing in general people want a safe and clean community they see did changed coming is excited for
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every. >> oewd proits provides permits progress resulting in the growth of mid businesses hocking beggar has doubled in size. >> when we were just getting started we were a new business people never saturday a small business owner and been in the bike industry a long needed help in finding at space and sxug the that is a oewd and others agencies were a huge helped walked us through the process we couldn't have done it without you this is sloped to be your grand boulevard if so typically a way to get one way to the other it is supposed to be a beautiful boulevard and fellowship it is started to look like that. >> we have one goal that was the night to the neighborhood
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while the bigger project of developments as underway and also to bring bring a sense of community back to the neighborhood. >> we wanted to use the says that a a gathering space for people to have experience whether watching movies or a yoga or coming to lecture. >> that sb caliber shift on the street is awarding walking down the street and seeing people sitting outside address this building has been vacate and seeing this change is inspiringing. >> we've created a space where people walk in and have fun and it is great that as changed the neighborhood. >> oewd is oak on aortas a driver for san francisco. >> we've got to 23ri7b9 market
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and sun setting piano and it was on the street we've seen companies we say used to have to accompanying come out and recruit now they're coming to us. >> today, we learned about the office of economic workforce development and it's effort to foster community and make the buyer market street corridor something that be proud of thanks to much for watching and tune in next time for
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my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of san francisco. i perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. i have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. i was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldn't see people every day. i would miss my personal interactions with the other
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employees, but that hasn't been the case. this building is very nice. we have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. we have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in san francisco. we work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. that brings us closer together also. >> i am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in san francisco. as an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. i go to the field interview police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and
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take care and custody of that. i maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. i am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. i work with the family to help them through the grieving process. >> i am ricky moore, a clerk at the san francisco medical examiner's office. i assist the pathology and toxicology and investigative team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. >> i started at the old facility. the building was old, vintage. we had issues with plumbing and things like that. i had a tiny desk.
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i feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. >> i am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. we test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. i oversee all of the lab operations. the forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the human performance and the case in the city of san francisco. we collect evidence at the scene. a woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. that was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. it is nice to get the feedback. we do a lot of work and you don't hear the result.
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once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. you can bring justice to what happened. we are able to take what we due to the next level. many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries don't have the resources and don't have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. >> sometimes we go to court. whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. we do whatever we can to get our job done. >> when we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. unexpected findings are fun. >> i have a prior background in law enforcement.
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i was a police officer for 8 years. i handled homicides and suicides. i had been around death investigation type scenes. as a police officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. i am intrigued with those types of calls. i wondered why someone died. i have an extremely supportive family. older children say, mom, how was your day. i can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. >> being i am a native of san francisco and grew up in the community. i come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from
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the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. there are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. if from is a child involved or things like that. i try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. when i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. what do you do? the autopsy? i deal with the enough and -- with the administrative and the families. >> most of the time work here is very enjoyable. >> after i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. i thought there was somebody dead? my bed. i rolled over and poked the body. sure enough, it was my husband
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who grumbled and went back to sleep. this job does have lingering effects. in terms of why did you want to go into this? i loved science growing up but i didn't want to be a doctor and didn't want to be a pharmacist. the more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between applied science and criminal justice. if you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. >> being a woman we just need to go for it and don't let anyone fail you, you can't be. >> with regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. let's face it, we aren't
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hollywood, we are real world. yes we collect evidence. we want to preserve that. we are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a hollywood television show. >> families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. somebody has to do my job. if i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of san francisco.
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