it's a partnership with puc. they activate the storm mode and they notify us and we deploy staff to help them out. next slide is a graffiti public. we maintain all the city properties around town. we have 20 staff members working on the graffiti public. we have one supervisor. we two superintendent twos and 17 front line staff that helps our graffiti public. we also have a graffiti private. and we have opt in program. for the private we have inspectors. we vafour working in the field and two ad min to support the private graffiti function. the opt in program is a new program. we have one supervisor and we have seven laborers working in the program. corridor program. the crews work on a range of commercial corridors. they pick up litter and do various other activities. one of the major activities they do is communicate with the business owners. we want to develop a positive rapport with them and know we're helping them out and one of the better programs that we have right now. the next slide is special projects. w

the construct that is described to you is the puc california puc regulated entities, right? if we are our own public power provider throughout san francisco, we are the provider of last resort in that scenario and these regulation do not apply in that scenario. okay? >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner ajami. >> maybe a comment and a question. i know this is only a credit line for us to use when we need--i'm wondering if and maybe missed it and it is in there, if there a provision we can add or we can make sure you will come back to us every time we draw from this significant amount to make sure we are up to date, what's going on. just having that dialogue going to make sure everything is- >> you mean from a information perspective? >> yes. because i think it is important not just for us, who knows who will be here in another 7 years but think it is important valuable knowledge for future commission to know who is taking what from who. >> if i may clarify, while this authority grants-while this action from the board of supervisors grants this authority, still e

it's a partnership with puc. they activate the storm mode and they notify us and we deploy staff to help them out. next slide is a graffiti public. we maintain all the city properties around town. we have 20 staff members working on the graffiti public. we have one supervisor. we two superintendent twos and 17 front line staff that helps our graffiti public. we also have a graffiti private. and we have opt in program. for the private we have inspectors. we vafour working in the field and two ad min to support the private graffiti function. the opt in program is a new program. we have one supervisor and we have seven laborers working in the program. corridor program. the crews work on a range of commercial corridors. they pick up litter and do various other activities. one of the major activities they do is communicate with the business owners. we want to develop a positive rapport with them and know we're helping them out and one of the better programs that we have right now. the next slide is special projects. w

we have existing documents that say we should care about affordability of puc the charter says how to look at the restructures to support of low income customers and one of the existing policies that we should care about accountability they are helpful in doing the final planning they make decisions. it almost community-based organizations without saying to say that san francisco is an extensive place to building but in the context we need to say. as one of the highest cost of living in the entire united states san franciscans face challenges just to continue to live here one example the medium household makes one hundred and $44,000 a year and according to the california later and living wage for a two person with three children just to meet the needs is one hundred and 61 thousand dollars a year this is a gap our average household struggle with housing and transportation and with their utilities. right now we have a large number thousands of customers in the wurtd are behind and you're fame with the programs but still there and struggling. our customers everyday make decisions about

he used to be the lawyers for autonomous vehicles and is now with the puc instead and they're asking,addition to his resignation for the prosecution of cruise executives who they are calling accountable for the mishaps with the robo taxi company. nine key executives from cruise separated from the company yesterday and today cnbc has confirmed that 900 employees will also be let go. that is almost a quarter of the company's workforce. in an e-mail sent to employees, the company is slowing down commercial situation and simplifying and focusing efforts for an exceptional city before scale. the cuts come out operations and outside of engineering, however some may still be impacted. much of the fallout began following this accident. it did not initially involve a cruise vehicle. a pedestrian was hit by a car where a driver and then the pedestrian was thrown into the path of the cruise taxi. the dmv found the driverless cruise car stopped after hitting the pedestrian, but then later attempted to pull over, dragging the system several feet. the dmv accused the company of misleading investiga

pg&e has filed a request with the puc, the public utilities commission, asking to collect $1.4 billion from customers. pg&e tells state regulators it needs that money to stabilize its own finances and cover recent spending on wildfire prevention and storm repairs. this all comes as we're already looking at higher bills on new year's day. last month the puc commission approved a 13% rate hike, which really is about $30 to $35 more on average bills monthly. any new proposal now wouldn't be approved until late next year. nonetheless, pg&e making its move. >>> also tonight, a new round of layoffs at kaiser. it's going to affect more than 100 workers, most of them here in the bay area. 65 of those positions are in northern california. 41 in pleasanton. they're mostly administrative positions including i.t. and h.r. kaiser already laid off about 50 workers in early november. >>> they're already doing it in san diego and san antonio, but will it work in san jose? we're talking about the so-called safe sleeping sites like this one in san diego. it's where homeless people live in a tent city se

