pleasure to work with harlem and i'm enjoyed working with steve, and michael and today, sharon who is now retired and michelle in her place. many attorneys in the city attorney's office and countless. it has been a pleasure and with a number of other staff people, management levels, people with offices and people who work in the field, it has been a true honor and a treat. in thinking back about my career, the first time i met your staff career was in 1967. i was at fonsaca and in 1977 i got became a consultant and met more people and in 1984 gene killager was a general manager

and wooed me to work in general service. at the beginning of my career i ver even thought of working in the public sector. and i never thought that my introduction to that would be the city and county of san francisco. it's kind of a trial by fire in some ways but it has been rewarding. extremely rewarding. for the last 18 years i've had the unique and also very rewarding experience of working where the 26th wholesale customers, your wholesale customers are member agencies for the last ten years working for those 26 agencies and the bawsca board and professional people. together our folks, you, the commission, your staff, a number of special interest groups, stakeholders, we've accomplished a great deal and it's truly rewarding to

have had even a little part of that. it's just an astonishing thing. i'm proud what bawsca has become. it's an example of what government should be. an organization that gets results to make a difference for the people that pay the bills and that's what we're all about. in june i gave a presentation of this commission. i gave the same presentation to my board in july and it had some sobering issues that will confront us or i should say you and our folks in the future. it was sobering for my board as we look forward and i think that's just to say that i'm not retiring because the easy exciting stuff is over. i think that some of the greatest challenges lie ahead for the commission, for bawsca working together separately and i look

forward to seeing what the commission does and what bawsca achieves in its next ten years so in closing and before i have nicole, thank you for that spot on your agenda and i hope you maintain that. thank you for your commitment to public service and thank you for your friendship. thank you. >> thanks very much. nicole, will you join me up here, please. nicole has been with with baswsca for 14 years so she's not a new comer to any of this. we've had a great working relationship since the day she walked in and took the interview. she has the wholesale can you have the measures negotiated two

shortage allocated usage. she became very engaged in your capital improvement program which then went into the wsip. incredibly involved through the pri process and she was involved through the legislation in san francisco. and she was involved in the water agreement and the water quality section. she has done virtually and been involved in everything of consequence that bawsca has done. but that's not all. prior to joining us she worked for east bay mud for nine years. worked in the -- that act of the federal act, whatever that was, central valley improving project act implementing that and a number of things. a tremendous career span. she's not a new comer. she's already created quite a list of compliments on her own.

she's now the board selected ceo and i could not be happier for her and for me in terms of leaving it in your hands. one other thing is that she knows how to manage her manager and that was an exappreciation i never really appreciated until she came on board. i feel completely managed. >> thanks to my success. >> look where it has gotten her. i present you with nicole. please keep her on your agenda in the future. >> welcome nicole. >> let's not end with the new, that's what i got from that. >> i am thrilled with this opportunity. i've been telling people, it's rare in your life that you get to have -- having worked in a field for 25 years to take on an awesome and new

challenge and that's how i view this and i feel lucky to do that. i've enjoyed working with the pc and your staff for the last 14 years and i look forward to using that knowledge and the relationships to the benefit of my member agencies but i think all of us together as well, because i think there's a lot to be had. art spoke about those challenges and they're real. they're significant. we've been talking to the bawsca board about it, the water supply and richie correspondence earlier today is one of the biggest ones to be tackled and i'm looking forward to our agencies figuring out how to do that where there's partnerships to have those but to take on this challenge. i appreciate the warm welcome. kelly has extended to me in this new role and all the pc staff and i look forward to have a working relationship with all of you. i know that art has enjoyed

that and it has meant a lot to him to the agent and to the pc as well. i hope we can continue that tradition. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> nicole, so just again congratulations as i mentioned before one gm to another. i definitely had to manage managers before so you're able to produce what you need to produce. i know art sometimes -- art is sometimes challenging to maintain but he's a great individual. when i came to the puc he basically embraced me and really wanted me to be successful. so what i would like to do is read a resolution from the puc commission. let me put on my glasses. i'm getting old too. this is a

