Transcripts For SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 51016 2016

SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 51016 May 17, 2016

Thank you for the headquarters of claefrnd im feeling better and getting more energy after hearing that comes up on the calendar and commissioner meiberger and thank you commissioner driscoll i commend you for bringing up the clarification api ive brought it up a number of times what i suggest is that information come forward to that it is not coming forward on may 9th as a way to hold in some other way delay the discussion ultimately and the vote that the decision we want you all to make one way or another with regards to our colleagues as we know and keep mentioning are aging out and down so if that could be classified so it didnt impact the may 9 meeting i think there a may 13 requirement for director huhuhish to appear before the court to advise on the process of lawsuit e. R. The silent resolution of lawsuit and the may 9th veto will be significant thank you all for your support and for agreeing to calendar. Anyone else. Bill retired City Employee just want to say ive worked for the city store thirty years this the first ive heard an acting mayor to Say Something bad if people vote against him. Linda i spoke earlier i didnt mean to offend anyone litigation was brought up why was the city sized the Fire Department people and the city people for the money the 8 million that they put in what does the city and mayor have what i dont understand that why would he get the money why dont that go to the heros that worked for thirty and 40 years for many money why would the city sue them where would the money go what would the city do with that why not give to the guys that worked to death look in the mirror and do the right thing give it to those guys dying everyday going to so many funeral you get depressed those people needs their money 72 hours theirs give to them i dont understand why you dont understand how much more your educated more than i am give those guys the money theyve earned it give it to them theyre still alive and need it you can look in the mirror and say i did what i was supposed to do they earned it, its in their damn money give it to them give it to them clapping. that was very Pacific Ocean number one the director has indicated that in closed session you would discussing our case with the pob and discussed that the city will sue you if you voted to give us a supplemental cola thats the serving part and we the pob sued the city and county of San Francisco we were told by the City Attorney go ahead do youll never get a penny go ahead and waste our time question won it went to appeal we won again so the City Attorney that has lost in the court your between a rock and a hard place youll get sues by the City Attorney not by the pob youll get sues by many retirees well have to sue your good evening to go sued do you want to be on the moral side or just go under the treads of the City Attorney and fold this is something you guys have to think about youre our representatives so the technical thing i want to say none has brought this up but the lawyer sustained set the record straight laughter . All right. Lets wrap up this business. laughter . Is there any additional Public Comment . Public comment is closed. Thank you very much folks the next item please. Im sorry. The retirement board reports and comments the reports were submitted and id like to take the reports as submit and take Public Comment on item 16 anyone wish to comment on item seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you mr. Clerk whats the next item, please. 17 you have the option of closed session and the option of closed session. I dont think so well, let me check in colleagues anyone interested in going into closed session. No. Okay. We finished all the best. So we have one item all right. Lets take Public Comment were going into closed session anyone want to comment all right. No Public Comment Public Comment is closed. Thank you for coming ladies and gentlemen, pob thank you were going to go into. Okay. All right. Thank you id like to make a motion we share with the public that we as a aboard will not be waving our attorney compliant preservations as were coming out of closed session a second. Second. All right. A roll call vote all right. No. No. Yes. Thank you madam clerk, is there any further business before this commission . No, i vote we the office of controllers Whistle Blower Program is how City Employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in City Government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of City Government that. 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I want to welcome everyone here today and today, we are signing this very important piece of legislation and let me begin by thanking supervisor wiener so far his instead of leadership the sponsoring the legislation that will raise the minimum angle for anyone purchasing Tobacco Products and e cigarettes to the average 24 and that will take effect on july 1st of this year i know that supervisor wiener along with his cosponsors supervisor mar and supervisor cowen and supervisor farrell and ultimately the entire board had a adopted this and this i know that the supervisors with working closely with our duty 0 who has been documenting why it is showing so important to continue our efforts as a city if not as a state to continue be rooiktd the access to cigarettes particularly at journeying or younger ages that is advocated by the groups like the Tobacco Free Coalition i want to thank them theyre not just here in San Francisco but the entire region and all over the country working with the Health Department making sure that supervisor wiener and not only Pay Attention it the science and data it is going on but that we do our best to end the suffering that is brought by by longterm smoking that obviously is the cause of cancer and asthma and Heart Disease we do our best to educate the public in doing so if not the industry that sells overseeing products and ultimate our kids are your family when in their 18 and 19 is shown that the coalition has shown over and over youre putting that some 95 percent of long term smokers had begun smoking at the age of 18 perhaps younger and as certain under the age of 21 those habit are so hard to end voluntarily so thats why we have to go to many other front to try to do this and thats why i think that the supervisor wiener has found a person cause and Public Health health cause if the violation kriebs the department of health to make sure that we do what we can to end our these diseases as much as we can to make sure that we also reflect as the mayor of the city if we can save a lot of money if we are able the medical systems we have to have in place it treat cancer and asthma with smoking is an incredible experience to the Public Safety the cleaner air with the Coalition Work on families that Secondhand Smoke impacts this has another critical