but generally, the city's general fund position improved quite a bit. but the expenses of the general fund are still out scriping the revenues of the general fund and the mayor's proposed public instructions to the general departments included reductions in spending >> right. >> but, what you are showing us in the general fund was because they do it every two years and are they, and is this something that was there forecast for the 14, 15 was done in 2012 or an updated one? >> it is actually updated. currently only the enterprise department and so the report, puc and the airport we are the only one on a fixed two year budget and while the other city and general fund departments do prepare two-year budgets they are on a rolling cycle and so they actually did do a budget update in 2013, 14, and so in that. 13, 14, budget, they made projections for 14, 15 that now, are appearing to be they are having to reconcile for that. and ask for additional cuts, for next year's budget. >> right. >> so it is said a different way and you may recall that when we had our

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we use cleanpowersf to build renewable city-wide infrastructure that will pay itself off in probably 7 to 15 years, after that it will be a massive revenue generator for the entire energy system in the city. it will help s.f.p.u.c. in its future budget problems, not hurt them. so, we don't want to be penny wise and pound foolish and take away our ability to grow this program at a key time when it could provide the key to salvaging what's going on over at the s.f.p.u.c., especially if the drought continues and hetch hetchy doesn't produce as much electricity, we need other electricity sources to fill in. so, i just want to put that point in there that this is the whole point of this program is to benefit the s.f.p.u.c. in its budget condition. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to comment? and seeing none, we'll close public comment. [gavel] >> and move on to our next item. >> item number 4, power enterprise update. >> okay, we have ms. barbara harrell who will be providing the update and general manager harlan kelly as well who will probably tag team on it. >> so, first of all, i'm excited to be here and have an

the general fund, we have in the charter a provision, that's a formula that directs general city ex revenues to the transportation system that accounts for about a quarter of the revenues of the agency. and then about a third of the revenues of the agency come from parking, and that's from parking meters, it's from parking citations, it's from parking garages, and it's also from the city's parking tax, the off-street parking lots and the city pay a 25% tax. we get 80% of those revenues as well. so, all of those parking revenues together account for about a third of the revenues that we receive. and then the balance, there's some small things, the advertising that you see on the buses brings in some money. our taxi regulation, their permit fees that bring in some money. we do get some operating grants from the state and also from the half cent sales tax we have here in san francisco that only part of the half cent sales tax we use in the operating budget funds the fare transit service. all the rest of the tax money goes on the capital side. those are some of the other slices, but the big thin

if we weren't operating our power assets and the city -- the city's general fund were paying pg&e rates, the cost of doing byness for general fund departments would go up by about 50 million each year. for us, this financial circumstance isn't a reliability issue, it's a financial issue. of course, it becomes a reliability issue if we don't address it, but at this juncture we're addressing it as a financial issue and we're confident that we won't go negative given the options and solutions we have before us. but, you know, inaction will have us losing that sheet of benefits that i showed you for the city. we will also face, as we move forward, the need to meet bond covenants which does take away some discretion on the part of the city for how it prioritizes its rate making and use of its revenue. and then, you know, inaction would also have us finding a very difficult time in complying with the raker act requirements to operate the system to the benefit of san francisco. how did you that translate into a budget outlook? what you see on this slide is an end of fund balance. so, the end o

san francisco airport, all of the general hospital, all of the critical city services, sfmta, all of the critical city services continued to receive service reliably even though we were barred from generating our own electricity. and that's because we have a staff capable of purchasing and selling in the market as we need it. >> who do we purchase from? >> it depends. we look for our good price on the counter party side, folks who are in the market and ready to sell. we are members of the western systems power pool. all of the members are posted online. you can see the various different types of entities that sell and buy in that power pool. >> is there a record of who we purchase from? >> absolutely. >> and can i get a copy of who we purchase from? >> sure, sure. it's listed in our annual financial report, our c-a-f-r we publish every year. >> okay, it would be great to get a copy of that as soon as possible. and the other question i have is we're facing a routed year so we are going to meet our customers' demands? are we purchasing power currently because we're not going to be putt

measures open the ballot this november but recommended 3 funding measures one, general obligation bonds much like we as a city approved for paradoxes twice in the last 5 years to fund general hospital and to build a new police headquarter and pave our streets so general education bond increase the fees before schwarzenegger cut it a number of years back and the new tax increase that will generate 2.9 employed that will help leveraging additional revenue this is a ones in a lifetime in our transportation system restorationing dlaekz of years that help with our quality of life. it's a tremendous opportunity the proposal from the task force that's been endorsed by the mayor to advance those to the ballot a 5 homicide thousand dollars bond the increase in the muni fee and the cheater amendment that will direct alleged general revenues to transportation. we'll get it will allow us to implement muni to move better through the streets ease improve traditional times up to 20 percent of the lions it carry 2/3rd's off our ridership to make them more efficient and help us to expand our fleet we won't have to increase ou

