environment. ♪ clean power sf is san francisco's key way of fighting climate change by renewable energy and offering it to san francisco customers. i'm from the san francisco publictilities commission. the program came about with state wide legislation in 2002 to enable people to take more control over supplies. i first heard of the program when the organization was advocating to launch clean power sf. what i'm most excited about, it's going to bring 100% renewable energy to my home and reinvest into renewable energy infrastructure and jobs. i had gone to a lot of street fairs and heard from the staff at the san francisco public utilities commission to sign up for clean power sf even before it launched. >> we learned about clean power sf because our sustainability team is always looking for clean operations. linkedin is the largest online network. there are about 530 million members using our site. in this san francisco office there's about 1400 employees working in roughly 400,000 square feet. >> after signing up for the program we heard about the san francisco program and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. i'm the co-owner of the new whee

public comment for items 1, 2, and 3 are open. yes, we're reopening it. >> again, ray hart, director san francisco open government and i'm talking about the budget of the library. i have 36 orders of determination finding violations of the sunshine ordinance, which are violations of either the brown act or california public records act. a dozen of those are the library either trying to keep me from getting public records to substantiate the phrases. the previous speakers -- i presented statistics and documents and they say, it's a wonderful relationship. i will tell you what's happened in the library. i've been going for 10 years now and the friends never show up at that meeting anymore. they used to show up and show of those false numbers saying, we're giving $700,000, $800,000, hiding that the money was coming from other people and they're taking credit for it. they never show numbers and they have access to all the numbers. one of the things that is hard to to try to get the library to take any responsibility for the financial arrangement. they're supposed to look out for the benefit of the library and yet they know absolutely noth

so, our partners on the project include both the supervisors sandra three fewer, katy tang, san francisco public works and additional collaborators that provided a lot of conversation and some folks already working on the issue. include national park service, california coastal commission, san francisco state university, university of san francisco, department of public health, save the bay, and shark stewards. so, utilizing both surf rider and department of the environment volunteer teams, prior to the official launch, 40 cigarette butt cans like the one you see here were installed along ocean beach as well as on commercial corridors in the sunset and richmond districts. special thanks to the volunteer teams and our lead, ken, who is pictured here, for contributing over 50 hours of time for the receptacle installations. specifically the cans were first installed in the parking lot atlantic ocean beach, as well as the promenade, and along high foot traffic areas such as geary, balboa, irving, after a couple months into the pilot, a few additional cans were installed as part of a corridor walk by

the san francisco public library. copy of the book was due in december 1970, so it is a little overdue. otherwise, it would have rate -- racked up a fine of $1700. >> thank you for watching. >> cbs evening news is next. >> quijano: history in the holy land. the relocated u.s. embassy is about to open in jerusalem. ehe controversial move angers palestinians, who claim part of the city as their capitol. also tonight, deadly terror attacks. a family of suicide bombers etrgets churches in indonesia. a man goes on a stabbing spree in paris. new evacuations in hawaii as more cracks open in the ground. is the volcano about to blow? >> it's becoming more vulnerable, definitely. >> quijano: pinched at the pump. what's fueling the rise in gas isices and how high they're expected to go. and the lullaby project. >> ♪ dear mason >> quijano: they're learning to be parents by singing and

san francisco's values. i wanted to read you a few figures from a public opinion poll, on san francisco attitude towards water rates and water supplies. and the number one reason that people were much more inclined to support diversifying the water supply was the environment and the question was, or the statement, this proposal will be good for the environment by using other sources of water, less water will be taken from california rivers and more freshwater available to the fish, wildlife and plants that depend on it. and another question recycled water for irrigation and the environment was the number one reason. the more recycled water we use the less we take out of rivers and streams and the scarce water supplies. good for the fish, plants and wildlife that rely on them. 84% polled felt it was a convincing argument for reliable water supply and having drought-proof water supply, got 73%. so the environment was much higher. so, i want to reiterate what chris requested, which is for the sfpuc to have it on the agenda about taking positions on the valedeo rider. >> president kwon: cindy charles. miss charle

matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission, and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or the public so requests, in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. >> any requests, commissioners? any members of the public wish to remove an item from the consent calendar? commissioners public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. seeing none, call the vote. all those in favor, say aye. all opposed? thank you. the motion carries. madam secretary, next item, please. [agenda item read] >> thank you, donna. welcome. long time no see. >> yes. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is carolyn chu, and i'm the project manager for the biosolids digesters facilities project. i'm here before you today to request award of this professional services contract, pro 0068 construction management staff augmentation services to the arcadeis team who will be providing sup

start new business in san francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in san francisco. san francisco small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions, concerns about policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business. >> item 9, adjournment. action item. >> do we have a motion to adjourn? >> i move. >> i'll second. >> all in favor. aye. meeting closed. thank you. >> meet agasing ieet agassing 3:26 p.m. >> supervisor peskin: good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation meeting for today, tuesday, may 22nd. could you please call the role? w -- [roll call] >> supervisor peskin: thank you. i will give the chair support. colleagues, at this time, please ensure the news of several major state -- state branches received from the real capital program and california transportation commission. senate bill one, competitive grant program. as you recall, it is a package that was approved last year and maintained and improved our streets and transport system. the transit

