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component that utility agencies [speaker not understood] utility agencies come in after paving and that's mostly for repair work or emergency work or maybe even new service work that's unintended, unplanned work that the utility company -- that they themselves were not aware of. if a customer comes and asks for a new service -- the utility pg&e require to provide that service to that household. and, so, those cases are unplanned and where we [speaker not understood] it's very difficult to coordinate. >> in general, do you find that the utilities are -- my sense is that pg&e, i have a sense, is coordinating in terms of going in at the same time, but is there a good level of coordination? >> yes, dpw actually meets with pg&e to
component that utility agencies [speaker not understood] utility agencies come in after paving and that's mostly for repair work or emergency work or maybe even new service work that's unintended, unplanned work that the utility company -- that they themselves were not aware of. if a customer comes and asks for a new service -- the utility pg&e require to provide that service to that household. and, so, those cases are unplanned and where we [speaker not understood] it's very difficult to...
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component that utility agencies [speaker not understood] utility agencies come in after paving and that's mostly for repair work or emergency work or maybe even new service work that's unintended, unplanned work that the utility company -- that they themselves were not aware of. if a customer comes and asks for a new service -- the utility pg&e require to provide that service to that household. and, so, those cases are unplanned and where we [speaker not understood] it's ve
component that utility agencies [speaker not understood] utility agencies come in after paving and that's mostly for repair work or emergency work or maybe even new service work that's unintended, unplanned work that the utility company -- that they themselves were not aware of. if a customer comes and asks for a new service -- the utility pg&e require to provide that service to that household. and, so, those cases are unplanned and where we [speaker not understood] it's ve
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we've been kind of the quiet utility here in town. with our, with our growing interest from residents, businesses, the supervisors, policy makers and having a stronger presence and providing more benefit to residences and benefits here in san francisco, we are looking at more opportunities. and, in fact, the administrative code requires redevelopment projects to be studied for the feasibility for receiving service from the public utilities commission. as tjpa is under this agreement. you mentioned hunters point. yes, phase 1, we went through a feasibility study effort there. we have i think four draft feasibility studies that we are conducting right now and other redevelopment areas within the city. historically and for those projects that are currently under evaluation, we have a city presence involved in the projects. so, that's been our historic focus. we are with this budget cycle in conversation with our commission about looking at other ways to increase our revenues to bring the benefits of the hetchy system to more san francisc
we've been kind of the quiet utility here in town. with our, with our growing interest from residents, businesses, the supervisors, policy makers and having a stronger presence and providing more benefit to residences and benefits here in san francisco, we are looking at more opportunities. and, in fact, the administrative code requires redevelopment projects to be studied for the feasibility for receiving service from the public utilities commission. as tjpa is under this agreement. you...
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again, it's a tool web based information system utilizing interactive map. it's available on sfdpw.org. [speaker not understood] other construction notices for projects exceeding 14 days, city contracts are required to send out a 30-day letter, and 10 day hanger, and [speaker not understood] notice you see the tow-away sign notice. to projects, we want to point out that project durations that do not exceed 14 days, the 30-day letters are not sent out. only the 72-hour notice signs are placed so the public, that's the only outreach method in term notification the public will get. if the public hasn't received a letter monthly, because the project duration was limited to less than 14 days. so, city agency and private utility companies are required to comply with specific requirements while occupying the public right-of-way to operate and maintain the facilities. these requirements include providing time and date of work, proper storage of equipment and materials, complying with housekeeping rules, placement and securing of utility plates, maintaining traffic c
again, it's a tool web based information system utilizing interactive map. it's available on sfdpw.org. [speaker not understood] other construction notices for projects exceeding 14 days, city contracts are required to send out a 30-day letter, and 10 day hanger, and [speaker not understood] notice you see the tow-away sign notice. to projects, we want to point out that project durations that do not exceed 14 days, the 30-day letters are not sent out. only the 72-hour notice signs are placed so...
