said there's been disruption at the station much earlier. yes, there has. but this latest layoffs of the morning show and cancellation of the morning show created even greater disruption especially the listener audience who come to rely on the morning show for their news. and information and is an innocuous resolution and had a original resolution much more strident in its urging and concern about what happened at the station. this to me is really expressing concern and calling on the parties related to the crisis and kpfa working things out and is something we should support here in the board chambers. thank you. supervisor alioto-pier? >> thank you, president chu. i respect respect supervisor

avalos' feelings about it and personally don't want to vote yes on this particular item so i would like to make the motion to have it continued for one week. we do need six votes for that but i'd rather not have to send it to committee but this is not something i'm willing to support. >> supervisor alioto-pier made a motion to continue the item to january 4 seconded by supervisor dufty. is there any discussion? supervisor mar? >> i'd like to urge a no vote on that motion, like supervisor avalos, i'd like to see this settled today so that we can vote on this today and not delay it for a week. >> if i may, i can send this to committee without a vote. i can do that as one member of the board. so if we don't vote to continue this item today, then i'll send it to committee. >> supervisor daly? >> i support the item, largely because i'm a really big fan or

was a big fan of the morning show but i think given our roles we should definitely support the continuance until our next meeting in january. >> supervisor dufty? ok. supervisor alioto-pier, supervisor mar? >> i will support the continuance but just say that as a former programmer the department at kpfa in the 1980's and went through one of the first apprenticeship programs for women and people of color, it pains me the station is tearing itself apart with different factions and this is a very simple resolution that calls for unity and coming together to protect an important progressive institution in our community. the morning show -- i'm so glad brian edwards tikiert is here and i remember criswell of and andrea lewis, the late andrea lewis and others that have a

tremendous tradition and for people to say -- urge us not to support something like this that supports progressive unity and strengthening the station really pains me and i would just urge those that are asking us to not vote for this to think about how many of us are allies that want to strengthen the station as well? i applaud supervisor avalos' efforts to change language to make it more of a broad call for unity to defend the station but i'm going to be supportive in a week when we vote on this. thank you. >> supervisor avalos? >> i forgot to mention, colleagues, i'll be supporting the continuance, of course but i do have an amendment, very slight apartment i put on your desks and emailed it to bos legislation as well and just some cleanup language and took out mediation and work together and didn't want to there to be an illusion i'm calling on a, body to deal with the labor

dispute. but working together is what this is calling for and think it's pretty innocuous and can support it january 4. thanks. >> supervisor alioto-pier, if i could ask or suggest we take the amendment as a whole and move on your motion to continue. supervisor avalos made a motion to amend the whole seconded by mirkiami. can we take that without objection? that should be the case and now supervisor alioto-pier made a motion to continue to january 4 selected by supervisor dufty. can we take that motion to continue without objection? that shall be the case. and if we can now go to the last item, item 56. >> item 56, ordinance amending the administrative code to provide for appeals to the board of supervisor of certain environmental documents and determinations under the california environmental quality act to clarify procedures and to provide public notice of environmental documents. >> supervisor alioto-pier.

>> thank you, president chue. we're still working out a couple little things and would like to request a one-week continuance on this item. >> i'm sorry, not a one-week continuance but a continuance until january 4. >> supervisor alioto-peer made a motion seconded by supervisor dufty, can we take that motion to continue without objection. without objection that shall be the case. madam clerk could you please read the end memory yams for today. >> today's memory will be adjourned on the following individuals, on behalf of alioto-pier for jonathan simmons and on behalf of supervisor dufty, gill white, sergeant jim acivedo. on behalf of president chiu, for the late rose santimno, for richard johnsonton, mr. john crawl, on behalf of supervisor

campos for mr. jimenez. >> i want to thank everyone for your hard work in 2010. certainly this month as well as obviously the entire year we only have one more meeting of our session but i hope everyone has a very happy holiday and look forward to seeing you over the coming weeks. madam clerk, do we have any more business in front of this board? >> that concludes our business today, mr. president. >> at this time we are adjourned.

preside vietor: i would like to call this meeting to order, at the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission, december 14, 2010. thank you, mr. secretary. next item, please. secretary housh: roll call. commissioner caen is excused. madam president, the next item is the approval of the minutes from november 23, 2010, and i will call your attention to a minor amendment to clarify the intent of summer marks.

