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 in that little box to right. it keeps the food parols out. we can compost those. i won't go to slide, but what this says basically is the ordinance identifies the restaurants in terms of being a type of grease discharge or depending on how much grease they discharge because of how much they cook and how many meals they service, we rank them one to four. the four we don't care about. that's like a 7-eleven.

they heat up food, they don't cook. the one is the worst, they cook a lot and have no equipment. the number one is the ones we're going after. we want to make sure they put equipment in. this case, they're basically violating our code and d.b.i. code. we're going to have them put that automatic grease removal device. any place that has the equipment in, we want to make sure they maintain and service. that's pretty much the crux of the ordinance. last two slides have to do with costs. the one thing we do want to consider, because restaurants are very important to this city, to every city, is that the g.r.d.'s, the automatic devices, are more expensive. your average grease trap might be 500 to a thousand. the g.r.d. is in the several thousands. we did a survey. we had some manufacturers come in and go to several restaurants and give this to put them in. what we've done that is unique is we figured out that because a restaurant in san francisco pays for the oil and grease loadings put into the sewer, we've found a way to offset the cost.

the way we'll do that is as follows right now, you pay a sewer service charge. part of that is the grease loading. if you put the automatic g.r.d. in because it's more effective, you're putting less oil in grease. if you adjust the sewer service charges related to those grease loadings, it would actually reduce your sewer service charge bill by about 14%. we worked with finance and then we looked at these restaurants where we got the quotes. we told their sewer bills and figured out how long it would take to pay off the equipment and we're looking at a one- to five-year return. that would continue. they have lots of other benefits lots of restaurants play to get their laterals cleared for grease. hopefully with good equipment they don't need to do that. so we've tried to make it less of a financial impact. final comment, cost to the p.u.c., because we already have inspectors out there. they're just going to shift their responsibilities, start looking at the equipment. in term of sewer service charge

revenue, it would be a reduction in those revenues, about half of a percent of the current sewer service charge revenues, about one million a year. we hope to offset that by the fact that we won't be spending $3 million a year responding to the grease clogs. that's the end of my comments. i'll end with this. as i mentioned, lorre thomas -- lori thomas is here. she's been here several hours in support of this. she's willing to wave and give her support unless you'd like to hear her speak directly on the item. president crowley: ok. you want to say anything? please take the mic, because we're not going to have any public comment on this. >> i'm here representing the golden gate restaurant association, and i'm here because kevin wesley who is our executive director is out of the country, and has been really involved working with karen and the team on this, and i just wanted to say that we're -- you

know, it's been my experience that we're not always as involved from the start at being able to weigh in and work on things that come up in the city that affect our industry, and we really appreciate all the work that they've done and everything they've taken into effect from kevin's recommendation. i can just give you guys a second that -- we want to do what we can for grease. i would say my largest restaurant spends $3,000 a year on grease cleaning. we do it twice a month there just based on the lunch-dinner volume. we don't pay for the cooking oil itself, just the service feel. we enforce that for restaurants that don't do that. and secondly, that it's super clear if you're doing a remodel to your kitchen or if you're going into, we hope, continuing to make restaurant investments in the city, that we as business

owners just know what's expected and know how to comply and prioritize. so we're 100% supportive of this. kevin is really sorry he missed this and i know he'll be supportive if it goes forward. so thanks, you guys. president crowley: thank you. colleagues? >> i have a question. how are you going to require that restaurants put these in? >> well, currently we'd be piggy backing on the existing system. if someone opens a restaurant, they are supposed to put a grease removal -- a grease trap, any type they want at this point. that either seems to be falling through the crax, or they do put it in and then it changes hands and people don't know it's there anymore. all we'd be ding is making sure when d.b.i. gets those restaurant applications in that we know that new restaurants would be putting this automated device in. we would be plugging into the existing system rather than creating a whole new process. >> and what are you going to do about existing restaurants? >> well, existing restaurants,

because d.b.i. currently, the plumbing department, they just inspect a new restaurant. once something is in, they don't go out. our inspectors have been going out, doing these best management practice inspection, making sure people don't pour grease. they'll start looking at the equipment. so they're already out there. they have the relationship with the restaurant. now they're going to go, look, your equipment hasn't been serviced. or you don't have equipment. and normally, if they're violating and they have backups, then we refer them to d.b.i. but we're going to start changing that and tell them where they fall and enforcing that they have equipment and that it be operational. so it's just a shift in their role. >> [inaudible] president crowley: the reason being is the folks at home can't hear that well. >> karen and i talked briefly today. the obvious thing is that look at a restaurant and look at the service. i mean, we pay bills every

month. and you look at the frequency of that and physically inspect it, right? there was a picture early about what it looks like when it's clean and when it's not. it should be pretty early once it's maintained. people that do this and it's part of our business and we care about the environment, we want people that don't know about it to definitely at least maintain the traps that are existing and put it back on the department of building inspection like we do when we open a new restaurant, right? make it part of the final approval to open the restaurant and maintain it going forward. president crowley: colleagues? commissioner moran: just like a comment, it looks like a lot of intelligent thought went into putting this together. president crowley:, yeah, i comment you folks for that. >> it's taken us a while to get here.

