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Mick looked ready for more, Keith looked in need of a warm malt drink: Glastonbury's night of the living dead as Rolling Stones rock the festival
- Ageing rockers drew unprecedented crowds of more than 170,000
- Mick Jagger's characteristic swagger didn't fade over two hour set
The last time the Rolling Stones wowed a West Country crowd quite like they did at the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday night was when they played the Stonehenge opening ceremony in 2300BC.
That, at any rate, was the joke doing the rounds on Twitter late on Saturday, not that you could find anyone at Glastonbury making cracks about superannuated rock stars.
Mick Jagger might be a knight of the realm who turns 70 this month, and Keith Richards might now sport something resembling an old man's paunch, but they, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood (at 66, the baby of the band, and also the new boy, having joined as recently as 1975), put on a show that the teenagers in the audience will tell their grandchildren about.
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Showing the kids how it's done: The Rolling Stones performed on the Pyramid stage to a euphoric crowd of more than 170,000
Voices of experience: The band has an aggregate age of 276. Front man Mick Jagger (second left) turns 70 this month and Ronnie Wood (left) is the baby of the band at 66
Who are you calling grandad? Mick Jagger's ostentatious dancing dominated the electrifying performance
The grandparents in the audience –and there were plenty of them, too – probably already have.
Glastonbury has hosted lots of huge headline acts in the 43 years since Marc Bolan, the first of them, set foot a little gingerly on Michael Eavis's dairy farm.
The admission in 1970 was £1, which included free milk from Eavis's herd. Tickets now cost over £200, and if you want to drink milk, you buy your own.
In the intervening years, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, U2 and Oasis have all performed there.
But never the Stones, making this the headline act of all headline acts, before a euphoric crowd of more than 170,000.
Not even Glastonbury had seen anything like it.
By the time the band came on at around 9.45pm, a circus contortionist would have been hard pressed to get within 500 yards of the festival's main Pyramid stage.
Beforehand, as a glorious Somerset day cooled to dusk, there was almost as much apprehension as excitement among festival-goers.
Could the Stones, with an aggregate age of 276, possibly live up to their own mythology?
Squeezed next to me, so close that we had to synchronise our jigging like a pair of middle-aged backing singers, was a retired businessman from Croydon, Andy, who first saw the Stones at the Red Lion pub in Sutton, Surrey, in 1963.
He saw them again at the famous gig in Hyde Park in 1969, two days after the sudden death of Brian Jones, but this was the first time since. Could they possibly be as good as he remembered?
Stamina: Jagger's dynamic performance lasted more than two hours and made some of his fellow band mates look tired
Timeless: Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards entertained teenagers, parents and grandparents on Saturday night
Mature: There was no disguising Ronnie Wood (left) and Keith Richard's (right) advanced years as they put in a historic performance on the Pyramid Stage
They were better. In part, because the amplification is so much more sophisticated now.
But also because when these elderly men take the stage, the years drop away as if spirited by a Brown Sugar-loving genie.
Close up, of course, there's no disguising their age. Richards looks bizarrely as if he could be John McEnroe's raddled grandfather, while Watts, the drummer, his grey hair politely coiffed, looks like everyone's auntie Daphne.
Throughout, like auntie Daphne at a family party, he wore a benign half-smile and seemed relieved to be sitting down.
As for Wood, there are pickled walnuts less wrinkly. But none of these men got where they were on Saturday, without incredible musical machismo and supreme stagecraft.
And then there is Jagger. He pranced, he strutted, he pouted, he bounced, sometimes like a glorious parody of himself, but at all times with the manic energy and enthusiasm of the teenager he hasn't been for half a century.
Gimme Shelter: Keith Richards looked tired at times but enjoyed solo moments that displayed his renowned guitar skills off to their best
Enthusiasm: Jagger sings as powerfully and charismatically as ever and struts and prances with the attitude (and figure) of a teenager
It was a genuinely remarkable performance, made possible by a metabolism – or maybe it's a starvation diet – that keeps him as skinny and narrow-hipped as a boy.
The celebrated lips have become the emblem of the Rolling Stones, but it could just as easily be the schoolboy hips.
At the end of a set lasting well over two hours, which began and ended with two of their greatest crowd-pleasers, Jumpin' Jack Flash and (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Jagger looked as if he was ready for more.
Richards, by contrast, looked as if he was ready for a warm malted drink and a nurse. If a lifetime of drug abuse hasn't undermined his stamina, maybe the increasing girth finally has.
The poor old boy looked paunch-drunk.
Onstage at Glastonbury, Sir Bruce Forsyth, 85, teased the Rolling Stones.
Imitating Jagger's stage gestures, the veteran star joked: 'I'm glad the boys did well. I mean, they're just kids.'
How does Jagger manage it? His fellow knight McCartney has been rather found out in recent years, the passing decades having reduced his more melodic voice to an unconvincing waver.
But Jagger shouts just as powerfully, tunefully and charismatically as he always did.
His Honky Tonk Women has stood the acid tests of time and of audience appreciation.
Much has been made of Jagger's comment to John Humphrys on the Today programme earlier on Saturday, that he would have found it 'gratifying' to have had a career as a schoolteacher.
Certainly, it is irresistible to think of all those teachers who have fantasised about being rock stars, playing air guitar with their slide-rules, suddenly learning that, all the while, the Rolling Stones front man would have rather been wielding a board duster than a microphone.
But he was surely being disingenuous. How marvellous it must be to send away today's teenagers, convinced they have just attended the ultimate rock concert, having once chalked up the same distinction with their parents and perhaps even grandparents.
