on the third floor, i have two fairly large windows, probably six by six on either side. it gives a lot of light. i am -- i know the air and the like will be blocked. that is all there is to it. i am wondering if something can be done about that, if we could work out some skylights or something. but it is definitely going to change the lighting in my home, and the air. there is no doubt. these windows -- the top floor has a back -- deck that is fairly open. i think something will occur there as well. so that is what i am -- i just hope you consider as well.

thank you. commissioner fung: the permit holder has indicated -- i will ask you the same question in confirmation. the rear of your building, there is a recess at the rear of the building. is that correct? in other words, from the property line, the wall is recess back at the rear of your building. -- recessed back at the rear of your building. vice president garcia: do you have a copy of exhibit 1? if you would refer to that, if you do not mind. commissioner fung: no.

so if you would look at the site/roof plan. site and roof plan. so your house is -- looking at that sheet, your house is to the right of the murphy's. to the bottom of the image related to your floor plan, you see a series of lines that show a recess from the property line going in an eastward direction. that represents -- >> that is a stairway. commissioner fung: that is a stairway?

>> yes, a widening stairwell going up to the second floor. commissioner fung: where are the windows located? >> there are windows right along, right where the staialond of that, -- the outer end of that is part of a deck. that is like a glass wall there. as you go up to the second floor -- actually, in the first floor, if you keep going where the.is -- the dot is, that is where you will find a lot of skylights. i have a big skylight as well that goes down to the garage, and a large eight by six window in the dining room. all along here, i have a lot of light, actually. so that is probably the -- what you are seeing their -- there

is going down to the garage. i cannot explain what it is. it is sort of gain -- of a roof lighting piece there. vice president garcia: if you do not mind, would you put that on the overhead? as you are describing these features, point out where they are. i might be the only one confused. >> yes. obviously, the sight of my building their -- the side of my building there is one wall going all the way up to the fourth floor, including the basement and garage. what do you want to know? vice president garcia: first of

all, the way this is drawn, it goes front to back. >> yes. vice president garcia: so the windows you are describing -- would you point to where those are? >> window here. window here. this is going down to the garage. you go up to the third floor and you will see windows right above the windows i just pointed to. vice president garcia: and the circular staircase you were describing would be where on that rendering? >> right here. vice president garcia: i had thought the commissioner was asking you about the back. >> i know. there are 2 the luster cases, one here and won here. -- there are two staircases, one here and one here.

this goes from the outside yard to the kitchen. vice president garcia: thank you. >> thank you. mr. murphy. no rebuttal? ok. mr. sanchez. >> i would like to put on the overhead and an aerial photo that might help show the subject property. this long building is the permit holder's property. the adjacent building is the appellant's property. commissioner fung: excuse me. victor, can you grow -- blow that up a little bit? thank you. that is good. thank you. >> this would be the -- my finger is huge. this would be the permit

holder's property. this is the appellant's property. you can see there is quite a recess already between the buildings. the rear of building walls are a southern-facing exposures. i would not think this would have a great addition to shut up, especially considering the shadows in the photo. the existing building already extends in such a nature. that already casts a shadow on the appellate of property. i do not think there would be net new addition of shadowed by the project. -- of shadow by the project. commissioner fung: those shadows look like it is early afternoon already. thank you for your ipad. vice president garcia: do you charge the city when you use your ipad to help us out? >> the matter is submitted.

president goh: commissioners? commissioner fung: i will start. i think it would -- just to summarize my view, because my questions are all geared that way, i would assume and it is probably correct that the portion of the appellant's building where there are no setbacks in her building probably have no windows. at the point where there are starting to be setbacks, it appears there are a number of windows. she has mentioned a number of different floors. primarily on the second and third floor. i would concur with the zoning

administrator's assessment of direct sunlight patterns going into that. it is not likely the addition will cast any further shadow. however, the addition does come closer to her building. therefore, in terms of ambient light, it affects it a little bit. in terms of the overall impact, we are talking about the permit holder having made an accommodation by keeping his building off the property line. i think that is significant in this overall discussion. the issue of how much accommodation one makes with respect to the property line

