mark is so important for us so close we like to have some kind off fifty eight top was made so that we could. he would greet us although tariffs to zero philip is very helpful for taiwan to export bulk was commanded. get the same time um and then back to that school was to come along too and the color of import duty on every space around four point seven percent. so the foresight to reduce tariff the two zero and then go psycho. you know increase in alarm as foreign ports to help people suck. so this is the major. the reason you know we like to have a hefty eight. at least when it was time to spend. we are used to channel it is important for us. they should not be the only market. you know in our d we see a lot of close up of prices on international integration. this fish in the kitchen pp rcmp and so on we find that the china now on it and i signed up to snuff or on the door to his sample taken. jason was different the division countries. and they'll be already has beaten the rcmp no telling is the small income. we like to have a few weeks many china. the other hand we like to have te

it is so important for us was all because we like to have some kind off fifty eight top was made so that we could. if we could be useful though tariffs to zero. philip even helpful for taiwan to export bulk was commanded. get the same time. um and then back to that school was two one two and color of import duty on every space to run for forty seven percent. so the foresight to reduce tariff for mauresmo duty to zero and then go psycho. you know increase in more on export and import isn't helpful posts i can so that says the major reason we like to have a hefty eight. at least we was in china was from. we are used to channel it is important for us. they should not be the only market in on it and our d we see a lot of close up of process international integration this pigeon back to tp prc peak. so on. we find that the china now and in turn down sign that it was all wrong. they loaded a sample pain. jason was different he did the two countries. and they'll be over eighty artists and the rcmp. you know taiwan is the small income from quebec who have a few weeks many china. to be on hand we

we allocate costs based on how much water they use so right now they take about two-thirds of the water so pay about two-thirds of the operating expense. half operating and half debt service and in the 19 million that you see is a true adjustment each year we do a planning and set rates at this point in time but at the end of the year based on actual costs and water sales make an adjustment if we owe the wholesale customers money we give them a credit. >> what happens to the balancing account? >> as this slide shows we actually adjust the rates and take any over payment and reduce the amounts they pay us in the subsequent year. so the rate we're proposing for next year is 2 $2.93 for unit a $0.48 increase this chart shows historical rate as well as the projected rates for the next few years so for the wholesale customers a 19.6 percent rate increase for next year we've shared this rate with our wholesale customers so they are aware of this and we had a wholesale customer meeting with them in february so they are aware of this change. this is a lot of numbers again but the yellow represe

including our own, should have access to either the, you know, whatever a-v technology is being used. so, i don't know where that takes us, but i think that that has to be considered. >> commissioner, if i can respond just in part. first of all, i do concur with you that the choice of language is not about inviting any member of the public to present. and then secondarily, in looking at other commissions, other commissions that are outside city hall do not allow for audiovisual during public comment. two examples are the housing authority and the health department. so, you're correct that it would set a precedent for all the others outside city hall to do so. >> commissioner andrews? >> well, it seems to me we were talking -- now i'm just getting to the dollars. we were talking about cost. and the $40,000 keeps rattling around in my mind. and i was wondering if we could split the difference in this. at least maybe go back and revisit it and for the cost of -- and if it's about just basically heightening the level of presentation, not to this degree, but a -- an overhead projector and a s

be later this year so we have it nooeks next year >> is that already there. >> well, the cherry aqueduct exists there was one in the cherry creek that burned in the rim fire it was used in 1988 but it's largely a concrete challenge that runs along the cherry road and some of the back country areas there and dumps out so there's an xhoift conveyance there's a lot of fire debris around the area it was heavily burned area so basically to put a pipeline in the chaenlt the aqueduct so the water that's contaminated it will help. >> so i assume the aqueduct is open. >> yes. >> so we're pitting the pipe to replace. >> yes. and we've actually got a designer on board and looking at getting a contractor on board to have them working together for the efficiency of the project to have it going later this year. we'll see how march end up and by april 15th we are obligated to give our customers notice of the affordability and that will be done in the seconds week in april hopefully, we'll have good news now and then and have additional water storage to breathe easily but not out of the one side but breath easily and just e-mail the report >> i have already. >> this slide that talks