Could it be, indeed, that there is a generation of fans now in their push-chairs who will yet get to see the Rolling Stones live?
Nobody who was at Glastonbury on Saturday, or who watched on television, would bet against it.
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Before I write anything about Tashi , written by Anna Fienberg, Barbara Feinberg and illustrated by Kim Gamble, I need to thank YNL (Your Neighborhood Librian) over at Pink Me for reviewing this book. It has sparked a whole new level of interest and excitement in bedtime reading for my youngest child and me!
But first, let me tell you what this fabulous series is about. As Australian Anna Fienberg says of her mother, Barbara, "when she was a child, she used to tell whoppers. Creative fibs. Tall stories. And kids would crowd around, dying to hear the latest tale. We talked about a character like her - someone who told fantastic stories - and over many cups of tea we cooked up Tashi." And what stories they are! The authors take magical, mythical characters from storytelling lore like the Golem, the Phoenix, the witch Baba Yaga, dragons and a Genie and put them up against the clever, brave, bold Tashi. Tashi also encounters forbidden rooms, ghosts, white tigers, bandits, demons, spells, a warlord and a lost city. But, what really makes these stories special - and enthralling - is the framework that the authors set them in. The first Tashi story begins with a young boy telling his parents about his new friend as they eat dinner. When Jack tells his parents that his new friend is from a place very far away and he came here on a swan, his father asks, "A black or white swan?" "It doesn't matter, you always ask the wrong questions!" Jack replies. This dynamic carries on between the father and son for more than a few stories and, as a parent I find it very funny. I think for the kids it helps build tension. Mum, however, seems to always have the right responses and ask the right questions. Jack proceeds to tell them the story of how Tashi was sold to a warlord but escaped by flying from his country to Jack's on the back of a goose. When the warlord tracked him down, the goose helped him trick the warlord and escape. Some of the Tashi stories begin with Jack re-telling a story Tashi has told him, while other stories find Jack and Tashi playing together in the backyard, sitting in the pepper tree or riding a ferry when Tashi is reminded of another story to tell Jack. Either way, someone always says they sense a story coming on, and, after reading about 10 of these stories my son even knows when to anticipate a Tashi tale! Another aspect of the Tashi books that I really like is the Asian feel that the stories and illustrations have to them, reflecting perhaps the native Aboriginals and Southeast Asian neighbors' influence on Australian culture. The houses have pagoda-like roofs and characters have names like Uncle Tiki Pu, Li Tam and Chintu. The feudal, slightly medieval setting for Tashi's homeland also adds to the foreignness and magical tone of the stories. And, there is a MAP of Tashi's Village and Surrounds that takes up the first two pages of the book!!
As best I can tell, there are sixteen Tashi books currently in print, each one containing 2 stories. The individual books are about $5.99 each, comparable to a Magic Treehouse book, but a slightly easier read. Fortunately for us, there are TWO Tashi omnibuses, each very reasonably priced around $16.00. The Big Big Big Book of Tashi contains 7 books and 14 stories. The 2nd Big Big Book of Tashi contains 5 books and 10 stories. If these prices seem a bit high, please bear in mind that they are published in Australia and imported to the States. This is also why there is a pretty good chance you will have to order these books, which, if you have any boys at home under the age of eight, I HIGHLY recommend you do. And, if your kids really love Tashi, there is a new activity book which can be purchased in the States as well! There are a few Tashi books that can't be purchased here, however, including the full color picture book, There Once Was a Boy Called Tashi. I would LOVE to get my hands on this book! Kim Gamble's illustrations are wonderful - rich with colors and lush with details, they strike the perfect gentle balance with the mean, scary villains in the stories. They are perfectly matched with the stories and are what drew me to these books instantly.
In fact, although it is only 4 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon, my son has discovered me sitting in bed with the Tashi books next to me for reference as I write this review and has asked if we could read a story right now. So, I will stop here to read Tashi and the Baba Yaga!

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There's only one verdict on Roy's monkey madness... NOT GUILTY
He did not see his black players as monkeys. That is the first thing to remember about the extraordinary race row that engulfed England's manager.
Had Roy Hodgson genuinely associated his black players with simian life forms, he would never have told his half-time joke. Hodgson is white, you see. And white people, particularly intelligent ones, always know where to draw the line.
Ron Atkinson's ugly, career-ending words were not intended for broadcast. He thought he was off-air when he spoke about Marcel Desailly, the Chelsea defender, in such demeaning terms. Atkinson would never have called him those names on ITV. He was too smart for that.
Not guilty: Roy Hodgson did not see his black players as monkeys. If he did, he wouldn't have made the joke
Not on air: Ron Atkinson waited until he thought he could make his remark about Marcel Desailly privately
The same with Carol Thatcher. Comparing Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to a golliwog on camera would have been cause for instant dismissal. She saved the comment for the privacy of the green room and was undone only when it was reported.
There is stuff that white people know they cannot say. That doesn't mean it never gets said. It just comes out, you know, between us. Usually preceded by the moderator, 'I'm not being racist, but...'
You know that moment when someone says, 'With respect...' and then adds '...he's pig ignorant and a colossal buffoon'. Well, 'I'm not being racist, but..' is a bit like that. The disclaimer is usually pretty meaningless in the light of what follows.
Hodgson was most definitely not being racist, though. In fact, his thought processes had race so far removed that when attempting to explain a tactical point to his team he used a joke about monkeys in space as an analogy without ever considering he might give offence to the black players in the room.
