cycle in order to support the program we also expect to have energy efficiency as part of the program launched they'll be matured as the program engross initially focusing on the energy watch and bay run programs that are offered here in san francisco by the vice president of investment and the other existing repair funded programs programs pg&e is offering to the pg&e customers meanwhile we're developing programs with the department of environment targeted towards the customers that sign up for our program we saw in sonoma they marketed in the early part of their program an energy program the amount of dollars you seek from the california puc can supportive of those pilot that's an attractive approach for us. >> again, our housing trust fund that was pass by the voter in 2012 has a section of that where funds can be allocated up to $15 million by the year 2018 july first 2018 and some of the funds can be used for energy efficiency in the homes i told the department those funds can be available but has to be concrete created in the mayor's office of housing i know that. >> they're working together. >> so. >> excellent. >> so moving on the customers who are

the hope is serve at least 80 unduplicated consumers. thank you for your attention as i highlighted this program and seek your approval on the program. >> thank you very much. may have a motion to approve and discussion for discussion. >> [inaudible] >> second. >> thank you. any questions or comments? commissioner sims. >> can someone explain the rational of combining two contractors in one memorandum and then separating the vote to two separate votes? seems to me it would have been clearer if there were two memorandums, one for each vendor? >> so i think what happened here is that the snap-ed -- these dollars came to us through snap-ed so it's all one pot of money that we will now be reporting to the state on as one pot of money with three categories so for reporting requirements through our funder we're going to have to report on the overarching snap-ed money with the three programs, nutrition education, gardening and thai chi. i would imagine there are some communities where the snap-ed is going to one so it's not confusing but to have this laid out and who the funder is and how we're getting the money and the overarching objectives a

packing the hetch hetchy back for the cost that we have incurred to establish the program. >> the operations; right? >> right. >> and on the ongoing operations. >> right >> one more question on the department of the investment efficiency work how does that get paid for . >> the initial program launched with the energy bay program those are funded with the pg&e recite parades make the contribution the california puc decides who gets that pg&e or local governments and the bay energy watch programs are fund. >> fund by the public goods. >> right but paying a pg&e bill. >> that's how there's no conceptual legal itself for the scc a. >> tha there are you have to be a cca customer and under the cca program penguin continues to provide the distribution services and the meeting services all those services that pg&e is providing to their base customers today will continue to be provided by pencil and paid for by those recite payers the one that his they'll not be paying for and per diem is not providing is the supply that's the piece we're proposing to provide. >> if we move towards the build out is there a possibility we'll ev

the buildsing. i'm not inclined at this moment to put it on the land mark work program for many reasons. one is we have so many there we are not getting close to yet that are still way out and that we done know the answers to some of the questions. the information that is created, discovered will help to make a decision as to whether this is significant in termoffs dealerships and mr. jones life or not because it go the other way and just find that it is one of many that were around at the time >> commissioner hilands >> this is a question for mr. [inaudible] i'm not opposed to having this placed on the work program, what i would like to support is when we have a member from the community bring forth a project they think is important and would like to be added. the question i have is how this relates to previous land mark designation, the last one, i think the rube goldburg. the member of themunity that brought that project forward did most of inwork to achieve the land marking. if the planning department needs to take this on and allocate resources than i wouldn't have a problem but putt

is going to go to the fair rates board on the 17. >> yes. >> our next commission meeting where harlan won't be here on the 18th of april. >> that's when we are presenting the program design and and a sense of what the rates look like goes to the fairness board. >> correct. >> and by then the legislation will be introduced at the board okay. so that should get us on the elements of the timeline and one other pious on the telling meeting what the stakeholder to discuss the precipitates. >> that's the week of april 6th we'll be presenting before we present program design and not to exceed rates here and at rate fairness we're proposing to talk with the stakeholders so that will be a step ahead of presenting to you. >> great. >> thanks. >> and but to our point that's not the only time we'll be talking about this. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> does that conclude our - >> yes. >> report now i'm going to ask for. mr. brooks hello >> good afternoon, commissioners i was going to tall one water a little bit i need to forego that and talk about community choices i'll say by the way the stakeholder process that was mentioned didn't include the community advocates o

certificate is as well as our culinary arts certificate and some of the students to my left are part of the one year certificate program a little bit about what we do we're one of the programs in city college having been started by a graduate if the r from the cornell school of hospitality we like to say what we do is over live experience to our students you're in a classroom that students offer food and make all the of a food and bread all the chocolates we breakdown all the meat and make all the saucers and the students serve you the food we the students spend before thirty hours a week for an entire semester it is valuable and so incredibly special in this community is the amount of hands on experience students get from coming to city college of san francisco this is true of any of the programs one of the areas and one of the reasons we're so valued in addition what you'll see here is students who are working full-time in addition to coming to school and being committed to their education we like to say in our departments learning never tasted so good in addition to this campus we have food services at the ocean cam

