san francisco public utilities commission in 2008 and from 2008 through 2012 he served as the community choice aggregation director for the power department. during the tenure at the san francisco puc mr. campbell used his experience in the energy generation field to guide community choice aggregation to the creation of the clean power sf program and for those who have been working on this for so many years they know that -- i think all of us recognize that taking that job was a very courageous ookt on the part of mr. campbell. he crafted several proposals to ensure that the program had technical assistance and service provider in order to launch. he lead the negotiating team to acquire contracts for energy supply as well as back office services, critical launching to the program. he lead countless meetings between the puc and community advocates and the commission and reflected not only what we needed to see as a city agency and address the needs and concerns outlined by the advocates. mr. campbell's monthly updates to this body were instrumental in letting us know what was happening and we especially appreciate the fact that he always took the feedback into consideration and we w

san francisco charter 918b. >> this is by supervisor wiener who wanted to speak but in his place is andre powers to speak on his behalf. >> good afternoon, supervisors. this allows the san francisco puc enter agreement with pg&e, first alert project that's already been installed at alvarado elementary, a resolution authorizing that installation came before the board earlier in the year. essentially this would allow for these solar panels to be turned on. john doyle from the puc is here if you have any questions. thank you. >> thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. about three years ago the pta at alvarado school was extremely interested in a solar project in terms of educational value for the students. at that time they did approach the puc about doing a project. as a consequence of that, and after a lot of discussion, development and work, we did actually proceed with a project at the alvarado school. it is a 50 kilo watt solar system. it is actually being completed. we did that in conjunction with dpw. the project is completed. it is not connected to the grid. the purpose of this resolution is enter into an agreement, which is a standard interconnection agreement with pg&e. that i

the issue of who is really in charge of the lake that is owned by the san francisco puc needs to be resolved sooner rather than later. the fact that rec and park department has not come back with specific deliverables within the past six months disqualifies them from future participation in any management role at lake merced. rec and park department promises more than they can deliver. we ask you to reschedule the next lake merced update to november 13 and arrange for a serious commission workshop on the many, many lake merced issues. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. do you have something to read, madam secretary? >> yes, mr. president. ms. jackson asked me to read the letter that she distributed to the commission. dear mother jack on, i am pleased to inform you that you have been nominate and had selected to receive an honorary doctorate degree from humanities from the sacramento [speaker not understood]. on sunday, october 28, 2012 at the morning worship service at grace, 1121 oakdale street. the amenities are [speaker not understood] disciplines that studies human condition. the se

i'm the co-chair of the san francisco puc small firms advisory committee. i'm here to hope you guys endorse the changes to the language of 14 b.2 as per 14 b.5. and to increase the contracting opportunity to the sfpuclb contractors. i'm an electric lal contractor, electrical engineer in your regional areas where you conduct business. so, i can see firmly where this endorsement will increase opportunities for contractors within the footprint of san francisco and also 70 miles outside. currently there's approximately around i would say 240 lbes and with this endorsement, this will have more opportunities for future lbes, especially in this economic current that we're in. san francisco publb the firms i contacted, small firms advisory committee, we look forward to the city and county of san francisco passing this ordinance and for the mayor to sign it. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. [speaker not understood]. >> commissioners, this is a pretty complicated situation. and in order to go and fully understand this lbe situation, you have to have a goo

the san francisco puc says it has plenty of 6, 8 and 12idge pipe the problem is that the one that broke 18" and until they can get a new one, they cannot guaranty the water is safe to drink. for now and likely the rest of the weekend, the only drink able water at treasure island is credit getting here by truck. >> the water now, it's been quite an adventure. >> reporter: he is among many using whatever containers that they have to get free, clean water from two tankers set up on treasure island. behind the counterof the deli, abdul saleh was steps way from the water-main break. water officials say it was an 18" iron pipe that ruptured, likely part of the original infrastructure from the 1930's. the boil order remains in effect as a precaution. >> we're actually in the process right now of flushing out the system, so we can get good, fresh water into it and sampling to make sure there is no bacterial contamination. once question get the all-clear on that, we can tell people they can start drinking water again. that could be as early as possibly tomorrow evening or monday. >> reporter: fo

