the p.u.c. is also struggling to figure out their budget quandaries too. so while we're all together, why don't we figure out what's possible here? >> sure, supervisor. i completely value what city college does. i'm appalled of the cuts at the state level. the school district is relatively speaking better off and they will not let me say that but basically they went to the voters a few years back and went -- ended up with access to the city's rainy day reserve and also a work-aside to the arts, music in schools, the slams program. they are getting more of the benefits because the voters voted on that and said to do that. love to see if city college wants to kind of bring forward that kind of thing but i realize even if they did that that's a longer term discussion. the problem that we have, we have several different interactions with the community college district. one of the larger ones that mr. rizzo, or president rizzo, brought up was the southeast community. ms. jackson referred it was put th

the infrastructure -- that would come before the p.u.c. for their approval and then the subphase applications and ultimately the improvement plans prior to construction permits. so everything that -- before it' approved has to meet with the p.u.c.'s specifications, and p.u.c. staff has signed off on the technical memoranda that are attached and, again, form the basis for awful the design criteria going forward -- for all of the design criteria going forward. >> so what you'd like ig confirmation of that from mr. carlin, that he's comfortable? >> there is a procedure for us to provide very detailed specifications and then to follow up with the developer on following those specifications. zg i see it for -- i see it for waste water. >> i see it third to the last, "further resolved," where it talks about -- give me a second. let me back up, fourth to the last resolve. actually covers negotiating the elements concerning the quality and it talks about p.u.c.-related infrastructure and all of that has to be -- it's in the second one and it says t

unlike the redevelopment agency, the p.u.c. is an enterprise agency and must generate its own funds from water and sewer rates to fund their operations, as well as upgrades to the system, including $125 million sewer treatment plan that's proposed on treasure island. san francisco is decades behind in repair and replacement of the aging sewer system below the ground on the mainland due to voter-mandated freezes on water rates in the 1980's. the project sponsors are asking the city rate payers -- water rate payers to build an entirely new sewer plan for 8,000 new homes, when we don't have enough money to upgrade the system we have in the bayview, which deals with 80% of the city's waste water for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. it's the actual cost of the -- if the actual cost were paid for by the developers or by infrastructure bonds or whatever and then repaid by stimulating the local economy, these huge investments by the p.u.c. might make sense. but there's already conflicts about the amount of affordable housi

that is a relatively low amount of fund balance for the water division of the p.u.c. you'll be hearing from them during the budget hearing tomorrow. but that is largely based on the fact that residents are conserving more. it has been raining more. they are selling much less to their outside clients. and so they are concerned with the low level of fund balance in the water division of the p.u.c. so in conclusion, supervisors, what we show, about a $47 million improvement in the current year. those dollars is about $15 million more than what the mayor's office had been assuming when the mayor's office was working on the balancing plan. and then above and beyond that, we are taking a look at the property taxes and the property tax revenues for the current year and working very closely with the assessor. but it does appear as if there is more money in property taxes than we have reported in this nine-month report up to approximately $15 million. so those dollars are available to the mayor's office to assist in balancing the budget for the next fiscal year. i'm happy to an

again, assuming the p.u.c. has taken a greater role in your activity there, i look forward to that report as well. >> happy to. supervisor chiu: thank you. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor chiu. i believe there are nor motions before us. let me be clear so the public is aware what we have before us. the go solar program will be funded at current level of $3 million plus, and on top of that, there is another $1.2 million that will be carried forward to augment the coming year. there is always an opportunity to have a conversation about that. meanwhile, it is the direction, i believe, of many members of the board to ask the p.u.c. to start looking at some of the other items for energy efficiency and seeing if we can work on work force development or local hiring-type work on the energy efficiency. i think that was the point that supervisor kim made. that's a terrific one and really meets all of the policy objectives we have about making sure it is the best usage of our dollars and not only that but helps red

board and the p.u.c. commission in june for the agencies to ratify their respective portions of the agreement. we had three appeals at the board this week, so that was -- that included the first appeal. the second was the at&t light speed appeal. this item was continued without discussion by the request of supervisor wiener. the board approved a five-week continuance. and supervisor wiener introduced a hearing request on d.p.w.'s order concerning the excavation permits for the installation of what they call the surface-mounted facilities, which are the same things that were under appeal. specifically, the supervisor wanted the hearing to be a discussion with public works, city planning department, the sfmta and the p.u.c. on the extent to which this executive order complies with the general plan and the better streets plan. so that will happen later in june is the tentative schedule for that. and the third appeal that was before the board was an appeal of 1787 union street, also known as the brickyard. nei

this year we're also going to have a group of employees from the p.u.c. ill help us with the parade and also some volunteers from john owe collin high school and we thank them all. it is my honor and my pleasure to introduce to you somebody that i respect and think that we couldn't have a better mayor in this city. i have not been in touch with him for quite a while but in the last month it's been a couple of events that we've run into. i would like to introduce the san francisco -- [speaking spanish] , ed lee. >> thank you very much. welcome to city hall. i've been laughing for the last 15, 20 minutes because we're joking with the supervisors and of course supervisor campos had to ask me, what are you wearing for carnaval? and of course i said, well, i'll begin with the orange tie. is there anything else i have to wear? with that fantastic performance just now, with trash mashup, i was thinking, supervisor, you know, i've been thinking, i've got to have a replacement for that one-hour question-answer period at the board. i think i've got a better idea now

