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.

>> being a pedestrian in san francisco is not easy for anybody.

>> [inaudible] people push tables and chairs outside the sidewalk. >> i have to be careful not to walk the sidewalk. it is very hard. >> sometimes people get half way across the intersection. >> you have to be alert because there is always something coming up that you need to know about. >> i learned to listen to the traffic patterns. sometimes i notice the other pedestrians, they are crossing, on occasion, i have decided i'm going to cross, too. i get to the middle of the intersection, and i find out

that the light has changed. >> we need to be able to work and go from one place to the other and have public transportation. the world needs to be open. >> people on disability has the task of addressing all the disability. when we are talk about the sidewalks, ramps, we have very specific issues. for people blind and low vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when the cross. it can be hit or miss. >> at hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic -- it helps people cross the street

safely. >> now we have a successful pedestrian signal. >> i push the button, i get an audible message letting me know that i need to wait. when it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. so it tells me it is safe. there is the driller sound and this trigger is vibrating. i am not relying on anything but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it.

>> it brings san francisco from one of the major cities in the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. >> city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. >> disability rights movement, the city has the overall legal obligation to manage and maintain the accessibility and right of way.

with regards to the curb ramps, bounded by a groove border, 12-inch wide border. for people with low vision to get the same information. the shape of the domes, flush transition between the bolt bottom of the ramp and gutter. >> we have a beveled transition on the change in level, tape on the surfaces, temporary asphalt to fill in level changes, flush transition to temporary wood platform and ramp down into the street under the scaffoldinging. detectable ramps. they are all detectable.

nothing down below or protruding that people are going to get snagged up on. smooth clean that nobody is going get caught up on. >> our no. 1 issue is what we see here, the uplifting and shreufting to concrete due too street tree roots. here is another problem we have with street trees. if i have i was a person blind, this would be an uncomfortable way to find out. >> we don't want to create hazards.

>> sometimes vendors put sidewalk cafes where people push the chairs too far out. >> sometimes it can be impassable. so much foot traffic that there is no room for a wheelchair or walker to go by. >> san francisco is a lively street life, it can be an issue with people with visual disabilities as well. they have these diverting barriers on other side of this tables and chairs area. if people can find thraeur way around it without getting tangled up, it is still fully accessible. >> we don't want anything special. we want people to basically adhere to the regulations and laws as they are on the books

now. people can also, just be cognizant if they have stuff on the street, they thaoed to have 48 inches so we can pass, think outside your own spectrum of yourself that there are other people you need to share the sidewalk with. we will all get along better. >> although san francisco is a hilly place for a whraoel chair user, we seem to be better at most. that doesn't mean we can't continue to improve upon ourselves. >> the public has a clear are -- of travel. we can't be every to make sure that is the place. we have to rely on the place.

call 311. give them your name. that goes into a data base. >> it is difficult, still, um to make the case that the disabled community isn't being represented. in some ways we are not. we have a long way to go. >> the city of san francisco is using the most innovative technology available. these devices allow people to remain out in their communities, doing things like shopping. it is great to be able to walk as a pedestrian in this city and cross streets safely. - >> good morning.

i want to thank everybody for being here. obviously i want to introduce the people the mayor, mayor ed lee the attorney general for california and representing sf city ron. it was about a year ago many of i were here and we're going to keep the san francisco below pollens or police officers on the field longer and a want to thank the folks for making that happen the pilot didn't that end up being the dies we were looking for it was too big and costly which was on the downside but we found the perfect dies and it paid humanely benefits

during the world series and the playoffs with the 49ers. we're that close. anyway, the search went on and as i told you a friend from school we talked about we should be further long in technical and the police department can be a cutting age. i became friends with a lot of folks and when we found out we had no e-mail but thankful we're blasz blessed with a mare 20 who is about technology and a chief that's smart on crime. sue got the department