if you want to know more i believe the ratepayer advocate would know more about that. if you want to address him about thatyou may want to. >>okay, thank you. >> we have staff that speak multiple languages and we also have use this and were working on some other methods to reach out to other communities. >> with a very diverse community. are there any that you hear from these other communities? >>absolutely. we have some of them here now. i've been doing this work for a very long time and i'm really excited about this particular team and this is a team that definitely reflects the diversity of san francisco and all of its aspects. folks are very very comfortable including residents are very comfortable in whatever mechanism of language they are comfortable. >>thank you very much. commissioner stephenson. >>i know this is a process that just started but how many people do you expect to actually reach and how many people do you expect to see in terms of public comment? >> we hope to reach in terms of the context several thousand folks over the next few months. are reache

if you want to know more i believe the ratepayer advocate would know more about that.u want to address him about thatyou may want to. >>okay, thank you. >> we have staff that speak multiple languages and we also have use this and were working on some other methods to reach out to other communities. >> with a very diverse community. are there any that you hear from these other communities? >>absolutely. we have some of them here now. i've been doing this work for a very long time and i'm really excited about this particular team and this is a team that definitely reflects the diversity of san francisco and all of its aspects. folks are very very comfortable including residents are very comfortable in whatever mechanism of language they are comfortable. >>thank you very much. commissioner stephenson. >>i know this is a process that just started but how many people do you expect to actually reach and how many people do you expect to see in terms of public comment? >> we hope to reach in terms of the context several thousand folks over the next few months. are reaches much

if you want to know more i believe the ratepayer advocate would know more about that. if you want to address him about thatyou may want to. >>okay, thank you. >> we have staff that speak multiple languages and we also have use this and were working on some other methods to reach out to other communities. >> with a very diverse community. are there any that you hear from these other communities? >>absolutely. we have some of them here now. i've been doing this work for a very long time and i'm really excited about this particular team and this is a team that definitely reflects the diversity of san francisco and all of its aspects. folks are very very comfortable including residents are very comfortable in whatever mechanism of language they are comfortable. >>thank you very much. commissioner stephenson. >>i know this is a process that just started but how many people do you expect to actually reach and how many people do you expect to see in terms of public comment? >> we hope to reach in terms of the context several thousand folks over the next few months. are reache

the ratepayer. but, are they looking at this incidence or they looking at them as bonds. this should stop. >> thank you. any other public comment? let's move on but before we do that i just want to announce that my intention is to have a close session item at 4 o'clock this afternoon. as you recall the last meeting we ran out time and did not have the close session. i want to make sure that we don't do that again. are you going to close session at 4 o'clock and if there's any business that we have to that we will take care of that we come out of close session. thank you. i am assuming that that was the end of the general managers report? >> that is correct. >> good afternoon. at its meeting last week the board elected new leadership. l councilmember was elected as chair and barbara pierce was elected as a vice chair. we have initiated our budget planning and actually processing we always begin our budget process with workplan looking at long-term challenges. i will plan to brief this commission on some highlighted issues that i think would be of interest to you. i think i

the ratepayer. but, are they looking at this incidence or they looking at them as bonds. this should stop. >> thank you. any other public comment? let's move on but before we do that i just want to announce that my intention is to have a close session item at 4 o'clock this afternoon. as you recall the last meeting we ran out time and did not have the close session. i want to make sure that we don't do that again. are you going to close session at 4 o'clock and if there's any business that we have to that we will take care of that we come out of close session. thank you. i am assuming that that was the end of the general managers report? >> that is correct. >> good afternoon. at its meeting last week the board elected new leadership. l councilmember was elected as chair and barbara pierce was elected as a vice chair. we have initiated our budget planning and actually processing we always begin our budget process with workplan looking at long-term challenges. i will plan to brief this commission on some highlighted issues that i think would be of interest to you. i think i

the ratepayer. but, are they looking at this incidence or they looking at them as bonds. this should stop. >> thank you. any other public comment? let's move on but before we do that i just want to announce that my intention is to have a close session item at 4 o'clock this afternoon. as you recall the last meeting we ran out time and did not have the close session. i want to make sure that we don't do that again. are you going to close session at 4 o'clock and if there's any business that we have to that we will take care of that we come out of close session. thank you. i am assuming that that was the end of the general managers report? >> that is correct. >> good afternoon. at its meeting last week the board elected new leadership. l councilmember was elected as chair and barbara pierce was elected as a vice chair. we have initiated our budget planning and actually processing we always begin our budget process with workplan looking at long-term challenges. i will plan to brief this commission on some highlighted issues that i think would be of interest to you. i think i

we're trying to engage residents and ratepayers were there at that is in front of their homes to show that small actions like removing a little bit of concrete total on the ring to soak and can have benefits. this again is an amendment to extend the existing grant for an additional year and i will provide just a little bit of context around the accomplishments. working with the supervisor's office we have removed over 6000 ft. of impervious paved over concrete. replace it with vibrant stormwater front your gardens. that's around 75,000 gallons of storm water removed from our system. the amendment that before you will help extend this program for another year and let us work with another 20 residents in district for. with that, i will take any questions. >> when you say were removing the concrete what you mean? >> that is a volunteer-based effort. they work with the property owner they cut the concrete and is a voluntary effort, everybody comes on help and bring in the soil and plant the sidewalk gardens and the maintenance of those front yards is on the property owner. >> the cutting

