i could get information for d. i say this because some of you all may get the reports in hardcopy. and i prefer getting it in the digital form. so i'll put it over here so - it's important i'm following the special very, very intentionally like a hawk. but i see what's going to happen if you don't take the appropriate actions quickly and do the right thing. now, when i read the report item number d which was a lengthy

report i that's what i like. it tells us not in detail but more or less what's happening in this report and that's what some of us want to read. it's the engineering and the maintenance and the budget. and we get some sort of fulfilling of what's going to happen so that we can draw our own timelines goals and objectives. we can't come here all the time i used to. but i'm picky now. i prefer that those who are interested in the sewer system improvement project come to my office and maybe i can share

with them my experience and tell them when i went on my recent tour you have europe what i saw and what ought to be done. or if they can go to los angeles and learn about the reverse. and learn about the central valley we may not have the water in 20, 25 years to grow the crops. i think the commissioner knows about it because such issues come before sacramento. but because we presuppose because people give us the resources we keep wasting the resources we have to think about

that. d did you ever find the hedge report? >> yes. i did. only one - no, no, i didn't find the report i couldn't read the report on line >> huh? okay duly noted. any other public comments? >> any other commission business? and now we come to the very anticipated report of general manager >> first, i'd like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the hard work of our 2013 winner for using water wisely. it was something that was put together by the water division.

>> these pictures are great. >> uh-huh. >> where did they go? >> hi water resources thank you for having us here today. i want to start out by (inaudibl

(inaudible) >> on? >> technical, of course, when i get up it's technical difficulties. so as our general manager said every year we host our contest throughout the years classroom presentations and field trips to local watersheds. we close our school year this the the third contest. we invite ask the to talk about recycleing or prevent pollution in our water. a lot of the students that participate participate in all the programs. we had about 2 hundred

submissions. we have our lower grades participate >> the grades are? 3 through 6. we target that because that's when the water is focused in the school. this is your overall winner ms. clark. it's a little hard to see but we have her in a parallel world where she's leaving the water running on one side and running the shower and on the other side she is a smiling girl because she's turned off the fault. we also see different ways to conserve water. i'm going to make sure i get the ask the names.

this young leader is our third grade winner. here we have ms. chang and they was our fourth grade winner. this one is we have a water meter reader. and she's specifically talking about taking shorter showers. good to know she knows about showers too. this is our fifths grader winner. this might be a gym or agent facilities we want to make sure that our students know about pipe leaks. we're working with other schools for stickers so she know when to

report leaks. awe and finally this is our sixth grade winner. and we selected this winner this is a concept we talk about a lot to know about all the different ways to use not just plants and animals needing it but for things liar manufacturing and electronics and clothing and food to have an understanding of that. >> and quickly wanted to show a couple of selections. this particular contest was focused on water but we have pollution prevention. we have a student who is stopping greases and chemicals from enclosing into our bay. this is a young man who is

throwing things into the sea but we want to prevent our beautiful animals. >> can we have? >> can you have aerial? >> come on up. >> want to say anything? you're putting her on the spot but her class 0 did receive the presentation. we couldn't bring all the winners but aerial took the time to come down so that's great (clapping) >> so from the puc we want to thank you for you're great effort and you're a family for

coming here to support you and the puc. i think all the commissioners joined you to make that welcome to the family and congratulations to the winners of contest. those pictures are great >> so the next item is the sewer improvement program update. >> let me just get it cueed up. >> thank you karen director of

the services improvement plan. good afternoon, commissioners. i'm going to give you an update this will be part of the quarterly frequency report. so if i can get those slides up please. thanks. i'm going to go through some of the active projects and talk about the planning work and our urban water assessments. i'll brief you on the tops we discussed at the last update our risk approach and the community outreach which has become active. we have $50 million of capital work on the waterside. we're working on the dewatering process and those are to help us expend the continuing condition

and to reduce odors. and shown on the bottom is the emergency work you've helped to go forward. this project has replaced the system that were and today, the digestor system is on our agenda. we're moving forward with some other tasks with our program manager and ready to be handed off and that includes the bio solids and the bio gas. we've talked about the gas and the best investment for us to move forward with. those analyses are being move

forward. to keep this project moving as rapidly as possible. one project we have discussions what the center improvement promise. that's looking 3 different watersheds and the functionality of the north watershed and the north central watershed. we've talked about the exchanges that the base is effected by climate change and the like. we're going to be initialing different tunnels and alignments. urban watershed assessments is very active where we have a draft characterizations report.

we're looking to get that outthink 0 the web. we've started to look at we have our challenges and what are our infrastructure and green infrastructure. we have conducted internal programs. we have our first on june 1st. that is at her office. we had a limit of 72 participants. we had 72 people spending four hours with us talking about storm water management. and four hours on a saturday it's pretty phenomenal where we've been amazed at the interest. so we're going to be hitting the channel and north watersheds.

