reduce the rates and the question of the bond and $4 million bond and i would love for the cfo at the puc look at that and give a briefing on that, so i am wondering in short order we're . -- we couldn't have this presentation and understanding we're going door to door and putting numbers out there into the community but i think that needs to happen. this program needs to move forward. it's been a long time. not just with this program, but as we heard from the installation of the first solar power in the 70's it's time to take action and move forward so thank you very much. >> thank you. commissioner mo ran. >> thank you, just a couple quick comments. first is that when the item comes before the commission at our next meeting in order to lift the funding cap i think that is an appropriate time for staff or davis and associates to respond to some of the issues raised today and specific outreach to communities of color. secondly, i do understand that the local power has submitted at least a first major draft of their proposal that that's being reviewed by puc staff. i have seen some of the initi

that is something that i think the sf puc is looking into. so certainly water itself is absolutely delicious, pure, pristine and fabulous and water is really the new oil. water is extremely important to us. but also it gives us energy. we have hydropower from our water source, a lot of city, if not all of the city is powered, sfmta, possibly the city buildings is powered by the hetch hetchy and i don't want to give that up either. >> thank you. i will remind the candidates that if at any point they wish to jump in on a question they may do so using a time card. the next question is for miss breed, mr. johnson and miss selby. please explain whether you think sit/lie is working to address public safety as intended across the city and how you would reform it, if indeed you would reform it? miss breed? >> i did vote yes on sit/lie. i had a number of issues in the upper haight that were just really unfortunate situations and i thought there needed to be some sort of solution to the problem. unfortunately it hasn't worked. we still have some real p

that is something that i think the sf puc is looking into. so certainly water itself is absolutely delicious, pure, pristine and fabulous and water is really the new oil. water is extremely important to us. but also it gives us energy. we have hydropower from our water source, a lot of city, if not all of the city is powered, sfmta, possibly the city buildings is powered by the hetch hetchy and i don't want to give that up either. >> thank you. i will remind the candidates that if at any point they wish to jump in on a question they may do so using a time card. the next question is for miss breed, mr. johnson and miss selby. please explain whether you think sit/lie is working to address public safety as intended across the city and how you would reform it, if indeed you would reform it? miss breed? >> i did vote yes on sit/lie. i had a number of issues in the upper haight that were just really unfortunate situations and i thought there needed to be some sort of solution to the problem. unfortunately it hasn't worked. we still have some real p

looked at the regional-wide. at that time, unfortunately, sf puc was intent to putting some combustion turbines, you know, to the o be talking in generalities. and really what we should be talking is line item by line item, so that whoever does or pays the bills in the homes, knows exactly what they are getting. now recently some of you all who pay attention to the news, you all notice what hurricane -- some of our folks haven't got their electricity and it's been weeks. i say this because in all those deliberations, one of the things we have to pay attention to is who has proprietary jurisdiction over the transmission lines, who has proprietary jurisdiction to do the maintenance and how much of this information is being deliberated. now, i have a -- some set of chart over here and they're talking about twin power sf stakeholders meeting 1:00 to 2:00 pm that already took place on november 7. i don't know why they put this out, but if at all such a meeting took place for one hour, i think it's a joke. this is such an important issue that it takes normally four or five hours. you know, you just can't get into it an

puc and the clerk's office. part of the question is, one of recreate it under an ordinance a copy of the funds and where they come from. but by lookingimbursement to the board of supervisorsff+j+pç per. revenue bond oversight is a percentage of each bond sale. but that is held in)léqh hç accd for contractual services for auditors and that typeéj)jú6gx f services. >> supervisor farrell: perfect. thank you. that's all ié(ññpvg have. >> chair kim: supervisor campos. >> co-chair campos: thank you very much. i do want to thank the continuance. my feeling is that to the extent there are ways that some of those concerns can be addressed with this still moving forward so i lookañwqg]?7 forward to wog with them on that, as thistÑáó;ç proceeds. >> chair kim: okay. department of public comment. we heard this two weeks ago. time, take some time to look at 5a.30. i think that language actually are concerns about the operations of the committee, i think those can be expressedamúo the committee and to the puc and those can always be made better. are largely within your control. appointments come up i[eñ?ñ? think you can and shoulk whatever questi

i am engined today by a host of puc officials to provide any particular details about operations you might have. mr. carlin, miss russell, and others. so look forward to answering any questions that you might have. >> thank you. why don't we go on to mr. carlin just to augment your presentation, just to hear from the puc on how this land will be operationalized. >> thank you. chairman avalos and supervisors kim and elsbernd, miable karlin, deputy general manager for the puc this. is a unique opportunity for us to actually consolidate several operations that we have in sort of different locations into one location. it gives us the opportunity to have those people in the same place, from our collection system, who do the testing of the streets to actually doing sewer clean-ups. it also allows us to expand and we're actually forward-looking with this piece of property as well. as we implement the sewer system improvement program we are going to locate some of the project management staff there that will be working on the southeast plant. so they will be there for decades, as we kind of redo that plant in the southeast sector of san francisco.

