Questions, there will be a signing. We have books behind the register. When you come back david will be happy to sign them and then finally after everything is said and done if you could collapse your chairs and prop them up against the wall that would be greatly appreciated by the staff. Thank you. So yes, tonight politics and prose has the pleasure of hosting david enrich at the New York Times. He previously was a reporter and editor at the washington journal, new york and london and was a journal editor. Hes won numerous journalism awards including 2016 journal for future writing and previously the author of the Spider Network hell a genius and scheming that bankers pulled off one of the greatest scams in history which was shortlisted for the Financial Times best of the year and his new book dark towers Deutsche Bank donald trump and the epic trail of destruction, traces the dark history with the president as well as the tragic case of William Brookes illustrates the evolution of ch
The consent calendar please. Do you want to call for Public Comment on item eight . Any Public Comments on our comments . Thank you. Next item, please. Item nine is consent calendar. All items listed are considered to be retained by the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and acted upon by a single vote of the commission. No separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or public rate ques quests. The matter will be removed from the calendar and considered a separate item. Commissioners, would you like any item removed . All foz, i dont. Okay. General public, any item remov removed . May i have a motion . All of those in favor . The motion carries. Next item. Item ten write approve modifications of the San Francisco San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Grant program and authorize a general manager to approve future modifications to the Grant Program. Commissioners, steve ritchie, this is an item to make some minor changes to the Grant Program rules. Th
Accommodation for projects for not allowing it and then saying we wont make that accommodation any more and makes people upset because theyre feeling theyre just doing it for that and i think a lot of folks are frustrated with pg e. Its just so indicate. Inconsistent. Thank you. Thank you so much. For the public update. I have a couple of questions that ive asked before in different ways. But i just want to revisit a little bit, the whole clean power sf launch and programming and success that weve been realizing and some of our early goals in your presentation just to reiterate from an environmental perspective that the whole idea behind clean power sf was to really drive more quickly towards our citywide goal of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction to be in compliance with the state. So ghg reduction emission. The second goal from an environmental perspective was to help us as a city reach our 100 renewable by 2030 goal that we are driving toward and the opportunity that a program like c
Next item, please. Item nine is consent calendar. All items listed are considered to be retained by the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and acted upon by a single vote of the commission. No separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or public rate ques quests. The matter will be removed from the calendar and considered a separate item. Commissioners, would you like any item removed . All foz, i dont. Okay. General public, any item remov removed . May i have a motion . All of those in favor . The motion carries. Next item. Item ten write approve modifications of the San Francisco San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Grant program and authorize a general manager to approve future modifications to the Grant Program. Commissioners, steve ritchie, this is an item to make some minor changes to the Grant Program rules. The first of which is to change the name of the program to the onsite water reuse program. Secondly is to expand existing requirements
That is the creation of wealth. Some time ago i was visiting one of the wineries in my district in california and i was talking about this make it in america agenda in manufacturing. And finally the owner got up from behind the desk and he said, come, i want to talk to you. He said, we walked outside, out to his winery, and he said, you know what this is . I said, yeah, its a winery. He said, no, this is a manufacturing facility. I take grapes and i turn them into some of the finest wine in the world. So when you talk about make it in america, guess what, im making it in america. So it includes all of these things. Putting a tomato into a can, into a bottle of ketch up. Or what were going to talk about tonight is something far more than that. I want to really not so much talk about these gentlemen and ladies, but to use them as an example of what america used to make. These gentlemen, three of them, are world war ii merchant mariners. This was an effort we had now under way to provide