Institute. This is about 20 minutes. [applause] we are in kind of an unusual technical situation because craig venter, who is in san diego, hes supposed to be here is ill will something. So i guess lets see if i can just craig, can you hear me . Hes ill with something akin to muteness. Hes looking pretty good. [laughter] craig, can you hear me at all . You think hes scary looking . Hes not scary looking. [laughter] hes just an ill man. Lets see if we can we have a number of backup systems which i suppose we should employ. [laughter] if worse comes to worse, ill just tell you what i think he would have done if i could control him like a puppet. [laughter] all right. Now maybe hes hearing me. Craig, can you hear me . I can, robert. Nice to hear you. All right. We lost you for a bit. So whats wrong with you . [laughter] or. Lets see, i didnt want to leave la jolla sunshine for washington d. C. No, a number of things going op but, you know, it would have made montezuma proud. [laughter] le
Trying to spread our name around to get new investors and opportunities for folks to buy our bonds with that, id like let you know which was a good sale i want to thank rich if you could wave and say hello hes this depth manager and a wonderful active smart team that is doing all this and g did a lot of the heavy lift. Thank you both and the team. That concludes my report. Any Public Comment on the 1ygsd report. Mr. Brooks. Eric brooks pour the San Francisco green party and little local grassroots on the last part of the report just want to put in a request from the public that we see a report sent in from staff that scopes out h bonds and green bonds and all the power bond capacity so we know what we are dealing with and how theyll be used hypothetically to build for sf clean power are any program like Treasure Island or biophysicistayview. Any other Public Comment okay seen if you could call the consent calendar. Item that a consent calendar Consent Agenda are considered by the board
Lot of run off on concrete and the in oceanow is the drought were monitoring the underground. Actually in two ways one were Telegraph Hill monitoring the ground water wells this is a pretty productive aqua a strong radiant flowing out to the ocean so San Francisco is were lingus freshwater to the ocean were hoping to attach catching in the Ground Program also here in the civic scienter we do sub surface dewatering because of the high ground water it is decreased a little bit not much f were working with the dpw on the underneath the plazas to use it for truck filling and sweep sweeping because of two of ground water that ground water is staying stable so for. Thank you. The other point and maybe i want to talk about it is that weve sort of changed the way we operate our system because of the shut downs we want to make sure we have water in the local reservoir when we should you we have to take care of everyone and whatever we have a shut down on the hetch hetchy side whether because in
40 percent more than bids than bonds we have a strong name recognize and the fact that is a below market rate credit and brand new opportunity for investors to buy our bond 32 million was designated as green bond that was the first green bond issuance for the city of San Francisco and were proud and the opportunity to draw new investors we had one investor brick and rich capital sought us out an environmentally social responsible fund they bought those railroad and a chunk was bought by the investors we are trying to spread our name around to get new investors and opportunities for folks to buy our bonds with that, id like let you know which was a good sale i want to thank rich if you could wave and say hello hes this depth manager and a wonderful active smart team that is doing all this and g did a lot of the heavy lift. Thank you both and the team. That concludes my report. Any Public Comment on the 1ygsd report. Mr. Brooks. Eric brooks pour the San Francisco green party and little l
Yerba buena for over 24 years as you can imagine, i have seen a tremendous amount of change in the neighborhood. Since the creation of the Community Benefits district, i think its working. Im here to support the renewal, the district seems to be z as a residence, cleaner, safe and more inviting than ever, provides more eyes on the street and has become really the only voice of our neighborhood to city departments to work with city departments and to get things done. We dont really have any other entity down there that represents the whole neighborhood. Also i have been working with the district, im chair of the streets and public space committee, and sit on the board of directors, i will tell you, i know cathy suggested some projects we have done to improve the public realm, i really look at one of the roles of the district is to improve the public realm there have been all of the changes we have noticed, to the private realm in yerba buena its completely transformed this again is the