and the puc in fact actually asked us to come in and look at that program. >> supervisor elsbernd: john you shut that door for us. >> the community assistance program provides discounts of up to 15% on water charges, and 35% on sewer charges for qualifying residential single family customers and to quaw qualify fe program applicants must meet a9 number of crateia noted on the -- criteria noted on the slide and applicants must certify they meet these criteria and understand puc reserves the right to verify their household income. as noted on the slide, the sf puc has adopted the same other california low assistance programs and the adjusted gross annual income criteria for the program is based on 200% of the federal poverty level, the number of persons in the household dictates allowable income for qualifying. participants in the cap program has increased more than 700% since its inception from 879 participants in 2004 to 7,437 participants in march 2012. as of march 2012, 7% of sf puc's residential single family service accounts were enrolled in theú÷'.nék program. in fiscal year 2010-

puc hearing this morning. supervisor scott wiener saye hearing will look at "muni" maintenance... and whether e money should be spent on upp for the system. muni's on-te rate in august was just 57 percent. the hearing is set for 9:30 a-m at san franciso city hall. today, two labor unions are expected to get behind planr a new arena for the golden e warriors. cbs five and chronicle insider phil matir reports the unions will urgn francisco supervisors to ape the waterfront arena plans. the billion dollar project s expected to create thousandf construction jobs. four students with bay areas are among the latest "rhodes scholarship" recipients. among the 32 americans honod this year are are catherine laporte-oshiro of larkspur,a senior at yale university... stanford university senior margaret hayden... stanford grad student rachel kolb...d u-c berkeley senior daniel price... they'll be heading for oxford universin england... all expenses pai. it's 5: the raiders took on the high flying saints. coud they pull off an upset? plus: the warriors take on e thunder. who's triple- double help

we do have members of the puc here as well to i think talk to some of the outstanding questions and we have our city attorney that also lookedisco public utilities commission and thank you for÷fl÷ considering this legislation today. i think it's important for the television audience as well as you who already know to briefly summarize why this/zñ?ñ? is so meaningful to us. one is it's4lñ?ñ? helpful for ratepayer assurance and for the public that we have sound and prudent oversight. and also, every time i go to meet with the rating agencies, whether#ññ?ñ? moody's standard and poor or fitch they@÷ñ?ñsee our oversight committees whether it's the mayor or our revenue bond oversight committee ordñ?ñ? our rate fairness board, we have about 10 of them, they are independent financial officer our controller's office, our city services auditor as)qñ?ñ?ñ well as our citizens advisory committee, we have people who care and pay attention and look at every dollar and how it's being spent. than#ñ?ñ? you for reconsidering an extension of this oversightq-ñ?ñ?ñ body. it's important. that being said i do understand in previous -- inaxñ?ñ? a pr

i think it's the bulk of the work before us to look at that plan and see if it meets the needs moving forward. who is presenting on that from the puc? we will provide the general update of the cleanpower sf program. >> barbara hale will give an update. >> thank you mr. herring -- mr. kelly, sorry. thank you, i am barbara hale, assistant general manager for power. by way of updates item four i just wanted to remind you in your packets is a detailed timeline for implementation of our cca program. we also are in working constructively with lafco in their advisory role to the board in implementation our cca program we are operating under a memorandum of understanding with lafco that describes the roles and responsibilities of our respective staff and we expect that as we get to actual program launch we will come back to you with a new mou that describes our ongoing relationship at the time. the mou we're operating under this point is expired but i think we're both comfortable to serve those roles until the program takes better shape and we can then revisit roles and responds with that information in hand. then the other item i wanted t

looking at on-street. we'd be happy to facilitate conversations between city college and puc and other large housing authority, other large landowners with the car share companies to the extent we could help see more car sharing in those areas. i think putting one on-street space as an island, i think is going to always be a challenge in terms of getting that critical massive usage to get the utilization to where it makes sense to have it there. i think we need to help seed that demand and perhaps using some of these spaces, city college, hunters view, the sewer plant, those could be great ways to do it. so, we're happy to work with the car share companies and those land owners to try to get more car sharing outside of the on-street. in any case, we want to pursue the on-street as well for the reasons that we discussed. they're visible. they're everywhere. they're perhaps more sustainable because they don't go away the way parking lots do. so, i think parallel strategy of both on-street and off-street legislation supervisor wiener has introduced, all of those are pathways to get more car-sharing in san franci

