that has gone into developing a sustainability matrix, identifying baseline sustainability criteria, and really providing criteria for how you measure sustainability, what the successes might be, and again, i'm very excited about the prospect of real attention being paid to this project being consolidated. in the area work force development, your adherence to the local enterprise policy, the ways throughout the region your stakeholders have talked about utilizing local workers and local businesses and local resources to support the puc -- it was very inspiring. in the arts and culture are arena, there are many opportunities to celebrate local artists, to celebrate and used part as a way of educating the community not only about art, but about how the puc works in

its role in the community. we did not see health as a criteria for component of other community benefit programs, but we see what puc is doing as a way of having opportunities to improve health in the community, not just with the mitigation of orders and traffic congestion and other things that result from development, but by the maintenance of open space and parks and recreation areas so that people can develop healthy recreation lifestyles and see puc as a partner in developing positive outcomes. in the area of education, i will not go into detail, but there are so many ways to augment what is happening in the public school district and teach young people about the ways that water, power, and wastewater services are delivered that will enhance their understanding of physics, knowledge, math, so we are hopeful that education

will be a very important part of the community benefits policy that we propose you develop. land use -- we have to give proper to gary and his group. they are doing an amazing job of documenting the land use that is made available to the community in a variety of ways -- with that, and i know you as a commission had received reports about all of the areas and how land use is used to benefit the community. we do think there are some ways where guidelines and criteria can be developed so people who are not now taking advantage of those lands can have an idea about where they need to go as opposed to using the squeaky wheel concept. they really would have an understanding. we think the attorney's office could be very helpful in helping to give information about what those guidelines might be. diversity and inclusion is an

area we think is critical in terms of diverse members of the community participating in planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, and there are ways that bought puc's resources -- there are ways that puc's resources can be made available. this was brought up in groups of people who may have language difficulty understanding english, so we think this is an area where there is lots of room for opportunity. finally, financial and in-kind contributions. that means not just money, but the staff time that is devoted to boards and commissions and task forces that shows the community that sfpuc really cares, so i'm going to move into some of our initial recommendations. first is that the community should adopt the statement and develop an agency-wide community development program. we think the concept should be

integrated into the core mission of puc and that it needs to come from the top down. we think you, as a commission, and the general manager harrington, harlan kelly, and all of the staff that we talk to are very committed to community benefits. we think with coordination at the level you are now proposing, that you will go leaps and bounds ahead and be the real trend setter, and really the benchmark for what community benefits really means in the context of a public utility. we think the community should develop long-term plans to sustain public involvement, beyond the development and implementation of the wsip and thessip. while folks are engaged now, we would love to see a way for that community involvement to continue. third, we think the community benefit program should be

coordinated and sustainable across all enterprises, and we talked about creating a shared vision not just to run community benefits, but a shared vision where all three enterprises are working together in a unified manner. four, due to the importance of community benefits, we believe the puc should provide coordination and management had a senior staff level. i will leave that alone. we have made great progress in that arena. 5, to develop clear guidelines for recruitment, participation, abolition, and evaluation of stakeholder participation. we have seen, through many of the stakeholder processes, that there is a lack of clarity on how they stay engaged, how they get information, and how decisions are made. we have put all of the back from materials we have been working with together in a very large binder. not sure where it is, but we are also going to blow all that information on the web site

because we want all the community and stakeholders and commission to have access to the wonderful material we have been looking at, and you have the website there, sfpuc- communitybenefits the board -- sfpuc-communitybenefits.org. we want to finalize the definition of community benefits. again, we would love your input. you will find on that definition of community benefits that we have handed out to you contact information for myself, so that if you have questions or concerns or ideas, we would love to hear them, and we put that same invitation out to anyone who is with me, and members of the community. we will produce a final written report with recommendations for

