and four, commit to a program that maximizes local unionized jobs. our commission has concerns about the current design of the program and the progress being made towards realizing the city's local renewable energy generation and job training goals. and we are committed -- which are -- which are vital parts of the program originally adopted by the board and supported by this commission. we -- we are committed to following the development of this program and to, whatever. >> it's just all over the place. i mean, what is the competitive pg&e? if it's easier and we can get through it, we can say that we have concerns about the current design of the program and its progress towards the city's local and renewable energy generation and local job training and placement goals. and if need be, you know, it's no mystery we have the vice president of the commission with us tonight. he's heard all of this. everything can be conveyed. i can be at the commission. and if they want to endorse some of this stuff, i can lay it and some of the stuff we're looking for. b

our topic, state and local governments and the fiscal health.see the numbers on the screen divided by region. i think i've gotten the numbers screwed up. aside a thirdset line this money for state and local employees. if you work for state and local governments, we would like to get your view on the discussion this morning. host: and you can always tweak in a question or comment this -- as well. jeff barnett, you see this chart i have in front of me and the camera as well. what are we looking at here? guest: what we're looking at here is how state and local government expenditures have increased over the past five years. i want to talk about how we classify state and local government revenue and expense was. -- andcally expenditures. we basically have four sectors -- the general government sector, the utility sector, the insurance trust sector, and a liquor store sector. host: a liquor store sector? guest: 17 states own or operate liquor stores. local -- in five states and local governments own or operate liquor stores. this, the we look at insu

workers, local 104; auto, marine and specialty painters, local 1176; teamsters, local 853; and automotive machinists, local 1414 (joint common craft >> and number three to the tentative agreement between the district and the international union of operating engineers, local 39 and at the present timive agreement and between the district and the service employees and international union. local 1021. >> moved and second. >> i see no public speakers for this item. and so, at this time, i would like to call on the superintendent to read the recommendation for each agreement. >> thank you. >> president norton, i would like to call on executive director carm elo scarloto to read the motion. >> thank you, superintendent. >> and board. >> so the recommendation for the tentative agreement between the district and the international bother hood of workers, has got the san francisco board conducts a public hearing and adopts it in the related public disclosure documents. >> are there any comments from the board on that agreement? >> i know. >> okay. >> roll call please? >> thank you. >> ly. >> yes. >

it happens at the state and local level. responsehere the occurs. we need to make sure we are ready for public threats and are ready to respond. structured consistent with national preparedness. these funds go out not just to , a couple of large cities, and territories, but to public health departments across the united states. the end of the day it gets quite diffuse. 50% is for disease monitoring work, and the same is true for laboratory activities. fornext big chunk is laboratory preparedness. what i would like to do is make that a little less abstract. i can talk about capabilities, but how does this translate to your communities? is look ate to do what these resources are doing in your communities and communication efforts. the outbreak, which i believe we , 560 odd cases. of capabilities help for other foodborne outbreaks you may hear about. today we released an alert to all state and local health ofartments about a solution calcium that was contaminated with the bacteria products, so we made sure to get it off the market to make sure our patie

and it's a very collaborative process so at the state and local levels it works very well and we have halved very good relationships with things -- >> in your awareness is that kind of local emergency coordinating group ever been reached by dhs with regard to their cooperation or collaboration on this issue? >> in some states i would sayey. it's typically the states where we are active, and you bring the two together to come out. in other states i don't know, but that's the easiest route for the state dhs folks that we talked about earlier, that mr. wulf talked about, can reach out to the local community and we part of that. they should be part of that. the local sheriffs and fire departments and dhs and tceq in texas, environmental groups, and the media, and the public, are all members of those lepcs.yime. let me turn it now to the ranking member. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i thank our panelists for bringing your observations to bear here. i want to pick up a bit on what you just stated, mr. scott, and actually pose a question of mr. dippel. it's interesting that texas has a law

locals than you do chains. i honestly feel like trends change and there's been a acid decreases in the locals looking for space. i guarantee don't know to see blighted areas. i feel like we're a world-class city and we should be representative of what's around the world. i was at a cocktail party and it was asked why is there merchandise on a local area. i think which one neighborhood stops being unique another one starts. customers ultimately make the decisions of the success of a tenant and we can't artifically do that. i sincerely hope you'll do a full study on the effects. i feel like if we put those restrictions on one neighborhood they'll role into the next. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm dee dee workman from the san francisco chamber of commerce. the san francisco chamber of commerce representing over 15 hundred businesses urges you to poison the rough of the formula retail use of the hayes goes ordinance. this ordinance speaks to fundamentally modify this formula retail to stop establishment where 50 percent of the establishment has fewer than 11 locations around the world. it will expan

