. >> good afternoon, commissioners, eric burkes, representing san francisco green party, so just to take off where my colleague left off, first of all, it's really good to see a new commissioner stepping up, especially from district 5 because all of the things, not just clean power sf, but lafco works on our crucial, clean power sf itself, especially in regard to the build-out that jess was talking about is very crucial, it's particularly to district 5 because i'm sure the commissioner knows that there's a great need for jobs and jobs training in that district, and so -- and that gets to the heart of what we've been working on for the past couple of years, working with local power and the sfpuc staff and stakeholder meetings to make sure that we get the most robust program possible, and the work that local power that we finally got the sfpuc commission after years of fighting for it, the work that local power is doing on combining the local build-out with the shell contract is showing that we can get thousands of jobs per year for the next several years beginning in the program, get hund

eric burks representing the green party and grassroots organization in our city. i applaud supervisors chiu and yee and supervisor kim for stepping forward with important amendments that make this thing so that it's not an absolute disaster. but i have to say that we need to get back to the days of when we created rent control in the first place where we weren't just going to put a bandaid on an artery bleed, but we were going to completely revolutionize how we handle housing in the city. the reality is, especially these days, i don't know how many of you follow the way finance capitalism has mushroomed and how it works, but this is a global -- this is happening because of a global capitalist phenomenon that's happening in capitalism right now where you have more and more basically expansion of what can only be called monopoly money on a global level and on wall street that just -- the bigger it gets, the more it has to find someplace to put this essentially counterfeit financing into something new. that means tear things down and build them higher. 20 years later

supervisor eric mar, vice-chair, also supervisor john avalos, supervisor london breed, and supervisor scott wiener. i would like to thank the members of sfgtv covering this meeting today, greg burk and jennifer low as well the clerk of this committee, victor young. do we have any announcements? >> yes, please turnoff all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 23rd, 2013 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> all right, mr. clerk, we're going to do a few at least one item out of order here. can you please call item number 4? >> item number 4, hearing to receive an update on the department of public works budget for fiscal year 2013-2014 and fiscal year 2014-2015. >> all right, thank you very much. we have mr. [speaker not understood], our director of public works to present. >> good afternoon, supervisors. okay, thank you. to present our budget overview for next year, i have a few slides and i believe you have the presentation before you. the vision of our department to continue to provide world class public s