out a few people in addition to the dignitaries on the stage with me, and mayor gavin newsom, ed harrington, jared bloomingfeld, dean brown, and board of supervisors president david chiu as well as the port commission president, rodney fong, megan miller from senator boxer's office, the captain of this fantastic ship, a representative from metro ports, among many colleagues, many from the iowu, will travis, bruce wolfe from the regional quality control board, michele from the quality association of port authorities, captain strode from the u.s. coast guard, welcome. and many more that i'm sure did not make it onto my little card, so thank you very much for coming today. [applause] thank you. thank you. on behalf of all of us at the port of san francisco, we are honored by your presence and your demonstration of partnership. today marks a great achievement for the port. it gives us great pride but it also gives as testimony the wonderful things can happen when leaders come together and great minds work on innovative projects. the port, as i mentioned, is over 100 years old. it is a place of

ed harrington gave them a resolution signed by himself and our members. each othe members got up and gave testimony of about five to seven minutes. it was really neat. the task force will certainly be involved. i see many members of the task force every meeting i go to on the waste water side. certainly on the plants, and expect them to be highly involved. they did support moving the project forward. this is a critical project. we do not want to end up in an emergency situation where we cannot meet treatment requirements. as we step forward through the sources improvement program, our commission has endorsed levels of service better very specific. we're beginning to draft and prepare

ed harrington gave them a resolution signed by himself and our members. each of the members got up and gave testimony of about five to seven minutes. it was really neat. the task force will certainly be involved. i see many members of the task force every meeting i go to on the waste water side. certainly on the plants, and expect them to be highly involved. they did support moving the project forward. this is a critical project. we do not want to end up in an emergency situation where we cannot meet treatment requirements. as we step forward through the sources improvement program, our commission has endorsed levels of service better very specific. we're beginning to draft and prepare for program management and proposals for the facility in the channel tunnel. we need to get the consultants in place and working on designs so that we can initiate an environmental review. with the review, we have to have plans and specifications to be able to move forward. i have one more really important slide. we're also investigating new technologies to enhance energy p

last but not least is our general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission, ed harrington who came along and help with the investment when we needed it. we are grateful to him and all his staff for making this possible. >> thank you. thank you for your leadership. happy to be here with the bay area quality people and others. you are all aware that we have the best water in the world with hetch hetchy water, and you are probably not aware that it has a very nice by product -- clean, renewable power, and that will be powering this shift. you may say, but " big deal." this is the equivalent in terms of energy use as if you fold city hall into this slit. the amount of hall -- of power this should uses is equivalent to the amount of power used by city hall. this is a place where princess wanted to do this. we wanted to be partners in that, so this is the cheap power -- hetch hetchy power. if pg&e had done this, they would be charging about $25,000. we wanted to make it beneficial to the ship to use clean power and not diesel power, so we will be charging about $16,000. we will

in making this a environmental leader as far as projects go, i like to ask the general manager, ed harrington to come up and say a few words. >> thank you so much. i'm happy to be out here. this is not the leland i grew up with coming out here. it looks so nice. walking down the street here for a few blocks, the place is big and beautiful and it looks so wonderful to be here. i am happy to be here as part of the p.u.c. we gave a lot of advice to d.p.w. as they were working on it. i'm so proud of the work. happy to the with the mayor and supervisor maxwell and the partners in the community to make this something. a few facts about why it is important to us. you see the lights here. those are l.e.d. lights, providing better height for the community and it saves 60% of the electricity it would take to light normal streetlights. this sidewalk and -- there's only a few blocks here. you're talking about. but the perm i can't believe pavement, that means five -- 500,000 gallons of water per year that used to go in the waste water treatment plant won't, it will go back in the ground water and recharg

ed harrington also being mentioned. somebody who's a steady financial guy, not a politician.o they have to decide what kind of person they want and who can get six votes. >> belva: ideologically how does the board balance out, do you think? now that we know the four people -- >> it's going to be -- it's san francisco. it's liberal. but that said, it's a little more -- or a little less liberal, i guess you'd say, a little more moderate than the current board of supervisors. but by any reasonable spectrum in any other city in the country it's still pretty liberal. >> belva: okay. so we have the liberals in san francisco. we have the governor up in sacramento making proposals during these last days of his that are pretty controversial about selling off state buildings. where is that now? >> this is a proposal that actually was made a while back and is on the verge of being consummated. and whether it makes any sense depends on who you ask. like with most things that are done to try to plug our budget hole. the state based its current year budget on the governor's plan to sell an

talking about the head of the san francisco public utilities commissioner, former city controller ed harringtonybe he could be a place holder. others are going this is a chance to get a jumpstart in the mayor's race for 2011, so we're looking at board of supervisors president david chu, mark leno the state senator, supervisor david compos. that's going to be the fun political contest for the next couple of weeks if not months. >> belva: and you have to get the two measures we know about at least, sit lie. >> it will ban people from sitting or lying on the sidewalk between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. that passed pretty strong majority in san francisco. homeless advocates and others are saying this is just an unfair target against homeless folks. and the law and order people said enough is enough, we want something to happen, especially like around haight street. the other one was proposition b, pension reform, put on the ballot by public defender jeff adachi. that went down big. that was a big, big measure for organized labor, wanted to see it defeated. it shows that san francisco's still a pro-lab

reporter: those candidates include the head of the san francisco public utilities commission, ed harrington. former mayors willie brown and art agnos. or state assemblyman and former supervisor tom ammiano. not confusing enough? how about this. stable assemblyman mark leno is also another possible candidate to occupy room 200 at city hall. but whether he does it all depends on what nancy pelosi does. if she retires from congress, he might want to do washington sped of coming here to san francisco. so you can see, who knows? all this because one guy mayor newsom is leaving. >> like playing three different sets of chess at one time. >> reporter: exactly. >> we'll see. a lot of people rubbing their hands together waiting. >> reporter: yeah. it's not for lack of desire to take over, exactly. >> seriously. simon, thank you. >>> tint so dark, you can hardly see through it but is it legal? that's tonight's "good question." >> allen, i have a better good question. did the raiders sell out in time to avoid another blackout? i'm dennis o'donnell. and i have the answer. raider nation is back. why sund

out a few people in addition to the dignitaries on the stage with me, and mayor gavin newsom, ed harrington, jared bloomingfeld, dean brown, and board of supervisors president david chiu as well as the port commission president, rodney fong, megan miller from senator boxer's office, the captain of this fantastic ship, a representative from metro ports, among many colleagues, many from the iowu, will travis, bruce wolfe from the regional quality control board,