with notice this is new we'll have our effective date for planning and the did you want will post on the description of the program on hair website subsistence owners and operators to take advantage of the project and it will explain the zoning district that permit massage establishment that have a relevant without the conditional use authorization we shouldn't permit them at all that is the thing we've been working only dlunl with the planning department there are so many sdpoenz that the massage are not need a cu we want to create a program that encompass all the broad establishment and recognizes the location this will this delineated on the website so people know this is the site the demonstration will come why the planning department after they've gotten the deceptively permit and it goes to the planning department that's when they gage the permit there are ways to show evidence so thankful included negligence or things like lease agreements or utility records etc. the planning department will determine the compliance of the establishment regarding those requirement in the thank you program and they'll have a

since you get the money from the state why are you charging the people if. >> one of the fees listed on the program application is we really want people to have the commitment. when they're trained they can bring the skill back to the center back to the community to implement the class so in lieu of that if they provide the classes at the sites and the fee will be waived. actually there is a few waiver process and yes, and if they are unable to fulfill that commitment those fees we're asking the grantees to be able to put into the stipend pool so we can extend this program to provide more and more this type of programming in our community. >> you mean the money you collected for the fees will go back to the agency? >> will go to the project in house. >> if i may to add some clarification. as sara mentioned there is a fee waiver for the participants to sign up for the workshop. we know from experience that the workshop is free oftentimes you don't get committed trainers to come back and do the classes and our goal is really have the certified trainers to implement the thai chi program in the various

department of the environment can play a role working with the mayor's office of housing to help get some meat on the bones to see these programs come to fruition. >> and if i could i'd like to suggest that the coordination that we're engaged in today between the department of the environment and the san francisco puc on the cca front might be a good vehicle to sort of program it in so that we don't have multiple administrative efforts but a consolidated effort. >> i was not aware of that but i wrote it down. first thing i'm going to do is find out more. thank you. >> it's a little bit of money, but --. >> but if we can leverage and it hasn't have the same restrictions we have when going through the public --. >> other questions i have, moving forward, i also serve on the air district, the bay area air quality management district and we have a big debate right now about our energy future moving forward, trying to look at -- one of the ideas that's come forward in terms of what we could use as a region are some incentives to actually move towards new building construction that is not just energy efficient by also is a noncarbon

city to get people into the the solar project the solar share program to get people more solar a lot of people were outside the city and wanting to get solar on the rooftops there is a way to use the program to figure out ways to merge and get the ideas and merger for the best product the advocates and your staff and all of us will come up with a way to get people into the deep green to stay within the other products as much as possible same prissy like to say we'll have the megawatts we want the pg&e they will be the first one to opt out i assume a lot of the people in the city will come out but get as many as we can this is marketing once you get past the best wishes the procurement signed we know exactly how much the power will cost we'll at this point know the administrative costs this is what we're looking for a firm price to launch and going out and marketing you'll see me saying all the stuff neatest to be done as quickly as possible. >> the only 09 question so on the build out does glasco have an opinion about the need for clarity in the build out. >> when you look at the nexus report i hammered the folks they basically said you need

should try that one. >> to find out more, visit sfsmartmoney.org or call 211 and ask about the bank on s.f. program. >> now you can have a bank account. open one today. pars3 my name is john avalos, the chair, joined to my left by supervisor london breed and to my right vice chair cynthia cruz and also joined by lindo lafco commissioner. madam clerk. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic quieses. any copies of documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. >> thank you very much. let's go to our second item. roll call? >> i can do roll call. >> commissioner avalos, present. commissioner breed, breed present. commissioner cam poes is absent. cruz is present. lindo is present. commissioner mar is present. mr. chair, you have a quorum. >> let's go on to our second item ?oo sfoo item 2 is approval of the lafco minutes from february 27, 2015 regular meeting. >> colleagues, any ques, changes to the minutes? let's go on to public comment on item no. 2. skiiing no one come forward we will close public comment and we can have a motion to approve the minutes. m