There was nothing knowing in his speech, no sly insinuation. He was wholly innocent, simply trying to make a point in a colourful way. He had a story about space monkeys and a room full of footballers: he didn't at any point relate the two.
Telling a story: Hodgson was merely using the joke as a way of explaining what he wanted
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Why he couldn't just have told Chris Smalling to give Andros Townsend more of the ball is another matter. But that isn't Hodgson. He's quirky, sometimes a little eccentric. That's probably what the players like about him — and the players do like him, make no mistake of that.
At press conferences, he will be talking very positively about England's chances and then say — almost as an aside — that, of course, Joe Hart could let one through his legs in the first minute and everything changes. And, of course, he could. Every manager has these fears. They just tend to keep them private. So most managers would not have attempted to instruct England's right side by using a joke from the dawn of space travel. But that's Hodgson. When one considers where his career started, and where it ended up, he probably does think differently from the rest.
Those of a sensitive nature may wish to avert their eyes now because here is the joke that caused such fuss. I'll keep it brief.
NASA finally send a man and monkey into space after many missions with just monkeys. After launch, the radio crackles into life. 'Monkey, fire the retros.' The monkey fires the retros. A little later, 'Monkey, check the fuel supply.' The monkey checks the fuel supply. At this point, the astronaut becomes irritated. 'Hey,' he yells. 'When do I get to do anything?' 'In 15 minutes,' says the voice from mission control, 'feed the monkey.'
The joke dates from the time of the Mercury space programme, 1959 to 1963, when astronauts finally replaced chimpanzees in limited capsules. These early pilots were taken from the ranks of the military and many were sceptical at being asked to perform the same tasks as apes. Tom Wolfe wrote extensively around this subject in his book, The Right Stuff. Hodgson, who is well read, may even have got the joke from its pages.
In Hodgson's extended metaphor, however, Townsend is the monkey. He is the brains of the operation, really, and his human partner works to serve him. The human partner is Smalling and the rest of the team.
The joke is about human obsolescence and role reversal; Hodgson's point is that Townsend is tearing Poland apart and needs feeding with the ball. The rest of the players, like the man in the rocket, need to put their egos on hold and just do what is best for the mission. The suggestion is that Hodgson told the story to the whole room and it was Gary Neville who spotted that it had not been well received by one or two individuals.
First to notice: Gary Neville (right) spotted that a couple of players had reacted badly to Hodgson's joke
We could veer off at this point into a discussion about intellect. The joke is not racist. It was clearly not told in a racist manner. Are today's young players so limited in imagination that they are uncomfortable with anything beyond the most limited forms of expression? Then again, half-time dressing rooms are noisy, distracting places. A player may have been receiving treatment or returning from the toilet. He may have heard only the punchline, in relation to Townsend. A manager pointing to a black player and telling the rest of the team to feed the monkey could be unfortunately misinterpreted.
Context is everything. Who knows what got lost in translation? It could be that a half-heard version of Hodgson's address was then doing the rounds after the match. It could be that a disgruntled figure inside the camp decided to make mischief.
Mistake: Hodgson (left) shouldn't have apologised for what he said because it causes new problems
Hodgson's apology, however, solves little. First it makes it appear that he has something to apologise for, yet it will equally alienate those who see the entire affair as an overblown consequence of political correctness. The England manager then comes under attack from both sides. Either he is an insensitive clod or an appeaser of 21st-century nonsense.
Really, he should just be sitting with a glass of champagne and his feet up, celebrating England's successful path to Brazil. Those who have talked with him say he is distraught by this development. He does not deserve this scrutiny.
Race issues are complicated, though. David James once walked out of a Football Writers' Association dinner when guest speaker Warren Mitchell told an anti-racist joke. Again, briefly, it concerned a slave who was given the right to fight for his freedom. The white townspeople decided, however, that he must have one hand tied behind his back. Then both hands tied behind his back. Then have his feet tied together. And be blindfolded.
Lurching out of his corner sightlessly, he somehow manages to land the first blow, headbutting his opponent. 'Fight fair, you black b*****d,' roar the crowd.
Now, far from being racist, this is a joke in which the black man is the only character who emerges with credit. He is brave to take on the fight against overwhelming odds, strong enough to strike first despite his handicaps and dignified in accepting terrible injustice with grace. The whites are, to a man, hypocrites and scoundrels.
Offended: David James walked out of an FWA dinner after a joke he construed as racist was told
Yet what James heard was another joke ending with the words 'black bastard' and a room full of white people laughing. He was one of only two black people present. The other, a Daily Mirror journalist, was also upset. The FWA apologised, like Hodgson, having done nothing wrong.
Yet I've heard the other side of the story and can sympathise there, too. James was already a minority and was made to feel — inadvertently — even more isolated. Maybe he was oversensitive; maybe we weren't sensitive enough. It's a minefield, really.
And Hodgson has blundered into it. Is there a lesson here? Next time, maybe just tell Smalling to start giving more of the ball to Townsend and call him a c***. Apparently, that's perfectly acceptable.
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In the September 2016 issue the Westside Observer (WSO), I expressed my concerns as to the ability of the SFPUC's Finance Dept. to manage vast sums of revenue bond-generated funds, their acquisition and use of a costly incoherent and undocumented ratemaking model, plus their continuing role as the lead department in actual rate design. The consulting model cost the SFPUC approximately $450,000.
