October 16, 2014, city of San Francisco rule committee. Please stand by. Please stand by. Welcome to our rules committee for thursday, october 16, 2014. Im supervisor norman yee. I will be chairing the meeting today and joining by katie tang and david campos. The committee would like to acknowledge the staff sf govtv mark smith who records our meetings and makes the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Copies submitted to the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items will be appear on the supervisors board agenda. Supervisor norman yee item no. 1. City clerk item 1 140975 confirming reappointment, Public Utilities commission anson moran]sponsor mayormotion confirming the mayors reappointment of anson moran to the Public Utilities commission, term ending august 1, 2018. Sf 11234 mr. Moran . Thank you. I have been appointed to seat no. 4 on the Public Utilities commission and
Please stand by. Welcome to our rules committee for thursday, october 16, 2014. Im supervisor norman yee. I will be chairing the meeting today and joining by katie tang and david campos. The committee would like to acknowledge the staff sf govtv mark smith who records our meetings and makes the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Copies submitted to the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items will be appear on the supervisors board agenda. Supervisor norman yee item no. 1. City clerk item 1 140975 confirming reappointment, Public Utilities commission anson moran]sponsor mayormotion confirming the mayors reappointment of anson moran to the Public Utilities commission, term ending august 1, 2018. Sf 11234 mr. Moran . Thank you. I have been appointed to seat no. 4 on the Public Utilities commission and thats the seat that requires somebody with basic Utility Management exper
Supervisors board agenda. Supervisor norman yee item no. 1. City clerk item 1 140975 confirming reappointment, Public Utilities commission anson moran]sponsor mayormotion confirming the mayors reappointment of anson moran to the Public Utilities commission, term ending august 1, 2018. Sf 11234 mr. Moran . Thank you. I have been appointed to seat no. 4 on the Public Utilities commission and thats the seat that requires somebody with basic Utility Management experience. My experience in that is i worked 27 years for the city. The last 17 years i was in executive positions with the Public Utilities Commission First as the head of finances for the puc and as general manager for hetch hetchy and then the Public Utilities commission. I have been with the Public Utilities commission for about five 5 years. Its been an interesting five 5 years and probably the single greatest challenge to us is maintaining the oversight of the Water System Improvement Program and making sure that is done not o
Be diligent in making sure this actually happens. The department of technology, its a new thing for the department in terms of having to navigate all the different departments and utilities involved in these road projects. And as weve learned in term of pedestrian projects and other street design projects, it is sometimes like navigating an obstacle course. Every department or someone within the department has a reason to say no. Its not feasible, its not doable. Its too expensive, its too difficult. And we need to really make sure that our departments have a cando attitude about getting this conduit laid. It is not rocket science. It just needs to happen and we need to have our departments have an attitude that it can and will happen. And we need to support the department of technology when other departments or utilities just say no and obstruct the ability to actually get this done. In committee, i offered an amendment that was adopted to require periodic reporting by the department
Employment and our economy is back up. We have many more people in cars, particularly in our neighborhoods as they circle around the 80, 101 and 280 freeway to get in and out of the city. And i know that more and more of our residents are asking what we as a city are doing about the quality of air. For them and also many of our families that are raising their children in these neighborhood so im really glad we are going to be putting into place an air filter system for all of our new construction. And i really look forward to working with the department of Public Health to ensure that we can provide some options for existing construction in this neighborhood, particularly for buildings that can do that quickly and then look at what options there are for buildings that may not be able to afford to. But im glad we are moving at least this forward today. Colleagues, can we take it same house same call . Without objection this ordinance is passed on First Reading. [gavel] next item a. Item