good afternoon, commissioners eric brooks san francisco ground floor party and san francisco clean energydvocates once again thank you to sfpuc for getting keeping to the timeline pretty much for moving forward with more rennet when the public asked for it and speeding up the not to exceed rate i want to touch on the item how spoke about at the end which was yes if we do not roll out decide we can roll out a 60 or one hundred megawatts and don't do that we have to wait for oath rfp round so we should be careful to launch at the highest size to launch at sonoma county just got their leathern it was beating pg&e prices from the gina 10 percent opt out rate not expected to go above 15 on the rate issue we need puc to approve the riots ratings on the 28 because may pg&e is going to put out it's rates it is really important we beat them to the punch and go to the newspapers hey cleaner sf is better rates than pg&e and one last thing not in the timeline advocacy is miguel's we have to get the department of investment and lafco staff all working together to start right now to design and sfwrathd

next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors eric brooks. representing san francisco green party the local grass roots organization in our city and i like mr. wolf a member of san francisco public net which several years ago our first job was to make sure that a monopoly partnership did not takeover all of the wifi hubs in san francisco that would have had a very slow ad driven internet service for everyone want to talk about the core of digital inclusion and the core is the same as the core of transportation inclusion was in the past century. what we're talking about is much like the internet -- i mean the interstate highway is highway system and road system that got built in the 20th century built by governmentals so that all businesses and individuals as long as they could afford a cheap clunker car could travel anywhere they wanted in the country created the biggest business boom this nation has ever seen to create a public network of roads and now we're in the 21 st century where the key to including low income people and most important

eric brooks san francisco clean energy advocate. i totally agree with commissioner king i think you and i both were talking about it i think some of rest of you were talking about artificial turf there's more jobs in real grass anyway and i don't want to say we told you so but we told you so and so the folks that didn't listen i agree we need a hearing on that i think it's very important to have a joint sfpuc environmental commission meeting of the things we've been talking about those need to be flushed out on tv for the public to see all right what's the plan how are we moving forward and how are we going to create the jobs and all of that. and one other thing -- when you did item 7, what happened the discussion was a little bit confusing i think what you voted on was sending a communication immediately to those bodies including the mayor's office but i also heard director raphael say that this would be an agenda item for approval and i wanted to make sure that that that wasn't the case and that the communication going forward now

. >> one quick thing it is also to the broadband issue eric brooks san francisco green party net when we public nets been having discussions with public officials and supervisors the broadband issue we're identifying some things the department of the technology it is manages technology access for city purposes and it is not really a utility that would be a good idea to do something to start is an independent body or nonprofit to manage the citywide broadband system and that is something that the lafco could take up it would be much easier than we tried to do with clean sf where a charter got in the way in the case of broadband there is no chart block and the lafco could september up a entity to manage the broadband i urge you to put that open the agenda and discuss what kind of an entity citywide for public broadband thank you. >> broadband authority. >> okay seeing no other member of the public here we'll close public comment and before jurnd i want to thank sfgovtv bill smith and dillon. >> thank you very much we're adjourned. >> that good afternoon i'd like to call the order of reg

eric brooks. san francisco clean party our city san francisco. i really want to speak to all of you but especially to commissioner king i think commissioner king if you have seen me in action over the past decade you know that i'm all about local community benefits and local jobs and local union jobs and prevailing wages. it was the advocates that went to the lafco and insisted that we get the enernex report to happen and it would show what local community benefits would really mean to this community and even though enernex didn't have anything to look at with the behind the meter resources it's showing 4500 jobs in this area that about that are going to be going to people and we, as advocates, now that we know this program is moving forward, the main thing we're communicating about is making sure there's local union jobs and not the community benefits that communities like the ones that are underserved right now that you have been the champion for get these benefits and so what i would ask is that all of you unanimously support sending the commu

ideas on the drought come up in your previous meeting i want to make sure and reiterate sorry i'm eric brooks with san francisco green party this is the chairman that coordinates the same commission in 2011 when we didn't have a drought that strongly opted even a mirror appropriation and involvement in the burr regional deceleration plan project we have not changed our position on deslaths and the project the reason we've not done so as always all the groups that can. to you maintained the desalvation and the emissions that came from that and the environmental impacts and the impacts on the water treatment system you have to might have to put to the ground treatment for all those reasons desalvation remains the absolute last report all the things like much more aggressive conservatism and rain barrels the com posting toilets if we did a massive shift we'd save million dollars of gallons this is the kind of things we need to do the point is desalvation is the last on the list because it, it's a huge e minority of green house gas and even if only on solar panels they could be used to replace fo

