if we move forward with this modified resolution to adopt the other two enterprises. let's figure out what we are going to do to ensure heche piece is going to move forward to address your efforts to address the shortfall. >> back to todd's point because then now we are going to get into some wordsmithing because this is public information. it going accrue is the hallway so you had referenced earlier and now that i'm thinking more clearly instead of it being a plan, it was a what? >> a projection that we reviewed the financial situation and that there is a finding that the projection show a fiscal cliff of hetch hetchy. >> i'm sorry for interrupting. even if we, we find it necessary not to adopt a plan. we also find it equally necessary to convey a strong united front that this situation is in fact dire and there is no waiver erg from this body here, and to commissioner moran, my interest is that you are satisfied with that what looks like. if that's not a projection and if we can get there today, then we try to get there today and i don't know if there is the case. >

of san francisco, you don't care if this is a general fund obligation or enterprise. these are lights that are falling apart and making your neighborhood less safe. >> mr. strong. >> i agree with what you're saying. when i was saying -- i'm not suggesting it's not an issue that the city shouldn't be undertaking, but it's an item that's not been brought before the planning committee. our ten year budget lists what we're going to fund and what we're not going to fund. this is an item that has not come before the committee in any shape or form. , which is part of the reason why i think we're struggling a bit to understand what it is, what the problem is, how we can best address it so that's what i was referencing when i was talking about an issue. there certainly are areas where the city wants to make sure the enterprise departments, as well as general fund departments are doing a good job taking care of their assets. >> in the end they're all city assets. i was surprised it's not in the capital plan. i think this is a communal responsibility of taking care of these asse

or did jog for one thing that they don't enterprise to italy after a large low. even though the interest rates are lower the total not of interest by paying me a lot for issuing the pig low. for small companies. the novel loan is usually small. bake for another jump at that gig they don't enterprise and we have very thousand people went into meant to them the default rate on bank loans using very low compared to many wonder why the privately owned companies jumped into the province for the week to be market driven however due to long way well known chinese commentator hold a different point of view. he says that the cat that we have a bad reputation for heavy debt produced by the end of june two thousand thirteen the death of a wheat field and kill enterprises reached three to lead us where four hundred nine billion us dollars. nearly two hundred ten billion dollars loans from banks the book cannot be recovered in a short period of time. most things are still willing to provide them the fact that we forget the major reason for this is because the chinese couple c

few months ago the contract monitoring division run by core dovish you'd a report on local enterprise participation the past fiscal year. some of you may remember i used to call regular hearings under progress under 14 b. i haven't done so. this is the first report i've used in recent years i think one of the reasons why you want to read today is to get a picture of data so we can figure out where we need to go. second reason i wanted to call this hearing is our contracting really represents a wonderful opportunity for real economic development. we contract hundreds of millions of dollars on goods and services in city government which is our local version of economic stimulus and our country can process a powerful tool to help disadvantaged, low-income, minority owned and women business enter the economic mainstream. the question we need to ask ourselves is are we doing all we can. i have certainly gotten community feedback there is more we can do and that is what i hope to hear during this hearing. last thing i want to mention is there have been ongoing discussions about whether ther

and free enterprise economy has that natural buffer. to close were i begin, our goal ought to be to celebrate the success of free enterprise economies, but stretch the goal of success to an idea of mass prosperity. i think the goal is morally right. i also think it's economically achievable. >> thank you, glenn hubbard. your holiness, doctor hubbard had told us that the free enterprise system is naturally the most moral of economic systems, but that we have much more to do to include more people in its blessings around the world. you agree with this? and how can we make it more effective? >> yes. first, when you mentioned -- [speakin [speaking in native tongue] translatetranslate d one of the questions you asked your students was -- >> you mentioned at the beginning. >> translator: why haven't we been able to make everybody rich, so his holiness was wondering what sort of criterion are using their in terms of someone being rich? >> all i meant, i'll admit by the statement was the idea that why isn't the whole world as prosperous as the