Its brilliance, as expressed in its two sage reports (2001 and 2002), was ignored and business as usual has since prevailed."
After that report, I received an invitation to meet with the SFPUC-GM and his two top financial executives. It was a very good meeting. The GM, unlike the chairs of the Revenue Bond Oversight Committee (RBOC), allowed the discussion to go forward uninterrupted. My questions and comments were neither rephrased nor diverted, as was the case while a member on the RBOC. Very little was said by these two financial executives to divest me of my negative take on their current deliverables (rate and financial models). The GM recommended to these executives that they stay in touch with me.
After the meeting concluded, I asked the CFO as to the status of his current ratemaking efforts. He said it would not start for another couple of months. Through Sunshine I have now learned that the SFPUC had issued, at the time of the SFPUC meeting, a Request for Proposal (RFP) to help in their rate efforts, and that the same consultants that produced the previously muffed model had been rehired with a $350,000 time and materials contract. Shades of the Pentagon's failed all-purpose F35 fighter plane program? Good money after bad? A big difference is that the F35 can fly and this rate-model cannot withstand a proper cross-check by truly skilled and competent experts.
Obfuscation and half-truths must not be tolerated in our government. San Francisco has been more than generous with its bureaucratic remuneration. Market-based wage theory is based on the marginal value in use of an employee. Just like any normal supply and demand generated piece of information as to value. Governments who operate by fiat (administered prices and hiring) are outside of the "law of supply and demand." This phenomenon has led to the cult of resume misfits with bloated salaries and considerable expertise in the superficiality of unending and banal PowerPoint presentations.
It is time to reassess all SFPUC salaries. A Taskforce led by a strong and impartial leader can work. Willie Brown's Infrastructure Taskforce worked (2000-2002). Westsider Rich Bodisco, as Chair, allowed this multidisciplinary group to have their say, unimpaired by any hidden agenda or pre-determined parliamentary shenanigans to suppress and deflect ideas. Rich believed the First Amendment was applicable, even in San Francisco. Its brilliance, as expressed in its two sage reports (2001 and 2002), was ignored and business as usual has since prevailed. Hopefully a wave of voter unrest will reach into the dark cobwebs of City Hall, and that government as a career will again attract our brightest and best, whose contributory value to society will actually justify their wages and benefits. Let's get started.
Merry Christmas
Brian Browne was coauthor of 2002 Prop P and former member of the Revenue Bond Oversight Committee it created.
December 2016 / January 2017
Irecently met with District 3 Supervisor, Aaron Peskin, to discuss SFPUC financing and infrastructure issues. Supervisor Peskin's return to the Board is welcomed by all concerned about the SFPUC and prudent financial review. Let me go over some of the input I provided.
Using SFPUC's data I developed the above Table to summarize my concerns as to its financial stewardship. For the period 2016 – 2025 it forecast a modest annual increase in O&M of 2.01%. Debt service is forecast to increase annually by 9.01 percent. Currently it is stating debt service is 41.7 percent of total costs. By 2025 it predicts debt service will be 53.6 percent of total costs. This large increase in debt service to repay revenue bonds will drive total costs up by an annualized rate of 6.01 percent.
Serious thought must be given to adjust the marginal cost (supply) of resource use, especially during drought cycles. It is not obvious that the SFPUC has seriously considered this in its complex and implosive rate algorithm. There is no mention of "identification" as to supply vs. demand shifts. "
During this period the SFPUC forecast that total water volumes sold will remain steady or fall slightly. An accurate forecast of volumetric sales is important. The general equation for setting a rate is to divide total costs (numerator) by total volumes (denominator). This is a benchmark coefficient used in the revenue requirement approach to ratemaking. Revenues = O&M + Debt + Other = Establishes Rates.
The SFPUC's rate model (algorithm) assumes that the elasticity of demand will remain at -0.25 (for every one percent increase in price quantity demanded will only decrease by .25 [hence the minus sign]) for the entire forecast period (2016-2025), and that the service area population growth will increase by 0.5 percent annually to offset decreasing customer demand by these large rate hikes. This estimation of -0.25 is a misuse of the concept of demand elasticity. Its validity as a policy tool and for decision making by the SFPUC (or by its consultants) must be seriously questioned.
The substitution effect (2nd Law of Demand) acting on consumer preferences (artificial lawns for real lawns) will, over time, increase this negative coefficient and require even higher prices to keep revenues equal to escalating costs. Should this dog chasing its tail phenomenon continue, there is a strong possibility that future price increases will result in lower total revenues after rate increases, with a disastrous impact on SFPUC's O&M and capital budgets. For the 101A Economic types this is where demand is or becomes elastic.
Serious thought must be given to adjust the marginal cost (supply) of resource use, especially during drought cycles. It is not obvious that the SFPUC has seriously considered this in its complex and implosive rate algorithm. There is no mention of "identification" as to supply vs. demand shifts.
The financial-gaming approach used by the SFPUC to utility debt issuance, use of funds, and debt service must be questioned. The hijacking of the Revenue Bond Oversight Committee (RBOC) by politicians, bureaucrats, along with their willing committee-collaborators, must now be challenged under a large legal microscope. The Mayor's Taskforce established this Committee as an independent watchdog, not a compliant lapdog.
I provided Supervisor Peskin with two important documents provided by the SFPUC via a Sunshine (FOI) request: 1) The SFPUC's computer model that supposedly sets your water and sewer rates and supposedly explains the economics behind the SFPUC's ascending block tariffs and 2) A copy of SFPUC's Excel bond issuances (see summary below). I made an explanatory video of the latter document, which I uploaded to YouTube, calling it; "Kicking the Debt into the Future." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhHgZssLdhY.
