i think they would have to, sfpuc would have to issue an rfp. supervisor campos: commissioner schmeltzer. commissioner schmeltzer: if this contract does not go forward and if local power is not engaged to do this work, how does that affect your program? that is assuming we get a term sheet and place in the program is meeting the other time scheduled goals. >> mike campbell with the sfpuc. thank you for that question. in our discussions with the advocate and local power, we have been reviewing the work skill. one of the issues is that there is a difference of opinion in terms of what is necessary. my professional opinion is that a lot of the scope in there is not necessary for moving our program forward and would import -- divert important dollars away from what we need to get launched. we have proposed several works groups involved in helping write rfp's. those have been rejected. commissioner schmeltzer: i am talking about staff's proposed scope. >> the scope of work we have generally plant that is not written down? commissioner schmeltzer: i a

the sfpuc was the first time that all five of those commissioners had been briefed in total. there were a lot of questions from the commission, particularly around program designed -- design, how rates are designed and such, and who would be the likely customers. what would be the total appropriation necessary, and what might be coming down the pike from the puc. based upon those items, the puc did not vote on the resolution before them and wanted to hear the -- some more information before approving the term sheet. the chair and others at the commission on tuesday expressed an interest in having a special meeting in august, so i think there'll be some work in trying to pull that together. on a parallel path, and i know this body is looking at the term sheet. quickly, in 2012, just going forward for launch, after getting a contract approved and have the terms taken care of, we would be finalizing rates for shell, executing a contract in the first quarter of 2012. we would be going through a public process around the same time, establishing the rates, and getting geared up for

we need to be able to show sfpuc how the local building program affects the deal with shell. if we do not get that six months not going to be able to show you how to fit the local build out into your rates and on security and our security for the program. you will be in a position where you have to decide on a contract without that information. please make sure and get it underway as quickly as possible. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i wanted to support the statements that have been made about compressing the time line to get this going, to get the discussion happening. i think that the idea of having a meeting to discuss all these things and move forward is the only program that we have. this is something we are talking about putting our renewable energy future, our local green jobs energy in. three months is too long. if we can go with those earlier dates to do the joint member -- meeting, if you approve the plan to develop a local bill out of work and opportunities and improvements for our local communities, it will create over 1000 jobs a year to do that. that is impor

there are people we have available at the sfpuc

sfpuc and its rate pairs, etc., so that it's a huge amount of information that has to be crunched and then more work needs to be done to scope out the entire -- they were talking about scoping out the entire city for a full buildout of renewable and hundreds of efficiencies in hundreds of mega watts. in sonoma county, just that beginning part of getting rate pair information and analyzing that data that component all in itself cost $300,000. and sonoma has a similar size rate base as san francisco does. so i know you got sticker shock on this but the reality is this is what it takes to have a plan on a buildout an entire city. it's vital that you move forward this today so we can send the message to the is sfpuc so they can do their bigger part and get this done. and i've got be clear, advocates are not going to support a c.c.a. program that does not fully flush out the buildout like this. it will not be viable economically. it will have problems and it will not give us the green jobs and the ability to have a strong impact on the climate crisis that we must have. we absolutely must h

the scope that nancy mentioned, you know, we've had seven meetings with the contracter, the sfpuc staff maybe 14 hours of dialogue that led to the scope that's before you. yes, the p.u.c. did put out its own scope believed what it is the local buildout. but when we tested it, it was a failure. it went nowhere. and so the scope that's been developed now and i suppose there could be more conversation in the next couple of weeks is calculated to work. when we took that as a community group and said this is the plan to build if your neighborhood to deliver tangible results after we begin with this kind of first flavor of this program, that gets people excited. so if you don't have this buildout, if you don't have the plan if you don't start doing the work and don't get it done, the plan is not calculated to succeed because if you don't have a local buildout there's no plan. this is what we're most excited about and we've been here on these two parallel tracks. we want to do this type of work, to have the local 3wil8dout. i'm sure you'll have these conversations with your local vendor. other

i have called sfpuc many times, as have others, but nothing seems to get done. they are intoxicated, rude, loud, sometimes vomiting. it is like the movie "risky business," but taking place on our sidewalk. i invite you to go to youtube. onn yelp.com, -- on yelp.com, they are encouraged to bring their own booze. they have to clean up vomit and ashes, and sometimes, the vomit is purple color, no doubt from the hooka they are smoking. we have tried to work with the owner. he has been rude, as is also documented in the letters. total disrespect for the neighbors, and it has negatively impacted our life. thank you. director goldstein: thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you. my name is bob gordon, a member of the san francisco tobacco free coalition. i realize we are talking about a specific issue here, but i just want to put the issue in perspective, and that is overall, according to the centers for disease prevention and control, we are talking about more people dying in the united states every year from tobacco-related -- more than from voter vehicles, homic

i would encourage sfpuc to become a leader to further those issues and work with the community to reinvest ratepayer dollars into the community. i think that would be more appropriate. we are seeing water demand declined all over california, and that is good. there are different reasons. it is important to work to keep water demand low. that needs to be worked out, insuring revenues are met. we are selling our model. how can we do that, encourage conservation and keep demand low? it has been pretty flat in california over the last 25 years. los angeles uses the same amount as 25 years ago, and have english progress in their backyards. that is why we are opposed to this current project. we have seen so much excitement about desalinization all over the state, yet a single project has not been built in the last 20 years. the carlsbad project in san diego has been approved, but has not been built. i think there is only one facility in the united states, in florida, which was hampered by cost overruns and was four years late. that is the example in this country. thank you very much. >> good aft