a proposed community benefits program by december 1, and the proposal will include both proposed implementation structure as well as metrics for developing and measuring benefits and success in the community benefits program. with that, i will end and invited me questions. again, thank you for your commitment and attention. commissioner crowley: colleagues? >> i have a couple of comments. thank you so much. it is really exciting work you are taking on, and we really appreciate all your hard work. i guess i want to speak on the environment perspective. i think there is so much potential in there as well. i know you are looking for some feedback on the definition, and i think you are pretty right on. i might add a couple of words. i also think there is an

opportunity not just to preserve and expand what we have, but to identify new projects, new programs, that we can then use to see if they work. like the living machine, for example, and how that affects the community. whether it is job creation peace, what the environmental impacts are, to identify and evaluate and promote if need be. to move that forward. also on the environmental side. i know we have been talking a lot about that, and i would love their to be the use of land in a way that maximizes community benefits but also that preserves a national -- natural environment whenever possible, and how to work and identify what that interface is, whether it is a program where communities are coming in and creating gardens there, or if there is a mixed use project, what that looks like, but with

an environmental slant as well because we have a building being put into an available land space. to have that environmental component woven in as much as possible. >> if i could just comment on that -- what i went over very quickly, we found amazing examples in the stage project, the community projects, which means kathryn is doing an amazing job. there is so much going on. one of the metrics we thought could be just a ton of healthy food that is created that is giving jobs to formerly incarcerated individuals and youth through these projects while making great land available. >> absolutely, and i will slip into my day job lingo, but also this piece on education. if there is a way to integrate the growing of food into

education not just for kids, but for grown-ups and the cultural connection is so important. going back to the roots of what the foods are that are important to these communities, so there is a very rich educational component that ties in with the environmental component and the community benefits peace. >> that is one of the reasons we included health as a component. we saw the nexus between healthy foods and quality of life, so -- and water. >> so this whole integrative approach is really rich and really exciting. that is pretty much all i have. the criteria and guidelines piece you mention -- we have been talking around that a little bit as well. we do not know quite how to get there, but it would be great to keep that conversation moving along as part of this conversation as well. >> thank you very much for your

comments and input. we appreciate it. commissioner moran: thank you for all of this. a lot of your recommendations -- most of them appear to be generally applicable to varying communities. not community specific. i'm curious, in your outreach, how you saw difference in expression of interest in the issues raised throughout our service area. it looks like you interviewed outside san francisco. as you look into the peninsula, and i do not know how far out of country you went, but what kind of issues did you see outside of san francisco that or perhaps different than what you saw inside? >> outside of san francisco, it is more land use issues because

most of those folks do not actually have access to the water, so they are more interested in land use issues, but what we found overall design communities where they are more organized, they were much further along in requesting and asking for certain kind of community benefits, and in those communities that were disorganized or had not come together as a community group, they want those community benefits, but they did not know how to begin the process. those were two very different requests that we found, and we went into asking the communities to tell us what they think community benefits is. without us dictating to them, because we really wanted to hear how they saw and how they framed what would be considered a community benefit. a lot of it outside of the

region was land use. within san francisco, it is obviously about work force, and quality of life, health, also use of land. those are the main things that i think we saw that people were most interested in -- education and sustainability. >> i think i would just add that throughout your service territory, there was a keen desire to partner with the sfpuc, and that might mean different things to different people, but they want to be at the table. they wanted to have input. while the issues and concerns may vary, the desire to work in partnership with puc was evident throughout your service territory. >> again, thanks for the work. they have kind of kept me brief

throughout their research. one of the things i will share is that they had told me that they were hearing as they did their interviews, was that there was this desire for us to have the meetings locate into different parts of the region, so back there was a desire a face time, so i think that is interesting. i had a couple of comments and questions. one was around facilities and how the puc thinks about the actual facilities that we own. the architects we went into, they were talking about the recycled water project. as we talk about legal and the waste-water facility and bayview, we have talked about people being able to have tors and that kind of thing, but how we think about the facility assets that puc has. we talked quite a bit about the

arts commission, and i never realized when you bring up the parts issues that previous commission meetings, about kind of why we are pursuing certain pieces of art and what the nexus is to sfpuc's priority, i did not actually realize we were supporting the arts commission financially until i sat down with you, so that, i think, is a huge asset as you think about resources that could really support the puc's vision and values. at this point, the puc does not have a connection, so now i get what you were asking because there's probably some work we could do to make those connections a little bit stronger. then, i did have a connection to -- a question about the connection to 218. are there other places where you did the stand?

