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allbee: it's not just about the sustainability of the assets, it's about the sustainability of our water resources. parts of this country that thought of themselves as water rich 20, 30 years ago, now are discovering that they really are not water rich, they have source supply issues, they have serious questions about how they're going to accommodate additional growth in their communities. melosi: if we can find alternatives, we can preserve a water supply. conservation of water is a way of generating more water. allbee: we think that a household can actually reduce its water usage by about 30%. and that's hugely important in terms of the amount of infrastructure that community's going to require. narrator: las vegas is one of the fast-growing areas in the country. it's a relatively new city under constant construction. but because it's in the arid mojave desert, the challenge of las vegas is supply. woman: all the growth and everything that's occurred in southern nevada has been with colorado river water. without it, the west as you know it today couldn't exist. narrator: to sustain the

we all talk about it in different terms and sound bites and there's no sustained product. when we try to get the public interested we're competing with iraq, healthcare, just to name all the things out there in the media all the time and there's no uniform way we describe this. it's this abstract thing way off in the future and unless we make it marketable for the public they're going to support the billions and billions to address this now for the future. it's not just the city of san francisco or the department of resource there has to be a much more sustained campaign to address these issues. >> i think that's very true and i will talk about new yorks plan to engage the city to think about the problems. two often problems are war memorial complex sorry, water related and hard decisions that need to be made in the city regarding water issues. this is the first outreach which was a supplement in new york times and daily news which i think is the most circulated paper in new york city. and getting bigger as time goes on we'll try to engage in some of this thinking where pe

today, we have sustained a 39 cases. during the same time in two dozen 9, with sustained 27 cases. this represents 44% increase in sustained cases. the sustained rate is 8%, which is more in line with the historic average of sustained cases since around 1996. today, the occ has facilitated the mediation of 20 complaints this year, compared with 45 by the end of july last year. so far this month we have had three mediations. that concludes my report. president marshall: anything further for the director? vice president mazzucco: thank you. >> you are welcome. president marshall: alright, commissioner reports. i don't think we have anything to report, commissioners, do you? vice president mazzucco: briefly, i spent parts of this week presiding over two older cases on the docket another commissioner had that i took over. one is resolved, one is not. that hearing will finish up in august. but it is an arduous duty, but hopefully one of them will be resolved by the end of next month. president marshall: any public comment on these items? seeing none. item number 4. >> item four, mr. pre

in contrast, over sustain period, -- sustained periods, moreover even tempore deficits have harmful consequences in the long run unless the government but runs smaller to this later to retire the additional debt. second, the long run fiscal imbalance is large, and eliminating that in balance will require significant changes in tax and spending policy or both. .suppose that your objective for fiscal policy was to finish the next 25 years with a ratio of debt to gdp that is the same as it was at the in the fiscal year of 2009. still high by u.s. historical standards. cbo projects the this goal would be achieved by immediate and permit reductions in spending or increase in revenues of nearly 5% of gdp, equivalent of almost $700 billion in this year's federal budget, or some other changes over time of equivalent magnitude. it would amount to roughly a one-quarter increase in revenues relative to the amount projected for 2020 and later years. that would require, for example, roughly one half the increase in personal income tax revenue. on the other hand, if the change came entirely from spending, it

, creating sustainability efforts, including clean power and renew ability resources. just coming up with all sorts of innovative ways to try to make the campus is more sustainable. i am now the chief counsel of the california coastal commission, where i have been for the last four years, and the california coastal commission is very concerned with california's environment, with global warming, with sustainability on the coast in a particular. as a longtime san francisco resident, i'm very concerned with how all of that affects san francisco and with our opportunity to really look for and moved into a clean power in the city. so with that, thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. colleagues, comments or questions for commissioner schmeltzer? ok, why don't we open this up to public comment. ms. jackson, please. >> good afternoon, again. espanola jackson. i did not know that was one seat. i know that hope has done an excellent job, and i know you are going to have a hard decision to make, but i came here to support leah. i have worked with leah over the past year. b

