At this point, i think this is just the beginning of the journey. Commissioner murphy . I feel the same way. I believe its a great project and, you know, id love to see it move forward asap. Thank you, mark, for a wonderful presentation. I think this is a great opportunity for the port and to help us with some of our capital needs, increasing our revenue stream. But i do want to make sure that when were going through this process that we keep in mind whatever we put there we really dont want to compete with our existing tenants and may have to keep that in mind going forward. Thank you. Commissioners . First of all, i appreciate you coming up and hitting the mic. And really we need to hear from the community and other staff and the commissioners, we need to listen to what the community says, but also were engaged and we really need to have this dialogue. But ill just give you a good example. Sometimes people can be misinformed about [speaker not understood] myself and director moyer. W
Stores its cheaper to buy sodas then water i brought up the example to a v8 people dont realize how much sugar is in it and its billed as a health drink a i applaud you is there any Public Comment . So mr. Chairman we can close it. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed supervisor wiener. Thank you, mr. Chairman i want to thank everyone on both sides who come out theres a lot of views thats healthy thats what a democracy is about our debate and decision of the board is no to the enact the tax but to ask the voters if 2 3rds of them wants to generate 38 million a year and there will be a vigorous discussion but in the end the voters is weigh in. I thought that was a helpful hearing on both sides ive heard interesting things i want to respond or comment on a few of the themes. First weve heard a number of times this is a regressive tax on protecting contingence. Well you know what i will say people should look at the map that the department of Public Health put out the low income families
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, let me please call this meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to order at 1 39 p. M. Madam secretary, would you please call the roll . President courtney . Here. Commissioner moran. Here. Commissioner torres. Here. Commissioners vietor and caen are excused today. Next is approval of the minutes of june 24th, 2014. Move approval. It has been moved. Second. And it has been seconded. Any further discussion, seeing none, i will call for Public Comment, is there any Public Comment on item three, approval of the Meeting Minutes of june, 24, 2014. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed all of those in favor, aye. And the motion carries, next item please . Four, general Public Comment, anybody who is interested in in addition to the cards that i have before me from ann clark if you could step forward, anyone who is interesting in speaking under Public Comment, fill out a comment card. And good afternoon good to see you again. I am ann clar
See you again. I am ann clark from San Francisco, and i want to let you know that it is hot up at maser and it was getting close to 100 degrees and i think that i am going to stay in San Francisco. Also, dont forget it is 5,000 feet up there and so it gets hotter i think sometimes as you go higher, rather than cooler. Mostly i wanted to share with you that we have published a book for one of our very favorite people who has written it, niel who has been going to the camp for a long, long time. And so i have extra copies in case you have not gotten yours yet and i will give them to harlin so you will be able to take a look at his wonderful life and his Life Experiences and as always, i look forward to seeing you at the camp thank you. Thank you very much for being here, i appreciate that. Are there any other Public Comments to be had on this line item, item number four, seeing none, Public Comment is now closed, madam secretary, next item . Item five, communications. Commissioners . See
Weve reached an agreement on the four main points earlier. Naturally there needs to be more back and forth but to recessing resolve this privately okay. Can i ask the project sponsor to respond to whether or not you seek a continuance today . John duffey project architect for 151 liberty. The project sponsor would like the project to continue were not interested in a continuance we want the Planning Commission to review the mroj and approve f it in awe litigant so were not interested in a continuance today okay. Thank you. Commissioner antonini. Yeah. I would like to hear it today their 5 issues that were brought up not to get into the case but two issues particularly the shoring and excavation issues are generally answered in the purview of dbi that isnt before use it will have to be worked out if theres a private agreement but in conformity with their standards and one is the tenant displacement not our purview we can discuss the massing and the lights and privacy and the roofdeck wh