they are not on the general fund side of the city's budget ledger. they are our customers. so, tenants within city facilities like the ferry building, the airport. >> very good, thank you. >> you're welcome. and, of course, some of the largest consumers on the nongeneral fund side are puc utility, water and wastewater services. and, so, what we're showing with this slide is just an outline on the left of the revenue sources. and on the right the costs. so, this shows you in order to get those benefits, you know, we incur certain costs and we charge for them and receive a revenue stream as a result of that. so, this is fiscal 2013-14, the year we're in right now, where you can see that our operating and capital needs total $149 million. you can see that most of the revenue comes from those customers that you just asked me to highlight, commissioner avalos, our retail enterprise customers. you can see also that we are, in order to balance, we are dipping into our reserves and that's this light blue bar here. you can see we're reaching into our bank account in order to meet ou

in general, citi says they're managing the company as a portfolio of businesses. so you take the 80 or 90 or whatever many number of businesses and look at them by roe, stack rank them, what are you doing with the bottom one fourth of those businesses? restructure or sell them? by the way, that's what the ceo, that's what the chairman said they would do. they just haven't done it. nobody is looking for bart two or chuck prince part three or sandy part four. we want a new company here. what makes me the most angry is that i'm not sure the governance has changed as much as it should be. the annual meeting in st. louis is a window in their thought process. if that's the way they're going to run and hide after they've had problems with earnings as you pointed out, the freud, the failed stress test, citi hasn't changed as much as i thought. >> i want you to breath. we're going to take a quick break. you're going to stick around. we'll talk more about the other banks and some of the stocks you either like or dislike there. >>> then, yum is planning big changes in china

city park. the fourth thing is to revise the police code to prohibit anyone from casing spray paint on muni vehicles and lastly my legislation will add a general policy that city departments are collaborate on graffiti reports and seek the avenues. this will only happen if the departments who have been impacted. i want to thank the departments for working hard to get to this point their excited as you all know this is a major problem a $20 million problem. so in short i'm confident the city will be better off as a result of moving forward on this and i landmark to having a discussion and supervisor farrell has said count me in but i want to mention as a former art director the most frult thing is when their murals get painted over or their criminalized because of people that are tagging buses not all artists are criminals but all artists shouldn't be penalized and they too want to so reform so we're addressing those issues appropriate. i look forward to come back in a year and looking at the hopefully, the huge amount of savings as we save on graffiti abatement. the second item i have is about the drought. i know we're tired of hearing convers

the residents of new york city generate more than three million tons of garbage every year. hat's more than boston, philadelphia, washington d.c., baltimore, miami and charlotte combined. one third of that garbage is food scraps and other organic material. and the city launched a program to conquer what some call the final frontier in recycling. ron gonen runs the city's recycling program. >> there's no reason why we should be spending taxpayer money, spending something to sit in a hole some place. it's completely absurd and we need to move away from that as a society. >> glor: it starts here. people separate out their organic material. sanitation workers pick it up, take it to a facility where any remaining non-organics are calculateseparated out and turna thinking sludge. pounpumped into these silver eaz normally used to therese waste waters. micro organisms from the city's sugen, break down the sludge, turn it into fertilizer and methane gas that will be used to power homes. it's a process called anaerobic digestion. when you here the words anaerobic digestion. >> i get ex

by the facilities themselves should be included in the cities revenue plan and revenue should be generated to help with the costs of the city's wait water treatment. predictably they've rescinded their grants on the eligibility and later in 18981 we succeed in asking congress to amend the clean water act to fund the project. once funding was secured the public works department reyou funded the funds and operations began in 1987 also in 1987 the board of supervisors adapted a code for the community commission. this ordinance the commission was created for the fostering of full employment and creation of educational programs and creation of daycare services and services for senior citizens it also described the duties of the commission which provided the guidance for the budgetary needs for the benefit of the community. cheaper 54 authorizes the use of rent revenues in excess of operational costs for job training opportunities. commission economists of 7 members appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the mayor and the commission is authorized to have a director and is not subject to civ

generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san francisco bay area philanthropist helen diller. together with the clean and safe neighborhood parks fund and the city's general fund. >> 4. 3. 2. 1. [applause] >> the playground is broken into three general areas. one for the preschool set, another for older children, and a sand area designed for kids of all ages. unlike the old playground, the new one is accessible to people with disabilities. this brand-new playground has several unique and exciting features. two slides, including one 45- foot super slide with an elevation change of nearly 30 feet. climbing ropes and walls, including one made of granite. 88 suspension bridge. recycling, traditional swing, plus a therapeutics win for children with disabilities, and even a sand garden with chines and drums. >> it is a visionary $3.5 million world class playground in the heart of san francisco. this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. (clapping) >> so thank you all for coming out this morning, i'm edward reiskin i'm the director of tran

city outside of an emergency. neighbors blocked the idea of landing pad at san francisco general due to noise. there are nearly two dozen other hospital landing pads around the bay area. >> there's a heated debate hitting renters against landowners in oakland. the city council will consider how much renters can be charged for apartment upgrades. some rents have doubled because of the cost of remodeling. talked to tenants who feel they are being forced out. >> oakland owners can pass along all of the upgrade costs to renters. now that's no secret. this we found out from the east bay rental housing association. this from their website. they had a workshop last year entitled, how to raise rent in oakland. one of the bullet points, capital improvement. now just in the next 15 minutes, we expect renters, angry renters to go and rally here at franco plaza. they want city leaders to fix the problem. >> this is what we have been going through. it's been a living hell, to say the least. >> for 27 years, cliffton harrison and his wife lived in this neighborhood apartment in oakland. their two daughters g