our funding should sustain the program through the 2012, 2013 school year.will be also adding the sf department of the environment as a partner. they will be increasing their outragoutreach on how to walk, o school. we are hoping to have that be something that all schools do. increasing parent of reacoutrea. we are going to do the best we can to match those kids with the right schools. we are also adding an idle production unit. those parents who are dropping off their kids at school, picking them up, andidling. that definitely has batted negations environmentally. idle reduction of reacoutrech. this matrix shows our program compared to others. enforcement is not eligible for cmat funds. the coalition is looking for other opportunities for that. one part of the engineering component will be completed with the existing grant. we will also have walking and biking maps. we also have the capital call, where we actually have the funding. [unintelligible] there are almost 5000 of a thesesafe route to school programs around the country. california had the safe rout

when you started searching for sustainable produce, not the way it is produced or harvested, but sustainable in being available seasonably, consistently, there were -- if you commitment to the next 5 then? >> that did ultimately happen. we with thought we could get these seeds and a plot of land and have everything we want. we quickly learned we were not farmers. [laughter] and the gofers got the best of us. [laughter] we planted in this little one micro climate in amadora. >> why there? >> because somebody had a plot of land, we'd put in the seeds and all of these things. we learn it had hard way, and we decided that we would have um -- somebody assigned to the job of going out of the forger and looking for the farms that were growing the food we with wanted. isabella was the first who ultimately led to the opening of the san francisco farmer's market. she new some farms, a few, already. she was cooking at the restaurant and knew what we wanted. and we started that way, just a couple. now we have 85 different people we buy from during the course of the year. some of them are very little and

sustainable chicken coops. maybe someday on the roof of the mayor's office.hough one that -- wonderful benefit was not only all of the electronics, but all of these services where we used technology and some really creative envisioning for how the former communicates with the person who will be eating the food and have a grower in the community can communicate with people who have the land. vertical gardens, hydroponics, cheap ways to compost, cheap ways to do this, sensible way as to get things off the ground. we thought to ourselves -- we built this for the community, now we need to invite the community to give us your opinion. what we have done -- a bit too small right here, but you can go to digging deeper, the website where we have all of the information about products, service, and retrofitting the business plan. everything. voting on whichever you think is best for the community. we created this category because it is incredibly important. spread it around, let people know. go on the web site and vote for what you feel is important. we will try to do t

and for solid-waste management for creating development sustainably. this is a quick summary of the amendments that i would like us to consider after public comments, and, colleagues, again, i appreciate all of the work you are doing. all of us have likely conducted more meetings on this topic than anything else, which i have done since i have been on the board, and again, thank you for the efforts. bupresident maxwell: madam cler, could you please add my name to that? we will now open it up to public comment. they will probably just get right in line. espinosa with jackson, it is very appropriate that you are number wind. -- one. i will read off a number of names. [reading names] thank you. >> thank you very much. espinola jackson, it gave you- hunter's point. -- bayview-hunter's point. the redevelopment agency should have this information because it was done years ago. i attended every meeting dealing with the bridge. not at one time did anyone of us say we wanted to have a bridge in back of us. my question was, what would make you think that we woul

you don't have to have a zero deficit for sustainability. you just need the deficit to be roughly equal to the interest payments that you make. so if interest payments are 2% to 3% of gdp, say, then a permanent deficit of that amount is, in fact, sustainable, yes. >> the g-20 met recently and they set up a time frame for deficit reduction. do you think that that time frame is appropriate? >> it's a medium-term -- 2015 i believe? >> i think half at the deficit by 2015. >> it would -- the g-20 have -- includes -- a majority of them are emerging market economies, many of them which are growing quickly right now. i'm not sure i'd want to impose a sid a single standard on all members of the g-20. the important thing is the overall trajectory, is there some evidence that the -- that that will begin to stabilize within the next few years? >> okay. investors have been -- the treasury bonds have been pretty solid. that's maybe an understatement. how long -- how long do you think this will remain this way? and is it dependent on what's going on in eur

we can come up with a more sustainable solution. we are working to come will with funding to have communities. escort services that we will be training later on this month in order to come up with the most sustainable solution. this could put every community at the same level. i don't have the freedom to be able to move people around and deal with an immediate need. >> they don't have the courage to legislated. this is this solution to a problem. this is a solution, this chief has delivered results. the supervisors want to submit their names for police chief. they did not do that. they are out of their league. this is very damaging legislation. we have to stop this in the tracks. we need to call this what it is. i

