mr. torres. or -- yeah, please come forward. the question is really around questions about the layoffs and what specific jobs are looked at. those 100 jobs. and is there a transition plan? a few years ago when it was propose to lay off workers here in the building, maintenance staff here in the building of t the -- there was talk about moving them to other existing jobs in the city, and i wonder what that plan and which jobs are discussed. >> there won't be any reduction in jobs for about 15 months. and then it will be as properties spin off in the rad program. we are working with the bargaining units. we are having meetings with them. since we are still under negotiations with the bargaining units, we have identified classifications for those bargaining sessions. there will be some jobs in about 15 months and then some more about a year later. we are looking at all options for those positions, including matching up classifications at the housing authority with city jobs. and also while we are shrinking on the public housing sid

mr. torres, the president of the commission of the housing authority. and the director's mayor of houseing on. and we will have regina vascal from hud. we will start with you mrs. smith, if you can give us a presentation and go from there. and after we aare done with tha, we will open up to public comment. >> supervisors, good afternoon, this is a great pleasure to come to you and talk about this collaboration that we have with other city agencies, workers and most importantly residents of public housing. i will give you a little background. and then we have our regional administrator here to talk about the rad program. and ultimately will be talking about the reenvisioning and rad for preservation of public housing in san francisco. and then we are going to talk about tenant protections and tenant engagement, which we feel is very important in this process. and also our labor communications and work with our employees and bargaining units. >> mrs. smith, before you go on, is the slide set up to show the public? >> sfg-tv, we have a powerpoint. >> thank

mr. torres that the maintenance will be better, and without the workers i don't see how. >> thank you. >> i am grace martinez, i am an organizer for ace. i organize typically around foreclosure issues. but previous to that i did organized work in public housing for years in the southeast sector. and a member from seiu made a good point, where are the residents in this. do we have poor planning for the residents to way until they start. i am sure that all of these nonprofit developers are great, i don't know. can we show that they will have a population that is diverse as the current housing. and question of how people will have access to these units. for a major plan like this, and there was a lot of concerns in question that were only provided today for my understanding. for a major impact that will impact 5-6,000 families in san francisco, there is a lot of, i don't know happening. that's unfortunate. and it's amazing that we don't have public housing residents out here. if you were to knock on the door right now, and ask someone if they knew about this project, what would they say? the

torres. >> thank you mr. president on the issue of the tunnel why is there a delay on that. >> in the bay tunnel. >> yeah. >> actually it's on schedule the delay is because the original concept was when we tested the tunnel the water was going to be dumped into the bay now the concept has changed now as a result so that's the logistics. >> what's the benefit to the rate pay er for that. >> we save the water. >> i want to make sure we got that answer on the record. >> exactly. exactly. >> thank you. >> good question. >> all right. >> these are the lists of the projects i think we've given you a package that gives you pretty good information about why things changed where they changed these are the summaries of the five projects we actually saved money and the five projects which actually required it and the savings are the water treatment plant has been completed it gave back 5.4 million and we look at the contingents and look at what the risks are there and reduce the funding from $5 million and this is a rea

torres. >> thank you mr. president on the issue of the tunnel why is there a delay on that. >> in the bay tunnel. >> yeah. >> actually it's on schedule the delay is because the original concept was when we tested the tunnel the water was going to be dumped into the bay now the concept has changed now as a result so that's the logistics. >> what's the benefit to the rate pay er for that. >> we save the water. >> i want to make sure we got that answer on the record.

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mr. wade and his staff on the rebate signing as well. >> thank you very much. >> happy earth day commissioner torres. >> thank you very much i have a question so there's a set of recommendations that have been presented and i'm just wondering if the puc staff general manager's office and team had a chance to look at the recommendations. >> before you arrived we had a discussion on this. this is a letter and we're going to prepare a response and come back to the commission at a future meeting addressing each one of these issues. >> so the answers were not incorporated into the potential action that we'll be taking today? >> that is correct. we actually just received a letter this week and this is a reiteration and we can't fully address those in a comprehensive way and we'd like to develop some responses to bring back to you. >> okay and so this would not prohibit us from taking action today potentially. >> this would not prohibit you from taking action today. >> okay i just would want to make sure of that and we're being responsive. >> yeah we've been through this a couple of times and if we were to decide that there was additional informat

mr. president they haven't gotten the slides yet. >> i'll do it again. i'd like to call this meeting of the sfpuc commission to order at 1: 35. >> commissioner torres and commissioneren is expected shortly. >> nexem