look at the california renewable energy resources act. it's more commonly referred to as the rpf legislation. the act requires the puc to meet 100% of our retail sales with hetch hetchy and rps [speaker not understood] generation. what we're proposing to do is rely on our existing processes where possible and appropriate to incorporate compliance into our budgeting and financial planning process. in most years, in 83% of all years, business as usual, no extra action is necessary on the city's part to comply with this legislation. we would need to buy any additional rps supplies, 83% of the time. what i'm here today for is to get input and direction from you on our proposal to give our general manager the authority to procure rps supplies to meet any unexpected requirements when they do occur, typically in dry years or in the event of an unexpected generator outage. and to set a cost limitation for compliance, which is allowed under the act. the commission does not need to take action today. it needs to adopt a procurement plan, however, pursuant to the legislation and the enabling regulation by january 1st, 2013. so,

but because of the process and structure of the puc it gives the president of the cpuc almost dictorial powers. >> we are not safe. we need somebody to look out for safety. >> san bruno residents are not alone in their petition drive. last week, san bruno city council approved a resolution calling for his removal and next week the san mateo county board of supervisors is expected to follow suit. he is former president of southern california edison and they said it play months to role in his current position. we asked him for a comment today and have not heard back. heather ishimaru, "abc 7 news." >> heavy some ron says tonight it will be early next greer before the richmond refinery is fully functional. one unit was heavily damaged by a massive fire that apparently was sparked by a leak in a pipe. before the fire it produced a quarter million gallons every day. the refinery would be operating at reduced capacity through the end of the year. >>> let's turn to the weekend forecast. spencer christian is here and i think you're going to like what you har. >> it's going to be a rerun of summer as we get into monday and tuesday. live view from

this mantle of being the general manager for the puc, it was also around the same time that then the mayor asked me to go down to new orleans and take a look at what they did not do to safe themselves from all of the years of recovery that they have had to engage in. that they are still doing as of today. one of the big lessons that i found out at that time is that they did not invest properly in the infrastructure knowing that disaster was in front of them, having experienced a flooding and the gates of their water barriers having melted down a couple of times, even before then. so when ed harrington obviously knew that history as well and he took up this leadership, five years ago. he had a very focused determination of getting this water system improvement program, not only up and running, but the education of the rate payers has to go along with tthe people, along, not only in san francisco, but all the way up to hefp ety has to be a part of this because it is a whole system and then five years later have completed all of the six other reservoirs and this being the last one in the city, to know that we have done 16 miles of water main,

puc is using it at sunset reservoir and the medians. i think a little at jefferson. >> there is some along the eddy of the jefferson street project. >> it looks like green uncut hair. >> but beautiful hair, wouldn't you say? >> denny, what part -- >> chia pet. >> what part of cavallo point. on the playground? >> the playground they actually mow but in between murray circle and the main office, then interspersed between some of the -- the hillsides area, there is no mow. >> in other words, we can't use it on a putting green? >> your ball won't go in the hole. >> it would change the game. >> commissioner bonia. >> yes. the water usage, 7,718,612 gallons we are using in this park. is any non -- poetable water or -- >> all that is poetable. be substantial water conservation. >> you are saying all is -- >> poetable. >> all poetable. so all this time we have been using all this water. >> yes. >> wow. >> irrigation and -- >> that is phenomenal. >> with outright leaks in this. >> i would say this is long overdue. >> thank you. >> is there public comment? please come forward. >> i'm katrina, on the board of the alamo square neighborhood association. i

puc takes actions. some of those are discretionary, some are not. all that are discretionary subject to c-e-q-a. >> and did we look at -- in our recommendation, you know, i think there is a lot to be said about having a window of appeal. but why didn't we limit it to planning or building related discretionary permit? i think by far we have the biggest notice requirement of other agencies. it's a c-e-q-a appeal, i think it would be related to planning or building permits. did we think about that when you were reviewing the legislation in terms of if you're going to choose a discretionary action as the trigger that it would be a planning or building permit only as opposed to, you know, kind of these ancillary permits? >> well, i don't think that the other permits are ancillary. in fact, maybe the concerns have been voiced here about those permits that are issued