>> much of the world is way ahead of us. sonada, much of europe already has biosimilars in their marketplace, and patients are already benefitting from both the great products and the discount. >> steve miller is the chief medical officer at express scripts which negotiates prices with pharmaceutical companies. >> patients like deluca are forced to pay much more for their biologics because there's no competition in the u.s. in europe, there are at least five versions of deluca's biologic, where, according to manufacturers, they are sold for up to 30% less than the brand name biologic. so why aren't less expensive versions of deluca's drug or any biosimilars available in this country? that's because when congress passed the hatch-waxman bill 30 years ago creating generic drugs, biologics barely existed. >> if they could be sold, would people have access to something they don't have access to now because it's too expensive? >> just like when you use a generic drug and you have a $4 payment or $10 payment, the same thing would hap

less water or using water more wisely. >> so for example if we wanted to use the price signal to get a 30 percent demand reduction would that increase prices by a hundred percent. >> that's right. >> which we're not going to do on a tier structure. my point on that is if we have backwards stuff going on here and on on the illusion it changes behavior in a way -- the other question it shows charges -- how do our costs line up in terms of fixed and variable? i think todd mentioned something about that earlier. >> yeah we have a cost that's about 84 percent fixed if you include debt service and a lot of personnel costs one could consider as being fixed and as i said cost chemicals and that sort of thing. >> so we're kind of backwards our rate structure does not reflect our cost structure and by a rather massive amount which gives us problems when you have economic downturn and drought and frankly when you conserve. it makes you lose revenues at the precise time you need them. i'll come back to that but i think the work you have don

so they're resistant to the notion. we feel like climate data is something that a tiny group of sort of pointy-headed academics comes up with that messes with us. a weird baseline suspension that is so easily exploitable by folks in congress, and what climate corp does and "naked future" portendses, we under what the future weather and our actions mean to us and that creates a sense of connection to the broader climate debate that is actually personal, and that is going to change things. >> host: now, theoretically, ideas like climb corporation's, we insurance, sounds wonderful. i have to mention monsanto recently bought that, and this is a company that markets drought tolerant seeds to farmers, seeded that tolerate aluminum in the soil. how do we deal with the fact that, well, on the one hand it seems to be moving away from the politics you have identified to have creative programs like that, when you have corporations that have their bottom line at interest, how do we guard against that? i'm guessing you're going to say, have more people involved. >> guest: i think get more information out. create an alternative -- if monsanto is now the wor

so lastly i want to talk about some potential issues you might want to consider. people wanted us to find what was the appropriate concentration to have in a neighborhood commercial district, but it varies so much depending on conditions and what that community prefers and that is the whole intention of the neighborhood commercial district is to reflect the unique character of that district. so you can see this is a zoomed in view of the concentration and you can see how much variance that is and how every community reacts differently to formula retail. given this variance it's not possible to define an ideal concentration level that can apply across multiple neighborhood commercial transit district. changing the formula would exempt some fast-growing companies while still capturing a vast majority of large chains. some start-up businesses that have recently qualified as formula retail include phils and blue bottle and the san francisco soup company. while these chains are over the current threshold of 11 they are significantly smaller than the other well-established chains. so th

the code, to allow for putt, putt, indoor, putt putt and so with me this evening, is steve fox who is the owner of urban putt who approached us and so we have been looking at this change because we did not see any necessary difference between a bowling alley and a putt putt and i have been in the discussions with planning to possibly make a further amendment to what we proposed. to change it to allowable entertainment use, uses that are other than that are in the planning that are, i think, like the pool hall, and the music venue and etc., and so there is a preexisting definition in the definition. and so i don't have to keep coming back to you for the piece meal changes and so you are working up the fine logistics of that and so it will be either as the addition of the putt putt or the change to the definition in the planning code to other entertainment use and so we are kind of working on that, piece we have not nothing back, and it is a piece of where in the special use district what is permissible rather than what is prohibited and using the definition, it actually might be a cleaner way to do it. >> are these uses approv

