good afternoon, commissioners eric brooks san francisco ground floor party and san francisco clean energydvocates once again thank you to sfpuc for getting keeping to the timeline pretty much for moving forward with more rennet when the public asked for it and speeding up the not to exceed rate i want to touch on the item how spoke about at the end which was yes if we do not roll out decide we can roll out a 60 or one hundred megawatts and don't do that we have to wait for oath rfp round so we should be careful to launch at the highest size to launch at sonoma county just got their leathern it was beating pg&e prices from the gina 10 percent opt out rate not expected to go above 15 on the rate issue we need puc to approve the riots ratings on the 28 because may pg&e is going to put out it's rates it is really important we beat them to the punch and go to the newspapers hey cleaner sf is better rates than pg&e and one last thing not in the timeline advocacy is miguel's we have to get the department of investment and lafco staff all working together to start right now to design and sfwrathd

brooks. >> eir brooks san francisco clean emergency green party and sf. >> i want to clarify i think staff needs to take a look at the prop h that was passed by the voters in 2001 their that correct as the commissioner pointed out the h bond authority was passed but the voters so the board of supervisors could pass bonds for roushl emergency 0 projects which can include energy efficiency without going to the voters the voters westbound saying you don't need to come back for revenue bonds for clean energy staff needs to look at when deciding what bonds you know do the sfpuc bonds need to go to the voters if not that's great as staff said which bonds have better returned just politically chronologies are are the best way to fund any given system prop h is not just for sf i urge staff to drill down into that and right away raw we're we've got a double a rating and the first rating from the power issued bonds that's huge and the reason the sf bond power advocates aligned with you and your staff to help you to push for raising your rates because they were so low for city facilities and ho

brooks. san francisco clean party our city san francisco. i really want to speak to all of you but especially to commissioner king i think commissioner king if you have seen me in action over the past decade you know that i'm all about local community benefits and local jobs and local union jobs and prevailing wages. it was the advocates that went to the lafco and insisted that we get the enernex report to happen and it would show what local community benefits would really mean to this community and even though enernex didn't have anything to look at with the behind the meter resources it's showing 4500 jobs in this area that about that are going to be going to people and we, as advocates, now that we know this program is moving forward, the main thing we're communicating about is making sure there's local union jobs and not the community benefits that communities like the ones that are underserved right now that you have been the champion for get these benefits and so what i would ask is that all of you unanimously support sending the commu

eric brooks san francisco clean energy advocate. i totally agree with commissioner king i think you and i both were talking about it i think some of rest of you were talking about artificial turf there's more jobs in real grass anyway and i don't want to say we told you so but we told you so and so the folks that didn't listen i agree we need a hearing on that i think it's very important to have a joint sfpuc environmental commission meeting of the things we've been talking about those need to be flushed out on tv for the public to see all right what's the plan how are we moving forward and how are we going to create the jobs and all of that. and one other thing -- when you did item 7, what happened the discussion was a little bit confusing i think what you voted on was sending a communication immediately to those bodies including the mayor's office but i also heard director raphael say that this would be an agenda item for approval and i wanted to make sure that that that wasn't the case and that the communication going forward now

. >> either brooks san francisco green party and grassroots organization in our city and an organizer for san francisco clean energy advocates we have so many things i can't remember the names i want to talk about one first on the drought actually i'll involved in the state effort to ban finally clear-cut logging and the culture vacation of open cultivation of rejectingly - and berkley is picking up the resolution recycle in san francisco last september berkley is doing it tonight very

. >> one quick thing it is also to the broadband issue eric brooks san francisco green party net when we public nets been having discussions with public officials and supervisors the broadband issue we're identifying some things the department of the technology it is manages technology access for city purposes and it is not really a utility that would be a good idea to do something to start is an independent body or nonprofit to manage the citywide broadband system and that is something that the lafco could take up it would be much easier than we tried to do with clean sf where a charter got in the way in the case of broadband there is no chart block and the lafco could september up a entity to manage the broadband i urge you to put that open the agenda and discuss what kind of an entity citywide for public broadband thank you. >> broadband authority. >> okay seeing no other member of the public here we'll close public comment and before jurnd i want to thank sfgovtv bill smith and dillon. >> thank you very much we're adjourned. >> that good afternoon i'd like to call the order of reg

