it passed the examination of the venice commission, which in europe decides whether the document ensuresect for the rights and freedoms of citizens. even the osce once gave this convention a positive assessment. the osce itself does not have any specific criteria for assessing elections. in each. country, its observers travel with different training manuals, and no one ever knows what their requirements are based on, who established them. for example, in 2015 , the osce sent us to our presidential elections. 40 observers, 10 times less than ours, although the population there is 35 times larger. the osce sent about 30 observers to the presidential elections in poland. in the fall , a member of our parliament, denis karas, was invited to work as osce observers at the parliamentary elections in poland, but poland simply did not allow him onto its territory. for far-fetched reasons, the osce remained silent, nor there were no comments or condemnation of the boorish step. what can observers, who do not have a working mechanism for assessing the democracy of elections, give us, what rights an

recognized by the parliaments of all cis countries and successfully passed the examination of the venice commissionfor example, osce observers do not have a unified system for assessing elections. they simply they launch a random number of observers into the next country, and each time they rivet reports from new... points, they use them to put pressure on states that dare to pursue an independent foreign policy. they chose the leaders at whom the european authorities point the finger, the election report is good, they chose those for whom the people voted, the report is bad, and the country is declared not to be a democracy. our diplomats have many times suggested that european experts create a common document with objective requirements for the work of observers, but they have always been ignored or refusal. and the choice that the residents of belarus made was declared illegitimate over and over again. this is an open attack on our electoral sovereignty, and we will not give up sovereignty to anyone. therefore, from now on, belarus officially does not need the opinion of international observers

well, in fact, the venice commission, which is part of the structure of the council of europe, gave a conclusion a year ago that these are the changes to the constitution of the russian federation, the so-called, where putin extended himself. reigning for a virtually unlimited period, that is, he sneered at a two-term limit, well, this is the valetsian commission, that is, lawyers, so these are not even some political appeals, then, well, the elections should not actually take place in such a way, well, with the participation of himself putin, and also, if i am not mistaken, last year, the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe on the basis that's exactly... adopted a resolution that, well, no, the election cannot be recognized , including because there should not be such a candidate at all, and now this is already a continuation, in fact, on wednesday there will be such a debate, which will connected with the death of navalny there, with possible sanctions against those who were detained there and kept in karamurza prison, but our task and the tasks of our partners. to make

venice. and it's also a commission meeting. are we? we won't be able to make it so i guess. sorry. i pledge to work with secretary fuller to make the meeting as efficient as possible, so that i hope we will be able to dash over to 49 south ness before the open house ends. okay. thank you. and we'd be happy to provide an update on the safer taylor project. if there are no other questions or comments for director short, please open this item to public comment. members of the public wish to make three minutes of comment in person on item two. the director's report and communications may line up against the wall furthest from the door. if you're commenting from outside the chamber, please press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star three on your phone to be recognized and. and no one has approached to speak on this item in person. and sfgovtv is also indicating we do not have any callers. so that concludes public comment on the director's report. thank you. please open the next item. item three is general public comment, which is for topics under the commission's mandate bu

venice. hundreds of locals protested the new fees today. they say it won't discourage mass tourism. back in this country the federal communications commissiona net neutrality rules today. they treat broadband service like utility similar to funds in water. the regulations were overturned during the trump administration. the fcc chairman stressed the importance of the ruling saying every consumer deserves internet access that is fast, open, and fair. in the baltimore a cargo ship exited the harbor today for the first time since the francis scott key bridge collapse last month. a total of five stranded vessels are expected to pass through the new deepwater channel temporarily constructed in the aftermath of the fatal accident. tennessee lawmakers approved a bill today criminalizing adults who help minors receive gender affirming care without parental consent. violations would range from sharing informational websites to helping minors travel out of state for care. the proposal, the first of its kind in the nation, is expected to be signed by the republican governor. the us economy grew at its slowest pace in two years to start 2024, as consum

venice. thank you. and i'm a rates analyst for the financial planning team. can i please have the slides, at the previous commission meeting, i introduced the sfpuc fiscal year 20 2025 miscellaneous fee study and presented the resulting water and wastewater miscellaneous fee proposals from that study, today i will now be presenting our proposed updates for the power miscellaneous fee schedule. and to supplement this presentation, we have provided a technical memo to refer to. for more details on each fees. proposed update and specific calculations . i want to acknowledge that a lot of the information i'll be sharing today is a little repetitive. from last week, but for the sake of any new members of the public and for any commissioners that weren't here last week, i'll do my best to quickly run through the similar context. on the scope, timeline and methodology of the study before getting into a high level overview of the proposals. so first, what is a miscellaneous fee, just quickly miscellaneous fees are commission approved charges that are billed to an individual customer and recovers costs for performing servic