we have a total of 3, 700 trees under puc management. tip quality. and all of those trees failures from thes storm addressed we also provided support to the emergency operation center. at the time of the emergency so our crews addresses the fine tree leaning on a building at broadway and kearney. a crew resides in the property in lake merced the crew responded the emergency. and does the on going tree maintenance. replanting on the properties and the typical work includes addressing high hazzard treeos roadways like shown here at laguna reservoir. hazardous and unhealthy trees. like here at looksly. and trees affecting critical water deliver competence infrastructure. the crews are doing our revegetation. i will wrap up with an example of the w this we are doing in the city this is -- represents the full gammet. trees on our property. this is now in year two of the project it is a long-term project. so laguna reservoir has road side edges. has in the middle slide the upper stand of trees residents so it has the full gammet of -- tree conscience condi

i would offer that -- for departments look sfo, puc and now sf public work and rec and park. and the da's office have projects looked at during the look back period. our numbers where well is a relationship upon where well is a true partnership trend high and ares better out come for not just aprentices on the whole but local workers in san francisco. i really seat city pla as a policy extension of values that the board of supervisors has adopted and had adopted you know a decade or more ago. we enter our 13th year of construction under the local hire ordinance. upon we are able to show that this is the mechanical implementation of the stated policy goals. we are proud. and yes t is a compromise and a trade off. and the private sector our members sxraul we are reserve in the our approach to the actions, we never take off the table our right as trade unionists as people to with hold our labor if well is a safety issue and a lack of dignity or respect on the job inform this instance we give up that rival to participate along side our partners. i want to draw your attention to a

we developed a 2 phase scope of work and really appreciate the input we got from the puc, mike has been very helpful and providing technical input from their team. also, department of environment has been very helpful. i like to thank berry hooper a expert in the field who is really provided a lot of insight and then also got input from the department of building indeckz inspection and fire department. we developed a two phase approach. the first phase is focusing on r3 occupancy buildings, single family homes and duplexes and then the second phase will look at additional building types and other policy considerations around battery storage. the intent is to try to get the first phase done quickly and the single family homes and duplexes is the most straight forward residential case for adding battery storage in the home and when you look at at larger multifamily buildings things are more complicated so why we plan to tackle that in phase 2. to expedite getting the study started we are excited to explore using department of environment existing contract with arup. they are contract was

he used to be or was formerly a lawyer for cruise autonomous vehicles before serving now with the puc reynolds' resignation, demonstrators are also calling for the prosecution of cruise executives. nine key executives from cruise separated from the company yesterday. today, cnbc confirmed that 900 employees will also be let go. that's almost a quarter of the company's workforce. in an email sent to employees, the company says it's slowing down commercialization, simplifying and focusing efforts to return with an exceptional service in one city before scaling. the cuts mostly come in operations and outside of engineering. some technical positions may be impacted with the cuts. much of this began following this accident. it did not initially involve a cruise vehicle. a pedestrian was hit by a car with a driver. then that pedestrian was thrown into the path of a cruise taxi. the dmv found the driverless cruise car stopped after hitting the pedestrian but then later attempted to pull over, dragging the victim several feet. the dmv accused the company of misleading vft gates by not disclos

moved to the upcoming mta and puc contracts. this was done in in order to avoid paving these locations twice and minimize disruption to the area, neighborhood. so to recap, uh, we're here today to request approval for the contract modification to increase the contract duration, contingency by 40 days and decrease the contract costs by. $655,549.49 for the fulton street and grove street pavement renovation, sewer replacement contract. so this concludes my presentation. i'm open to any questions that you may have. and thank you for listening to my presentation. thank you, mr. kong. it's nice to see you again. and as far as i know, this is the first time we've ever had a to approve a reduction in a contract amount. and we've approved a lot of contracts. i hope it won't be the last. so you're you're wishing us a very nice holiday. i can tell with this good news. um, so thank you again. i have no questions or comments. commissioner turner, i did want to echo, um, it is nice not only to have a savings, but also i wanted to point out t

actually foiling to the fascist right, right-wing discourse is anti-muslim arab like anti arabs, anti puc, very racist in the discourse, i completely agree that the normalization project is is 100% targeted at muslims because they know our boundaries, our boundaries are staunch and they are clear, thank you. to both of our guests, what a phenomenal discussion we've had, i wish we could have taken longer and thank you at home for watching, join us again next week for another of eye on this is for pal. "in this week's show we'll be looking at the relentless and unflinching determination of the palestinian people to throw off the shackles of science depression, and you mentioned that i was victim of the the nakba in 1948, point about that nakbah as as and the same point today is the violence, is the violence that accompanies zinism, and so that violence meant that uh moving on from breaking bones just simply shoot the people dead, if you recall in that period we had..." had the irish peace process, we had african peace process, we had mandela released from prison, uh, it looked like this was