to leave you with a couple of thoughts, a free enterprise society is have more dispersed power. the power is spread out evenly with the population and now with a single controlling government for central planning. those systems are less likely to reform, and adapt it be present in the modern world and it has the natural buffer. to begin our goal ought to be celebrate the success of the free enterprise economy to stretched that goal to mass prosperity. that is morally right and economically achievable. >> thank you. glenn hubbard. dr. hubbard has told us a free enterprise system is naturally the most moral of economic systems but we have much more to do to include more people from around the world. do you agree with this and how do we make it more effective? >>. >> translator: one of the questions you ask your students why isn't a pretty rich? why can't we make everybody rich? so what sort of criteria are you using? >> i just meant was the idea is why isn't the whole world as prosperous as the most prosperous? why is it the united states is a rich country with other countries are

this is a session called moral free enterprise. right now, we have an opportunity at this historic juncture to talk not about money, not just about business practices, but concerns us the most. our friends have shown us very clearly that there are certain things that are most concentric to human happiness that his holiness the dalai lama has talked about for many years. what are they? faith, family, community and the work, not money. president of the american enterprise institute, as an economist, it hurts me to tell you that money is on the list. yet it is true. why is that? why is work on the list of the most important things for human happiness when it is not money? the answer is earning our success, the belief that we are creating value with our lives, value in the lives of other people. if we can earn our success, if we have the dignities to do this , nothing can hold our world back. the system that we believe can make this possible is under question today. it is under question because people feel legitimately that they have b

the animal enterprise terrorism act or the t.s.a. is a little piece of legislation signed into law by president bush back in two thousand and six the backing of the biomedical and industrial farming industries the eighty eight was slipped into law with bipartisan support and allows the government to charge animal rights and environmental protesters with terrorism while recently a group of five activists have filed a lawsuit against the government claiming that the law is unconstitutional and infringes on their first amendment rights the case balloon v holder was originally thrown out in march of last year but the plaintiffs have since presented the case in front of a first circuit appeals court in massachusetts and just yesterday the court heard the first round of arguments concerning the appeal of the case so to discuss what happened in the courtroom as well as the broader implications of the a.t.m. joined by one of the plaintiffs in the case j. johnson thanks so much for coming on jane. thank you so much for having me appreciate it

do we have a lessee that is a local business enterprise? are you aware? >> well, we have a lessee that does operate local businesses, absolutely. that is one of the businesses that the gentleman runs with his wife. also runs businesses in sonoma, previously ran [speaker not understood] imports in sonoma. you know, as far as subcontracting, the lessee is going to be the proprietor that will be hiring staff. we will work with them to make sure they are hiring local san francisco staff. these are positionses that can readily be filled with san francisco residents so we'll work with them to accomplish that. for subcontracting, i think it will be a great extent to that. >> okay, thank you. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you. i wanted to say it looks like the vendor that was chosen scored quite a bit higher than the other two vendors. and you had a 5% selection committee that included at least one community member. i know that had come up in some past leases, but it looks like thises was a really good process you already mentioned especially given how much communi

and why yeah as you mentioned i mean this was this was an act there was already an animal enterprise protection act which is which was signed into law in one thousand and two why was that law replaced with such a more harsh law. honestly in my opinion because the impact that that was intended to have of silencing the movement didn't really work i think. in two thousand and two when that was passed it was obviously you know a frightening bit of legislation but it really didn't cripple the movement or cause people to sort of step back in their activism people are still willing to get out there and exercise their first amendment rights but you know with the era of terrorism and with you know the buzz word that is terrorism in this day and age having the threat of being labeled a terrorism you know being a terrorist sorry for engaging in first amendment activity is is just a much scarier notion and i think that that's in my opinion why you know the law was enhanced was just to kind of have a more effective chill on the movement right indeed and also just trumping up the charges so much m

in your packets each enterprise has 5 different tabs. between tab 3 the hundreds of positions that were either transferred or resigned so those are the few we couldn't figure out a way to shift around the way of authorization so thank you for considering those >> todd i want to point out that definitely was not popular but when we talk about project funded positions that's bans project a fund from a project so that is something that with, do through a consultant or have city staff and i try to balance so we'll have some of the infrastructure mainly will address the capital need and the positions noted to deliver the capital projects operating with something that was really focused on so out of the solutions and operation we've asked 0 for a few positions we're able to reline and reduce the areas to prioritize other areas i wanted to point that out. >> if you can add it that. the general manager and i have been in conversations about that. and it's a difficult issue given that we are not doing the budget in a way that gets us down into th