it's an efficient way to get the word out. the early implementation projects the wiggle is moving along. we've been having an open house with 5 stations. we talked to folks about the issues and their preferences and safety and bicycle safety. all kinds of this thing like that. we already conducted one session and had 50 folks come to that. they participated in our online web. we can participate by your commuter and we had 4 hundred

hits. we had a one hundred and 40 individuals go through the survey so we got compute. we are moving on to chinatown alley in june. the projects we have continued to wrap up and hone down what the concepts are is our sunset and rich daily. we'll have 3 different concepts and we're working throughor general and assistant general manager to move those projects along. our triple bottom line this is the type of presentation you'll be seeing in the future as we come closer to those projects we'll be shruggiowing compariso.

we'll be showing odors and educational opportunities. here this is one of our bet a testing projects. and that's what we're hoping will be an outcome of this really

>> we're spending time with the epa and realigning our projects. but we want to be able to prevent and mitigate anything that would delay us or cause additional funds. so the gentleman who was with me last time is moving that along. those are the various open hours with two or three weeks ago we

had a meeting and briefed them on the full s i p to highlight that. we had a very engaged conversation >> so i know what a char resident is. it's a new thing for me >> you're looking at a watershed your spreading out a map and it shows slope and street light wiegding width and things about soil grwe may have high discharge of resources.

then each the pieces can contribute toward improvements it can be detention bases. there's two or three people playing on the game and the facility for does the calculations. i can see the protection of the watershed control. you really start to think about land issues and other infrastructure projects where we might be able to team up like schools and government buildings and open space parks are ail identified. there's an orientation given before the work starts which is about 20 to thirty minutes >> it's more than game playing

it's an intense review. so as a result that kind of interaction provides good responses. >> it's interesting to see folks coming together and make folks stop and think and think about land uses. where we want to leave a legacy for the water project. it provides an opportunity not only for input but for substance review. the process was started in the 19 century in paris. but i wanted to make sure that the people knew that was a very serious endeavor and involves a lot of input that helps you get the answers as well. were clean pipes discussed?

>> yeah. no absolutely. pipes being able to have a sufficient flow to keep flows going to have the slopes. those are big issues. we want to be able to note odors. some of them maybe capita. you want to comment on my last slides. we scour the neighborhood and advertise in english and spanish. so you can see things in different languages. thank you >> any other questions?

>> would you be kind of enough to talk about the scouring of the neighborhood. give us a little more information how i get the information out >> i am really fortunate to have a nice team from the office. we have a communications group. i have a lead person who is specifically assigned and they're walking into public places. we have a blog that was put out on us as well as mailers. i did a meeting like a coalition group that represented 70 neighborhood groups and they hone down to their miles per

hour. we're trying to hit every way we can. we use facebook and twitter. we update our information. we have youtube videos. we've developed friends. we have friends of s example i p >> those airport real friends. >> they are. we may need them >> but it's a bit of everything because you've got to be on foot. some folks love the webs but therapist going to come to our public meetings. when we had this conversation about the neighborhood groups if you were able to provide us with a listings that would be helpful. and if there is a mechanism for

folks to include themselves that would be helpful were >> we're working on that. >> you want to say something else? >> i want to follow up on the early implementation projects. but can you just give us a sense of timing when you think that at least the ones that seem to be farther along are going to be completed. i feel a sense of urgency. i feel it does not is important on roll out and where we can replicate >> the wiggle is a bulk out. we're going to start construction on phase one.

a beautiful thing an area where tens of traffic are going to be having a bike lane to continue the bike lane. the larger part in kworpgs is about july 2014 because we're doing a kwaufb project. we're looking at may 2014 for another project and chinatown is about a year and a half away. richard green street 2014. and lake merced is january 2014. and the watershed a july 2014. the upper creek is tricky because it's land acquisition

it's april 2015. i'm happy to put this in correspondence for the next meeting >> that would be great. i feel like if there's any we can accelerate then we could add to the mix as a followup question to address doctor jackson's comments. and possibly in conjunction with the digesters before their ability and address the sewage issues but provided some information on the feasibility on the projects prima facia. >> that's an exciting opportunity. we're looking what other agencies are doing. especially on van ness.

i'll go to speak to our manages on jobs. we can really have this go methodical and will have a storm water benefit >> great. thank you >> thank you. >> further question? >> couple of questions. i noticed in the c i p report from the prior report the process is taking longer than anticipated. can you talk about the issues your wrestling with >> the reason that that scheduled shows on expense is because of the watershed assessment work. we didn't get a lot of rain but the actual process is taking longer because it's interactive.

we're using so many different types of tool with watershed performance information. we've been submitting the information in july and that will be our baseline for the duration. we're trying to get public input in a short amount of time. then we get hit with the c i p and well, we had two groups divided >> that's the reason i asked the question is this is the start of a process that's going to be a learning process not only for you and the staff but the commission and as we run into things that take longer

that we have community input. one question also on the early implementation projects. part of the reason we identified those to move quickly we said to use those as pilot projects so we can understand the hydraulic progress. how are we measuring hydraulic performance >> we have new come as well as leeland. we have over a one hundred hydraulic systems and between the weather it rained today but normally the weather it specific. we have a 2 d model so we can see how the