reason why we want to do as much as we can and i think were on the overview we know that supervisor wiener is already in contact with the Governors Office as we are and with his the 1184 particularly senator leno and senator henrys to insure that the state which maybe hopefully in our minds the second to join hawaii to end the sales of Tobacco Products and less people under 9 age of 21 it doesnt make it right because your 21 you buy Tobacco Products wild to end it. Everyone hopefully with the adult level of age 21 that people make Better Health decision tore themselves and their family so i take this opportunity to thank the coalition i know that in looking at the data as they have done in working with us this year was a strong sense interest the data it the smoking rates are higher amongst people of closer and amongst the let the record reflect community and other xhucht we rank it with a hard impact sales work that is done by Tobacco Industry the may or may not Lgbt Community thats where we really have good data to show that the more we do to educate your communities be about this the better off well be so with all that background i want to say to supervisor wiener you have again showing the good leadership im going to give the pen avenue we sign this your accumulate more pens than anyone but thank you for your leadership and also working with such important groups like the Tobacco Free Coalition supervisor wiener id like to invite you up here to say a few words thank you, mayor ed lee ill give that pen to the advocates and the district for theyre really horroric work tutor sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; 24 legislation in a way that highlights this critically important issue San Francisco for many years has been on the cuttingedge of Public Safety whether around hiv or led pant and sugar sweetened beverage whatever the case weave been from the forefront and once again we are in the fire hydrant of what i hope will be a tile waive of proving Health Legislation that eliminates tobacco use in this country this is a huge problem weve been involved in a 50year struggle but with the tobacco city that produces a product with no benefit whatsoever that kills a half a Million People every year 34 is a serious issue and serious punting kiss im proud we live in a city where we can be on the cuttingedge where the politics of this city allows us at city hall to make good progressive policy i also want to say we know were up against a very well financed component the tobacco destroy for decades has fought ever effort to try to control tobacco use and enemy linkage between their pursuit and the health we know that hillsborough tried to do that they have spent their legislation after an expensive lawsuit by the Tobacco Industry we in San Francisco are willing to fight that fight that is amount about our city thank you to the department of Public Health we sometimes dont roles e releases how lucky with the best putting department that supports our efforts to make good laws that vascular critical exercise an Amazing Agency and our advocates for give us the political spouse space to to be able to do this and as the mayor adu u. You allowed we passed that legislation a week and a half good and the law jam the state assembly broke we that republicans willing to raise the tobacco age to 21 to pass senator lenos forwardlooking bill to make sure that cigarettes are tobacco are still a way to get addicted to nicotine and will you the tobacco tax it is a huge step forward i hope goes to the governors desk thank you, everyone clapping. so are we ready to safe so far lives ill add one mount reason not in my notes or the legislation but it is about my history about 10 years ago a mayor asked me to pick up cigarette butts as a public works decorator i say to all the public works staff that work hard if there was less settings thats another reason to sign on the legislation; right . Yes all right. clapping. laughter . Todays date is 16. Thats it all right. Good afternoon. Id like to call the meeting of San Francisco Public Utilities commission to order please. Hit it harder please. Mr. Secretary. Commissioner president vietor commissioner Vice President moran and commissioner caen are excused commissioner courtney commissioner kwon we have quorum. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Item 3 approval of the minutes of mark 8, 2016. Is there a motion to approve the minutes. So moved second all in favor, say i. I. Public comment on the minutes next item, please. Next is general Public Comment. General Public Comment mr. Da costa. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners the last night last time i was here i spoke about some very pressing issues and im going to speak on that particular issue that was raised than the general manager will be as part the of a letter sent to him regarding the issue im here to categorically state to the San Francisco Public Utilities commission this Commission Must do Due Diligence when it comes to quality quality of life issues so if we speak on some issue and there was a directive way back by congress in 1974 and the San Francisco Public Utilities commission decided that you know they would order Water Department decides to do they will executed in 1980 that gap between 1974 and 1980 knowing the city and county of San Francisco did do not due Due Diligence expands many, many years we know in Public Housing and im talking about Public Housing that bridge developers and mercy housing and the Joe Stewart Company you know that theyre all wanted this property they are get exhibits giving it to them and e San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Says offering we dont have money but participating that the yuma i was listening to the budget and finance committee not too long ago your representatives oh, you know, we had a drought and san franciscans didnt waste too much water so we dont get the income and so forth san franciscans are very astute so when you tell them District Attorney wastewater they dont water water but san franciscans also want an infrastructure to be in place and thats important and some of you commissioners are transient enough to understand if youre infrastructure is not in mass whether the water system Improvement Project or the sewer system project in light pipeline than san franciscans will speak up not like before with the francisco da costa is coming thank you very much. I have another speaker cards for kari sorenson. You want 10 this is a. Item 10 say that again. You want to speak on item 10. Yes. I can change the card. Were still on general Public Comment any other comments on items not on the agenda . Yes. Commissioners Mayors Office of housing and Community Development my name is david im here on behalf of the solutions not the sandbags the x keep your eyes on the ball and out flows that occurred during major sewer storms the point id like to make whether or not we deal with th

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