that allows cca stipulates that all cca's must post a bond designed to cover the anticipated costs of, should a cca terminate abruptly, with the ink from a da costa that might be to the utility. cpuc has been charged with determining the method for calculating that. in the last year, we have gone through the regulatory process for that, but the cpuc has not yet issued a proposed decision or comment. at the very least, we know we are a bit least a month, maybe more, from a final determination on that a that is critically important because of our mission. sfpuc has made it clear that they're not willing to launch until they know the specifics of what that bond and that it would result in for calculation. so we are anxiously awaiting that. that is it for my report. happy to answer questions. i know that ms. miller had comments to add. supervisor campos: thank you. ms. miller, if you want to add anything? >> i just wanted to add, your interim executive officer, that in my memo to you, there is a date that is erroneous, which is that the matter would be going to the budget committee on feb

we look forward to our follow-up meeting cca -- on cca and setting up a joint meeting with the public utilities commission. again, thank you to the members of the public, to puc staff,

i know we talked about the calendar, and now we're talking about cca. but if there is a need to meet in the spring or early summer, we should perhaps start that request now so that we can get a date with everyone's calendar so that we have at least the day. if we do not want it, we do not need to use it. perhaps it might make sense for you to direct us to date for the meeting. supervisor campos: i think this is connected directly to cca and that he would be helpful for staff to get a sense from this commission on what dates might work in terms of a joint meeting and maybe take a couple of days to survey the members of the commission or maybe today to find those states and submit something to the commission. >> that is great. if you could just give us that direction, that would be fabulous. commissioner campos: unless there is objection, i think that direction is given. why don't we open up to public comment? any member of the public who would like to speak on item 5, if you could please come forward. i know that a number of these items, that the issue o

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before the legislature, if you recall, last year, there was a bill, sb 790, which helped cca a lot. the cpuc is starting a hearings process for the code of conduct to be administrator of with the utilities, which will help level the playing field. we will be actively involved in that. also, the cpuc -- i am in regular contract -- contact with senior people there, providing a performance bond that is required for cca to post. i made it clear we cannot launch our program without knowing what that mechanism would be and what that amount is likely to be, so we can make sure we are able to satisfy that. back toward the very end of last year, supervisor campos, general manager harrington, and myself met with the commission to make that known. earlier this week, general managers harrington and hale were invited to talk with cpuc commissioner simon. it was a meet and greet. they talked about the program and noted that one of the steps for being able to launch is the cpuc to take action on that. that message was delivered. we are trying all the different tools to keep getting it to move forw

we look forward to our follow-up meeting cca -- on cca and setting up a joint meeting with the public utilities commission. again, thank you to the members of the public, to puc staff, lafco staff, commissioners. thank you, madam clerk. >> is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker. in addition to making it possible for us to use this beautiful ballroom for the dedication ceremony today, he made great contributions to the dragon dance you just saw performed moments ago. i felt very under-dressed after seeing him. please welcome mr. palermo. >> happy new year! [applause] i would like to welcome everyone to the hilton financial district and the u.s. postal service stamp ceremony. we are honored to share this opportunity and proud to be part of the dedication ceremony. happy new year, everybody. [applause] >> thank you, jeff. i am pleased to introduce the honorable edwin lee, the first asian-american mayor in san francisco history. he was appointed unanimously as the successor mayor by the board of supervisors in 2011 to fill the remaining term of mayor news who was sworn in a s lieut

we look forward to our follow-up meeting cca -- on cca and setting up a joint meeting with the public utilities commission. again, thank you to the members of the public, to puc staff, lafco staff, commissioners. thank you, madam clerk. president hechanova: good morning. today is thursday, february 2, 2012. this is a special meeting of the building inspection committee. the first item on the agenda is roll call. commissioner clinch? >> here. commissioner lee? commissioner lee: here. we have a quorum. and i would also like to introduce jackie hoverubbard, an assistant that will help with the commission. the next item is item number two, report discussion and possible action to approve the department of inspection commission budget for 2012-2013 and proposed draft budget for 2013-2014. >> good morning. pamela levin, department of building inspection. this is our second meeting on the budget for 2012-2 thir12013. we have responded to the issues you have brought up. i first want to tell you where we are in the budget process it's self and what the key dates are. we have to submit the budg

we look forward to our follow-up meeting cca -- on cca and setting up a joint meeting with the public utilities commission. again, thank you to the members of the public, to puc staff, lafco staff, commissioners. thank you, madam clerk. >> i have 2 job titles. i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore

