These suffering and tragedy stories are in every corner, every person you are meeting, whether it he is a doctor struggling to find a couple of hours to sleep, whether he is a businessman who has left big business behind in gaza city and has to live with his family, has to live in a shelter or school. You go there and you find a queue of people just waiting for hours to get five pieces of bread. There is not enough for the 50 people and the family they are evacuating with. You go there and you find someone is begging to buy water, but water is not available. Israel resumed bombing the water area today. There is no electricity to run and stop pumping the electricity to the houses. 90 of the houses in the south of gaza which is accommodating now over two thirds of the gaza strip overall population, they dont have water. They have to buy water. Un, you know, big tankers, they transferred the water from other parts of the city, the most Populated Areas here in the centre and people queue t
No Consumer Complaint will go unanswered. Consumer reporter susan hogan has a story that hits at the heart of our mission. Reporter a retired air force veteran and his wife say they could not believe what should have been a simple transaction turned into months of frustration. One call to nbc 4 responds got them the results theyd been waiting for. A broken smartphone brought doug hawkins into a verizon store. I wpent to the verizon haymarket office. One of the people looked and didnt think he could fix it. Reporter instead of fixing it, doug says the salesman had a better idea. Shed, this is your luck he said, this is your lucky day. Youll get a free phone. Reporter who couldnt resist . Doug certainly couldnt and didnt. I said, what are you going to do with the old phone . He said, ill send it back. Reporter simple transaction, right . Off you went . Yes. Reporter that wasnt the end of it . No. Reporter the next month when doug and his wife pam got their bill, the socalled free phone c
Of food. And we play this role. And San Francisco plays a role. Just because we have hetch, hetchy water does not mean that we can waste it, we are wasting it. But we can put into gear some checklists, so that the people who work with the infrastructure are very cautious and pay respect to it. Thank you very much. And so we will go ahead as discussed we will suspend Public Comment on item 8 until we return to it and madam secretary, next item please . Communication . S five communications. Commissioners . Is there any Public Comment on communications . Seeing none, Public Comment is close . Next item. Item 6, other Commission Business . Commissioners . Seeing no other business commission, i will go ahead and call for Public Comment, if there is none i will close it. Madam secretary, next item. 7, a staff presentation and discussion on Sewer System Improvement Program, communications 2013 annual report. Hello. Ellis assistant general manager for the external affairs and we are really ex
Point or is there more presentations. No more presentations. Well open up Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor kim id like to forward this with positive recommendation to the full board i apologize we didnt push this forward that will be voted on accepted 2. And a second reading on september 2nd so the motion to support in with recommendation well take that without objection. And madam clerk, any other business before this committee . Theres no further business. Then we are adjourned. Good afternoon, everybody, i would like to call this meeting of the San Francisco public utilitys commission, to order at 1 38, would you call the roll. President courtney n here. Vietor. Here. And moran. Here. Torres. Here. And commissioner caen is excused. We would like to approve. Moved. Any Public Comment . Seeing no Public Comment, i 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 g
Exclusive from the cca. As you know i was one of the eight votes that the board of supervisors that passed the choice aggregate and i also have been support of exploring ing collaboration or joining the power, and so i am support of the cca and this does not, impact that. They are not mutually exclusive. And in fact, from the pg e perspective this is a different thing, because these are new customer and a new development, i and understand that it is the existing customer and so it was not surprising that the private utility might have the concerns about that and a push back, but this is not that, it is that new development, and the new customers and so it is a different animal and two our not mutually exclusive. Thank you. Did you very much, supervisor weiner, for being here, thanks for all of your work, city wide and thank you for your remarks to the staff here at the puc. Thank you. Thank you very much, commissioners. Thank you very much. Thank you. General manager kelley, i am incli