possible. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker? francisco decosta? >> my name is francisco decosta. supervisors, the constituents have san francisco passed a proposition years ago to deal with the sewage treatment plant and the water system what is now called the water system improvement project. the san francisco public utilities commission dropped addressing the sewage treatment plant and went with the water system improvement project. this was years ago, around 12 years ago. because of

the deferred maintenance, the digesters can no longer operate and if there is a big one, hundreds of homes will be inundated with raw sewage. so simply put, whether we like it or not because the supervisors do not follow the trend or that proposition, you need to give your blessings because you represent the constituents and because the residents are suffering and this maintenance job has to be done. one of the reasons we have to do this right now is to capture sand and the aggregate that is going to further impact this

treatment plant. i'm asking you supervisors of san francisco to do the right thing. thank you for expanding the monies because that's the right thing to do. >> thank you. next speaker. christina sandoval? >> good morning, supervisors. i'm a resident of bay view hunters voice. after finally talking about doing something you have the right to do this. please pass this contract for not only for us but for our kids. we also have local schools around this and local day cares that have to smell this all the time and colleges and stuff. please pass this, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker?

joan davis? >> hello, my name is joanne davis. this project is going to require local higher which is going to mean a lot of jobs probably the most amount of local jobs under any public project. beyond the jobs we need to make sure the people living in the area have access to these jobs that this new project plant will create. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. lodey titus? >> good morning. we have been promised for years that the treatment facility in the southeast will be fixed up or replaced. if any of you have been down there you know what bad shape it is in and the smell in the area is really disgusting. there is no way that a first class city like san francisco should be subjecting people in our

neighborhood to this travesty. we are asking that you erect fee phi this -- rectify this problem as soon as possible. >> good morning supervisors. i'm speaking on item two and same for all williams. >> great. is there any other members of the public who would like to speak on item 1? please come to the mic. my name is angel oho king. the power plant and this puc plant is the

next thing. 80 percent of the sewage processed there, not only that but other people's sewage is processed there. it's amazing what you can get used to. if you have never been there and you roll up on third and evans about 3:00, this makes you gag. i have gotten accustomed to it. that is ridiculous. everybody is talking about fixing the infrastructure of the city. no where do you have as much infrastructure that you have in the south district. you owe it to the residents from an environmental standpoint to take care of this now. this city's local hire laws apply there. which is also important because of the unemployment rates that are in that community. here is an

opportunity to improve the city's overall infrastructure which needs to be done because that's an old facility and we are dealing with it and also provide jobs. this is not something that we need to be stopping but moving ahead because god forbid that we have an earthquake and we would really be in trouble. do it now. >> thank you, any other members who would like to speak on this item? >> seeing none we'll close public comment. >> thank you. i would like to make a motion to accept the recommendation to amend the proposed resolution to increase the authorized, not to compete -- exceed the contract amount by 1.3524. from not to exceed $9 million. not to exceed a

10.3352$10.3352. >> okay. we have a motion by supervisor cohen? you can't make that motion? >> i will make that motion for us. >> okay. avalos has made that motion. so moved. i believe we'll have this item sit for a week. we'll continue this item for july 17th. the next budget meeting. >> item no. 2. >> i would request a copy of this to me by tomorrow? >> okay. thank you. >> item no. 2. brown and caldwell waste water enterprise

sewer system improvement program. southeast plant not to $80 million and not to exceed 10 years. >> in order to treat waste water and improve the quality of life next to the facility. we need to rebuild the plant. this is part of the first phase over all sewer system that will modernize equipment at the plant and make sure it's sound and relocate the digesters further away from the neighboring homes. this is the first contract of what is almost a billion dollar project. from my perspective it's one of the most important.

for any of you who have been in the south east like some of the public speakers today you have had a memorable experience. several members of the families in this community have lived by this treatment plant. we've noticed the smell that lingers for blocks. the contract is for a plan in engineering to replace this. there is a team that that has been selected with the highest expertise on this project. in addition there is over $11 million on this project that is

going to provide local participation. the project also provides community benefits which is on-the-job training and will support local organizations. today we have mr. cruise frlt from the puc. >> thank you. as previously stated in the last item the current plant was commissioned in 1962. it processes 80 percent of the solid waste today. replacing it would be the best thing for the puc. to ensure the best available technology for the facility and a facility so proximate to

