crfment but because -- because a lot of property came from the p.u.c. i want to thank the community and the folks that made this lap. it was really a city effort to make it what it is. thank you, fran, thank you, nick. thank you for all of your work. thank you. thank you supervisor maxwell for the leadership. if it weren't for her, we wouldn't be here today and you wouldn't seat library and other things happening. we had references to the public utilities commission. on the face of it you may say what do they have to do with this? >> a few points on that. one is when we talk about the surface infrastructure and the investments, a lot of condition of our infrastructure is dependent on what is underneath it -- the wart water and waste waterlines. that's managed by the pufment p.u.c. we have been working closely with them as they have been ramping up their repair and we have been ramping up ours. we benefit each other when we could coordinate and join and get all of the infrastructure repaired with less money and less disruption, so we have been making grea

however, today, the p.u.c. 's consumer advocacy division urged the commission to keep a cap on rates beyond january 1. so far, the p.u.c. is not scheduled to take up this issue. and two biggest providers say rates go up just because the cap slifted saying competition will keep rates down. >> recession may be officially over but more folks are worried that this year about the roof over their heads. foreclosure is on the mintsdz of more americans this year than last according to a survey by washington post. 53% say they're concerned they won't be able to afford their mortgage and rent payments. that is compared with just 46% who were worried about their housing payments last year. two popular halloween candies have been recalled and a warning to parents, they could wind up in a trick or treat bag. recall involves nestle's raisinnetts in a fun-sized bag. some may contain peanuts, potentially harm tofl those with allergies and lots of megapops, lollipops. the candies may contain traces of metal part cells. parents a

i also like to thank members of the p.u.c. staff for coming to talk to us about the west side water treatment plant and for patiently waiting through what became a hong meeting. after prozac discussed their presentation, we passed this resolution, which you have before you, and i just like to read it into the record. it was approved on october 5th, and basically says, prozac wishes to express its stronk concern there's a proposal to locate the water treatment plant on land within the golden gate park. i also like to say that prozac members agreed to send comments for the e.i.r. scoping about the park p.u. crifment project to me and be forwarded to the planning department and the p.u.c. by october 18th which is the deadline. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner harrison. >> may i ask a question. you mentioned you had staff out there that gave you a report on the outreach program. did they give you any information regarding that? >> there was -- there was a presentation at the meeting. >> no paperwork? >> there was paperwork del

and have certificates of honor which they'll find in their bags which were generously donated by the p.u.c. tonight. and i want to say thank you to all of you for being here. and once again, to conclude tonight's ceremony, we have for awful you again, our -- again, i wanted to thank our sponsors, of course, because without comcast, yerba buena engineering and construction, without pse&g and at&t, we could not be here tonight. and most importantly, because we believe in education and its importance to our community, we budgeted so well this year that we can make a little announcement. we have four $500 scholarships that we'll be able to give to four promising latinos who will be graduating from the san francisco unified school district and who will be going on to their next level of education. for all of our sponsors that made that happen. thank you very much. [applause] thank you for a wonderful program. and now, thank you to mariachi band for closing out our incredible program tonight. thank you all for being here. thank you very much. please join us after this musical presentation at the

implications for both the future operating budgets of the agency and in a larger scale, the m.t.a., the p.u.c the airport, the port, and the general fund of the city are all players in these markets. and we all need to be cognizant of action that each of us are taking, because they require us to maintain relationships in many cases with the same banks, underwriters, the same institutions where an action of one agency reflects on the city and county as a whole not just in this case on the m.t.a. so i'm happy you're taking the time to understand how this process will work. and to begin to weigh how you, as a board, intend to bring this incredible power to bare. so with that i'll turn it over to staff to walk you through the presentation. director nolan: thank you. >> good morning, chairman nolan, directors, mr. ford. my name is terry williams. today we wanted to bring to you the topic of our bond financing advisory team. i wanted to -- as you can see as we go through -- we don't need to go through today's presentation topic -- director nolan: the microphone. >> oh. i am kind of short. sore brin

is the p.u.c. making sure pg&e follows the best procedure or are they simply turning their head the other way? back here live we're looking at investigation where that's the last home 20 clear up. this -- to clear up. we learned the fbi was out here last week. as for the cleanup, it's officially expected to end tomorrow. maureen naylor, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> ridership is down on san francisco's muni system, the municipal transportation agency says compared to the year before. there were 10 million fewer passengers in the fiscal year that ended on june 30th. that's a 4-point% decline. a muni spokesman said the decrease may be related to several factors including fare hikes, service cuts and high unemployment. despite fewer riders, officials say muni brought in $2.5 million more than expected due to the higher fares. if you drive you probably noticed gas frieses are increasing. here in the bay area, the prices jumped 7 cents a gallon in the past week. according to triple-a, the average price for a

received extensive review and input and edits from i think at this point six agencies, sfmta, sfbpw, the p.u.c., the planning department, the fire department, department of the environment, to some measure the review from the mayor's office of housing and the rent board and we have been in touch with state agencies as well. so there is a ton of staff and city input that is represented in those documents and i did want to bring that up in particular because commissioner sugaya i think raised the concern that staff had not done independent analysis and i would like to point out that the staff has been involved in reviewing and editing all of these documents and we would not accept that without such input. commissioner antonini: thank you. i make a suggestion that you work with mr. switzky and project sponsor and come up with something that would be acceptable as far as these informational hearings and work with president miguel and vice president olague and any other commissioners to be able to put together a schedule that would be acceptable and we initiate that today and you work with the part