I explained to Supervisor Peskin that the SFPUC rate model was delivered to me with only half its content obviously accessible (Excel worksheets) and without any explanatory documentation to understand relational links. It was confusing and near-impossible to decipher coherent paths of programming logic. This model is estimated to have cost ratepayers between $400,000 and $500,000 and was developed by outside consultants. This model cost will be "blended" (SFPUC jargon) into your water rates.
A well-organized and systematic utility system in expending external capital has a clear path to follow. It issues short-term debt to fund properly planned capital improvements. At the completion of the plan and build cycle (work-in-progress) the capitalized value of these short term loans are retired through the issuance of revenue bonds. All bond issues should be accompanied by a detailed prospectus delineating precisely what the funds will be used for, and how these expenditures will be monitored. As a member of the RBOC I always had a good chuckle when I saw this hijacked committee as being named a major guardian of the purse.
The coupon rate (percent – say, 4.5%) required to sell these bonds represents the market's confidence in the issuer. The repayment period (term) should correlate with the life of the project and be repaid in the rate structure by those customers who will benefit (Proposition 218) from its development. From these two variables (coupon and term) a future stream of payments is calculated that equals the present value of the summed elements (escalated) making up the total cost of the project. These level annual payments (same as a like mortgage) are embedded in the rate structure.
Below is an abbreviated table of the SFPUC's Water Enterprise debt structure. Adding in the debt for Sewer, Hetch Hetchy Power, and Golden Gate HQ brings the debt issued by the SFPUC to $6.8 Billion with $5.6 Billion outstanding. I have subjected these numbers to my own model and find many areas of concern. Why so much refinancing of bond debt with another bond issuance? Is this consistent with the correlative issuance prospectus? Interest only payments mean pushing the debt forward to future generations. Why so much liquidity (average of $1.25 Billion) in the Treasurer's Pool that earns less than 1 percent while the average debt cost 4.5 percent. There are many issues – one that is too egregious to overlook is calculating their average cost of capital by adding all issuances and creating an average. I did the same calculation, but weighted the interest by the bond-volume, and came up with a significantly higher average cost of capital. Their averaging method gives equal weight to a small bond issuance with a low coupon rate, to a large bond issuance with a higher coupon rate
Some of these bonds have been used to refund other bond issues, others only the interest on the debt is being paid, and some are amortized. Total debt issued by the SFPUC in Water revenue bond debt is $4.4 billion. Of this $4.4 billion $4.1 billion remains outstanding. Using my own calculations and assuming a normal approach to capitalization and amortization for debts service, I calculate the outstanding should be approximately $3.7 Billion.
Adding in the "approved" commercial paper (CP) program of $.5 Billion, total debt issued is $4.9 Billion. Total CP outstanding is $0.236 Billion, which makes the total debt outstanding for water at $4.4 Billion. Of some consequence to rate estimation and being in sync with Proposition 218 is that of the 24 debt instruments listed by the SFPUC, nine (9) have a note stating some or all of these funds have been used for refinancing other debt. This greatly clouds up the analytical waters as to stated objectives vs. achieved objectives. The SFPUC is a system begging for Proposition 218 scrutiny.
In writing the Economic Report for the Mayor's Infrastructure Taskforce in 2002 I advised the City to divest the SFPUC of most banking functions. To be continued…
Brian Browne was coauthor of 2002 Prop P and former member of the Revenue Bond Oversight Committee it created.
September 2016
Apparently in response to my Westside Observer articles, Mr. Eric Sandler, CFO and AGM, SFPUC, wrote (6/13/2016) to assure me that the SFPUC is in compliance with the legal cost-of-service requirements in setting rates for water and wastewater services. Mr. Sandler specifically cited Article XIII D of the State Constitution.
There are many laws, legislated procedures, and judicial findings that direct Mr. Sandler and the SFPUC on what they can and cannot do in regard to charging for water and wastewater services. One imperative is that they stop calling the charges for these services "rates" and refer to them as special "taxes." A special tax may only be used for very specific purposes. This makes it very different from a general tax or assessment.
The Supreme Court in the 2006 Big-Horn case voided a 2000 decision (Howard Jarvis v. City of Los Angeles) that noticing, public hearing, and a majority vote were not Proposition 218 requirements; they definitely are law. This 2006 Decision also invalidates all utility rate increases since 1997 that did not comply with all procedural requirements of 1996 Proposition 218."
Some notable benchmarks (but by no means all) on the thorny road to constraining local government taxing power in California are as follows:
1978 Proposition 13 added Article XIII A to the California Constitution and sought to set tax limits, mainly on property taxes. The model created by Proposition 13 spread quickly beyond the borders of California.
1979 voters approved Proposition 4. This imposed limits on the spending proceeds derived from taxes (Article XIII B California Constitution, Government Code 7900-7914).
1986 California Proposition 62 amended part of the California Government Code and imposed substantive, procedural requirements on new and increased taxes.
1996 Proposition 218 added articles XIII C and XIII D. The intent of this Proposition is clearly signaled in its official name "Right to Vote on Taxes." This Proposition, considered a judicial progeny of Proposition 13, added additional and substantive requirements for new and increased taxes, assessments, and property related charges. One analyst noted that Proposition 218 was needed to stop local government end-around-end runs on avoiding Proposition 13.