. >> they hadn't marked it because the contractory working for sfpuc wasn't supposed to extau straight until thursday. no digging should have occurred here according to pg&e? >> exactly. that's what our investigation shows. >> there is conflicting information about who is responsible. the contractor says they were following the line. pg&e has not been out here yet. >> without gas, some restaurants couldn't serve hot meals and in some cases closing up shop and sent employees home. >> we were super busy tonight. it is sad we had to close. >> the restaurants lost a lot of business. some reopened and some stayed closed for the whole evening. the good news is no injuries from this gas leak. a lot of questions though. an investigation is underway and more information is releesd tomorrow. reporting live in san francisco, leslie brinkly, abc7 news. >> thanks. >>> a man named troy davis was executed in georgia. he was given the death penalty for killing an off duty police officer. the execution was delayed for four hours as supporters tried to get a last-minute stay. the supreme court rejected

. >> they hadn't marked it because the contractory working for sfpuc wasn't supposed to extau straight until thursday. no digging should have occurred here according to pg&e? >> exactly. that's what our investigation shows. >> there is conflicting information about who is responsible. the contractor says they were following the line. pg&e has not been out here yet. >> without gas, some restaurants couldn't serve hot meals and in some cases closing up shop and sent employees home. >> we were super busy tonight. it is sad we had to close. >> the restaurants lost a lot of business. some reopened and some stayed closed for the whole evening. the good news is no injuries from this gas leak. a lot of questions though. an investigation is underway and more information is releesd tomorrow. reporting live in san francisco, leslie brinkly, abc7 news. >> thanks. >>> a man named troy davis was executed in georgia. he was given the death penalty for killing an off duty police officer. the execution was delayed for four hours as supporters tried to get a last-minute stay. the supreme court rejected

there are people we have available at the sfpuc internally and through finance that might be able to do some of that work. i am here before you to ask for $100,000 to start the rfp process to leasfor what we needt couple of years to clear in city renewables. supervisor mirkarimi: i am definitely open to the $100,000 portion of it. i would never agree to the $390,000. absolutely not. it looks like it is trying to manufacture work in search of trying to deplete the remaining amount of the funds that exist. i am sorry. that is just wrong. i oversaw a number of those reports in the past. sometimes i was pretty underwhelmed by the analysis provided at a high cost with regard to the fact there was not the level of depth that i was looking for. i want to make sure this is teased in such a way that we're not going to repeat that same situation. i kept asking for more work. with that came the price tag of more money being requested. i do not want to see that happen. i do not want there to be this blind faith of giving x amount of dollars for a report that we are unsatisfied with. that would t

haven't marked the location of the gas line, because the contractor jay flores construction working for sfpuc wasn't supposed to excavate until thursday. so no digging should have occurred here today according to pg&e? >> exactly. what is preliminary what the investigation shows. >> there is conflicting information over who is responsible. >> contractor says they weren't following the lines. >> no injuries and an investigation is underway. in san francisco near union square, leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >>> 4:37. new survey shows overwhelming majority of californians are pessimistic about the economy. half are worried a family member would lose their job. poll by the non-partisan public policy institute of california found record 67% thought jobs and the economy were the most important issue facing the state. 89% think the state is in a recession. the poll shows 40% of californians believe president obama's effort so far have failed to get more people working. still, 48% of likely voters say they trusted him on economic matters more than the republicans in congress. >> the maverick search cont

there are people we have available at the sfpuc internally and through finance that might be able to do some of that work. i am here before you to ask for $100,000 to start the rfp process to leasfor what we needt couple of years to clear in city renewables. supervisor mirkarimi: i am definitely open to the $100,000 portion of it. w

flores construction working for sfpuc wasn't supposed to vait until thursday.a >> no digging should have occurred here according to pg&e. >> there is conflicting information about who is responsible. the contractor saying -- >> pg&e saying they haven't gone out there yet. that will be part of the investigation as we wrap this up. >> without gas, well known restaurants couldn't serve hot meals and in some cases closed up shop, sending employees home. >> we were super busy tonight. it was really sad that we had to close. >> reporter: a lot of restaurants lost a lot of business. the good news is there were no explosions, there were no injuries. this was all resolved in a rather peaceful way, but the investigation, of course, is still underway and there are likely to be new developments tomorrow as it proceeds. in union square, leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >>> okay. we'll follow those, of course. leslie, thank you. >>> a major strike is planned for tomorrow at 34 hospitals in northern and central, california. more than 23,000 nurses from southern and kaiser hospitals will join forces in a sh