-- the intent of some remarks. president vietor: may i have a motion to approve the minutes as amended? all in favor? opposed? thank you. next item. secretary housh: general public comment. this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on the agenda. president vietor: public comment? welcome. all of the hard work filling out the card there, mighke. >> commissioners, my name is francisco. first and foremost, i had to go to the board of supervisors, and i would like to thank commissioner crowley for the

work that he has done. i told him that now and then, i participate in those deliberations. i was on a radio show talking about water resources all over the nation, and millions of dollars are expended, but much of the water resources are being taken over, so this sends a signal to us. the san francisco public utilities commission, they are

one of the largest agencies having a large amount of water that we distribute to over 2.4 million customers. we are also fortunate, as i state again and again, that this water, the hetch-hetchy, within the granite rocks, it is one of the best in the world. when you mix it with the of the waters as it comes over here, and i do not know if that was the original concept, but that is how we have it. it is not available to everybody, but it is a pretty good documentary that shows out

california will have difficulties distributing good water. i say this because you know that spending $4.60 billion on our clean water system, and we get some according to reports, and we still need empirical data on the quality of the water, and today, if i am not mistaken, i sent a document to you, general manager, from the environmental protection agency, so i am here from time to time to remind you that these resources are -- [bell] we have to respect those resources, and we have to be thankful that we enjoy them.

thank you very much. president vietor: thank you very much. >> hello. president vietor: hello. >> my name is barbara, and i am here to talk about the unresolved issues at the golf course. i am here on behalf of the wild equity institute, the national park conservation association, the audubon society, and others. many of these groups provided public testimony to the commission in the recent past regarding problems at the golf course. there was a 60-day notice of an intent to sue. it is a belief that resolving these concerns will require a

short-term changes to the land use of sharp park. because there was a decision to move forward with the sharp park program, that is associated with our 60-day notice. we wanted to be sure that the sfpuc's future decisions are informed. as always, members of these groups are willing to meet with you should there be an interest in the commission. thank you. i ha coffee -- copy for you of the notice. thank you. president vietor: thank you for your comments. anymore? mr. secretary, next item, please. secretary housh: this is

involving agenda item 10 as well as other items sent electronically. also, this item covers the advance calendar. this would be the time for any questions about any items on the advance counter, and there are the staff report. -- reports. president vietor: commissioners? commissioner: i do not know if this is the place for it, but one thing that is clear is that we will have a very busy january. we want to make sure the electronic copies are the same as, not similar to, but the same as the paper documents that come to the commission, as well.

we're going to be getting an awful lot of information, in disparities will cause problems. -- and disparities will cause problems. commissioner: -- secretary housh: i am looking for a little more feedback on whether the meetings should start at a certain time. dj am, 1:00 p.m., or a different time, -- 10:00 a.m.. and we're also looking for the planning commission to have a hearing on calaveras. it is the first item on the planning commission's tentative agenda. if the commission is meeting in the morning of the 27th, we are not sure you will still be in

session by around 3:00, and this could be coming to was around 3:30, so there could be a special meeting on the 28 -- could be coming to us around 3:30. so there could be a special meeting on the 28th. president vietor: i prefer the morning, and i could even go a little bit earlier, but i do not know, commissioner caen is not here and does not like to start early. mornings were quite a bit better for me. -- work quite a bit better for me. we have got all three of those thursday's -- thursdays. commissioner: that would work

for me. secretary housh: on the 27th, if we started later, a working assumption is that the planning commission, since this is the first item, we would probably be finished within the first two hours of their meeting. president vietor: at 1:00 on the 27th. commissioner: that is not good for me. do we require a quorum for this meeting? secretary housh: they all do, but commissioner caen will be available. president vietor: maybe we need to do another poll. secretary housh: why not 10:00

a.m., and on the 27th, we will check. this includes both budgets and calaveras. president vietor: will the 28 work for you? commissioner: know. -- no. president vietor: i will have to check for me, too, but the afternoon of the 27th. commissioner: and we do have a room booked in city hall than already. president vietor: and our fifth commissioner has been nominated, correct?