. >> good afternoon, commissioners eric brooks san francisco green party and grassroots in the city i serve with other but including san franciscans and clean energy advocate i want to definitely speak to continuing lafco as a fully flushed out budgeted entity with no detraction from its continuing work, yes we're about the launch the community on the ground gas station we've got the mayor's office it looks like this is going to happen but it is absolutely clufshl to understand the reason lafco was created was because it was recognized that programs like clean power sf will need a quasi state body that is not totally tied into san francisco politics that has public members that have decision making power on this commission payroll to make sure that citywide services and other citywide needs like good elect royal and trash collection and recycling all those are things we balanced need lafco to continue so it it come in from the outdoor when the city is laughing on something like clean power sf and most recently will come before you is the public broadband is a really good example exact

brooks are you coming up to speak (laughter) >> i don't leave so a anyway eric brooks clean advocacy we want to get this approved one of the colleagues couldn't be here why the city is charging the san francisco public utilities commissionenter interest i'm assuming this is common practice but noting nice not to be used to pay interest so if staff could be encouraged to answer that question. >> i think staff is going to answer that question. >> barbara hale general manager formal power it is common practice within the city. >> what it attempted to address one thing great set of payers they're two setsz of payers the multiple and the klein power sf payers have separate revenue streams and make sure we separately accounted for them thank you. >> yes. jason fried. >> jason fried the staff fully supports moving forward we understand that the trick or treat should our we use the cca program is a stand alone program and getting a great rate i'd like to borrow off that recite it is so, please do an amazing rated i urge you encourage you to move forward with that rate and it's a wonderful ra

. >> eric brooks. >> commissioners, if you'll indulge me i have a colleague it needs to leave around 2 o'clock so take her in my place. >> i'll be quick you don't know i don't need to tell you that kriengs is a big thing i want to encourage you when things get tough to remember this is san francisco's opportunity to lead the nation in this crucial activity and show we're the city that knows how thank you. >> good below brooks. >> either brooks san francisco green party and grassroots organization in our city and an organizer for san francisco clean energy advocates we have so many things i can't remember the names i want to talk about one first on the drought actually i'll involved in the state effort to ban finally clear-cut logging and the culture vacation of open cultivation of rejectingly - and berkley is picking up the resolution recycle in san francisco last september berkley is doing it tonight very

. >> good afternoon commissioner eric brooks san francisco green party san francisco i want to say what jason fried lafco said those points are good points i'll get to joid was not able to get to the elephant that the room that has been written about for decades if not more the trick of the nicole substation and the last 15 miles the assets on the screen because of quote/unquote reregulation would be good assets if we make sure our power line ran from the hetch hetchy to san francisco without toughing any per diem touching any wires you keep wires separate we should have bun or duplicate that with the transition and distribution relationships it is time that decades have gone but of pointing out this out in the month and many people claiming we get to cochran the egg of lived our own final transitions not touching the pg&e worries and those assets will be good assets and be very beneficial to the city all the customers of the hetch hetchy power system and very beneficial to community choice agreeing gas station thanks. >> thank you any other comments from the public commissioners. >> mo

>> good afternoon again, commissioners, eric brooks, san francisco green party, our city and san francisco clean energy advocates. so on this item i would also, i'm kind of glad you are postponing this. i understand where director fried is coming from, but i think there's a lot that needs to be thought about. one has to do with the budget for the director and staff themselves. we expect that community choice will probably go along swimmingly early next year. however, i just want to remind, i know you have heard this ad nauseam, but it's so important that the reason the advocates have pushed this program for so long and worked to get it off the ground for so long is my tenants said the local buildout. that may not be flushed out entirely and we may need commissioner porter and diligence than we might think. so let's be prepared. after cca does get off the ground, i think there are so many things that are so crucial that are coming up. once cca is put to bed, myself and a lot of other advocates community broad band is are groiing to make that our no. 1 priority. we've got the public banking

. >> eric brooks is the area director for osha, the occupational safety and health administration. it's the federal agency charged with enforcing health and safety in the workplace. osha only has nine fulltime compliance officers for north dakota and according to some estimates it would take decades for osha to inspect every workplace in the state. >> while we have 9 people assigned to this area's office we have the collective of osha's resources that we draw upon in order to make sure that we can improve and effectively enforce osha's standards. >> i've never seen osha come out >> wait, you've never seen osha at a site in four years? >> no >> everybody knows about osha. and eh but everyone just does the bare minimum to get by you know. >> john was a friend of dustin payne's. john's not his real name. he asked us not to use that. he told us he worked in the oil fields in north dakota for four years and has been on hundreds of well sites. >> when things that happen like what happened to your friend dustin does it make you step back and kind of ugh decide how long you want to do this

. >> good afternoon, commissioners, eric brooks, san francisco green party local organization our city and san francisco clean energy advocates. first want to thank sfpuc staff for accelerating the rate, the not to exceed rate setting. that's really important because, as you heard, pg&e is going to put out its green power rates on the 7th. that's going to be sort of a competing program with community choice so we need to get our rates out and reported in the papers before then so the board needs to be able to take action before then. that also gets to the legislation you were discussing about the charter and other things. we need the board to go ahead, someone on the board to go ahead and move the legislation to committee so that by the time the sfpuc is done doing its work the legislation will be ready to move forward instead of getting a delay. our timeline can't afford any delays when we've got a competitor like pg&e breathing down our necks. so in my final minute i want to talk about the energy efficiency and the relationship with san francisco department of environment. this is a

brooks. the deaths of eric participator and michael brown in missouri may have played a role in the quick arrest. >> listen, they don't want this on their doorstep. the last thing any city official wants is uprising or rebellions. >> void owe semipowering both in terms of the practical utilization of it. but the validation i can't be called a liar anymore. >> that was christien kafton reporting. the situation in south carolina and across the country shows the growing number of officer involved shootings are are being captured on cell phone video. on wednesday a sunnyvale police officer shot and killed a man police say was carrying a knife used in an armed robbery. that shooting was captured also on cell phone video by a man who says police took his phone as part of the investigation. judge ladorese is the independent officer for san jose and says you do not have to hand over your phone to police. >> that video in your phone is your property. that is your property. sot police have no right to tell you that you can't show it to anybody, put it on youtube. that is your right. >> one says cop watch