so they appear to be more knowledgeable than us. to have truth with a capital t. and so we're automatically more predisposed because of our own weakens and biases to believe other people, and their judgments and answers over ours. and the second, i think, is that if you consider sort of the wisdom of the crowd, the crowd itself to be an authority in the sense, and just by numbers alone, we often think that the majority or crowd or any number of people more than one, us, has more collective wisdom. but also more collective authority. and there have been interesting studies showing that when we are brought in the presence of an authority and we submit ourselves to that authority, we submit to judgment of that authority. if we turn our judgment off, and we believe that the authority has greater knowledge and judgment than we do, we set it aside. so we're predisposed psychologically to believe anything that authorities tell us. >> and speaking of crowds, we think we're so cool use crowd sourcing but 150 years ago, the smithsonian launched a project where folks from aro

opportunity to use the red zone legally particularly in the improvement has been as minimal as the testimony suggests. you know, there's just as much looked like the program is an d disincentive >> so it's okay for us to be speculative too in assuming there won't be further environmental impacts for a classic exemption for a pilot program. >> sequa says you can't assume there's impacts based on speculation you need to support our conclusion so there's got to be demonstrative prove or foreseeable impacts and sequa has a say over a direct impact that's directly connected to something proposed by the project. >> so when issuing a class 6 exemption we're not required to insure there isn't going to be a greatest impact from the pillow program. >> we're required to insure there are not unusual circumstances the whole idea of a categorical is on the whole would not be exterminated did expectation is no that the won't result in significant books. there are situations for unusual circumstances that render it with sufficient impacts. in the case of this project we're talking about a passenger vehicles operating in an ushering setting it's not a unusual circumstances around the activity >> so

us on camera. he now heads up another supplier called americo group. one of its clients...is walmart. >> if walmart were really so upset about what success apparel did, one assumes they would not be keen to continue to do business with a leading executive from success apparel. >> on the phone, kevin told us that neither success nor its agent in bangladesh, true colors, knew about the subcontract to tazreen. but we managed to track down true colors' last remaining employee in dhaka. >> if there's any subcontracting, would you be aware of that? >> yeah. >> and then what do you do with that information? do you pass it up? >> yeah. we pass it up to our importer. >> so can you read this email for me and tell me who it's from? >> ok, it's saying hi kanta, i heard the shocking news about the fire last evening. it's nov 26. >> and what's the subject line of the email? >> fire at subcon. >> subcon is industry-speak for subcontractor. that email was sent by a manager at true colors shortly after the fire. so despite success' denials, their own agent may have been aware of the sub-contract to tazreen. >> aljazeera america p

really an evolving community and some of the considerations we have at this project of the types of uses so we have industrial uses, large industrial uses. we have office use. we have restaurant uses them we have small maker type uses and accommodate all those together. then we have commendation of public space and private space. there's major balancing act between things like loading and public areas, but it's up there with extremely focused on that the transaction documents cover and that the community have been very involved in and that ought not to talk about. following are just a few examples of the kinds of uses we put into other projects and which may be indicative of the kinds of uses we would see at pier 70. in terms of industrial which is many of the buildings on the south side, this is a picture of the project called [inaudible] that we did in 2009 and 2010. this would look like when we acquired it had a lot of the same problems. this would've looks like today. this tenant is a donkey and goat their winery and this is a page of the interior of their space. this is one set of indu

the karaoke room has been put in, so one red flag that i have seen, is the fact that the karaoke and the dart boards do not have the permits, yet. but they are being used. and so when the owner knows the process, and knows the fact that they need to have the permits, and they are still doing it without it, it kind of does draw some questions. so i would say. >> when the time comes we will make sure that there are no questions and we can hash it out out at one time and get it done properly. >> great. >> commissioner joseph? >> so the karaoke without a permit. >> yes, according to the neighbor. >> i visited and i did not witness it. and i spoke to a nighttime manager and march 17th is my last visit and she said that she, or that they had done some karaoke in house and some employees and neighbor type of stuff and since then the alu department has gone out and did not win this either, but the same complaint has sent more e-mails to me on nights that the noise is, what he claims is from the karaoke. and so did you notice that the doors were opened. >> the unit went out last friday and they noticed that there was an ipod type of music and the door was open

