generated or this local energy program. thank you so much. >> thank you. national next speaker please. >> hello, i'm david mccord. a chair of the club of the san francisco base chapter of energy and climate committee and honored to speak with you today. we want clean power of s f to succeed that creates local jobs. among other cc a's across the country nearly all rates are below the standard rate of the local utility. among the few that are higher, modest premiums are significantly below staff's recommended rate, these include build out of local renewable and energy efficiency services by revenue. we are asking clean power sf to go beyond this. with the results of the customer survey, we believe it is essential. san francisco has an advantage. you already have authority to issue h revenue bonds for just this purpose. these bonds issued at a level which you can support will start signature build out and the creation of jobs. we recommend that you begin this on launch. as noted by staff, the work product of your consultant sh

of disdain that you can stay on local. a. president let's hear what she says hearing you now for your. i'm going to leave ok occupy no media for. really just returning to what i sort of. ok i will be able to. do something because he's on the scene trying to interview witnesses i'm residents who live in the town of west just north of waco where the explosion took place i'm just trying to listen in. to talk you to see if we can hear any more. in the meantime to go back to sean thomas artie's correspondent who has lived in texas we've been talking to him just a couple of minutes ago he was explaining how an incident like this would devastate such a small community sean can you hear us again. we've just been seeing some local footage. local media trying to speak to residents there obviously people very distressed we can say strains of ambulances and fire engines also at the scene. just just from your perspective sean what would be the sort of response from america in terms of the given that we've had the boston bombings given tha

however, we are still able to provide for local business and the local business card techs would be minority owned business, women owned business and other business enterprises so those are the three categories by which we are working with and able to assist. now 209 while it became law as part of the constitution here in california, it didn't restrict us from doing technical assistance and outreach as well as tracking businesses. that's -- those two things are very important to women owned business, tracking them and making sure that they have the support and assistance that our city is providing, and getting them to the resources. training and coaching them to and encouraging them to participate in city contract opportunity. beverly is going to talk about the certification process and give you information how many businesses we have certified. >> [inaudible] -- our local business it's so proposition 20 thien doesn't restrict us from tracking our local businesses in terms if they're women or minority so what what we have here is a local business enterprise program and i had up the certifica

and this local programming is all about local history, local culture, local issues, whether at it integration issues in nashville, tennessee, or senior citizens issues in minnesota or veterans issues in connecticut, job training programs in nevada, vegas pbs is the largest job trainer in the entire state of nevada nature contract with the hospitality industry out there, and so these kinds of services will be curtailed by the sequester. we hope that things will get back to normal a bit once the sequester is completed, but this will hurt, and the quantity of our service will be deem minimum issued. we don't think the quality will but we won't be able to produce as much in programming and community service in this condition as we otherwise would be able to do. >> how well would you say that public broadcasting is doing to keep up with how viewers access content on digital products? >> guest: well, we have a good success story here. pbs.org is the most heavily trafficked internet site on the nonprofit side. it's the biggest.org" --".org"" in the country, and when pbs contracts for programming it

because once you start planning on local build out, you are going to have to sequel. so the question is what do we have an appetite to really fund. meanwhile we know that everyone enjoys going solar and it a job creation so that was the money that was identified by the board of supervisors and the mayor asked me to increase solar for the go solar. to answer your question, we at the puc feel we have to do more and how much more do we have an appetite? >> i see the program as a tiny aspect we need to do for the build out. i'm not sure that many envisioned that to be. >> thank you, i appreciate the comments of the general manager. i would respectfully sort of provide a different perspective and just going back to what the board of supervisors approved. when the board of supervisors approved the contract with cell -- shell. it was an understanding that there would be a robust as possible. i don't know that i would put it as the p u c trying to four -- figure out the appetite. in approving the contract with shell is that a robust build out is an important part we do in ter

the local authorities evaluate the situation on the ground and execute what locally is available, then they evaluate shortfalls and what they have and then generate those requirements up through that defined chain of command, as i mentioned earlier. then once those agencies determine what those requirements are, they are given back to the city who employs those as they think they need to be deployed because, again, they are the eyes and understand the local situation. i think going through this that the navy and the marine corps, we're used to being in charge whenever we show up and we're not going to be in this situation. i think it's important for us to understand that and we do and i think we, if we were employed in this certainly would understand that particular chain of command and would be able to fit right in and execute as required by the local situation. >> let me reiterate that the local authorities need to know that the emergency managers, the first responders, are there to be in charge to run things in their local disaster. everyone else that rolls in behind are there to en