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eric harris. nick valencia has details. so what exactly are these documents saying? >> hey there, brooke. the documents are related to a 2009 internal affairs investigation, which essentially shows that robert bates was not shown favor during the selection process of becoming a reserve deputy but he was shown preferential treatment, especially when it came to things like training. now, this report hinges on the so-called intimidating actions by some of the supervisors there in the tulsa county sheriffs office and a handful of employees were interviewed for this report. one employee said brooke that she didn't feel intimidated until, quote, chief instructed me to make a certificate for driver training for reserve deputy bates. she stated she did not believe bates completed the training. another corporal said he felt pressure to complete bates' training by a certain timetable. that corporal said at one point, a chief approached him with a memorandum that the corporal had allegedly written. he had not written that. he said he felt forced to sign these memorandums, quote, because he was afrai

garth brooks will be here too. . >>> good morning. i'm eric thomas.80 right at francisco boulevard, the san quentin exit you can see them off loading all of these packages, charred and soggy. you want to use the bay bridge instead. also, southbound 101 is a busy drive if you're >>> good morning. live doppler 7 hd showing you we're off to a clear start on this friday morning. that sun is up. it's bright and blue out there and lots of sunshine on the way for your friday. as we're stepping outside, it's 50 51 in hayward. 49 in fremont. napa at a temperature of 45. here's your accuweather seven-day forecast. today, a mild pattern, lots of sunshine. 50s along the coast 60s in the bay. the weekend looking sun soaked and spectacular. temperatures really take off. by thursday ♪ i got friends in all the wrong places ♪ >> say hi to garth brooks. who doesn't love that song "friends in low places". we have a big surprise from him in just a little bit. a lot going on out here in times square right now. i cannot wait for this. kevin o'leary, you're ready to go here

eric kulick. nice to see you back on the show sir, welcome back. >> nice to speak with you again, brooke. >> i have of questions. can i get your reaction. looking at this man, talking about rain tasting like coconut milk milk, iodine poisoning, do you buy the whole story? >> i can't speak to the issue about the coconut-flavored water and seaweed in and of itself, but certainly the story is plausible. there have been numerous accounts some quite well documented of people surviving much longer periods at sea. in one account, 117 days. so it's certainly plausible. i think the one thing that strikes me is how -- that strikes me is how remarkable he looked coming off that helicopter. >> how do you mean? >> well he looked -- he walked on his own after being steadied coming out of the helicopter. i would have expected him to be carried out after spending so much time on a boat. not being able to move. people are typically very weak. i expected him to be much more sun burned as well as suffering from a lot of saltwater on the skin, which can cause a lot of blisters and really break that skin down. so i tho

eric on his contrarian call on the euro. ♪ alix: greek finance minister jan is varoufakis speaking at the brookings institute saying that greece to reach a deal by the end of june. he was saying greece wants to end a deal by the end of june. in the meantime, the ecb's fun trying -- bond buying program has made the unthinkable a reality. joining me to discuss this new reality is erik nielsen, chief global economist at unicredit bank and the head of fixed income at raymond james, kevin. kevin: in golf, they say that every shot make somebody happy. in the case of zero rate german bonds the benefit of that has been to the treasury market. as qe has started, those yields have to be found somewhere else. in this case, the u.s. treasury market has been the favorable case for that. probably 25 basis points out of the 10-year note. alix: we have a great chart looking at the futures rally in the next eight months compared to the nasdaq month -- the nasdaq rally in 18 months prior to the bubble bursting in 2000. they look pretty similar. erik: when the nasdaq was running up, i remember so many people telling us that there was a new way o

mentioned, brooke she called for body cameras for police to be mandatory in departments all across the country. what she said was for every tragedy caught on tape where he was talking about ericthat remain invisible. it's also important to note this is a rather complicated issue for hillary clinton. when she was first lady she lobbied personally on behalf of heifer husband's crime bill in 1994. that was krun that critic says actually led to this increase in incarceration incarceration. sort of in an indirect today it seemed like she may be talking to that and acknowledged that really the justice system is out of balance. that's how she put it. >> brianna keilar with the fact that hillary clinton is now weighing in on what we've been discussing for our while, this national conversation of race and specifically the death here in baltimore of freddie gray. brianna keilar in new york thank you so much. quick break. we're back after this. financial noise financial noise financial noise financial noise >>> hello, everyone. i'm francois hollande. i'm fredricka whitfield. new pichtdtures in to cnn of the moment the earthquake hit. today amid the devastation, a ray of hope. a man pull