Lead addresses five categories that enhances environment. Indoor air quality, energy, water, materials and resources, and sustainable sites are the five categories for the lead. You can go for several gold or platinum certifications. The city wanted to be silver lead status. Maybe gold was a stretch. And people said, if were going to be a Sustainable Organization that the pucs this has got to be the top of the line. Its got to be a lead platinum building. What does that mean to us . We run water, power, and sewer. So, those are some of the biggest things involved in lead platinum. By late 2008 the project, as we got the contractor on board and we were able to start pricing it, were a multi, multi, multimillion dollar over budget. The story a lot of people dont know after we got select today do this project, the first price we came in with was 180 million. And the city said, you know, this is a great building, but we just dont want to spend that much money. So, the project was on the ve
Chemicals leaked into the elk river, leaving thousands of people without water. Sex abuse by the Catholic Church, a committee set up by the pope will meet with the United Nations tomorrow. Headlines, im John Siegenthaler, ill see you back here 11 00 eastern, 8 00 pacific time, america tonight with joie chen is next, you can always get the latest on aljazeera. Com. On america tonight losing ground. More of louisianas Bayou Community swallowed whole. Why the hole is from another crisis hundreds of miles away. Not a lot of us left here now. Also, still troubled waters, the taps are on but there are new signs of danger. Should more folks downstream be worried about West Virginias toxic wash . The industry is not regulated and it happened because these were old Holding Tanks which were not properly maintained. And faith in flux. The Catholic Church faces new reports, what a change in leadership may bring. Good evening im joie chen. Thanks for being with us. Getting there but its not over ye
Residents one of the things that San Francisco is on the cuttingedge of is using the funding to improve our region and we had a meeting were going a web based program for folks which are safe i didnt on the internet. Well allow this Community Outreach to be improved and the funds fund the program in San Francisco and fund similar thirjz things in other community. Not everybody wants or needs the same thing some spend more on equipment and some on training. Ill also is a some communities dont have the robust funds were pretty good at it we know how to spend the money and not give it back. And other jurisdictions have had to return a portion of their grant funding. Could you actually send me to my office what the eligible uses of fund would be it would be great to see. Id be happy to do that ill kick with the staff to do that. Colleagues any further questions . Okay. Thank you very much well open it up for Public Comment. Since theres no one in the public to comment Public Comment is clo
Uncertainty about use of word, vagueness in order for that to disappear prior to this Group Hearing it on the 29th because i do not think this document is clear because of those things im observing. Okay. Any additional comments . Commissioners there say motion and a second to continue items as proposed, specifically item one to december 13, item six to december 6, and item 11 to november 29. Commissioner tone. Aye. Commissioner borden. Aye. Commissioner hillis. Aye. Commissioner moore. Aye. Commissioner sugaya. No. Commissioner avery with commissioner with you. Commissioner. Aye. That passes. All things under the consent calendar are routine by the commission and will be acted upon one roll call vote by the commission. There is no discussion unless the staff or public requests and in that case will be removed from the consent calendar and considered at a future hearing. Case dolores terrace and request for condominium conversion. Case 343 frederick street and request for San Francisco
San francisco is home to some of the most Innovative Companies of the 21st century. This pioneering and forward looking spirit is alive in San Francisco government as well. The new headquarters of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission at a5 25 golden gate avenue is more than just a 13story building and office ablation. Instead, city leaders, departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest Office Buildings in america. Thats more than a building. Thats a living system. When San Francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building the state owned and the workers comp people were in that building. It was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. When i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadnt done anything there and the mayor thought the same. If an earthquake happened, the building was uninhabitable. It sat there