maturing requirements. we are preparing 11 contracts.

this is because the different types of habitat, different timing and location and we will return for approval of two professional service contracts. two contracts to collect fees and use local genetic materials suited for the watershed. others include construction contracts and one for real estate services. we are implementing 3 goat rock as one of the sites. we are asking for the commission approval on the next item to find the habitat at efficient

wildlife refuge. we're hoping to seek approval including the open space in the bay and one in alameda county. we proceeded with some habitat purchases assisted with the approval of the project. the special account which will be used to fund capital question was established by the commission during the supplemental appropriation process. we will return once we have negotiations. the water enterprise will include some of the monterey activities. finally, the conservation easements will require the board

of supervisors and your permission. >> thank you. >> questions? >> when we go through the approval, we see a lot of mitigation details. many of them are not focused on large scale regional impacts on but other conditions. it is useful to see this in aggregation. distillate does aggregate to a large program and out of that comes some pretty large opportunities. some of the sights toward dealing with provide an

opportunity to manage it for several projects then to a large scale mitigation. >> thinking. -- thank-you. >> public comment. >> we have one speaker card. >> it afternoon. i've spoken before you a number of times. i'd do speak on behalf of the watershed and encourage you to implement policies that are in support of this. we currently support the integrated approach. we do have some concerns and our major concern is whether it is per. to be mitigating for

construction impacts on land that is already owned by the public utilities commission. some of these reserves are in the end that is already under ownership and is under no threat of development. the question is if it is appropriate to use these as medication. the calaveras dam project will involve 3 million acres of the habitat. this will change management practices and we fully support this because we think this is worth pursuing. you also approved the watershed in criminal improvement project which has about $50 million in funding for just these kinds of

projects over the three watershed. we suggested it is a more corporate to find private land that is at risk of development where we will lose the habitat. this is rewarding either mismanagement of these lands or non management. we would like to see this done on public lands and we would like to see these projects go through but we think that there is some more things that can be done. i've come before you a in never times and i'm happy to say that

the staff has worked very hard on reviving the flows for fish and the operation of the calaveras damn. it looks like we can have an approach that will be beneficial for steel and trout and other aquatic wildlife. the two remaining issues are this very issue of mitigation. i'm hoping that we can resolve those and get that project moving forward. thank you. >> thank you. >> the program had money for this kind of thing. my impression is that this was to not fund mitigation efforts. i thought it was for everyone beyond >> this is existing

public protected land. we're talking about enhancement or improving values. this comes under the environmental enhancements that we envisioned. we don't see this as a mitigation for direct construction. the result will be in net loss of habitat. the private land is in risk of developing. this is habitat that would not go away otherwise. >> i swung to be clear that you pay to million dollars. >> this is approximately $50 million for the bond funding. if you remember, this

acquisition is private land and it goes into conservatorship in the incremental benefit. that is the thing that we're looking at, not litigation. this is required mitigation, this is a permanent requirement. it is a requirement for our project to go forward. where we cannot, we have to go out and acquire those new right of ways. this is the approach we have taken to mitigate for our construction project. i understand there is a lot that goes into this. each project has all of these little mitigation measures to.

this is not just a collection of different improvements to it an ecological landscape approach to benefit the environment. >> i cannot understand from that presentation apparently, a perpetual maturing will be terminated in the tenures of the other agency which will take over much during. did i and stand that? >> -- did i understand that? question happens -- >> what happens is that another part of the organization will have to the project.

we are responsible for measuring the effectiveness but we are just measuring this from our infrastructure branch into our water enterprise and to the national resources division. we will make sure that we have mitigated these. >> someone is watching. >> we have no other speakers. >> from b-1 to make sure that we don't mess up half the things and areas we continue to live in.

i didn't want this to go by unnoticed. this is important not to minimize the effect to the environment and also those to the customers. >> i have a question, it says that the restoration is that there are projects that may or may not include private land can tel. doesn't this address the land mitigation question to some extent? >> we have different strategies in different areas. this is the central valley. we're using mitigation banks and we will be using private property at this location as

appropriate. at our watersheds, we are using the available land to satisfy the agency. >> whether this is inside of our watershed or out? >> there are no mitigation banks in the peninsular region. we don't have an option to go to the mitigation bank and there are no voluntary sellers. there are some that have not been earmarked and targeted. the agencies directed us to have this project in the initial watershed. there are some frantic properties that we are exploring the timing of getting

those in to control so that we can meet the requirements for permits was unpredictable and we worked with the agencies to identify projects that would allow us to make the schedules. >> thank you. any other comments? next item? >> presentation and possible action to approve the selection of ducks unlimited, award water apprize, water system improvement program funded agreement, a group of hasidic and county of san francisco and ducks unlimited. >> if we could have the

overhead. this indicates where we are talking about in the south bay. this is an item for $135,000. near the bottom, there is a red circle which was the main terminal site that we just started work on the other day. there was an impact on the tidal marsh and as a result, the research agencies allowed the medication for that to be at the 600 acre parcel here which would have a levee and restore tidal action. this is an example where the

impact was 15 acres and the restoration area is 1,600 acres. if you have a 600 acre, they would be restoring a small area. this contract is with ducks unlimited who has done design work for the restoration at bear island. they have been identified as the contractors and improved as a full source contractor. are funds would result in the 600 acre restoration which is probably occur sometime early next year.

>> questions? >> know. >> comments. >> we have no speaker cards. >> what is the likelihood of getting the remaining money? >> actually, i would like to ask to representative from the national wildlife refuge to come up and address that. >> i am the manager for the national wildlife refuge. the question was about the additional funds. we have several sources in the state of california to the coastal conservancy and these are to the peninsula and the trust. what we're trying to do is balance those funds so we

developed this can tell this combination of funds would suffice to provide the additional money, this is just about balancing out. we like to come up with the full project price. >> what happens if the commission approves the balance and the rest of the money doesn't come through? >> the funds are there and they would be able to provide. we try to hold those funds back and tell if we get to use all of them, we will not get to use some of the other aspects which includes improvements. what we want to do is hold those funds back as much as possible to make it possible to do the whole project including restoration. >> thank you.

>> any other questions? is to any public comment? is there a motion to approve item number 14? >> second. >> thank you very much and good luck with your project. >> madame president, the next item is a closed session item. if we can entertain a motion and see if there is any public comment and tell you need to entertain a motion to invoke the attorney-client privilege. >> so moved. >> all those in favor. >> we have no public speaker cards. if you will hochtief meet a moment to read the various items.

threat to public services or facilities, number 17. number 18, conference with legal counsel. number 19, conference with legal counsel, pending litigation, jane martin first is the city and county of san francisco. item 20, a conference with the co-counsel, jane martin, versus a city in council -- county of san francisco. item 21, conference with the co- counsel, jane martin verses the city and county of san francisco. item 22, conference with the co- counsel, city and county of san francisco vs.

when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many

of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in

prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with other women that have similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these women deliver their babies at the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come

outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their

own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b. we actually provide group medical visits and group education classes and meeting people who have similar chronic

illnesses as you do really helps you understand that you are not alone in dealing with this. and it validates the experiences that you have and so you learn from each other. >> i think it's very important to try to be in tune with the needs of the community and a lot of our patients have -- a lot of our patients are actually immigrants who have a lot of competing priorities, family issues, child care issues, maybe not being able to find work or finding work and not being insured and health care sometimes isn't the top priority for them. we need to understand that so that we can help them take care of themselves physically and emotionally to deal with all these other things. they also have to be working through with people living longer and living with more chronic conditions i think we're going to see more patients coming through. >>