2006 The Bighorn- Desert Water Agency v. Verjil the California Supreme Court held that metered water rates charged by public agencies are subject to Proposition 218. This means public agencies (SFPUC) must comply with public noticing, public hearings, and majority protest requirements. This Decision extended Proposition 218's reach to cover sewer and garbage services provided by these entities. These charges are special taxes and may not be increased or changed without a vote.
The Supreme Court in the 2006 Big-Horn case voided a 2000 decision (Howard Jarvis v. City of Los Angeles) that noticing, public hearing, and a majority vote were not Proposition 218 requirements; they definitely are law. This 2006 Decision also invalidates all utility rate increases since 1997 that did not comply with all procedural requirements of 1996 Proposition 218
2007 The SFPUC introduced tier pricing for water and wastewater taxes.
2015 The Court of Appeals 4th Appellate District, Division 3 Case No. G048969 decided that San Juan Capistrano must dismantle its ascending tier pricing structure for water and repay $4.1 million in overcharges. Any ratepayer who was charged under the top three of the four tiers: $4.24, $6.37, and $11.67 per unit (748 gallons or 100 cubic feet), will be reimbursed based on the base rate of $3.18. The Court made it abundantly clear that tier pricing is not illegal per se, but to be legal it must follow all mandated procedural requirements and mirror costs that are reasonable and allowable in providing current services.
Mr. Sandler further noted that the City Attorney's office was involved in ensuring full compliance. I had always hoped that the City Attorney would have been more proactive in responding to my numerous complaints of committee nullification during my term (2003-2012) on the Revenue Bond Oversight Committee (RBOC).
Mr. Sandler states that their electronic cost-of-service calculations are accompanied with a readily understandable narrative. I replied to Mr. Sandler that I disagreed with him. When I asked the SFPUC to produce such a document (similar to a detailed road map – giving explicit directions from A to B) they said they could not.
Two possibilities for this situation: 1) there is no such document and/or 2) information is not effectively shared at the SFPUC. The theory of the firm is that organizations, such as the SFPUC, exist to lower information and transaction costs.
SFPUC still has serious concerns about the drought continuing. With a market based pricing system, as mandated by Proposition 218 et al, supply and demand pricing would produce a market clearing price. It would adjust automatically to shifts in supply and demand and send clear signals regarding resource use and investment priorities. This dynamic-type pricing would arguably be legal under Proposition 218. Proposition 218 has objections to administered pricing not rooted in economic theory, as is currently used by the SFPUC.
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San Francisco regularly ignores or morphs federal, state, and local laws that might impinge on the self-serving wishes and dictates of the ruling elite. They are now trying to ignore the laws of supply and demand (S&D). The latest and most dangerous assumption (embedded in the SFPUC rate model) is that water rates may be increased near indefinitely (at least through 2023) and that SFPUC retail customers will not significantly decrease demand. Consumers do react to price increases, especially large rate increases as San Francisco retail water customers are experiencing. This is not the first time, and I suspect will not be the last time, that combined Team Controller & SFPUC have invoked and misused a spurious elasticity coefficient to justify misguided public policies and associated expenditures.
This may give comfort to the bond markets as to the ability of the SFPUC to adequately service debt from present and future enterprise revenues, but such an assumption is highly debatable, and unreasonable based on economic theory. It must be revisited."
The SFPUC has a somewhat enigmatic three-part charge for residential water customers.
1. Fixed or meter charge (service) based on the meter size. There are 12 different meter sizes range from 5/8 inch to 16 inch. The charge for a 5/8 inch meter, effective July 1, 2016 is $10.86. The charge for a 16 inch meter $1.215.46 effective the same date is $2,116.11. Meter sizes represent the potential volumetric demand on the system and are a proxy for recovering fixed costs.
2. Variable or commodity charges are divided into two-ascending tiers. As of July 1, 2016 a retail water customer pays $6.00 for the first 4 units (748 gallons) of water used per dwelling unit and then $8.05 per unit of water thereafter. All single-family dwelling units have one dwelling unit.
Ascending tier pricing may cut off demand, but is it legal and is it economically efficient. It is only legal if the ascending tiers exactly mirror the cost of producing the services. The probability of these fiat- developed steps mirroring real marginal costs is close to zero. Therefore its legality must be questioned and proved. If the SFPUC cannot do this they must cease and go to a marginal cost approach to ratemaking. The high priced tiers do decrease demand. This approach is analogous to slamming on the brakes on I-280 at 100 MPH. The vehicle will stop, but the potential damage to the vehicle, its occupants, and other travelers on the freeway is greatly increased and the outcomes are uncertain. This is analogous to the panic approach of fiat-developed tier pricing to ration water during droughts.
Marginal cost pricing, when applied properly, is effective in rationing water, and optimizing social welfare during both drought and non-drought cycles. A special "feel good" theory starring increasing tier-developing bureaucrats is not required.
The SFPUC's overly complex, confusing, and seat-of-the-pants approach only achieves bureaucratic make-work outcomes. A simple dollar per unit ($/unit x use) charge based on revenues required (numerator) divided by volumetric output (denominator) would be less confusing and more consistent with state law (1996 Proposition 218 amending the state constitution). Joint products with common costs are best valued by equating marginal costs with marginal revenues. Using a normative intertemporal approach to ratemaking (revenue requirements approach) will be less gimmicky, more transparent, less costly, complement macroeconomic growth, and be in conformity with the state constitution, none of which may be attributed to the current ascending block tariff system. The SFPUC approach to allocating costs is similar to an accountant arbitrarily allocating costs to different parts of a sheep producing both mutton and wool. Impossible, but bureaucrats proceed undaunted.
