improvement program, to show that we were establishing a new program baseline. the revised program budget was 4.3 $4 billion bbn -- $4.34 billion. were made later revisions in 2008 and 2009. the latest revisions were for $4.9 billion, and the overall program cost remains at $4.9 billion. now, but i would like to do is walk you through the three major parameters of the program and tell you what has changed. on the scope side, basically, we did not add or delete any projects to the wsip since the program was approved in 2009. in fact, the overall scope of the program is essentially the same. only minor project scopes were revised. there were only " for regional projects -- there were only four regional project documented separately. there in the slide. i would like to point out the last two of these four projects are what we call support projects. what that means is the need to be completist to successfully complete the program, but they did not likely contribute to the goals of the program. one change of wanted to highlight is the fact that we will we want to tra

we know that the entire program is not available. we would like to see this item move to the full board. we understand some of the concerns going on like it being too large. there are some ways to mitigate that. if you try to get people that are -- and you could lower the amount. we're not talking of businesses in this program, we're only talking about residential customers. there is a lot of mitigation. there are a lot of ideas. we need this first that to continue to move forward. we'll get a contract and that helps us get farther down the process of addressing these other questions. nancy miller has requested that you move this to the full board so they can have a chance to start the process. thank you. >> further comments? so, we will continue this item. hopefully, we will be able to have a meeting in august to move on it and if not, we will taken up with a meeting in september. the next item. >> madame president, item 12, discussion and possible action to move two community choice aggregation amendments to agreement number -- for

>> there were a number of things describing the program. if someone was writing this in isolation but would not just be looking at contract terms. there are broader discussions at the beginning. >> the reason for my question is, not having seen non- counterparts of the program, i am not comfortable with the term sheet. if we are talking about how comfortable are we with the shell contract, that is one issue. if it is extending that to the rest of the program as yet unseen, i am not comfortable with that. >> maybe we can change the title. the customer enrollment strategy is a contract term but is part of the program. >> commissioner moran: to the extent that is helpful in guiding the contract, that is fine. if -- if it is asking for approval for a broader thing, we really have not had for consideration the entire program. we have some elements in here. >> if you are more comfortable saying to the extent those are described, that would work. my problem is the amount of power we are talking about buying is based

another example is the program la tierra. a dpw workforce program. it provides jobs for high risk use. these young people will be working with gardeners' for the summer, acquire and job skills and positive role models. there are about 10 other programs as well, but i wanted to highlight two of the most impactual. furthermore, our companies with twitter and other companies we are trying to bring into the area will have an emphasis on economic self-sufficiency and youth employment as well. we will be working closely with your office as well as each and every one of the supervisors to make sure that everything we do in relationship to building the community benefits agreements that we are focused on will have some benefit for our youth employment. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you for your leadership on this issue. supervisor chiu: our next question will be provided by our colleague from district 8, supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you. part of public works and recreation and park have seen significant reductions to their tree maintenance

the reason to bring on the program manager is to work with the city and to bring waste water program management technical expertise to assist us with the planning and validation of the program and to employ the valuable lessons we've learned, and make sure we have high quality assurance, a high quality control, and the best technical and program control expertise. the commission, at that time, directed us to move forward quickly, as quickly as possible. today, we have a contract, 15- year in duration, not to exceed $150 million. as you may recall, the reasons for the duration were presented, because of the lessons learned. the contractors wanted to -- we wanted them to be the best. the best experts we could get. the people selected for this term are prohibited from bidding on other work planning design and construction management. we will be a partnership for a 15-year duration to implement the sewer system improvement program. two of the projects that are the biggest that would be out of the day immediately will be the southeast improvement and the project. they total $3 billion wor

we don't have an argument with that program. we want to be included with those type of programs. the rest of the coalition will be here later. we're looking for a more robust-of-why, creative, job creation opportunity. we don't want it in the portion after everything's in place and we're playing catch-up. it's time to change those policies that you guys have been using and really engage this community who has been long waiting for this. you have the seta programs when you built this wastewater treatment, some of those guys game in in that seta program and it's failed them. we've don't want to see this with our youth coming in on 9910. we like them to come in the way the other people come in with other options coming in. thank you. president vietor: thank you very much. >> mr. david pelto. >> good afternoon, commissioners. just a couple of brief points. first i wanted to appreciate my , who isn't here yet, doing wonderful work balancing requirements and frying to make this meeting happen. to that end i want to encourage you and the general manager and the staff to try to get agend

as quickly as possible. >> for this program, it is a work experience program. young people are paid a wage. we cannot get around federal labor laws. there are other program designs that could be looked at, paying a stipend or looking at a day labor program model. this model is set up as a work experience program. we have no way of working around that. commissioner maufas: i would like to encourage you to take that back to the table. >> there is a large group that i think would be happy to speak to you about that. commissioner maufas: if they can answer questions, i would be happy. supervisor cohen: if we have a representative who would like to speak? >> good afternoon, madam chair and the committee. first of all, my name is carl alexander. i served as the pastor of technology for the true love church. i am honored to address the fact that san francisco is a world- class city. that makes the board of supervisors a world-class body of supervisors. i would like to personally thank the chair for this opportunity to speak briefly about this historical moment. i woul

the program is huge. reprogrammed schedule provisions put completion of the program beyond the date to which san francisco committed in that water supply agreement. in reviewing the proposed recommendations by your staff, we worked very hard to provide constructive recommendations and we ask the commission to incorporate them in your actions today. we really do appreciate the proposed amendments. we really do think they speak to the concerns we raise, and we appreciate the relationship we have. thank you very much. if additional questions, mr. jensen is here. thank you very much. president vietor: thank you. mr. jensen? commissioners, do you of questions? >> i guess i have a related question. i do not know if this is for bawsca or for our staff. , george do we think the current project estimates are -- how mature do we think the current project estimates are? what are the current dollar estimates going to be? one of the initial proposals said we say no more revisions. i am curious as to how confident we a

hybrid between a loan program now and a grant program. since the stimulus expired in funding for these provisions returned to normal level, unfortunately the principal for giveness provision has remained. this bill rolls back prestimulus funding levels but it doesn't roll back the stimulus -- prestimulus federal strings. so my amendment removes the federal mandate of principal forgiveness and gives the state discretion on the amount they would like to offer. they will be able to provide principal forgiveness of up to 30%. communities rely on these funds to ensure their infrastructure security and safe drinking water. by supporting my amendment, you could leverage your state and community as i cross all -- all across our nation to get the much-needed infrastructure assistance. it is a very bipartisan focus on this. this is one of the priorities from the president in his budget proposal that he requested the same thing and it also for conservatives and others gives back the states the rights to be able to make those decisions. and with that

it is taking a fresh step of fixing programs. hopefully next year, and the summers after that, somebody my age will have a chance of making a difference in district 10. commissioner maufas: is it keith? and i think you very much for presenting. -- thank you very much for presenting. thank you for sharing that you were looking through the summer for employment and found employment through this but also participated in helping make it come about. you can speak first him to -- firsthand to what the program needs. i am sure you have many friends who have needs as well. that is something i experienced. my daughter is around that age. i hear from people beyond the age of 18 and there are not a plethora of programs of summer employment for young people who have not finished college, who are still in school, who are trying to live on their round or with friends, or are still with family, and being a contributor. i hope this program can figure out how to nuance itself, after you do the evaluation and see how it runs, on how to incorporate

programs. therefore they approve the programs for fiscal year 2011 until 2012 was permitted by section 326 05, and therefore be it resolved the board of education's those approved the proposed funding to attach the categorical funding and has made explicit the categories for which the funds will be used. on page 8 it basically was the initial categorical programs -- it basically with the initial categorical programs. we keep these in the same sequence as the original programs that were restricted, and we have shown the projected revenue is $58 million. we are also showing the expenditure budget is $42 million being used in a similar method of a worth -- that they were being used prior to being flexible, and in the last column you see they reflect the $60 million is part of the budget and basically is to offset the general fund, which includes across -- the cost of the formula and other items. if it was not for that, we would have to cut more money for other areas of our budget. the next one exc

