-- >> mandarin is the highest population out here, but we don't have officers had speak different languages. we use language alliance, we get an interpreter to talk to people. the increase in rate, i read the report and i try to determine if there are patterns or anything happening. it is not one guy going around or raping people, the majority of it are people that are acquaintances. for some reason, we have a spy and it is not one area of the district, it is different parts of the district. >> is there anything being done to try to address this? gosh not so much at our

station, but i know that some of these victims are students of the college because they drink too much or they use drugs or something and they stay up all night, they are intoxicated and in certain cases, they stay overnight and are sexually assaulted. we talked to them and to say, can you put this out on their newsletter, such as assaults, burglaries, things like that. for the burglaries, that has been going up that that is something we are trying to get a handle on. we know when one generally is happening, it is during the daytime. we have groups of people, certain suspect descriptions that are different than going through people's houses and burying the doorbells. if no one answers, they just

kicked the door anin and ransack the house and are out. some of the cases, we have the victims inside the house for whatever reason don't answer the door and they hear a loud bang and when they come to the front of the house, someone is there. that is how we are able to get suspect information. the things we are doing to combat that, we flood an area with officers than the two-car and the three-car. we need to the officers tuesday in that area during the daytime. the problem is, how there is not a lot of people out there during the daytime. they see the officers and in the case of plainclothes officers, if you're trying to follow

someone, it is only you and that person. it is very difficult. we have had success in burglary arrests. we are of this year to date, but we still have a lot of burglaries'. our community policing advisory board, the thing that i mentioned, getting the e-mail list easily sort of bull, that is the biggest thing. we had a fire made up regarding break-ins, how to prevent it. we still live from the station, we had a good template. we put that out and had it that the business is so that people can take it out. one of the things we're doing right now, he is putting together a drop box, a web- based program where we can put crime prevention chips on a

variety of crimes like auto burglary, robbery tips, scams against people to steal money from them, so we have a computerized so it is a place we can get easily and we can share with other people. >> how do members of the public get the information you mentioned? and it looks like a fire or something. >> of the fliers that we had, they used their own money to have it made and she gave it to the members and they put it out at certain locations. that is all gone right now. and unless someone wants to pay for new ones, we want to be doing that. the drop box is in progress. when we get everything together, will figure out a way to share with people.

>> information can be translated in chinese and russian, so that it meets the needs of the community members here, the more hopeful it will be. >> this is an example of what we cut. this is the english version on a way to keep yourself safe. >> real quick. a quick follow-up. with regard to the residential burglary, when the residents actually here and realize that the burglary is there, what happens? >> usually, the burglars run away. >> in years past, we of heard a

lot of concern about ocean view playground and the drug dealing, the activity of there. how are things in that area? recently we had a shooting there, is it still an open air drug market? >> i think it has changed. we try to keep them in that area because they have worked there so long, they know everyone down there. the public here, the people in favor of it have told me that when they are there, crime goes down. there have been some recent crime in that area, a shooting last night that the department is looking into. two days ago, there was another shooting. no one was hit, but these things are occurring. >> of the daily report, that is why i asked. as a prosecutor and as a parent,

it was an open air drug market on saturdays during sporting events. commissioner kingsley: i forgot to mention in my introduction, i live in the district and capt. lum are arranged to have a drive around, so i have seen quite a bit of the district. i wanted to know, the project within the community policing devise three boards and their of dating and organizing, the basic directory, i guess, of businesses and community organizations to enhancing the community efforts of the district, i have not heard that before from any of the other district. i don't know if they are doing

it or not, but i think that is a wonderful activity for the community policing advisory boards, and i am grateful to them for doing it and for the collaboration involved to have that kind of data base updated and available for everybody, that is something that could be shared with the other district so that they can be borrowing from you as we are borrowing from richmond. you mentioned in your presentation that you are looking at and examine patterns, and in particular, a round of burglaries. when addressing the questions regarding that, it sounds like most of the burglaries are residential instead of businesses, is that the case? >> yes.

a commission king -- commissioner kinsley: and cars going to the beach is one of the hardest-hit areas? >> there lies the question. >> is there any specific information regarding clusters, trends, movement as to what we can expect, perhaps, going forward? it might help them be more proactive or understand that where they live and do business, there is a particular problem in that area? >> allot of the victims are asian, chinese.

because the district is mainly asian, one of the things that we tell people when we go to community meetings, and don't have a chinese decoration on your door or window. don't leave shoes outside because burglars think that chinese keep a lot of money inside the house, don't use and banks and have a lot of jewelry. they go to these houses, they ring the doorbell, and no answers, so that as one of the things that we see, sometimes. for burglaries', commercial burglaries and businesses, that happened that night. >> is there anything you can

shed light on? >> they are all over the district, all over the sector. next week is out here, and is over, in that sector. one thing that we did have, we identified a cluster. we were working on that. last month, burglars were going into the apartment, going into the back and kicking in the door, breaking the window. we made some arrests, it went, down, back out. it is something that we constantly have to work on. >> any questions? >> i will ask one more.

since you did public comment, there were questions about the neighborhood team. can you elaborate a little bit further about what the plans are for this team and to address the request for making sure there is enough people involved? >> one of the things that the team had was one sergeant and four officers. they worked together all the time, and sometimes when we have special things to do like we are doing an enforcement operation, the tnt officers work with a plan close does hand we have a big group of officers. right now, the sergeant has been transferred to down town. i don't have enough sergeants to -- they are very proactive,

since there is greater danger for them. it is not shared a senior officers that had to be responsible for that. what i was considering, something i am thinking of his changing the system. the officers will still be down there, they just won't be called tnt. and how they are still in that area, but there will be covered seven days a week. >> you are dismissed.thank you .

that will lead us to item no. 5. >> adjournment. gosh i move that we adjourn. >> second. >> thank you very much for coming, everyone. man: 60-inch screen, high-definition. football season is coming up. you can watch it right here. what do you think?

