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And other committees at the board of supervisors. Madam clerk would you call the first item. Item number one roll call. Commissioner avalos. Present. Commissioner cohen. Present. Commissioner mar. Absent. We have a quorum. We have a quorum. Great. Lets go to next item. Item two is approval of the november 12, 2013 meetings. This is an action item. Okay. We have the minutes. Any questions . Okay. Lets open the minute for public comment. Any member that would like to comment please come forward an...

There will under the pucs request to issue and sell 100113. For hetch hetchy bond and my understanding is that mr. Chair that specific appropriation and the sale of the issuance of the bonds will be considered by your committee next wednesday thats my understanding ill report on that subject including the deappropriation will be issued to the board of supervisors tomorrow i want the board to know its not included in this specific budget. So for Committee Members were going to continue the supple...

Commissioners to Pay Attention to is like your staff. It has come to my attention that you now have another layer of the staff, Deputy Assistant general managers or whatever but you sit here when you need real answers, they can not be given, so the staff has to learn to have Empirical Data thats readily available and finally in the 20 seconds that i that i have, i would recommend that that we support one of your staff that has worked very hard in the bay view his name is massoud i will be sendin...

The panel is paid for their time. They get paid 200. All of our grants panel receive 200 a day which they receive for their time. There is a policy that artist should be paid. I believe commissioners should be paid too. [ laughter ] we need a raise. Just to clarify, we have 5 panelist who if they so choose can accept 200. It was correct that it was 1,000 for all the panel. Nice work, mr. Williams. Its still 1,000. Thank you, doctor. You should hire mr. Williams as council next time. The next car...

Facilities but it was chosen to cut about 31 million there and that leaves 26 million still in the plan but never the less its not as high as it was. I have a question. Looking over the list, i see that most everything is up country. Are we just putting that on hold for another time or because that was our conversation when we were doing the budging in terms of of what has to be done up country. It depends on the item for example the san joaquin pipeline yes were deciding not to do that over the...

Deck and so we, you know, were trying to make smart decisions, but the Comfort Level is that if something were to happen we have the ability to bring it back up closer in in the 10year capital plan. In many cases theres money remaining the far right hand column shows you where its not cut to zero where theres money remaining and in some cases its cut to zero in the case of the hatch ery because its deemed not needed and part of that decision is that there was prior year appropriation still exist...

Prior planning . Thats right. Okay so the additional half cent is like 1. 7 million . The additional half cent will be directly on the general fund about 1 dot 4 or 1 dot 5 million for electricity and in addition the mayors proposal full reimbursement then the additional cost to go solar . The additional cost to go solar would be to go solar would be 3 million a year over the next 2 years. Okay so basically most of the half cent goes to go solar . Thats the equivalent, yeah. Thank you. So again ...

Benefit the public dollar if you will . I know im not saying that right but arent we subsidizing a Residential Program right . It is a Residential Program and its a program thats not directly our customers currently but its a policy prerogative and so it really is a policy choice. So it doesnt need to be a direct transfer from a certain source of money . My reason for raising the point is that it is sometimes viewed that that hetchy funding a program like go solar is free money, its not. So that...

Very pleased with their Apprentice Program at this point and tim donovan reporting. Moving onto the apprenticeship trims this is through the First Quarter end of march 31st st the First Quarter, with 143 apprentice trade hours and we are hitting our goal apprentice hours we have a goal of 16 and twothirds percent for non labor and operators and right now were at about 18 percent with apprentice labor and non operators so thats fantastic exceeding that goal and on the labor ors themselves were ve...

To file number one. Theres a second can we take that without objection . Madam clerk items it through 4 appropriating the estimate expenditures for a selected departments of the city for may 2014 item 3 the salary for the positions in the proposed appropriation for the departments in fiscal years 2015 2016 and number 4 the mayors proposed budget for the International Airport and the transportations agency Port Public Library and Public Utilities commission for the fiscal year 20142015 and 2015 2...