there's a lot of great programs. i noticed these programs are sporadic. there's a couple at this school and this school. maybe a year, 2 years. there's maybe one program. not that many programs that we invest in long term. i was looking at this the other day with the contents. if you look at the back. there's a charter of the usfd. violence prevention chart. the most important part for me is the school wide behavior program. what's been found to be the best way to prevent violence is have a school wide program. it has to be embedded in your curriculum. the different ways you create different rules in class and how do deal with that. there's an entire school investment that has to be involved in this. there are tribes chants. is one method. but you notice. it's some schools. 3 or 4. maybe they had it for a year. it's not a consistent thing across the school district. it's frustrating. the elementary schools have some sort of program, which is an entire positive school climate that includes curriculum. what i would suggest or advocate for. for everyone inve

the dark green program was an opt in the program. remember, their program parameters are different than ours. president vietor: the low-income would still have a reduced rate, but it would still go up, right? >> it would be a subsidized rate. the generation co our service is higher than the generation component of pg&e's service. the overall discount will be comparable. and we're working out the details on how that discount will be applied. president vietor: that will be on the term sheet as well? >> it is more of a rate-making issue. we have discussed it with shell so they understand. but it is more of a rate making issue. president vietor: isn't that going to be part of the financial discussion of what needs to be put up up front and the numbers will play out? >> yes, but what the total revenue stream is that shelled needs to support the program -- that shell needs to support the program, and the dividing up peace is something we have discretion over. >> and you'll be getting a rate package also. that is not until early next year.

making sure transit and non- transit programs are eligible. we see a lot of requests for pedestrian improvements. we want to make sure we have flexible funding. we have a number of efforts related to year end closing. on prop k funds, we allocated $80 million. based on the 2009 strategic plan and the 5ypp, 73% of the money that we could have allocated. $74 million of this is from programmatic categories. most of it is in six categories, muni vehicles, guideways, us rapid transit, calming traffic, and muni facilities. we have received our first two checks from the vehicle registration fee. we are still paying off the department of the elections. this will be a pay-as-you-go program. we expect to allocate later this year. the summer, we have initiated projects with project sponsors. any eligible public agency that can deliver reliability improvements. we will be working on out region this summer with the planning division through the transportation plan. in september, the proposed schedule and approach for the strategic plan. this was approved w

as well as the weatherization program, the state energy program and the building technology program which benefits so many people in so many different parts of america. so i urge adoption of this amendment and i yield back. . the chair: the gentleman from new york. mr. tonko: i move to strike the last word. the chair: gentleman ask for unanimous consent consent? without objection. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. tonko: just to point out the statutory deadline for the weatherization program and the state energy program is in march 31 of any given year, in this case 2012. it's not all spent yet. there is expected to be an accelerated spending on these investments that are made. the drawdown on those monies will come in an accelerated way. and if we pull the rug out from these job creators at this stage, we stand to reduce employment among our private sector contractors, our builders and renovators. this program, what i have seen in new york, had a three-year waiting list. there is a great bit of good that comes from this program and i would think that everyone in thi

in addition to the san francisco home improvement program, there's a program called the energy agreed california program, and it is designed to help all want -- homeowners make energy efficiency improvements to the home and offset the cost. up to four thousand dollars for pg&e utility customers available for doing things that you might want to do already, adding insulation or reducing traps in your home, replacing the water europe -- water healeheater. not only do you save energy and money and reduce your current footprint, but you'll be much more comfortable in your home. >> grade, thank you. again, in san francisco, we're actually a prime target for this program, because the folks who should consider this program the most are folks who are owning older homes. margaret's home was built in the 1880's. we have a lot of homes built in the 1920's and in 1930's. those homes are prime targets for this program in terms of having a leaky windows and older furnaces and water heaters, all the upgrades we would normally do. in addition to this program, we're also going to be working on a green

i am very committed to this program. i know the potential it could have on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. it could be a huge player driving the market. as far as what we need to be doing as a city to reduce and comply with the state mandate that we are all scrambling to comply with. so i really want to see this program succeed. i would move to continue this item until september. any other comments from the commissioner? >> what percludes us from having a hearing in august? >> we could have a special meeting on this item. but i don't know. maybe i will take that off-line with the general manager and we can talk about that. >> thank you. it would be interest to see what they come up with in their further thoughts as well. are there public comments on this item? >> eric brooks, i am here representing san francisco green party. i was glad to hear a lot of commissioners raise a lot of concerns about financials of the potential for this program rolling out. you can potentially continue it or you can send it on to t