situation is usually very limited in our city and in the various types of projects we hear. i think this is significant accommodation. i do not see that the issues of light and air are significant enough for me to impact this particular permit. president goh: i agree with that. other comments? or is there a motion? vice president garcia: i agree with everything that has been said. i guess in order to accommodate the appellant somewhat, not that i suspect mr. murphy of having made statements that he would restrict building or construction activities to monday through friday -- i do not know what hours he intended that to be. if mr. murphy would come forward and tell us what he considers to

be reasonable hours? >> thank you, commissioners. bart murphy, a permit holder. the more hours we work, the quicker the job gets done. 7:30 to 6:00? vice president garcia: i would even be willing to give him half a day saturday. i do not think that is too interested. do you feel you need the saturday? i agree with your sentiments that the quicker it gets done the better off the appellant is going to be. you need to come up here if you are going to address the board. commissioner fung: if mr. murphy offered the weekdays, i

think that makes sense. we are seeing a boom of construction in the higher-end neighborhoods. i have firsthand experience with the pounding on the weekend, which is the only time i get off, you know? i think we days, if you can do it, is reasonable. 7:30 to 6:00 is a reasonable time. >> is there any way i can get an inspector to come and look at the property line? or is it too late for that? vice president garcia: for what purpose? >> just to view the properly to -- the property line, to see -- as far as you have seen, there are no windows according to the drawings you have seen from him. i just wanted you to see how much like i do get. vice president garcia: -- light i do get. vice president garcia: i think

we understand that. i do not mean this quickly, but you did had the opportunity to present to us, and we are trying to help you a little bit by constructing -- by restricting the construction hours from 7:30 to 6:00. >> i had no idea you could work 12 hours a day. commissioner fung: there is no limit within the building code. >> is that right? ok. vice president garcia: i would make a motion to uphold the permit and to add a restriction that construction only take place on weekdays from 7:30 in the morning until 6:00 at night. >> that would be a motion to grant the appeal, which would require four votes, because you are conditioning the permit. vice president garcia: thank you, madam director. >> on that motion from the vice

president to uphold the permit with the condition that construction be limited to monday through friday, 7:30 to 6:00. on that motion. commissioner fung: aye. president goh: aye. commissioner peterson: aye. >> commissioner hwang is absent. the permit is upheld with conditions. >> there are no further items this evening. vice president garcia: i wish you a productive, enjoyable trip to china. and your daughter. have a fabulous time. president goh: thank you. we are adjourned.

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> i would like to call the meeting of the public utilities commission to order. vice-president moran: here. commissioner caen: here. commissioner courtney: here. >> commissioner vietor is excused. >> we have to work harder. mr. secretary, if would call the next item. >> that would be the approval of minutes of the special joint meeting on may 5, 2011.

>> moved and seconded. link electronics, inc. model number: pdr-885 software version: 3.0c address the commission on the items not on the agenda today. we have no speaker cards. >> do we have any speakers? seeing none, moving on to communications. >> the commissioners have received electronically copies of all of the letters in the summary. are there any questions regarding the staff report admitted in this packet? >> i have a comment on the letter summary? regarding the impact of climate change and storage and those of you who have been around for awhile now that i have been a big advocate of more storage.

i would point that in your direction for observation. >> i had a conversation with staff a little while ago about the same subject. the conclusions of that are somewhat interesting. i do not know if staff wants to speak to that. at the climate change modeling we have done indicates that we are relatively untouched by that. in terms of the effect on an odd mix of what elevation our watershed is at a what water rights we have. >> i am speaking about the ability to capture rainfall. you need some kind of container to have the ring go into it.