. >>> happening now, crews with the san francisco puc are working on treasure island to fix a water main break. happened around 7:00 tonight right in front of the main great on the island. it appears that most of treasure island is without water service at this time. we're talked to a puc spokesperson about 30 minutes ago and he said it is not clear how long it'll take to fix the break or how long the water service is going to be done. >> the alameda police have arrested the arrest of two teenager for the murder of a woman. one has been identified cody natosha and other is a 16-year- old. detectives say they left after the killing, had lunch, then returned to the home and set it on fire. >> later on that evening they realized there was a dead body in this home and they may have left some evidence behind. >> the two suspects appeared in court but did not enter pleas. both teenagers are being tried as adults. >>> the fire started in a home in andover street and quickly spread to a neighbor's house causing nearly half a million dollars in damage. 16 people were displaced. one went to the ho

. >>> happening now, crews with the san francisco puc are working on treasure island to fix a water main break. happened around 7:00 tonight right in front of the main great on the island. it appears that most of treasure island is without water service at this time. we're talked to a puc spokesperson about 30 minutes ago and he said it is not clear how long it'll take to fix the break or how long the water service is going to be done. >> the alameda police have arrested the arrest of two teenager for the murder of a woman. one has been identified cody natosha and other is a 16-year- old. detectives say they left after the killing, had lunch, then returned to the home and set it on fire. >> later on that evening they realized there was a dead body in this home and they may have left some evidence behind. >> the two suspects appeared in court but did not enter pleas. both teenagers are being tried as adults. >>> the fire started in a home in andover street and quickly spread to a neighbor's house causing nearly half a million dollars in damage. 16 people were displaced. one went to the ho

san francisco planning commission. as part of this program eir approval the sf puc limited to water deliveries to the current level of 265 million-gallons a day and for the city of san francisco this meant developing 10,000-gallons a day of alternate water supplies here in the city. to meet this goal we're pursuing additional water conservation measures to reduce demands on drinking water and developing new sources of supply including groundwater which would be used to augment the drinking water supply and recycled water used for non drinking uses and irrigation and toilet flushing. in san francisco we're moving forward with the implementation of our program. we have three projects here in the city. we have the harding park project and the reservoir and pump station that is used to pump water produced by daly city and we have the next water project and produce 1.6 million-gallons of recycled water for golden gate park and presidio park and the golf course and we have a project to deliver 2 million-gallons a day of recycled water. so again just to circle back as to why we're doing recycled water. recycled water lets us de

justin hermann plaza, if you are leaving san francisco, be aware there could be some traffic jams >> kristen: california pucas launched an investigation in the nine month outage of nuclear power plant. they report it could result in utility rates being lowered or money refunded to customers. it will look at the costs incurred in the long running outage which resulted from defective recycled steam generators. they are paying more than a billion dollars in costs to the plant. >> police are looking for a man that at least robbed half dozen banks. they released this photo. he is wanted for holdups in campbell, los gatos and most recently at sunnyvale bank of america. the robbery started in august. man is described as 5'9" with a stocky build and police say he does not appear to have been armed during the robberies. >> kristen: next week, winter season begins with tougher penalty. air quality management has higher fines for people that burn wood during spare-the-air alert. they will receive hundred dollar fine. second time offenders will receive a $500 ticket, up from $400 last year. it runs from november 1st to