>> i was a public defender for about seven years here in san francisco. so, you know, that incorporates a broad broad set of skills that you have to develop to have to be really good at what you do and effective as a public defender. i am a trial lawyer by training. i am a collaborator by training. i am a creative thinker by training, i am a persuader, i can get folks from a place where we are in disagreements to a place where we are all agreeing. i had to do that daily with prosecutors, judges, that the probation department. so i'm thankful to my work as a public defender because it did cultivate such a broad set of skills. my current role, i founded and i now direct an organization that works to elect and educate a lol and state policymakers so that they feel emboldened and inspired to embrace criminal justice reform. that's kind of a complicated way of saying that i am working to build political muscle for the movement around criminal justice reform, and i work with a pretty broad coalition to educate policymakers at the local and state level, and then

i am the secretary on the san francisco public utilities commission and i sit on the water and waste water subcommittee. i am here to provide support for the supply water project. i think it's important in terms of diversification of our supply water sources to insure longevity for future generations to have reliable, high qualitying a sesz to water. -- high quality access to water. i am thinking about cape town currently when they are nearing the day zero coming up and they have focused on conservation and didn't invest as much into other alternative sources such as groundwater and such as recycled water. so i support our diversification efforts. i did have a look at the recent data that was published by the sfpuc and i actually looked at the higher levels and they provide the average, but had low and high levels as well. and specifically since everything seems to be interested in nitrates, i looked at that one in particular. and so in terms of the data that was just provided, those levels were 93% and 99% respectively for sunset and sutro reservoirs for their high levels of nitrate

looking backward at all the public works projects, we need to do this. we need to do this now. san francisco is uniquely equipped to make this happen. >> great. thank you very much. come on down. >> hi. i'm less other -- lisa hill and i'm a volunteer. i got involved in this because i'm concerned as long as -- along with a lot of my constituents and other friends and just about the corruption of our election system and i am worried a bit about the privacy of corporations coming into count our elections. i love the idea of the open source ballot system and he encourage and hope you'll support the full funding of the program. thank you so much. >> okay. we've got ace washington, chris hamilton and robert donaldson. i think this is amy -- i can't pronounce the last name. i'm sorry. you're going to have to announce yourself. >> i'm ann harvey. i'm a volunteer with the california clean money campaign and i've been concerned since vote counting was turned over to private for profit corporations with secret systems. i'm really glad you're considering this and please fund it fully. >> thank you. next

i serve on the san francisco public utilities commission and citizens advisory committee and chair the water subcommittee and an original member and i worked on prop e in 2002 and helped write the legislation with the advisory committee. and public engagement and public notification is really important to me. and it is something that i have been trying to push the p.u.c. on for about the last 20 years. and i agree 36 hours notice of a hear i hearing # isn't really good and we should try to figure out how to more broadly notify people. what i would also say is i work as at whatter policy expert. i work for clean water action and the specialties are drinking water quality and groundwater. and honestly, i think the groundwater is pretty good comparatively speaking. and i think that you're blending -- the way you are blending is much better than a lot of areas do it. generally you pump the groundwater and deliver it to the area close ye to the well. and the amounts right now are very small. what i think is appropriate for you to consider is are the maximum contaminant levels the reference

- ron said this is a hundred year decision and it is important that all of san francisco be involved in it. there will be publiceetings. when it will those meetings be, and what is the process, going forward, and what when do you think ultimately, this san francisco county transportation authority will be in a position to make a final decision? >> thank you for the question mr chairman. we have a public meeting on tuesday night at the green room across the street in the veteran building. tuesday at six, i believe. and then we intend to respond to a number of boards and commissions over the following few weeks. planning commission is as early as june and other boards are coming up. we want to make sure, since this is our recommendation at this point, we want to make sure we are hearing from the public and other agencies and their feedback on that recommendation before the city takes a final position. however, what we hope to do, given that, and given that the initial feedback from our sister agencies has been quite positive, to date, we would like to get to you, as a board, and to the mayor, either in late july,

public comment for items 1, 2, and 3 are open. yes, we're reopening it. >> again, ray hart, director san francisco open government and i'm talking about the budget of the library. i have 36 orders of determination finding violations of the sunshine ordinance, which are violations of either the brown act or california public records act. a dozen of those are the library either trying to keep me from getting public records to substantiate the phrases. the previous speakers -- i presented statistics and documents and they say, it's a wonderful relationship. i will tell you what's happened in the library. i've been going for 10 years now and the friends never show up at that meeting anymore. they used to show up and show of those false numbers saying, we're giving

i'm the human resources director for the san francisco public utilities commission. in today's very brief update i would like to provide context and the outcome of the city why negotiation. as well as some of the changes and enhancements that we have made to our new employee orientation program. in late 2017, the city, through dhr, helps a meeting for negotiations with respect to labour unions under the recent state assembly bill 119. the outcome of those negotiations resulted in new employee orientation sessions allowing for 30 minutes union access. it is during that time we respect -- we invite our respected unions to come and talk about union membership, the privileges of membership, the provisions of the memorandum of understanding, and however, they unions see fit to use that time. respective of the existing practice, we allowed 30 minutes time. the existing practice has always been to allow our respective union partners to come in for at least ten minutes. for now, that time has expanded to 30 minutes. the bill requires two fundamental things i would like to ha

