mr. peskin, you are a person with with attention to detail. that is what engineers do. . >> supervisor peskin: i think the general manager of our puc is an engineer, but go ahead. >> many people who talk about being an engineer, there are many with different flavors. my degree is in electrical engineering specifically. i wanted to speak to the risks, and challenges, little bit and say am probably in favor of the option that nobody wants. one of the things pg&e has now is what they call a scale. the city will lose some of that. it costs that the city won't increase almost certain because of that. i'm not going to go into details, but i think you understand what the scale is. things like distribution facilities, maintenance facilities, all of the things that needed for infrastructure to support the operation are distributed along its territory and can be shared within the territory. we will lose out in san francisco. . >> supervisor peskin: we have some of that upcountry. >> may be some, not all. not to the extent that pg&e in terms of responding

[applause] >> supervisor peskin: mayor breed, ms. parker, mr. stewart, to your respective organization, but most importantly to the community and amongst those and first and foremost amongst those, the barbary coast neighbors. it is true almost 20 years ago that i attended all of those meetings at north beach place, but thankfully, i attended few if any in this particular project. but mr. cantor did, miss taylor did, and i want to say they made it a better project. this neighborhood involvement made this a better project. let me say a few words about what my mayor said, and it is the history of the embarcadero freeway which was, by all accounts, a terrible urban planning mistake. and then, in 1989, after the loma prieta earthquake, we had a mayor who had the courage to rip that thing down. and by the time then-state senator quentin kopp transferred the property to the city for one american dollar, willie brown was mayor. and there was a little neighborhood fight about what we were going to do with those parcels. one was going to be a police stat

peskin: thank you for those comments. ms. hale, i suggest you might talk to mr. david. good to see you again. next speaker, please. >> hello supervisors, a community organizer with the sierra club. the sierra club supports the takeover of pg&e infrastructure, only if the city would commit to dramatically increasing the local build up pace since the new renewable energy, and efficiency upgrades. we urge that san francisco makes the creation of new renewable energy resources part of the takeover proposal. thank you for the opportunity to comment. . >> supervisor peskin: thank you, next speaker, please. >> thank you. senior policy analyst for 350 bay area. it is surreal to be having this conversation having voted on public power every chance i have had since 1999. the whole city family is isn't working together towards this, and having reviewed the preliminary report, have thank you very much for the analysis. the quality of pg&e's infrastructure, as ms. hale mentioned, looking at a deeper analysis on the quality of the infrastructure. i know none of us want to spend billions of dollars on a lem

mr. clerk, please read the next item. >> commissioner ronen? >> commissioner ronen? >> thank you. i have never commented on the chair's remarks before, but i just have to back you up 100%, chair peskin. i am angry, we are angry, every member of this board is devastated by the amount of pedestrian and traffic deaths that are happening on our streets on a monthly basis. how are kids, our seniors, our families, we should be able to walk around the street and not have that and our life. the fact that we are not doing everything in our power collectively as leaders of this city to end this senseless killing of people on our streets on a monthly basis is outrageous we have all got into our wits end on this topic. it is unacceptable that this is happening every single day and we have two institute, immediately in a crisis manner, every single pedestrian safety option that is out there. i just had to respond to supervisor peskin's remarks because i am at my wits end. i, too, am angry. this bloodshed has got to stop. >> thank you. commissioner haney? >> thank you. i don't want to take us too far off topic, but i did want to thank you for your remarks and to my colleagues for joining us this