we think this program is increasingly important, and it has elements of programs that we think could be replicated for other categories of offenders, especially those who are economically driven to engage in crime. that is the overview of what the district attorney's office has been working on. we have been really honored to work with chief still, and our community justice and criminal justice partners. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. i do not believe there's any questions right now. thank you to the district attorney's office. public defender's office, please. >> good morning, supervisors. i am the director of specialty courts and reentry programs at the public defender's office. the public defender's primary role is to safeguard the due process rights and the liberty interests of the individuals that will now be served -- that will be affected by this new law. as the other departments have been impacted, our department will be impacted as well. the plan we have created involves a realignment team consisting of an attorney, a social worker, and a criminal justice special

i do not think we have our program controls person. duane will be doing local business hiring and our reach. commissioner torres: once we approve this, those are the people who stood up, who will be implementing the issues we have talked about today. >> they are signed and committed. these people are not moving anywhere. commissioner torres: i do not care if they move or not. it will create jobs and other opportunities. >> this is unlike any other type of consultant arrangement we have. they are part of the team. they are an integrated part of the team. i think that's what makes this work very well. all right. work will be initiated through task orders on a regular basis. it will go through program staff and harlan kelly's approval. our goal is to make the southeast treatment plant a state-of-the-art facility, which is an asset to this community. working with tommy and his staff, we will start off with initiating a project office at the southeast facility where all the treatment engineers, project managers, and project control staff, a

we have looked at ways to adjust the program. the first, one key change that just happened over time, and we have talked about this in the past, the pg&e rates in 2012, july 2012, are going to change to be a flat generation rate, said that is one where usage increases, the rate charged for generation does not change. that will be modified so that there will still be the same conservation incentives, but that actually ties into how we would design our rates, that we would not a flat rate. we also are considering working on maintaining a great benefit for low-income customers. they would be eligible for the same program. rate stability. we're looking at a 4.5 your program, contract, rather, what show. and this is to assure that the rates stay stable over time. we're being prudent and doing a reserve. the cfo taught to -- talked about that a bit. this is for each year of the contract. i do not mean the same number over 4.5 years. but we do know what that is for each year of the contract. we know that at the outset. president vietor:

supervisor mirkarimi: and then, based on the program capacity of the programs provided by the sheriff's department and their network of programs, they are already challenged in some ways based on the population that they have to attend to now. without an infusion of more funds or more resources, does that not just then passed those programs -- task those programs that much more, since we are relying on them to make a difference of whether there is a repeat offender rate that is reduced or sustained? >> certainly. to the extent that those programs reach their capacity and there are not more resources added to them to expand capacity, it will start causing that block between a seamless sort of transition, but i will say that the charter high school, for example, uses no city funds, and we have been in meetings with them, and they have expanded tremendously since their inception five, six, seven years ago. and they have come up with several ideas of how they might provide both in-custody expansion as well as community program expansion. we are working with them on that development because

space program should be. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3, early american history professor christina snyder on first encounters between native americans, europeans, and africans in the new world. harvard university professor on the role of african-american soldiers during the civil war. and roger shimamora recalls his childhood in an internment camp and how is it art shows ethnicity, race, and a japanese- american experience. the complete weekend schedule act c-span.org/history. >> think how privileged we are to serve here and have the most insisting legal issues of our times come to this court. in this week marks the 30th anniversary of president reagan that a nomination of a sudden the o'connor as the first woman supreme court justice. watch her appearances including oral arguments, at the c-span video library. search, watch, clip, and share. >> who is really going to get fired

, was on everybody's favorite program, the space station program. so throughout the clinton administration when, you know, when the program was finally solidified from a political perspective by bringing the russians in, um, at the same time every two years there was a budget overrun or cost growth of multiple billions of dollars. and it always had to be worked out. and my impression of those battles was that in the end, you know, the schedule slipped, but nasa got the same program content for the station, some minor changes here and there. at the beginning of the bush administration, there was a $4 billion i believe it was overrun on space station that was presented to the omb within the first couple months, and the result of that was omb and the white house pushed back and said you don't get any more money. you don't get to keep, you know, the content. you have to cut content in order to meet your goals. that resulted in what was called u.s. core complete which dramatically, i'd say, reduced the capability of the station, kept a lot of the scienti

