thank you, members of the public utilities commission the director, all of the members. the young people that we have talked to for a long time i look forward to the presentation today and i think that you would enjoy that. i think that we will start the agenda. we're not going to follow the agenda, per say. >> we have discussed the order of business and if there is not an objection by either of the commission's, what we would like to do is to hear about the 99 program. we have a lot of people who are part of that program. then, proceed to item 15 which is the discussion about the use of this facility and then proceed to public comment after that. if you can call item 16. >> overview of the 9910 program and the introduction of the clause, 2010. >> as we get into those, let me just say that some of us will be eating in front of you and i hate to do that but i hate more to let this good food go to waste and this is an opportunity to give another shouted out to spice it up catering for providing this food. >> good evening, commissioners and members of the public. i will be

thank you, members of the public utilities commission the director, all of the members. the young people that we have talked to for a long time i look forward to the presentation today and i think that you would enjoy that. i think that we will start the agenda. we're not going to follow the agenda, per say. >> we have discussed the order of business and if there is not an objection by either of the commission's, what we would like to do is to hear about the 99 program. we have a lot of people who are part of that program. then, proceed to item 15 which is the discussion about the use of this facility and then proceed to public comment after that. if you can call item 16. >> overview of the 9910

he has been able to utilize that. commissioner avalos: it has actually been very noisy in your corner of city hall with all the number crunching going on. like cereal or something in there. i was at sf-state a couple weeks ago, there was a teacher there, a professor that was to end all the work looking at doing a lot of research eight years ago. >> he is one of them, both of them put together the 2004-2005 report. i talked with both of them individually about what work they have and what work they currently are doing. >> colleagues, any other questions for staff? i have a brief question in terms of the next step, what we expect to see by the next meeting? >> i am hopeful we will be able to start talking about basic numbers and basic discussion to show you what information we have right now. in areas where there is something more detail. but the next meeting, i am hoping to have a more presentation -- to show what impact this has had or has not had and the city. commissioner campos: but don't we open it up for public c

if the utilities can handle marketing aspect to their utilities to try to sway folks from participating, that it not be housed in to the same group as the utility's. we are trying to come up with recommendations on ways to mitigate the incumbent power that the utility has, both money and resources and information. as well as rules about how utilities should have on what they are able to say, that type of thing. commissioner campos: any questions? >> i think he hit on the major points i would have hit on. it is actually not a hearing on the contract itself. a contract actually plays a big part, but it is not actually part of the approval process. i wanted to make sure that was clear. he mentioned the meetings he would be having with the advocates and the discussion with mr. campbell and his staff to talk to them about what it looks like and have a look at where is the best place to go to start programs since we will be targeting for the initial launch? where the most customers located? those kinds of issues are what we will be looking at. hopefully we will be able to share a little more

>> because it is a utility pole attachment. when you attach to a utility pole, you use a certain type of configuration to meet the coverage objective. they are very low powered as well, but a different frequency. it covers in a different way. when you attach to street lights, which is the allowance and francisco, you have to fabricate the antenna in a different way. when we see transformers -- >> she showed us this equipment attached to label. >> of the picture was a street light that was fabricated securely with an antenna to be part of one unit as a new pole into the public right-of-way rather than attaching to an existing pool. -- pole. it's not allowed in san francisco. anything else? president garcia: thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. in our brief, we stated that there were some sort of argument stating as it relates to the notification of these facilities, it was applied prior to the adoption. it would require me to process the spermine. there was a notification requirements required in that case. this location d

this meeting is -- what are w >> let me reconvene the meeting of the public utilities commission. we are pleased to be joined by the commission of the southeast facilities utility. >> madame secretary, can you call the role for the commission, please? we have a quorum. >> thank you. >> as our first order of business, we wanted to have some opening comments by myself and by the president of the southeast community facility commission really to set the stage for what we're having today. we are here to listen today. there is nothing on the agenda that is an action item today. we are considering a report that was drafted for the use of this facility over the long term and we're making some changes. our intent is to reflect the needs and desires of the community. we need to hear from you to make sure that we have it right. we have no particular agenda except that we wanted to do the right thing and make sure that we reflect the needs of this community. that is all i have to start out with. >> we want to welcome everyone. we wish that you can not like this when we have our regular meeti