commissioner: it would be unlikely that he be sworn in until the middle of the month, at the very earliest, but most likely at the end of january. secretary housh: we can check. president vietor: ok, great. anything else on communications? next item, please. president vietor: -- secretary housh: other commission business. president vietor: seeing none, next item, please. secretary housh: a report of the

general manager. >> this is our first meeting without fx crowley. we will talk about the financials and start getting your thinking about budget priorities and the budget situation that we have for the puc. >> good afternoon, todd r ydstrom. as you know, we work on four years at one time. what we have before you write knelt is the last year's financial audit, we do what we have before you right now is the last year's financial audit -- what we have before you right now is the last year's financial audit.

i am very pleased to report to show you on the screen the last three years of results for all three financial statements, and, again, in the fiscal year 2009/2010, we have what equates to a very strong that bill of health, and that means that we have had -- there were no findings of any deficiencies, and an audit manager will go well. we time these audits with others. what this also means is that for the first year, what they directed us to do, we created a separate component for the financial statement for hetch- hetchy water and also hetch- hetchy power, so that was part

of the steps we took to get independent credit rating because of the hetch-hetchy operation. sfpuc and the finance team, in particular, got the distinguished and excellence in financial reporting award. that is for the comprehensive annual financial report. the audits again, as i mentioned, were all clean audits, and we went to get this back to you, soon, commissioner moran. we are getting very good value for the rates that we're collecting from customers.

we are looking to finalize that. it is city. -- soon. we will discuss the budget situation later today and the outlook of our selection, so with that, i will turn it over to the audit manager, karen, and she has the presentation for you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i in the city manager, karen. -- i am the city manager. this is for one cycle. we have completed the audit of

the water enterprise, the waste water entity, and as todd mentioned, hetch hetchy broken out. as he also mentioned, we had clean audits. so going into the slides that we have prepared, there are the required communications, beginning with our responsibilities under generally accepted principles. we understand to plan to perform the audits to obtain reasonable not absolute assurance that the papers are free of the statements -- missstatements.

things are described in detail in two of the financial statements. as part of the process, we look at the quality and consistency with industry standards, and we found them to be consistent. in terms of estimates, we spend some time -- spent some time. one significant estimate that i would like to bring to your attention is the wholesale balancing of accounts receivable. we evaluated things related to this. another point under the required communications is corrected and

uncorrected misstatements, and we did not find any that would have a material impact. we did discuss with management certain financial misstatements. we have provided some detail on what in the slides that follow. i am not going to go through each of them, but if you of any questions and the like to expand on any, we can do that. the next are items related to water. the following slides it is the items we identified related to waste water enterprise. the last are items we identified separately for hetch-hetchy power and hetch-hetchy water. and for some perspective, in some cases, they are less than

1%. this puts into perspective how material they are. the last slide we have, the first three bullet points we have on this slide, we would be required to inform you of difficulties. there were no major issues discussed. in terms of material written communication, we have representation letters. we receive a signed document. so those are all of the required to medications. i would be happy to take your questions. president vietor: well, that is

good news, is it not? i just want to congratulate mr. rydstrom. hi there any other comments? -- are there any other comments? commissioner: what is your name again? >> kerin. --karen. we have a series of other cities and counties that are a part of our client base. commissioner: given what we are going through now, it is very commendable in terms of what you have been able to achieve. have you seen a clean audit than this? -- cleaner audit than this? there is no other agency that

has had such a commendable review, is there? >> there are other agencies that have no audit findings, so -- commissioner: you are being very noncommittal, as an auditor should be. a job well done. >> it is my understanding that that company audited nanny in the past, so they have a huge client base. >> yes. president vietor: thank you very much. the general managers' report, i believe. -- manager's report. secretary housh: there has