i'm just saying cca is one place where you can do that and fund the sources as well.ng i wanted to mention --. >> you want to make sure you have comments by november 7? >> it is a large report so if someone comes back to see and says, hey, we need a few extra days, it's not hard set but that's what i am proposing. i have already started getting some comments back from folks and it's only been out for a day. a lot of the report while it's large is similar to what was done in the first draft that you saw a month or so ago, so that part you can almost skim over. if you didn't have comments on it before you will probably not have comments on it again. it should be a quick read at least for the people who reviewed it the first time. it should be a quick read the second time. >> is there going to be any review and comments from city departments like the public utilities commission or the department of the environment, is that part of the process that we'll be hearing from those departments? >> yes, we already sent and the puc has a copy of it and they have started to look a

so that time frame could slip a little bit if things on cca really get heated up. if something really heated comes out of the internex report and we get the puc energized on doing that, it might take me a little longer because i have to focus on the puc to make sure they are doing things correctly there. >> have you shared this with supervisor tang >> yes, i gave her a copy to make sure i was getting what she was looking for out of her request and she seemed very happy with what we were doing. yesterday i had a meeting with her and the san francisco coalition to underground utilities to have further discussions, they were the ones who kind of brought this idea to her to get their feedback as we. i know we have a representative today from that group who will speak on behalf of that group. they are excited to have things moving forward again. no one seemed to complain at least in the meeting to me about what that looked like. from that spers tech tif i think we are on the right track but i need to get everyone's opinion if that's what you want or something in additio

if i would want to limit myself based on number of hours worked, my first priority as i've said is cca so this will be when there's gaps like right now for the next couple of weeks everyone else is going to be looking at the cca report so i could work on it then. but once the comments come in i will be looking at it to make sure the comments are addressed and the ones that weren't, why we're not addressing them. i am sensitive to the cc apt and this is more of a filling in based on the request of this body with some other work but making sure cca is my priority which is in i'm only giving the next meeting as to what i will actually guarantee to report on and not guaranteing anything further out than that. i don't know if that answers all of your question or not. >> it does, but also i think, you know, i understand that we are doing, next, the work of, you know, the puc has not done on cca what i would just be concerned about is i know that legislation that supervisor david chiu recently passed on first reading in the board of supervisors on tuesday had to do with dig once. so has some

. >> howard, founder and ceo of cca partners is a fighter. located in manchester, new hampshire, his organization helps the small fries. >> the local, independent business person has the brains, and they have the talent. what they don't have is scale. >> individually, none of these small businesses has much buying power. 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 and the same scale as the big boxes. >> the carpet one cooperative membership is made up of more than 1100 flooring retailers. >> when we buy something we're buying it at "x" amount. i have no idea what the guy down the street is buying it for but there's no way we can buy it. >> when you factor in the other industry cooperatives managed by cca partners you realize howard's retail cooperative is a very, very large business. >> we're actually bigger than starbucks. we're bigger than bed, bath&beyond. that's our combined all

i think that the objective behind the cca and program itself will require some thinking. i'm clear about what my objectives are and you know what they are. what the ends are i don't know. >> thank you and again i appreciate the commitment to continue to work together with lafco. and just the last question related to that as you know the puc and lafco have a memorandum of understanding that will be expiring at the end of the fiscal year june 2015. it's hard to imagine how quickly time has flown. but would you be open to extending the memorandum of understanding and your thoughts on it? >> i'm not opposed to it. i don't mean to be cute about that. june of 2015 is also when our contract with pg & e and you are the lock expire. how that table is is it in june and the resource requirements are i can't predict at this point. but i think that we have done extensions in the past and i think that basic underlying thought process and interest of the commission won't change. >> great, thank you very much, commissioner and again thank you for your service and for wanting to continue

so the s ac is a public council anyone can attend our meetings as an added incentive dinner for our cca representatives and lunch if you want to attend make a presentation or come to our f ac c meeting please contact our f organization c salvador lopez thank you. >> thank you very much now item e the parent council report i believe we have two parents that are presenting tonight. >> hello hi. >> please state your name for the record. >> thank you very much citizens advisory committee and. >> i'm van ness tony good evening, commissioners thanks for the time this report will provide a brief update of the sub proprietors this year and we'll describe our recent pack activities for if the past month the per spectators are represented and in our last meeting the pack members continued to explore areas of focus as we work to establish our priorities for the year next week we'll continue this processed and develop specific goals and identify action plans for you work one program will be to hold parent meetings with the community advocates and district partners about current district policies an

>> no, it is rumored to be run by cca, the corrections corporation of america. thing that is so shocking that we are seeing the exact same things be repeated. we heard reports elsewhere of guards threatening children for being children, for playing, and being loud with separation from their parents. that is the same thing we heard that we went to karnes recently. it is a persistent problem. another problem is women and children are losing weight. imagine an infant losing weight because the food is so poor. that is what we heard elsewhere under cca and that is what we're hearing under karnes -- at karnes under geo. >> what about his private corporations coming in to run these prisons? >> it is to make money. the government pays them on a per day basis whether it is filled or not. the longer they keep people there, the more money they make. why do they place them where they do at karnes or dilley? because there are no attorneys there. no one can get to them. it is in remote places where nobody will see them. we don't have to think about them. >> immigration and cu

cca highly production -- productive workforce in the united states, and some policy attention to manufacturingwhen you combine the factors, i think there is promise. if you were to ask a lot of people in manufacturing years ago, i am not sure that would have been the answer. host: the president made it a goal to put one million manufacturing jobs in by his second term. how much of this policy has contributed to what you are seeing? they have had some positive effects. it is important to connect manufacturers with innovation and scrape the rest off of the pipeline for developing talent in manufacturing and the skilled workforce. it is important to leverage other resources to aid in resource development, and then to remote the idea that made america make sense there those are valuable. macro factors, we still have some progress to make. exchange rates. if the value of the dollar goes up, that makes our exports less competitive, especially if we have competitors engaged in trying to lower their currency balance. you see trade policy and positives that you also see, a lot of the same old trade pol