so we're getting back the responses from p.u.c. within the first 30 days if it's not over the counter. so everyone is responding back to us within 30 days. chairman murphy: does p.u.c. have staff on the fifth floor? do they have a desk there? >> yes. they have two desks there. they actually have staff. they're actually located -- their working area is on the fourth floor. so there are two full-time p.u.c. staff members at d.b.i. and have been for years now. it's just, you know, -- they're also on the same position we are. they are the furlough days they have to consider. and one is normally stationed at the fifth floor. or can be available at the fifth floor if they're working in their office. they have a way to call them. chairman murphy: right. commissioner hechanova? commissioner hechanova: have any of the standing m.o.u.'s with the respective departments, will there be an amendment to those m.o.u.'s and will there be a structure of how the billables for administrative services that d.b.i. will be rendering relative to the r.f. -

and the p.u.c. and asian art museum, the asian art already voted yes. that's it for my presentation, i'd be happy to take your questions. and again, we hope the mayor's office, the office of economic work forest development and the many, many people on the steering committee hope that you think this is a great idea like we do. >> commissioner lee. commissioner lee: my questions have to do with permitting of the sisk center for events and so forth. how does this interact with our permitting division? is this another layer of approvals we're going to need -- our permitees to get? >> no, rec and park permit events. commissioner lee: so there should be no impabblingt for the ice skating rink and other permitted events. >> we think this will -- maybe not in regards to the ice skating rink, we think it will increase revenue by improving the general area and the safety and thes a thetic appeal of the area, we'll see more people looking to permit the area and more visitors to the garage and ice rink and things like that. commissioner lee: i want to make sure we

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i don't know if the new manager will. pu p.u.c. comes. the actual people that do the plan check comes from p.u.c. there and they're on staff. so i'm trying to get as many people. we have a representative from the health department that comes normally. chairman murphy: so do we have somebody coordinated to let people know when the meeting will be? >> yes. we have a regular agenda. we post the agenda. it's normally on the third thursday of every month. so we will have one on the 21st of this month. that's our next scheduled meeting. >> do we have an attendance sheet? >> we have the sign-in sheet and the original b.p.r. sheet and we send out notices to all the b.p.r. people that were on it and as people join the list, they're added to the list. so we email the agenda out to everyone before the meeting. >> why don't we ask -- could we ask for a copy of the sign-in sheet and the distribution list for our next meeting and just for -- chairman murphy: have it in our package for each month? >> sure. >> that would be great. chairman murphy: that's

today we also heard from the p.u.c. about why pg&e and those other major utilities doesn't been found in years. work crews in the crestmoore canyon neighborhood removed dead treats after last month's deadly explosion. >> we've done a lot of heavy lifting, but that's where the citizens will come back and rebuild. >> reporter: fallout remains. new questions are being raised after a reconvenient review -- recent review of the report found pg&e had 410 probable violations compared to 287 probable violations for all other utilities. >> i think in many ways, those 400 violations should be thought of as fix-it tickets. >> reporter: this man says pg&e and other major utilities doesn't been fined because fines are only given out for egregious violations. >> the other sorts of the issues, we've not seen these sort of high consequence events. >> reporter: today, a sign reading "zero in on safety" hangs out pg&e's san francisco headquarters. >> i think it would be a mistake to equate a lack of fines with a lack oversight. the gas in

abc 7 is here and that panel will consider whether the p.u.c. needs to change the way it does business. >> there are already three going investigations into what caused the explosion, this new one is more broad. and it could make ren men daigss together mean an overhaul of the system from management to maintenance. >> pg&e has its own investigation into the san bruno gas line explosion. the ntsb has one going so. does california public utilities commission. now add an independent five-member panel. >> it goes well beyond looking at the immediate causes of the san bruno accident. >> the panel scope includes cpuc role as regulator management practices and design and construction. >> i wanted to have a broad range of extra people that can do a good portion of the their time working on this. >> the and it's a personal issue more than just the people that face the tragedy head on. all of us recognize it relates to everybody. >> other are electric worker execkive. and dan shorey is former general manager and coe for sacramento municipal you yilts distr

. >> reporter: the state p.u.c. voted to give commission president authority to order pressure increase in the natural gas line that exploded. >> there is a what i'd characterize as an back stop authority. it's an authorization i hope and expect not to exercise. >> it's part of line 132, a major transmission line. the state p.u.c. ordered pressure in that line reduced to 80% after the rupture. it's very cold weather hits the bay area, pressure could need to be increased to maintain service to all customers. if they're not allowed to increase pressure, 35 peninsula hospital woz not have gas service. that is because they've agreed to have service cut. saying he'll only include increased pressure if safety is increased. asking that he not be given sole authority. >> just that you two continue to work together to ensure safety is considered first. >> san bruno resident kathy was initially opposed. >> i'm disappointed that they would increase the pressure without knowing why the pipeline exploded. but i feel a bit more co