actually foiling to the fascist right rightwing this which is anti muslim ab like anti arabs, anti puc very racist in the discurse. i completely agree that that normalization is is 100% targeted at muslims because they know our boundaries, our boundaries are staunch and they are clear. thank you to both of our guests, what a phenomenal discussion we had, i wish that could have taken longer and thank you at home for watching, join us again next week for. of eye on islam. we live in a densely populated area and suffer from severe shortage of portable water, one element of it was leaving the israeli water company in charge of all the water resources. national water company that's responsible. either you're with us or you're with the enemy? الدوله للمعارضه هم اسقطوا النظام والدوله معا وسلموا المعارضه صراع على سلطه اول من وجهه ضربه للامريكان في العراق هي الفصائل الشيعيه المنعومه من ابو م یک سوال بزرگ در مقابل آمریکا ایجاد شد که شما اشغال کردید آمریکا را چی عراق را چی به دست آوردید ايضا كان عامل جديد غير المعادله لذلك

attacking palestinian and actually filing to the fascist, which is anti muslim, arab, anti arabs, anti puc, very racist in discourse. i completely agree that the normalization project is is 100% at muslims because they know our boundaries, our boundaries are staunch and they are clear. thank you to both of our guests, phenomenal discussion had, i wish that we could have taken longer and thank you at home for watching, join us again next week for another edition of art on islam. we in a densely populated area and suffer from severe shortage of portable water. one element of it was leaving the israeli water company in charge of all the water resources. المفروض عندما يسقطون النظام يسلمون الدوله للمعارضه هم اسقطوا النظام والدوله معا وسلموا المعارضه صراع على السلطه اول من وجه ضربه للامريكان في العراق هي الفصائل الشيعيه المدعومه من ابو مهد وحضرت یک سوال بزرگ در مقابل آمریکا ایجاد شد که شما اشغال کردید آمریکا را چی اراق را کی دست آورد الحاج ايضا كان عامل جديد غير المعادله لذلك israel and the us won't be able to radicate hamas even they spend 10 more years trying alaxa flood operation did not trig

hardly technical staff crating the regulatory infrastructure which in the longterm is going to promote pucealth or. >> that's it and in the pharma space spent a very big success. let me say this from a legislative branch perspective has anyone heard of a federal agency that is not said they need more money? no it will laugh but it was a joke. >> i tried i'm not a comedian. my point to that is sometimes that is true. but many times it is the lack of will or the inability of the agency to repurpose some of what they already have it. sometimes it is money no doubt. it definitely is a staffing issue in a lot of ways. you saw that with what happened in the food product area boom had the baby formula situation. they are way understaffed and do not have enough money to the proper oversight they do that's real. it's not a bad idea user fee concept is something that's been proven to be successful. >> do you think given the significant focus on cannabis legalization, cannabis would most likely be regulated under harm reduction standard very similar to how tobacco products are currently regulated. as

30th anniversary sfgovtv in any more than 20 years of the public life as city attorney and as head of puc my honor and privilege to have you as a partner in all the work we've done the san francisco police department congratulates sfgovtv for thirty years of original >> you are watching san francisco rising. a special guest today. >> i am chris and you are watching san francisco rising. focused on rebuilding and reimagining our city. our guest is the director of financial justice in the san francisco office of treasure to talk about how the city has taken a national lead in this effort and how the program is comlishing the goals. welcome to the show. >> thanks so much for having me. >> thank you for being here. can we start by talking about the financial justice project in a broad sense. when did the initiative start and what is the intent? >> sure. it launched in 2016. since then we take a hard look at fines, fees, tickets, financial penalties hitting people with low incomes and especially people of color really hard. it is our job to assess and reform these fines and fees. >> do you hav

i would offer that -- for departments look sfo, puc and now sf public work and rec and park.oked at during the look back period. our numbers where well is a relationship upon where well is a true partnership trend high and ares better out come for not just aprentices on the whole but local workers in san francisco. i really seat city pla as a policy extension of values that the board of supervisors has adopted and had adopted you know a decade or more ago. we enter our 13th year of construction under the local hire ordinance. upon we are able to show that this is the mechanical implementation of the stated policy goals. we are proud. and yes t is a compromise and a trade off. and the private sector our members sxraul we are reserve in the our approach to the actions, we never take off the table our right as trade unionists as people to with hold our labor if well is a safety issue and a lack of dignity or respect on the job inform this instance we give up that rival to participate along side our partners. i want to draw your attention to a sdiks that director mulligan brought