wonderful projects just of this nature except what's unique about this is that it was funded by the p.u.c. this is about managing groundwater, diverting water, even in, again, the most densely populated neighborhood in san francisco and according to board of supervisors, president david chiu, who was present, the second most densely popularitied in the country second to china toub in -- chinatown in new york. it was quite wonderful and i wanted to refer to that and to really give kudos to the people involved in it. but more to the model that we actually, working with something that clearly is of great benefit to our students and to our schools, with limited resources, but that actually is a kind of perfect model of collaboration with other agencies because it meets their goals, using mostly their resources with a little -- the minimum amount of resources from us. and has great benefit to us and to our students. that's it. president mendoza: thank you. other commissioners? commissioner ye. -- yee. vice president yee: thank you. i just wanted to add another happy note to our board meeting.

here at the p.u.c. in san francisco. rry mcsweeney is covering our other top story today and he is also in san francisco. good morning, terry. >> good morning to you, amy. new developments in the beating case of bryan stow. he is still here in critical, but stable condition. but the suspect in the case, giovanni ramirez, was picked out of a police line-up yesterday in los angeles. take a look at a picture of ramirez. the first one we have seen right next to the sketch of ramirez. the suspect in the case. that led to his arrest. ramirez arrested sunday in southern california. for assault with a deadly weapon. that weapon was the foot he used to kick stow in the head. he says he was not even at dodger stadium that day, march 31. his attorney says that ramirez was with his 10-year-old daughter and she will testify. the attorney says the child's mother went to the game and will testify. ramirez offering a polygraph to clear him for the police. ramirez two-time felon held on a parole violation and prosecutors say they will fil

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

the official city family we are working with, that greg has been able to work with when he was at the p.u.c. thank you very much. this ends here and we have interviews set up in the mayor's conference office for one-on-one interviews with the new chief. thank you very much for being thank you very much for being here. man: 60-inch screen, high-definition. football season is coming up. you can watch it right here. what do you think? i'll take it. huh! huh! now, that's what i'm talking about. you're right. i don't need it. >> good morning, everybody. hi. how are you? so nice to see you. that looks like a great play yard. i know you're anxious to get out there and take part in all of the findings today. i wanted to introduce myself. my name is cates -- kate. i am a commentator for the golf channel and i really want to welcome the over 300 students to our golf and leadership party here. [applause] can we did but cheer from the students from lafayette school? [cheering] how about a cheer from monroe elementary school? let's hear it for sheridan. [cheering] and a big hello from the students of je

this will be voted on this morning by the p.u.c. in san francisco. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> drug maker bayer says it is cutting 540 jobs at the emeryville facility. the "san francisco business times" report the cuts are happening because pharmaceutical shipped production of the multiple sclerosis drug to outside manufacturer. workers at the emeryville plant will receive severance pay and help finding new jobs. bayer says the workers could be relocated to other company locations. >> this morning, no report of injury or damage after at least three tornadoes reported in northern california yesterday. the twisters hit sparsely populated areas in glenn and butte counties north of sacramento. one touched down near durham, a rural community five miles south of chico. meteorologist dave dempsey grew up in chico and said he has never seen anything like this. >> shaped at a classic funnel shape. good healthy thunderstorm. it reaches the ground. you can see the debris kicked up by the tornado and spun around. it's just magnificent. fortunatel

the official city family we are working with, that greg has been able to work with when he was at the p.u.c. thank you very much. this ends here and we have interviews set up in the mayor's conference office for one-on-one interviews with the new chief. thank you very much for being here. tape 55 >> welcome, this is carl. >> great to meet you. >> great to me you, and i want to thank you for your interest and this is the city's animal shelter. and come in and a lot of people come here to adopt a animal or if they have lost their animal or looking for other animals. and we deal with other animals like birds and rabbits and you name it. this is more to see in this facility and more to see in the community. and i suggest you go with an animal control person and see what they co, whether rescuing animals in distress or hit by a car or dealing with aggressive animals or wildlife or a variety of things. you can only get that flavor with them and doing it first hand. >> i have been with animal control for about six years, i spent a year in the kennel and then the office came up and i started doing

the official city family we are working with, that greg has been able to work with when he was at the p.u.c. thank you very much. this ends here and we have interviews set up in the mayor's conference office for one-on-one interviews with the new chief. thank you very much for being here. >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other

the official city family we are working with, that greg has been able to work with when he was at the p.u.c. thank you very much. this ends here and we have interviews set up in the mayor's conference office for one-on-one interviews with the new chief. thank you very much for being here.