and activated a unit management with local authorities. they described long-standing partnerships with hospitals and emergency management with creating mutual trust that greatly contributed to the success of that response. health or parrot in this and response is no longer limited to disasters. the fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012, were health departments tracking andng were the boots on the ground, leading in 23 states to find the source of the outbreak. departments were also responsible for contacting facilities that receive product usingure they stopped products that could potentially have killed many more. you knew about the hepatitis outbreak in tulsa. ofwas allegedly because improper sterilization used in a local dentist office. was executed by the department of health. had to set up three testing 3000 patientse thisay have been exposed. could have potentially lead to more cases. throughout the country. there was a tv out rate -- reak in the tb outb cheboygan school district, and they worked to find an apartment individual with mult

and jobs. as was mentioned the city is already generating electricity renewable locally and the information you heard in terms of commitment to local build out, we are now part of the san francisco labor council which approved a resolution and i did author it that supports community choice aggregation because it has to be done in a way to support workers. we are going to support workers but those elements are not yet in the plan and we will and we promised before and we'll promise here today to continue to work and make sure that happens. supervisor avalos. >> thank you very much. >> i have a question of the witness? >> he's not a witness. >> mr. stern, miss malcolm indicated that you haven't gotten back to her regularly as expected. >> i had a conversation with ken paulson, he didn't indicate that he had a chance to speak with miss malcolm. she and i did have a chance to speak directly earlier last month but i haven't had a call since then. the simplest way to put this, the one thing i heard -- >> i think you answered the question. as we move forward what i'm proposed is not a delay. 2-3 weeks

equally as hard to make sure that all of the projects are covered under the project agreement and the local hire and the apprenticeship and no project should be excluded and our young people should not be excluded from being able to work on any of these. >> we have seen from the past plas that the non-contractors have an equal opportunity and they have performed, almost, to the same amount of the contractors on pla covered jobs, and it does not prevent them or preclude them, and so i would urge you to move forward and include all of the projects up to the pla. thank you. >> and i did call anthony arobina but i don't see him at the mic. >> i did get your card. you have been here enough times to know that i do not allow new cards, i will since we have one speaker not show up, if you like to take a few minutes you may approach the microphone. >> thank you, president, norton, you are right it has been a number of times and i rather sheepishly tried to get in there i figure it was a role of the dice and i wanted to thank you for the ability to say a few brief comments. speaking as community advo

these are all creates local jobs and benefiting our local economy, if it worked in marine and richmond, i know it can work here as well. one thing i have to acknowledge here today is the shell shock campaign that we see. i was with the marine program before we launched service when pg&e spent 44 million dollars marketing against our program and trying to defeat this happening in marine. we know that the shell shock campaign is being led by the ibew and you can't ignore the connections they have with pg&e, being with marine when we saw all of the marketing campaigns against our program there, it's clear that the same designer who did the campaign in marine against our program that was funded by pg&e is the same organization who's doing it ear in san francisco, do not be fooled by the misinformation that's being circulated -- >> the organization's name? >> jason freed knows the organization's name, and please don't lose site of the amazing changes that you guys can implement here in san francisco. thank you. >> shawn marshal representing

attorney offices and our partners in state and local government. when i think about the hate crimes cases and the other cases i've done, i've made friends for life with local law enforcement officers, with local da's and local community leaders who have been our eyes and ears. when i look around this audience i really appreciate the fact you have all the ingredients of reform and improvement. i have had the privilege of serving in the federal government, as melinda described, i've had the privilege of serving in state government as a state cabinet official back in maryland, i've had the privilege of serving as a local elected official and governor -- once a local elected official, always a local elected official. what i learned from that is partnership is what it's all about. if you want to confront the most vexing problems, you have to bring people across an ideological spectrum, you have to include the business community, you have to include our nonprofit, our faith leaders. that's how you get things done, when you bring people together. and i loo