>> thank you. any other comments on the communications or the staff report? any public comment? hearing none, on two other commission business. commissioners, i have just a couple of items. first, i understand that item 9e is not ready for action at this time . we thispull that -- will pull that. i had a conversation earlier today. we discussed several of the items that were on the agenda today where contracts have multiple modifications over time. some of them are obviously going

to happen. others look to be items that we could learn from and do better at in the future and perhaps making a better understanding for these conditions. there is clearly an informal process in place to do a post- mortem on a lot of these situations. we can learn from that what we can. one thing that struck me is that it would be useful and important to have the informal process more formalized to make sure that as we have surprises, that we learn from them to the extent that we can. to make sure that if there were mistakes, that they are not repeated. that is something that she has

been working within her own staff for. we could proceed to formalize that. at some appropriate time, you could come back to the commission to describe your progress. the last comment, i believe this is the last meeting for somebody that has been promoted. she will be going over here. the good news is that she is staying in the family. i want to thank you for your work in support of us over the years. we will miss you. it is good to know that you will be around. and the other commission business? mr. secretary. >> the next item would be the report of the general manager.

>> good afternoon, commission. today we have just one item in the general manager's report. it is an update for the water system program. >> good afternoon, commissioners. mr. secretary, if you could hook up the computer. your packet should include a copy of our latest report for the latest quarter of this fiscal year. this covers december 26 through april 2. the publication of this report was delayed by a few weeks because it is essentially going to be the basis for the program revisions that we will be presenting to you in july. i advised you a month or so ago

that we would be coming back to secure approval for budget. if you do approve those, we would turn to the revisions of the department of public health and safety -- safety seismic commissions. i wanted to thank the opportunity to thank my team for the extra effort and diligence that went into this particular report. we want to come out with as accurate of a forecast as possible. that is our understanding of project risks. starting with an overview of our local program, these are as of april 1. the number in parentheses are the projects in each stage. we only have five of our 40

local projects remaining. three of those five projects are actually water supply projects. during the third quarter, we move to the hunters point reservoir project from reservoir construction. we wanted to remind you that about 72% of the total project value is allocated with two large water supply projects. we wanted to point out that we have five ongoing local projects in construction and two-thirds of our local projects have had their construction completed. similar formats for the regional program, and here we only have six projects. six out of our 46 regional projects remaining. two of those six projects are support projects. habitat reserve program and watershed improvement program.

during the reporting quarter, we reached $2.3 billion worth of product construction. if later today you approve the construction, the piece of the pie will grow by $423 million. during the quarter, the replacement project went from this, and we also had three projects move into construction. that would be the water improvement project, the dam project, and the replacement project. as of april 2, we completed construction on two-thirds of our regional projects. another familiar slide where we compare the variances on schedule and costs from the last reporting quarter to this quarter. you can see that we are

forecasting program costs to be $148 million less than the approved budget. that is on the regional side. this is a $27 million reduction in the savings we had accumulated under the approved budget. the forecasted completion of the regional program is now eight months later than what was reported in the previous quarter. this is still tied to the project. i will explain that later in my presentation. focusing on the last to the appeal columns, we are forecasting to be $43 million over the approved project. that is a $12 million increase over the last quarter. the majority of this increase are associated with two of our local water supply projects.

the forecasted completion date on the local project is about 22 months later. this is a nine-month slip from the last quarter. >> that is in months. nine months? >> lighter than what was predicted. >> the west side recycle water project has encountered major challenges where a number of public comments have forced us to take a step back and look at finding alternatives to the current recommended site in golden gate park. we have conducted a number of workshops to address those comments. those have been completed. we are now starting up this phase.

the project was essentially put on hold pending these three sets of workshops. we are working very closely with the water supply group to facilitate that process. this is a chart that i also share with you every quarter. it shows the approved budget in red in comparison to the forecasted costs in blue. we continue to have forecasted cost that is well below approved. with respect to the last quarter, the savings were reduced by $39 million. it is important to keep in mind that we are still forecasting to underrun are approved budget by $5 million.

let's look a little bit at the breakdown of the forecasted cost change between the second and third quarters. what you see in the boxes are the changes from q3 to q2. the red ones are cost increases. this has increased by 40.5 and $13.8 million respectively. our construction costs have decreased for a net of $39 million. these are costs associated with project management and our various environmental efforts, construction management, as well as other s