The SFPUC under Brown Act/Sunshine (FOI) provided its Excel model. It has no explanatory text (like a cake recipe) explaining the steps and assumptions used. These type explanations are required to fully understand how they calculate your utility rates. Most independent regulators call for transparent and concisely written "model specifications" to accompany any such public algorithm. A model specification is the same as having a recipe for a cake. In this case the public owns the cake and deserves to know what is in this very expensive cake. Water, wastewater, and garbage services are taxes when provided by local governments in California, and this heightens the need to know why you are being taxed and where your tax monies are going.
Since 2000, as a member of the Mayor's Infrastructure Taskforce (2000-2002) and then as a member of the hijacked Revenue Bond Oversight Committee (RBOC 0003-2012), I have sought access to this recipe, so I might understand what is embedded in these taxes to better understand their correlation with state laws and economic efficiency. The worksheet (multiple spreadsheets) housing their rate model was confusing and less organized than I suspected. The Excel code was relatively sophisticated.
Through the smokescreen of poorly documented Excel sheets, I did immediately find two major weaknesses (I am still analyzing). 1. Their stated method for capitalizing major investments via revenue bond expenditures and amortization of these funds for blending into the rate structure, and 2) the misuse of the important economic concept of price elasticity of demand. I have spoken of the former in prior essays.
The SFPUC rate-model assumes for the period 2013 through 2023 that the price elasticity of price demand for retail water will remain at -0.25. This means that for every 1 percent increase in rates or prices consumers will only cut back physical demand by .25 percent. This will ensure SFPUC total-revenues will always increase at a like proportion after every rate increase, regardless of the amount of the price hike. This may give comfort to the bond markets as to the ability of the SFPUC to adequately service debt from present and future enterprise revenues, but such an assumption is highly debatable, and unreasonable based on economic theory. It must be revisited.
The derivation of the price elasticity of demand coefficient used for this analysis does not support this near-infinitum type extrapolation. Using this static elasticity number is also contrary to history experiences. San Francisco water users during the price increases and mandated restrictions of the 1970s and 1980s droughts made many permanent cutbacks in their water-use. Similar cutbacks will most probably occur as a result of the current drought with its rate hikes, and like moral and mandated rationing.
Postscript – Just in case the City folks take offense at my economics, let me quote from two outstanding economists - William R. Allen and Armen A. Alchian from their Exchange & Production…. Text book (3rd Ed.) "First law of demand: At any given price there is some higher price at which less of a good is demanded. & Second law of demand: In the long-run, demand is more elastic for any given good as substitutes for that good become more readily apparent."
Brian Browne was coauthor of 2002 Prop P and former member of the Revenue Bond Oversight Committee it created. Feedback: firstname.lastname@example.com
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I have long lamented the lack of real oversight in San Francisco, but may indeed have a remedy in the form of the state constitution and the limits placed on the taxing power of local government agencies to tax without voter approval. Using this power for taxpayer wellbeing will require concerned citizens to step forward and ask the courts to constrain the current runaway taxing efforts (under the guise of utility charges) of the Administration and its enterprises.
The SFPUC must eventually repay the present value of its total issued debt, and as an enterprise entity, it only can do this through the rate/taxing mechanism. And as such, under state law, must be approved before the fact by the voters."
It is time for the citizens of San Francisco and the SFPUC (they possibly will issue $15 billion in bond debt) to realize retail water, wastewater, and garbage services are taxes under the California Constitution (Articles XIII D, sect. 6 (a) 7 (b)) thanks to the passage in 1996 of Prop 218 (no vote, no taxes). The State Supreme Court in 2006 (Big Horn Decision) agreed with the proponents of Prop 218, that retail water, wastewater, and garbage charges by local government agencies are taxes. Tax increases or new tax funded purposes must be approved by the voters. The self-regulatory powers given to local government are significantly limited by this 1996 addition to the state constitution.
In 2006 the California Supreme Court (Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency v. Verjil [July 24, 2006, S127535]) affirmed that water, wastewater, and garbage services are taxes and are subject to the changes made to the state constitution by Prop 218. In April 2015, the California 4th Appellate court declared the San Juan Capistrano ascending tier structure for retail water sales was illegal and must be reworked to be consistent with actual costs. The Court did not say ascending tier pricing is illegal. The court stated ascending tier pricing must reflect actual costs. The expected probability of this happening is probably close to zero. I would guess even more unlikely with the SFPUC tinkerers who have this well paid assignment.
In 2007, one year after the Court affirmed that rates are taxes and must be put to a vote prior to an increase; the SFPUC instituted an ascending tier rate structure. It is difficult to see any way that SFPUC's ascending tier pricing can be compliant with Prop 218.
I have long argued that the ascending tier structure adversely effects conservation. This may not satisfy social engineers who ignore the fact that the intention of these taxes is to provide utility services, not finance welfare. These are specific taxes for specific purposes and should not be usurped elsewhere.
