Projects and theyre aligned with these approved projects and then at the eback end take s a ba bank credit. At the end of the day thats going to deliver about 8. 1 million to this project. [ applause ]. I just want to really acknowledge the team that really have pushed this forward quickly on this project. First of all , david wilkin sos has been our consultant from Northern California Community Loan fund. Thank you, david. Thank you for helping me understand this weave of stuff and so forth. Leading the way to make sure that we anchor the new market tax credit that we needed for the project is the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Community Investment fund, or as we call it sfif. Without them jumping in and p putting their projestamp on thi project, i dont know if othes s would have joined as easily. We just wareally want to thank e sfif for supporting us. Along side of the sfif, San Francisco sfif was california loan fund who in vvested with u early as well. The group that
Generated today about rule 20, to make two essential points. Number one, that obviously what is going on here by the way, rule 20 funds are generated by a charge to our utility bills, so everybody. So essentially whats been going on here for the last 12, 14 years is we, those who dont have undergrounding, have been paying for paying out of our utility bills for those people who have undergrounding. This drove our coalition to not try to find certain sections of the city that would get undergrounded, but the only equitable thing to be done is to have citywide undergrounding which is the master plan. On the issue of is undergrounding better to leave the wires up, 100,000 frenchmen cant be wrong. San diego is doing this at 12 to 15 miles a year and have been doing it for the last 10 or 12 years. Santa barbara is doing it. Berkley has commissioned a study to underground if theyre going to be doing it. I mean, the proof in the pudding is very much in the knowing here. Not only as supervisor
Shortly and commissioner president ann lazardus and commissioner swig commissioner Bobbie Wilson will be absence this earning set the record straight is robert bryan and at the controls the leg assistant gary im boards executive director were were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. Sitting in the front row is chris buck urban forestry the Public Utilities commission of urban forestry at the table is assistant Zoning Administrator corey representing the Planning Department and the Planning Commission walking the room is senior bickering john updyke he with mark wall will be representing the please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited. Please carry on conversations out in the hallway. Permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. People affiliated with these parties must conclude their comments within 7 minutes, participants not af
Toward the south where it says or looks like rain it is snowing in this area too. That snow seeing some accumulating snow in parts of the region too. Weve got a lot more moisture making its way in here. Temperatures at the surface are o warm for that to stick on the roadways but aloft, thats why were seeing some of that snow and sleet, thats why we have a Winter Weather advisory continuing until noon tomorrow. Well see a changeover back to snow even in the d. C. Metro area. Much more about that coming up later. But take a look at this. The weather app, you know you can download it anytime. Doug thank you. Road crews are out across the region preparing for tonights fist round of Winter Weather. About 100 trucks are already on d. C. Streets pretreating. Virginia has 500 trucks out treating road with more on standby and maryland has activated its 24hour Emergency Operation center and has talks ready to salt and plow. This latest round of snow followed by the inevitable freezing and thaw w
A very good day to you. We begin in taiwan, the aftermath of a 6. 4 magazine tut earthquake in the southern part of that country. These live images you see here, it has left at least seven people confirmed dead. More than 150 injured. Rescue workers are now combing through the rubble of a 17story residential building that was tommed by this earthquake. Theyre looking for at least eight people who may still be trapped inside there. Some 12 hours, keep in mind, after this earthquake hit. So far rescue teams have pulled more than 200 survivors from the debris, including a mother and her children. Translator the rescuers broke in floor by floor. In the beginning they told us to try climbing out. My kids were too little to do that. They had to cut open a bigger hole and one rescuers was able to climb in and get them and then myself. I was definitely determined to get my kids out, definitely. Thankful she was able to escape. Again, this has proven to be a deadly earthquake. Lets get the late