president crowley: i know tommy's team is happy not to get into this too much further. so in our folders, colleagues, and behind tab nine is our resolution. now we can -- if you're ok with this, we can move this action on to the board, if that's where it would go. if you're comfortable with that, i'll entertain a motion. >> second. president crowley: it's been moved and seconded. any further public comment on the question? hearing and seeing none, adopting resolution on number nine, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. >> aye. president crowley: opposed? you guys have it. >> thank you very much. next item, michael? >> item 10, discussion of possible action to authorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to request approval from the board of supervisors to accept and expand grant funds totalingedly 9 0,000 from the

united states environmental protection agency for the civic center sustainable district project to manage water, wastewater, stormwater, and other elements sustainably and to execute all required agreements. >> i do have an overhead. maroney will you be offended if i move this item? without a presentation? president crowley: nice job. >> we have no speaker cards on this item. president crowley: do we have a speaker? on the question. it's been moved and seconded. go ahead, sir. >> it would be a good idea if you all had some idea what this is about more than what your staff report says. i'm the coordinator of the mayor

civic center steak holders group. i want to give you a little background of what this is about. the current planning documents in the civic center area are 40 or more years old. there's been efforts to update them but there's never been any money. since the 1989 earthquake, some $3 billion has been spent on new facilities and repair facilities in the area, including your new building. in 1998, mayor brown spent $200,000 on a report on redoing the civic center plaza, which is antiquated, not welcome and certainly needs work. he then got into his re-election campaign. it was put in the deep freeze and nothing has been done with that since. i have talked to mayor newsom since he became mayor about the need to update the planning in

the area and to particularly redo the plaza. he's attempted to find various ways to do that. the rec and park commission and department showed no interest in it, despite the fact that it's their plaza. but then a couple of years ago, he came up with this idea of the sustainable district, and the purpose is much broader than what the heading of your legislation said, because as you know, the planning department is going to take a great deal of the work in this, and we're going to -- they're going to replan the whole area. some 20 square blocks. and we're going to improve the use and hopefully in private buildings, there will be a plan, for which there is money to do not only the plan, but the i.r., which has always been in the past. it will make the plaza con form

to its regional historic nature, but also have a lot of facilities relating to better environmental and sustainable purposes. this is a significant development. you can see that i view it as a major benchmark that you will pass this out. i hope you will look at it in the broader context, and it should not only produce a plan that can be approved, but supposedly, there will be some money to do some small projects. but it will give us for the first time a platform in which we can address this issue as making the garage work better. reduce the traffic congestion in the area. a whole long variety of things. thank you. president crowley: thank you. any other public comment? or colleagues, any questions? the motion has been made. it's been properly seconded. i'll take a vote. all those in favor, please

signify by stating aye. >> aye. president crowley: the ayes have it. >> item 11. item 11 was taken off the calendar. item 12, discussion and possible action to approve the plans and specifications and award water enterprise water system and a ward harding park recycled water project in the amount of $5,251,100 to the lowest, qualified, responsible and responsive builder to construct recycled water delivery storage and pumping facilities. president crowley: ok. commissioner morlan, anything on this? commissioner moran: no. president crowley: it's been moved. >> second. president crowley: any questions? >> we have no speaker cards. president crowley: no speaker cards. ok.

