i'm francesca vitov, i'm a member of the san francisco public utilities commission. it's my understanding there was a settlement that was reached on this case and that juliet ellis paid her fineses and this matter was put to rest and that was the position of our commission, was accepting the fines, accepting the contract that was signed between this commission and juliet ellis. so, i urge you to reject this resolution. i also want to speak on behalf of juliet ellis as a colleague. we served on the commission together before she was appointed as assistant general manager. she spearheaded the effort to draft and adopt the environmental justice resolution that the san francisco public utilities commission passed as well as the community and benefits resolution. these two resolutions are pioneering, groundbreaking resolutions in the country. and then she stepped down to be able to implement those two resolutions and to develop them into programs. the community benefits program, everybody in the country is looking at the implementation. it's creating jobs. it's creating o

think the time has come that chronically the imperial data we state exactly how the san francisco public utilities commission has to be run. if you look at the 18 oakdale the word is community we need to dip that. nobody is saying the san francisco public utilities commission has not expanded money we're saying that if the commission had the responsibility to maintain the building have they done a job. you all can evaluate your performance. we don't want to go black and white arresting or create differences if we have intelligence we should sit down and do it the right way. in the last 3 years members of your staff commissioners have assumed too much. they've tried to do things without any meaningful dialog are the community that's not acceptableable. why is it not acceptableable because we live in the the united states. we're not going to allow the aids to come and tell us what's yellow. we know that it. we're not going to allow people to waste our taxpayers' money or try to waste the taxpayers' money trying to divert their money to other facilities. while the commission is doing nothing. i serve this natio

the san francisco public utilities commission, we've said this to them in public comment, they seem to be not recognizing it and they are continuing to not do any work on clean power sf, even though the lafco is proceeding because the lafco gets it. we know that you get it and we also know your staff get it, i'm not up here to demonize staff. staff has been very clear that clean power sf is necessary to the city meeting its action goals, necessary to the clean action strategy and had it not been from signals from the mayor's office to kill this program when it shouldn't be and when you can get more funds from it, staff wouldn't have felt like they had to leave it out of the climate action strategy. with that said, we and others spoke at the policy committee meeting a while back to make clear that the climate action strategy needs to have clean power sf put back in it. the staff is great but the staff made a mistake in responding to the mayor's pressure by removing the program that's the most important program in the city for clean energy for the city to reach its goals and for your dep

san francisco. and even though the san francisco public utilities commission staff are working telephone number on this we released on rfp last friday to punish finish the planning for the local installation work for clean pour u s f even though your staff is not working on this i'm sure mell come will finish the getting paid and it will be helpful to come to the joint meeting on monday and you can help us geoget to the goal we need to be able to have this program by dedicating our staff on the local planning plan outbuilding >> i'll be out of town. the critics will be happy to hear that >> i know that supervisor avalos has been doing good work they were applying some pressure to get it down so with respect to monday, i know we have 3 commissioners that were agriculture to attend in the morning and 3 in the afternoon i'm not one of the expirations that can attend so you you're getting the 3 that are available i think this was appropriate to say. >> the advocates were completely surprised by this as well and hopefully, they'll be another joint meeting but consider the issue of putting staff on that. >>

so, in the investigation, there are over 30 cases of the san francisco public utilities commission [speaker not understood], their employees, infringe on ethics, morals and standards. this woman, juliet ellis, ~ chose and employed the wife of this director [speaker not understood]. you all failed to do the investigation. y'all failed miserably. you remember president bill clinton, i did not have sex with this woman? monica lewin ski, looking us all in the eye and not blinking, and what they found out, that he did. juliet ellis is a very, very elegant person. [speaker not understood] to me. and once in this hallway and a bunch over there, i warned her many, many months ago to change her ways, change her ways and be humble. she did not. commissioners, today is a very, very sad day in the history of this commission that was charged to do right, to discern and to adjudicate based on morals, ethics and standards. you failed miserably. thank you very much. >>> good evening again. dr. espinola jackson. i would like to say, after listening to your deliberations, i went to the commission, puc commis

san francisco, and santa rosa today, 76 degrees. as i mentioned changes tomorrow coming up. >> the san francisco public utilities commission is making plans to increase the supply of drinking water. the plan is to tap two reservoirs not used for drinking water since 1988. they're located high in the sierra nevada nearly filled to the brim. they will spend about $10 million shoring up a dam an improving an aque duct to bring it into the drinking water system. >>> the blue angels has this perform yesterday in san diego. the team is scheduled to put on 68 performances between now and november 28th including one during fleet week in october. >>> still ahead, why a new study suggests that the u.s. is pumping way too much money into airport security. >>> and why some of the world's top signists believe the industrial world could be coming to a collapse. >>> and jim harbaugh when i was living without insurance, it was very scary. charles not having coverage stressed me out. knowing that i have an insurance card in my pocket gives me a sense of reassurance. i'm in because nobody deserves to be without health insurance. i'm in because my cov