, i've sent a lot of e-mails to you in my name is out in georgia dominated san franciscans and a ratepayer. what i would like to talk about is the balboa reservoir. back in august or september you received a real estate report from staff and one of the items was about four reservoirs. the reservoir reports said that puc is trying to help the city fulfill its mission to give people affordable housing. now that is a very noble thought but i think what you, because you're going to be making some serious decisions on the issue, is you have to look into the details of what they call affordable housing. there are two points. one iis affordable housing is defined by law as being for homeless, low income and moderate income people. that is a area median income of 120% of two 120% of median income. now what the - excuse me - what the development parameters for balboa reservoir points out isn't i cannot even over half affordable. it only requires 33% affordable housing as defined by law. so to me this is like bait and switch. if you keep up with the papers that la city attorney is suing sears, jcpen

if we could have some information on the rdf which is the rate ratepayer advocate if we could have some information that one they are as well and as we could also have this to have access to auditory committee meetings that would be wonderful i think that the more access we can give to the public and the more we can distribute those meetings, the better. >>> and, i think that's all i had on my list. i will pass it to commissioner stephensonnow. >>i just want to for this out there even though it's already been thrown out by a our director but this as our 20th anniversary at of the commission we look at the state of affairs in our country today and the state of affairs in our planet right now and i would just like to say that i had a great, great awesome experience in washington dc last week; and i just want to say that we are in this bubble and if somehow if we could as a commission come up with what is our moonshot right now? what is our environmental moonshot? i know there would be so much going into sort of framing what that would be but what can we as a commission really get behind.

we're trying to engage residents and ratepayers were there at that is in front of their homes to show that small actions like removing a little bit of concrete total on the ring to soak and can have benefits. this again is an amendment to extend the existing grant for an additional year and i will provide just a little bit of context around the accomplishments. working with the supervisor's office we have removed over 6000 ft. of impervious paved over concrete. replace it with vibrant stormwater front your gardens. that's around 75,000 gallons of storm water removed from our system. the amendment that before you will help extend this program for another year and let us work with another 20 residents in district for. with that, i will take any questions. >> when you say were removing the concrete what you mean? >> that is a volunteer-based effort. they work with the property owner they cut the concrete and is a voluntary effort, everybody comes on help and bring in the soil and plant the sidewalk gardens and the maintenance of those front yards is on the property owner. >> the cutting

if we could have some information on the rdf which is the rate ratepayer advocate if we could have some information that one they are as well and as we could also have this to have access to auditory committee meetings that would be wonderful i think that the more access we can give to the public and the more we can distribute those meetings, the better. >>> and, i think that's all i had on my list. i will pass it to commissioner stephensonnow. >>i just want to for this out there even though it's already been thrown out by a our director but this as our 20th anniversary at of the commission we look at the state of affairs in our country today and the state of affairs in our planet right now and i would just like to say that i had a great, great awesome experience in washington dc last week; and i just want to say that we are in this bubble and if somehow if we could as a commission come up with what is our moonshot right now? what is our environmental moonshot? i know there would be so much going into sort of framing what that would be but what can we as a commission really get behind.

seeking to ensure that they have adequate power supplies to meet the needs and demands of their ratepayers, did not cause the financial crisis. unfortunately, the current law imposes rules that treat all of these entities as major risks to our economy. and imposes overly burdensome capital and paperwork requirements on them. mr. speaker, critics may claim that this bill undermines consumer protections, however this couldn't be further from the truth. title 1 of the legislation puts in place greater consumer protections, like requiring brokerage firms, to notify investors before moving funds from one account to another in order to prevent abuses like those that occurred at m.f. global prior to its bankruptcy. title 2, makes reforms to the cftc and strengthens the cost benefit analysis the commission must perform when considering the impacts of its rules. opponents have claimed that requiring cost benefit analysis will open up the cftc to lawsuits. however, h.r. 238 merely gives the cftc a standard for writing good rules the first time which will be a benefit for all of us. title 3 provides

again, the ratepayers pay for all that. hauled out chicken litter and all that kind of things and made a dramatic improvement in the attainment. the problem was though, arkansas, and you mentioned, again my good friend senator booker, and he is a good friend can mention a lot about oklahoma this and that. arkansas never agreed to any of that. so they were going forward but they felt like they could not obtain the .037 standard because the first national river is in arkansas took the buffalo river, and it was not a .037. so we went with good faith, 2010, in 2005 i believe the attorney general in oklahoma sued arkansas. that was, and you can correct me if i'm wrong, on some of these things, but in 2010 that case was all of the stuff was put in place, but the federal judge has never ruled on it. so it was open. we fast-forward, 2013 is arriving, arkansas is still not agreeing to the .037 standard is the appropriate one. so they were squaring off getting ready to sue each other again. and attorney general pruitt, attorney gener