tour possible tour of the south east waste water treatment plant and the justice workshops. which the youth begin to articulate how the waste water and water systems really impact their every day lives. and so one of the examples i like to give is as young people drive to school, as they drive passed where the avenue,, why is that that section particularly under the freeway gets flooded because it is part of the creek and the water shed that gets emptied out into the bay so this is really a tangible understanding of not just the natural environment but the built environments is where these tours and these workshops are going to start eliciting these personal connections to these city-wide issues. and as we jump into that action

component, there will be community data and creating personal narratives of how the issues impact their lives but the communities and they will capture the stories and capture all of that? the recommendations and in a photo voice project and pod cast that they will be desiminating via social media. >> in the end, really the summation it appears and hopefully, in the cross tagging and the cross posting of the pc facebook profile as well. the visibility of the pc among the youth. and i hope to cap it off with the presentations to the appropriate pec audience. and i urge you to stay updated on this project via, the lyrics facebook page and as many of us know, a healthy community are a key ingredient to the healthy water shed.

and they are engaging the youth in protecting and engaging the environment in the local water sheds. >> i will be brief. good afternoon commissioners, my name is dj and my the president of the developers, and we have not talked about the program and it is a ten week program and it is actually turning into a life experience for the youth here in district ten. last we started off with 15 and this year, 30, with 70 percent of the interns returning which is a total of 11. we have teams in district ten, attending the university, and cal poly, and merced and new york, and san francisco city college and high schools from all over the city.

in the program, these kids don't take field trips they take educational trips. they have a tour of the swaurt shed and a group of 17 of the students usually leaving tomorrow morning. and they hear from guest speakers such as chris jackson who is on the college board of trustees and actually represent robert davis, and jessica williams was given justice and diversity to the kids can and lisa came in and did a workshop on leadership. karen as well as johnson came out and spoke with the kids as well, too. so every friday, so the kids go to work monday through thursday and every friday they spend time and go over the skills or revisit the goals and we talk about the situational leadership. and we talk about the field trips that are coming up and they will present to the full commission on august 8th and present a cap stone project of everything that they learned

over the summer. we want to say thank you to the partners at pec, and tom, srt and whurs bran and coldwell and also with david and associates and we are just looking forward to many more years of the ssip program. thank you. >> thank you, i know that my brother in the audience, don't you have an event coming up on the 40th anniversary that you should be required to give a shout out to? >> thank you, commissioner. >> that is a little bit of a plug. >> it will be celebrating the anniversary on september 20th, if you are interested contact me via, the website and we will be more than welcome to welcome you. >> good afternoon commissioner and happy birthday. >> my name is lily sunday and i

am a member of the (inaudible) team and i am here representing the par son's joint venture and this is the second year participating in the ssip program and each year has been a great experience having the interns in our offices and it brings in a great energy and creativity in the offices craoe minding our professional staff of why they chose to be engineers and planners and developers. and we are happy that the pec has expanded the program to include all firms participating on the ssip program allowing more students to participate in it as dj mentioned there are over staff participating. it is a great partnership led by the pec, which includes rotation at thes actual consultant's office and then leads to the cap stone project.

and during the rotation, they provide educational tasks related specifically to the area and this included engineering tools like auto cad, google sketch up, and google earth and gis mapping and then for finance and accounting we had and we taught them how to create the spread sheets for budget planning and estimating and the cost benefit analysis and things like that. these are all tools that they will need for their cap stone project. and our mentors also shared experiences on the large infrastructure project that we worked on the waste water and transportation projects and we took them out on tours with the facilities as well as the transbay project and showed them how the different cities

will enter face with one other. if you don't mind i would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the students that are participating in these youth mentor programs and for just taking these important steps and continuing their education, and controlling the direction of their future. our mentors remain available to assist during your cap stone project and to give you guidance that is needed through the coming years, thank you. >> how many students go on to acquire jobs in your company? >> how many of these students? >> yes. >> are they eventually hired? is there a program where they are allowed to participate in the hiring? >> yes. i mean that we have intern programs that are ongoing before they have to fight the intern program. >> are they offered the expectation that they may get a job that is long term. >> i believe on the projects here and ultimately we would like them working on the

program and just with the continuation and consistency, but yes,... >> your students stand? >> would you have your students stand? so we can acknowledge them? >> [ applause ] >> thank you. >> my name is analise and am i team leader and this summer we had the opportunity to employ over 100 youth from san francisco and with me today are two the interns who are going to talk to you about their experience. >> hi. >> hi, everyone. my name is natalie and i am going to be a senior at will high school. >> and my name is (inaudible) corey and i am going to be a sophomore at san francisco state university. >> good for you.