resolution whereas the san francisco public utilities commission, they're pleased to recognize robert the chief executive officer and general manager of the bay area water supply and conservation bawsca on the occasion of his retirement. mr. jensen served as the general manager and his organization, the bay area water association for 18 years representing the water interest of 1.7 million resident, 30,000 businesses and thousands of community agencies in alemeda and santa clara counties who depend on our water supply. jensen provided leadership for the san francisco water department between 1984 and

1990 and whereas mr. jensen vision and leadership has spured long term seismic operational improvements to the water system that will be -- that will help safeguard the public health and economic vitality of the san francisco bay area and whereas mr. jensen leadership through bawsca on water preservation has led to demand and wholesale service area and mr. jensen was instrumental in negotiating the 2009 water supply agreement between the pc and the wholesale customers to provide greater clarity and responsibilities and improved benefits to all parties and whereas mr. jensen through his leadership and his advocacy has

strong relationship between the public commission and the wholesale customers, but on the 24th day of september 2013 the san francisco public commission does here by commend arther jensen for his work. we hear by extend the best wishes on his retirement and future en defbers. thank you. endeavors. thank you. >> you don't give these out to

non employees very often. >> thank you. i've seen you take a lot of these. >> thank you very much. >> mr. president -- vice president. >> i just want to put a personal note on this. i met art 16 years ago and i say this

now, though commissioner moran was general manager at that time but i was told by my fellow commissioners that i wasn't allowed to like you, period. that's how we started our relationship and this is really true and i'll never forget our first meeting and art was there and i was there and i thought, what are these people talking about. i just couldn't follow anything. so over all these years, art and i became good friends and i admire you greatly. you'll be missed but i know we're in good hands. >> thank you very much. >> are you going to tell that joke again? >> no, i'm not going to tell the story. but thank you. i really appreciate the opportunity to get to know you and work with you. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> for the record i was told to like you. >> commissioner moran.

>> art and i go back a long time. we have been professional colleagues for a long time. that's a relationship that probably have made people nervous from time to time. we agreed some time ago, i forget when it was, but there was things we couldn't talk about and we haven't. that's something that is not always easy, but i think it's something that art and i both thought was important both for ourselves and for our institutions to maintain. so i'm looking forward to now being able to talk to you about all those things. >> same here. >> the other comment i like to make is that art has had a really unusual opportunity to create an organization and he has done that in a way that i think the organization reflects a great deal of your values in your way of working. one of the things i have always

appreciated about art is that he's about getting the job done. there's just not a whole lot of other stuff involved. not a lot of fuss and feathers and agendas that's lurking underneath and that has been the history of bawsca's work and your own and before that. that's pretty rare. there's a lot of ways you can represent your constituents and some of them are aimed at making noise and making things exciting for people as oppose to getting the job done. you and bawsca has never sir come to that. you're sometimes tough on us and i think if you didn't exist and if you weren't tough on us, we would have to reinvent us because it has been to our benefit. thank you. look forward to the stories and

thank you for creating an organization that reflects those values and something that nicole can work with great integrity and comfort. q. thank you very much each and every one of you. >> it's more than appropriate to entertain any public comment. i have no speaker cards. public comment is now closed. next item madam secretary please. >> item 9 is a consent calendar, all matters listed here under constitute a consent caller car are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utility commission and will be acted upon a single vote of the commission. there will be no accept rat discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or public so request in which event the matter will

be removed for a calendar and considered as separate item. >> anything else on these item. >> i second. >> i. >> the i have it. madam secretary, next -- i'm sorry, is there any public comment on this item? >> seeing none. will you read the item for regular business. >> item 10 to enter into agreement with the paper program with the con bien of $500 million. >> this could be brief unless you want a full presentation but i like to start by saying thank you to charles pearl, our deputy cfo. he's in the audience if he can raise his hand. through his work and our

