facilities. they happen to be in brisbane. they are in brisbane because they were built there beginning in 1952 after about 17 years of using that property as a dump site. the location in brisbane -- i will tell you over the years, brisbane has taken a lot of abuse from san francisco's garbage. in 1965 or 1966, they got an injunction to prevent us from dumping their any more. as a result of that injunction in 1965, 1966, we build a transfer station. it opened in november 1970. it still sits there, and it is still a model that people from all around the world come to see almost every day. that facility is in san francisco. we have added some other processing capacity. it is in san francisco with one minor exception, and that is we had at one end of the transfer station that have been too sick -- and add-on building that happens to sit in the city of brisbane. we got their permission a few years ago as we were expanding the food waste compost program to utilize that building to transload organic materials and to transfer trucks

>> we committed that if we build anything, even though some of those facilities might be in brisbane, we are going to consider those san francisco, and we will continue to hire from the bayview there. we have not discussed here 80 -- we have not discussed pier 80. there may be other people who would like to have a say in that, and we owe it to all of them to have that discussion before we make any commitments, but we will certainly look at that. we will make them, for sure, the first offer to san franciscans for a new position. commissioner campos: thank you for being here. just had a couple of follow-up questions -- how many jurisdictions does recology serve? >> last count i remember was approximately 110. commissioner campos: do you pay actual franchise fees, or do you have franchise agreements with any of those jurisdictions? >> we have franchise agreements with the vast majority of them. almost all of them provide a variety of fees, and the percentages are all over creation, and the services that we provide under those agreements vary extremely greatly. commissioner campos: do you

brisbane officials. but a top executive is talking to abc's david louie. >> they are i building a 500,000 warehouse. when it opens next year, they will shut down the facility in brisbane and putting hundred workers without the job. vwr said it is more efficient to ship from the central valley. congresswoman spear and the state treasurer said the real reason is a list of tax breaks. the company denied that in philadelphia. >> our decision to build was based on capacity restraint current facilities and ability to reach our customers. >> vwr is eligible for a tax credit for each employee it hire . acrel -- accelerated tax deceleration. >> we have not filed for the tax credits and don't know if we qualify. >> that doesn't sound right with a tax expert with a consulting practice in san jose. vwr is a global company and sales totaled 3.6 billion dollars. that would be disingenius. hopefully they have tax advisors that are quantifying the savings of moving to a particular lokale. >> it -- state treasurer said the tax break is used to lay off more than 100 union workers and hire lower paid workers elsewhere. >> everyone has kid and families to support and all of t

brisbane. but a top executive is talking tonight and to abc 7's david louie. >> reporter: vwr international it building a new 500,000 square foot warehouse. when it opens next year it will shut down its facility in brisbane, putting more than 100 workers out of a job. they say it is more efficient to ship science lab equipment from the central valley. congressman jackie spear say the real reason is a list of tax breaks. vwr denyd that in an interview via skype from company headquarters. >> our decision was based purely upon our capacity constraints in our current facilities as well as your ability to reach owl o all of r customers. >> they are eligible for a $38,500 tax credit for each employee it hires in visaliaed a along with sales and use tack breaks and accelerated appreciation for equipment because it is moving into a targeted tax area. >> we have not yet found out if we qualify for the teak tax cr. >> that doesn't sound right to david. vwr is a global company, sales last year totaled $3.6 billion. >> i would say that that would be disin again waws. hopefully they are quantifying the savings of moving to a particular local. >> it would be customary to use tax savings to pay for the new

facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface

facility, that san francisco will get the best deal. on the measure that is potentially being proposed for brisbane, that is being negotiated as we speak. that is not a done deal. we certainly do need to and would recommend that we engage with the city of brisbane to look at what the terms of that measure would be and have been in touch with city hall about that. commissioner mirkarimi: and we get that, but i know through a lot of the meetings, which i do appreciate, the feedback we have been getting from your department as well as recology itself, and that recology has got to do what recology has got to do. but in the conversation you just had with share -- chair campos, i want to make sure it is clear that for us to benefit from their growth and expansion is the question that we are trying to prime, and that is -- how does san francisco and san franciscans benefit from this as well? that goes to the purpose of what is being discussed here, based on past practice and future, i think, observation. is exactly what i think is driving some of this discussion. when i and others tried to insert ourselves in the discussion, it was only on the

facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, andha