it doesn't need to be zero by enterprise. it can be anywhere. maybe somebody comes up negative five and that balances it somehow. i don't care where it is. i wanted to leave it to you and staff to figure out how to accomplish that. >> all right. we'll give it a shot. >> again, the process has achieved part of the objective. i will say two-thirds of it. you have done a lot of work already to trade things off and it's also very transparent. i can look at those and the objectives. it's the closed piece, that last piece is what i'm looking at and also it should go without saying that it doesn't sacrifice my favorite projects or the president's favorite project. that's often the tendency and that's how we gain budget process. second item is the desaul project. some of the defunding for that has been deferred. i don't know what the answer is. let me tell you what my concern is: we need to be able to restore the yield to 265. there is only handful of projects that have a chance of doing that. the ground water storage and recovery ones have some problem

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we need to introduce more of our features into enterprise. that is why we talk about enterprise bbm. we already do voice. but we have a secure voice. then we will have other features , we have three or four different services and capabilities we are working on and over the next wealth months, it will be announced. it will help productivity and collaboration. we are very excited about that. potential in the our enterprise focus, is going to be huge. and until we get to the point we can showcase that potential, it is too early to think about getting our $19 billion. >> you think that is where your competitive edge is, over some of the -- are just points products. nobody has a messaging, secure messaging infrastructure. we are the only ones who have it. itis important we showcase as a differentiator into the thousands and thousands of customers. >> what about wearable technology? >> everybody asks about that. i think we are too early for that, for us, for blackberry. my hands full with a number of things to do. get the server business growing ag

i would say in order to establish the hetch hetchy enterprise. >> that is acceptable plan. >> is that your motion, commissioner moran? >> i'm fine with that motion. >> mr. president, can we have that completely read how you want it to read? >> how about it commissioner moran? >> sure that this commission adopts the attached sf spuk financial plan for 2013-2015 through fiscal year 23-24 for the water and wastewater enterprises and adopts the 10-year financial projections for hetch hetchy water and power including the power enterprise -- strike that and hereby find the quarterly updates for hetch hetchy water and power including the power enterprise will be under taken in order to establish a 10-year plan for hetch hetchy water and power. >> commissioner vietor? >> is that okay as far as the budget process the moving it forward. is that going to address some of the concerns whether political and practical and tactical? >> from my standpoint, i think it serves the purpose of acknowledging the projection and the seriousness of it that we are asked to come quarterly and give you an update

the enterprise is a big question >> thank you any public comment on this item? okay public comment is closed. >> i expend the same climate i'm a principal in support of what you were saying i only have a couple of questions it's my need for clarification. on page not - on package two talking about the revenue budget and comparing the mayors mandated for the reduction you're showing 42013 - 2014 and 2015 - 2016 if there's a drop with would the number be that larger it's honorable >> you're talking about the general fund. >> yeah. >> so the way the reduction is circulated to the fiscal years there was some one time funding for specific projects in 2014 - 2015 such as the street tree planting so the reduction of the fund is not including that one time for example. >> oh. >> it's a reduction to our base budget. >> but that's a big hit and that's something i need to think about ahead of time because it is a large drop. having said that, package 3 the code enforcement is a discussion that popped up in the paper there's an incredible increase and people are questioning

i provide management oversight and direction for the 3 enterprises that serves the puc pardon i have 3 directors that the puc implements one important water as you know julie had done that and now with the water improvement director and karen is at the helm of the sewer project and previously chris was at the helm and ches has taken a promotional opportunity on the operational side on the other hand, and we'll have a replacement. so those 3 people are responsible for the day to day management of the enlist praktsz facility capital needs. we have our engineer management bureaus i've talked about the functions and our structure if you look at on the left the left column is the typical needs through the life of the program project management and cost and scheduled control. we have the engineering ever design phase of a project the construction management during the construction phase. overall quality assurance which mayors with the quality control our environmental analyst functions and everything we do goes through the prourment process and our latest on the 3 enterprises. those are th