local business. >> [inaudible] other industries. i think sfmta is doing it in trucking. we have pools for work throughout the city as needed where they rotate the work, so we have different models that we can use and perhaps use these models to go to a category in which could help develop and grow some more women businesses that are doing work and they want more. they want to grow with the city contracts. >> thank you for your good work. >> thanks. >> any other comments or questions? great. thank you very much. and do we have public comment? >> actually president under this section we do -- we would like to call from the agenda sf made we don't have a presentation but we do have informational comments by the director of the office of small business regina dick-endrizzi and also in the pack set some information. >> again regina dick-endrizzi. thank you commissioners. this sf made sends their regrets for not being here. do want to acknowledge we are fortunate to have commissioner mark dwight who is a founder for -- are you still on th

we have heard staff has heard very clearly from sflafco and puc that we need to fund the local opponent and we are trying to find optimum approach for that. we need to demonstrate that we have a revenue stream from this new customer base. so we need to launch the program so that we can demonstrate that we have a customer base and the revenues are coming in and then we can use those fund to begin to fund our local investment and energy efficiency and renewables. these are some of the leaveers how you would to the financials we have talked about. >> strike a balance between maximizing dollars for build out or what the rates are going to be in terms of customers? >> right. you can do a mix. you can take that just using this example on robust renewals mix. you can take that and refund some of it in setting the rate, assuming a lower cost resource portfolio, so the program over all cost are lower, set the rate a little bit lower reflective of that but don't set it at $2.7 million because you won't have funds to dedicate to local investment fuchlt set the rate at the reflective of the lower c

time and seven seven twenty i'm sorry local time and then at around seven fifty pm local fire local time the big the massive explosion ripped through the area. damaging actually it has flattened. a number of buildings local the local media are saying dozens dozens of buildings nearby there was a big apartment unit there with over one hundred people living in it there was a nursing home we know that over one hundred people are being treated at the local hospital at the moment again two people are confirmed dead. and for now actually those are who we still don't have an official sort of number from from from the government but people are saying just judging by the impact that this explosion had on the area there will likely be maybe many more fatalities many more casualties although as sean was saying this was a this is a small town but still this explosion happened very very close to the residential residential area. all right we can have a look now at some of the images that have been appearing on social media just to give people an idea of the scale of this blast they have been pos

elected official and governor -- once a local elected official, always a local elected official. what i learned from that is partnership is what it's all about. if you want to confront the most vexing problems, you have to bring people across an ideological spectrum, you have to include the business community, you have to include our nonprofit, our faith leaders. that's how you get things done, when you bring people together. and i look around this room and i see that you have already figured that out. i hope some of you had the opportunity to meet lee hirsch because i've done a lot of work with him in the context of our bullying. one of my favorite memories in my experience with lee is that we watched this film together with about a thousand people in sioux falls, south dakota, it was remarkable to watch the reactions of the kids in sioux falls, parents, educators, and we did that same q and a when we were done. i appreciate the wonderful words of your superintendent, that was exactly the dynamic in sioux falls and that's the remarkable thing, superintendent, is that this issue

local communities trying to rally to help. coming out with blankets except for that many new people as we know most seriously injured have been taken to hospitals in taste and and also my cow but when you experience those hospitals do have the facilities because it's such a tragedy today. well not really if you actually look at west texas itself is a town of a larger than three thousand people total living in that actual community where the devastation took place so any hospital or medical facility there would certainly not be able to cope with such devastation. out to the south which is where waco is and it's a whole there's a little bit of respite care but that town which is considered the largest city in the area only has around one hundred twenty five thousand people living there so even in waco they are not as equipped to handle such a large scale tragedy either so as you heard in that like the the spokesperson saying that different hospitals in the area they're all working together to coordinate this is something that yo

cca's are the most powerful tool that local government have for significantly accelerating local clean energy and jobs. and really making that difference. clean power sf, can bring us clean energy. it's economic benefit at competitive rates for all rate payers. it can do that today we are striving with the program to get a well designed plan to get us there. and unfortunately we see some proposed courses of action that are attached to very high and not to exceed rate that would not lead to a successful program t environmental worker and social group to get us a program that would give us local clean energy and green jobs benefits, we only will accept a program that really meets those basic goals and a program that would under cut a program that will get to those goals later. a program with high rates and opt outs and will harm their reputation. other cca 's have been meeting those goals. it doesn't do m uch to undo the bad reputation of high cost and high popularity and high opt out that will fact other cca's they have then roment and people opting out. it's a very entrusted mechanism