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specifically utilities. in the exact same period utilities were up five. market down 22% in the june/october period of 1998 and utilities act quite well. we have a similar thing going on here right now. take a look. just of late, a little bit of weakness as we know in the s&p and a simultaneous period of strength in utilities. a bit of convergence over the last two years. now, here's what we're thinking. we've come out of the well defined wedge just ever so slightly. we've come out onto the upside. and a breakout like that is a fairly powerful thing and implies higher prices. we think the xlu, etf is higher. take a look at this long-term chart to put it in perspective. again, ever so slightly we've broken above this well defined wedge that's a very powerful setup. >> all right, carter. he makes a good case but let's talk first about this comparison. we're all around at various ages. >> you were in high school. >> but do you think this is valid, mike? >> i think there's some validity to it. let's think about what it is. you could have a potentially deflatio
specifically utilities. in the exact same period utilities were up five. market down 22% in the june/october period of 1998 and utilities act quite well. we have a similar thing going on here right now. take a look. just of late, a little bit of weakness as we know in the s&p and a simultaneous period of strength in utilities. a bit of convergence over the last two years. now, here's what we're thinking. we've come out of the well defined wedge just ever so slightly. we've come out onto the...
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it is utility liaison on construction and other projects. the duties of the subcommittee will be to work out scheduling of utility work that is connected to the department of public works projects. the purpose of the monthly coordination meetings are to create joint projects and to minimize the impact of construction on our streets and in our neighborhoods. members of cold call include dpa, dpw, mta, puc, pg&e, comcast, at&t, dtis, sf thermal and other various telecom companies. >> in terms of how the coordination actually happens -- and i know it's very challenging so, you know, if pg&e goes in and starts by doing its work and it's going to hand off to the water department and the sewer department, so forth, i can imagine it being very challenging because there's no way to predict exactly how long, say, the initial agency is going to take and then presumably the second agency that's going to go in, they he need to bid out their contract. so, it can be a cumbersome project. presents a lot of challenges. and i know we ideally would love it th
it is utility liaison on construction and other projects. the duties of the subcommittee will be to work out scheduling of utility work that is connected to the department of public works projects. the purpose of the monthly coordination meetings are to create joint projects and to minimize the impact of construction on our streets and in our neighborhoods. members of cold call include dpa, dpw, mta, puc, pg&e, comcast, at&t, dtis, sf thermal and other various telecom companies....
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in the utility sector writing success will be achieved when we know it a certain way that utilities of all sizes have looked at this and they have implemented some sort of minimum security practice. whether they have done it to the framework, whether they have done it -- it really doesn't matter because the framework encompasses them all. so when we can, when we see that there's some sort of adoption of some sort of cybersecurity practice i think that is success and in pretty commanders are lucky that the mayor had a great role in putting together and bring to the world so we can actually tell things are happening. >> chris, they will probably never have a victory parade in the cybersecurity space but how do we determine -- how do we determine we are on a successful path using the framework? >> definitely having been to the cyber rigsecurity discussion in washington we were talking the couple years ago about to elevate cybersecurity so the framework and discussions on the hill have accomplished that. there are conversations going on at a higher level than we ever had before and a lot o
in the utility sector writing success will be achieved when we know it a certain way that utilities of all sizes have looked at this and they have implemented some sort of minimum security practice. whether they have done it to the framework, whether they have done it -- it really doesn't matter because the framework encompasses them all. so when we can, when we see that there's some sort of adoption of some sort of cybersecurity practice i think that is success and in pretty commanders are...
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it is spread across 3,000 you at this -- utilities.tilities spend an ungodly amount of money trying up to grade and improve the resiliency. by some estimates you need to spend twice as much to make it happen. you have to worry about natural disasters and worry about cyber security issues and you have to worry about physical terrorism on these things. frankly we are becoming pretty squishy. people go off the rails if their favorite flavoring at the coffee shop is not available. you put the power down for three weeks and you can pretty much put love thy neighbor out the window. >> colonel layton, let me go to you. mike mentioned psycher threats. cyber threats. we have a power grid and people call it vulcanized. we have a zillion power companies that are in charge of their own area. and then we have this organization that is over it called nerk as well as ferk. what is the government doing to make sure the local electric companies comply with the requirements and the advancements in technology to prevent us from a cyberattack a? >> well,
it is spread across 3,000 you at this -- utilities.tilities spend an ungodly amount of money trying up to grade and improve the resiliency. by some estimates you need to spend twice as much to make it happen. you have to worry about natural disasters and worry about cyber security issues and you have to worry about physical terrorism on these things. frankly we are becoming pretty squishy. people go off the rails if their favorite flavoring at the coffee shop is not available. you put the power...
