of a son who attends st. paul's elementary school. i am a community member in san francisco. san francisco is my home. i love it here and i want to stay here. one of the ways that may make it possible for me to stay here on my limited educate a salary, i have to just make a complement to the mayor's office of housing and to the board for really providing an amazing surface -- service to san franciscans. now that i know about it, i have found the mayor's office of housing staff to be compassionate, well-intention, and very professional. what i'm speaking directly to right now is that one-time waiver of the requirements. i do understand your concern

regarding making sure that before bmr units -- that the bmr units are maintained for their integrity, and i do think more people can benefit from them if those one-time waivers are considered. the restrictions right now for their requirements right now are really -- it is a very slender margin of people who can actually qualify. my income has to be low enough to qualify, but i need to have enough assets in order to make the down payment and in order to qualify for a loan. with that slender margin, there are bmr units that are sitting on the house. i did not think for a dozen is a small handful. it is 40 units. right now, my purchase of a unit or someone else's purchase of

some asset capital will make the difference in our lives so we can continue to afford to live in san francisco, raise our children here, continue to contribute to the economy here by continuing to be the hard working citizens that we are. people who work in social services are really, as you know, the backbone of the middle class in san francisco. if we cannot afford to live here, you lose some primary participants in the community, so one of the things that i also want you to take away from this is just some statistics, okay? some empirical evidence. those units actually do sit on the market twice as long as market rate units. what are they doing when they are sitting? supervisor maxwell: thank you.

>> thank you very much. supervisor maxwell: any further public comment on this item? supervisor chiu: i would like to ask that we adopt the amendment as a whole and we send it over to the next meeting. supervisor maxwell: at the next meeting, we will have more conversations. supervisor chiu: these are amendments that have to sit. supervisor maxwell: we will hear this item next week. will you give us the date? >> october 25. supervisor maxwell: we will continue this item until october 25. next item, please. >> recommended changes for local streets and roads.

>> the afternoon, supervisors. we recommend approval of this, and classification is used to determine federal funding allocations for the maintenance. we recommend changing the functional classification from local to arterial. we also recommend changing the functional classification. from local to collector. an arterial provides the highest level of service, and it has the greatest speed in the longest uninterrupted distance and some degree of access control. the local street is primarily

just local access with no through movement somewhere in between that collects and delivers them to the arterial streets. basically, it allows the federal government to decide what type of federal money you are eligible for. arterial which not necessarily be a residential area. it was designed to have no driveways on a. those developments are from the side streets. it can provide that ability to get to that distance just as quickly. supervisor maxwell: would that be more residential?

>> the examples here might be thomas avenue, while it does have some residences on it, it is more of a major street like one out of six streets. it delivers it to the arterial streets. supervisor maxwell: the other one was the local street. >> it is not defined as arterial and provides access with little or no through movement. that could be the street within the neighborhood. unless you have any questions? supervisor maxwell: think you. -- thank you. public comment on this item?

gosh i heard her mention griffith street. -- >> i heard her mention griffith street. that is all the way up on the hill. that is a very heavy traveled road there. it might do three blocks. it is amazing to me that the city can start doing this and then it collapses. we have the football games that have started into those streets that are heavily traveled. we have a lot of homes on thomas and st.. we also have homes and businesses down the street there.

you can look on the map. it is a five-block area that needs to be fixed up. >> this will help. depending on how the street is named will determine the amount of money. >> what about griffith street? supervisor maxwell: she can come up and comment on that. >> i have a map here that shows which portion. the portion of griffith we are talking about is the portion between thomas -- i'm not sure what portion espinola

jackson lives on. she is south of the map. she lives south of the map. the portion we are adding to the system is thomas east of it over to griffith. thank you. supervisor maxwell: any further public comment? public comment is closed. colleagues, without objection? >> item number 12 on the status of community benefit programs. >> we are kind of having a

different ed rendell. they are expecting economic development -- a different era. they are expecting economic development opportunities, and they should. utility has been doing that for a very long time. i wanted to have this hearing to talk about what they have done, what they are doing, and their vision for the future. it is important that we assess where we are and what we have done as we move forward. i noticed ed harrington here, the director. this is one of my favorite apartments. when we turn on the tap, the water comes out. it runs our muni, it does a lot.

