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 never 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. i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves.

once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings

and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas.

the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones

around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take to make them happy, to get them there, that's the main goal. if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in san francisco. we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park,

>> san francisco parks, golden gate park transforms into one of the greatest music festivals of all time, let's journey, inside, outside land. ♪ >> to this, our 6th year doing the outside lands and our relationship with san francisco, rec and park. and we work very closely with them in the planning and working very closely with the neighborhood organizations and with the city supervisors and with the city organizations and with the local police department, and i think that the outside lands is one of the unique festivals in the world and we have san francisco and we have golden gate park and we have the greatest oasis, in the world. and it has the people hiking up hills and down hills and a lot of people between stages. >> i love that it is all

outside, the fresh air is great. >> they have the providers out here that are 72 local restaurants out here. >> celebrating, and that is really hot. >> 36 local winerries in northern california and 16 brewers out here. >> and you have seen a lot of people out here having a good time and we have no idea, how much work and planning has gone into this to make it the most sustainable festival in the united states. >> and literally, in the force, and yeah, unlike any other concept. and come and follow, and the

field make-up the blueprint of the outside land here in golden gate park and in the future events and please visit sffresh parks.org. >> good morning, everyone and welcome to the board of supervisors budget and finance committee meet for wednesday, september 25th. i'm mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee. i want to thank the clerk of the committee and thank you to the sfgovtv staff >> please silence all devise and the document that are part of the file shall be given