debt management, they have a renewal to our paper program. it's saving 29 percent compared to the prior which was still a very respectable rate but with that we're asking you to renew the cp program here, so if you like me to do the brief presentation, i'll be happy to do that or answer questions. >> commissioners it's your pleasure. we can entertain it or move it. >> i like to move. >> it has been moved. >> second. >> all those in favor, please by saying i. >> i. >> there's no no's. motion carries. >> next item, please. >> shall we call on public comments for matters to be discussed in closed session. seeing none, public comment is closed. madam secretary, please. >> item 12 is a motion on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege. >> i'll entertainment. >> assert. >> second.

>> all in favor say i. >> i. >> motion carries. >> item 13 closed session items, item 13, conference with legal counsel pursue ant to california government code section. mark pair verses city and county of san francisco. item number 15 proposed setment of existing claim did you havy. >> i'm testimony 16 conference with legal counsel. item 17 conference with legal counsel as plaintiff. item 18 conference with legal counsel existing litigation, zimmerman verses county of san francisco. item 19 conference with legal counsel existing litigation. city and county of san francisco of the electric

company. >> item 18, conference with legal counsel. item 22 threat to public services or facilities consultation with the >> thank you. we're back from closed session. i have an announcement on 15 and 18. they reached an approvement. that's in the zimmerman case. i'll entertain whether to disclose the session. >> i choose not to disclose. >> second. all in favor signal by saying i. >> is there any other new business? >> seeing none. this meeting

is adjourned. so it is my comp to be able to welcome so many wonderful people and so many people that support our school and all of these excess where having and i guess i want to introduce mayor lee. mayor lee, please stand up and wave to our community. [applause] >> so, as everyone was

gathering in our main office we ve come up with, we were brainstorming what we wanted to know from the mayor and from the superintendent. our students here we read the book of but not buddy this summer. have either of you read that book? well it looks like oregon have to mail the superintendent and the mayor are book. we definitely want them to know what were talking about, right? very good. so then let's substrate. let's remember what our three rules that we always lived by? >> be responsible. be safe. be respectful. awesome. i want to make sure that were all showing our democrat on the south side right now and we are going to be welcome back to school by our mayor. please give them a round of applause. [applause] >> thank you. good morning everyone. well you should know

onle than 3 min. away from here. just up the hill. so i get to watch all of you. but, i am very happy to join our local supervisor of this district by john avalos this here this morning. it's a pleasure i was very much care about our education. i want to thank teresa ship for welcoming me here to your first day of school. i'm of course here with your superintendent. mr. carranza, thank you. we caught a couple of school board members and school officials and teachers representative here as well. mr. mendoza on our school board emily goshawk as well. and we have of course a number of school districts rep. as well as parents. all the parents are here today. [applause] >> well, first of all welcome.

welcome some of you back to school. welcome some of you who have just started here at james jim and school. we love our students. you are happy, yes? well, i hope you are because we got a lot of great things this year. i think we believe we have a new classroom in fact. i have been working hard over the summer with hydra and a company called salesforce and they are here today, salesforce does a lot of great engineering in san francisco and they do something called the cloud. how many people know what the cloud is? anybody know what the club is? you will learn. you'll learn a little bit. some of the teachers know that for sure they can explain to you. but, this company is headquartered in san francisco and they are helping me help all the middle

schools in san francisco get modernized. that is, to get technology, get wi-fi service, get computer tablets to the teachers, to of course, our principal. to help with the modernization of this school so that you, as students, and also as parents, can actually get a lot more science done, a lot more math done. a lot more engineering done. and become even more skilled because some of you, in fact, i see somebody here that's going to be the mayor of san francisco get somebody in this crowd is going to be the next mayor. how do you like that? do you want my job? [applause] >> well you can have a lot of fun. i think when science and the math and all the other skill sets that the school district wants this school and so many of the other middle schools to have more of, you're

