i heard those during the presentation at your last meeting, and those are also bad news. it will not be easy to deal with this stuff, but we need to get creative about it. the one thing i did not hear in a presentation last meeting that i brought up before is that we need to start developing lands to, just like we separate garbage, separate our sewage, said that the toxic water goes one way and the solids from human beings goes another direction. the only practical way to do that is with composting toilet and similar toilets. at this point, because of fannie mae and freddie mac, it is not possible to use supervisor mar and the mayor created, to put expenses for upgrades for efficiency on your house on your mortgage, so that means that we need to be more proactive and create a program, so i would urge you8k! to helpe

the first steps to deal[é)@ñ this sludge problem and other waste problems like it, to include in your master plan for sewage system master plan, a pilot project for various types of composting and other similar types of toilets so that we can see what works, what is the to

given away. if you would, when that whole process comes up for a final vote, include a good, comprehensive final project for any other public comment? next speaker please. >> thank you. my name is page thomas elliott. i'm from the center for food commission on the sewage sludge composting issue, and it still has not been formally answered, formal response to the petition, and since the issue will be on the agenda in wf additional comment then on the issue as well as provide additional statements, and we wanted to inform the commission that we will take all legal and policy actions going forward into the sewage sludge giveaway program has come to al program has come to al awthank you very much. >> commissioners, if i might -- one correction. there has been no decision to have this in september. commissioner crowley: thank you, general manager. any other public comment? seeing and hearing none,

michael, next item please. >> next item, mr. president, communications. letter summary including the communications received since the last meeting on july>h 27, d the advance calendar of items of coming before the commission. there were two staff reports that were going to be submitted to this meeting that have been continued until the september meeting to allow more time for staff to vet tehm. commissionerm: crowley: thank y. colleagues, anything on communications 5a, b, and c? commissioner moran: on b, a couple of items that have not made it on the area, one of the things that came out of our discussion about community benefit was a request to look at jyour employment within communities of interest in san

francisco. there is also an outstanding request for water supply unit costs for various water supply projects we have in the city. it was in there or not, it made the notation issue. we have talked about having a >hdiscussion in the fall about e budget prior to the preparation. within the advanced calendar, when it talked about the 10-year capital plan or financial plan and said the next one was in the fall and when you go down to the meetings in the fall, there is no specific reference. that may just be3 a budget and finance problem. several things that came out of the ssip level of service discussion that have not made it in the at -- one is technology policy.

lxthe fourth is global warming impact?i on level of service. so those are things that i would just ask be put into the schedule. commissioner crowley: ok. michael, do you have those? >> i do. commissioner crowley: colleagues, anything else on communications a, b, or c? ok, since we moved the staff reports to the september meeting, any other questions? any public comment? ok, hearing and seeing none, next item, michael. >> other commission business. employee recognition. three distinguished retirees with a remarkable 40, 32, and 26 years of public service, and i

believe the general manager has a brief in coming and for each. >> thank you. once again, we are losing three of our cherished employees who collectively have almost 100 years of service to be puc and the city. it was interesting to read through some of the information because i think i have followed several of their footsteps since i have worked in the city. several of them started off or very early work in the controller's office and at various times have moved to the puc. the first of the arteries is john russo -- of the honorees is john russo. starting in 1970, it seems like just yesterday, doesn't it? thinking he was coming as a part-time employee working as a tabulation officer.

if your call back then, the whole data center for the city was down there as part of the seismic upgrades to the building, we had to take the center out, but it has been there years, so john was working for the controller's office during that time. in 1983, he moved over to the puc where they built the data center and did all the processing. but that was the past, and now we are over at left 55 market street, and his temporary job and a commission after 40 years, so we want to thank john for the chance to serve. we will ask all of you to come up at the end. the next is cynthia clark,i7) oy 32 years. starting in 1978, again, the city's data processing group, which was a division of the controller's office, and then, the department of technology and

information services. in 2004,]hó cynthia transferredo the puc and has been active in our licensing systems ever sinc, then. i appreciate that. last of days abel, probably the ñ 't is abel, idçprobably the most recognizable person in the puc, delivering the mail and doing everything we have asked him to do. again, you can always see his happy face going from floor to floor with decorative kinds of things he would carry with him as he moved through the building, so we are saying goodbye with a sad face. if you would all like to come up and take a picture, that would be great.

