i know we already voted on the matter, but thank you eric brooks and some of the other advocates who have been working on this and full-speed ahead. let's get it going. >> okay. very good. let's go on to our next item. >> item no. 7, consideration and approval of the proposed lafco budget for fiscal year 2014-2015. >> jason fried lafco staff. in your package you have the proposed budget to do -- just as a reminder within lafco statute we pass a draft budget by may 1st and final budget by july -- middle of july, if i am not mistaken, june, i'm sorry. this is our chance to pass our draft budget and come back, unless there are changes that are suggested today drom come back with this budget for final approval at our may meeting next month. the budget itself you will not see very many changes within it you will see minor changes, like non-personnel services a different line item that used to be under "other services and other departments." that they separate out now. so we have separated out in our budget to be more in line with the clerk of board office and how they do their budgeting.

eric brooks. san francisco clean energy advocates. very pleased to say that even though we didn't have much time to look it over, only about one day, we didn't see any red-flags come up in any of these contracts with one small exception, with the sf community power. if i ran out of time, i would appreciate it if you would ask me to elucidate that. the upshod is that we can support this. it looks like it's good enough for us to move forward and for the advocates to be supportive of it. enernex looks pretty exciting in its abilitis to get this work done. we do want to make sure that what the work that they do is really oriented on what is called a virtual power plant where you mix together a lot of different types of resource and not just solar and wind, but a lot of other things and we're hoping it will be that comprehensive. some specifics that we want to make sure you guys consult us on and that enernex keeps in mind as it goes forward is that we want to keep that focus on the 50% local clean energy in ten years,. that kind of build-

. >> thank you one more speaker card eric brooks. >> good afternoon, commissioners iveng brooks speaking on behalf of the green party and especially the grassroots in our city. as a resident that lives a block away from the location in strong opposition to the conditional use. as the previous speaker noted there's already a g n v c and another chance within a couple of blocks. this location has been a local business location and the idea i'm sure you're aware of we've discussed the idea with retail in san francisco is towards local businesses not toward opening up that used to be local biz businesses to chain store they're the first thing we've worked on we head in the direction of local sustainable businesses are that this particular part of polk street is going on an amazing renaissance and almost all the new businesses that are coming in are new local proprieties not chain stores and that's an interesting place to be. i live on the block of endearing i did not find out about this my block didn't get outreach i found out walking past the store front and had a consumer crisis and couldn

i had a clarifying question about something that our first public speaker eric brooks said. is it in fact correct that we could not say anything about cleanpowersf under this agenda? i have to admit that i read 4e as a topic under which -- >> you are right. under 4 e, we plan to go under cleanpowersf and other renewable efficiency programs. that's under 4e under the next item. >> thank you. >> thank you. can i call francisco decosta. thank you. >> commissioners, my name is francisco decosta. i want to speak about the people of this area. i read the agenda and subjectively speaking, this agenda is about bringing two bodies together to decide about something. and i want to watch how you are deliberating this something. what i want to speak about is that 350 years ago, all that you see here was pristine. it belonged to the first people what we have done without contamination is on us. and what we want to do using fancy words like carbon foot print and addressing that is on us. do we really have the empirical data on the carbon foot print that we are going to be addressing? i do

eric brooks with san francisco green party, local grassroots organization. our city and san francisco clean energy advocates. first of all, i want to thank supervisor avalos for putting this forward because, you know, with what's going on in the mayor's office and what's now going on at the state level, we are starting to see that our options for cleanpowersf may be greatly curtailed unless we come up with some really creative solutions. with that said, we also want to make sure that we will retain what we worked for in the last 10 years in san francisco to make sure that san francisco's cca, cleanpowersf is based solidly on local jobs and local installations, hundreds of megawants of installations and thousands of jobs created over the next 10 years. we need to make sure we don't lose that because, you know, marin has been spectacular. so has sonoma. the things they accomplish against opposition from pg&e are incredible. however, we want to set an example in san francisco for a much more robust local build out of resource s from the beginning. california an

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brooks. welcome, gentlemen. so let's pick up with the discussion jeff was just having. david, the resignation of ericeki, what would you add? why did this have to happen in. >> i hate these blood lettings. it's never obvious to me why one person is the problem. i'm a believer in experience and it's at least possible someone who's been there five years knows the organization and in a better position than the outsider. it should be said government bureaucracy is not microsoft. you can't fire people. >> woodruff: what do you mean you can't fire -- >> you can't do what a corporate turnaround artist can do. if you're in the military or corporate, you have a lot of freedom to get people to drop whole organizations to sell off your company. if you're in a federal agency i can't think of a turnaround. i'm trying to thoif one that's fundamentally been turned around just because the leverage is not there. and that's the problem here. sometimes we bring in business people bring in generals to run agencies and cabinet secretary have potentially very limited control over the agencies. >> woodruff: what do you see

brookings institute. chuck i'll start with you. before we get to foreign policy and the president's works earlier, breaking news regarding the v.a. i think we can call it a scandal now. eric shinseki has been briefed on the inspector general's report and released these words have i have reviewed the report and the findings are reprehensible to me. what happens to the secretary at this point? >> it sure feels like, you can't predict what the president will do. he's always very hesitant to what some in the white house refer to as "feeding the washington, d.c. beast when official washington starts clamoring for a firing or resignation or some sort of political head type of thing. you can certainly feel as if what limited support the president was offering general shinseki last week, and it was limited, he didn't stand behind him the way he had stood behind him a week earlier at the time. he was very clear. he had said specifically, that he wanted to see what the report said. when the president is coming out saying things that he finds the i.g. report "troubling" and in the white house background or on letting us know that the president found the report "troubling" they said,

brooks, the newly elected ceo of the naacp. my worst is the assistant veteran affairs, sloane gibson. >> how about you, joe? best and worst? >> my best, of course is eric and used it to talk about sentencing of african-american men. and worst is the story about the pregnant sudanese woman who would not recant her christianity and is being put to death for it. >> best is hillary clinton thanks to dr. carl rove who made her look better this week than before. worst was a close call between the "new york times" for house republicans voting down another immigration provision. >> okay, good to see you guys. thank you so much. and that's a wrap of the show. i'll be right back here tomorrow at noon eastern. 's correct. cause i'm really nervous about getting trapped. why's that? uh, mark? go get help! i have my reasons. look, you don't have to feel trapped with our raise your rate cd. if our rate on this cd goes up, yours can too. oh that sounds nice. don't feel trapped with the ally raise your rate cd. ally bank. your money needs an ally. reckless seeding. a backyard invasion. enter homeowner, and ortho weed b gon max. kills weeds without harming innocent lawn