>> so, like she said, we are interns for the project poll. and we both work at the sfpuc up on the 12th floor in communications, do you want to tell them what was our job? what do we do? >> i first want to ask you, is she a good person to work with? >> yes. >> all right. >> okay. >> at the sfpuc, we work on the 12th floor under the community benefits and communication. and what we do as interns working on the 12th floor we give the tours on the second floor to the people coming to the sfpuc to come and find out about what we do at the sfpuc and what does it mean to work with water, power and sewer. >> like she said, we give tours to other youth working in the youth works and project poll and sfip and all of the programs that you saw before. and probably we have most likely give to everyone back

there and we tell them how green the building is. >> how many people are with you from this program? >> in our little group? >> here today? >> we have all of our tour people are back there, do you guys want to raise your hands? >> welcome. thank you for all of the work that you do. >> so what is the most interesting question that you have been asked on these tours? >> that is a good question. >> the living machine and the fire fly wall and we are not allow to go up to the other floors because we do not want to distesh the other workers there, and sometimes people ask us and they have a little video that shows the other floors, but we also play a game. we tell the kids at the beginning we are going to ask you guys questions about what you just learned about the puc and we show them a video about the sewer program and we split them up in a team so they play

with the food prizes they are getting invested because we know what it is like to learn and what the best ways to learn are and if you are invested you are going to remember that information so that in the future all of these youth interns that might be working at the puc and some of us might be commissioners and hopefully that they get invested in what we are doing here because it is our future and we want to make sure that we are making take of ourselves. >> did you have something else to add? >> well, in addition to that, we do have speakers that come down, people who are executive floor and other floors, that do come down and tell us what it is like to get to where they are today. and we do that to also remind people that you can do whatever you want if you put your mind to it. and natalie and i, we would like to thank you guys so much for this great opportunity. and it is such an interactive community to where you can get

to talk to people one on one and get to know their ideas and what they are thinking and just to see them smile makes a smile. >> so if you come back to if you have any role in the future, what is a job that you would like to have? >> since you are in college right now, why don't you answer that. >> go ahead. >> well i am a bio major. so probably a commissioner if i could get there >> i am a bio major. >> and so you need to see me. i want to put you in touch with my stem cell agency. well the state's stem cell agency. >> sure. >> you might give me a call. >> all right. >> that is the kind of thing

that we, that our mentors teach us and that we have the speakers who are just like networking and how maybe did they major in what they are working at as a puc and a lot of people went to the city college and some people went to stanford and i think that it shows the students that it does not matter where you came from, it doesn't matter what situation you might be in, you can make it, if you set your mind to it. i like to thank all of you and the mentors and hopefully this program continues to shine brighter and better in the future. >> (inaudible) san francisco state. >> no. >> she runs a program that we fund to look for promising young scientists. and many of those scientists were just here this weekend in san francisco about 600 of them from all over the state. and many of them go on to being faculty members of stem cell institutions here and other parts of the country, if so if you are serious i want to go and meet dr. (inaudible).

>> thank you guys very much. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> so i am going to wrap it up since we went over our time. so much experience here. >> that was my fault. >> my fault too, i did not get to make sure that we only had a couple and a few minutes and they were just so excited to talk to you about the programs. >> since there are so many people in the room who were interested in giving public comment but we are going to ask them to hold the public comment because we are short on time and the commission needs that time. >> but if they want to write us something and we can make it as part of our record. >> that would be great and we love that. >> i want to ask the people to stand so that they could be acknowledged from each of the programs and particularly from all of the non-profit partners that we have had and so if i could get apri, and collected impact, and hunter's point family, lyric, podar, som cans,

