we are in member of the local clean energy alliance. we very much did support this item moving forward. we appreciate lafco moving this process forward. this item is a portion of the scope of work. rather than in the and all or nothing from , it is more a sequencing matter. this portion of $100,000 would be funding falls on the earlier portion of the scope of work that we've been looking for the sfpuc to fund. it is not all or nothing. it is just that a lot of the $100,000 portion of work would not be engaged and would not happen if the earlier portion of the analysis work that needs to be done -- that would need to happen first before this 100,000 zero should be appropriate to be engaged and spent out. we have been part of this negotiation. we do have a lot of eyes on this. there are a lot of people engaged right now that very much want this to succeed and are looking for this to be productive work. it is critical work for the program to be successful. there will be a lot of eyes on the task sheet and deliverables. it is written into ha

local. after him, we have the managing director for local news at yahoo.com, guiding the company's local coverage nationwide. last but not least is the senator who represents san francisco and san mateo counties, and he is the recipient of spj's freedom of information award in 2010. that is our panel. back to you, rose. >> before we start, i want to get a sense of who we have in the audience. how many of you currently work in the media? lots. how many of you used to work in the media? how many of you want to work in the media? ok, good. that will give us a sense of who we are talking with. great. every friday, we have a media roundtable and invite international, alternative, and mainstream journalists to talk about coverage of the week's news. we believe it is important to highlight good journalism because so much of it gets passed over. we think it is also important to start off on a positive no. with that, i want to start off on a positive note tonight. i worked with very. we were on staff before the web was even a mainstream word. i just want to ask you, since you were there in the beginning,

the same need. and if it's local hiring, i mean, then, it's double, i think the standard since this is not a local company. it's not fran-based. so i would expect -- san francisco-based. so i would expect there would have to be double the expectations that gives us something that we hope that they deliver. since we're only talking to one company in this case, an a company that we're familiar with. then we should see a brokering of what should come out in the final reporting. >> ok. we have a motion to continue. i don't know if it's been seconded. let me say that now that we have a full compliment of the commission. i was open to the idea of continuing but again i believe that it's important for us to move this forward. i appreciate the comments from the commissioner. i think it's important to be dealt with every penny that we spend and that we provide specificity in terms of the deliverables and that we don't spend anymore than we need to. to strike a balance in terms of moving forward with the understanding that we will not spend more than what is needed. and with the understanding that it's been agreed

fish dominates the local cuisine and the fishery is the main source of income for local residents in early june a valuable red salmon is the first to light the school. so this caviar isn't right it's small and very fact later when the fish enter the fresh waters and begin to support this system gets transformed the fish stop eating and thrust lose their facts and become red. caviar gets bigger and ripens. out of everything the red sun and is the favorite food of first seals sailing a pass and you'll observe this many time. was real they are real hunters this animal is very pretty it's impossible to tear your eyes away from the beach if the seals come here for summer the beaches are full of them it is a strong beautiful nice. master of the sea. puts in a cool and getting ready for the most dangerous part of his job along with his son so gay he's heading to the very center of the breeding ground in a special plywood box for check on the health of the first seals for right now he's worried about what one sea lion is going to do next the lion pricked up his ears when he sees something str

the violation hearings will be held locally. the serious and violent cases will be heard by a board of parole hearing and then can be violated for up to 180 days, by law. it used to be a year. and there would spend their time in local jails. so that is the jail pressure. but the sheriff's office will speak about that. the post-release supervision cases, the same thing, with the exception of instead of being heard by the board of parole hearings, now they will be heard by the court. and that will impact both the public defender and the district attorney in terms of providing representation of the violations, and it will also impact adult probation as we will be responsible for all the recommendations. it also, under the law, will require the courts to be the judicial officer that is actually presiding over the hearing. if individuals do not have any violations, but these post- release supervision cases, after six months, the chief adult probation officer has the discretion to terminate successfully the post-release supervision per

we represent the green party and the local grassroots organization. i would like to clarify what the advocates are asking for. what we're asking for is not a change of any of the current terms of the contract. that is not what this is about. the scope of work document that you have looked at which is about 19 pages, that is a product of ourselves, the advocates for local power, and the staff of the puc working together to come up with the tasks under the current contract that would be played out under this contract extension. this does not change any terms at all, all it does it specify that the puc staff is planning for this contract to do under the current contract. this is just a description of the work tasks. maybe there are some things with the legal thing, if that is a problem, we would just call this a set of tasks words. at any rate, to get to the substance of what was brought up in the previous item, so what this two page is from advocates asking you to attach that scope of work to your resolution, not as an amendment but just as indicating th