. >> water system improvement funded program -- water system improvement program-funded amendments. 11, discussion and possible action to approve water system improvement program-funded agreement -- amendments to agreements. agenda item 12, discussion and possible action to approve five enterprise water system improvement program-funded amendments. 13, discussion and possible action to approve three water enter -- water system enterprise improvement program funded amendments. 14, discussion and possible action to approve what -- two water enterprise water system improvement program-funded agreements. 15, discussion and possible action to approve the amendment 12 water enterprise water system improvement program funded agreement no. cs-963 and authorize the general manager to execute the amendment, increasing the agreement by $8 million for an agreement not to exceed the amount of $34 million and increasing the agreement duration by four months and 22 days for a total duration of seven years, four months, and 22 days, subject to the board of supervisors approval. commissioner vietor: th

but the tuskegee program almost didn't happen. obviously the generals in the army air corps didn't want it to happen. didn't want african-americans forced on them. went along kicking and screaming. the naacp, phillip randolph, the most import african-american labor union in the country, the presidents of historically black colleges and universities, formed a coalition in the 1930s, 1940 to plus for african-americans inclusion in the air force. they saw this as the tip of the iceberg. and forcing the federal government to create greater opportunities for african-americans, giving them a chance to prove their patriotism, the competency so that they could use that to further civil-rights goals after the war. they were able to force president roosevelt to create the program in 1940 and the wave that came about as interesting. the naacp had been calling for this in 1937. every year at their annual meeting they passed a resolution that the united states army air corps, all the branches of the armed services but the air corps in particul

program. for example, what is it destined to do? the yellow ribbon program is a reserve component program we use in the national guard that brings service members together at various points through the deployment process, before they deploy and then at certain days after they deploy. and it allows them, with their family members, to come back and start talking about reintegrating into civilian life, which is very different. anyone who has ever deployed, whether it's outside of the united states or even to a disaster here, is going to be affected by that deployment. and that will have an impact on the family. so, yellow ribbon events are meant to bring them back, tell them about what benefits they have, what's out there for them, and to really get eyes on individuals so they can follow up individually with that person about the program or the challenge that they might be dealing with. and some of the other programs you mentioned? yes, there's an employer support for the guard and reserve. one o

program. your questions for the very end of the program and when the q&a session arrives, because we were taping this for c-span, please make sure you state your name and your organization or affiliation. thank you. >> next week of the ronald reagan administration. the reagan administration was marked by the program arms control, the beginning of the space shuttle program. and unfortunately the space shuttle challenger disaster and a few other events occurring as well. the bombing in beirut, the american embassy in beirut, but a very lively area and to discuss the ronald reagan administration we had mr. gill rye. a director of space and intelligence programs on a national security council staff in the white house. he was also the executive secretary to the senior interagency group for states which oversaw the military, civil and commercial sectors of the u.s. space program. it is indeed my honor to introduce mr. gil rye. >> thank you. well, good morning. i am reminded of an introduction a frie

program on top of it. it is the challenge. sometimes they have to be done sequentially and that was part of the challenge that led to the set of challengess we faced when we came into office. but the bush administration made the decision to retire the shuttle. we said instead of just putting a time stamp on one of the things we saw on safety is if you just drive shall plungees bar arbitrary time table you can run in to safety problems so we decided to add more money to -- added a couple flights but we are nearing the end of that incredible program sunni and. $100 billion space station, we drew upon the lessons from previous administrations. ron reagan initially kicked off this effort when this thing started. the clinton administration pulled it out of the fire and saved it by one vote. the challenges we saw was this program would have to be dumped into the ocean to pay for a follow-on program and we were concerned after early investment in putting it together before we actually turned it into a scientific

a machinist program is another program that was really led by the leadership of wastewater and as thesistant general manager he is seeing there is a growing field around machinists and he has seen models where this has worked and is in conversation with the san francisco school district about a model program that could be housed here. for people that don't spend a lot of time in district 10 you may not understand why the club is on the power point but many in the room probably know why the sewing club is there. we have heard from many members that it was seniors that really had a lot of value around the sewing classes offered by city college. so that is one of the programs that we have heard over and over is important to reinstate in the space. the ability to align the arts enrichment dollars with this building. so everything from talking about a rotating gathering that would be in the space that with highlight the art of local artists to doing historical work. so, even espinola's history of the center and we have talked about everything from doing an oral history project, et cetera.