we look forward to our follow-up meeting cca -- on cca and setting up a joint meeting with the public utilities commission. again, thank you to the members of the public, to puc staff, lafco staff, commissioners. thank you, madam clerk. here. commissioner lee: here. commissioner hyde: here. commissioner joseph: here. commissioner tan i believe is on his way. >> item one is discussion and possible action to send recommendation to the planning commission and the board of supervisors regarding entertainment and community planning. before i call on commissioner hyde to address us, i want to make a couple of points. neither myself nor this commission is discrediting the process of the plan. we respect the process, we just know that it isn't finished yet. wefeel like it is fair to keep on talking about it. things have been referred to as an entertainment zone. we fi that language to be inflammatory. it serves no purpose and is not ctua our input, by the way, is sply recommendations. it is for those bodies that actually make the final decision. no decision made here today reflects the plan,

we look forward to our follow-up meeting cca -- on cca and setting up a joint meeting with the public utilities commission. again, thank you to the members of the public, to puc staff, lafco staff, commissioners. thank you, madam clerk. >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm dra

we look forward to our follow-up meeting cca -- on cca and setting up a joint meeting with the public utilities commission. again, thank you to the members of the public, to puc staff, lafco staff, commissioners. thank you, madam clerk. >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist en

but together, as members of the cca retail cooperative, they can compete with anybody. >> you have to level the playing field. and i think what we do is we level the playing field so we have the same tools on the same scale as the big boxes. >> the carpet one cooperative membership is made up of more than 1,100 flooring retailers. >> when we buy something, we're buy i buying it at x amount. i have no idea what the guy down the street is buy iing it for b there's no way he can buy it what we can. we have 1,100 stores. how can one independent retailer buy it at the price we have? >> we buy, literally, millions of floor covering which puts in the same category as home depot, lowe's. >> you realize howard's retail cooperative is a very, very large business. >> we're actually bigger than starbucks. we're bigger than bed, bath and beyond. that's our combined -- all the different divisions we have within the cca global partners. >> for the frankcovellas, membership in the cooperative gives them the extra leverage necessary to get the price breaks they need to survive. >> you own your own sto

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- where it speaks for itself could you have done a great job steering as the past year, looking add cca as well as the waste contracts in san francisco. i think your leadership has shown in many ways, and i would like to nominate you. supervisor campos: thank you, supervisor. commissioners? >> i would like to nominate supervisor of the los for the vice-chair -- supervisor avalos four vice-chair. supervisor avalos: thank you. supervisor campos: we have nominations for a chair and vice-chair. let me add to the vice-chair, i have worked with commissioner avalos in his capacity as a member of the board of supervisors, and i cannot think of anyone who better embodies the leadership qualities that you want to see in an elected official. so i would be proud to support that nomination. why don't we turned to ms. miller to advise us as to the best way to proceed. >> nancy miller, you can proceed on the item concurrently. it can be by affirmation. supervisor campos: we have nominations for a chair and vice-chair. before action is taken, let's open it up to public comment. >> good afternoon. i rep

wells fargo invested almost $100 million in cca and -- combined. those two groups are responsible for stopping immigration reform that is needed. we would like to ask in coalition with the other groups that are here today, pushing for this municipal bank that the board of supervisors not only make sure our money is one of a% safe but our communities are 100% safe and we're investing in institutions that will protect the rights we have to stay in the city. thank you. >> supervisors, i am with the california reinvestment coalition. one thing that is clear to provide some context is the public is frustrated and angry with financial institutions as a result of the kind of non- responsiveness we have heard others testified to today. as you know, these kind of efforts to do something about it are happening throughout the state. i want to commend supervisor avalos and treasurer cisneros for working to bring and neck -- a mechanism to bring some accountability at the local level. one added benefit of this approach is that by having financial institutions a

while we tend to get focused on cca and some of the other issues, the point of this is just to remind you that you have the power. if there are issues or other services that you want to direct us to explore, that is really our purpose. this item was put on to the direction of the chair, to remind you this is a power to conduct studies of municipal services solely by lafco. chairperson campos: to add to that, besides community choice aggregation, in the last year or so, we have looked at the issue of garbage disposal and transportation. we also now are looking at the issue of voting. if there are any other issues that you think this commission could look that, we have the opportunity to do that. that is not something we have to do our decide today. but we wanted to make sure we reminded you of that opportunity. supervisor avalos: thank you. i appreciate the reminder about what lafco can do, in terms of research. i think i might want to look at, not just for today -- i will just broach the suspect -- broach the subject. i am looking at municipal banking in san francisco, and how we migh

as you know, we are also looking forward to a successful launch an operation of our cca program. planning for the future is largely focused on our efforts to adjust our operations to the changing regulatory environment that we are in and changing contractual agreement -- environment that we are in. as you know, our pg&e contract expires in 2015 and we are spending time and effort planning on how to replace those services and protect our existing customer base and the revenue stream that they represent, making sure that we are paying attention to those risk-management issues inherent in being an electric service provider. for our green and sustainable efforts, it is release starting first with optimizing our use of the hetch hetchy resources. making sure that we are operating it under the water first policy, consistent with extracting as much value on the power side as we can. that is the coordination that we have between miss and offered's folks and our purchasing and scheduling groups that are doing the day-to-day activities there, and the coordination. this is, of course, our f