. >> good afternoon, commissioners eric brooks san francisco green party and grassroots in the city i serve with other but including san franciscans and clean energy advocate i want to definitely speak to continuing lafco as a fully flushed out budgeted entity with no detraction from its continuing work, yes we're about the launch the community on the ground gas station we've got the mayor's office it looks like this is going to happen but it is absolutely clufshl to understand the reason lafco was created was because it was recognized that programs like clean power sf will need a quasi state body that is not totally tied into san francisco politics that has public members that have decision making power on this commission payroll to make sure that citywide services and other citywide needs like good elect royal and trash collection and recycling all those are things we balanced need lafco to continue so it it come in from the outdoor when the city is laughing on something like clean power sf and most recently will come before you is the public broadband is a really good example exact

>> good afternoon again, commissioners, eric brooks, san francisco green party, our city and san francisco clean energy advocates. so on this item i would also, i'm kind of glad you are postponing this. i understand where director fried is coming from, but i think there's a lot that needs to be thought about. one has to do with the budget for the director and staff themselves. we expect that community choice will probably go along swimmingly early next year. however, i just want to remind, i know you have heard this ad nauseam, but it's so important that the reason the advocates have pushed this program for so long and worked to get it off the ground for so long is my tenants said the local buildout. that may not be flushed out entirely and we may need commissioner porter and diligence than we might think. so let's be prepared. after cca does get off the ground, i think there are so many things that are so crucial that are coming up. once cca is put to bed, myself and a lot of other advocates community broad band is are groiing to make that our no. 1 priority. we've got the public banking

. >> either brooks san francisco green party and grassroots organization in our city and an organizer for san francisco clean energy advocates we have so many things i can't remember the names i want to talk about one first on the drought actually i'll involved in the state effort to ban finally clear-cut logging and the culture vacation of open cultivation of rejectingly - and berkley is picking up the resolution recycle in san francisco last september berkley is doing it tonight very important to recognize in all the talk about the drought everybody or everything the governor and environmental groups nobody it talking about forests they're the reservoir of our water and they're important an old mature forest that multiple and diverse with deep soil that is bianca active that kind of soil is a huge sperm for water and carbon dioxide it is a goiptd carbon filter and clear-cut practices are wiping out the soil base when you look at the trees and to keep off vegetation from growing all that has been cut out of the soil liquor our churning or growing a tree application the same thing you

. >> good afternoon commissioner eric brooks san francisco green party san francisco i want to say what jason fried lafco said those points are good points i'll get to joid was not able to get to the elephant that the room that has been written about for decades if not more the trick of the nicole substation and the last 15 miles the assets on the screen because of quote/unquote reregulation would be good assets if we make sure our power line ran from the hetch hetchy to san francisco without toughing any per diem touching any wires you keep wires separate we should have bun or duplicate that with the transition and distribution relationships it is time that decades have gone but of pointing out this out in the month and many people claiming we get to cochran the egg of lived our own final transitions not touching the pg&e worries and those assets will be good assets and be very beneficial to the city all the customers of the hetch hetchy power system and very beneficial to community choice agreeing gas station thanks. >> thank you any other comments from the public commissioners. >> mo