>> utility is our largest sector on the equity side in franklin income fund. as you mentioned, it has underperformed more recently. as we look at that with a 5% dividend yield today which we think is stable, is covered by the regulated utility, that that's very attractive. there is some uncertainty raderring a rate case in omit that we think the company will gradually get through over the course of the year enabling the shares to improve. >> jim: glom what about intel and a.e.p. do you own these shares? >> you know, franklin income fund is my largest personal holdings so, yes, through my investment in the funds, i do hold those shares. >> tom: our market monitor guest with a grasp on reality, ed perks. >> susie: the economy may be weak, but that isn't stopping american families from going all out on prom. back in the day, you probably borrowed your father's car and did your hair at home. we don't have to tell you times have changed. the average family will shell out over a thousand bucks for that special night. yes, you heard me, a thousand dollars! erika mill

beneficiaries who have not utility bills at awe, for example, someone that's a renter and the utilities are included in rent, and this is done to artificially inflate their s.n.a.p. benefit. for some people this shan ximted to increase their monthly benefit at much as $130 a month. the standard utility allowance exists to help people offset their out of pocket living expenses, not to inflate s.n.a.p. benefits and we really should close this loophole and redirect funds to other nutrition programs. this amendment fully closes the loophole, which sends approximately $13.9 billion by ending the artificially inflated payments, the amendment then reinvests $4 billion for reimbursement rates for the lurng and school breakfast programs to offset the unfunded mandated costs from new nutrition standards in schools that we have heard concerns about from municipal governments, school administrators and school nutritionists. the amendment takes the rest of the savings and puts that towards deficit reduction, approximately $5 billion. gimmicks that inflate s.n.a.p. benefits deny the ability to confro

over four play fields that are heavily utilized. our intention is to do renovations that grass fields with grass throughout this bond. this site is very well-utilized across the system and has strong support from the residents of district four and the supervisor. mountain lake park, another failing playground that is important to the community. as was talked about, our list of projects that we started with in 2008, a number of those projects have moved further down on the list or off the list because their needs have been addressed in some other way. with the thought of a-line park, which we thought was a district two park, after community average, it was clear there was not strong interest to spend the money to renovate the property. we anticipate that as an expert on the two thousand on list, if we have savings left over on the bond, and we're feeling optimistic that those can be used to address that park. in substitution, we propose an mount lake -- proposing mountain lake park. garfield square. another swimming pool. in a dense

what is going on at the california public utilities commission. and i really do not have anything to add today on state legislation. with respect, first of all, to our activities, we are anticipating consideration of our proposed contract and supplemental appropriations request that the board some time in may. that is our expectation. meanwhile, we have been busy determining, with the help of our market research -- our polling firm, the phasing and notification process approach we would like to take. you know, we have had many questions from policy makers and advocates about what sort of additional research we are performing to determine the level of opt-out we anticipate throughout the city. our data is still very new, but it will help us as far as the program during our initial rollout phase, and it helps to minimize the opt-outs we experienced in our early introduction. the work we have been performed has been performed by a member of fm3. his polling and research team assisted us with data collection and analysis. you may remember dave. he pre

if the utilities can handle marketing aspect to their utilities to try to sway folks from participating, that it not be housed in to the same group

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a pass due notice from your utility company is enough to scare you into action. that's what scammers are counting on. abc2 news joce sterman explains why. >> reporter: it's the price you pay for power, water or heat. you probably dread the utility bills but the statement some are getting are coming with more than a big balance. according to the internet crime complaint people are getting emails from a utility company claiming they have a new bill that's supposed to be paid. you're supposed to click on the attachment. you won't find the total. the attachment is a computer virus that could cause serious damage. many of the people hop sent the emails didn't use the utility company that sent them the bill. even if it does look like your utility provider, don't just click linedly on their attachments. if you're notified by email contact them independently. joce sterman, abc2 news. >> for more on this story or any other scam alert, head to abc2 news/scam alert. you'll find the scam alert link. >>> crystal clear after a somewhat cloudy start. we did have some rain overn

utilities is only one of two sectors where there's expectations for a decline in earnings which is utilitieselecom. with respect to financials, the earnings are coming in very strong but if you do it, you're talking about this a moment ago, if you get a hiccup in europe, the financial sector is the one that tends to get hurt the most. while the earnings i think are going to be okay, i rather you're in discretionary. >> we share underweight in financials. it's unclear what they can your honor. we a earn. we're underweight materials and energy and we're constructive on that given our foundation in what is going on in the economy. >> gentlemen, we'll see you both later. we'll see you on the countdown coming up here as well. >>> as we head towards the close, about 26 minutes left. the dow is holding steady here. >> best buy shares, are they a good-bye amid the reports that the company could be a takeover target? meanwhile, can best buy compete against the likes of amazon? we'd like to know where you go to best buy and look at all of that stuff or just buy it on your phone? some of your best resp