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possibility of creating such a department head in a large meeting of the committee the issues of utility rates approval were high on the meeting's agenda according to the yarn as a viable a single operator in the sector to operate on the basis of private partnership mp noted that they're working on a utility companies in the country and all of them work independently all problems are being sought in different ways. at least that is to cut the cake tea and that the chances of that issue. of course this idea is quite challenging. they might seem revolutionary hour i think that given the experience of developed countries we can at least discuss the possibility of creating a single utility company on the basis of private partnerships in our country we need to move on to some great systematic work in the vocal and then off to a tee. the anti monopoly agency points out that all the changes in tears are made within the inflation quarter or semi the government which is one point two percent last year in total the agency received over one thousand requests for monopolies in two thousand thirteen
possibility of creating such a department head in a large meeting of the committee the issues of utility rates approval were high on the meeting's agenda according to the yarn as a viable a single operator in the sector to operate on the basis of private partnership mp noted that they're working on a utility companies in the country and all of them work independently all problems are being sought in different ways. at least that is to cut the cake tea and that the chances of that issue. of...
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utilizing a cell phone device, remote firing device technology, could bring down 15 transmissions at one time. >> with a cell phone? >> with a cell phone. absolutely. >> you don't have to be that smart, that sophisticated or anything to take down power systems? >> technically, no. >> what do you do to prevent that kind of thing from happening? >> we utilize what's called red cell tactics, techniques and procedures where we go into installations and do what's called a threat and vulnerability session to show them where their weaknesses are. i've done that as a have ivilci with my own business. the powers that be don't take your recommendations as serious for whatever reason. we have what's called the federal energy -- the ferc. it's a regulatory commission for energy, and it's made up of guys who are desk jockeys, former fbi agents that have never been down range, they're not trained in unconventional warfare. they took a class for two days or three days and now they're putting them in charge of this energy commission? it's ridiculous. >> you say when you do a report, assessing the vu
utilizing a cell phone device, remote firing device technology, could bring down 15 transmissions at one time. >> with a cell phone? >> with a cell phone. absolutely. >> you don't have to be that smart, that sophisticated or anything to take down power systems? >> technically, no. >> what do you do to prevent that kind of thing from happening? >> we utilize what's called red cell tactics, techniques and procedures where we go into installations and do what's...
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hydro than other utilities in the state. and they still want to produce the power, gather the power. the question, then, is what are they going to buy. the nice thing about hydro is that you can kind of turn it on and turn it off and have control and use it to balance your other renewable resources like wind and solar which are more intermittent. so, what are you going to use as a balancing strategy is certainly something that's facing all the utilities. it's not a simple thing to answer. obviously we've got santa nofres down and the california public utilities commission is very concerned about how they're going to keep the grid stable in southern california with that resource off line. >> commissioner wald? >> i just wanted to observe that, with cal's help at the last meeting of the policy committee, we gannon effort which will be continued at our next meeting to develop some recommendations for priorities for the department to pursue among the various strategies that will be laid out in the document. and we voted to recom
hydro than other utilities in the state. and they still want to produce the power, gather the power. the question, then, is what are they going to buy. the nice thing about hydro is that you can kind of turn it on and turn it off and have control and use it to balance your other renewable resources like wind and solar which are more intermittent. so, what are you going to use as a balancing strategy is certainly something that's facing all the utilities. it's not a simple thing to answer....
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possibility of creating such a department head in a large meeting of the committee the issues of utility rates approval were high on the meeting's agenda according to the yarn as a viable base to operate in the sector to operate on the basis of private partnership mp noted that they're working on a utility companies in the country and all of them work independently all problems are being sought in different ways. at least that is to cut the cake tea and that the chances of that issue. of course this idea is quite challenging. they might seem revolutionary hour i think that given the experience of developed countries we can at least discuss the possibility of creating a single utility company on the basis of private partnerships in our country we need to move on to some great systematic work in the vocal and then off to a tee. the anti monopoly agency points out that all the changes in tears are made within the inflation quarter or semi the government which is one point two percent last year in total the agency received over one thousand requested for monopolies in two thousand thirteen t
possibility of creating such a department head in a large meeting of the committee the issues of utility rates approval were high on the meeting's agenda according to the yarn as a viable base to operate in the sector to operate on the basis of private partnership mp noted that they're working on a utility companies in the country and all of them work independently all problems are being sought in different ways. at least that is to cut the cake tea and that the chances of that issue. of course...