. >> good afternoon, commissioners, eric brooks, san francisco green party local organization our city and san francisco clean energy advocates. first want to thank sfpuc staff for accelerating the rate, the not to exceed rate setting. that's really important because, as you heard, pg&e is going to put out its green power rates on the 7th. that's going to be sort of a competing program with community choice so we need to get our rates out and reported in the papers before then so the board needs to be able to take action before then. that also gets to the legislation you were discussing about the charter and other things. we need the board to go ahead, someone on the board to go ahead and move the legislation to committee so that by the time the sfpuc is done doing its work the legislation will be ready to move forward instead of getting a delay. our timeline can't afford any delays when we've got a competitor like pg&e breathing down our necks. so in my final minute i want to talk about the energy efficiency and the relationship with san francisco department of environment. this is a

san francisco has good internet. >> thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors eric brooks. representing san francisco green party the local grass roots organization in our city and i like mr. wolf a member of san francisco public net which several years ago our first job was to make sure that a monopoly partnership did not takeover all of the wifi hubs in san francisco that would have had a very slow ad driven internet service for everyone want to talk about the core of digital inclusion and the core is the same as the core of transportation inclusion was in the past century. what we're talking about is much like the internet -- i mean the interstate highway is highway system and road system that got built in the 20th century built by governmentals so that all businesses and individuals as long as they could afford a cheap clunker car could travel anywhere they wanted in the country created the biggest business boom this nation has ever seen to create a public network of roads and now we're in the 21 st century where the key to including low income people and most importantl

drought come up in your previous meeting i want to make sure and reiterate sorry i'm eric brooks with san francisco green party this is the chairman that coordinates the same commission in 2011 when we didn't have a drought that strongly opted even a mirror appropriation and involvement in the burr regional deceleration plan project we have not changed our position on deslaths and the project the reason we've not done so as always all the groups that can. to you maintained the desalvation and the emissions that came from that and the environmental impacts and the impacts on the water treatment system you have to might have to put to the ground treatment for all those reasons desalvation remains the absolute last report all the things like much more aggressive conservatism and rain barrels the com posting toilets if we did a massive shift we'd save million dollars of gallons this is the kind of things we need to do the point is desalvation is the last on the list because it, it's a huge e minority of green house gas and even if only on solar panels they could be used to replace fossil fuel somewhere

>> ifblg brooks i'm with the i run the our city san francisco and the sustainability chair for the san francisco party on the water committee of the san francisco chapter of sierra club i'm not speakingver, open the sierra club simply that is off-the-cuff we e it takes along for us to make speaking, however, i was at the water committee meeting last week where we had a long discussion about the drought and the regional water system and what we're being asked to do around the drought i want to put-down forwarding the concept that the people working on the environmental communities are facing basically someone came to our meeting and said to us the smelt and the salmon are in danger of going extinct if i folks don't crack down on our water reviews and need to get our people to do that i agree we should use the drought and bosco to use the drought for its customers brown about we should say to our urban computers and use this moment look we need to save a lot more water we as agencies need to do a lot more we've only touched the tip of the eyes beggar on recycle so, yes we need to say tha

>> ifblg brooks i'm with the i run the our city san francisco and the sustainability chair for the san francisco party on the water committee of the san francisco chapter of sierra club i'm not speakingver, open the sierra club simply that is off-the-cuff we e it takes along for us to make speaking, however, i was at the water committee meeting last week where we had a long discussion about the drought and the regional water system and what we're being asked to do around the drought i want to put-down for

>> i don't leave so a anyway eric brooks clean advocacy we want to get this approved one of the colleagues couldn't be here why the city is charging the san francisco public utilities commissionenter interest i'm assuming this is common practice but noting nice not to be used to pay interest so if staff could be encouraged to answer that question. >> i think staff is going to answer that question. >> barbara hale general manager formal power it is common practice within the city. >> what it attempted to address one thing great set of payers they're two setsz of payers the multiple and the klein power sf payers have separate revenue streams and make sure we separately accounted for them thank you. >> yes. jason fried. >> jason fried the staff fully supports moving forward we understand that the trick or treat should our we use the cca program is a stand alone program and getting a great rate i'd like to borrow off that recite it is so, please do an amazing rated i urge you encourage you to move forward with that rate and it's a wonderful rate .8 something any other comments? i just have i'm going to vote for this i do not like the idea ever this slu