guess that i don't have as much information as i guess that i would like, but, so your comments are that, you can only use the information that they provide you with, right? >> right, so we have a section on the application that is self-identified, you know, personal information and what groups that the applicants feel they can represent including the application from the past. >> and you wish that some of them and many of them have not provided. >> okay. >> and the groups like for example the young professionals that is something that that particular candidate felt that that was a group that they represent. >> okay. >> commissioner campos? >> and i see commissioner breed's point though, and i think that maybe if there is a better way to at least summarize the information that we do have on the current make-up of the body i think that would be helpful for the purposes of insurancing that every person or type of information that benefits is represented and i do want to associate myself with the comments of commissioner breed and i think that you want to make sure that there are folks from different demogra

and she uses bad words" , so i met her and i immediately liked her, and i immediately admired her. i have enough experience and i don't give a dam about the packaging. i want to know what is inside. this woman was so smart. she helped me so much to navigate the board of supervisors. you have to realize now coming out of the navy and into san francisco politics is like coming out of a convent. you know it is. it was not easy, and so -- that woman helped me. she knew the clerk of the board. she knew the president of the board. she knew everyone. she knew how to write the memos and we became fast friends and that's when -- in fact she just wanted to get enough time to retire and get health benefits and i liked her so much i had a party for her in my home. anne kronberg was there and head of the mayor's office on criminal justice, and her name was eileen maloney. she was terrific. assistant police chief by the name of frank reid tried to dissuade me from taking the job. "don't take it and two weeks later if something happens they will blame you" but i like to take on jobs. well, he kin

that instead of us coordinating upwards, we are coordinating with you and sos a part of that, we instituted a new disaster operations system which akin to a command system which positions us to take the feedback from you and the other partner and it has reduced our time on the scene by 20 minutes. and the other part of reengineering is that it is caused us to refocus on the whole disaster cycle, from preparedness to response to recovery. and for those of you who may have been involved over the years, we started with the prepare the bay area program, and this continues to our ready neighbors programs where we focus on the low income communities to build the resil ans and to expand for 72 hours and to become partner whens it comes time to open shelter and feed people and i want to remind you that the power of it is really the volunteers and we have 3,000 volunteers who are training in the bay area, but in the case of a disaster can help us to open the shelters and provide the medical and emergency nurse and mental health service and connect them to the family as

is that phone calls be answered within three minutes and so they will actually be able to get a live person right away and this will also enable us to consolidate some of our language services in one call center so make sure that we have as many languages available to our patients at one time. we'll do half our clinics in 14, 15, and the second half in 15, 16. the call center will be located at laguna honda and our goal would be to consolidate the appointment scheduling function with the nurse advice line and then upon successful completion of primary care scheduling we'd want to add mental health and specialty clinics down the road. the next four are related to it, the security enhancements that bill kind of talked about, the things that will support the implementation of new technology and technology upgrades, the tell help upgrades and investment in information technology infrasfrukture so i won't go anymore detail about them. next is investments in human resources. you can't invest in all these initiatives, which does, you know, take a significant number of staff without actually looking at our hr. to ensure that we are filli

good to have you with us again, daniel. so we know that the vatican has confirmed the phone call, but they're only saying that this is part of the pope's, quote, personal pastoral relationships. that leaves me with a big question mark. what does that mean? essentially -- and this has happened a couple of times with this pope -- he's been called the cold-call pope by some because he just picks up the phone and calls people. essentially what the vatican says is these are private phone calls. even though he's a very famous man, what happens is between the person he's speaking to and the pope himself. in this age very little is private. this person's husband posted something on facebook. the media picked it up. it ricocheted across the world. part of that it was addressing such a sensitive topic for the church. whether people who are divorced and remarried can receive communion. >> it seems to me they're saying it's not the official policy of the catholic church, but it seeps to me that if the pope is doing something, it probably

