sfpuc, people and audience, and you, because something like this, the other investor-owned utilities look at it, potentially following suit as well. i want to make a point that barbara made as well, which is the difference in our program with this. we still look forward, and it is a very -- in addition to the bumbled energy, we also have a component to our program that is local generation, local jobs. i don't want anyone to fail to keep sight of -- granted, it is a longer-term goal of ours, not the immediate goal, but it is also a goal, to bring that economy and that economic and aegean -- that economic engine to the city. chairperson campos: thank you, ms. miller, and that is a very significant difference between what they're doing and what we are proposing to do. colleagues, unless you have any questions for puc or lafco staff, which will open it up to the public. any member of the public would like to speak, you have three minutes. >> good afternoon, i represent the san francisco green party and our city. i just wanted to touch on a couple of things staff raised, the main on the p

, and preparation of a feasibility analysis (collectively preparatory work) for acquisition by the sfpuc of 25.2 acres of land at camp mather, in tuolumne county, for an amount not to exceed $60,000 and a duration of 30 months. the sfpuc seeks to purchase the existing camp mather sewage leach field site, and additional road access areas used to service the camp mather water system. >> mr. ritchie? >> commissioners, this is actually a very simple item for us to put into place. the agreement from the u.s. forest service to pay for environmental review relative to standard procedures for us to do that. the lands would be for us to buy the field site, which is well leong, the camp itself, but not the field to provide road access to service the water system up there. this would be a holding to make sure that we own will we would be rebuilding in the leach field. >> this will ultimately result in a land swap? >> or a purchase. the proposal is to buy a swap. >> if it is, do we have to identify the land? >> we have been talking to them for a while about buying parcels that would make it suitable

sfpuc utilizes him with the model. the expertise is definitely well worth it. the initial amount by $25,000 over the course of the last year -- we want to extend it through the fiscal year the same we did with ms. miller's contract. we're looking at full budgets and everything else with it. but we are not going to look to extend any extra money than what has already been allocated. we do need him, it is good to have his services available. the sfpuc has asked to bar him, so out of cooperation, we have authorized that. commissioner campos: why don't we open it up for public comment? any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? public comment is closed. motion by commissioner avalos, seconded by commissioner schmeltzer. without objection. thank you. call item eight? >> public comment. the members of the public may address us for informations within the jurisdiction and are not on today's's agenda. commissioner campos: any member of the public that would like to speak on any item not on the agenda, please come forward. three minutes. >> eric bro

the epa and sfpuc combine forces for the project. the portland after the commission the project for construction services at pier 27. the eir requires the report, and the board in certifying the appeal of the eir also requires the port to install this shoreside project. even without the ordinance before you today, that particular strategy that we have crafted with the public utilities commission, this would be the option for the board to do. >supervisor avalos: eventually, we will have shoreside power at the cruise terminal and that will be reconditioned, correct? >> yes. but what i am saying is, yes, we are obligated to reconnect the pure 27 shoreside power facility. but because of ceqa, even if we do not get the ordinance approved by the board and cannot execute this strategy by b.a.t., -- bae, we would be required to install the shoreside power at pier 70. supervisor avalos: in other words, they are providing for their own initiatives. >> yes, the reason for the shoreside power at pier 27, that is where we board vessels when they

item 16. >> authorize the president of the sfpuc to execute a joint powers agreement with merced, modesto, oakdale, and turlock airbase -- irrigation district for the purpose of forming a joint powers authority, the san walking tributaries authority. >> this is a joint powers agreement with five irrigation districts. we have much in common with in terms of our water rights and interests there. this would allow this commission to participate with them in developing strategies and plans to our mutual benefit on the san walking river. i am happy to answer any questions. >> harmony counties as the river runs through -- how many counties does their run through? >> [inaudible] >> thank you. president moran: thank you. any public comment? >> hello, again. i think this is a bad idea and i encourage you to hold off and think about it a little bit. it is a very different culture in the central valley. it is basically opposing -- you might be familiar with it. it is opposing anything that changes the status quo. there is -- try to make sure that it does allow -- the salt does not encroach too much.