adjourned ] >> >> >> >> good afternoon, everybody let me please call this meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission at the 1:40 p.m. sfgovtv requires you to speak into the microphone otherwise the public can't hear our discussion. call roll >> commissioner president courtney. commissioner moran. commissioner torres. conditioning and commissioner vietor are on their way a you tell me 3 is the approval of the minutes from february 11, 2014. commissioners >> move to accept. >> any public comment on the minutes of february 11, 2014, seeing none, public comment is closed. i'll call for a vote all all in favor, say i. opposed? the item is passed >> that concludes my presentation. >> is yolanda lewis here, please. >> good afternoon opportunity i'm yolanda lewis i'm representing the coalition i want to remained the coalition that the bayview area is right lane on you to have the benefit policy resolution that all life that are directly effected receive a benefit we want to make sure that in the infrastructure project that are being taken under account with the water and a sewage we look at opportunities to

. >> good morning, supervisors, ivy fine, and i am the contract manager at the san francisco public utility commission, and pu sue ant to the charter section, 9.118 b, they are requesting that the board of supervisors to approve this contract. and the software is used for reading large facility electronic meters remotely and reading them with hand hand devises and forecasting loads. and they have provided this software and maintenance to the sfpuc since 2004 and the services are unique and the vendor is a nature provider due to the software, the agreement is for 5.5 years and not-to-exceed the value is 171,000. >> and okay, thanks. >> so could you clarify there was a discussion earlier about not needing to move this item forward? could you talk to us about what was going on? >> yeah. so there was discussion between the department, and the city's attorney's office on whether or not this contract applied to the charter section that states that contracts over ten years or ten million dollars. and should go before the board of supervisors for approval. this is an interesting contract. where we have had a

. >> commissioners, my name is harlan kelly and i am the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. thank you for allowing me to come before you. i have a previously scheduled engagement, so, i'm going to have to dash off right after my comments. but i want to talk about an item that you have, item 5 on your agenda. ~ first of all, due to personal and confidential rules, i'm not here to talk about any specific as it relates to any disciplinary actions related to ms. ellis that were taken in august of 2013. however, i want the commission to know and understand that all actions were based on exhaustive and independent puc investigation where we carefully weighed the facts and the mitigating circumstances. recently, in january 2014 with your commission and the fppc, reached a joint settlement agreement with ms. ellis. your investigation did not present any new information or contradict any information related to the puc investigation. i cannot revisit disciplinary actions that i took nor i see any reason to do so. i believe appropriate actions were taken on all fronts and this matter

the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today is is tuesday, march 25, 2014. roll call, please >> commissioner caen. commissioner vietor. commissioner torres and commissioner torres are xoud we have a quorum. item 3 is the approval of the minutes that you have in your binders. may i have a motion >> so moved arrest second. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. we now move into. those are items not on the agenda that can be discussed >> hello. >> hello. >> i'm david i'm here on behalf of the gun club. i know you're all aware of our concern of our future of lake merced i'm here today to ask for the commissions focused attention on two seers matters of impact like lake merced and this site. we are definitely in support of efforts to clean up the site we're definitely in support of the site of what's going on. but there are two mistakes being made with regard to the analysis this necessary out there. i've got a letter here for commission. two matters deal with first, the proposal that was sent by the city to the water board it is designed to clean u

and joining meeting with the san francisco public utilities commission. my name is john avalos, the chair of lafco, and we are joined by our public utilities commission members and the vice-chair is also here. she will be sharing the podium with me and we will be chairing together. on the lafco side, madam clerk, could you read

san francisco. congratulations and thank you very much >> happy new year everyone. thank you (clapping) >> good afternoon, everybody let me please call this meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission at the 1:40 p.m. sfgovtv requires you to speak into the microphone otherwise the public can't hear our discussion. call roll >> commissioner president courtney. commissioner moran. commissioner torres. conditioning and commissioner vietor are on their way a you tell me 3 is the approval of the minutes from february 11, 2014. commissioners >> move to accept. >> any public comment on the minutes of

and joining meeting with the san francisco public utilities commission. my name is john avalos, the chair of lafco, and we are joined by our public utilities commission members