it also includes site preparation, utilities, landscaped of a heart state and state furnishings. and no news city positions are being created for this grant project, and no matching funds were required, but the matching developer is contributing over 1.9 million of their own funds to complete the park. the overall budget is approximately $3.3 million. the park is scheduled to be completed by spring of 2014. we require the resolution prior to entering into agreements with oewd. this concludes my presentation. we are available for additional questions. and take of think you very much. at this time, if there are no further -- supervisor avalos: in the packet we have what looks like an award letter to the director michael cohen dated august 2010. i am trying to figure out what the time line was for this grant. right here we're seeing what we are applying for. was this already applied for in previous years and was not awarded? >> in the recitals there is the retroactive reference to applying for the grant previously. it is about the third paragraph down. it was an interesting process,

we want to encourage people to call 811 utility before you dig.hey will come out and notify the opprobrium utility and mark the underlie and -- the underlying cables. the guy was digging and thought it was a tree root. he was putting in the retention of. he was chopping away. unfortunately, it was a primary underground electric cables. he sustained some pretty significant injuries. >> in an area where there may be over headlines, which is something else we have to watch out for, can there still be underground cables? >> absolutely. beyond the electric lines and gas lines, there is water, sewer, cable-tv, there are kinds of things we have to look up for and mentor you call the utility line at 811. >> even if it is a cable line or telephone line, you can still disrupt service. heaven forbid if we interrupt somebody's internet. [laughter] they're not as dangerous as the electric cables, but they do the damage and cost a lot of money. >> lengthy service interruptions, also. >> what kind of trees or shrubs should we be planting anywhere near this? >> w

the utility which was dubbed the most halted company last year is no longer the lowest rated utility company in customer satisfaction. instead, it's now tie for second lowest. it's all according to the annual customer satisfaction index, which was out today. pepco ranked as the most improved utility company on the list. the customer review gave pepco a score 29% better than last year. >>> new developments tonight in a murder case against george zimmerman. the judge presiding over the case is now stepping down because of a potential conflict of interest. judge jessica recuesed herself from the case today because of her husband. he worked with an orlando attorney who was approached by zimmerman. that attorney declined to take the case and referred zimmerman to the current attorney. judge kenneth lester will preside over this case. zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder. >>> folks who picked up a copy of the l.a. times probably took a look at the new york times and said not this. launching a criminal investigation into the latest case of u.s. troops posing with dead afghan insur

we know all of this comes together with our other utilities. puc is here because they are going to help. every time we break up the street, we will look at opportunities to see what else we can do with our sewers and water systems so that we coordinate all of this. we will use every opportunity to be smart in come on, and beneath the streets as we do the infrastructure. bge and at&t and other utilities will be coordinating with us. we want to do it right and use the precious money. i know that rings well with our board president chiu adjuster arrived. he knows this is a precious moment. we worked on the first effort that did not succeed. it hurts when we cannot get that stuff done. we will adhere to the rigors of our 10-year capital plan brian knows how hard it is to get all of the department's and agencies together to understand what we're doing with the 10-year capital plan. there are a lot of elements. as mayor, i want you to know that this is my new desk. it is global. it will be the kind of desk that i like working at. this is the one that

s that utilize the system. specifically to get feedback on how we can make it better, implementation aspects. obviously, when you go from the paper charting to the online charting, there is always a change management piece that goes on there as well as, you know, what data might be supporting the revenue that they might have, new programs that are coming up. so that's actually done on a monthly basis now. it's been very effective. supervisor chu: and i appreciate that and i have heard that as well that there has been a strong partnership with d.p.h. and the provider sites. so i just want to make sure that i think their concern was before you finalize your reports with the state and how they present the data, it's regulated or controlled partially by the state that they have input to make sure the reports are useful. that would just be the final piece of it. is sounds like there is already a partnership. >> to my knowledge, they're very, very involved with the scabbing tiff management from behavioral health on.