30th anniversary sfgovtv in any more than 20 years of the public life as city attorney and as head of puc my honor and privilege to have you as a partner in all the work we've done the san francisco police department congratulates sfgovtv for thirty years of original (clapping). >> like my brother who said we have 86 thousand 4 hundred seconds every single day. we have to make sure that we use every second critically in our lives to save lives it goes for everybody out there and 86 thousand 4 hundred seconds in each day how will you use your seconds every second what? make it count $86,400 in your pocket i'm going to bring up my brother and my homey and play for us, please. >> good morning, everybody. and good morning. >> lord, we thank you. everything we love you so much and please take the loved ones and families and kids and please protect our city. and the world always please. we love you and please bless us all always our families and kids. and our friends at the so much love you lord, we thank you. amen. >> thank you. >>. amen. >> that's any brother right there. and having a convers

>> sfgov isn't all employee e-mail addresses, there is usd which we don't have access to, puc, superior court. there are a lot of e-mail addresses we don't have access to and when 80 consulted the city attorney there was legal documents we have to guarantee sort of that members receive and one way to do that is to send it to them via u.s. mail. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner zvanski has a question i believe or comment. >> thank you. yes, i are like to know how you are going to inform especially our retiree group with regard to the fact that they won't be receiving the booklet? >> she didn't say won't be. i want to correct that. i want her to repeat what she said and would you repeat it again? >> we are considering piloting it. >> i understand that and i like to know how you anticipate communicating with this specific membership group with regard to that if you make that decision, because we have a lot of members who do not have e-mail. they do not have wifi. they don't have a cell phone, and especially we have a number of retirees who are quite elderly, but many who a

just last month the state puc approved a 13% rate hike, and now the utility is asking to raise rates dollars more, according to the filing. it says the utility needs money to cover spending on wildfire prevention and storm repair. the increase approved three weeks ago was about half the amount the utility is seeking. now, the already approved increase kicks in new year's day, and the new request would not be up for approval until late next year. pg&e is asking for an expedient decision. >>> passengers aboard a princess cruise ship out of san francisco are breathing a sigh of a leaf right now or sleeping, because they had a long night last night on the chilly bay waterfront. their cruise to mexico was held up by a clearance issue. passengers say they were stuck waiting at pier 27 for hours. in a new statement, the cruise line says the ship departed at 1:15 this morning. princess says in part, the delay was beyond its control, but apologizes for the inconvenience. >>> how is that traffic looking, mike? >> where we can see it, it's moving smoothly. you can't see clearly 101 through palo

all be it, the puc did reject san francisco request to stay the wamo permit. today i like to ask the transportation authority staff to work to continue to work collaboratively with the municipal transportation agency staff to further develop our input to state agencies, including through a av regulatory framework study that would look at how av safety and performance metric could be used in a performance based approach. the study utilize best available public data and estimates we have been able to garner to illustrate how the framework could be applied to testing and deployment in san francisco and beyond. thank you mr. chairman for that opportunity and thank you staff for working on this. >> thank you commissioner peskin and thank you for all of the time significant time that you are putting into this issue. let's see if there is public comment on item 11. anybody in the chamber? see if we have remote public comment on item 11. >> there is no public comment for item 11. >> alright. public comment on item 11 is closed. please call item 12. >> item 12, public

>> sfgov isn't all employee e-mail addresses, there is usd which we don't have access to, puc, superior. there are a lot of e-mail addresses we don't have access to and when 80 consulted the city attorney there was legal documents we have to guarantee sort of that members receive and one way to do that is to send it to them via u.s. mail. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner zvanski has a question i believe or comment. >> thank you. yes, i are like to know how you are going to inform especially our retiree group with regard to the fact that they won't be receiving the booklet? >> she didn't say won't be. i want to correct that. i want her to repeat what she said and would you repeat it again? >> we are considering piloting it. >> i understand that and i like to know how you anticipate communicating with this specific membership group with regard to that if you make that decision, because we have a lot of members who do not have e-mail. they do not have wifi. they don't have a cell phone, and especially we have a number of retirees who are quite elderly, but many who are not

water irrigation use exceeding the puc goal of 11%. converted 4 remember 84 green waste toland scape products. love that reuse and recycle. helped grow the park ranger division citywide. they are contributing to our safety all over the city. not just the park. >> and organizational development and employee recognition program. a place people can share anecdoteos his retirement. if you want the link we am arrange to get it to you >> legacy and leadership support and coaching comraderie will be missed by so many of us. he was proud of all of us and the legacy of caring excellence and fostered in the park system a legacy i hope lives on for i long time. i know now from kate kaern that his memorial service will be grace cathedral on january 11. and i believe we will have a special service in the park it seems odd but we will move along to more commission business. that was that one is that was hurt losing our colleague and friends. it seems like the world should stop. you know and grieve. on a loiter note. we received an e mail from a gent