Broadcasting today jonathan and supervisor yee i didnt. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Please silence all electronic devices. And items acted upon today will be on the next before meeting. Please call item one. Its a reliability of the street light plan. Okay. Thank you and i called for this hearing today on the state of San Franciscos street lights and strategies going forward. Street lights are a critical part of our industries utility and Public Safety infrastructure. Our street light system helps, of course, light up our roads and sidewalks and plays an Important Role from our cities quality of life. Role in Public Safety of our neighborhoods because of well lighted street is safer than a dark street. And also allows for more vibrate night life for people out on the street whether its with their neighbors or in a commercial area. Our street lights in San Francisco have been challenging. To put it mildlyly. We have too many street lights that are are burntout or otherwis
Funds. And if sfgovtv could help me ive got an overview. Thank you. Im to talk about those 3 things ownership are the goals important performance and our funding. But before we talk about that lets make sure we understand roles and responsibility. As supervisor weiner mentioned the ownership of street light the in San Francisco is mixed. Clearly a majority of the lights are owned by the city and the majority of those are owned by the divided puc. We own those assets and have them as part of our Management Program its about 25 Thousand Lights we are responsible for and own if im not mistaken its about 60 percent by the city and 40 percent by pg e. A thats right and theres street lights owned by caltrans but appear to be streets to us but are considered highways. How can a resident you see it as light its outdoor out you want to know who owns it sometimes theres a tag but its small. Sometimes theyre a tag it can be indicative. If its a wood pole that the light is on its a pg e light they
Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Please silence all electronic devices. And items acted upon today will be on the next before meeting. Please call item one. Its a reliability of the street light plan. Okay. Thank you and i called for this hearing today on the state of San Franciscos street lights and strategies going forward. Street lights are a critical part of our industries utility and Public Safety infrastructure. Our street light system helps, of course, light up our roads and sidewalks and plays an Important Role from our cities quality of life. Role in Public Safety of our neighborhoods because of well lighted street is safer than a dark street. And also allows for more vibrate night life for people out on the street whether its with their neighbors or in a commercial area. Our street lights in San Francisco have been challenging. To put it mildlyly. We have too many street lights that are are burntout or otherwise see 0 unlikely the infrastructure is old and it at tim
But at a lower level than recommended and so we arent able to restore outlining all the funding within the puc budget for all Program Areas and when i say Program Areas im talking about the Infrastructure Improvements in our Generation Assets of country im talking about our Energy Efficiency and renewal programs in San Francisco and im talking about street lights. Those are the Program Areas that are in consolidation for Street Light Fund our net operating fund are what we are and have to be allocated among the responsibilities can you help us under and the board of supervisors would have to agree when you talk about the general offhand thats other city departments they pay for electricity and if the full increase is granted would that be significant. Its an opportunity yes. What are i wouldnt tell but there are plans for improvements that have to be deferred. Id be interested in knowing what that goes up to its speculative you know, i could envision a scenario where theres increases i
Be on the next before meeting. Please call item one. Its a reliability of the street light plan. Okay. Thank you and i called for this hearing today on the state of San Franciscos street lights and strategies going forward. Street lights are a critical part of our industries utility and Public Safety infrastructure. Our street light system helps, of course, light up our roads and sidewalks and plays an Important Role from our cities quality of life. Role in Public Safety of our neighborhoods because of well lighted street is safer than a dark street. And also allows for more vibrate night life for people out on the street whether its with their neighbors or in a commercial area. Our street lights in San Francisco have been challenging. To put it mildlyly. We have too many street lights that are are burntout or otherwise see 0 unlikely the infrastructure is old and it at times is taking two along to fix the street lights that burn out in addition, we our street lights in San Francisco a