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so now to the numbers frplt the port staff utilizes the city's data base to track all of our capital needs and every year we update that data base, which is what's arrayed in this table here. we start with the prior year plan in this case it was 2014-23 where we've completed projects we delete those costs from the various elements, we may have also completed a project at a lower cost and the entire cost estimate comes out even if we spent less. sometimes there are project savings that also reduce the backlog. similarly new cost estimates are loaded in. most of those this year are associated with the development projects. where there are more detailed design and engineering estimates for those projects as they have become better defined going forward. some of them have increased and some have decreased so it goes both ways. similarly during the 10 year plan we added a new 10th year, the prior year drops off, sometimes rolls into backlog, we gain a new 10th year and finally the controller's office identifies the costs used in the plan and that's based on construction cost indexes. this
so now to the numbers frplt the port staff utilizes the city's data base to track all of our capital needs and every year we update that data base, which is what's arrayed in this table here. we start with the prior year plan in this case it was 2014-23 where we've completed projects we delete those costs from the various elements, we may have also completed a project at a lower cost and the entire cost estimate comes out even if we spent less. sometimes there are project savings that also...
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utilization. >> nate is going to answer a question. >> i think what we'll do is a table that details the vacancy rate of the various facilities and send that to the xlition. it is going to be in the report you will hear in two weeks but neither nate and i can remember the figures but we were just working on the figures so we'll get it over to you. >> nate cruz with the real estate division. the vacancy assumption for the forecast that you have been presented with is basically a stable rate, i don't recall the exact percentage, i apologize for that, but it includes a similar, very, very low vacancy rate which the director just pointed out. i did also want to point out, we talked a little bit about granularity of forecasts, our budget forecast has been within 2 percent and the methodology we have kept true in prior periods. where i was a little too conservative was the parking forecasts and based on conversations we have had in former years i got a little more aggressive and hopefully we will see a tighter performance of budgity to actuals in the future. >> the question would be the le
utilization. >> nate is going to answer a question. >> i think what we'll do is a table that details the vacancy rate of the various facilities and send that to the xlition. it is going to be in the report you will hear in two weeks but neither nate and i can remember the figures but we were just working on the figures so we'll get it over to you. >> nate cruz with the real estate division. the vacancy assumption for the forecast that you have been presented with is basically...
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the funds are collected through investor on utility ratepayer bills. they bill for electricity and includes extra funds for the energy efficientcy program. the city is already doing that and we are part of the effort to increase energy fisherty and the department has implemented though funds and we might want to find out how they are spending those dollars that they have receiving to benefit city san franciscans. because we are a cca career choice aggregators, because we do that, it is assumed that you operate the cca at some point. you can't be a cca that only provides energy efficiency services. you have to be energy efficient and the underlying supply. that's the vision. it doesn't, it's not really available to us unless we are ready to demonstrate our plan for a full cca as well. >> that doesn't completely cover what we did last time? >> it doesn't completely because they did receive funds prior to cca. they received energy efficiency funds. they are spending those dollars now with cca customers and non-cca customers and spending that on energy eff
the funds are collected through investor on utility ratepayer bills. they bill for electricity and includes extra funds for the energy efficientcy program. the city is already doing that and we are part of the effort to increase energy fisherty and the department has implemented though funds and we might want to find out how they are spending those dollars that they have receiving to benefit city san franciscans. because we are a cca career choice aggregators, because we do that, it is assumed...
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they do not have a utility bill. that is the change we made. when we did the dairy reform, one of the great things that we , the usda can now buy milk for programs for children and the needy and for food banks. we have increased the money to food banks and have said if you buy fresh fruits and vegetables with your food assistance money, we will give you double the value of the food assistance. we want people to be able to buy healthy food for their family. that is some of what we have done to support our families. >> you agree with the estimates? it will affect 800,000 to 900,000 households. >> if we are able to address renters, i expect it to be less. spent days diving into this legislation. they did not find many red flags. they are concerned about one thing. there is a provision that would require the disclosure of lawmakers and other officials who received farm subsidies, that was removed from the bill. do you have any sense of why? >> it was not removed from the bill. it was not in the senate bill. it was in the
they do not have a utility bill. that is the change we made. when we did the dairy reform, one of the great things that we , the usda can now buy milk for programs for children and the needy and for food banks. we have increased the money to food banks and have said if you buy fresh fruits and vegetables with your food assistance money, we will give you double the value of the food assistance. we want people to be able to buy healthy food for their family. that is some of what we have done to...