going to be the beneficiaries of it. i know you're going to be motivated. i want to thank you for not only getting up early, brushing your teeth, getting a good healthy breakfast, and running down here to make sure you meet your new teacher this year. this is going to be great. again, i am just 3 min. away. but we're also going to be working very closely. this won't be the first and only time you see me. there'll be other times you see walking around the campus because i do care about all of you as our middle school students. you're going to be the best minds. your point of great jobs when just a few years from now you're all going to be and up in college or some good jobs. and, if you need some help with a resume, ask me or ask supervisor apples. we'll be glad to write you support for resume for the best job. you could be the head of a company. you can even be the start of a great sports team.

or, you could be a scientist or a doctor or a lawyer but anything you want to be. you definitely have it begins right here. so congratulations good morning welcome back to school and have a great grade year. thank you, teachers. and administrators. [applause] >> thank you. thank you mayor lee. what an exciting day. wow. admin. we are so proud. we also have another really special guest. who remembers what is our superintendent's name? >> superintendent carranza. please welcome him back up so we can welcome us to school. >> [applause] >> good morning. wait a minute. you've been resting all summer. rights were to do this i want

you to blow the roof off of this auditorium. when i say good morning i want you in your loudest most excited voice to say good morning back. are you ready? take a deep breath. sit up straight. here we go. good morning >> good morning >> that's what i'm talking about. it's great to be back in school. it's great to welcome all of you here. i want to especially welcome the parents and our teachers and our paraprofessionals in our demonstrators would've been here for, believe it or not, over a week preparing for this very day. to get ready for the first day of school something of great experience. now if i understand correctly your sixth-graders, correct? >> yes >> no? this is what i want you to do. by the way, i was very impressed that you actually knew my name. so thank you very very much. this what i want you to do. i want you to think about when he went to kindergarten. do you remember that? then after kindergarten you went to first grade. do you remember that? did you have fun in first grade? did you

have fun in kindergarten? yes. did you have fun in second grade? yes. this is just another transition. so since grade may be scary but it's not that scary because you can have fun and since grade. you know how i know why you have fun in six great because of excellent teachers at denman. they are going to help make learning fun for you. they are going to encourage you and support you and you know why i know that you're going to have fun weekly here because the secret is that denman is a fantastic middle school. you know high note the secret is out because denman has a waiting list now of kids that want to come to denman middle school. did you know that? did you know that? >> [applause] >> so there are other children

i want to come to denman they just could becomes there's not enough room. you got into denman. you should be very proud of the fact that you got into denman and that other people want to come to denman. you know it's going to happen? next year when people want start applying for middle school they're going to see the great year that you've had and didn't want to come to middle school as well and they say i saw merely walking the halls because he's my neighbor. he lives down the street. it is a wow, the bear comes in the busy supervisor below supporting you to say the supervisor is here. you know why we're all here? more than anything we are here because we want to thank you for the great job that you've done and the great job you're going to do and we are so proud of denman middle school. you're doing a great job. so as six graders, i want you to have fun this year. can you do that? that's not very convincing. can you do that? >> yes >> i said can you do that? >> yes >> are you going to do that? i want you to have a great start to the year before i give up the microphone, i want to thank your principal, and your

assistant principal for the great job they're doing. how about a big round of applause for them? >> [applause] >> yes. they're going to work to support your teachers and your teachers are working to support you. it's one big community. parents support everyone that here. i also want to recognize some folks that are in the audience because they wanted to come and be part of this visitation as well. you party met our mayor, you've already met our commissioners. you've already met our supervisor mr. avalos, but i want to introduce you to our deputy superintendent for policy and operations, leon lee (sp?). our general counsel who is sean davis. our assistant superintendent for middle school, jeannie bond. our special assistant to the chief of staff who is overseeing this wonderful middle school project from the district side budget kiara. then the best for last, the