Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

Measure and in the interests of maximizing utility to suit potential requirement. So in between the poles do they keep a running number or tally of what the capacity is on the pole and between the poles . So we have also heard, if i recall, two or three speakers mention pole mapping and restrictions on information related to Homeland Security issues. So i imagine the same is true in terms of the operation of laying underground fiberoptic cable which we can all appreciate. Im wondering then if at t and pg e require that Field Operation employees verify their identities in the employment document and whether both agencies promptly comply with state and federal investigators on request, particularly given the laxity of rules regarding membership adopted by trade unions over the past decade. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. No other speakers. Public comment is now closed. Chair . Supervisor walton any more comments from colleagues . Supervisor fewer i think we learned a lot today. I want to thank colleagues for holding this hearing. I think public speakers bring up good points about the overhanging of wires and i look forward to calling for an additional hearing about the study, but actually i think there are still some open issues about what is on those poles. And now i am being alerted that the pole heights have been extended, which is something i didnt know about. So, chair, im respectfully asking to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. The motion has been heard. Let me check in. I want to briefly say i appreciate all the folks that came out today. I know that theres a lot of people that have been pushing this conversation. Its interesting when you leave San Francisco and you look at other areas all around its not as i want to use the word polluted the wires everywhere in our city. The argument about not being able to do it, transmission lines, these are factual in some ways, but in other ways you can argue theyre not. If you go around the bay area you dont see the same level of congestion and wires and other localities. The other frustration i have for our part of town is we essentially have no undergrounding. So same in the richmond. So theres just not much as all or any in our part of town. Then when you do, people will get messages or get a letter from a utility saying if youd like to do this, you can pay 30,000 or 15,000 to have this done on your street. Each individual household our part of town are working families, they dont have that money. I know in the past 170 million was spent to do this. It was through a grant process. The communities organized were able to get it done, but it was not in the southern parts of the city or the southwestern part of the city. So we want to do this. I think its important. I think that scientific studies have shown that Energy Efficiency is increased when you put it underground. Safety is increased when you put it underground. Overall, quality of life is enjoyed when its put underground. So i think theres some good points made today. I think we should further in conversation and bring folks back, but i want to voice that today supervisor fewer i think its exploring our jurisdiction of the lines, not so much the poles, but the lines also. Supervisor walton i think its interesting that cpuc hasnt conducted a study of whether or not underground is safer. But yet we have new developments that are required to use underground utilities. Its interesting and we will have further conversations of course to understand how that could be the case in this point. To your point, supervisor, i want to thank you and supervisor stefani for calling this hearing today. This is happening in other cities. Its definitely happening on new developments right here in San Francisco. So were going to continue to work hard to make this a reality, and you have a commitment from us to do that, which is why were here having this hearing today. With that said, theres been a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. I dont think we have any objecti objection. Without seeing any objection, well move this item to continue to the call of the chair and we seal take this with no objection. With that said, clerk, is there anything else that we have . Clerk theres no further business. Supervisor walton seeing as theres no further business, this hearing and this meeting is adjourned. [adjournment] shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of San Francisco. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . Im one of three owners here in San Francisco and we provide mostly live Music Entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and its not a big menu, but we did it with love. Like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. For latinos, it brings Families Together and if we can bring that family to your business, youre gold. Tonight we have russelling for e community. We have a tenperson limb elimination match. We have a fullsize ring with barside food and drink. We ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. Were hope og get families to join us. Weve done a drag queen bingo and were trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. This is a great part of town and theres a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. Theres a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. We have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. Some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and its exciting. We even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. Its in the San Francisco Garden District and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. Its important to shop local because its kind of like a circle of life, if you will. We hire local people. Local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. I hope people shop locally. [ ] chairwoman the meeting will come to order. This is july 19, 2019, meeting. I am sandra lee fewer, and i am joined by commissioners jordan mar, matt haney. Today we have john carroll as the clerk. And i would like to think the staff at s. F. Gov tv for recording todays meetings. Please ensure you have silenced your cell phones and other electronic devices. And all documents should be submitted to the clerk. Chairwoman thank you very much. Mr. Clerk, can you please call item number two. Item 12 is approval of the lasco minutes from the may 22nd, 2019, rescheduled meeting. Chairwoman do any commissioners have any changes to the may 17th meeting . None. Chairman seeing none, do any members of the public have any comment on item number two . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve the minutes . So moved. Chairwoman motion by commissioner singh, and sected by commissioner mar. We can take these minutes without objection. Mr. Clerk, please call item number three. The communitys aggregate community report. Chairwoman we have susan mercelson with updates and state legislation. And mr. Hyam. Im sorry, mr. Global. We were hoping you could switch to number four. Agenda item number 4 is the city of San Franciscos tenure capital plan. Chairman them. Heather graham is here to make a presentation. Good morning, good afternoon, my name is heather green, and im the director of Capital Planning for the city of San Francisco, and our deputy resilience officers. I was asked to present here today to give a little bit of citywide context to the clean power work and the Capital Planning that will happen there. Im here to provide an overview of our citywide Capital Planning. I will try to be brief in my comments, but if you have anything you would like me to pause and talk about further, then im happy to do so. Our tenure capital plan is a constrained 10year plan. We are in year 13, and it captures 39billion of planned i investments. What is helpful here is to know how the capital plan helps us. It helps us to have conversations and to understand priorities as we are gathering input from stakeholders, because this is a plan that is to represent all of the stakeholders. The conversations we have with your offices helps us produce something that really reflects the will of the city. We do this every other year. We just approved the most recent one, as i said, and it is on departments to give us information about their buildings. Their infrastructure needs and so on. Were coordinating and collecting, and were a small office that tries to make sense of everything we receive. And we do some datagathering of our own on the facilities conditions, primarily. And we take all of the requests and organize and prioritize them into the plan, which you guys have all seen. And we make recommendations that Capital Planning committees, and the draft and proposed form goes to the mayor and board, ultimately, for approval. In the capital plan, we have some narrative contents and financial tables. We think about our resilience context, and we have longstanding funding principles that helps us make difficult decisions about what to do first. That is always hard to do. We present an overview of a Capital Outlook, kind of how are we doing against our deferred, aging infrastructure needs. And we have a few ongoing programs, and our two primary debt programs. And then the plan is broken into service area chapters to help it make it more digestable. How do we think about this . Our city has some known resilience challenges, and these are the kinds of things we think about when we think about what is most important. We have risks from earthquakes, from Sea Level Rise and climate change, and af enforcement araffordabilitythat we cant igd the aging infrastructure itself, of course. These are funding principles. The capital plan has tiered funding principles. So you can see most importantly we try to address any legal or regulatory mandate, protect life safety, enhance resilience, and ensure sustainability. These are things were straightup obligated to do as a city. And we want to promote economic development. And in this most recent capital plan, we had some language bowe about equity in the proceeding plan, and we ask departments to tell us how theyre doing that what we hear about their priorities. This is the Capital Outlook i was referring to. Sometimes people ask us, well, how do you know there is so much need in any given direction . And we often point to this backlog, which starts off in the capital plan, like on day one, at 800 million in our general fund department, and this is facilities and rightofway. We know we have a lot to do, and this helps us to make the case for our programs, continued increases over the years. We see the Capital Budget each year. If that meets the capital plan recommended funding level each year, we will just be able to address our annual need in fiscal 27. Were continuing to dig ourselves out, literally. It helps us make the case of dollars towards capital with onetime use, onetime need, and it can benefit us for years to come because as we take better care of ourselves, it becomes more affordable to do so. These are the types of policies we capture in the plan. We make recommendations about the pego program, and it helps us set a norm for funding levels. We have a performance target for our streets that is ambitious but achievable. We have a. D. A. Related policy to improve the infrastructure for those who have accessability challenges, and then we acknowledge, you know, that sometimes enhancements are really urgent, enhancements are those things that are building new or replacing the aging infrastructure. There are two major debt programs we track. They are backed by the city asset, and our g. O. Bonds, and you hear a lot about the latter especially. This gives us a sense of how the plan spending in the city is split. And our Enterprise Departments actually are the largest pot, being