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in the case of the water enterprise their prices those go up in the mortgage payment on line. you'll see that in particular we have the 4 bhoildz but that's the migration to paying for the project you'll see that in the sewer program as well >> thank you. >> steven if i might first of all, thank you four putting the map stuff in there. i think that's the same issue basically as the, you know, the capital funding. and you have correctly states the questions that are raised in the water supply agreement we have with the with stwhoel customers i want to make sure as we precede that we precede on the assumption that we're trying to figure out what we can do to say yes to all the questions not keeping the uncertainly out there but to see what it takes to say yes later on be we may rethink that. but we need to proceed with the precipitation we're coming up with a plan to deliver a yes to all the questions. question and it doesn't show up in the budget necessarily but one thing i know we've talked about is taking a hard look at the retail and sxhoel structures. how we make sure our r

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i was at the january 14th puc hearing and i strongly urge you to checkout the power enterprise budget information presented. a memo was available which i believe was the 14-15 two year planning cycle and indicated i think in one sentence that no work would be done on cleanpowersf by power enterprise. the focus seems to be on new high revenue customers and not on engagement. definitely a lot of information in those documents in terms of what the puc is thinking going forward and i don't think it do have dove tails what the lafco board is expecting. in-house scheduling is a comment that someone made earlier is something we heard the puc staff say they can do. and as mr. freed indicated that could actually not only not add to, but maybe even alleviate some of the funding issues that the puc is having. going to the rfp, we did as a group of advocates send a letter to the lafco staff and urged you to check that out and looking forward working on the lafco rfp going forward and assuming the shell contract is going forward seems questionable, but also maybe might not even matter that much. 2

when the workers decide to try to take over an enterprise, an enterprise which may be perfectly profitablebut not profitable enough for the multinational who runs it. maybe they don't want to keep the books. when they try to buy it, which would be a good deal for the multinationals they refuse to sell it for class reasons. they have class interests. they do not want to see the spread of popular democratic organizations for perfectly obvious reasons. this just happened, and i'll come back to youngstown in a minute but it happened a couple of years ago right here. it was a small but quite successful manufacturing plant made specialized parts for aircraft but the multinational didn't want to bother with it so they were going to close it down. the union tried to buy it. the multinationals usually refuse to sell it and there wasn't enough support, popular support to push it through. there was an occupy movement at that time, real. i think that's something they might if pushed through. actually on a much larger scale. a couple of years ago the obama virtually nationalized auto industry. not enti

"our world with black enterprise" is sponsored in part by state farm.ind an agent or get a quote at statefarm.com. >>> arguing law and representing clients in front of a court judge might not be a career path most teenagers are thinking about. but this new jersey project shows them how fun and adventurous it can be. correspondent latoya smith has more. >> the new jersey law and education empowerment project, aka nj leep was founded by craig livermore to help unleash the untapped potential of inner city students. so craig, who or what inspired you? >> i have been blessed and my inspirations are many. what really drives me is i cannot even begin to tolerate unrecognized human potential. when i look at our students and our families, when i look at the urban landscape, i know there's such amazing potential there. i also in a realistic manner know there are many obstacles to realizing it. >> nj leep runs the programs for as young as students from the sixth grade. it's a four-year program for students in grades nine through ni -- six through nine. >> our ment

so these people have vested interests in the retention of this collective enterprise. narrator: and so, as the farm tries to adapt to market conditions, what alexander aksenov finds most difficult is how to change the people's mentality. ( speaking russian ) translator: the most difficult task still awaits us: that is, to make clear to each employee, also to those veterans of labor, just what is meant by partial ownership and what responsibilities it entails. this can't be accomplished in one or two years. what is vital is the psychological sft that both older and younger workers need to make. ( aksenov speaking russian ) narrator: the hope is that the transition to market conditions will force all farmers to become competitive and more efficient. but the circumstances are difficult: money for investment is scarce. even sales to milk factories are no longer guaranteed. the difficulties of free-market agribusiness are forcing some people to leave the countryside. people who are leaving are usually youngsters. everywhere across the world, people who are prone to migrate

if we were -- if the power enterprise were to have more customers generate more revenue from tjpa or other projects, would that potentially create revenue for things like street lights and capital needs? >> yes, and part of what we do when we evaluate customer opportunities is we look at what the cost is to provide the service and whether there is any contribution from that customer to our overall costs. whether there is any additional funds available after we pay for the cost of providing service to them for other of our needs. and while the initial engagement with the customer involves us investing more in order to provide them with service over the life of the service, we definitely project additional revenues in excess of the cost to provide the service. so, yes, we anticipate there will be more revenue available for these needs you've mentioned. >> i appreciate that. i just want to be clear that in making these statements, it's not about attacking pg&e or taking pot shots at pg&e. pg&e, you know, whatever issues we sometimes have when we turn -- when i turn lights on at home, th