to further that task, we entered into an mou with sfpuc in 2009 which provided non-general fund funds to provide for those activities and subsequently this commission, through working with city and county staff, authorized the hiring of two staff -- or, actually, the setting up of two staff positions for that work. mr. fried was hired in our senior program officer position. the community development assistant, we did originally fill. that person left the job. i've not refilled it because that position is really for once we get into program launch, but those two positions are term positions and they were to be termed out as of august of 2012. so this item before you is to extend that, since we've had an extension of the launch of our c.c.a. program, is to extend that term another year. by that time, we believe the program will be launched. if you've got other questions, i'd be happy to answer them. chairperson campos: thank you very much, miss miller. i think the extension makes sense. i think that at the time this happened, the expectation was that we wouldn't need the positions for a

we need to work with pg&e to adopt the same levels of service goals that we have for sfpuc. a 48 hour turnaround time for outages at 21 days for replacing knockdown pulls. -- knocked down poles. we document responsiveness at addressing outages. i look forward to finding real solutions for this problem. president chiu: our final question will be provided by supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen: good afternoon, mr. mayor. mr. president. we have a number of public safety challenges. how not to say that we don't of knowledge, are down and that the captain is doing a great job of pulling guns off the streets. but we have worked diligently to build strong relations with one another and work together to address some of these challenges. the staffing levels continue to be lower than what is needed to service the district. additionally, we are seeing more officers getting ready to retire in the future. are you supportive of increasing the number of police academy classes in this fiscal year? what is your strategy to make sure that stations have the resources they need to continue colla

first, i would like to report that the charities campaign is over full for this year and the sfpuc was first place in terms of contributions. we are in the top departments of our city. we had 12% of the entire city and county of san francisco. and the last week, we have had some issues with our north shore force maine. requested afternoon, commissioners. welcome to the southeast sector. last tuesday, our operations staff was out on the embarcadero. they notice that there was some water on the deck of the street. we found out that it was our first main from the north shore pump station. this station pumps everything from the marina green all the way down to market street. this is very similar to the flat roof. we don't know where it has started. we have sent in diverse in the and they have gone in as far as 1,500 feet to take a look at the leaks we have. we have radar technology to look at this surrounding area to see if there are other sinkholes underneath. we are going to have to do a bit up on the embarcadero. this is a challenging progress -- project for us. there was some kind was

entities and authorize the power enterprise to develop a procedure for reviewing and approving the use of sfpuc light poles for non-lighting purposes. >> what we have before you is our recommendation for establishing a policy that allows us to move forward with letting non-3 light purposes on our street light poles when there not generating-revenue generating -- when they are not revenue generating activities. we would like to work with them to allow use of the polls as appropriate under the guidance listed here. i am happy to take any questions. thank you. >> did you consider charging for the capability? >> we could. there will be expenditures on the part of the project proponent. there will need to demonstrate to us that the structural integrity of the poll is not compromised -- pole is not compromised. there will need to meet the ceqa compliance. there will need to invest some time in order to demonstrate to as the appropriateness of the use. it will not be free to the counterparties. we're not charging for the use to generate revenue. there are and unease whoever approaches in the past who

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are you saying sfpuc, i know that is not the chief financial officer, but i am addressing this to ed harrington and others, are you saying that the community has to sever for another 17 years -- has to suffer for another 17 years? i hope that this time around and the sources of improvement project is put in place, we lost our opportunity with the clean water system improvement project before. thank you very much. supervisor chu: other members of the public that wish to speak on item number two or three? public comment is closed. if we can come item #two to not have any budget analysts recommendation. item number three, can we except the budget analyst recommendation to reduce the amount by 25 million? we will do that without objection. with regards to the amendment i spoke about earlier, i just want to read them into the record. what i would like to do is make a motion to amend the legislation to reflect parameters around the refunding abilities, specifically water revenue, bond refunding are hereby authorize subject to the following conditions -- that 3% net present value savings or