i'd like to close today's meeting in memoriam to layton dong. layton was a close friend of mine for 40 years and he was [speaker not understood] with his son up in the mountains over a week ago when he suddenly passed away, not really knowing what he passed away of. and i have to say that losing him will be a great loss to san francisco. i mean, i just loved his sense of humor and his knack for life. he what probably the best cook i've ever known. and more recently he was well loved by the swing dance community. and prior to that he was a leader in bringing culturally for the first time in the united states chinese drumming. he was the head of the founder of the yellow river drum troop that taught chinese drumming to just 15, 20 years of children learning at schools and so forth, and now it's becoming a little more of a mainstream in term of that cultural activity. and prior to that he always was into his martial arts and line dancing and always taught many people in the community these trades. so, it's like i said, it's a great loss to not only

layton dong. and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late ms. edna eileen flores lagunte. >> take a meetv to thank sfgov-tv's crew tonight hal kremenak and jim smith. and with that, madam clerk do we have any more business in froth of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> [gavel] >> like to call this meeting to order. [gavel] [gavel] [audience chanting] >> deputy sheriffs? [gavel] [outbursts] [gavel] >> i'd like to call this meeting to order. deputy sheriffs, deputy sheriffs? i'd like to close this -- [gavel] >> i'd like to call this meeting to order. i would like to ask memorandum members of the public if you're going to be in this chamber if you could please sit down. otherwise if you could step out of the chamber so we could continue on with the business of the board today. we have a lot of business. [speaker not understood] >> if not, deputy sheriffs, deputy sheriffs? >>> [speaker not understood]. >>> [speaker not understood]. [gavel] >> i'd like to ask for o

layton dong. and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late ms. edna eileen flores lagunte. >> take a meetv to thank sfgov-tv's crew tonight hal kremenak and jim smith. and with that, madam clerk do we have any more business in froth of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, let me please call this meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission to order at 1:39 p.m. madam secretary, would you please call the roll? >> president courtney? >> here. >> commissioner moran. >> here. >> commissioner torres. >> here. >> commissioners vietor and caen are excused today. >> next is approval of the minutes of june 24th, 2014. >> move approval. >> it has been moved. >> second. >> and it has been seconded. >> any further discussion, seeing none, i will call for public comment, is there any public comment on item three, approval of the meeting minutes of june, 24, 2014. seeing none, public comment is closed all of those in favor, aye.

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layton dong. and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late ms. edna eileen flores lagunte. >> take a meetv to thank sfgov-tv's crew tonight hal kremenak and jim smith. and with that, madam clerk do we have any more business in froth of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then,

air force colonel sedric layton. thank you for your insights. >> we are learning more about the bowing 777 that went down. the plane had a clean maintenance record, last check on july 11. the aircraft had 17 years in service, recording more than 75,000 flight hours and had a seating capacity of 282 passengers. also a dutch passenger, apparently made a verier refacebook post before boarding flight 17. he took this picture of the plane at boarding gate and posted it on to the social networking site, saying if it disappears, this is what it looks like, in reference to malaysian flight 370 that disappeared in march. his girlfriend with him reportedly on that flight for vacation. >> opening old wounds for the passengers' families on flight 370. many of them now asking if the plane from kuala lampur may have also been shot down. there were 239 passengers onboard when the flight vanished back in march. ahead, ukrainian and russian officials taking a part in the war of words after the downing of malaysian flight 17. what thi