i've been they have been responsive to the needs of the community -- i think they have been responsive to the needs of the community. people, especially waste water, they are so enthusiastic about what we do. i am proud about utilities and public utilities. we are ahead of the curve in some many different ways. i want to thank all of the rest of you. i know them all by heart, thank you for all that you do. >> we also want to thank you for your leadership. so much of what we are dealing has been -- of what we are doing is spearheaded at the board. we bring good, clean water to san francisco.

we take away not only sewage but storm water. we have carbon-free hydropower. some things are not so positive. we have construction impact that includes things like noise, holder, things that are not welcome -- odor, things that are not welcome in the neighborhood. we are hopeful to have a net positive impact on the communities that we interact with. we are looking at a more focused effort to make sure that we are doing that well. we have of a lot of programs and it is a little scattershot. part of it is to add stocks from other people. as a supervisor maxwell estates, we have leaders in the department already.

the general manager of the infrastructure, the general manager for waste water, and the improvement program. in a couple of weeks, she will start. we have a general manager for external affairs that will be the focus of this. we have also engaged two firms to inventory what we are currently doing, to go out and see what others are doing. and finally, to come back and recommend policies that we can make sure we are doing as well. that is not just construction, it is how we are doing business all of the time. the initial status report, i will be asking them to do an abbreviated version of that.

we are also partnering with the mayor's office of economic work force. we will be focusing on the community benefit that relates to work force development and jobs. it is such a critical part of it. i just wanted to bring them up to give you a few thoughts. thank you. >> good afternoon, members of the board. we have been working collaborative the -- how collaboratively with the workforce and we've contributed our thoughts to the presentation and the overall work force effort. i wanted to acknowledge supervisor maxwell, we are now in our eleventh cycle.

we ran over 500 -- placed over 500 individuals and out of the academy's -- out of our academies. the supervisors or our guest speakers. i think our shop will play an integral role in waste water treatment especially on the construction side. and hopefully, as we move forward, we can figure out a stronger partnership. i believe strongly that the bigger hit is not so much construction, but the other jobs that come out of puc that are far better paying jobs, and a better career mobility. we hope to be working with the

team and the consultants. we move forward on the inside game as well as the construction. with that, i am sure you will find more information. thank you. >> hello, good afternoon. i wanted to thank the committee for the interest on the community benefits program. we are really excited that you are here to learn more about the community benefits program. i was serving as commissioner of the public utilities commission the last couple of years. we worked with staff as well as my colleagues on the commission. it was a landmark moment that we

were finally able to get this policy past. shortly thereafter, the question came into play about how we utilize this policy. it will provide us with a framework to be able to do just that. we can put that policy in division -- and vision into practice. and we hope to live up to being a good neighbor not just in san francisco, but all the way down santa clara county. we brought in two consultants to work with us. they presented to the public utilities commission on to no. 14. i wanted to share with you some of the main takeaways.

the puc has been doing a lot of work that has fallen under the rubric of community benefits for a long time. supporting arts through the art commission, looking at internship opportunities for young people. the take home from the consultants is that it has not been as intentional as they like it to be. the second thing i would like to share with you that i took home with me from september is that the community benefits program will ensure that we, as an agency, have an approach how we communicate with community members and people from the utilities commission. there is a real participation with stakeholders as we think about the impact in different

places. the last thing is obvious, the timing for the program could not be better in the context of the improvement program. opportunities to pilot this program is huge. i know that my former colleagues are going to be looking for these as we think about the implementation of the community benefits program. supervisor maxwell: people at home don't know what sip and everything is. it is important to say what it is so that they have an idea that -- sewer improvement program. it really helps to put that out there. >> d.c. were system improvement program that will be coming -- d.c. were system -- the sewer

