>> 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 flows answer an intersection how they hit-or-miss an infrastructure. we can maximize the slope. so when we're looking at sunset boulevard we are looking at sunset but the transcribe try flows that come down all those connectionors that hit sunset. so the design is very specifically. as we look at the annual system >> i'd like to at sometime to understand a little bit more about how we do that. it's not easy >> if you can bear it we'll have a session on hydraulic

monitors we'll have a separate section session. >> we're talking about small projects that may have pretty incremental hard to measure issues. we want to know this because this is a specific design kind of criteria. so getting the material for design purposes is not a simple task and i for one would like to know more. >> i think there are some - again jumping ahead but several other cities have done a lot of hydraulic systems. >> we all portland, chicago,

new york we're all talking we are talking about what kind of equipment and certainly some things are different about our sewer systems that is tricky. we're sharing resources and rewe happily send and share information with other cities. other cities are in the same situation >> so is there a time when we could meeting with the hydraulic folks and the city's that are most receive vent. >> you have the scientists tell you what we hope it would be but the area is very specific

apparently how much really like seeps through the pavement. the modeling can tell you one set of stuff but i need to know how it works on the ground. i don't know what the best way to do that whether it's you and me or the commission as a whole >> i think we'll appoint here her as the task force. >> i'd like to be there, too. can we have it? would that be our right? >> once there's 3 that's a quorum. >> that's what i'm saying. >> you would have to reference is meeting and if not all of us show up. >> why don't we have a little

workshop that we start before the meeting and the people who can attend. >> that will cover ourselves. >> we could get 20 minutes or so time. >> depends upon how interesting it is. just kidding. you mentioned all the groups you have out reached to but yet we heard mr. woods say nothing's o nobody's been talking to anybody >> we've hit many. >> maybe the best way is to talk to mr. woods. >> okay. >> any other questions. okay public comments? on this issue i want to take is separately then we'll move >> yes good afternoon.

i've requested over and over again and i did not hear the islandsers we have a lot of islanders who do not speak english. and they've been there all the mind. they were here when i got her 70 years ago. if you're not having anything in their languages your migsz the boat and we have russians in the area that don't speak english. we have to look at all the total of the different nations. i'm talking about 92124. people who are out in the country given the information it's not doing us, me the people

who live in my zip code any good. i'd like to know who the thirty groups are. thank you >> okay. item no. 7. >> you know commissioners when you deal are an item like this. first and foremost you have 3 documents. 3 separate documents and if anyone has any sense of engineering and addressing quality of life issues we need to do better how we approach those subjects we really do. gone are the days where you could address subjects like this in a any questions i didn't

mouse manner. i represent the first people of this area when it comes to infrastructure. the way i look at it is very simple and thomas jefferson and st. losing and clark when they came over to california it was good. we with all our intelligence purporting to belong to this organization and whatever organization we've made a mess of everything. now i was looking at one map under the sewer system improvement update and it's this map. that's focusing on the out forms. i want to know near the out

falls if our water is tested? and if it's tested where are the reports posted? raw sewage is flowing in many parts because the pipes are outdated. but the same hold good for the cleaner water pipes. you can put fountains here and there but if the pipes are loaded the end result is the water is going to be mrultd. some rats come and brings the water - shame on us.

there are two agent documents and i have 20 seconds you, you can't do justice but we need better anti reach. please do not provided those documents and think we're buffoons. thank you very much >> welcome. good afternoon, commissioners. i'm speaking on behalf of the southeast community commission. president kennedy wouldn't be here today. we've having had a discussion and there will be a formal letter coming to the commission to move forward with the planning and design engineering contract for the southeast