>> [inaudible] [laughter]

>> with that, colleagues, i think we have a -- [applause] i think that is 98 years. close to 100. >> it is a long time to serve the city, so we really do appreciate it. commissioner crowley: credit to the organization, the folks the service organization. i wish them all well and on

behalf of my colleagues here. >> mr. president, the next item is item 7, report of the general manager. >> first official item of is the wsip program update. >> i'm sorry, i wanted to know the passing of ann schneider, who was our water ice councilperson for 20 years, and is a tremendous loss, not just to us, but the other people she worked with and the legal community in california general. she was a meticulous voice, and in the world of water rights, which can be my numbingly tedious, she had the stamina to put together a force -- which can be mind-numbingly tedious,

she had the stamina to put together for us a body of water rights which will serve us long into the future. she was a fierce and effective advocate, somebody that you really wanted to have on your side, and on top of that, she was many other things. she was a long distance bicyclist, took trips over a range of mountain ranges and over distances that most of us just would not contemplate, climbed mountains on six continents as it turns out, was a member for several terms of the assembly association board. did work with them and some successor organizations on a pro bono basis. assets and resources at the national parks system, and very much respected within the california water community. she passed about a week ago, and she will be very much missed.

thank you. commissioner crowley: michael, we put on our agenda a moment of silence? >> we will do that. commissioner crowley: all right, general manager. >> first small item is just to note that if you look up the street, the crane is up of 525 fulton gate, and that always feels like movement. first item is the wsip update from julie. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm pleased to be here today to share with you the highlights of the fourth quarter for fiscal year 2009-2010. this covers april four through july 1. what i will be presenting today does reflect the changes we have made to our quarterly report. i'm not sure if you had a

chance to look at it since it was distributed. our goal, of course, is to give you a useful tool that will help you monitor our progress better, so i would very much welcome your feedback. this is something that will keep evolving and improving over time. i also want to thank my program controls manager who is here today. her and her team did an outstanding job trying to get this report in less time with a new format, so that is very much appreciated. i think you have received the revised copy of my presentation. we have made changes to it since it was included in your packet, so i would encourage you to follow along using a revised copy, instead of what is in your binder. starting with the status of our local projects, this is a new format here. what you see in parentheses are

the number of projects remaining in these trades. also shown on the slides is the total project value for those projects in each phase. again, we have only one local project remaining, and that is the san francisco east side water project. note the fact that we only have eight of 40 local projects that have yet to enter construction, and one of those eight is in bid and award. during the quarter, the harbour park recycle water projects submitted an award, and the pump station upgrade project moved into construction. we also completed construction on three of our local projects during our local quarter. the biggest piece of the pipe here is in design for the local projects, and i would like to point out that two of those five projects our water supply projects accounting for 240

million. we also have the project with $56 million that is still in design. the division of safety of them has jurisdiction over this project, and there are some issues we are trying to work out with them. construction has been completed on 27 projects with a total value of $180 million. similar formats for our regional projects, and i'm happy to report that the biggest piece of the pipe here is construction. we currently have $1.3 billion worth of total project costs in construction. only nine of our 46 regional projects remain in planning or design. we also have over $500 million worth of projects in big and award, so those will also move

quickly to construction. during the reporting quarter, the upper alameda creek filtering project went from planning to design. the crystal springs upgrade project reached the bid and award phase. the subtle valley water treatment project -- the sunol valley water treatment project be moved to close out. construction has been completed on 15 projects with a total project of $183 million. so here is a summary of the overall cost and schedule variances of the program level, and what we are doing is we are basically comparing the variances from the third quarter to those of this reporting quarter, the fourth quarter. i would like to point out that the black figures are good, as they reflect costs of underwriting and early completion, so if we start by looking at the second and third

columns, both of 40 regional project. our cost forecast is now $94 million under run, which is $56 million in additional cost savings compared to last quarter. with respect to the last quarter, we forecasted a reduction of $64 million in hard costs and an increase of $8 million in soft costs. there is no change in our projected completion date at the regional level. we are still planning to complete the regional program by the approved date of december 15, and calaveras dam project is still our last project to be completed. we are forecasting an overrun on the local program of $35 million, whichuvbq$ is $3 milln more than the cost overrun reported last quarter. the additional cost here is due

to additional scope to the san francisco website recycle water project. as far as scheduling a local extension or delay of 13.3 months comparedz the approved schedule, and this is due to the san francisco west side recycled water project. if you take all the water projects out of the equation, we will complete our local projects 13 months earlier in october of 2014. lñ new chart that we included that compares the wsip total forecasted cost over time, and that is shown compared to the program approved budget shown in red. this chart includes both local and regional programs, an can see that for the last three months, we are trending -- our forecasted cost is trending under the approved cost of the

