long-term build out and identifying facilities there's been some work that's been done both at the sfpuc and lafco consult ants that we ought to update and what could be done now i know there's been ideas about grant applications and putting different kinds of solar facilities that are follow upping up on what the department is doing now and miss hail can speak to that so the use of h bonds we would have to have someone paying for that power unless there's -- you know there are programs available here and there that i know the sfpuc sdp department of the environment look to and are we maximizing our use of grants. >> what are the various financing options that are available and you know i would like to hear you know if there are different proposals and different approaches to that. >> uh-huh. >> and then another question is you know to the extent that this work goes smoothly and we get the kind of work product that is needed to we want to see, are there still internal challenges that will prevent us from moving forward with something? because, you know, we are here even though we have a

>> we get money from the sfpuc and that's separate from the general fund money and we've returned the general fund money because we haven't needed it because we have enough that we need from the sfpuc. >> so if we could have an understanding of what this is going to cost if we're going to do it, it's important we do it right and invest the necessary resources to making it happen. >> and we have to discuss with the sfpuc about the resource allocation. >> let me be clear i think at this point where we are we need a fresh pair of eyes and experts to look at this to bring all of our work together and look at it in a different way and i think it's important that we do away from the puc. >> thank you to the staff for the work and the information you brought back to us it's really helpful and i'm actually very excited and opt imistic and so i really appreciate the work that everyone has invested in making this a possibility thank you. >> do we need to take a vote on item 3 c. >> i'd prefer if you direct staff to prepare an rfp for your consideration at least an outline at your next meeting a

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wanted to say that gets us to the third item which is because of the difficulty we've had with the sfpuc setting rates the idea of trying to join another entity where we have the city attorney saying we still got to go back down the same path we might want to do in the interim try to do some activities that promote our effort but be mindful of the fact we have timing issues in terms of getting the program started and that gets us to the third item on the agenda to develop an rsp to try to do some of the studies on some of the initial programs so what's unique about ours is obviously the local build out so the idea is to concentrate with that so that we are implementation program is even that much farther down the line. >> thank you. commissioner mar. >> i was going to say that before we get into that the local build out and an rsp for that which i strongly support i want to go back to option number 3 the hybrid plan as proposed. it sounds like marin clean energy is interested in allowing us to develop or join into their program but you are saying this option 3 may be easier because it pr

. >> the city for the sfpuc, it was critical that the building stay as a lead building.o do to cut out millions of dollars, let's just go from lead platinum to lead gold. but that wasn't the objective. this needed to be the best example of energy conservation of any office building in the united states. >> we became involved in the san francisco public utilities headquarter project during the time when the project was at a stand still for a number of reasons, largely due to budget issues. and at the time we were asked to consider an alternative design using concrete rather than the scheme that was potentially planned for previous to that, which was a steel frame structure that used hydraulic dampers to control seismic motion. >> so, i met with my team. we worked hard. we came up with a great idea. let's take out the heavy steel structure, let's put in an innovative vertical post tension concrete structure, great idea. we did that. a lot of other things. and we came up with a price of 140 million. so, we achieved that goal. and, so, when we first started looking at the bu

according to the sfpuc, the fire may have cost the local economy up to $800 million. that's partly because valuable trees that absorbed carbon dioxide and release oxygen were destroyed. the fire started in august and charred more than 250,000 acres before it was fully contained in october. >>> thousands of utility workers continue to work overtime to restore power to homes and businesses from michigan to new england and eastern canada. this is a look at crews contending with ice and snow in east lansing, michigan one of the cities hardest hit. the power outages are the aftermath of a major ice storm that pelted the region last week. about 140,000 homes and businesses are still in the dark. and at one point, that number was in the 700,000 range. >>> roberta, are we even seeing snow in tahoe? >> no, except what they are making overnight. >> manmade no. >> it is cold enough to do that. they are firing up the snow guns every night overnight. but right now, any chance of snow i'm looking at and it's a long-range forecast so things certainly can change, january 10th. on tha

that's the sfpuc building.s a wonderful building. ♪ ♪out. >> hi, i'm japanese with the san francisco public utilities combination sometime people call me sewer girl our systems has served the area for 1 hundred and 50 years we're planning you understand public health and our environment don't think that so come in down and see how . >> we're going to go over search and rescue in this class, go over some buildings and how you assess buildings. you already had classes on utility controls, correct? how about medical? did medical? okay, as i said, my name is alec, i'm on truck 11. let's go into some light search and rescue. before you start, what do you do? stop, look, listen and think. any time you pull up to an incident or you see something, you take a breath, assess the situation, use all your senses and think about what you are going to do. those are all components of what we call the size-up. there are many components to size up. what's one of the components to size up? gathering facts. you want to assess the

so the city actually reached out to the sfpuc which lended some water tenders in case of a fire. so they were prepping for some emergencies. now, as we approach the 20th hour, there are still about 20 homes without water. the city says everyone should have water back. their homes by 8:00 tonight. live in millbrae, stephanie chuang. >> that should be a rerelief. >>> new at 6:00, a shock for oakland police when the carjacking suspect they were chasing turned out to be 13 years old. the driver of a honda was carjacked near 9 th and alice street before noon and police spotted the car a few blocks away and chased the driver nearly two hours to adelin street and used a patrol car to nudge the speeding driver forcing the driver to lose control. the car crashed into a parked car then rolled over. and then a young driver was then rushed to children's hospital where his injuries are believed to be non life threatening. >>> an oakland family says a bizarre chain of events is to blame for their home burning overnight. the fire started early this morning at a home on 9 0th avenue near interna