the airport port, the m. T. A. , and t. U. C. All of the clean power s. F. , and other spending is reflected in infrastructure and streets chapter, and you can see that 8 billion there, and that is the p. U. C. s 10year number. And infrastructure and street spending is also capture there. Thats the general fund number. Something that we strive to do is to capture all sources as best we can. This helps alleviate the pressure on anyone one source and also acknowledge all of the spending potential across programs, so you can see when we consider all departments, that other debt, that greenpeac greenpeac f the party is much, much bigger. So thats an important way that we look at things, like thinking about all of the different pieces we can bring to bear, so that we use the dollars where they are really needed. Because the color of money can be so important. Another thing that we do, especially for the general fund departments, is to kind of track what the recommended funding levels means for the ability to fund against what we are able to capture as a need. So, for example, we know that our public rightofway has tremendous means, and we are only able, even if we go at the capital plan recommended levels, were only able to fund a little more than half of that need. It is important for us to know what we are able to do and what we are not, so we can be transparent as a city, and deliver on what wecy say werwe say were goingd not others. And just to see how we lay them out, we work with our office of Public Finance in the Controllers Office to look ahead at the full 10 years of our plan and think about where the need is going to hit. So here you see our general fund debt program, the certificates of participation, and both the program and the bond program are constrained. That helps us make, you know, sometimes difficult decisions. The in the case of the c. O. P. Program, it is 3. 25 of annual Fund Discretionary revenue, is the cap on our overall debt. G. O. Bonds were all familiar with. We know that the Affordable Housing bond has gone up to 600 million, and we were able to capture that in the capital plan as well. Having those conversations ahead of time, making sure that theyre documented, making sure it is clear where we need to look, so we can remember we all agreed to Something Like that, has been very helpful, and may be helpful to clear power s. F. As well. And the bond is constrained against our property tax line thats the red line you see there. All of this planning, i like to remind everyone, is really helpful at the ballot box. In terms of continuing to build constituent trust and accountability, having a plan like this helps us to make the case. And what you see here is the light ble blue line is the publication of the First Capital plan, and all of the blue lines are what have passed since then. And as you can see, there is trust problems. On the infrastructure and streets part of the plans thats where clean power s. F. Is. It is a chapter really with just two departments reflected, public works, where we talk about all of the rightofway maintenance that they do, and the p. U. C. , the waste water and hedgy enterprises. We capture the p. U. C. And enterprises at a relatively high level in the capital plan. The p. U. C. Has its own capital team and project managers and so on. They do a lot of work that we benefit from and are able to capture but are not involved necessary day to day in the programming and prioritizing. But we do try to document the system at hand, what the power enterprise is comprised of. And then there are we do have a financial table, which ill show in a second. And the funds identified there, the 360 million for the power enterprise that is planned over the next 10years is spelled out for the following projects upgrading and installing new street lights, improving energyefficiency, providing utility operations to Treasure Island and other developments, and new transmission and distribution facilities. You can see that planned expenditures are broken by power and water, and then the revenues down below for power are called out. And this s, this i is the level documentation that we have. And we have longer descriptions of each of the project programs, which im happy to share with you, if you would rather not have me read out loud, and is available in the plan itself. Thats what we see of clean power s. F. , and we are very much aware that this is evolving and about to grow, and so just talking with the p. U. C. Team here, looking forward to working together and offering any benefits that we can from our years of producing a plan like this. Ill be happy to answer any questions that you have. Chairwoman thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions or comments . None . That was a very thorough presentation. This is opened up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to speak on this item . Mr. Brooks, good to see you. Good to see you all, too. Eric brooks, San Francisco Clean Energy Advocates and californians for energy choice. So just to kind of reiterate where ive said before, if i were the head of the s. F. P. U. C. , and the power enterprise, that is the plan i would put together because the p. U. C. Is an Enterprise Department that is supposed to focus mainly on a conservative approach and protect ratepayers. So there is nothing wrong with what the s. F. P. U. C. Just showed to you. But it shows that. S. F. P. U. C. Is not the place where were going to get a city buildout that will reverse the climate crisis. Produced locally and regionly by 2030, which is what it is going to take to overcome the crisis. When ab117 was created, it put the elected body in charge of the program, and thats the clean s. F. Board of supervisors. Thats where we need a citywide buildout plan to come from. It is so important that you hire a contractor as soon as you can so we ca

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