residential neighbors, we need 2 years of planning and technology analysis which will be followed by 2 years of environmental, 5 years of construction. while this is still a long way off, it's a 10-year program. it will be $800 million worth of construction. the facility itself is going to be towards the end of it's useful life and it's imperative that we move forward in order to replace this facility both for the immediate neighborhood that has been living with this for decades as well as the county and city of san francisco given the amount of the waste this facility processes. the puc design and planning services in april of 2013. we did receive one proposal from the brown and

caldwell team for your consideration today. this type of work is extremely specialized and the size of this particular is also important. there are not many built worldwide. we know there is a small group of professional services that can do this work. that coupled with the fact that we already have some of those firms under contract through our program manage and they were precluded from participating in this job. we anticipated there would be a small pool of qualified bidders. we received multiple bids and all of them were qualified. the contract is for $80 million. given the size of the actual construction. $800

million of construction. it's consistent with professional guidelines as the cost associated with the design versus construction. additionally brown and caldwell has made a commitment in providing us with the highest quality of staff but they have also made a commitment for the community program of spending $1 million of their own money in the community to help benefit that community. that will be done by ways of mentoring, and scholarship education for the community throughout the active part of the contract. we believe that we have posed before you a highly qualified team, a team that has showed commitment to the puc and it's imperative

that we continue to further this project. i would be happy to answer any questions at this time. >> can we go to the budget report. >> on the bottom of page 10 of our report table 3, page 11, provided by the puc identifies specific planning and design services anticipate deliver dates and breakdown of the estimated cost on this subject agreement. on page 12 of our report, we note that the average rate to be paid on this $12 of our report, we note that the average rate to be paid on this contract is 18o for a total cost fof -- and subconsultant markup on table

3, on page 11 of this report. we recommend you approve this resolution. and again we recommend approval. >> thank you, these are questions for mr. cruz and questions about looking forward and how to design this plan to maximize it's potential. there will be methane capture at this plant, correct? >> we are definitely looking to making the plant a zero carbon plant to use methane and solar so it pulls no power off our grid. >> do we use a method for methane capture? >> right now with what we have with regard to land that is

publically owned and available to us. we don't know the full size of our general electric capacity. we are going to use reclaimed water in order to preserve our portable water used by the residents. we are going to look the end tire plant and try to balance. >> and i just think it would be really great if the puc were cognizant were working around the plant. >> certainly. >> you mentioned lb participation. this contract is designed to have maximization?

>> yes, we worked with the contract in the city. slightly lower than many of our design contracts get because of the specialty of the biosolids technology that exist worldwide. we set a goal of 10 percent. brown and caldwell exceeded that by 35 percent. they are bringing men and women. $11 million of this contract was committed to lb firms. in addition to these firms brown and caldwell has men and women who have participated and graduated out of the lb programs. their residents doesn't allow them to

provide this anymore. but they will continue to participate. >> in the vicinity of the plant itself? >> we did take a look at the lb's that are from that specific neighborhood. there are i believe two including bay cat which is a locally grown organization there to help deal with the outreach components, but again the lbe program is citywide so brown and caldwell picked from the citywide program. >> given the history that we've had over the years looking at the third street light rail, looking at even more recently developments happening now in bay view hunters point, i think it makes a lot of sense to do everything we can to ensure that we are going to have the most robust local higher program that will bring the

neighborhood in itself. i want to make sure that you heard from me and i'm sure you will be hearing from the community as well that that maximizing of local hiring is going to happen and there is a real strong plan for that. the history has not been strong. we have a local ordinance now that can help guide that process but we also need oversight to ensure that will happen and to make sure there is a lot of good faith in the requirement of making the local hire happen. >> absolutely. we are going to work with brown and caldwell to make sure they use their benefits to help with regard to outreach and support of that local community to be job ready when the construction comes along. the one benefit we do have while there is a frustration that this planning

and environmental process takes so long given the size of this technology and the environmental regulations, that gives us time to plan and we can go through training and apprenticeship and internship programs so when the project starts, many will be ready and available and connected and plugged into program. >> given that people for decades that have had to experience the conditions around the plant, the smell which was described, we need to make sure this community has the backbone benefit of participation and local hiring and other benefits as well. >> we agree. >> mr. mar? >> yes. they presented to the land use about 3 years ago. i'm