>> yes, they did. in chicago, specifically. new york does as well. there are some limitations, but when you read the definition, there are clear ways to make a nexus, to the mission of the agency, and some commissions boards have been more aggressive in that way, and others have not. yes, they are facing similar restrictions. commissioner crowley: questions? ok, thank you very much for a big report. thank you very much. any public comments? ms. jackson.

>> i want to thank you very much, and i would like we did consider what has been presented to you. i have been in several meetings with the young ladies in our area. i would like to point out page 13 because that was part of my input. [laughter] so i want to thank you very much. commissioner crowley: any other public comments? mr. brian, welcome. >> i think that the commission has come a long way, spent many years -- 25 years or so, doing business in different direct and indirect ways, and i have to tell you that this is a proud moment for me to look out at

this commission and have this commission recognized the need of we are setting the standard not only for san francisco but for the country. this, my fellow friends, is the start of something very special, a start that i think in the and will benefit our community, and will benefit this country as a whole. great job. ladies, great job. and staff. >> i wanted to echo the statements by mr. ryan and ms. jackson. this is such an exciting program. i remember when there was a discussion that led to this,

with commissioner alice saying you wanted to have this process. -- commissioner ellis saying you wanted to have this process. it was great to sit down and talk with you folks and learn from your expertise. they came down and greet us at the southeast jobs coalition, and there was about 30 of us there fully engaged, and it was really exciting. there was a lot of excitement about what is to come, so i cannot wait, so thank you. i think chris was here for a minute and stepped out. it has just been really great, and i think it has a lot of promise. one other thing i just wanted to say is somebody maybe to interview, i forgot to mention that he basically wrote the letter we talked, and he knows

san francisco community power. he puts the community to work, so he does really good work, and he wrote the letter that we all signed, and for those of us 6 1 i think we're really looking to this really to help us solve the issue of the day, which is we want to create more opportunities. we want more of union work on all city projects is what we're after. we're looking to support a project labor agreement on the southeast wastewater treatment plant, the digesters, on the sewer system work. we want this to be in a way that helps create opportunities for folks that are out of work in the hiring halls and folks that are out of work in the community. i think there's been a set of discussions between community stake holders, building trades, contractors, government. we've got 20 hours of discussions to try to solve these issues. and we've gotten painfully close. and we need things like this

process to help push us over the edge and keep us together, because the 20 hours of conversations ended last week, and then we all go and do our different things to try to move this policy, hopefully in a way that keeps us on the same path, which is where we all want to get, which is a community labor partnership. so i'd really like this to be a central theme going forward, because the p.u.c. has so much important work going forward, both for our trades men and women that are currently out of work and our folks that we want to see empowered through all the opportunities that will be created. so i think that's the kind of lesson as we come on the one-year anniversary of a hearing that i think kicked off this discussion, which is last december. so it's just really exciting. thanks again, everybody. >> hello, commissioners. i am a resident of the bay view point community, but i'm a member of the i.b.w. local six

electrician's unit. i'm really happy to hear that this sustainable approach for community benefits will be taking place, or i hope that you guys adopt this approach, because as an apprentice going through the i.b.w., i can't count how many times i struggled with my children having asthma attacks and not understanding why they were constantly getting sick. it affected me both, you know, my economics, as far as -- you know, me being able to go to work and my children's health, my health, and just my whole way of living. and had i known at that point that there were environmental issues in my community that were impacting, you know, my lifestyle or my ability to live, i just think -- i guess i'm standing up here really to support this approach in looking

at the workability of the area, the environmental factors, the health issues, and the education of the community as well. because i believe had i had that opportunity, i probably could have, you know, just been able to manage my lifestyle a little bit better. so as a resident, i hope that you guys can adopt this approach, because i can see a lot of people's lives changing for the better, just for looking at a situation from a holistic perspective as opposed to making decisions based on just the economics, looking at how it will affect a person's life, the life of a individual, i think will be the best.