thanks to the support from the san francisco public utilities commission. we have designed a program called save our bay which we target to 5th grade classes merely teaching about water pollution prevention and promote water conservation. today we given over 800 presentation to 5th graders reaching about 25,000 students here in san francisco. in addition the team has developed a variety of fact sheets about environmental topics including water conservation and we distribute information directly to teachers and have these items posted on our website for people to download. we are adding more tips on water conservation. plus when we provide this information, we encourage kids to take the tips homes and have conversation with their parents around how to save water. one of the most successful aspects to get these fifth graders to be fully engaged from the process and from our account it's been a special program in reaching san francisco's diverse family. in addition to those materials, we've also developed curriculum for the sf puc specifically designed for gra

. >> commissioners, my name is harlan kelly and i am the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. thank you for allowing me to come before you. i have a previously scheduled engagement, so, i'm going to have to dash off right after my comments. but i want to talk about an item that you have, item 5 on your agenda. ~ first of all, due to personal and confidential rules, i'm not here to talk about any specific as it relates to any disciplinary actions related

thanks to the support from the san francisco public utilities commission. we have designed a program called save our bay which we target to 5th grade classes merely teaching about water pollution prevention and promote water conservation. today we given over 800 presentation to 5th graders reaching about 25,000 students here in san francisco. in addition the team has developed a variety of

and joining meeting with the san francisco public utilities commission. n avalos, the chair of lafco, and we are joined by our public utilities commission members and the vice-chair is also here. she will be sharing the podium with me and we will be chairing together. on the lafco side, madam clerk, could you read the role, please? >> yes, commissioner avalos? >> present. >> commissioner avalos present. commissioner campos? commissioner campos abseptember. absent. commissioner breed?

and joining meeting with the san francisco public utilities commission. my name is john avalos, the chair of lafco, and we are joined by our public utilities commission members and the vice-chair is also here. she will be sharing the podium with me and we will be chairing together. on the lafco side, madam clerk, could you read the role, please? >> yes, commissioner avalos? >> present. >> commissioner avalos present. commissioner campos? commissioner campos abseptember. absent. commissioner breed? commissioner pimentel absent. commissioner mar. here. >> we have a quorum. >> our clerk is melissa miller and we are broadcast by sfgov-tv staff john ross and jonathan [speaker not understood]. and the public utilities commission clerk is donna hood. so, with that i welcome everyone to our joint meeting. this meeting is to get an update. okay, let's do that first. >> vice president caen? >> here. >> commissioner vietor? >> here. >> commissioner moran? >> here. >> president courtney and commissioner torres are excused from today's meeting and we have a quorum. >>

. >> just in case the san francisco public utilities commission is making plans to increase the supply of drink water. the plan is to tap two reservoirs not used since 1988. lake eleanor and cherry lake are located high in the sierra nevada filled to the brim. the agency will spend $10 million shoring up a dam and improving an hack -- aqueduct. >> malaysia is calling for satellite and search data from 22 countries as the search continues for the mys plane. the fbi has combed through the names of passengers and crew and confirms none has terrorist conditions. there are questions about the quality of the investigation run by malaysia. officials have refused help from enter enterinterpol and the fbi. flight 370's disappearance is now thought to be a deliberate act. >> a wish come true today for an east bay woman injured while serving in iraq. >> it's not a cat up a tree but a dog in a dangerous place that brought out rescue crews in the north bay. >> let's take a live look outside now. we enjoyed quite a warmup is in weekend. what is in store for us and the first thing that came to mind i

that is when the san francisco public utilities commission first asked customers to voluntarily cut back water use by 10%. a series of storms helped boost california's water supply. >>> the federal government has denied permits to widen the guadalupe river near san jose. the water district approved a plan to feed the water into san francisco bay in 2009. but both the army corp of engineers and epa refuse -- threatening several endangered species. >>> if you have a house in the bay area and you are looking to sell, now could be the perfect time. zip realty based the top ten list on median sales price and total housing inventory. last year the sales price went up 35% verses the national average. some realtors also attribute the areas economy for making it rise to the top. >> low interest rates. >>> five of the top ten places on zip reality's list are here in california, sacramento, san diego, orange county, and los angeles also made the list. >>> president obama is celebrating the achievement of the sanford women's tennis team. players will have the opportunity to meet with the president a

adjourned ] >> >> >> good afternoon, everybody let me please call this meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission at the 1:40 p.m. sfgovtv requires you to speak into the microphone otherwise the public can't hear our discussion. call roll >> commissioner president courtney.