Commissioner meiberger commissioner paskinjordan commissioner stansbury will not be present we have quorum thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, the first one on the genocide a closed session for item 3 mr. Clerk, call item 3 for me and action item closed session. Any Public Comment . Were going to take Public Comment now before closed session no, no Public Comment okay. Thats because we started on time and our Public Comment didnt get the memo okay. Thats the secret everyone were going to go into closed session. Okay weve come out of closed session he united a vote or need to take a motion not to disclose what weve talked about in closed session so moved well take that without objection. Lets the house rehabilitate that commissioner paskinjordan is not here well take that without objection. The motion passed unanimously thank you, everyone at this time, id like to do something to accommodate the number of folks that are here the pob welcomed id like to have director huhuh irration
Was , with this recent drought and with Empirical Data as to the particulates and the increase in the depletion of our ozone level, we need to represent the people, and we need to conserve our resources, so we know and i hope we know that for thousands of years, the regional people who lived here who called this place total island preserved the resources. And then in the last 250 years, we created this concrete jungle and we have to live with it. And this commission, the San Francisco Public Utilities commission is duty bound to preserve our resources and you are uniquely duty bound because you have jurisdiction over large areas where the city of county of San Francisco because at one time, we not only had jurisdiction over San Francisco but as far as palo alto, and i know some of you commissioners who in their day and age know about this and i hope the other commissioners are given an orientation about it, so in short, we are duty bound to look after our resources. Thank you very much
Covering this meeting. Please silence any Electronic Devices and speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk and items today will be appear on the september 29th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Could you call item one . Item one, resolution, authorizing the Police Department, accept and expend the donation of 55,000 pursuant to the order of final distribution of the estate of nguey woo. We have the deputy chief here to speak on this item. Yes, good morning, i am ali and the deputy chief administration, San Francisco Police Department. On behalf of the chief and the entire San Francisco Police Department, we want to first and foremost thank the estate of woo for the tremendous donation. These funds have been ear marked focontinuing our Community Policing efforts and we are most gracious and thankful that the board is considering allowing us to accept these funds. Great. Thanks very much. Seeing no comments, we are moving on to Public Comment, anybody wish to com
That could push back whats the long state for cleanpowersf. I know there are members of the public who have concerns about that, but before we dive in, i just want to acknowledge that we have made tremendous progress on cleanpowersf this year. Weve actually had an rfp that successfully drew in many respondents. We didnt have that many respondents the last time we issued and rfp and indicated some really good choices to move forward on. I want to move forward and i believe this is shared by all the commissioners here. We all want to move forward as quickly as possible. So today, we really want to see how given the circumstances that we are operating under how we can do that and how we can stay as close to our timeline as possible. The thing that is looming more quickly before us is the approval of the contracts now that weve had a successful response to the request for proposals, and i would like to make sure that we can actually sign those and do whatever we need to do in terms of appr
Ask for Public Comment and i do have a speaker card from mr. Decosta. Commissioners, some years ago, when we had as our chair, Ambassador Richard s cl aw, a man of great wisdom who understood really what needs to be done in our city and county of San Francisco, so i took upon myself at that time to invite the first people into these chambers to talk to some of you all. Maybe one of yall will remember that occasion. After [inaudible] and he was very happy to meet them. About a little over 250 years ago when jefferson sent lewis and clark here to west coast, we have records for those who can read and for those who have access to the records as to how pristine california was , with this recent drought and with Empirical Data as to the particulates and the increase in the depletion of our ozone level, we need to represent the people, and we need to conserve our resources, so we know and i hope we know that for thousands of years, the regional people who lived here who called this place tot