Would any member of the public wish to address the commission on items not on our agenda . Close Public Comment. Clerk very good. General matters. Item one, directors announcements. Thank you. Commissioners, simply want to wish you a happy holidays in advance. Part of our holiday experience will be preparing our budget which well be discussing soon. We have received mayor budget instructions from the mayor and her office which include that no new positions are expected to be added through this years process, so i wanted to let you know about that in advance. Clerk seeing no questions, item 2, review of past events at the Planning Commission and staff announcements. Commissioners, items that may be of interest to you from the Planning Commission, december 5, they adopted the retained topic and special guidelines, and heard a presentation on the special japantown guidelines which will be coming to you in the new year. And jonas. Clerk yeah. At the board, wanted to let you know that the b
Would any member of the public wish to address the commission on items not on our agenda . Close Public Comment. Clerk very good. General matters. Item one, directors announcements. Thank you. Commissioners, simply want to wish you a happy holidays in advance. Part of our holiday experience will be preparing our budget which well be discussing soon. We have received mayor budget instructions from the mayor and her office which include that no new positions are expected to be added through this years process, so i wanted to let you know about that in advance. Clerk seeing no questions, item 2, review of past events at the Planning Commission and staff announcements. Commissioners, items that may be of interest to you from the Planning Commission, december 5, they adopted the retained topic and special guidelines, and heard a presentation on the special japantown guidelines which will be coming to you in the new year. And jonas. Clerk yeah. At the board, wanted to let you know that the b
Commissioner wright and commissioner rightly. This has been incredible. I have learned a lot from the commission and from the both of you. I want to thank you for your service. I know you will continue that when you depart from here. Thank you. Any other members of the public . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any other comments . Director . We are going to take a photo between this and the next item. Okay. We will take a photo. applause . Okay, next item. That concludes the directors report. Next item. Please show the office of Small Business slide. Can i read it . Go ahead. All right. It is our custom to begin and end each Small Business Commission Meeting with a reminder that the office of Small Business is if only place to start a new business in San Francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first stop when you have a question about what to do next. Find us online or in pers
Power went out in piedmont, says she is less concerned about the money and would prefer that pg e do things like improving their powerline, underground and when it is necessary, and all we know they would profit by. Reporter within the past hour, the ceo did issue and statement and it is also a review of the utilities. Live in the oakland hills, ktvu fox 2 news. The Federal Ridge fire has burned close to 8000 acres in the San Fernando Valley and has damaged or destroyed at least 75 structures. Investigators now say the wildfire started under a high voltage transmission power. Southern california, edison, had shut off power in some areas due to dry, windy conditions. The fire is not about 43 contained, 23,000 homes had to be evacuated. One woman says she has lived in that area for more than 30 years and says this is the fourth wildfire. This is the only one we really could not prepare for, the other ones we had time to pack our cars and get things ready. All we did was get our dogs and
Result of your utility prioritizing profit over Public Safety for decades. He said the rebates should be funded by shareholders, not rate payers. We did it with book lights and candles. Reporter kathleen kept her bookstore open in the dark. The business plunged 75 that day. I think it is right. I think that a lot of people lost a lot of money this week. It was totally unnecessary having the entire Business District shut down. Reporter she says a rebate or credit would not be enough. I think 250 is a start, but i think that pg e also owes us an apology. Reporter this moment, whose power went out in piedmont, says she is less concerned about the money and would prefer pg e do things like improving their powerline, underground and when it is necessary, and all the other measures that we know they would profit by. Reporter pg e issued a statement acknowledging it fell short in acknowledging the outage to its customers. The cpuc also ordered pg e to minimize the size appear future Public Sa