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and >> alike to call the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission to order. how can you call the roll? >> [roll call] >> we have a quorum. thank you. the minutes, it is the second version of the new format. i think it is working pretty well. if you have comments on that, it is still a work in progress. you have any questions, comments, modifications?

>> the motion carries. >> the for public comment, i would like to pull items 12 and 19 from the agenda today. item 12 is the port issue, and there are issues that have come up by virtue of the first district court ruling that i want to make sure we have a full briefing and understanding before we proceed on that. the intent for that would be to be on the next agenda. item 19 is a closed session item and we like to continue that so that the appropriate staff is available. public comment. given they are no longer on the agenda, if anybody has come just

for those items and needs to speak, this is the time to do with. it is for items not on the agenda today. >> [inaudible] i had a few comments about the proposed water transfer, and we did submit comments in a letter back in march, had wanted to thank staff for following up on the concerns that we expressed. i wanted to focus on the need for the water or the lack thereof. in 2008, when it was approved,

will reusing about 257 million gallons a day. last year, we were down between 210 at 220. projections are down, so we are not going to need it in the near future and it would be a take or pay contract. we are paying whether we use the water or not. i know there has to allot of concern about rising rates. we are being penalized for conserving and we're having to pay more a unit. we tried to explain the, there are fixed rates that have to be covered. the $1.5 million a year isn't going to go over very well with the public.

i would encourage you to think about if we need it and if we can address this sooner rather than later. it might be necessary and a good idea, the staff is going on that direction. if we go through the process of negotiating in creating a contract, i think this will be the issue. maybe it is better to make that earlier on. the zero you will consider that and -- i hope that you will consider that and thank you for your time. >> communications, commissioners? the letter summary, the advanced calendar and a variety of staff reports. i think questions or comments about the staff report --

>> the first is waste water, page 6. i am sure i have seen this before, but what is the philosophy behind the late date that is 2025? >> and the director of the capital program for waste water. this is a tough project, we are currently still in the planning phase. when we are validating what is there, we would be putting about proposals to be able to pull and the consultant to the planning, the design, and to help us

during the construction. when we talk this summer, we will be coming to you with the validated recommended schedules. this is probably the program with the longest duration. it involves some and a different maneuvers, we have to relocate the department city to another location, relocate, bill. it would be all the steps it would take to get through building at the digesters and building a potential facility. the digesters themselves would be up and approximately 15 years. this represents the full duration. >> i guess we can address and click.

>> we are all concerned that it happens as quickly as possible. >> we will be discussing this allot in the next couple of weeks, but it is such a large project, we understand the urgency of it. >> i have another question. this time, the hech hechi capital improvement. page seven. retail services. >> miss hale. >> we have everything is delayed. >> what is the meaning of that? >> projects are delayed for coordination of other

department and for staff concerns. >> e d and months? >> yes. -- >> 18 months? >> yes. and we're trying to address hiring needs with h.r. >> in the wsip quarterly report, it starts out with a brief statement by the responsible managers to what the takeaway message should be. aside from all the detail, one of the things most on their mind, i ask that those be added to the reports as well. part of that process that makes life easier.

anything else on communications? any public comment? other commission business? i have one item. we are in the process of scoping the west side reclamation project in light of moving to a new location. has been put that together, i want to make sure that one of the alternatives that we look at is one that does not include reverse osmosis. that is the same technology they use, it is energy intensive and carbon impact that are very expensive. i would like to see what the project looks like. i understand there are good reasons why it has been

included. >> we will still have that one? gosh yes. any other commission business? report from the general manager. >> the first item, there have been two different emergencies over the last several weeks. one with the leak at the shore and the other was that 17th and fulsom. i want brian henderson to talk about each of those. >> good afternoon, commissioners. there are two items i would like to give you an update on. i have some slides. switching over here for you guys. i will be very quick and brief,

but i don't think there is a time limit when it comes to answering questions. you have already gotten little bit of a briefing on the main issue. it is the only consolation that transmits an average of 15 million gallons a day for treatment of south beaceast. we discovered a leak in this item that is visible in these pictures. it was discovered by sue work crews. with the force made underneath, we went through a series of legal detections had decided we need to give somebody in the pipe and to see what is going on there. what you see here, part of the

mobilization to get into this white, it is a monumental effort. this is before he goes againin. they come out of this thing, they're one color. very fgrueling, intense, and a dangerous operation. the leak on the street actually occurred right at mission on the embarcadero. it was just short of the ferry building. we currently have the elite under control. this is the weekly had a year ago, over a year ago of a near

jackson streets. this is the same fix that we implemented here at mission street. what you see are compression bands and rubber seals. against all these things. -- they installed these things. we had to dam the sewweer system at samson and jackson, that allowed us to pump about 3 million gallons a day into the central basin, and you see them at their where we were blocking stevenson for a time. this is a pretty monumental effort between