the hope is serve at least 80 unduplicated consumers. thank you for your attention as i highlighted this program and seek your approval on the program. >> thank you very much. may have a motion to approve and discussion for discussion. >> [inaudible] >> second. >> thank you. any questions or comments? commissioner sims. >> can someone explain the rational of combining two contractors in one memorandum and then separating the vote to two separate votes? seems to me it would have been clearer if there were two memorandums, one for each vendor? >> so i think what happened here is that the snap-ed -- these dollars came to us through

the waiver of the thirty days could be constituent as introduced on the table as possible regardless of that we still expect to with that flip age stay on schedule for the launch of the program in 2016 then the next just want april 14th today that is where we're presenting our program design to you and finally on friday of week we'll be school board for the fairness board to ask them for the target rates for the launch of the program. >> so i'd like to now dive into what the proposed legislative proposal is by the way of background you know the board of supervisors currently has rules that require the puc to bring any contract that exceed 10 years in duration or or a $10 million in total costs for approval we have historically received deliberations of that limit contracting for energy applies that happened in the 1990s with the board adapted an ordinance that allows the puc to use one of the standards form contracts it is referred to as the western systems power contract to purchase from the power market and sell to the power market for durations up to one year that authority was extended to duration up to 5 years what we're seeking in the new legislative reform is authorit

the south as saudi-led airstrikes continue. >> this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up on the program. guilty on all counts. the u.s. jury returns its verdict in the boston bombing case. making new friends the greek prime minister meets the russian president as the two countries push to improve economic relations. and-- >> as china's economic mood music enters a minor key i'm harry fawcett reporting from the largest piano factorry where they say there is ram for growth on a major scale. >> the day after aid agencies warned of a catastrophic situation in southern yemen medical supplies have begun trickling in. the medical charity doctors without borders said that a ship carrying two and a half tons of aid has docked at the port of aden, and supplies have made it to a hospital there despite clashes in the city. houthi rebels are continuing. meanwhile, iran's state immediate says two iranian warships have been sent to the gulf of aden, but they're there as part of an anti-piracy operation. >> reporter: warplanes strike houthi positions in positions positions in the capital of sanaa. the saudi-led coalition has

full-time equivalent for the fiscal year of 2013-2014, we're not clear exactly on how that matches with the $120,000 that appears to have been spent on staff time according to the program spending page of the community garden program report. so we would like some clarity on sort of how that money is being spent? but we are really happy with how things are going so far and hope that the information we're receiving can be provided promptly, so we can continue to engage in an informed way. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay, we do need folks to move away from the door, please. next speaker, come on up. as people leave, if we can get folks to take a seat, we would really appreciate it. go ahead. >> hi. my name is deanthony jones and i'm one the project coordinators at more magic which is a collaborative program serving the needs of at-risk youth, kindergarten, et cetera and we have our summer of magic happening and excuse me -- i haven't had any coffee, but we have our annual summer of magic which aims to engage youth from kindergarten or age range through transitional age and comprehensive programing this summer. and particularly we're working with rec and park in june we h

small business enrollment program a benefit of the program last year businesses that don't feel like they need to have the diversity program and it is live on google.org so you can check out the application and apply to the program and then i wanted to mention two other pieces that tie into the previous offensive around the exit there was a mention of efficiency and the google app pay per user we insure that we bring the value to the small businesses to give them a discounted rate you're only paying per user if you have 5 employees you get a 25 percent discount and those businesses can't wait thirty or 60 net days for the larger corporations so our payment cycle is 5 to 10 days we're committed to paying them on time so this is all we had today i'll allow rebecca to make another remarks or passing materials out as it relates to what we're doing for small businesses. >> madam director. >> i do have some google in san francisco fact sheets for northern california business sheets thank you for your time today. >> okay great. >> we might have questions from fellow commissioners. >> commissioner adams. >> thank you. this was a great presentation

the program, the dark green aspect of the program. we'll be bringing those rates to the rate fairness board, they have agreed to meet on april 17th. that's earlier in the schedule as opposed to later so we were late on the ledge reform but we're early on the not to exceed rates, we heard a lot of interest in advancing that and we're responding to that by advancing the schedule to that. i'm not sure they'll be able to vote on that, they'll be comfortable on voting on that the first time they hear it, but we will be prepared to bring it to our commission shortly after the rate fairness board adopts it, it will come to our commission. we are on april 14th bringing to our commission the policy, the program design and proposed not to exceed rates so that's at our next puc commission meeting. we'll be making that presentation and getting feedback from our commission before we take it to the rate fairness board. so that's, again, april 14th. >> i'm sorry, that's proposed --. >> program design. >> for light and dark? >> correct. >> and program design. >> right. and by program design i mean what's the portfolio of resources, what do we thi