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• State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, was recognized with a 2009 distinguished leadership award by the Design-Build Institute of America. The organization recognized Simitian for his work in the legislature dating back to 2001, when he became one of the first legislators to pass design-build laws for public agencies, focusing on K-12 school districts.
• State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, introduced legislation (SB 920) to prohibit telephone companies from delivering the white pages unless the customer opts-in to receiving it. "This is common sense,” said Millbrae Councilwoman Gina Papan, who encouraged Yee to introduce the bill. "The amount of waste generated every year by unused phone books is tragic. Most people forget they don't want or use their white pages until it is too late and ends up on their doorstep. SB 920 will reduce our carbon footprint and save scarce local resources.”
Beginning in 1995, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has required the delivery of the white pages as a part of the definition of "universal service” that all telephone companies must provide. At the time of the CPUC decision, it was thought that providing free white pages every year would "minimize the calls to directory assistance and [would] promote the wide distribution of yellow page advertising.”
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