success center, vietnamese youth development center to stand up and please be acknowledged. maus plause [ applause ] the. i want to thank you for being gracious to me and allowing me on the elevator. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> to all of our project interns who worked very hard with us this summer. >> thank you. >> the next item is the water system improvement program >> that is a tough act to

follow. we should consider hiring a number of them, i think. so, i just finished my review of the draft progress report of the four quarter of this fiscal year and that report will be included in your august 13th meeting packet, unfortunately the agent of infrastructure will not be able to make that meeting because i thought that i would use today to give you abrief highlight of what is in this report. so as of the end of june, the program is 75 percent complete and i know that i have given you that number before and the reason why it is the same number is that because we are not making any progress because when we base lined the program we added time and cost and so it made our staff go back. but we are making good progress, as a matter of fact now, 62 of our 82 projects have now completed construction, and out of the 20 projects that i

have yet to complete construction, 16 are in construction and of the 4 projects in preconstruction, one is in the bid and award phase and only one of those four projects are a seismic project. now a review of the construction work hours show a significant run down in our construction activities, our construction hours have gone down 40 percent since the peak in august of 2012, and despite all of the great number of hours we are now logging, we are passed now 5.4 million. work hours, and our total lost incidents rate which the staff takes care of, it is half of the record and it is something that we are proud of. and so during this fourth quarter, we reached the completing on four construction contracts and including the

eastern and western segment of the new pipeline as well as the water treatment plan expansion. and those are great milestones. that indicate that we now have beneficial use of these facilities which makes our over all system more reliable. and the very large change order that we have talked about for a while on the project, has now been signed by both the puc and the contractor. and despite that big change progress on the project remains steady and we are now 48 percent complete on the project and i want to remind you that there are major risks that remain on that project as we still have to do a lot of earth work and this is why we added $30 million in during the rebuys lining of the project. over all the work on the bay tunnel and that is proceeding as planned. construction activities in the tunnel are now 82 percent

complete and whereas the water treatment plant the activities are 47 percent complete. and we also have a very important seismic project ongoing at the intersection of i680 and freemont, this is where they cross the hayward fault. and construction activitis in that project are proceeding as planned and we are on track to have awful the work done that we need to get done prior to a major system shut down at the end of this year. good progress are being recorded and that is the transmission, project. and where the contractor has now mobilized to start work on the last element of the project which is the culvert that connects the lower and the upper springs reservoir and we also anticipate to be able to turnover the crystal springs operation to the operation staff within a month or so. i have mentioned in the recent

months about the challenging ground condition of the (inaudible) tunnel and our last 1000 foot or so of excavation there is definitely been more challenging, and we have encountered the significant amount of inflowing ground water as well as squeezing ground but that has impeded our progress and so now the hold through of the last segment of that tunnel is now being projected for late september and so a slip of a month or so. >> we have a new project that was started in revent months, it is called the san antonio back up pipeline and the work there focused on an existing quaury, and that is going well. and the pipe, for that project is being delivered this week, so i anticipate that we will start the pipe insulation very shortly here and finally i want ed to let you know that we have

published the public draft eir for two of the four projects in preconstruction and that is the seismic upgrade and the regional ground water and recovery project. and in both cases we are on track to have the final eir and advertise the construction contract by november of this year. i am pleased with the work so far and there is continuous challenges as to be expected but i am glad that the team is tackling it efficiently. and i would be happy to take any questions. >> any questions? >> all right. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> >> the last item on my report is clean power sf update. barbara hill. >> thank you. >> barbara hill, assistant manager for power. just quickly, we have had as you requested constructive

conversations with the labor council regarding our build out for the clean pour program and the prokurment for the program and we have shared information and we have reached this ongoing, and we are looking forward to returning here on august 13th with on what we were able to do. >> thank you. >> any comments? >> i know that we have public comments? >> michael terio, first? >> welcome michael. >> commissioners michael, san francisco construction and trade council, i did meet with your staff and i appreciate that meeting and i believe that the conversation was productive. on... you, and remember that my remembers are vetted with the support of the business representatives at our council this morning and so we