the official city family we are working with, that greg has been able to work with when he was at the p.u.c. thank you very much. this ends here and we have interviews set up in the mayor's conference office for one-on-one interviews with the new chief. thank you very much for being here. >> this is a dpw corporation yard. i work for the bureau of street environmental services used to be street cleaning. we are a new age. >> here we are. >> here we are. >> clean. >> these are our communications dispatchers. hi. okay, no problem. you are welcome. bye-bye. >> all the information about the location, the nature of the complaint and we dispatch it. >> near the steps. >> by new they have started a hundred calls for dispatchers. >> once a get a request if they are not on the air i will page that unit. these are the radio channels. we have 14 channels. i will give a service request. >> there is a lot of expertise that goes into a call. i think we can have you dispatch and track. >> 448. >> 448. >> 19th at california. >> can you give us a little bit of a view. >> we have the city broken up to differ

the staff, based on i think the p.u.c. or d.w.r. ery -- any box comes before them for review they'll consider aesthetics, they'll consider historic resources that may be in the vicinity, they'll consider pedestrian safety, basically they'll consider all the environment problems that are acknowledged to be possible here. when those kinds of conditions, and they are mitigation conditions, i just saw a memo, i haven't even read the whole thing from staff, the supplemental memo, that talks about the fact that these aren't really mitigating conditions that are being placed on these projects. but they are. a condition that may say nothing can be over five feet tall or nothing can be a certain width or that no construction can occur after a certain time, those are definite conditions that can be applied across the board. the conditions that are on this project involve the review by staff and discretion as to how they're going to mitigate the possible acknowledged impacts of each of these boxes. you can't have -- there's case law that says,

toilet, which they should not do because it could compromise the waste water structure f you ask the p.u.c., we do not have the infwra structure to filter out contaminants that reaches into our stream system. if you look at health reports, both federally and state, one of the highest causes of suicide and drug abuse are young people who get ahold of unregulated medications or disdiscarded medications and take them and, of course, become sick or die. that is a well-known statistic nationally speaking. so while this may not seem like the kind of pressing problem that any one of us may think in this time of economic crisis, it is a public health -- it is a public health and a public safety response that a city like san francisco should enact. and san mateo's been doing this for quite some time at san mateo expense. the only difference is we think it should be shared expense. president o'brien: commissioner o'connor? commickser o'connor: i just wanted to thank you for crafting this legislation. it makes a lot of sense. i was going to inquire about the corporate pharmacies but you answered the

the state p.u.c. has to approve the overlay plan. >>> it appears a 300-year-old valley oak tree nicknamed "granny" will not be chopped down. the "chronicle" reports the san francisco public utility commission is holding meetings to see if tunnelling under the tree is an option. it could cost extra $500,000. last week, neighborhood activists rallied around the tree in menlo park after learning it was going to be cut down to make way for a water pipeline as part of the hetch hetchy system upgrade. >>> speaking of trees, marin county. the park officials warn of explosion of rattlesnakes in the open space area of the state park. the county park chief says crews building the 680 trail ne near tera linda have seen many brought out by the population of their prey -- rodents. the snakes like tall grass, rock and wood trails. be careful hiking in the woods from novato to mount tam. >>> it's 4:45 now. coming up, the serious legal trouble one-time presidential candidate john edwards is in. >> surprising source wh

. >> i just feel that we have not even touched on the role of p.u.c. and this project on treasure island. we haven't even talked about it yet. so i have questions in that regard. >> how many other items do we still have to consider besides this? >> several. well, you know, my suggestion would be that we continue the other agenda items as it gets later and later. >> this doesn't preclude us from holding a special meeting next week, if we have to. >> right, a special meeting. >> correct. >> you can have a special meeting on this particular item. i believe the deadline for an appeal to be filed

the state p.u.c. has to approve the overlay plan. >> granny staying put.ing, it appears a 300-year-old valley oak tree nicknamed granny will not be chopped down. the chronicle reports the san francisco public utility commission is holding meetings to see if tunnelling under the tree is on option. it could cost an extra half-million dollars. last week, the neighborhood activists rallied around the tree in menlo park after learning it was going to be cut down to make way for a new water pipeline, which is part of the hetch hetchy system upgrade. >> watch out, hiking in marin county. park officials warn of a boom in the number of rattlesnakes in open space areas and state parks. the county park chief says crews building the 680 trail near tera linda have seen many rattlers recently brought out by the warm weather and a jump in the population of their prey: rodents. officials say the snakes like tall grass, rock and woodpiles so be careful hiking in the woods from novato to mount tam. >> that is why mike ordered up the cool, rainy weather, to send rattlers bac

. >> and the next question is for p.u.c. i understand that -- >> why don't we stop there so that becan have a response s there anyone that would like to respond? >> i know the housing element is coming before the land use committee very soon. and every five years we have to revise it an affordable housing and better streets planning and strong planning process is critical. neighborhood group that's have raised concerns will be heard in the land use committee so i think that's a real good question and that will be coming up in the next couple weeks in the land use committee. anyone else that would like to respond to the question? thank you for the question. >> one last thing -- >> no, we're going to go to other audience member to ask questions. thank you. >> good evening. my name is rose hilson, and i'm actually a resident of jordan park, not specifically the richmond. but i'm covered by the richmond police station. i see captain korea here. i'm glad to see him because we had some discussions in the past and worked on some pro