commissioner vietor, i know [speaker not understood] wants to get on. i think his stack is not working. commissioner vietor. >> [inaudible]. emerged in the last go around had to do with recs. does that come up, is that going to be part of the rfp, the rec balances? >> yes, it is there and one of the tasks which is what is the energy mix and what is the best energy mix because i know that recs were a question. and as you recall, the reason why the recs increase is because there was a question from the sfpuc commission to reduce the rate down. so, we am a balancing act there. that still continues to be the issue. >> okay, great. and the role of the puc for requesting an interview, is that something that would continue to be a rate setting responsibility or what would happen? who would select? i imagine lafco would be the one to choose -- >> lafco would select the consultant, but that's what i'm requesting, that a member of the sfpuc staff be assigned to sit on the panel to assist in that selection. >> what about this rate setting function of the puc? >> t

conditioning and commissioner vietor are on their way a you tell me 3 is the approval of the minutes from february 11, 2014. commissioners >> move to accept. >> any public comment on the minutes of february 11, 2014, seeing none, public comment is closed. i'll call for a vote all all in favor, say i. opposed? the item is passed >> that concludes my presentation. >> is yolanda lewis here, please. >> good afternoon opportunity i'm yolanda lewis i'm representing the coalition i want to remained the coalition that the bayview area is right lane on you to have the benefit policy resolution that all life that are directly effected receive a benefit we want to make sure that in the infrastructure project that are being taken under account with the water and a sewage we look at opportunities to - there have been great things on recommendations but we want to see more of those implement and this includes contractor implementation imposing on about economic sustainability and looking at at the significant impact and the qualities at looking to take care of 80 percent of the sewage so this upgr

commissioner vietor. commissioner torres and commissioner torres are xoud we have a quorum. item 3 is the approval of the minutes that you have in your binders. may i have a motion >> so moved arrest second. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. we now move into. those are items not on the agenda that can be discussed >> hello. >> hello. >> i'm david i'm here on behalf of the gun club. i know you're all aware of our concern of our future of lake merced i'm here today to ask for the commissions focused attention on two seers matters of impact like lake merced and this site. we are definitely in support of efforts to clean up the site we're definitely in support of the site of what's going on. but there are two mistakes being made with regard to the analysis this necessary out there. i've got a letter here for commission. two matters deal with first, the proposal that was sent by the city to the water board it is designed to clean up the site. as you may know anytime the clear up of the site the first analysis that's required for any agency to regulate this it t

commissioner vietor, commissioner moran. commissioner torres is expected shortly oh, he's here and commissioner president courtney is excused. it's confusing there's a pecking order building it or not. the item the approval of the anybody's of february 25th for our regular meeting as well as march third for the joint puc meeting. any additions are corrections >> i'll move both. all in favor, say i. the motion carries >> item 4 public comments this time we take comments on any items not on today's agenda. i have two cards dr. jackson did i want to speak at this point? >> good afternoon dr.es pencil jackson here. i'm glad i made a statement to someone about the training that's supposed to be going on for the south pacific commission no one let me know that it was being cancelled i just fount and whose is in charge of putting together for the southeast facility commission it was only supposed to be from 10 to 4. because of the fact that most people and even you commissioners are not aware about the south east facility commissio

conditioning and commissioner vietor are on their way a you tell me 3 is the approval of the minutes from february 11, 2014. commissioners >> move to accept. >> any public comment on the minutes of

commissioner vietor, commissioner moran. commissioner torres is expected shortly oh, he's here and commissioner president courtney is excused. it's confusing there's a pecking order building it or not. the item

. >> commissioner vietor? >> here. >> commissioner moran? >> here. >> president courtney and commissioner torres are excused from today's meeting and we have a quorum. >> very good. we have a quorum for both. so, colleagues, we welcome you to our meeting today. really our meeting is a chance to have a long awaited joint commission meet tog hear about issues that are relative to both lafco and our work around cca and keeping that program going as well as issues within the puc of the power enterprise department. i know there has been a lot of discussion about where power enterprise is and is in need of some greater attention from the public utilities commission. and our, our goal with lafco is to make sure whatever resource he we might be able to help to understand with the power enterprise and also help with the decision making with the power enterprise we are available to provide that input. we will also hear a report today about the latest request for proposal that was issued earlier this month or now its was last month because it's march,

. >> commissioner vietor. >> [inaudible] on the procurement issue and i know that there was some -- during the [speaker not understood], there's was market protest and long term procurement questions. i've asked this before, but can you remind me, it's usually the criteria is cheapest, we don't have additional criteria for how we purchase power. >> we have renewable energy credits from our system that we can apply to clean up the brown power we purchased when we are purchasing. >> so, [speaker not understood], it might be getting into the question of where to procure from. i think it would be interesting to actually see with that charter something that shows what those credits are, how much of that purchasing we're doing, even look at it in terms of drought. because it could potentially grow to be a larger number. it's important to kind of from the environmental policy perspective be tracking and look at that. >> sure, we track our purchases and use of renewable energy credit. i'd be happy to come back with presentation materials on that or do a memo to be responsive to -- >> understanding

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this year, we have a republican strategist and the firm the polling company and still with us tommy vietoristration, and now with fenway strategies. anna marie cox at "the guardian" and washington bureau chief at "the chicago sun times." i have to say your party pulled off something this week that i didn't necessarily think it was capable of and that made me think republicans have a better chance than i previously thought of winning back the senate. that's what we were talking about in kcolorado. we watched this 2010 as ken buck made politically inflammatory comments that probably cost had him a very winnable senate race for his party, one of the reasons republicans failed to take back the senate in 2010 and he got out of the race this week. the republican establishment got him out of the rice, put in a more electable canned at that time, and is now in a better position to win that seat than they were with ken buck as a candidate. is that an isolated example or do you think that is a sign that the republican party and the tea party are from a pragmatic point getting it together? >> that is