the cities of san bruno, san francisco and local consumer group say the puc chose mitchell without inputyone involved except pg&e. the sides have not been able to reach agreement on how much the utilities should pay in fines. >>> funeral will take place for former lt. governor who died sunday at the age of 86. today's funeral will take place in the los angeles area. governor brown, attorney general kamala harris and other state leaders are expected to attend. >>> san francisco is a finalist who host the super bowl in 2016 or 17. the pitch is to play at the new 9er stadium in santa clara most of the big events that week would take place in san francisco. nfl owners will award the super bowl to either san francisco or south florida. the loser of that contest will go up against houston for the 2017 super bowl. owners will pick host cities next may. abc 7 will carry the 49ers game against seattle, live tomorrow. here is our thursday line-up: 4:00 hourlong pregame show featuring jerry rice and brent jones. game time 5:00. 9ers host seahawks. followed by special edition of after the game we'll

a storage area for fresh water, for recycled water, san francisco has to come up with 25 million gallons of recycled water and currently there's puc of 2.5 to 3 million gallons a day, so i don't know how it's going to be, that's the bigger picture but when you start narrowing it down with the northlake they use in fresh water and separating out different lakes, that's kicked around a little bit. they also don't have a set plan, a puc for the reverse osmosis of the water that's coming out of the ground water. my problem with that is every time i go to the water type place, i have an issue with why aren't we drinking portable water, why don't we get the reverse osmosis and that's more in the public safety health and getting better water. if you want to buy water, black mountain makes such water, reverse osmosis and it takes out all that bacteria which causes in humans the productivity of plaque, i'm at that age, you want to keep it down a little bit. if we have to drink water, wouldn't you want some reverse osmosis water rather than everything being dumped back on to the lawns. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any other public c

to propose to the san francisco board of supervisors for our city's local business enterprise lbe ordinance. and specifically, what we would like to do is change the definition of puc regional projects. the context for this proposed change or the context for the puclbe program is that in 2006 as the city was developing the lbe program, we developed the puclbe program to expand opportunities for small business he located within our regional service area to access construction -- the water system improvement program projects. as you all know, the $4.6 billion program, two-thirds of which is paid for by our regional wholesale customers. so, we felt its was critically importantv that the small businesses located in those areas where those projects were taking place could compete. the program has been very successful in creating that opportunity for regional businesses throughout the sfpuc service area. with the water system improvement program in its later phases of implementation, we would now like to change the definition of puc regional projects to include, one, all regional projects that are cost shared with other jurisdictions. and then, two, any projects that are

bond for the city of san francisco the first project to receive qbce interest rates report and the first and unique public, private collaboration between the city, the port, the puc, the lodges the johnson controls and we are very excited to participate in this project. that concludes my report. thank you. >> is there any public comment? >> very well. commissioners? >> i just... i for one am very excited as a big proponent for solar power and energy efficientcy. thank you both for all of the hard work on this. >> ditto. >> yeah, i think that we all feel the same, so thank you very much. >> okay. item 9 d, request authorization to issue a request to proposals to rehab tait and retenant the pier 38 bulkhead building located on delancey street and embarcadero. >> my name is john doll and i promise to be brief. this is a follow up to an information item that was presented two weeks ago. regarding a staff recommendation for a selection process for the pier 38 rehabilitation project. at that time, port commissioners provided input with this selection process. as noted in the staff report, commissioners inquired whether there was a way to rehab and retenant the bulkhead

bruno, city and county of san francisco and a local consumer group will file a formal letter of protest against what they are calling a backroom deal between the pg&e and puc. the group says the state puc chose mitchell without input or consent from any of the parties except pg&e. >>> this morning amtrak investigating another collision between a train and vehicle in the central valley. it happened after 8:00 last night, as the train left the station platform in ma dare . the people in the vehicle managed to get out before the train hit it. no word on how this accident happened. the same thing happened friday less than a mile north on the same tracks last week. >>> good news for giants' fans looks like second baseman scutaro will be able to play this afternoon. yesterday scutaro ran sprints and took batting practice after the team arrived in st. louis. monday he was taken out by matt holliday on a slide into second. scutaro suffered strained left hip and soreness in his left knee. first pitch today 1:07 p.m. our time. >>> i'm hearing something about storms possibly in that area fouling up the game plans we have to investigate that with meteorologist lisa ar