fatalities after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of west just north of waco in texas local media reports said as many as seventy people had been killed many buildings surrounding the fertilizer plant were completely flattened by the blast and police and emergency services are still removing people from the rubble with me now is sean thomas he joins us we've been following this now for the last few hours sean. in terms of the emergency response it seems to be in hand it seems to have been a very coordinated response we've looked at the pictures they are devastating and yet there have been strains and i'm going to place how we coped as people are being airlifted to hospital is this was a coordinated response wasn't something that they had been prepared for certainly in this is what little towns big cities they do they prepare for these emergencies and they work together with other law enforcement emergency response teams and fire departments to make sure that they can handle any level of emergency so this small town of less than three thousand people doesn't have a very big f

fire is still raging after the explosion in the texas town of west with many buildings leveled and local residents advised to evacuate from the area. you're watching with me andrew farmer to our top story two people are confirmed dead and two hundred injured in a blast that ripped through a fertilizer plant in the u.s. state of texas and we cannot get more the latest from our man who joins us from the states. danny thanks for joining us again what more do we know about the rescue efforts or has been a few hours hasn't it since the blast. well andrew rescue efforts are becoming all the more difficult because of the possibility of another explosion that can rip through the plant at any moment we know that there is another fertilizer tank which is which is intact and there is a huge fire there and we also know that. also because because of rising talk sick fumes or so it is very hard for rescue teams to get there we know that the firefighters the firefighter team that first responded to the explosion is now unaccounted for those are four or five. according to some some of the reports at lea

atyou look at spending money a big box store verses spending money locally at a business owned by a local entrepreneur, you will find there is a much higher percentage of the money spent on something at a local shop that goes back into the community. spent, $6500 that is of that money could get spent by the small business and be put back into the community where it might be only $11 from a big box store. it is something people should start to think about which is buying local and what that does to your environment. >> at that time, this committee faced an enormous challenge of increasing the federal government's capacity to assist small businesses and ensuring they maintain their historic role as job creators and innovators, spurring our economy and we had to do this without substantially adding to our nation's increasing debt. it was an enormous challenge but not impossible. it was one that i think we have met. >> are pros and cons to the big box stores and small businesses. both provide invaluable opportunities for people around the country. yes, we also recognize that the role small bu

it creates changes that ripple all throughout our local government. so, i thank you all for your work and i look forward to working with you in the future. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. and then [speaker not understood] representing state senator mark leno. >> good morning, everyone. and i'm here, as keith said, on behalf of state senator leno. and i just want to say how proud i am to be here because, you know, most of us seek ways to make government better. usually, you know, we have something that we don't like about our government, our local government. we want to change things. we have a disagreement. but you're here and you're actually doing something about it. you're taking your time, you're taking time out of your lives and putting energy into changing how government can serve the people of our county. and that's very impressive and i for one as a citizen of san francisco am very grateful to each and every one of you for doing that. for watching out for me, because that's what you are, each and every one of you, watching out for me and my

but i've always seen remarkable and couragous people at work, local law enforcement, local da's, people who are getting out of their lanes. the old paradigm of a da and a attorney and a police officer, you get bad guys, you put them this jail. you know, i'm telling you, i've done a lot of hate crimes cases and i know today's bullies are often tomorrow's civil rights defendants. if we simply wait for that train wreck to occur and prosecute, that's going to be like trying to cure cancer by building more hospitals. we can't do it that way. we've got to get into prevention mode. we've got to figure out strategies to prevent, we've got to empower school districts, we've got to empower parents, we've got to empower bystanders. when my daughter was bullied in 7th grade, her friends saw it, but they were paralyzed. they didn't know what to do and they did nothing. i don't begrudge thipl for that, they are wonderful kids, but they didn't have the tools to do anything about it. so we work on those issues and we work on those and our local school district was remarkable in their reaction. but in t

local time in the town of west, in texas. the west fertilizer plant exploding roughly six hours ago. there you see on your map the proximity to those towns. explosion that was proceeded by a fire at 7:50 p.m. local time. they started the evacuation process. the individuals who were affected by the explosion, which happened there about 15 minutes later. at 8:05 local time. leaving buildings completely in shambles. skeletons. the concern there were subsequent fires as a result of that exmotiplosioexplosion. triage was brought to a local baseball field, where there, the number of injured, as we have not had confirmation yet, were brought to the triage and treated. and what we have heard and seen the pictures, very bloodied emergency personnel as they try to assist those injured in the process. we have confirmed f eed fatalit. but do not know a number there. the reporting coming out of the area, as well as officials, are not saying the number of fatalities. they're not giving us a number of injuries. although, there's been wide r

