Please stand by. Local Agency Formation Commission Good afternoon and welcome to the special joint Committee Meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. I just created a new word. My name is john avalos, the chair of the lafco. We are going to do our roll call right now. I will introduce the clerk for lafco and the president of the Public Utilities commission which is the clerk of puc and they will do their roll call as well. Our clerk for lafco is lisa. Clerk, please call the roll. Commissioner avalos, present, breed, present, campos, present, commissioner crews, present, mar, not present, lindo, present. We have a quorum. Public Utilities Commission roll call. President king, courtney, commissioner moran and commissioner quan. We have a quorum. City clerk please silence all cell phones and any devices. Supervisor john avalos we are being broadcast by sf govtv staff. Item no. 3 opening remarks and discussions of expectations for the joint meeting. Supervisor john avalos
Leading San Francisco into oakland. A chp officer and partner, were in a squad car, squad car since left the scene, responding to a call here. If you see in the foreground the purple gloves, thats where we believe the officer was worked on before they rushed him to the hospital with one stab wound. Were not sure if the homeless encampment beyond that where the tents are at, not sure if that was related in is call they were put on. We did speak with a colleague who he knows the man but doesnt know what the call was. He said hes a young man with a family and, again, he has been rushed to San Francisco general with a stab wound, after being stabbed here by another man along the onramp. The suspect did run away but caught a couple blocks away at 4th and bryant at a local Wells Fargo Bank. There are four San Francisco Police Officers just off to my right right now who are detained another person, were not going to show you, we dont know what his role is, but they have him deta detained, que
Playing the same song and thats night life. You get Something Like that and magical and something great and ties you to that venue and tied me to slims forever. Have you attended Commission Meetings before . Yes, i have and for paras well. Fair enough. Can you tell me given the make up the body what are you bringing that doesnt exist . I bring the neighborhood voice. Being the vp of one of the largest neighborhood associations in the city i am the neighbors thats tough. What does that mean . I can say i have always listened and included neighbors and included everyone in the conversation. The deal is especially with the major concerts people didnt feel they had a voice. We had to come one time to have a major hearing i think you remember that john. [inaudible] no. I dont and the large venues in Golden Gate Park and that was an eye opener and i decided to bring the neighbors and the events get together so i coalesced all of them together in a meeting in july and youre all welcome to com
From pier one and a half and Fishermans Wharf it used to be no one would come from high street pier until the signage got improved thats made a huge difference this is an interesting figure people are 50 50 in terms of come back to us weve not lost anyone and never came back to see use it surprise me i imagine people will wonder off this is the figure im interested in the total capacity the full button is 1800 people we do many trips 7 thousand people per month for 84 thousand a year thats one boat if we do double boating i want to know from the captains thats the average capacity right now 83 percent breakdown by most the yellow shows you the ridership and the black the potential passengers now all of that black actually means we ran a boat during that period of time on the water expecting a passenger if were going to have to have Dependable Services this is a little Strong Company i created a unique model in several of my other businesses we have a unique gross Profit Sharing company
The talk about the drought everybody or everything the governor and environmental groups nobody it talking about forests theyre the reservoir of our water and theyre important an old mature forest that multiple and diverse with deep soil that is bianca active that kind of soil is a huge sperm for water and Carbon Dioxide it is a goiptd carbon filter and clearcut practices are wiping out the soil base when you look at the trees and to keep off vegetation from growing all that has been cut out of the soil liquor our churning or growing a tree application the same thing you grow a corn fill it creates sedate television stations and half of the carbon gets released into the air and also when you clearcut it loaves the soil open to more sunlight and it gets rid of the snow pack it is important we not only pass the resolution in june but this agency start getting the rest of the state in this concept that number one water storage device is our natural fortes we need to declare a moratorium o