partly benjamin franklin walks among us, where his adaptability by seeing being very conscious of not being behind the curtain. of seeing what the limits to an old way are, so you can have a particularly adaptive jean use, those that don't have that adaptive general use will go the way of i.b.m., remember we always used to have big blue computers. so we have to think more nimbly, rather nan assume that the whole world is our oyster. >> isn't the tough balancing act, doing that without giving into declinism? when the president tried to rally the international community in libya, and then again in sir is yeah, and now with at least more partners and more support in ukraine and crimea. you are seeing a different kind of projection of power. yob can't just simply speak power into being. >> no, you can't. you can't run away from it either. it is unbelievely tricky, it is the most tricky thing of all, really. and for all his foughts there was a way -- he didn't have to cope with the catastrophic recession, or just barely pulled out of. but bill clinton did have a way as did franklin roosevelt, even his way ronald ragan did too, they all had a way of saying what r

so what's the gap and need will allow us to get the resources necessary to get those done. the next question rewarding the design i think it will be helpful to walk us through why it takes 6 to 9 months >> that's for a major street project. and that's i'm not sure if there's anyone from dpw who wants to speak to that. a lot of times we partner with dpw on anything that touches drainage or a civil engineering design piece we looking at look to our partners in dpw they take the time to do survey work and work it into their cue of prongs. so we're gathering for the sf committee is sort of r a post more and more tomb on 7 or 8 projects to give you an idea of what happens for instance, when another project becomes a provided and jump projects in the cue. we may have regular projects we're working through and the mta directions the priorities and there's a group that needs to have that conversation and we may decide nor whatever reason a project needs to happen faster it will leap frog the projects in the cue. so there's a lot of complexity in the design there are several teams a

the steward campaign was really popular so we were able to use and leverage all of that attention we were getting on facebook and twitter and focus on infrastructure investments and promoting any public hearings we were having and also obviously conservation messages. . >> which was the first? >> i think maybe portland in the northwest. >> we'll get them next time. >> it's all that green infrastructure. >> [laughter]. >> all that rain. >> so our public feedback in your communications packets you have details and documentation of some of the concerns questions and comments that came up generally ly folks do understand and appreciate the need for these investments they want to see us finish the work that we started and understand the need for investment in the sewer system and lower income communities have concerns about how significant these increases are and as charles pearl will speak more of that and of this morning it was 92 formal protests i think that does speak to the successful nature of the outreach effort and in fact when we were talking to the public about the messages we c

so i ask you to relocate the appeal >> next speaker . president chiu and members of the board matt from the bay area council we are happy to play some minor roll in getting us to the point today we've fascinated conversations with the operators of shuttle so one conversation would take place and that's the process to get us to the piloted program today. as you heard from several speakers the shuttle systems has been growing over a decade and that's spiked in the last number of years to the point with regulation is absolutely necessary the reason is 3 fold the growth in the economy and the growth from employment and san francisco's first transit policy with the commuters with the employers providing the shuttle buses to pick up them at home and obviously finally the lack of investment in our public transit infrastructure primarily the city of san francisco and the employment centers has facilitate some private involvement in moving people noun the pears this is an anecdoteal story this pilot study is designed to mitigate those and will regulate the operators and give the public the signages when they're they can when the rourlz are breaking the law they can

us out with that. those are guest speakers, field trips, job shadows. but we're talking specifically about summer, so let me get onto summer. we are using the term a little bit more around a productive summer -- productive summer and with that said, we are looking to -- we have 75 paid internships this year. we are going to be expanding, so last year we had 86 paid internships that came through our private and public connections. mostly through our advisory boards and that included i believe 30 from youth works which was also referred to tonight. we're going to drill into these numbers at the last slide. the intent of the summer internship is really to expand the learning that's happening in the school year programs. so to give them the 6 week intensive, you know, all day experience as opposed to these one or two hour experiences. and we're also exploring and letting the students expand, so if they're at the one of the health programs, they have an opportunity to apply to other industry sector programming and this is because we actually have more opportunities this year, and i think that has a lo the