think i as a city and citizen of san francisco, we'll all gain. i want to thank the public, corrine and others coming out and speaking on the issue. i like it when you engage the community, take the time from your busy schedule to come out and talk to us and tell us what you're thinking. i know, corrine, it doesn't matter for something you support, if it's something that is good for the city, you come out and support it, we love you and you continue to be the conscience of this commission. thank you. >> president brandon: david and steven, thank you so much for the presentation. this is a large project. i am in full support of this park being built. i'm not quite sure i'm totally committed to how we're building it and the cost it's taking to build and that the price keeps going up. and it does keep going up. i know you say we have a $36.7 million budget, but we don't have $36.7 million in funding. so we don't necessarily have to spend that amount. if we don't have to. and i think this might be a perfect time with two new commissioners to get an update on the project to see

>> all matters constitute the consent calendar are considered to be retained by the san francisco publicutilities commission and will be acted upon by single vote of the commission. there will be no discussion. in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered a separate item. >> the request to remove items from the consent calendar? >> commissioners? or public? no discussion, the public comment, do we have a motion to approve? all in favour? opposed? approved. item number 10. >> item number 10, improvement number 1, customer and administrative services for community choice aggregation programs with energy solutions, and authorize the general manager to bring and this amendment and increase it by 14 million and extend th extentm of the agreement by three years. >> discussion, commissioners? >> any public comment on item ten. do i have a motion to approve? all in favour? opposed? item 11, please. >> item 11, approve correction to an error of scheduled... adopted by the commissioner on april 10th 2018 by resolution number 18 to include a monthly service charge for

they are what san francisco will follow. it's impacting the publiccommitments reflects the needs of our entire city. we are pushing forward with a bold new vision for public safety in san francisco. i am honored to be here with all of you today to see these efforts through and to make sure that the future of san francisco is a safe and secure one for every single resident in every single neighborhood in our city. so thank you for having me here today. again, i'm honored to be with all of you. with that i would like to introduce the chief of our police department, bill scott. >> good morning. let my start my comments by thanking mayor ferrell and his team. she is invested in the future of the city. recruits that we have in the team today represent our future. the budget presented today represents a significant commitment by mayor ferrell towards their future and towards the future of their police department and the future of this city. the budget envisions the sfpd as a more responsive, more productive and better equipped police department to face the

all matters are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be act upon by a single vote of the commissioner. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or the public so request in which event the matter will be removed from calender and considered as a separate item. >> i move approval. >> second. >> any discussion? any public comment? all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed. >> approved. next item, please. item 11 is confirm and approve analysis and conclusion set for in the water supply assessment for the proposed potrero power station project. >> steve richy. this is a standard water supply assessment that we're required to do under the process for new development that we're not included in the prior urban water management plan. it's an assessment of the water demands that a development project would incur and our ability to meet those demands. this is provided to the planning department for the ceqa document. it's not an approval or disapproval or any action. it's transmitting this report to the planning d

staff and the sheriff's department were to blame as for what happened in this case the san francisco department of publicartment and the police department are all involved in an ongoing investigation.in san francisco, charels clifford kron 4 news.

we will hear from san francisco public works bureau of use and mapping. >> so we followed the article 25 process in issuing this permit. if you have questions for the health department, they're here and so is the planning department. thank you. >> any questions for planning or health. >> i have questions for both. >> okay. >> start with planning. this, only one part of the brief that was provided to us, this is a zoning protected location. what does that mean for this particular location? >> sure. so the proposed wireless facility is located in zoning protected location as defined under article 25 because it's located in a neighborhood commercial district. >> when i read your -- the -- when i read the approval letter from planning, it doesn't respond to that very much. >> i believe at the time the approval letter was issued, that was before we had developed a more robust letter that has a little bit more explanation and justification as to how we came to our determination. >> i should go from the letter that was issued. >> there was not a second letter reissued. >> no. no. the case tw

thank you, everyone. [♪] . >> i'd like to call this meeting of the san francisco public utilities commissiono order. it's tuesday, may 8, and i just wanted to start with a couple of announcements. first, for those of you that did not hear, our former colleague and counselor noreen ambrose was nominated to the ethics commission. on behalf of all of us, obviously, congratulations to her. our general manager now in the house. pretty good stalling, right? and then to our colleagues at sfgtv for being recognized for the sixth year in a row, for being nominated for a california emmy, working behind the scenes for making us look really, really good, right, harlan. i think they'll find out june 2nd to see if they won any of those awards. and finally, thank you, donna for sending me this beautiful invitation, and yuljulia ellisd her team for this award. this is for the 2017 golden pride awards. that concludes my announcements. madam secretary, will you please read the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: we have a quorum. >> thank you. next item, approval of the meeting minutes of april 24, 2018. colleagues?