ned brooks: resuming our interview, our guest today on meet the press is dr. martin luther king, jr. who is in san francisco. on our panel of reporters in washington, d.c. you've just met lawrence spivak. our other reporters today are tom wicker of the new york times, james j. kilpatrick of the richmond news leader, and john chancellor of nbc news. we'll continue the questions now with mr. wicker. mr. wicker: dr. king, you said a moment ago that alabama was a state that gives respectability to the resistance and defiance of the law, and you listed an observance of the law by local agencies in the south as one of the cardinal aims that you were seeking. yet on march 9, you led the second march on montgomery in violation of a federal injunction not to march. you said that order was unjust and john lewis, one of your colleagues, said that negroes had a constitutional right to march, injunction or no injunction. now, was that in keeping with the spirit of non-violence and the restraint that has always characterized your movement, and could you explain your reasoning in defying the court order that day? dr. king

brook hin in the bronx. after graduating* from williams college, he enlisted in the u.s. navy naval reserve and finished at harvard law school. 1958 peter and his wife carol moved to san francisco. and for most of his legal career, he served as general counsel at u.s. leasing. as an active member of the community peter served at the san francisco board of education from 1976 to 1980 including as president 1979. he was a 20 year member of presidio heights association members acting president from 1990 to 92. he was on sf park and traffic commission. served on the boards of thier baa buena* and the california box society. what he was known as an exceptionally hard worker. never put a job before his family. and he's survived by his wife carol to whom he was married for 60 years as well as four children and six grandchildren. and the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor wiener. supervisor ye. >> thank you, madam clerk. first of all, i want to announce that clean team event that's going to happen in district 7. 15th year that this has happened. and this year the department of public works will be hosting the event this saturday at 9:00 am at lowell high school. kick off there. and

. >> reporter: brooks supported the workers protest and said the city should create a department of race and equity to ensure fair treatment for all workers. >>> two san francisco are doing their part to save water while giving their customers a discount. the bars are offering $1 discounts for drinks that don't use ice. that would include beer, wine and shots. one of the owners tells us she's trying to raise awareness about water use and save water at the same time. a bar can use about 300 pounds of ice for every 100 customers. and tonight there's good news about a long time san francisco restaurant that was at risk of closing. the owners of caps corner in north beach have reached a lease agreement with the owner of the building. tom genela and his wife operated without a lease for years but they need one now to bring in a new partner. they reportedly signed the eight year lease on monday. >>> on wall street, stocks were down today. the dow dropped 200 points. the nasdaq dropped 36 and the s & p dropped 18. analysts say investors are starting to worry about first quarter earnings that will be released in the next week. >>> the ferry to alcatraz may be moving. t

brooks will be here too. . >>> good morning. i'm eric thomas. the talk all morning has been the mess at the richmond san rafael bridge. >> and it is still a mess. westbound 580 right at franciscoto use the bay bridge instead. also, southbound 101 is a busy drive if you're >>> good morning. live doppler 7 hd showing you we're off to a clear start on this friday morning. that sun is up. it's bright and blue out there and lots of sunshine on the way for your friday. as we're stepping outside, it's 50 51 in hayward. 49 in fremont. napa at a temperature of 45. here's your accuweather seven-day forecast. today, a mild pattern, lots of sunshine. 50s along the coast 60s in the bay. the weekend looking sun soaked and spectacular. temperatures really take off. by thursday ♪ i got friends in all the wrong places ♪ >> say hi to garth brooks. who doesn't love that song "friends in low places". we have a big surprise from him in just a little bit. a lot going on out here in times square right now. i cannot wait for this. kevin o'leary, you're ready to go here respect you? >> go kevin. go, kevin. go, kevin. >> one more time. >> all right, kevin o'leary. >> yay! [ cheers and applause ] >> how