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Call of the sfpuc to order it is one 37 madam secretary can you please take the roll commissioner Vice President moran commissioner caen commissioner courtney commissioner kwon everybody is present we have quorum thank you. Next speaker, please. Next item is approve the minutes of february 9, 2016, a motion to approve the minutes. 70 second questions or comments Public Comment on the minutes hearing none. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes passes unanimously next item, please. Item 4 ...

70 second questions or comments Public Comment on the minutes hearing none. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes passes unanimously next item, please. Item 4 general Public Comment. Mr. Da costa good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners so im here to speak on a number of issues i am very interested in getting a set of salutation on the water Improvement Project especially mountain tunnel and then im very interested in knowing about our water pipes the city some one miles plus in vie...

Professionalism and the nourishing youve given to staff and shown people what theyre capable of and helped to grow staff and bloom in ways that are in this case and very appreciated in managers. And that youve done the same for your colleagues people you say potential in and reached out day to day when things got stressful full your incredibly unique and thank you for your service and choosing Public Service were grateful for that. Thank you so much commissioners and may i say p a word or two. P...

No. Nothing new thats the case i met with Different Department head and naomi kelly and jackie fong who ahead of prurn in both cases weve talked about the huge list for City Government i hope they prioritize it. One other question is there has there been movement on the key member in terms of adaptation or percentage of products purchased that quality do we see an upward trend. Im going to have to get to you. So colleagues the item before us is approval of the reports. Ill make a motion to appro...

The Community Meetings he was a fantastic commissioner and brought a lot to this board. Thank you commissioner king. Commissioner gravanis well, he was quiet at the full board meetings but i have an opportunity to have lunch and find out all the incredible outreach efforts he was making through media and different because of approaching the community and instrumental in getting information out to the community i dont think we would have been able to reach like chinatown and his appreciation of t...

Will come from is coming out of the biomethane. And if you have any questions, and i have blasted through the presentation and i will be happy to answer any questions. Thanks, bill. Questions . Thank you. Thank you, bill. Commissioner courtney . Well, i think that. One quick question, and does the city or the city and county of San Francisco offer tax rebates for owners of electric vehicles . Do we know that . Good question. Bill . Or todd . Question from commissioner tores . Do they give rebate...

A huge benefit that we can realize depending on how we and or in the, or sorry in the use of bio methane for the vehicle fuels and so we are working with the puc staff right now to kind of get a balance on that. And the rebuilding of the south east plant is one of the big sources of bio methane and one of the other areas where it will come from is coming out of the biomethane. And if you have any questions, and i have blasted through the presentation and i will be happy to answer any questions. ...

Move that to even, even greener with each budget cycle and those are the next two slides, five and six in your packet and then, again, the replacement strategy is outlined here and targeting the oldest vehicles in particular, to help with the particulate matter reductions in the environment as well as following the department of environments green, vehicle grid and Compliance Standards and then, we dont have a eligible vehicle and we look at what the greenest in the class will be for that specif...

Vehicles . Do we know that . Good question. Bill . Or todd . Question from commissioner tores . Do they give rebates. Not at this time, they usually come through the state and from the California Energy commission, carb and sometimes through the air district. But the bay area air quality district. And we manage, a lot of those grants. And we had a very Successful Program that you will notice that all of the taxis are hybrid and there was a program that was started by the department of the enviro...

Meet High Standards and these standards we develop in conjunction with the puc and the dph and we dont need to develop the standards but we help the businesses meet the High Standard by providing on site consultations. And so, my take away here and i know that there was a lot of information here but the big take away is when we design the programs and implement them, they are always, we always recognize that the chemicals are products that do not belong in the trash or in the sewer and so we wor...