appreciate the commissioner's willingness to list be to the labor principals in the resolution and that is that the clean power generation be sourced from union operated and maintained and built sources and that both the generation work and any director fit work and efficiency work to be done under project labor agreements and with the building trades. and in there is the conversation and we talked about how we might proceed in the direction of implementing those principles. and one step would be to establish a form of conversation between commissioner staff and the council, it talk about exactly what the program entails, so that we have an understanding of the cope and the time line of the program as you foresee it. and then, to explore in that conversation, the amrikbility

of the public labor agreements to the work that would be done and we could come back to the commission with the results of that discussion, for possible action by the commission to direct the staff to negotiate the project labor agreements with us. we have had it through california, and on the clean power generation and we have had them in san francisco, in particular, and on the energy efficiency work and including the small residential contexts. and we are agnostic on the subject of shell. they are or billed as an evil empire and from our point of view they are just capitalist, and as long as we can oblej them to honor the working people we will work with them. and pg&e is not a matter of our concern, just that they honor the labor standards and take care of the folks that they represent. we look forward to continuing

the conversations with your staff and thank you for the opportunity. >> any questions? >> thank you very much. >> >> good afternoon, commissioners eric brooks, san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization in the city. and i just want to get up to kind of piggy back on what mike just said, and reiterate, i think that you folks got from the sierra club a pretty clear letter that is that the sierra club is very dedicated to making sure that use the pras and other mechanisms to getting the union labor heavily involved in this build out project. and i can also say for the rest of the community coalition, that is working for clean power sf and making it strong that we also concur with the statement that the sierra club put out and so the grassroots

organizizers out here are strongly, supportive and would be deeply concerned about a program that did not maximize to the greatest extent possible the union labor on the project. when the projects were then programmed. >> and that is paramount and it is just smart for us to take that position and even though i am a solid union supporter but it is wise for us to take that position because together we can make sure that this program becomes what it ought to become. which is hundreds of megawatts of local installation and hiring the california workers to make this city a green city. and started bringing in a deal for this country and if we get it done here it will spread. and the union labor is going to be key to that and so i want to make sure that the commission knows that we are strongly up portive on that. and i think that the shell contract itself is just a pretty tiny start up to the

larger program. we are not thrilled with the idea of necessarily delaying the start up just because it is shell. i think that one of our objectives is that from our standpoint is that she'll role is only at the beginning and only in that small bit and temporary and not ongoing that there is a pec staff itself take over the role that shell starts of purchasing energy and you have heard from her that is possible to at least get that going in the next or in a couple of years. so i think that what i am getting at is that we are not opposed to moving forward with a competitive and not-to-exceed rate, and at your next meeting, and that let's get that out of

the way so that we can get to working with labor to get the build off to actually happen and for it to be build and comprehensive and make sure that we maximize the union labor in the project. >> thank you very much. >> for all of your hard work. >> anybody else on this item? >> mr. freed? >> jason freed, lasco staff, this part, you know that we at our joint meeting last did approve moving this program forward and we know that it is not an action item but we would like to make sure that on august 13th that any questions are out there today so your staff can be able to address them before that meeting so we can get this program up and moving forward as quickly as possible. and the one thing that i will say, you know, i don't think that any of the commissioners would argue with me if i said that we want to make sure that our labor standards are adhered

to. but one thing to keep in mind is the not-to-exceed rate which is the action item that you are doing, this can help us to understand better how much money is available for a build out so that we can have a discussion with labor and how many jobs can be created once we have the final not-to-exceed rate approved it will give us a better understanding of where for move forward. we want to know what is available for us in the pool of money for the p build out and having a not-to-exceed rate in place give them a commitment as to what they should be building towards, thank you. >> and the green nature. >> any other questions? >> jeff acerman? >> is she still? >> that is me. >> you want to defer. >> she defers to. >> hi, my name is sharon, good

afternoon and happy birthday it is a good day i hope. so i am a recent graduate from san francisco state university and i was an environmental studies major and i am here to show my support for clean power sf and this is such a great opportunity for the residents of san francisco to opt out of dirty energy, and to support clean energy and for the city of san francisco to be leaders for initiative and sustainability and i would like to thank sfpuc for listening to the public and sf advocates and working to bring down the rates for this program. i hope that we can continue to move forward with the maximum investment and clean energy and support this program at a competitive rate. >> thank you. >> thank