we had a hard time getting our builders and contract ors to report on water use so we're proposing to change the penalty fee from $25 to the cost of 25 units of water which is their average typical use in a month so that will give them the incentive to bring in the meter so it's read as it should be. the second proposal is a meter reading fee of $5 a month and we then if that happened have to send a meter reader to the home to read that meter each month so we're suggesting or proposing a five dollar fee for that service i should note pg and e has a similar cost for their service as well. this rate package abides by the policy this commission established. this scorecard as noted here was derived by the controller's office a few months ago gave us a score of a minus and there's a couple of areas for improvement and that's what we'll work on and in particular the lost time incidents but again we wanted to show you the a minus score we're fairly proud of. and lastly, the rate notice -- it's a little small actually very small on this slide we have copies here over on the table for the publ

for so many of us. ik it went a long way in terms of starting to expand opportunities for businesses here in the city. thank you. >> also, i really want to think that about 19 for coming and engaging with everyone there and really thinking about new ways various community groups so thank you so much. >> any other comments? commissioner adam >> i'd like to follow-up on my fellow commissioners. i tank i came to the meeting late and one of the issues that was an issue was trust. one thing that i believe about trust goes 2 ways. you just can't, and i said this [inaudible] you can't sit on the sideline throw stones and not come to the dance. you have to come to the dance you've got to come to the [inaudible] you get the mike. i'm a union guy. i run an organization is a bottom-up organization rank-and-file. you know what, this port commission like a lot of people that are commissioners [inaudible] give a right to criticize. you can sit outside and who knows because i was believed in a fair [inaudible]. i believ

the code, to allow for putt, putt, indoor, putt putt and so with me this evening, is steve fox who is the owner of urban putt who approached us and so we have been looking at this change because we did not see any necessary difference be

and gun where is used for sports and leisure activity and fighting. sodefinitely they are, you know, it's highly racialized, gun ownership, the use of guns. but also, who the victims are. it's usually young men between the age of 18 and 29 who are the primary victims of gun violence. and i guess that's where if we look at the pistorius case that they are some dhash case fits the profile in the sense that pistorius is a young man, he's a gun owner. he used his gun to murder someone, which he has admitted himself irrespective of the reason. but one of the patents of gun violence, not just in south africa, is that although women are generally not victims of gun violence, they are particularly vulnerable in their home to be shot and killed by a man intimate and known to them. usually with a lethal gun. >> we are minutes away from the arrival at court in south africa. you're seeing live pictures from outside the courtroom. cnn will have live coverage inside the courtroom as soon as the trial resumes. for those of you in the united states, early start a blue d

credits to cover the system purchases that we make when our hetchy generation is not available to us. so that allows us to -- if you will, green-up purchases that are not otherwise specified as renewable. we also have made some purchases of renewable energy credits in the market to make sure that we have sufficient renewable energy credits available to us to cover any system purchases that we might need to make. we purchased biomass and wind from various facilities in california and in the west. and at the time of this reporting we totaled between 2011 and 2012 a balance of renewable energy credits of 53,544 megawatt hours. we utilized for our own rps compliance 80,185 and that is drawn from that mix of renewable energy credits that we generated and owned and those that we purchased. >> this is certainly not asking you to speculate on this hypothesis. >> yes. >> so does the commission have any qualms against using public utilities commission purchasing electricity on the market because they did express those qualms when they came to cleanpowersf. what is the difference, you think? >> i t

na net miranda is also with us. so hard to digest the story.these were high school students on spring break for a college tour. >> that's right. the students were headed to humboldt state university for tomorrow's spring preview day, prospective students. we believe they may be disadvantaged students who would be the first in their family to attend college. the unionified school district is fielding a lot of calls from parents wondering if their kids were on the bus. there were two buses headed tof humboldt state but only one crashed. at least three schools we've been able to verify the kids attended, robert f. kennedy, manual arts high school and banning high school in banning. l.a. unified released this statement on their facebook page saying we were deeply saddened to learn about the accident that took place earlier today. at this time, we don't know how many l.a. unified students were victims of the crash. the superintendent wants to emphasize this trip was not organized by the district. back to you, jess and raj. >> thank you very much. we