josh said to give a shoutout. [laughter] president crowley: thank you. next speaker, please. >> bart johnson. with a longer-term perspective, i would say that many of the people in this room worked very hard for a number of years just to get enough focus on job one. which one removing waste from people's homes and running the power system. back when there were times when the commission or the powers to be in this city were unable to come anywhere close, it took a lot of work from our side to get you there. now you're at the point where you can entertain programs like this for make your communities better and it's hard for an old dog like me to sit and listen to all of this sometimes.

i do preasht what you're doing for your community. don't lose the focus on job one. thank you. president crowley: thank you. any other public comment on number eight? >> we will schedule this back in december then. president crowley: correct. >> item nine, discussion on possible action to authorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to support for adoption and urge the board of supervisors and the city and county of san francisco to pass and mayor gavin newsom to sign the proposed fats oils and grease controlled ordinance. >> good afternoon, commissioners. from -- i'm from the collection division program, the sewer group. i know you've had a long meeting and you have many items, so i'm going to quickly go through this.

you have the whole presentation. if it's ok with you, i can get to the highlights, or i can through the whole presentation. >> highlights, please. [laughter] president crowley: we have this in our packet. >> i will hit the highlight. president crowley: all right, thank you. >> i'm here to talk about grease in the sewers. we will talk with one of the key slides. this is one of our store laterals. as you can see, it looks like water that is flowing, but it's really grease stuck in the sewer lateral. there's a trickle of water coming out. and this is what happened when that grease hits our sewers. in this case, we had to jackhammer the grease out. so i'm here today because we have a fog control ordinance that we would like to move forward and take to the board of supervisors. and it will give us the ability at p.u.c. to better control the grease that is coming out of our restaurants and our sewage service establishments, catering kitchens, etc.

we are already out there at restaurants educating them about keeping grease out of the sewers, best management practices. we have the s.f. grease recycling program, but we're still finding that we have a big problem with grease in the sewers. we have a plumbing code that has requirements for restaurants to put grease traps in and has standards, and we have our public works code that has a limit on the amount of grease that wastewater coming from a restaurant can have in it. so we have existing codes. but we still have over 40% of our sewer service work orders when the crews get called have to do with grease, over 40%, and that translates to over three million dollars a year in crew time, equipment, trucks, video equipment, time that could be used inspecting critical pipes that might be failing, other things that would increase our levels of service. and the bottom line is that what we're finding is even though we have our laws, our inspectors

are finding that restaurants either don't have any grease capturing equipment, even though they should have traps or interceptors, or they have them but they're not servicing them, so it's basically a chunk of grease with water flowing over it. so that doesn't help anybody. so our fog ordinance in a nutshell would have our inspectors go out and look at that equipment and make sure that the equipment is there, that it's properly serviced and operational, and also we're looking to move restaurants to a more modern type of equipment. that's really all this ordinance does. it reinforces the existing code, has our inspectors' eyes on the grourninged well as right now, d.b. i will approve a grease trap when a restaurant goes in, but they don't look back to see if it's work. that's a big gap in our oversight. this slide just goes over a lot of outreach we've done. we've worked for over two years with the golden gate restaurant association. we have their board president here, who was wanting to make

some statements basically that we've worked with them. we've also worked with the other departments involved. d.b.i. port. d.p.h. the ordinance has been out for several months and we've done various community meetings. the ordinance has several general requirements about how to maintain grease traps. the main new requirements are making sure it's properly serviced and maintained and fully operational. that's basically the new element of this ordinance. there's three types of equipment. your basic grease trap. your large interceptor, and there's probably about 20 in san francisco, because there's a size limit. they're large and underground. and then the automatic device is the one that we're looking to have more restaurants put in, because it's more efficient. it skims the grease off the top. it pulls out food parols up front. has many benefits. and this is what it looks like