but it's permeating down to the local level now. and the next challenge is how do we cross that bridge to truly having community resiliency? how do we leverage faith-based and nongovernmental organizations to carry that message for local, state, and federal leaders? so, i think that's the next challenge going forward. but the messages being delivered from the top down, i think the next piece is how do you now move it horizontally across the community level. >> and in closing, i'm going to go down the panel and ask if there's any closing comments or points that you haven't had the opportunity to make. i think, you know, people are anxious to hear your thoughts on this particular program and on this mission because it is going to take all of us if the big one happens. so, if i can start with you, vice admiral beaman, if there is anything you'd like to impart, sir. >> actually, i have 37 things i'd like to talk about, but knowing we are the last thing between you and the refreshments in the back, i'll limit it to one. and michelle gede

local hire for construction projects. local hire is a new program for about a year overseen by the economic development. we had representative from that office come down and give a formal presentation from that program. we were hoping to do it at this time but we couldn't align our schedules. we will schedule something soon and have them come down and give you a formal presentation on the project. the program went into effect of on march of 2011. it requires a specific percentage of work house by san francisco residents. it's the hours worked and broken down by trade. it gets complicated because there is a lot of different variables in here but we try to give you a comprehensive view of it in this report. the first year, the contracts were required to have 20 percent local participation, local hire participation in that. that went up after the first year. it went up by 5 percent and goes up annually until it reaches about 7 percent. it's required to have a 50 percent local resident participation in any position they offer

but the report explicitly acknowledged that it did not look at the local investment, local build portion of the clean power sf program. so that's how it's distinguished. >> also in terms of the renewable as well >> correct, the contract is on renewable and the local investment component is not located in that chief economist report. >> california certified renewable, yes. >> thank you, we are getting into the territory about why -- we discussed this in the last meeting that there is misinformation put out about the loss of jobs and energy created. that's confused a lot of people in san francisco. although the survey we'll see that was measured perhaps it wasn't a great number of people in san francisco. that information has been out there and it needs to be rebutted by communication staff within offices and puc. commissioner campos? >> i look forward to the information. i think the numbers we have here are pretty encouraging in terms of the numbers put out here, i think a lot of misinformation has been put out there and i think their strategy has been sort of let's throw everything up th

but everything really starts at the most local level first. so, it's appropriate to hear from captain stow and the network of partnerships that she's dealt here in the bay area, but we have this lattice work that goes across my entire pacific region. and then i need to focus on what do i do in the event of a threat right now in dealing with the arctic. what if i have a deep water horizon spill there? because now it affects the nate and i have indigenous tribes of that part of the world. and how do i flow resources there, recognizing the navy doesn't have ice breakers and our nation has one. so, we do a lot of work with canada when we're starting to work on those contingencies. but we look at the national response framework. it was rewritten post katrina. and another key part of partnerships, when i was the federal on scene coordinator during deep water horizon, it's not in the national response framework, but every parish president, every mayor, every governor had a coast guard liaison officer at the oak pride and above level. so, if they didn

o e w d coming to talk to us and explaining the whole local hire thing. that's confusing and in america's cup it looks like they are meeting the goal, so why are they asking for waivers? >> we are looking at the snapshot in terms of their development in there, but i think they are looking at some of the waivers. one of the thing they have been doing is participating in the city build program as well there. so it can also be that they just know they might have some issues in terms of meeting the requirements for particular trades. >> actually i think there is more confusion about which of the trade are required to participate. they weren't required in the first place but you may recall as part of the negotiation they agreed to participate and there has been some confusion about the trade it affected. i'm not sure their asking for waivers but maybe looking for clarification. that was the whole subject of the hearing on the board of supervisors two weeks ago tomorrow. i believe it's been resolved. >> i look forward to learning more about the program, the wai

as a result of cyber bullying and that is why i did a remarkable partnership in south florida with local law enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including cyber bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. and that is why we will continue to do that work. so i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. this is an all hands on deck enterprise. there is so much to do. i hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things i'm going to do differently and better? how are we going to improve this situation? i hope if you take one and only one thing from melinda and my and ruslyn's remarks today, if you have an idea, please bring them to us. we want to learn from you. we are in this together and i want to say thank you because the most important thing we have is a recognition that you understand that this is indeed a national issue for us to deal with. i'm looking forward

and also include some head room so that we can have some local buildout. let us play around with some of those options so that we can come back and do the best we can of what we think that you would feel comfortable with and maybe five different options. >> it would be especially happy if you would be ready to vote on may 14th. >> that is the dream. >> there are so many steps between that and launch. >> being administrative law judge for 16 years, you know that's not going to happen within a year or two. commissioner caen. >> this is a thought, that we go with the lowest price, we don't think about buildout now. we see how many customers we get, we test the waters. we can always raise rates once you get them, and that's when we start our buildout our quest before that. i think it's ridiculous to come up with a price that's going to be more than pg&e. nobody -- everybody is going to opt out. i mean, why would you spend more money? secondly, and you all have a better feel than i do. but will people really know the mix? will people really analyze this? will t

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