there are all kinds of ingenious ways people have figured out how to live in a more sustainable way. we need to know about them. i want to get to 2 final questions and i want to bring up your questions. that is the idea i hear often times expressed in opposition to this whole slow food movement, it is an elitist movement. it is a movement for the haves, we simply can't afford it. it is great for you and all of those folks out in the bay area, for the rest of us on fixed income, this doesn't work. >> i think that good, wholesome food is a right for everyone in the country. it is the reason we want to feed every single child at school. and i don't mean that kids come and buy their food at school. i am talking about feeding children a breakfast, a lunch, and an afternoon snack. they pay up front instead of out back. we all know the food is expensive. not only to our healthy environment, and particularly to our culture. we are wanting everything to be fast, cheap, and easy. when you think about music, and architecture and art, everything has to be fitting into this kind of way of thinkin

it's unclear the dollars from the corporation match how the community will sustain that. are you hoping you will get an equal match from the corporation. we don't know. when you submit your budget and documented volunteer hours and given us a sense of hathey look like. that's what we really like. and the volunteer hours can be inunskilled labor or professional services those canning volunteered up to 70 dollars an hour. if you have an architect in the neighborhood donating their designs that's a 70 dollar value. you can quickly come up with a nice match if you have a robust community. that is the selling thing the more you have the more you can do and the more likely you will get our grant and several grants. and then you go to other grants from other institutions like san francisco beautiful. so then to further emphasize the community challenge portion of the match, we then score applications once they come in. with a heavy emphasis on community building and community benefits. if you have the application package it's self explaintory 35 points to community benefits. 20

a multiissue group you will have sustainability. the next thing is to see a show of hands in how many have applied for the grants and know what they are. how they work. >> most of you don't know anything about the program. i don't like to talk a lot this way. i would like to have a discussion where we have ideas. the room is not set up for that. i will begin by giving a brief over view of how the grant system worked. the community challenge grant program is funded through the neighborhood beautification fund paid for by businesses annualy. an opt in system. when you renew the registration on your business there is a check box that you check that designated a percentage of the money from your business to the beautific fund. it was created to make sure money goes directly to the neighborhoods. which is difficult to do through other vehicles in the city. so it pulls in a million dollars a year. twice a year we give away a 500 thousand dollars typically. there are 3 categories of grants. there are small projects, which are awards up to

troops is not sustainable. my view is that we need a new mission to achieve the objective, which is to prevent al qaeda fr being too rigid being able to attack our country. host: much of the debate in this country is about the jy 2011 deadline, if nothing else viewed as a visit -- transitional point in the war. what about july 2012? what will the afghanistan look like? what will the operation be like? guest: i think that before the end of this year we will hear from the obama administration about a change in our strategy in that region. i do not know if it will be minor or major, but i think that the vote yesterday, which was much closer than some people predicted -- i voted for the funding because i know that some of our individual troops are moving into harm's way, but i think that the vote sent an unmistakable signal to the obama administration that many people are concerned that the strategy is not sustainable. i do not know what july, 2011 will look like, but i am hoping it will look like a new strategy fo

the current situation is not sustainable. we knew -- we need new systems. we would ask you to rebuild the digesters at the current location. we cannot preclude new technology simply based on old technology. i would not suggest that we make transportation decisions based on that car. we have not heard any non emotional arguments for not locating new technology at the the current locations. there are 750 million reasons for not moving them to appear 94 and that is before you add in the extra money from the cost. there is no presentation that says that they were not able to protect this from - owner impacts. we want to install the digesters with new technology in a manner that is pleasing. pier 94 is not the right location. increased the lay and possibility of the current digesters failing, there is no substantiation that simply spending more money will lead to more local jobs. placing these at pier 94 will preclude -- preclude other uses. there is no any indication that there will be a symbiotic relationship. there are massive operational impacts of having tw

