if i may ask the commission in commission president for further direction. thank you. several things come out of it. i thought it was useful, as we get into the budget process, but that it controls what we do. we are not free agents. a lot of what we do, we do not incorporate free agents, we hire according to the purchaser. we implement policy as law. so, a good deal of what we do is basically, we are writing the check for things that were promised some time ago. i think that that is important to recognize. there were two things in particular that i wanted to focus on, however. they are part and parcel of laying increasing focus on the next time that we go out with a rate package request. that will be in about two years. we are three years into a five- year rate announcement. in two years we will have to go out and do that again. that request, by the projections we have had in prior meetings, of the be significant. it would not surprise me if there was some push back on t
thing to buy green. when he said blue or white, he was referring to the color of the vehicles. of. [laughter] oh. [laughter] water department vehicles, fired a bargain vehicles, blue, red fire department vehicles, blue than red. with logos. what s [laughter] a couple of [laughter] a couple of years ago we did adopt a vehicle policy regarding replacement? i have tried to dusted off. we talked about it three years ago at the camp at the chair s request. in those three years, we have never elevated it again. our practice has been three years and 100,000 miles. in some cases, we have exceeded that i as far as having even more older vehicles with higher moloch higher mileage. in a small number of places we have reviewed them to make sure that they are green and electric. since then, the mayor s office have come out has come out with a number of different announcements. so, the policy does exist from back then. was there not a clean air program that we h
life cycle cost basis. my guess is that we are going to do some experimentation as we go forward. it is important to start it, because in two years we will have to stand and deliver to the ratepayers. but i lost you a little. you are saying, not to get to micro? yes. but i think it is an important niche in an important thing to buy green. when he said blue or white, he was referring to the color of the vehicles. of. [laughter] oh. [laughter] water department vehicles, fired a bargain vehicles, blue, red fire department vehicles, blue than red. with logos. what s [laughter] a couple of [laughter] a couple of years ago we did adopt a vehicle policy regarding replacement? i have tried to dusted off. we talked about it three years ago at the camp at the chair s request. in those three years, we have never elevated it again. our practice has been three years and 100,000 miles. in some cases, we have exceeded that i as far as having even more older vehic
number. i will just highlight a couple money to slide. the key ordinances , charter section, as well as in some cases the california constitution and government code. debt law is present as well. a policy that we adhere to it with requirements under the charter section, as well as the debt management policy did you have elevated as one of the commission adopted policies. the other keep out a key policy the other key policy is the environmental justice and community benefit policy. adjusted in 2009 and 2011. but we discussed in december, as well as previously, is the race policy. we are currently responsible to adhering to the san francisco charter, the rates provision under the voter adopted mandate in 2002. we are as well subject to the california government code, another proposition in the public works code. however, that may not go far enough. you may want to consider further action. as we discussed in december, behind page 11, you may want to consider further adoption
there would be something that could be audited by a third party. our direction to staff is that we want you to be tightfisted. we want someone to come in and say who they are. how we structure that, i am not entirely clear. part of the genesis of this is, as we look at there is just a mind-boggling amount of information coming out of the budget. huge. try as we might, and i have done budgets for a long time. as much time as we have to give it, we will never really have control over the detail of what is in the budget. we can pick out things that look bad and act on those, but as far as this group of five people having mastery of that document, it will never happen. we have to have other ways of doing it. we cannot do it at the detail level. it has to be at the level of providing direction and holding people accountable. this is an attempt to move in that direction and be less concerned with whether the trucks we are by are blue or white, less concerned with that and more co