wondering about the 2010 report an on going community is going to be built into successful project? >> we have taken recommendations from the cac and have funded our best land acquisition. in addition we'll spend the first 2 years at planning we'll take a look at the technology and we'll be going back to the community with those technology analysis so they can be part of the input to decide what technology we use given the fact that their proximity makes them basically the neighbor. so we absolutely plan on keeping the community involved throughout the process. we have the additional benefit of the southeast community commission

and we make regular presentations to the commission there as well. certainly this is hand in hand as we move forward with this program. >> i wanted to ask a little bit about the process and the selection of brown and caldwell. i know it sounds like a dream team and local and top worldwide expertise that's been put together and the team developed. it seems like a non-adversarial process and everybody supports this team approach? >> i can tell you as they looked into plant, with priorities and the balance needed for funds and the water program, but brown and caldwell has been involved and actually bid on a previous contract for

the southeast plant and won that contract, but bass because of the diversion of funds have waited on that contract. they have been involved. and with a small amount of firms that have this professional capability. they pull together themselves, black and beach which are also nationally recognized and performed the one team which is extremely impressive and hard to compete with. which is probably why the market only gave us one team. i was surprised when we came in when we sat down for negotiations, they came in. their overhead rate proposed is very competitive and we together

worked through negotiations to bring the schedule down to 4 months. all of that within the 4 days. i'm confident that this team has come to deliver for us and work with us. even though we only had one proposer, i believe it is the right one and i'm looking forward to working with this team. >> i had the pleasure of visiting the plant on the west side and realized that two-thirds of the city's waste is processed in the southeast facility. i plan to visit as well with your staff but i see an equity and urgency for the neighborhood plant. i'm very pleased that the process is moving forward as quickly as possible. thank you. >> any other questions at this point? okay. thank you very much. >> mr. cohen, do you want to open this up for public comment? >> yes. we have jacqueline.

please start a line. thank you again to be permission to speak this morning. my name is jacqueline flin. i'm in support of seeing both items 1 and 2 move forward today. i want to tell you about what we do. we do employment and training services around the city. we have hired over 40 youth. 10 are working at the puc. these are the families, the lives that we work with that we affect when we do some of the policy work that we are doing today. the reason why we are in support of seeing, we

would like to see the increase in funding but also the agreement with brown and caldwell move forward to improve the technology and efficiency to minimize the overall impact on the community but also the entire city. we would like to see you honor the commitment that will provide a safe and efficient facility and just stress again the emergency in addressing the need to build healthy community. if you are smelling it, you are exposed to it and lastly, the job creation. we host tours there. many of the youth have seen this. i would like to bring this into the fold so they understand how this impacts them. thank you very much.

>>al williams. i'm a part of the brown and caldwell team, a local business enterprise based on the bay view hunters point area for a number of years. i would like to briefly speak to a couple of the questions that were raised about supervisor mar's question on how to team was selected and the world class nature of the leadership of the team and partners. it's local business enterprise as part of the team is really impressed to join this team by the manner on which my firm was approached to become part of the team. typically what happens is local business enterprise gets letters asking in having interest in being a part of the team and you

respond to those letters. most of it is a process that what you go through. this situation was quite different. i was actually invited to sit down and have coffee with principals of the team to talk about their approach of the project, talk about my interest in being a part of the project and felt that i became a full partner of the team. i think this local business enterprises were focused the same way. secondly, i would like to also mention in terms of supervisor avalos's question about local business participation. the puc engaged me several months ago to do research in bay view hunters point to provide goods and services to the professional

services level. we've identified more than 600 local businesses that have the capacity to participate in this project going forward. i think that's going to be a tremendous resources to the project to ensure that community based businesses are fully engaged throughout the process. thank you. >> next speaker? michael willis. >> thank you supervisors to the committee and subcommittee. my name is michael willis. i'm pleased to be the architect for the project. i founded my firm here in san francisco for 25 years. most of that i have been involved with the design of water and infrastructure projects and including relationships that go back to the very first major water plant with ch and black and veech back '25 years. most of

that i have been involved with the design of water and infrastructure projects and including relationships that go back to the very first major water plant with ch and black and veech back in 91. i'm glad to pursue this project because it's also a return to the bay view hunters point area where i have been involved in many projects going back well over 10 years including the bay view hunters point master plan and the multi-senior center. for planning and design and including work at the southeast plant 20 years ago. this is a return for me and i really appreciate your focus on local firms, local hire and as an urban designer and architect to really look at not just putting a band aid