all those in favor of adopting number 12, please signify by saying aye. >> aye. president crowley: opposed? >> the eyes have it. >> the next item is closed session. would you like to entertain a motion to invoke privilege? president crowley: ok. i'll entertain a motion at this time. during closed session while the gallery is convened. the motion will assert attorney-client privilege. anybody in the public that wants to make comments on anything in closed session? >> yes. i forget the item numbers, i think it's 17 and 18, the cob tract's renewal, two exceptional individuals, two amazing people are going to be discussed, and that's general manager harrington and assistant general manager harlan kelly. i just felt with the experience in working with these two fine gentlemen, i just want to put a word in for how valuable they

are to this city and their work and their leadership and their expertise, their ability to bring us all together, working with general manager harrington, i value very much the conversation we have on the church not that long ago, a very enlightening conversation. i really enjoyed that very much. and looked forward to it. another strong continued period of time. and mr. kelly played the role of great uniter not that long ago. a bunch of us came together saying how can we all come together around so many of these important issues, which are vexing and challenging. and i really saw tremendous spirit of leadership that i think just came into an apex in terms of working with mr. kelly. my -- i just wanted to say that i saw that on the agenda. i don't know if it's appropriate at all to even say this stuff, but i felt compelled to do it

after feeling so good about the situation today and the past several months. we're moving forward in such a united way on all these issues that we're going to solve together. it's going to be the largest part because of the leadership of these gentlemen. president crowley: thank you. you heard the motion. it's been properly seconded. all those in favor. >> aye. president crowley: those opposed. ok. >> mr. president, if you will allow me to read the items, we will then move into the closed session. item 15, threat to public services or facilities, consultation with agency chief and security. 16, personal matter, general, edward harrington. 17, personnel matter, public employee, terms of employment, new contract, assistant general manager for. item 18, conference with legal council, existing litigation, mitchell engineering, various cases as listed.

19, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation as defendant. item 20, conference with legal council, existing litigation, allison ayer. filed january 8, 2010, city attorney file 101163. conference with legal counsel, unlitigated claim, motorist insurance group, ellis brooks chevrolet, city attorney file 10-03078 filed mayay >> 5:45 while we were in closed session. look back at my notes. there is item 15, 16, 17, 18,

there was no action. item 20 and 21 has been settled. i will entertain a motion at this time. i wanted to disclose discussions during closed session. >> i move nod to disclose. >> second. >> moved and seconded. final question [hearing and seeing none, all those in favor of not disclosing, please signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> opposed? the ayes have it. ok. other new business. >> two little quick items. one is the arts policy question. i think it would be great to calendar that at some point and have a discussion around p.c.r.'s policy -- you know, what the situation is, what percentage it is, get briefed on it and try to craft some kind of -- >> it would be great. i actually had several long conversations within the last week with the artist commission folks. >> ok. so we can calendar that.

i like the idea of rotating, we talked about it before, the location of the meetings. maybe there could be a proposal to what that might look like, quarterly, twice a year, once a month. >> i think the only problem is that there might be a charter limitation on having meetings outside the city. but beyond that, we certainly have hearings, though, outside the city where commissioners -- less than a quorum of the commission could participate in hearings and would serve, i think, perhaps a similar function. >> and maybe some of the meetings that we do have could be within the city, just in different places, different communities might be nice, too. >> way out of the question. >> it's a preference to have commissions like the p.u.c. televised so that's the other thing. we have certain limitations in how much we can televise in certain locations but we can work on it. >> as far as the interest expressed in having our meetings elsewhere, are there

specific places or -- >> love to see more folks. >> i'm going to try to go to the big celebration. >> the 100th year celebration for the temple should be a nice thing? >> are you going? >> i believe everybody has the actual formal card invitation in their folders today. >> right. >> ok. any other further commission action? seeing and hearing none, at the top of the program i asked we give a moment of silence to those that perished and those that are distressed. i ask we do that in a moment of silence. [moment of silence] >> thank you.

other than that, a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> second. >> ok. it's been moved and seconded. this meeting september 14 is adjourned at approximate 10 minutes to 6:00. september 14. thank you, everybody.

>> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps.

microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and analysis. >> the department of public works they maintain what goes on in the right-of-way, looking to dig up the streets to put in a pipe.

with the permit. with mapping you click on the map, click on the street and up will come up the nchgz that will help them make a decision. currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application. you can go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francisco. you can search by address and find incidents of crime in san francisco in the last 90 days. we have [inaudible] which allows you to click on a map and get nchldz like your supervisor or who your supervisor is. the nearest public facility.

and through the sf applications we support from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. you can drill down in the neighborhood and get where the newest hospital or police or fire station. >> we are positive about gis not only people access it in the office but from home because we use the internet. what we used to do was carry the large maps and it took a long time to find the information. >> it saves the city time and money. you are not taking up the time of a particular employee at the assessor's office. you might be doing things more efficient. >> they have it ready to go and say, this is what i want. >> they are finding the same things happening on the phone where people call in and ask,

how do i find this information? we say, go to this website and they go and get the information easily. >> a picture tells a thousand stories. some say a map >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you

want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected