Generated today about rule 20, to make two essential points. Number one, that obviously what is going on here by the way, rule 20 funds are generated by a charge to our utility bills, so everybody. So essentially whats been going on here for the last 12, 14 years is we, those who dont have undergrounding, have been paying for paying out of our utility bills for those people who have undergrounding. This drove our coalition to not try to find certain sections of the city that would get undergrounded, but the only equitable thing to be done is to have citywide undergrounding which is the master plan. On the issue of is undergrounding better to leave the wires up, 100,000 frenchmen cant be wrong. San diego is doing this at 12 to 15 miles a year and have been doing it for the last 10 or 12 years. Santa barbara is doing it. Berkley has commissioned a study to underground if theyre going to be doing it. I mean, the proof in the pudding is very much in the knowing here. Not only as supervisor mandelman pointed out, is it common sense, but the techniques are available, the cost can be controlled and we urge you to push for a master plan after telemon reports on its initial overview for a master plan. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, sir. Thank you for covering this issue. My name is lindsy phillips. I am a member of the San Francisco coalition of underground utilities. I live for the past 30 years in a 100yearold building on russian hill. There are six poles on my block. I look at them out my windows with the recently added extensions holding all of the gear for the telecom industries, some of those poles are now four storeys high. They tilt if you look at them from the top of our block. Im on a hill. One of them fell two years ago when a tree that was weakened by the drought and have not been trimmed back from the wires fell over in a wind storm, knocked down the pole which totalled two automobiles that were parked on the street and blocked the entire street. Luckily this happened in the middle of the night or someone might have been badly injured. I would like to say there are also poles behind my house. Now, as i said, i live in a very old building. These poles were probably put in 100 years ago. Theyre poorly maintained. If it rains, i have no telephone servi service. The wires until about a year ago were sheathed in paper, which is 1920s technology. I really think we have linemen that will not even climb those poles back there, theyre so dangerous. So i dont know whos inspecting them. I certainly havent seen anybody. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning, commissioners. Thank you very much for this meeting. Ive learned a lot. My name is lucricia row. I live on russian hill and im on the board of russian hill neighbors. Ive lived in my building for over 30 years. Its on i dont mind saying its on the corner of chestnut and levenworth. There used to be four utility poles on that corner. Theres now seven. Thats why i was taken aback when the man from pg e said theyre trying to reduce the number of poles because we have three more. Plus, not only that, the new poles the old poles were replaced with much taller ones so they are almost 4 im on the fifth floor and theyre almost up to my windows. But the point i wanted to make is that from what ive heard is the tenant and owners of these poles, obviously these owners of poles are getting revenue from the tenants, tenants are leasing the space on the poles. So needless to say, they have little motivation to limit the number of tenants they have, unless there is some other Regulatory Agency that takes care of that, because its seemed like for a while every week another Cable Company or net company was coming by with big spools of cables and installing more and more and more. Needless to say i am for putting all these horrible wires and equipment underground. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer thank you. Hello, im jill fox. Im here today as a Community Volunteer as a member of the San Francisco coalition for underground utilities. I live and vote in d 10. While i encourage you to fund a master plan, i would like you to consider the specific issue of large new developments. I live a half a mile from the shipyard. The shipyard is fully underground utilities, electric, fiberoptic cable, they advertise it. It looks beautiful. However, these utilities get to the shipyard through the established neighborhoods. All they did to power their fancy new hightech units was run wires on existing aboveground poles in the old neighborhood, poles that run on both sides of innis avenue and were installed in 1941. There have been fires, explosions, poles have collapsed. Its really not safe. So now there are hundreds of homes and eventually there will be thousands of homes basically running off an extension card past my home. So i have two suggestions have these larger Developers Pay for putting the utilities underground through the neighborhoods that feed to their projects, so that would be the shipyard and the candlestick side and several other large projects. Have the city establish a percentage per square foot fee on New Buildings that go into a citywide utility undergrounding fund. In our zeal to build, build, build, you need to consider the people who already live here, especially those of us near these big developments. With my suggestions, you will help assure while we add more homes and offices, we also make this city livable for all. Thank you supervisor fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. The cost of undergrounding has variously been estimated at 1. 3 million to upwards of 13 million, that shared funding through collaboration would increase project costs through decentralization and the subsequent increase in the number of stakeholders, as opposed to concentrating the present data. Is there a data reference with existing thumb notation of maximum Load Capacity on a pole stock basis with the present load volume expressed as a percentage as a laborsavings 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] good morning, everyone. Lets secelebrate. [ cheering and applause ]. Im going to get you moving. I want you to follow my lead. When i go like this, were all going to say secelebrate and were going to do it three time s. Secelebrate. Loud er. Secelebrate. Secelebrate. Fantastic. I cant even begin to tell you how shocked i am. Im standing here at this gro d groundbreaking. Im ashly mccumber. Im the executive director of meals on wheels in San Francisco and have been for the last 12 years and im really excited to welcome you here this morning. Obviously were here to do a ceremony where were going to throw some sand and mark the beginning of construction, and that in and of itself would be a michiganiraculous thing to selc but frankly were secelebratingo much more this morning. I believe that were putting another mark er i eer and stake ground in support of this mission, and thats why were here today, to secelebrate. [ applause ] it. Its certain dserendipitous projected opening of the building on this project in 2020 aligns with our 50th anniversary of our founding. [ applause ]. So today we are absolutely secelebrating five decade s of service here in san franciscaning San Francisco. Were secelebrating a mission tt started with a handful of people 50 years ago who recognized they had neighborhoods who needed help and were elderly elderly and needed food. They volunteered to cook food and morphed into an organization that today is one of the largest meals on Wheels Organization in the country and definitely in my opinion is wumone of the best ig services in San Francisco and in the country. [ applause ]. Were also secelebrating sin that founding count leless vo volunteers, Board Members, Staff Members who have carried that submissi Mission Forward and creatueach made it stronger and bigger and more responsive. We were secelebrating partnership with adult aging and county services in the city of San Francisco to make sure that we can do what we need to do and were currently grateful to our current mayor and board of supervisors to seasocontinuing mission and seascontinuing to d that. Were secelebrating thousand s doe scenarinors and foundations allow us to realize 50 of our budget each other year. We secelebrate the restaurant sd vit answers tha s s vintners. I want to call out chef in nanc oak for your leadership and that effort. Were secelebrating also that w have embraced our responsibility to affirmfy the emphasis voice of seniors and make San Francisco all it can be for t m them. All of us together have embraced some very important and simple values of san fran siciscan s. No considsenior or no person sh ever go hungry because they are home bound or without the resources and support that they need. Number two, no senior should be in vvisible or alone. Number three, that all senior s have the right to live in their community and neighborhoods that they helped build, they raised their familyies in and have the right to selfdetermination and ha to live with dig nity. Lastly, that cityies and communityies should be judged b how it treats the elderly and we need to work every single day to make San Francisco the number one agefriendly city in amer a america. [ applause ]. So today we secelebrate a mar milestone, but this day has been a long, long, long time in coupcom coming and we secelebrate the hd work thats kind of led us here. The path has been extensive to say the least, but one mietric that led us here is simple. In 2007 as an organization we decided that no senior should have to wait longer than 30 yda s to receive our service and we partnered with the department of aging and Adult Service s to mae sure that anyone who is in emergency is served within two to five days. That simple commitment has driven us to the growth that weve seen thats brought us to this need today to build this new kitchen. In 2007, just to give you an idea, we served 523,000 meals in the city and delivered them, and this year 2 2. 1. Think about that growth. We were touching the lives of about 2,000 individuals u unduplicated in the city. Now were touching over 5,000 a year. That growth has been predominantly in seniors, but weve also in that tenyear period worked with the department of aging and Adult Services to serve those people who are under 60 represents about 50 of our population and also were partnering with the food bank to deliver groceryies to about 500 people a week in the department of aging and also working with this mayor and administration to make sure that people in inactinavigation cens have meals. Were very grateful to be a part of that effort as well. It mabelibecame quite clear abo years ago that we needed a plan to deal with this. We first conducted a fullscale operation ental review. Is there any way that we dont need to build a new kitchen . Is there anything else we need to do . That plan basically was Pretty Simple and straightforward and said, hey, you need to get out of this kitchen pm. So that began the process that were committed to the fact that we need to build something new, and we designed the kitchen with the help of kitchen concepts ionic that ionic inc. That will carry us forward for 30 years. Thats the second step. Then we got to the hard work. Where the heck can we afford to buy a piece of labbed land in San Francisco and where can we find that. We originally wanted to keep our operations in one place, but un fortunately that wasnt in the cards. We have an amazing plan b. We will build our kitchen and Distribution Center and keep our site three minutes away on the other side of 3rd street in the bay view as our Office Production facility. So were going to have a tw twocampus operation. So we purchased this site from l luxor cap. Does anyone remember this as that site . Were about to make it differe t different. At the end of the day the price tag is going to be about 41 million and well tell you a little bit more about how were doing in that goal in raising, but you can rest assured that weve done well enough that were here today and we still have some work to do and so forth and well secelebrate tho ha who have carried us so far. Heres what were building and the great features were building. On this site will be a 34,700 square foot facility, slug including a state ooftheart cook chill area, freezer, storage, assembly production, distribution yard and receiving docks. This is the big news in this construction. Were going to move our daily constructi production from 8,000 meals a day to 20,000 meals a day. [ applause ]. It will be one of the only facilities in the region and we think in San Francisco that use s this cook chill equipment to produce bulk food and used in meals. The other thing im very excited about is where we are. Were in the middle of the San Francisco wholesale product district. Were food. Were great partners with th s e michael gentlemjanice, and loo forward to partnering with these businesses in this neighborhood and working to continue the efforts that are here in the neighborhood. It also will have a test kitchen that will help us improve the quality and choice for our clients and tailor meal s as we look to improving our service s for clients. Maximumly ally were doing solar on the building so we can save the planet. Isnt that a great facility . [ applause ]. So were excited to have with us this morning mayor london breed. Before inviting her to speak, i just wanted to take a moment to recognize a few other elected officials who are going to be here shortly or are here alre y already. Hope fulfully soon, supervisor gordon mar from district 4 and supervisor waltshamann walton f this district will be with you and hope fulfully you get a cha to chat with them. We want to welcome