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great graphic, just showing how much we are looking at, how much we are utilizing natural gas to move goods and services around the country. i think we will hear from high number of folks today. i will not try to steal too much thunder, but we will hear from a lot of folks about how they are starting to shift to natural gas to power their operations, and we will talk about some of those industries and how this works out, but when i think about where is natural gas going, what are we looking at right now, total consumption is forward-looking in 2018, and it per day, lightcf duty being the sort of holy grail, if we can figure out how to use it. but a medium-term opportunity for us to utilize natural gas is rail,t heavy-duty truck, mining type of opportunities, and i will talk a little bit about how we are seeing that happen. .eally where the opportunity is so to give you an idea, that is not even 1/8 of what we can produce on a daily basis, so we are really not talking about a large amount of production world would've to what our members are able to produce on a daily basis and what the
great graphic, just showing how much we are looking at, how much we are utilizing natural gas to move goods and services around the country. i think we will hear from high number of folks today. i will not try to steal too much thunder, but we will hear from a lot of folks about how they are starting to shift to natural gas to power their operations, and we will talk about some of those industries and how this works out, but when i think about where is natural gas going, what are we looking at...
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to consider release of reserved funds, public utilities commission file no. 100337, ordinance no. 92-100 in the total amount of $10,242,545 to fund the water system improvement program wsipp peninsula pipelines seismic upgrade reserve project cuw367022. the work consists of reinforcement of various fault crossings of the san andreas pipeline and the sunset supply line branch in san mateo county. public utilities commissionn1234 >> >> >>supervisor mark farrell: okay. thank you puc for being here. >> the water system improvement director for puc. i recently came into this position and the director is here and we are proud to be entrusted with this leadership program. i will be working hard with the team to bring this program to successful completion over the next several years. as julie promised, we plan to bring the updated to the budget finance committee. if you would indulge me with an 5-minute update. i would like to give you a little update and turn to agenda items 6, 7 and 8. if you look at this pie chart, the program is about 80 percent complete. the complete project is $2.6 bil
to consider release of reserved funds, public utilities commission file no. 100337, ordinance no. 92-100 in the total amount of $10,242,545 to fund the water system improvement program wsipp peninsula pipelines seismic upgrade reserve project cuw367022. the work consists of reinforcement of various fault crossings of the san andreas pipeline and the sunset supply line branch in san mateo county. public utilities commissionn1234 >> >> >>supervisor mark farrell: okay. thank you...
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first sewer goes in because it's the leest utility, followed by water, and then finally by the paving. but it has to be in a linear fashion. and the way to minimize it is we do it in block segments at a time. we don't try to dig out the whole entire length. let's say there is a long project along market street. we would not completely dig out the whole entire market street from first to ninth, let's say, and then come in later and do sewer. what we try to do is in more discrete segment at a time so we go from area to area. >> how does that work in practice? because i have heard of some projects that are very fast, where constituents report everyone got in and out pretty quickly from beginning to end was a few months. we've had a few others, like on casalle street, going up the hill, ended up being the sort of never ending projects. i'm sure there are complexities -- in practice, how does that play out? >> so, there are complexities like you did mention, the complexities do include sometimes there is repair work, unintended repair work that is discovered. and if that does happen, that
first sewer goes in because it's the leest utility, followed by water, and then finally by the paving. but it has to be in a linear fashion. and the way to minimize it is we do it in block segments at a time. we don't try to dig out the whole entire length. let's say there is a long project along market street. we would not completely dig out the whole entire market street from first to ninth, let's say, and then come in later and do sewer. what we try to do is in more discrete segment at a...