program, and as of july 1, our forecasted cost is actually at the program level $53 million under approved. this is a summary of the bids we have received during the reporting quarters. we received -- we awarded three contracts, and the trend for favorable bidding climate's still seems reviewed all three contracts were awarded at a value lower than our engineer estimates. in this case, all three contracts had a total value of $381 million, which is $60 million or 16% of the costs estimated for that work. one of the highlighted achievements -- the planning commission certifies the crystal springs -- sandra as transmission upgrade it eir in

june. -- crystal springs/san andreas transmission of great. also, a sign of the increased construction activity in the program is the fact that we have a fivefold increase in the construction hours that were logged on the program during the quarter. we actually have now surpassed the 1 million-hour mark, and construction workers have earned $36 million on our wsip project so far. although our workload is increasing and lot in the field, the teams continue to excel. we have said the incident and lost time rates well below industry average. our incident rate currently stands at 1.7 when the industry average is 4.7. we are also doing very well on

incremental compliance, out of our quarter,8í we had incidence among compliance that were under 1%. again, very much in line with industry standards. by the way, i think your copy had a typo theresr -- it's a 93, but it is3d actually 99% compliance. system shutdowns during the reporting period. we now have completed 30 of our 108 shutdowns for the program. also, a lot of media coverage on a program -- we have had very favorable articles in san francisco business times as well as water world, and the engineering news record, which is a?a publication in the indusy is actually going to be visiting our site next month, so we actually do need to get

additional coverage there. we will be inviting you soon to ground breaking events for the bay tunnel that will be taking place in mid-september, and that will be with general manager harrington and the mayor, so more to follow on that. we are still working through some challenges at the pre- construction level, and i wanted to share with you some of the ways we are trying to constructively try to deal with some of these challenges. with so many projects now getting close to construction, the resourced agencies are receiving a lot of permit applications from us and trying to keep all these permits on track. it has been challenging, but we are working very closely through our interagency task force to try to help them make priorities. the three projects that are here

are those that we are currently focusing on to make sure that there is no delay due to any permitting issues. on the regional groundwater project, i wanted to highlight that the challenges are associated with the need to conduct additional offer for studies as well as the need to acquire 18 different right of way tight -- type of transactions. although all of that is ongoing, it has not added any additional time extension as of this fourth quarter. wanted to also point out a challenge on the seismic upgrade of pipeline three and four. new studies performed by our design consultants have revealed that pipeline four could fail under a major seismic event.

because of those studies, we have had to revise our design to include additional improvements in that area. we are also having to relocate some lines, so those changes have extended the construction period for the project by three months and added $3 million to the project cost. finally, i wanted to highlight the fact that we are continuing through our real estate staff to work closely with the sec -- with the lessees at the horse stable prior to construction, which is scheduled for the beginning of next year. construction challenges -- we issued our first ncp on the

irvington tunnel project in july. what we're doing, because of the permitting issue that i talked about earlier, some of these permits are taking longer to secure. what we're doing is following an approach here where we are issuing --h we negotiated with the contractor to issue multiple ñrthe first allows the contacted to begin for chairman, some metals, and some field survey. we can then secure land and issue an additional for the f -- the first allows the contractor to begin procurements, submittals, and some field surveys. one challenge we are encountering on the bay division pipeline 5 project, we have encountered a high concentration of nickel in some of the soil we dug up for trenching activity,

so that will be requiring special hazardous material handling and compliance with more stringent disposal requirements. also on that project, we have m site that will require us to tunnel under that site, which, ofrhvok course, is going to bee costly. we also have five other sites withó archaeological discoveries that could impact construction, so we are monitoring those very carefully. we are trying to work through some last minute changes, skit under control of facilities with our operations map. some late changes have impacted our construction activities, and i have asked our engineering staff to work closely with the water enterprise engineering staff to try to resolve this issue by the end of the quarter. we need to do a better job act identifying control needs earlier on -- better job of

identifying control needs earlier on. i feel confident that we will be able to resolve the issue. finally, i wanted to point out that there are two projects with change orders over 10%. in the case of the lawrence livermore, we have an item in today's agenda seeking your approval for a last change order on a project that will bring both cost and schedule of of the 10% limits that requires your approval. in the case of the crossover contract, we have not reached the 10% mark, but after negotiation of an outstanding change order, we will, and i intend to come before you in september to seek approval on that particular change order. as usual, there is a summary here of the calaveras

replacement project. we have completed what we refer to as the 100% draft design submitted. we have yet to complete environmental review. that has been submitted to all our project team members, including the cm team. we have retained the services of the beach as our consultant, and they were given notice to proceed early august, so the cm team will initiate a review of those documents. all other activities on the eir and permitting front is continuing as planned, and we are on track at this point to be able to certify this eir by the end of the year. a few weeks ago, general manager harrington and i visited a number of our project sites, and