manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute an employment contract with harlan kellyt general manager for infrastructure, on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. documents have been and are on file. president crowley: item 19, we have no speaker cards. any questions from anybody before we go? properly moved and properly seconded. all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. the ayes have it. >> the next session is hour closed session item. if you would assert a motion to attorney-client privilege, i will read the items and then we can go into closed session. president crowley: any public comment on anything in closed session? hearing and seeing none, a motion is before us. it has been moved and seconded. the ayes have it. >> item 22 -- threat to public services and facilities pursuant to5ió the california government code. item 23 -- the conference with legal counsel with regard to a clai supervisor alioto-pier: captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor dufty: i would like to call this meeting to order as a member. the

are going to be discussed, and that's general manager harrington and assistant general manager harlan kelly. i just felt with the experience in working with these two fine gentlemen, i just want to put a word in for how valuable they are to this city and their work and their leadership and their expertise, their ability to bring us all together, working with general manager harrington, i value very much the conversation we have on the church not that long ago, a very enlightening conversation. i really enjoyed that very much. and looked forward to it. another strong continued period of time. and mr. kelly played the role of great uniter not that long ago. a bunch of us came together saying how can we all come together around so many of these important issues, which are vexing and challenging. and i really saw tremendous spirit of leadership that i think just came into an apex in terms of working with mr. kelly. my -- i just wanted to say that i saw that on the agenda. i don't know if it's appropriate at all to even say this stuff, but i felt compelled to do it after feeling so good about th

we think you, as a commission, and the general manager harrington, harlan kelly, and all of the staff that we talk to are very committed to community benefits. we think with coordination at the level you are now proposing, that you will go leaps and bounds ahead and be the real trend setter, and really the benchmark for what community benefits really means in the context of a public utility. we think the community should develop long-term plans to sustain public involvement, beyond the development and implementation of the wsip and thessip. while folks are engaged now, we would love to see a way for that community involvement to continue. third, we think the community benefit program should be coordinated and sustainable across all enterprises, and we talked about creating a shared vision not just to run community benefits, but a shared vision where all three enterprises are working together in a unified manner. four, due to the importance of community benefits, we believe the puc should provide coordination and management had a senior staff level. i will leave that alone. we have mad