let me suggest this as a weekend fully utilize the break for all the editing we need to do. there is another question that memberpilpel is raising. we will need to visit that. we have two sets of information. we have what is in the draft, and we have what is on the one- page that the consultants provided. member pilel is suggesting -- pilpel is suggesting we go district by district. mr. pilpel: in general, i like the language that was proposed. outer richmond, in a richmond -- inener richmond. >> to preserve? mr. mcdonnell: in addition to or replacing -- mr. pilpel: i am generally not with the language they provided. i think it is less hopeful. i think this language is better. mr. mcdonnell: we will go district by district. the proposal is to utilize -- the district is described on the bottom of page 8. mr. alonso: yes. mr. leigh: yes. ms. melara: yes. ms. mondejar: yes. mr. schreiber: yes. ms. tidwell: yes. ms. lam: yes. mr. mcdonnell: thank you. all right. district 2. oh, -- mr. pilpel: oh, can we also have them not avoided -- voided -- mr. mcdonnell: please keep going. >>

we have utilities and financials, the best of the bunch. if i can turn around over here, you see the discretionary movers and technology to the down side. apple and google still dragging on tech as you mentioned. edison international, one of the utility outperformers today. outperforming on oil out in the sea pb a range of 1601 to 160 million barrels. you can see shares are up about 2.4% with the best of the utilities performers today. baxter plummeting because the fda is requesting more information on the company's joint immune system disease drug in development. down grading to market perform but research firm believing the sell off is an opportunity to buy shares of baxter which are down more than 6.5%. why not end with make-up and toys. it's monday. privately held, cody, that owns avon. investors aren't moved to the upswied that offer. avon shares down almost 2%. mattel selling off big time, almost 10% after toy maker showing disappointing earnings. hot wheels sales not so hot. and barbie as well. i made sure my mother hung on to every

commission without coming back to you. -- san francisco public utilities commission without coming back to you. that would be no. i know you recently revisited this topic. -- that would be new to you. the goal is to be able to do this as timely as possible refunding to capture as much savings as possible. the debt savings reserve, we still have the absence of bond programs in the marketplace. we have solved that problem because of being blessed with a great deal of bond premiums, and they are when investors pay more than expected because of our coupons structure and credit quality. we have allowed ourselves to have enough sources to fund those with the reserve. that is a great rate for dues payers. because 15% of our water is used by two private entities, we continue to have a sliver of exposure to taxable debt and have been borrowing with the lowest cost short-term commercial paper about 1 percent signed. we have also gone to the state and asked for permission for volume capacity award, and it does look like we will have a favorable award. we are currently being recommended to issue wh

we will utilize our citizens advisory committee. we may have some assistance with some high level advice. this is the effort that we are working on and our program management consultant is working very actively on this said that we can meet a tight deadline to get back to you in june and lay out the scope, the schedule, and the cash flows and have a dialogue with you as to what this program will be. right now, they are validating. this is confirming our level of service and this may be something that we have to do. some of those may be refined as we get into this. what we need to do is to identify these projects. the timing, the cost, and the schedule, and then we work with finance to be able to determine cash flows and rate in packs. i imagine that we will have a lot of these. we can knock this out. this is a rather rigorous process. it requires us to do a lot of modeling. we have a very robust system out there. this is working very well, it has to work very well. we are looking at reductions to see how we could improve progress on

as be become more solidified, we can sequence it more appropriately to do the necessary utility

obviously, with the tunnel underneath vanessa to, there will be further coordination with the utility work. it is accounted for in the construction plan. as be become more solidified, we can sequence it more appropriately to do the necessary utility improvements in coordination with the van ness construction. >> are you presuming you'll be able to sequence a portion in conjunction with cpmc? in other words, you're going to do a one to four-block section at a time, i would presume, which is a normal way of doing it. there is the tunnel going in as well. what would you presume there is as to any additional thoughts in handling this type of sequencing and coordination? >> you are correct. we have three blocks segments but that is how van ness is being sequence. we will be coordinating closely with cpmc. we do not anticipate additional costs within our cost estimate. the goal would be to coordinate inappropriately so all work and occurred during a similar time period, so hopefully we can leverage production to have to be as quick and low impact as possible for that portion of the van ness

kelli utilize new routes and intelligence in the data we produce? we are putting that on the improved sf platform this before i do that, i want to thank this collaboration of local businesses that have helped us design this, designed the process for it. we have burgeon airlines -- virgin airlines as part of the prize-giving technology. when you ask people to help improve government, you have to have a reward. maybe not as much, but at least as promising. , and then i have another company, sf bay, the bay area innovation group that has helped us -- sf big. you will hear from a small, local filmmaker, he will remind us where we come from as a city. then, we have another local company, a local person who helped us design the logo. and another company -- bold italics, who will help us look at the whole process and invite, hopefully, winners, and identify them for us. this platform will allow for the first time an online engagement of the public to help us with challenges in our city. not about just working with our technology companies. i want to involv