Regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of the opportunities that we have. And frankly, a lot of that work would repair us well if some kind of Immigration Reform policy was passed. So what do we do . One is i mentioned Interna
Disadvantage the students that we are most concerned have access to and through College Needs to change and it needs to change dramatically. In the department, we have as you well know, carmel, we have for the last several years put in our Budget Proposal opportunities for the federal government and states to Work Together on many of the lines of contact were discussing here this morning. The state higher ed Performance Fund that we have proposed would seek to reward states that create Stable Funding platforms, that make sure that their commitment to low income students remains in place and that would also move states toward a more performance based budgeting overall. So we want to continue to have those conversations. We see great virtue in aligning federal resources with a states willingness to Fund Higher Education and to make that funding centrally available to low income and middle income families who we need to get into college and across the finish line if were going to meet the
A suitcase in the area where the body parts were found. He has no plans to leave San Francisco. Reporter how do you know that . Um, just based on, um, what he told me when we talked about it. If i were the District Attorney id be looking at the Police Department and asking, why did you dump this in our lap and in essence make us look like the bad guys here . Reporter the d. A. s office is waiting for autopsy results to get the cause of death. They are also waiting for dna results to identify the victim. By the way, i talked to George Gascon about 30 minutes ago. Coming up at 6 00, he will address the issue thats the tension issue between the Police Department and the d. A. s office. Again, thats coming up in the next hour. For now live at the hall of justice in San Francisco, im da lin, kpix 5. George gascon of course is the District Attorney. Now, police are looking into whether a missing man from vallejo could be the victim in this case. He is friends apparently with mark andrus. And
For us to, for both staff to at least discuss that. I certainly as the puc hears from the puc staff, i would like to get a sta sense from our lafco staff as to what they are thinking in terms of an expedited timeline. That would be helpful for me. Supervisor john avalos thank you, i appreciate that as well. I think the lafco staff nancy and others looking at the other programs out there and have some ideas for how we can leverage some of the work thats already been done and so its not just all on their shoulders and they can assist with the effort. I think its a great suggestion. Okay, seeing no other members with comments or questions, we can continue with the next part of the presentation with the department of the environment. Thank you, commissioners, this is a great day. I just wanted to make a couple of comments about activities that the department of the environment is doing and has been doing that are going to intersect with cca and talk about things that are on going right now
Proceedings with the California Public Utilities Commission that we are following closely that will intersect with cleanpowersf that is the Energy Efficient portfolio where the rules are being set for efficiency programs can operate and that included Community Choice aggregators and marin has been fighting on this alone and im hoping we can join with them from the cleanpowersf perspective to fight about the proceedings that will benefit San Francisco and the second is generating proceeding which is opening and we are just starting to follow that. Im not going to report anything on that. A third one which is integrated demand site proceeding and that is where puc is looking how to integrate, demand response, demand management with Energy Efficiency projects. Right now those two things are in silos. If you are management an Energy Efficiency program you cant bundle it with a response. I think thats a Real Advantage that Community Choice aggregation is going to be able to provide integrat