the animal to feed it. now it needs something to eat it. local say the camels owner deliberately turns the animal out there's no food for it in the man's household. emoji dove and his family live two hundred kilometers south of tragedy stands capital to shun very close to the border with afghanistan he has ten children. this cow provides for and. each member of his family has a particular job to be a mentor in the vines and women do the washing and bake bread while the kids work in the vegetable garden. the majid of gather cotton stalks left in a field after harvesting they used them to heat the oven in order to make flats round cakes the stalks do produce some heat but certainly much less than firewood does. i carried out get on with it. like. many tangent peasants live below the poverty line and some don't have jobs at all others barely scrape by. when i do creams elder sons are old enough to earn a living they'll be sense of brought to look for a job. my brother has left for russia to work there he will be a helping hand for my family we've go

where the local government is giving power back to the people. where everyone will be a dump. the locals turn their land into a tourist paradox well come. on should close up on r.g.p. . is eve. great. come to. germany. so different but the only one. moscow. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow reminder of the top stories the un calls for restraint in libya made reports of abuses and alleged summary killings by both rebels and gadhafi forces and there's also concern the country's chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands in the bloody civil war. france's struggles to. the books as stagnating growth and surging dead bring about government cuts there are fears public outrage could soon spill out into the streets. the caucuses republican because he is electing a new leader and a vote triggered by the death of its president a lot is at stake for the new hat of state as a country still recovering from its long and violent struggle for independence from georgia. well now we explore the low.

of the local in-city renewable portion of the c.c.a. program. one of the potential tasks under that contract is they've been attempting to negotiate for that scope for some months now, and it has been a back-and-forth process but one that has not yet resulted in a task being contracted for. so i'm bringing this item to you. there are certain of the task in the scope of work that we can contract for. what this is is the work that will be done to prepare the r.f.p. for the in-city renewable portion based on the c.c.a. program. we start the program and we have the ability to layer in our own resources as or our own energy efficiency programs and our own c.c.a. renewable projects. we need an r.f.p. to do that. we need a consultant to be able to plan that type of work. i will say one thing about the budget, which is the budget that is being looked at by the s.f. p.u.c. is $390,000. my authorization to you today is for not to exceed $100,000 for tasks that forth in this scope, tasks one, eight and a portion of nine. the remaining tasks are ta

the local government is giving back to the people. wealthy british. markets. what's really happening to the global economy. headlines to. the hour here in the russian capital you with the coke says republican. following the recent death of its president. to treatment and the country faces a number of challenges in the wake of its long fight for independence from georgia . there's many people out today wanting to have a say in the future of the country here in the capital so whom the central election commission here in so whom in abkhazia has predicted a seventy percent turnout among three candidates for the moment there's no real leader between them is no real front runner this obvious just yet all of this was made necessary by the death of the previous president surrogate on the twenty ninth of may he died suddenly leaving power vacuum in his place and now three candidates the vice president the prime minister and another former vice president are all campaigning to try and take his spot many international observers have come to try and look at this election

we are driving to the stronghold of the local mafia. it is a maze of concrete tenements, drugs, piles of trash, this is all part and parcel life here. this is the kind of place you need to film discreetly. it is not exactly a tourist attraction and. the new mayor of naples, who enjoys police protection, has now declared war. he knows that his battle against garbage means no less than taking on the mafia. getting in touch with the grassroots is key. he is visiting neighborhoods to try and get local people on his side to give them hope. >> i want to help the people who volunteer their services in schools and clubs and doing a lot of bad worker. we have to make progress on the trash a separation brunt. there are other projects, like the construction of a new university. >> the hopes riding on him are huge and fairly realistic. he won by a large majority against serbia burlesque on the's party. he has powerful enemies. and -- sergio burlesque tooni's party. they see it as a deliberate provocations by arsonists and as an attempt to damage it

we represent the green party and the local grassroots organization. i would like to clarify what the advocates are asking for. what we're asking for is not a change of any of the current terms of the contract. that is not what this is about. the scope of work document that you have looked at which is about 19 pages, that is