Million alone and closer to now be a total of 883 million of essential Capital Improvements. We think of our capital as both essential. You have to do it in order to keep thing just running and the low cost power coming into city hall and funding all the street lights, the General Hospital and the muni. And then also there is a lot of other Capital Projects that youll hear about during our Budget Hearing that we would like to be able to do, but theres just not funding identified yet. So, youre going to hear Capital Needs in excess of a billion dollars. Mountain tunnel alone i mentioned earlier is one that is about 6 28 million, and this tunnel has been in operation for 80 years ~ with little maintenance at all. And its a function of how well it was built and being built through granite. Additionally, to the expensive and not aging infrastructure, we have benefited significantly as a city from very low cost of distribution rates. An Interconnection Agreement settlement in 1987 with pg e
And welcome to the local Agency Formation commission. My name is john avalos the chair of the commission, joined to my left by london breed, the vicechair. And commissioner eric mar and to my right by commissioner hope schmeltzer. The clerk of the committee is alisa miller and i want to thank sfgovtv staff who are broadcasting today. Madame clerk, could you please call the next item. Roll call, would you like me to call the roll. Commissioner avalos . Here. Commissioner breed . Breed is here. Commissioner campos . Campos absent. Commissioner mar . Here. Mar here. Commissioner schmeltzer schmeltzer here. Mr. Chair, we have a quorum. Great. Lets go to our next item, please. Item no. 2, approval of the lafco minutes from the january 24, 014 regular meeting and march 3, 2014 special joint meeting with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Colleagues my comments or questions of the minutes . Okay. Seeing none, we can open this item up for the many people who are in our audience wai
The pucs power enterprise was balanced the last two. Previous to that it was not balanced and it showed a shortfall. But it did you point out that it is relatively straightforward if we dont have more revenues to pay for costs, we could only buy what we can afford to. So, here again now, we fast forward two years three new pieces of information mean costs even larger than what we have ever assumed. Mountain tunnel was already in last years capital plan [speaker not understood]. It was in it for the last several as far as the maintenance work, but it was in at 100 million of cost. With the potential for collapse of the mountain tunnel which would disrupt the water supply and a recently completed engineering study, though costs have gone upwards of 6 28 million ~. So, that, sir, is new, and i do understand that that would be a very surprising and large change. The Interconnection Agreement expiration, though costs have always been in our tenyear plan, but not to the recently filed and he
Able to meet with many of us and we were able to really vet her qualifications. So, and our trust and i think that she will be good as a primary voting member. And also and it does not hurt to have someone from the group, mainly the league of pissed off voters, and we need the pissed off people to push it in the right direction and so that does not hurt either and with that said, i think that what mr. Lindo was said was excellent and very good to hear and hope that you will appoint him as well for the alternate seat and to both candidates i would say that on the clean power sf itself, which i personally worked on full time for ten years, and many others have worked on quite a bit, and believe me that you may have studied it but there is a huge learning curb on this stuff and please, both candidates sit down with and in depth with the advocates so that you can learn some of the deep intracaseys of this and i also would say to mr. Lindo, regardless of which seat you get appointed to, it
Voters and which was the guide that many san franciscans use to depend on. And she is a frequent speaker at mta board meetings and at the board of supervisors. And she is also passionate about the environment, and a passion that she comes by naturally from her time. She advocated for maintaining sunday meters that reduces pollution in San Francisco and increases safety for bicyclists and pedestrians and provides more parking for sunday drivers. And she is well versed of clean power sf and she is passionate of working in private industries to strengthen the accountability and citizenship. She serves both on the green team and also, as team captain of her Companies Giving comfort program, which provides low income cancer patients, with much needed and the most needed items that they have and finally she passionate about doing the research to form good Decision Making and having been involved and spoken out the Choice Voting and something that lasco voted on and Community Aggregate and fi