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i know, to a lesser extent, at&t some time has to dig and there are probably other utilities as well. >> so, for moratorium streets, are you talking about moratorium or just -- >> i mean, it's both. sometimes it's more, it's more frustrating you know, when it's a street resurfaced six months ago. even if it's a legitimate reason, have to dig it up, and it never looks quite right again. even a street that's not a moratorium street, you'll have situations where you have patch work that's done that does not look right. >> so, for moratorium streets, i'm sure you probably know in 2010 we recently created more stringent moratorium restoration requirements. depending on the size of the trench, we require the excavator pave property line to property line all effective lanes. so, you might see a better he contiguous repaving. in nonmoratorium streets, there are restoration requirements. and, so, that there is a key trench that you see, but you are -- there is a key trench depending how many laterals are being repaired. we might make the utility excavator, depending on the size and length and
i know, to a lesser extent, at&t some time has to dig and there are probably other utilities as well. >> so, for moratorium streets, are you talking about moratorium or just -- >> i mean, it's both. sometimes it's more, it's more frustrating you know, when it's a street resurfaced six months ago. even if it's a legitimate reason, have to dig it up, and it never looks quite right again. even a street that's not a moratorium street, you'll have situations where you have patch work...
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but and so i know there are a number of utilities that are taking steps.e need to make sure that it is a coordinated effort. we need to make sure we prioritize the most important substations and ensure those are protected. >> john, thank you for taking the time. it makes a big difference when a guy like you is concerned and anyone else who just raised the latest security hack les. thank you for doing that. >>> in the meantime, there's a reason why the former chairman is anxious. there's a difference, as we said, bad guys making utility target an target a target. former fbi special agent john clark. john, there is a difference; right? hitting a retailer is one thing, presumably, to get money. hitting a utility substation is another. presumably to rattle folks; right? >> of course there's a difference. when, you know, somebody hits a utility place or hits a bank or something like that to get money, it is probably just some -- isle use the term thug trying to get money and should be wrk organize whatever the case may be. terrorism goes far beyond that particu
but and so i know there are a number of utilities that are taking steps.e need to make sure that it is a coordinated effort. we need to make sure we prioritize the most important substations and ensure those are protected. >> john, thank you for taking the time. it makes a big difference when a guy like you is concerned and anyone else who just raised the latest security hack les. thank you for doing that. >>> in the meantime, there's a reason why the former chairman is anxious....
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but and so i know there are a mber of utilities that are taking steps. we need to make sure that it is a cordinated effort. we need to make sure we prioritize the most important substationsand ensure those are protected. >> john thank you for taking the time. it makes a big difference when a guy like you is concerned and anyone ese who just raised the test securi hack ls. thank you for doing that. >>> in the meantime, there's a reason why the former chairman is anxious. there's a difference, as we said, bad guys making utility target an target a target. former fbi special ant john clark. jo, here is a difference; right? hitting a retailer is one thing, presumably, to get money. hitting a utility substion is another. presumably to rattle folks right? >> of course there's a difference. when, you know, somebody hits a utility place or hits a bank or something like that to get money, it is probably just some -- isle use the t term thug tryg to get money and should be work organize whatever the case may be. terrorism goes far beyond that particular perspectiv
but and so i know there are a mber of utilities that are taking steps. we need to make sure that it is a cordinated effort. we need to make sure we prioritize the most important substationsand ensure those are protected. >> john thank you for taking the time. it makes a big difference when a guy like you is concerned and anyone ese who just raised the test securi hack ls. thank you for doing that. >>> in the meantime, there's a reason why the former chairman is anxious. there's a...
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don't get me wrong it's a great utility but for most of the world the demographics is very young do you think that they're still going to be attracted to and we and there are political issues we hear gentlemen there are countries that are very careful in dealing with facebook particularly in the in the muslim world and china. well i think i think the big question there is whether the kid accurately. are they going to be using go ahead and go ahead finish if they are going to be using it are the kids are the kids going to be using facebook when they get older you know because snapchat has what they want now but when they get older and when they do become media consumers and they want the stuff that me or all sooner you are putting out then are they going to move to facebook and i think that's a big question too and i think the cultural stuff you know you can kind of gloss over that either because i think in russia we were wrong there's another kind of they have their own social that we're awaiting is huge in russia called to come to everyone is on a very particular it's very popular
don't get me wrong it's a great utility but for most of the world the demographics is very young do you think that they're still going to be attracted to and we and there are political issues we hear gentlemen there are countries that are very careful in dealing with facebook particularly in the in the muslim world and china. well i think i think the big question there is whether the kid accurately. are they going to be using go ahead and go ahead finish if they are going to be using it are the...