go and buy names on new top-level domains, whether their brands or communities were purely generic. .nyc."rk city" brands also have their own. and communities. i want to emphasize this. finding each other in cyberspace is important. neutron global domains will have the opportunity for communities to express their identities on the web. up thest, we have opened use of long latin characters. the very first new domain that was approved was spelled in arabic script. we have one in cyrillic script and one in chinese script. >> you mentioned quite a number of potential new domains. that is obviously going to be a shock for some people. they are used to using.com and .org. what is icann's rolling going forward? -- role in going forward? how will they navigate to something they are not used to -- to question mark seeing? >> we will have campaigned to support the consumer. -- we operate in the public interest. it is public interest, important that we give consumers a sense of safety about using these new domains and a sense of understanding the choices they have. it is becoming more and more difficult to

discussing the coordination on the vls as well as the capitol projects and advocacy for the city, and general obligation, bond and assisting the city and sfmta to address the board on things like expenditure plan and key priorities as well as the equity plans, and material and processes and we continue to participate in the capitol working groups on the transbay transit center and electrickfiation and to coordinate the project and to insure that we are speaking with one voice, and they called us together with other city agencies to discuss our advocacy in the trip to dc later in march. and the island will also be celebrating a commencement event, set for march 7th so we will be meeting out there on the treasure island with commissioner kim and tita that is going to be a great event to highlight the partnerships to deliver this project and where we have set a disadvantaged commitment of 13.8 percent and we are on track to meet that. and skipping ahead, i will just note that the prop aa, program call for projects has been released in january, a call for projects between $1 to $2 million. and th

thank you >> commissioners, if there's nothing further we'll move it on the general public comment. >> city attorney has given advise so we'll ask him to opine. >> deputy city attorney. sor sorry. yes, it's my understanding that staff will be presenting a short additional memoranda regarding the final eir for the transportation project and because of that we'll recommend that public comment be taken till when this item is called rather than taking it now during general public comment. sequa didn't preclude doing this i will advise what sequa requires any comments that are made during the official public comment from july 11th to september be responded to in writing as part of the final eir that was published and is before this incrimination i want to advise the public any comments made today regarding the certification and the final eir on the t p will not be responded to in writing >> unlike what the calendar says the commission want has asked me to modify the calendar to with when we're accepting comments so rather than taking it under general public comment we've be accepting those under

city. it's tremendous for me to be the general manager because i have concierge but the volunteers and the people here are an extension of concierge and giving information for all the visitors that come in and make this a world class city and really visit all the areas, the restaurants, the attractions and everything else this city has to offer. i want to thank again san francisco travel because they are the ones who market tourism, no. 1 industry in san francisco and again i want to thank you. i want to thank the volunteers. as mayor lee has said, you are the ones that truly breathe live into this city. and you give out information with just such authentic and hospitality to all the visitors around the world. they go back and tell their friends and tell them to come to one of the best cities in the world, san francisco. thank you. [ applause ] >> in conclusion, a couple things. we have a little game we are playing here that we encourage you to do it. we talk about our staff and volunteer that wear a yellow ribbon that say staff on them. go ahead and meet them. write their names on the piec

important and when we have so many project areas and with so much construction going on in the city generally i want to make sure we have enough resources. i would be interested if the commission understood a little bit of the pipeline, street, not street side but individual residents of san francisco looking for and interested in city build and getting into that training. what i understand from chris iglesias who used to be the city build director obviously was organized, but community based organizations and channel through the system. i guess where my understanding drops off is what happens when they get to the city, to that city build program and how are they channeled out to these projects to work and to mr. james question, how many of them remain within the work force of some of these construction companies which is the ultimate goal? >> yeah. it's a pathway. a career path way and that's how we treat it and our goal is to not get through an entry level position and what was the career path that might open up. to employment services there is two ends to it. there is services through city

city. >> juarez general is the only public hospital in the city. it treats thousands of people caught up in the violence. for the next two weeks, maria will be working in the er, joining the nurses on the frontline of the drug war. >> pablo! >> ola. >> ola. buenos noches. >> buenos noches. >> maria's host is auxiliary nurse, pablo vasquez. he's been working the night shift in the er for six years. on the surface juarez general is a hospital like any other. >> do you do this, do you put the casts on? >> but there are stark differences from britain's national health service. for a start, the emergency care budget in preston is 12 times bigger than at juarez general. >> what's this lady's name? >> it's evitte. >> evitte? >> here, even taking a patient's blood pressure means getting back to basics. >> we do use manual bps at home but i haven't, gosh yeah, hardly ever, used them. so i'll give it a go. >> nurses here can't rely on state of the art technology. compared to britain, the treatment is basic. juarez general has no ct scanner, no mri and just o