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A precede at the california puc because from the regulate terrors prospective the owner of that set asset is pg e rate fairs to make sure that the rate pairs get appropriate value so far the asset so its the c p puc ultimately decides whether the prices that pentagon and the city have negotiated is appropriate and that transaction can be appropriated at the state level its a road thats been traveled, if you will, by another cities weve pursue is in district 10 where most of the street lights are on pg e light poles and some recent examples where pg e has sold similar the cross arm and the limb and part of the street light not the pole thats a wood utility pole so we have ready examples when weve looked the system we know that pg e owns weve tried to see how much theyre going to cost the city to install led system in its place we estimate that costs us too 62 and one hundred and 15 million thats a rough estimate not a insignificant endeavor and be responsible for bringing those systems ....
We are here in 2014 and going on looking forward the process maybe detail how one can engagement i know if i can go to 311 applications and say this light is not working but heres how do i identify a spot that is dark and the infrastructure doesnt exist how do we start that process. Certainly using 311 for that is also curled up we take calls directing ourselves i know that supervisors do as well along resident that have concerns about the lack of street lights entirely in San Francisco and, yes oftentimes areas that used to be Light Industrial that have been converted and rezoned and residents are aware of where the businesses used to be and concerned about the level of lighting weve been talking with planning on some the circumstances to better coordinate planning and dpw to make sure that as prongs are approved to the extent theyve reached the planning level of attention ....
The capital plan ongoing implementation well have a much better picture of the assets themselves then we preservation do were ahead of pg e we have all our street lights mapped that we own and know where they are we dont have the condition of the street light system and that is what this assessment item on our capital plan will fund the more careful assessment. Just my comments off the assessment thats nice for the puc owned but in my district 090 percent is owned by pg e thats in the contestanting so my frustration is the unresponsiveness that the Utility Company really has been to make repairs are larger absent from tennis shoes on an overhead wire to companies pointing to puc no one taking the ownership this is helpful it maps out exactly 95 percent of any problem pg e is the sole force or the recommend to softly the challenges im interested in making the city look at the ownerships of 95 percent how do i help with that proces ....