Hes trying to hide from you. Mr. Richie, this is not church, you dont have to hide in the back. [laughter]. Okay, i found this very interesting, the desalination projts comparison, could you tell me what it means so i can understand about the energy use, how they compare the different yes, in this case, we compared the bay area regional desalination projts to the santa cruz project t marine project in San Diego County on an energy and cost basis, and basically what this shows is that the energy uses for the regional desalination project is lower than the others and thats gr ifrn by the fact that we would be if we proceeded with this project, we would be desail baiting brackish water, youre getting more water per unit and having to separate out less salt so the energy usage is lower because of that, it increases because it has to go to the east bay mud system to be pumped up to get into our system, it shows the desalination cost itself is much less for that project than other projects w
Sorry, Public Comment on the minutes. There being none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Public comments . And the first person i always have on the list is the honorable francisco tacosta. Welcome. Commissioners, my name is Francisco Decosta and you know i come here from time to time to address you on the certain pertinent issues. Commissioners, many years ago, i was appointed by the first people of this area to address the issues on things like the infrastructure resources, disclosure and so on and see ma come out of the woodwork to address about our resources. The paradoxes, these are the same people that raped this land and way back in 1913, if you read the record act, this city and certain legislators took the right direction by opting and going for and financing clean power, what we call hydro electricity, so you will see today many people come out of the woodwork because what they have in mind is money, blood money. They havent helped to keep our land pristine, th
Holding a Budget Committee meeting this month because we really are interested mostly in new developments that relate to the lcff and soon, very soon, the state board of ed. And others are going to be looking at the related socalled accountability systems. We dont know what they look like ~ and how they might affect the budget. So, we decided that since nothing had been referred by the board that we would not hold a meeting prior to the beginning of school which would have been last month. So, in october well have a regular Budget Committee. ~ lcsf. Commissioner maufas, then commissioner mendoza. I just wanted to congratulate the district i went to a professional Development Day today which was held at Presidio Middle School and George Washington high school. And really, it was just fantastic and it was administrators, paraprofessionals, teachers, all coming together in one space which was awesome. I loved that. But it was sort of a if did ~ buffet of paraprofessional [speaker not unde
Cleanpowersf, august 12 received a report from sustainable, august 12, received correspondence from lean energy us, august 12 received an email from rebecca solnat regarding a shell shock petition that she signed inner ror, august 12, we received correspondence from energy shell america regarding the Energy Supply agreement, august 12, we received an email from the San Francisco league of pissed off voters, thats their official title, asking for approval of cleanpowersf, august 13, this morning, we received correspondence from senator mark leno, senator steven lee and ammiano regarding of cleanpowersf, august 13, we received a letter from ibw1245 in opposition, this morning, we received correspondence which i placed on your desk from the law offices adams, broad well, joseph and car doze sa on behalf of ibw1245 and you also received an updated list of 379 individuals that signed the Sierra Club Petition in support and 379 as of this morning and also four phone call that is i received t
I will ka call the meeting to order. Secretary, please call the roll. roll call . President torres . Here. Vicepresident courtney, commissioner caen, commissioner moran, and we have a quorum the first item is to make announcement that Public Comment on all presentations before the commission will be limited to two minutes since we have so many people that want to testify on a number of issues, so i wanted to make sure everyone knew that. Approval of the minutes. Ill move approval. Alright. Everybody signify by saying aye. Sorry, Public Comment on the minutes. There being none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Public comments . And the first person i always have on the list is the honorable francisco tacosta. Welcome. Commissioners, my name is Francisco Decosta and you know i come here from time to time to address you on the certain pertinent issues. Commissioners, many years ago, i was appointed by the first people of this area to address the issues on things like the in