we get real focused on the national community but it's at the state and local level. and even smaller towns across the country. so the messages it is from the state and local level first >> let's hear from our young entrepreneurs. your creating jobs and paying taxes when you hear this from people what you do you say >> i've definitely paid hoof taxes. the short answer is yeah, the silicon valley if that were not true. it would be like the - i know i've spent a lot of time with interesting people from all over the world and their successful people and their passionate about being here and their contributing to the economy >> i like to give the example of football. imagine the 49ers and we're going to be playing with another team but what if it is other team had 13 or fourteen people. we have to see the u.s. as a team are the other countries and we're limiting the team on the field and if canada is allowing their team to to compete against us. to not allow the 49ers to come to the game is not making sense. you want to have the largest team i can in order to beat the comp

government has and also state local officials. it seems like that penetration into the domestic sphere gets people more concerned. talk to me about that and about the relationships you would like to build with state local officials. >> this has come up a couple times today. some of the challenges we face in the domestic sphere. i do think that for the last several years we made real gains in how we interact and how the community as a whole interact looking overseas, making sure information is shared properly. it is much more difficult and challenging when you start looking at the picture inside the united states. we have a much more complicated structure of fbi and dhs at the federal level, and the thousands of state and local departments. and then you throw in fire departments. the challenge for us is how do we make sure our local police departments and firefighters who may be first responders, when they see something is suspicious, how do we make sure that information gets put into the national intelligence picture so that we can

they shop local and national. i've been fortunate to lease all of fourth street and berkley you also know as a chain and also in downtown san - we have the locals and we know the importance of the local chain stores. it's interesting because flt under the definition a gentleman which went from a local independent to a chain. i urge the counsel to look at this. there's a balance that comes with nationals and locals and international retailers because there are draws that local merchants can do that retailers or or national can't do. and it seems shortsighted to make a rash decision relative to something that's got an impact not only on hayes valley but the general san francisco city. so i request you study this more thoroughly and i appreciate your time. thank you >> thank you. any additional public comment? public comment is closed. commissioner >> well, to the speakers who have spoken today, i think we've had good conversation. one speaker more than one speaker spoke about the choices that consumers make. if cons

we get real focused on the national community but it's at the state and local level. and even smaller towns across the country. so the messages it is from the state and local level first >> let's hear from our young entrepreneurs. your creating jobs and paying taxes when you hear this from people what you do you say >> i've definitely paid hoof taxes. the short answer is yeah, the

your neighbors and local leaders about voting rights. write an op-ed, called a congressman. tell them you believe in the right to vote, not just ourselves but for your fellow citizens, and tell them that our government cannot fully represent the people unless it has been fairly elected by them. [applause] so as you go home to your local bar association, courthouses and offices, please ask what more you can do on your own with your local bar association to be that advocate for justice. how can we bring a lot to people's lives and help it serve and empower them. one of my early mentors as a lawyer was drawn forth who argue pivotal cases for the justice department. 1963 in jackson, mississippi, john stepped between angry protesters and armed the police to prevent a potential massacre after the murder of medgar evidence. that was the kind of lawyer and leader he was. years later he gave me a photograph would -- with an inscription, to strive to see, to find and to not yield, our nation's greatness is not a birthright, and must be earned by every generation. i am confident that we

and so it is really been fun to see that something that we are doing here locally is having an impact nationally. we are also seeing that the highest participation rates in commuter benefits are actually at the smaller businesses. and so we are seeing a 36 percent participation rate among the employees at businesses with fewer than 500 employees, including those with fewer than 100. in the coming year, our program is focused on enhancing our business collateral and improving the material to provide more robust information to employers about options for a complete transportation program including commuter benefits but also the other transportation programs that we offer. >> we are also focusing more on enforcement of the ordinance, to insure that all businesses that are required to offer benefits to their employees, understand the requirements and are working in these programs with us. >> and during a partnership of the office of economic and workforce development, smart will be conducting the out reach specifically targeted to businesses with neighborhood commercial corridor and this

with cal time for sonoma produced geothermal pow e it has 578 employees in northern california and their local construction programs have employed more than 1200 union workers. as a public agency, we're proud to be able to support union workers and prevailing wage workers. we've already begun local build o*ut from the solar installation, we've identified new sites for solar at transportation port and is non-profit organizations within our service area, they're in early planning stages, we provide service to almost 2 thousand net energy metering customer that is are generating their own power on their rooftops getting power to our load and the installation of our airport project created 20 jobs through the 20 month construction phase through our feed-in tariff and as well as the feed-in tariff , it also generated new jobs w we pay for those programs to promote local jobs. >> we have lofted two minutes per witness z. >> this year, we also launched a 4.1 million energy program that's available to cc a programs that launch. we understand there are complexities involved and encourage you to keep in