Will call a roll, signify by saying aye. If there is no objections from the colleagues, i will call item number eight out of order and i am going to hang it over to the general manager, kelley. And thank you very much. And and i just wanted to provide this afternoon to talk to you about proposed legislation, that supervisor weiner is presenting. From the conversations that we have been having about the financial situation, and we have been as we presented to the commission and the Mayors Office and to the board, at that time, we had some consider concerns about our financial situation, and a couple of things that we were highlighting was that one, we were concerned about general Fund Departments and raising the general fund rates, and two we were talking about, mount tunnel and that was a major concern, that impacted our ability, or our financial situation. And we rec, which is a regulatory issues and then, the other final one is looking for new customer and also, maximizing and so we
Right now. And yeah, from, and to be clear, in terms of it, and it does not and we will have a conversation about this, in terms of what the threshold is emphasized and it does not necessarily need to be in the legislation because the agency has the discretion. And one thing that i want to point out is also, this is just, as you know this, but for the benefit of the members of the public is that sometimes, whenever we are talking about any version of public power, we get a response from some saying, oh, you know, this is the government and you know, that cant, and you know, muni is not doing what it needs to do and you know this and that and the other thing are not happening and so why would we want you to be the power provider and what i try to remind people is that this is the same agency that for many, many, many years, has provided services, to the entire city, with the very old sewer system that works. And the Agency Delivers the services beautifully, and that is the water provide
Item number eight out of order and i am going to hang it over to the general manager, kelley. And thank you very much. And and i just wanted to provide this afternoon to talk to you about proposed legislation, that supervisor weiner is presenting. From the conversations that we have been having about the financial situation, and we have been as we presented to the commission and the Mayors Office and to the board, at that time, we had some consider concerns about our financial situation, and a couple of things that we were highlighting was that one, we were concerned about general Fund Departments and raising the general fund rates, and two we were talking about, mount tunnel and that was a major concern, that impacted our ability, or our financial situation. And we rec, which is a regulatory issues and then, the other final one is looking for new customer and also, maximizing and so we talked about those challenge and we wanted to have supervisor weiner come up to talk about the legis
In the room if youre back there raise your hand clapping trying to make sure he delivered it the way it is and be able to deliver the product you have today so thank you clapping. between you and the Fabulous Party were about to hold as mentioned earlier the official unveiling of the midmarket were a group of small and large and midsize biz businesses to create a vibrant corridor were starting small and our focus is to help activate the ground floor retail spaces that run the length of Market Street and hyper hyper phobic were we want to help the nonprofits and Community Organizations that are critical to so many in the neighborhood. The bulk of our existing membership is on the bay area we have come together with your youll neighbors but if youre looking for other to join we have a well marked table for anyone that wants more information or other members. I also wanted to note we have good afternoon, everybody, i would like to call this meeting of the San Francisco public utilitys com
First of all i want to say a very happy birthday to our commissioner ann who is here on a very special day i have never worked with you and it has been a pleasure and it has been a pleasure. And so happy birthday. [ applause ] do you have a few words to say. That is what i think of my birthday. Thank you so much, and we do appreciate you. Approval of the minutes july 9, 2013, is there a motion so moved. Second. Is there a second. All right s there a Public Comment on the minutes . All right. There will be no Public Comment on the minutes, all say by saying aye . Aye. Minutes are approved and we turn to general comments and item four. First off is clark, friends, welcome back. An n thank you very much, i am a resident of San Francisco and Vice President of inaudible and the volunteer legal coordinator and i am here to remind you that three more weeks and commissioner we have wonderful birthday parties especially in the evening when the cake comes out and lights go off and everybody sing