[ gavel ] good afternoon everyone. I would like to call to session the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, july 14th 0 , 2015. Roll call, please. The mic isnt on . Is it on now . Did everybody hear what i said . President caen . Here. Vice president vietor. Here. Commissioner courtney. Here. Commissioner moran. Here. Commissioner kwon. Here. We have a quorum. Thank you. Commissioners before you have the minutes of june 23, 2015. Are there any additions or corrections . No, i will move approval. Second. Any Public Comment . All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item, please. Item 4 is general Public Comment. I believe mr. Decosta, are you to speak on item 4 . Commissioners my name is francisco decosta. And and i want you to know that i have done due diligence, attending many of your meetings before. I am pretty busy now, so i dont get too much time to come for the meetings. But as director of Environmental Just
[ gavel ] good afternoon everyone. I would like to call to session the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, july 14th 0 , 2015. Roll call, please. The mic isnt on . Is it on now . Did everybody hear what i said . President caen . Here. Vice president vietor. Here. Commissioner courtney. Here. Commissioner moran. Here. Commissioner kwon. Here. We have a quorum. Thank you. Commissioners before you have the minutes of june 23, 2015. Are there any additions or corrections . No, i will move approval. Second. Any Public Comment . All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item, please. Item 4 is general Public Comment. I believe mr. Decosta, are you to speak on item 4 . Commissioners my name is francisco decosta. And and i want you to know that i have done due diligence, attending many of your meetings before. I am pretty busy now, so i dont get too much time to come for the meetings. But as director of Environmental Just
Good afternoon everyone. I would like to call to session the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, july 14th 0 , 2015. Roll call, please. The mic isnt on . Is it on now . Did everybody hear what i said . President caen . Here. Vice president vietor. Here. Commissioner courtney. Here. Commissioner moran. Here. Commissioner kwon. Here. We have a quorum. Thank you. Commissioners before you have the minutes of june 23, 2015. Are there any additions or corrections . No, i will move approval. Second. Any Public Comment . All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item, please. Item 4 is general Public Comment. I believe mr. Decosta, are you to speak on item 4 . Commissioners my name is francisco decosta. And and i want you to know that i have done due diligence, attending many of your meetings before. I am pretty busy now, so i dont get too much time to come for the meetings. But as director of Environmental Justice advoca
Discussion my comment is a mute one. Commissioner antonini. Yeah. I dont want to get into discussions something weve spent half an hour on i think this is good legislation regardless of the timing all about the commitment. Sue sue well, the mistake we didnt ask when the board of supervisors were here none asked that question and there was enough promise of time. We didnt ask specifically when it would be asked at land use commission. Their elective terrors. I caution were entering into discussion. Commissioner wu. Generally it is never scheduled that way; right . We never schedule for in the rare circumstances. The difference is simply the 90 days was up one piece of legislation in district 8 but not district 3 i think half was normal. I wish we would have split that and voted on each one. All right. If nothing further the meeting is adjourned [ gavel ] good afternoon everyone. I would like to call to session the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays
Contracting to make sure all of our interests are protected. Can i make one suggestion to the information that you asked for you asked for the high and low bids and you also want the winning bid, which may not necessarily be the low bid okay. Taking that into consideration there are other issues, too. The initial bid is different from the final bid. Its probably what i am trying to get at is our history with engineering estimates. How they comport with the market . Because people bid what they bid for all different kinds of reasons. In some cases they just know that they have a strong position and can charge more and in other cases they really need the work and will bid less or the cost of materials goes down or they have a good supplier or whatever it is. So there are a lot of reasons for variation in there and i want to test of the proposition that an engineering estimate can be an effective costcontrol mechanism. Understand. Thank you. That concludes my comments. Any other comments