. >> no, sustained is good. >> reporter: the group, responsible citizens of california, had planned a demonstration on the steps of city hall to pressure east pa low alto police about comments one of their officers made on facebook. back in february east palo alto police officer wrote on a friend's facebook page suggesting this response to fellow officers who see someone open carry. should have pulled the ar, assault rifle, out, and prednisone them all out. if one makes a movement, two weeks off. that is typically standard after officer involved shootings. >> the thing we are scared of is the vigilantism we saw. we hope there is a resolution now. >> hours before the protest the group got what they were waiting for, they issued a press release saying the complaints against the officer was sustained. >> today is just a coincidence. >> right. >> the timing of the fact they released it showed us that they are responsoredding to us as a group. >> they have planned numerous public meetings and events in the past year, often recording police encounters and posting them on youtube. however ho

you don't have to have a zero deficit for sustainability. you just need the deficit to be roughly equal to the interest payments that you make. so if interest payments are 2% to 3% of gdp, say, then a permanent deficit of that amount is, in fact, sustainable, yes. >> the g-20 met recently and they set up a time frame for deficit reduction. do you think that that time frame is appropriate? >> it's a medium-term -- 2015 i believe? >> i think half at the deficit by 2015. >> it would -- the g-20 have -- includes -- a majority of them are emerging market economies, many of them which are growing quickly right now. i'm not sure i'd want to impose a sid a single standard on all members of the g-20. the important thing is the overall trajectory, is there some evidence that the -- that that will begin to stabilize within the next few years? >> okay. investors have been -- the treasury bonds have been pretty solid. that's maybe an understatement. how long -- how long do you think this will remain this way? and is it dependent on what's going on in eur

we are talking about maintaining, sustaining the infrastructure we have. you've got to know what you have, where it is, what condition it's in, and how long you can expect it to last. melosi: we have very little choice because we've invested in a system that cannot be readily changed. we don't leave a lot of flexibility to dig that all up and replace it with something else. sinha: so we have to also teach our students, the workforce, that there is a new science -- repair, renewal, and rehabilitation. that's different from building something new. you cannot fix each and every crack in the city. it's like each city, you're talking about 3,000, 5,000 miles of pipe. so you have to prioritize where they can go and fix the system. narrator: each city faces unique situations, so they must determine the asset management approach that best addresses these challenges. inspections can be done with various technologies, often by a robot... or personally by a technician on a bicycle. sensors detect breaks, cracks, and weaknesses in the pipe. man: we have roots at this

the building is designed to be highly sustainable in all ways. we know that is consistent with what the city wants. it is very consistent with what as a jazz. once. we designed to a leed gold standard. it is our understanding it will be the first of its kind anywhere in the country that does this. a lot of energy and thought has been going into how to bring this ventilation. we do not want to bring a vibration and noise, and at the same time to not want to have so much air conditioning in the building. this results in the dry and use it on the right come up with these recesses that allow the interplay of error -- interior air going out and the exterior air circulating in. this is designed by intention. we have scaled these devices. they are married to the form of the building. it allows the building to retain its cohesiveness as the destination of a civic building, which is very much the client's intent. this is a detailed image which is not in your package. it is an enlargement of the rendering to show you the idea of this class -- this glass wh

it's primarily environmental sustainability. the overarching theme which i think is particularly pertinent here in the bay area is regional governance and cooperation where we try to emphasize move each of our cities that they really need to figure out in their broader economic region, not just within their city limits. so how do you coordinate with the communities around you to advance some of these policy issues, whether it's transportation, environmental improvements, economic development, education systems, workforce training, etc. these are some of the issues that we really want to publicize the best practices so that practitioners such as ourselves can bring these ideas back home and really move an issue forward. i think here in the bay area, bringing this group of four european experts here has really been an interesting exercise for me, not knowing the city of oakland very much at all, having been to san francisco a few times, but it really is -- i do think that the communities here are poised to really be sort of going

the afternoon at 1:30, where we will talk about flooding, community benefits, climate change, sustainability. at the end of the day there is a potential commission action to endorse the goals and levels of service and that agenda item that has been included in the program. first off, our morning session. we will start with a quick review of the process we have been through for the last 10 months, talking about the expectations for today. we have about five projects that we did not get to. they are fairly similar and straightforward. there were two other questions. the first is on the sunnyvale area, the sec as on great impact. after that we will discuss the first level of service. to make things easier, in the back of your work book there is a large size worksheet. what it has on it are the goals , and in the next column the associated levels of service, the implementation strategy, and the projects that have been proposed. essentially you can follow from left to right. all of the projects discussed today are part of the proposed program. but i think of this will help. we have been working f