the overall cost sip program with the capital improvement program with the water enterprise and because of some of the increases we are seeing in calavera we are working with the enterprise to reprogram the capital projects to take a look at the year 10 project to see if they fall off to see if they benefit from taken from three or four projects which might create some cash flow benefits and we'll do that together so that water enterprise makes the decision on which projects move forward and we provide information as to schedule and cost associated with the plan moving forward and everything being focused on the ultimate services for customers. >> commissioner moran? >> thank you, we are going to discuss that more during the budget discussion as well. on the alameda creek recovery project, not now, but if somebody could get me some additional information on that project as it's been rescoped interested in impact on yield as well as the change of the design or operation practice? >> there was a lot of thought that went into that. the operational benefit versus the cost and we can present

the key with the sfpuc is that as an enterprise agency that is in charge of rate payers and keeping the system secure, they are mandated to be secure about this. lafco can really push the envelope in developing an rfp that will face the compliment crisis and we need to you keep this in-house. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. >> hello commissioners. chad hose skin. we didn't hear too much about the cleanpowersf program. i was at the january 14th puc hearing and i strongly urge you to checkout the power enterprise budget information presented. a memo was available which i believe was the 14-15 two year planning cycle and indicated i think in one sentence that no work would be done on cleanpowersf by power enterprise. the focus seems to be on new high revenue customers and not on engagement. definitely a lot of information in those documents in terms of what the puc is thinking going forward and i don't think it do have dove tails what the lafco board is expecting. in-house scheduling is a comment that someone made earlier is something we heard the puc staff say they can do. and as mr.

we are very focused on the enterprise.re focused on building a sustainable business that generates revenue and profitability rather than taking that path of drill out cheap user base. >> we are very interested in delivering services that are not just sms. we have a lot of work to do. we're working to produce new experiences. we want to make voice and data communications ubiquitous. we want text communication to be ubiquitous. that is what we are aiming for. we're not aiming at a pure money favorite of the carriers. we want to work with people to bring the solutions. if we went to someone that would make our solutions ubiquitous, probably. >> thank you both. the second annual design conference will take place here in san francisco. we caught up with some speakers, including tobias for bot & dolly. they specialize in robotics. thoughts.ten to his >> wow. what is design? design is not a discipline to me. it is an approach or methodology. the power of design can be applied in many areas. it is a creative design studio. what we

a unique circumstances for us to have all three enterprises like that. now again, the plan in front of you shows that we are not balanced but that means the rigor of the requirement is that we then point out to the policy makers where further work needs to be done. so there was an addition added to the resolution this time that was proposed that while the first 2 years are in balance that we have to come back to you to show you what additional activities and solutions are under taken as we can quantify more things to balance out the years of the plan. that was the best we can think of at least as of today as a compromise, the first 2 years are as a balance. >> the final obligation to adopt the 2 years would be fine, but it's not. it's to adopt a 10-year plan. and we don't have one. i understand there are conversation going on at the moment one on general fund rate. i would encourage they continue before this budget cycle is complete. that we have a plan that we can vote on. >> commissioner vietor? >> one thing to bring the elephant in the room and that h

and then, increasing the cap on the small enterprise work spaces from 500 square feet which they are now, to 1500 square feet which is the most common, sort of space need that we see among the manufacturers, and 500 square feet, often is not going to make the difference for someone who wants to get out of their home or garage and into a new space, but 1,000 to 1500 square feet is that sweet spot between someone that needs to that i can that step in a incan incubator space and we are excited to talk about the ways to continue to support the manufacturing in the city, after five years of implementing eastern neighborhoods and seeing are al districts so zoned for pdr and the construction opportunities and we are specifically talking about pdr 1 d and 1 g areas, and so, it is an interesting idea, and i have never thought of it. but, i don't think that we are talking about existing neighborhoods probably mc, zoned properties going for pdr use and generally we see the pdr needs a very specific type of commercial use and they need the high ceilings and loading and freight elevator and they