we have a quorum. president caen: commissioners, before you you have the meeting, the minutes of march 26. are there any corrections or additions? no, i would like to move the item. second. president caen: any public comment? all those in favor? opposed? the motion carries. next item, please. clerk: item 4, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on matters in the commission s jurisdiction and not on today s agenda. president caen: i do have a speaker card from mr. rosecrans. welcome. thank you, chair caen and commissioners, and nice to see with mr. carlin in the chair on the horseshoe. some of you may have seen the article in the chronicle how hard it was to have a unique experience in yosemite, and 4, 5 million people a year go there, and most go to the yosemite valley and very few go to hetch hetchy, and the rain reason well, a reservoir there. but there s more. it s not just as a reservoir there. the gate is locked every da
speech. i did start in 1982 as an as needed laborer, made it to maintenance superintendent, which was quite a feat for me, i appreciate the opportunity that the city has given me, the opportunity to be in front of you guys today. i do get emotional on things. i take i take the job really seriously, being a city guy, a native san franciscan and i wanted to make civil service proud and i think the city was good to me, hopefully i ve been good to the city. i want to thank my entourage. thank you very much, i won t take your time. you have busy work. thank you. [applause] i want to also on behalf of the commission express our appreciation for your years of service. such an honor and gratifying to see who made his way through the city, p.u.c. and provided us with so many great years. thank you very much. oh, jerry. thank you. congratulations. congratulations. [applause] there s a very good example of how to be very happy after 37 years. any comments? congratulations aga
the utilities were never built to our standard. they were built by the navy so conveyed to tida, never be conveyed to the p.u.c. so we cannot use our rate payers. we are a contractor out there to tida, and tida has the relationship with the u.s. navy and we are not accepting their infrastructure. and we never will. we never will. the permit is actually still held by the u.s. navy. so we are literally just a contractor there. that s for all the utilities, water, wastewater and power. they could not issue the contract to somebody else, right? we have actually, the contract to operate on the island? i mean, tida could, but we have been out there since the island was turned over to the city for development. what we were expecting was a very short time frame before the developer would develop the island. it s now been 18 years, something around there. been a long time. been a long time. so, they are out there now, they are on yerba buena island, they are moving dow
[applause.] good afternoon. call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. tuesday, april 23, 2019. roll call, please. we have a quorum. president caen: commissioners, before you you have the meeting, the minutes of march 26. are there any corrections or additions? no, i would like to move the item. second. president caen: any public comment? all those in favor? opposed? the motion carries. next item, please. clerk: item 4, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on matters in the commission s jurisdiction and not on today s agenda. president caen: i do have a speaker card from mr. rosecrans. welcome. thank you, chair caen and commissioners, and nice to see with mr. carlin in the chair on the horseshoe. some of you may have seen the article in the chronicle how hard it was to have a unique experience in yosemite, and 4, 5 million people a year go there, and most go to the yosemite valley
are we protecting profits for the real estate industry in are we prophetting th profits for te companies so that they can continue to maintain profits working downtown? we have no dignity homes. financing for this playing a public bank, a robust public bank, boom, boom, boom, and a california public bank, please. changinchanges are in the air. maybe we can accommodate seniors that can t maintain their homes or physically go up the stairs to their home. dignity homes, again, they should be placed in all developments. navigation centres, i would like to repeat what supervisor kim said months ago, that we actually do better when they re removed from their neighborhoods where they re struggling. other california added 3% more to global climate change. our freeway, our society have become rivers of poison. this our democracy and where our capitalistic system change. thank you. on another subject matter, considering teacher residency at a predominantly asian and hispanic school w