The SFPUC has issued $4.039 billion in revenue bonds for its Water Supply Improvement Program (WSIP). Of this amount only $1.6 billion (SF 2002 Prop A) in revenue bonds were approved by the voters. SF's Prop E in 2002 dispossessed the voters of the right to issue revenue bonds and gave it to Board of Supervisors. At that time a lot of Prop 218's inhibiting power over municipal taxing were yet undiscovered. These powers may need to be invoked as the SFPUC marches toward a possible revenue bond debt of $15


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Du Bois Timeline 1868 - Born February 23, Great Barrington, Massachusetts 1888-1890 – Enters Harvard as a junior and receives B.A 1896 – Receives Ph.D. from Harvard (First African American to receive a doctoral degree in History) 1910-1934 – Founder and Editor of The Crisis, monthly magazine of the NAACP. 1934 – At Atlanta University as Head, Department of Sociology
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So when the Madrid boss was asked about his future before the club's first competitive game of the season in the Uefa Super Cup, it should have been no surprise. Ancelotti faced similar seemingly cynical questioning before the Champions League final in May and after a year in the Spanish capital it's a line of questioning he should be well used to. This is no ordinary scenario and this is no ordinary club, this is Real Madrid.
It's a line of questioning that brought scepticism from many in Ancelotti's pre-match press conference at the Cardiff City Stadium on Monday but it's an approach that is valid given the desperation of the club, especially from president Florentino Perez, to win everything in their power this season. Six trophies are up for grabs for the European champions and Perez is not hopeful of winning all six - he's expectant.
A 2-0 victory over La Liga rivals Sevilla in the Welsh capital on Tuesday night ticked one off the list as Madrid claimed their first Uefa Super Cup for 12 years thanks to a brace of Cristiano Ronaldo goals and star performances from hometown boy Gareth Bale and new signing Toni Kroos. The competition may not sit high up on the 'wanted' list for Madrid relatively, but it was crucial if Perez and Ancelotti are to oversee an historic season at the club.
"Every competition and every trophy is important at Real Madrid," said Luka Modric, who took his place alongside summer additions Kroos and James Rodriguez in Madrid's three-man midfield. "It would be marvellous to be able to win all six [trophies], but it will be very, very tough. We'll face some very good teams on the way. The pressure will be the same as it always is at Real Madrid."
That pressure was mirrored on the front pages of Wednesday's sports papers in Spain. Madrid showed "flashes of their formidable potential to aspire to win everything" beamed Marca. "What this Madrid side cannot win through sheer inertia, they win through talent," said AS's Juanma Truba. "I am talking about league titles and Champions League (as long as they don't get bored doing so)."
Ever since Iker Casillas lifted the club's tenth European Cup in Lisbon the talk has been about winning it all, destroying everything that comes in their path and cementing their place as the biggest and best club on the planet. That honour has been held by Barcelona in recent seasons and it's the Catalans' experience of already clinching all six major trophies in one year that helps drive Perez and his colleagues at the Bernabeu.
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AC Milan to Real Madrid (2009) - The Brazilian joined in the same summer as Ronaldo but failed to make a real impact at the Bernabeu.
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That sextuple was completed in 2009 but spanned two seasons. The chance to win all six in one campaign adds more glitz and glamour for Los Blancos but will also prove more difficult given the number of matches they will need to play in ten months. Pep Guardiola led Barca to the Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup, Club World Cup, Copa del Rey, La Liga and the Champions League in an historic year for the Catalans and Perez is desperate to trump that.
"We didn't play badly for the short time we have been training," Perez said after seeing his side clinch their first trophy of the season. "This triumph gives us massive hope and expectations. We want to continue improving and winning trophies."
The Blancos president has certainly provided Ancelotti with the ammunition to compete on six fronts this term. World Cup stars James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos have joined a squad already packed with talent while Keylor Navas adds competition for Iker Casillas in goal and the rumours surrounding former Atletico Madrid striker Falcao adding to Madrid's firepower will not go away. Luis Suarez's move to Barcelona may have been the blockbuster transfer of the summer but Madrid's squad is the one looked on with envious eyes from the watching world.
That much-needed squad rotation could come into operation as early as next week when Madrid take on La Liga champions Atletico Madrid in the two-legged Spanish Super Cup. Diego Simeone's men visit the Bernabeu next Tuesday before hosting their more illustrious neighbours three days later. La Liga then kicks-off the following Monday when Madrid host newly-promoted Cordoba. All this with the majority of Madrid's stars only returning to full training last week following their exploits at the World Cup.
The Fifa Club World Cup takes place in Morocco in December and comes at an ideal time for Madrid given the mid-season break in the Spanish season, a break that would usually take the club far away for lucrative friendly matches anyway. Los Blancos' defence of the Copa del Rey then kicks-off before Madrid will expect to be involved in the business end of the season in La Liga and the Champions League.
No pressure, then, for Ancelotti. This is, however, a man who didn't flinch when Sergio Ramos headed in a dramatic injury-time leveller against Atletico in the Champions League final, a goal that put the club en route to winning a trophy that made their six-trophy dream a real possibility. This is also a man blessed with arguably the best squad in the world and one of the most talented squad's in the club's illustrious history.
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Dog's energy requirements- Dog's age
A very important factor that influences the daily amount of food is dog's age; a puppy has different nutritional needs than an adult dog, the food for a puppy must ensure and sustain growth and evelopment.
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Male German shepherd that weighs 30 kg doing an intense physical activity will need about 2000 to 2200 calories per day
Male German shepherd that weighs 30 kg doing low physical activity or even overweight will need about 800-900 calories per day
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To calculate the energy demand and consequently the ideal weight of our dog, we must consider the breed; there will be substantial differences if the dog is a Pug, a Great Dane or a Chihuahua.
How can we calculate the caloric needs or know the ideal weight of our dog if he/she does not belong to any breed?
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Appropriate dog's energy requirements vary according to age
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