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it has a plan of financial which maps out the port intends to utilize the potential and new sources of funds to maintain the assets and enhance our portfolio. it also has an estimate of the capital need that remains at the end of that 10 years and some of the strategic issues that may pose a significant challenge to the port in the future. every two years the city adopts its own city-wide capital plan and the port's plan becomes a part of that which is very helpful to assure the partnering opportunities and go bonds and things like that. the next update to the city's 10 year plan is in 2015 so we are doing this for the port's benefit only this year. so the plan has guided nearly $196 million in non-developer funding since the inception in 2006. some of the highlights from the port's 150's anniversary year include the project's listed here, you have heard them mentioned before so i won't go through them again, but they are very significant achievements. the project expenditures are reflected in the changes in the port's financial position that elaine described earlier. the criteria were
it has a plan of financial which maps out the port intends to utilize the potential and new sources of funds to maintain the assets and enhance our portfolio. it also has an estimate of the capital need that remains at the end of that 10 years and some of the strategic issues that may pose a significant challenge to the port in the future. every two years the city adopts its own city-wide capital plan and the port's plan becomes a part of that which is very helpful to assure the partnering...
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powers my home but if i'm not home and using energy it powers my neighbors' homes it can save the utility money on infrastructure money and delivering energy during peak times the issue really is one of control over that energy system and what about market share for the utilities and frankly they're reluctant to give up was the centrally about one hundred year monopoly over both control of the system and control of the economic resources very often the argument is framed in the terms of either one giant monopoly highly centralized system versus or every single home is an independent power station essentially what about of an intermediate step you know every city block has its own power station or every neighborhood or community has its own you know has its own internal grid that will stabilize and balance loads and things for people within that area and is that sort of thing being done today. you're definitely seeing that kind of development especially after hurricane sandy in the northeast and other large scale climate related disasters where communities are saying you know we can't get
powers my home but if i'm not home and using energy it powers my neighbors' homes it can save the utility money on infrastructure money and delivering energy during peak times the issue really is one of control over that energy system and what about market share for the utilities and frankly they're reluctant to give up was the centrally about one hundred year monopoly over both control of the system and control of the economic resources very often the argument is framed in the terms of either...
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i'm the assistant general manager [speaker not understood] for the public utilities commission. i'd like to thank all the attention on street lights in particular. as noted here, that increase is roughly a 20-fold increase in the amount of investment. so, through the hard work of the supervisor's office and the mayor's office, we've figured out how to do that. there is a lot yet to do at hetch hetchy. you will hear much more from us in the capital planning process because there are many capital needs. and, so, much more discussion on our [speaker not understood]. >> thank you, mr. reid strom. ~ also i would like to just thank andres power in my office who really put a lot of energy into moving us toward this agreement. and then i'd like to move items 16 and 17 and move to table items 18 and 19. >> so, supervisor wiener has made the motion, and i believe that was seconded by supervisor mar. supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i just have a brief question for mr. reedstrom. we're talking about new funding for street lights, [speaker not understood] fiscal year after. what is the sour
i'm the assistant general manager [speaker not understood] for the public utilities commission. i'd like to thank all the attention on street lights in particular. as noted here, that increase is roughly a 20-fold increase in the amount of investment. so, through the hard work of the supervisor's office and the mayor's office, we've figured out how to do that. there is a lot yet to do at hetch hetchy. you will hear much more from us in the capital planning process because there are many capital...
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>> i know that some utilities are taking some steps. and we took in a team of people from the dod and we look at some of their substations including the 13th street substation that was subject to hurricane sandy. we did that several months before april 16 because physical security wasn't an issue that i was looking at prior to this incident. and so i know that there are a number of utilities are taking steps are needed to make sure that it was a coordinated effort and that we characterize the most important substations and make sure those are protected we want thank you for taking the time. it makes a big difference with a guy like you so thank you for doing that. and in the meantime there is a reason that the former chairman is so anxious. as we said between bad guys making utility a target and he former fbi special agent john clark is with us. hitting the retailer presumably is one thing. hitting a substation is another, presumably to just rattle folks. is that right? >> of course there is a difference. when someone hits a utility pla
>> i know that some utilities are taking some steps. and we took in a team of people from the dod and we look at some of their substations including the 13th street substation that was subject to hurricane sandy. we did that several months before april 16 because physical security wasn't an issue that i was looking at prior to this incident. and so i know that there are a number of utilities are taking steps are needed to make sure that it was a coordinated effort and that we characterize...