. >> we really need to figure out what elements are sustainable. and with normal human behavior, what might not be sustainable over time. >> we would like to be able to press forward the with this goal and this level of service. commissioner moran: i am not comfortable with this. this all makes sense to me over time. i do have some concern about a level, given that we believe the severity of storms is going to increase overtime. tell me if i am wrong. the cost curve does not apply to every element of a program. what i mean by that is in the case you're putting a pipe in the ground, in an incremental cost on that may not be huge. you are trying to upgrade and optimize the size, i am wondering if that is the sensible thing to do. if we have opportunities to build more capacity, and the incremental cost is not there, then why would we not do that? especially if it is a hedge, having to tear up the streets and to the wholesome and over again. -- and to the polls and over again. >> we will be limited -- and do the whole thing over again. >> we will be l

we can come up with a more sustainable solution. we are working to come will with funding to have communities. escort services that we will be training later on this month in order to come up with the most sustainable solution. this could put every community at the same level. i don't have the freedom to be able to move people around and deal with an immediate need. >> they don't have the courage to legislated. this is this solution to a problem. this is a solution, this chief has delivered results. the supervisors want to submit their names for police chief. they did not do that. they are out of their league. this is very damaging legislation. we have to stop this in the tracks. we need to call this what it is. i am here not mincing words because this is a serious time and a serious business. we have that. let them continue to do our jobs. this has nothing to do with the merits but it is pure politics. >> these are daily things that we do. the pull down and the rest of the command staff are here in the room. we go through this stuf

designs and a demonstration to the country that san francisco is at the cutting edge of sustainability. i think we will achieve that. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. one of the ways we will be doing that again, is at an average building, the use in that building is about 12 gallons per water per day per resident. this building will be using 5 gallons a day per person in the building, and that is because we will be taking tap water, recycling of on site, using it for toilets. we will have low flow toilets, waterless urinals, all the things you should be doing in buildings today. one of our partners in doing all of this -- and without this group, we would not be here at all -- the labor people in san francisco, and with us today, the secretary-treasurer of the labor council. causin>> tim paulson, who is the secretary-treasurer of the labor council would not appreciate that. the longer the gestation of this one, you would think it would not be timely are arriving at a moment like this, but no project could be timely. right now, the kids are facing their highest une

it will be of vital and economically sustainable part of the city. the gentleman from the sierra club was complaining about the noise. that is the noise of people going who work. that is what it sounds like. if he wanted to be like golden gate, so be it, but that is the sound of people going to work, and we would like to see people going to work. we urge you to support the project. >> thank you. >> the afternoon i am here today without many. manny is sitting by a full having a cheeseburger and a club soda, and he is watching on his laptop. i want to says i have heard somebody talking about a missing a train. that is what is going to happen. if we do not get on board, we miss the train. we build bridges. we build the floor as we walk on. we build the roof that keeps the elements away. this job will keep people at work forever. once we are finished with construction, people can go to work forever, which is something they cannot do now. we hope you will see it that way and let this bill go through. >> [list of names] >> greetings. i am a community organ

where one sort of solution that you just think of is more pumps, but how is that becoming more sustainable? i don't really know what the answer is yet and i think that's why we, you know, convene summits like this. i think all of us are going to be facing very similar kinds of situations and it's the kind of thing we all need to think through together and figure out how to resolve. so to recap, the specific problem from a utility management point of view that we face in the near future is the notion of salt water back flowing into our current sewage system. this will basically cause our treatment systems to fail catastrophically. we will have for large periods of time sewers that are completely full, which will not allow drainage to happen in a consistent way. having said that, i think there is a way we can resolve the problem in the immediate future. it won't be cheap to sort of do a back flow prevention around the east side of the city. we are looking at preliminary estimates in the area of maybe $10 to $20 million to retrofit this kind of thing. if you go out to 2100 where you are const

let me describe to you that sustainable to me means we will enjoy our parks today and we will not compromise the ability of our children to enjoy those parks in the future. that means of the aesthetic and environmental, ecological benefits today will not be jeopardized and we will enhance it so our kids have the same experience. i think you have heard many times people speak about the unique urban forests that we have in san francisco, which is a largely planted forest, almost exclusively, and in a large parts that have a dominant tree canopy, that was the planting that occurred in the late 1800's to the early 1900's. i am sure that you have heard many times we are dominated by small number of species from all across the world, but we have a relatively small number of species that formed the dominant canopy of our parks. you may recall when i was here in february i described a native plant as being here when the spanish arrived in 1769, and that is really the defining point for native compared with non native. i did not realize it was going to be such an exciting topic. non-native plants arr