system improvement program that will be coming will be an extremely important opportunity that we will be able to do. i will turn it over to our consultants that have put together an abbreviated version of the presentation with public utilities commission. supervisor maxwell: are they going to go over the recommendations? i would ask somebody what your feeling about those recommendations and what you're going to do about them? >> we will be able to provide all of those. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

with me today is my colleague, we are the consultants that were brought on to help develop the community benefits policy. i want to applaud supervisor maxwell, when he introduced the first resolution for containing community benefits. at the time, and general manager ed harrington, his commitment to the community benefits program. and the help -- and i thank them for their assistance. i would like to walk you through what we have done to date, providing an overview of

our outreach, the introduction of community benefits, and our next steps. the project has been a huge undertaking. it has been many hours of research, talking to both internal and external audiences. our progress to date, we have facilitated over 30 community meetings and stakeholder of reach interviews. we developed a website, created an inventory of benefits programs, developed a definition for community benefits. i will provide a little bit more information about what we have done. under outreach, we have talked to the stakeholders.

strategically, as it relates to programs, that is what we are conducting. we have interviewed consecutive -- executive managers. the in the peninsula, the task force, we have covered ground to make sure that we have included everybody in our review. the subcommittee, various others. we also developed a community benefits website that provides all of the information that we are providing to you today as well as the power point presentation and definitions. and an online survey that provides people the opportunity to give their feedback. we want to reach out to the

broadest group possible. we also looked at the states across the country that are most similar -to san francisco when t comes to community benefits. chicago, new york, portland, los angeles, san diego, and silicon valley. none of those utilities have a comprehensive program. san francisco can really be on the leading edge. supervisor maxwell: are most of those -- those aremunicipal -- are municipally owned? they are. -- >> they are. we talked to the community

relations department to find out what they are doing. they are mostly related to infrastructure projects and related to shared agreement between construction projects and the community as opposed to a more sustainable at a long- term program. most projects are decentralized. they are scattered all over the place. we also developed an inventory of the current community benefits program that we are undertaking. we have identified 80 programs. it is remarkable. puc has been working out there, just not in a coordinated way.

the education and ecology center at fort baker, projects for youth, funding that goes to the arts, and environmental justice policy that was adopted in 2009. there are quite a few very engaging programs that are under way. with that, i would like to turn it over to my colleague to tell you about our definition and our next steps to recommendation. >> is a pleasure to be here. i would like to add my congratulations to your efforts for pushing for community benefits and acknowledging the important work puc -- that the puc has done.

i want to give you a little background on community benefits. we waited until we completed the stakeholder involvement before we came up with a definition of community benefits. there is no universal definition of community benefits. we came up with one that incorporates the thinking of around the triple bottom line and sustainability. equity, environmental sustainability, and economic strength. you will see from the various programs that you have there on the inventory, 29 of them involve environmental programs or environmental justice. they have done a really great job in terms of assessing the economic viability of the project. we believe the equity peace deserves a little bit more

attention at this point. that is what we are focused on in terms of community benefits. this is an area, looking at the mission, community benefits has always been a part of it. it needs to be more intentional. professional service providers and the community needs to look at community benefits. it really depends on who the community is. the community is very broad, expands several counties and is regional. there are issues of gender, equity, and ethnic diversity. we have crafted a general definition that includes the requirement that outcomes be measurable and measurements be included.

you have in front of you a draft definition, and you have a screen shot of the website we have developed for the community so that they can understand a sfpuc is intending to do. -- what sfpuc is intending to do. and conceptualize and community benefits. we are happy at the end of this to take your questions and fold it into the final definition. at this point, the draft definition states that community benefits are the positive impacts resulting from development and operation of the waste water and power services. they need to be a good neighbor by all of those impacted by the services, and balance