made with puc and pg&e and 311 your right it's a significant frustration when people sometimes there is confusion about who has what street lights we think it's pg&e but itself that concludes my presentation. with that said we'll go to the presentation we'll hear from puc and pen pg&e and open this up for public comment. first, i want to invite barking from the public utilities commission >> welcome back. >> thank you barbara assistant general manager at the sf puc. i'm happy to present and go through a brief overview of street lights here in san francisco >> talk about our plans for street light improvements given our maintenance and capital

funds. and if sfgovtv could help me i've got an overview. thank you. i'm to talk about those 3 things ownership are the goals important performance and our funding. but before we talk about that lets make sure we understand roles and responsibility. as supervisor weiner mentioned the ownership of street light the in san francisco is mixed. clearly a majority of the lights are owned by the city and the majority of those are owned by the divided puc. we own those assets and have them as part of our management program it's about 25 thousand lights we are responsible for and own >> if i'm not mistaken it's

about 60 percent by the city and 40 percent by pg&e. >> a that's right and there's street lights owned by caltrans but appear to be streets to us but are considered highways. >> how can a resident you see it as light it's outdoor out you want to know who owns it sometimes there's a tag but it's small. >> sometimes they're a tag it can be indicative. if it's a wood pole that the light is on its a pg&e light they own the wood poles and under the circumstances they typically own the street lights . after a other than that, it's difficult to tell. we have a slide that shows how

it breaks down in terms of ownership where the blue town districts show the majority of lights owned by puc and the green toned are the districts and a neighborhood where their owned by pg&e. is there any consideration given to having one entity own all the lights? >> yes. the city over the decades has credited that issue and has discussions, you know, whether ownership should be by the city or pg&e. and we've seen some movement within pg&e territory and our representative can talk about the ownership changes. the assets are old. to have them operate well, they need investments. in the past when the city

considered ownership it's been considered an expensive new obligation to take on so the city has shied away from that. there maybe methods of funding that make sense instead of funding it out loud u out of the pg&e revenue we can talk about that. of course, the ownership question as supervisor jane kim mentioned is frustrating to our resident. we have a 311 system in the city that residents you call into or go to their computers and enter the information that's how we receive information from resident about outages and other problems. the 311 system relies the information to my staff and we

dispatch crews daily to address outages. the same system communicates with pg&e and pg&e has voluntarily participated in that approach. we've recently added to the reporting methods a new application that puc folks developed that allows residents to use new app call street light sf so when you're walking down the street and your noticing a problem you can open up the app and it will automatic low position you and allow you to allow the positioning just by drag and drop of the pen and you can acting report to the 311 system and puc. we have, you know, 311 serving as our hub, if you will, of all

those outage reports to rely on their data collection. quite frankly, i like them being as a third party collaborator of the information to be sure we're responsive with it out needs from our residents. and so what do we do once we find out about an outage we have serve level goals for how quickly we want to respond. you can see on this slide our summer we get lots of different reports you poles that are knocked out or wires exposed. we role a truck to check and make sure the situation is safe.

if it's a simple light brntd burdening burn out we repair those within twaip. we have two staff that everyday go out and perform repairs based on the notifications we've received from the 311 system. they're able typically to repair about 50 street lights a day. so that's pretty good. we're on track to increase the number of lights we repaired this year by 13 hundred over last year's performance so similar we repaired 3 thousand street lights and this year for 43 hundred. i didn't have an increase in crew only on performance i pat the crews on the back but you

see the report of outages within our fraip outages we very much appreciate it when resident and businesses call and notify us of an outage it's the only way we know outside of acknowledging it ourself on the street. f this is a quarter on simple outages this shows the 311 we're side by side with pg&e. we've seen a lot of improvement from the pg&e folks on this area. >> so excuse me. and q one 13 was july 1st of

last year excuse me. >> this year. >> that's 2012 to 2013 fiscal year. >> no calendar year so starting in january 1st of this year. and that's a dramatic drop in first and second quarter pg&e used a 4.7 and puc from that to 6.2 >> i think we're getting our message. i think the he emphasis on pg&e groups has been improving performance and t this data shows staff being responsive. i think that's true of the pg&e improvements that you see here >> that's great. >> one of the more challenging areas are the areas of the street light system where we

have groups. san francisco street light system as you mentioned supervisor weiner is old. and most of the assets we're talking about are beyond they're useful life and for some areas within the city it's a very old technology that's fluid and those are where we see many of the most challenging maintenance issues. parts are obsolete and it's creative work on the part of the street light repair crews to keep those systems operating >> in terms of quote/unquote updating i know in talking to pg&e if one goes out am i to assume they all go out. so quote/unquote does that mean eliminating the series group so

they're not connected >> yes. that's not not only improving them but it's more expensive they're put in the sidewalks. you can see they're related to open this map throughout the city. and what i've shown here on this map is the series of loops owned by pg&e in yellow and red and the series owned by the city in black it comes out sort of okay. on the slide as displayed but pg&e and puc have improvement programs and capital programs for comfortably those parts of the system but as i mentioned it's expensive. so it really depends on our

financial capacity. and for the puc our funding is our own revenues. san francisco's street lights services are funded by puc are regardless of who owns the lights. so it's looks like a large appropriation when you look at the budget >> supervisors overseeing the budget it's leveling .5 million for this fiscal year but it's funding for one budget the van ness bus project so we have little fund for other street light repairs and improvements throughout the city we own 25 thousand lights but only 3 hundred thousand plus a year to spend. >> it's shocking in a bad way. so loneliness $400,000 a year

for repair and improvements to the entire puc stock of 25 street lights >> right for this year that's the amount of funding. >> and has that varied by year. >> it does vary by year after the capital plan passing was pro proved you see 2, 3, 1916 million but the replacement fund are around the 350 to 380 finger. >> i just can you help me clearly i mean to the extent i think we all agree buckets are a reflection of priorities so can you explain the arbitrary all

for not priority tiger's them more. >> the puc went through a process two or three years ago now where the fact that the technically which he water system handing had an out of balance financial plan that causes the general manager to say we're out of balance how are we going to address the fact we're 23i7b8 out of balance. the general manager came to the board and mayor and requested a rate there to help restore and support is the funding necessary to avoid the maintenance. we did receive a partial you know the recommendation for a general fund increase was passed but at a lower level than

recommended and so we aren't able to restore outlining all the funding within the puc budget for all program areas and when i say program areas i'm talking about the infrastructure improvements in our generation assets of country i'm talking about our energy efficiency and renewal programs in san francisco and i'm talking about street lights. those are the program areas that are in consolidation for street light fund our net operating fund are what we are and have to be allocated among the responsibilities >> can you help us under and the board of supervisors would have to agree when you talk about the general offhand that's other city departments they pay for electricity and if the full

increase is granted would that be significant. >> it's an opportunity yes. >> what are - >> i wouldn't tell but there are plans for improvements that have to be deferred. >> i'd be interested in knowing what that goes up to it's speculative you know, i could envision a scenario where there's increases in the general funds and that money went everywhere but for street lights. seems like there's been a pretty low prioritization >> yeah. the 389 is not the al all-time low while islam i've been involved it's higher than

it has been. >> it's embarrassing supervisor kim. >> i have a couple of of questions i wasn't following the slides on slide lifting i want to clarify the yellow are the pg&e and what's the red. >> the yellow and red are the series loops and the red where the loops where pg&e had programmed in 2012. >> so when there's a breakdown in one part of the loop it's not going to impact the rest of the loop 92? >> when the loop is converted the whole loop is improved. the old style circuitry t is replaced >> so the black is what we own. >> yes. >> is there a reason for us to

install the loops in the sfirp. i don't have the background but i know about treasure island. my understanding from actually working with you specifically when there's hard to find where the mechanical default happens one thing we were able to break up treasure island to identify is this a similar situation with the loop so we have to search for where the breakdown happens >> there's a little bit of that but the problem with the series loops their aged and the lack of replacement parts when an outage occurs and the area is identified sometimes, we don't have the components to make the

repairs. so outages will be longer duration because of that >> they look oddly placed why are there so many in district 7. >> i don't know the history of why this city choose defy types of technology and what would have driven those locations probation officer to be the locations they're in. >> uh-huh. >> i don't know the history sorry. >> and to go back to the average day of cloergz the close out days is incredibly important i want to make sure i understood the slides 8 and 9. so one is the afternoon day of closer for any complaints and the second slide is the afternoon outage >> right. >> that's a simpler fix and the

other one has the longer number of days. >> right >> could you talk about the efficiency. >> i can talk about it for puc's. >> right. >> from puc's prospective as i mentioned we have not had increased staffing this is how we deliver our resources and how we managing manage our inventor to be sure when a truck roles that crews is going out with the information they need about the light they're going to. we have all our records on our street lights are electronic our maintenance planner looking at that data and say okay. at that light it's, however, any voltages put that one on the

truck. you know, we really go out more armed and ready to address the issues. we're doing better at using did electronic tools with our skilled and trained staff able to use those systems focusly >> thank you. >> sure. >> so i was talking about a little bit about the street light funding. once we have those funds you know how do we decide what we do first. lots of critical needs. we tend to focus on safety issues first. you know, high crime areas night time accidents 06r789 we hear from the members of the board about areas their constituents are telling them high crime

areas and sfpd we have to shift our maintenance plan responsive to those changing circumstances out in the street. this list of prioritys is how we focus masonic the safety concerns and not so much the authentic concerns we also hear from the public about. one if the new program areas we have is pedestrian lighting. the cities better cities plan was adapted and better street lights plan was, you know, express the cities interest in encouraging pedestrian lights in corridors. as the chair mentioned, you know, those commercial corridors

was improved pedestrian left to right become more active spaces so it helps the city economically so in following the deposition of the better street light plan excuse me. my staff and i presented a light policy to the puc the puc accepts ownership for future pedestrian lights. as you see pedestrian left to right systems installed and the neighborhood improvements occur the puc accepts those pedestrian lights and becomes the owner and operator of those pedestrian light as well >> so when a development is happening for example. >> uh-huh. >> and the project sponsor is required to upgrade the lights are those also pedestrian grade

lights new. >> they've been required to put in street lights and now they have to include a pedestrian component. >> now outside where you have a developer that's required to make investments like lighting how is the puc doing in terms of converting the other 25 thousand into pedestrian packages and the light or the lower left to right is closer to the sidewalk and lights the sidewalks more directly and not blocked by trees. >> right. so it's not just developers that are required to improve the streets with pedestrian lighting now. any street light improvements that trigger lighting improvement trigger both the street light and the pedestrian

lighting components it could be city supported projects as well. we'll see more funding for pedestrian lighting that way. we are hoping to increase our funding options and have programs planned for street lights excuse me. pedestrian lighting incorporating pedestrian lighting into our future lighting as well. i do want to emphasis you mentioned, you know, posing your question how about the other 25 lights including the pedestrian component. under the better street plan it focused on corridors so we follow that led and focus on commercial corridors. it's consistent with the better streets plan guidance. does that maple they're good for example, there are plenty of

non-commercial corridor street lights where you can have significant excuse me. lighting problems it comes to mind we set up 4 fairoaks street there are significant issues that the light from the street lights making it down to the sidewalk >> so those sorts of street light tree light clftsz you know we do tree trimming. we can look at you know, i have this funding priority for the allows we need to deputy a priority list for those as well. as we succeed in the funding list we'll have a funding for that. i wanted to say this is adapted

by the board at the talked about the emphasis >> i understand there are always timetables and authorities is it the puc timetable to include pedestrian grade lighting. i understand there are budget xhrnts >> i don't know it's the puc's policy because we have not posed that question to the commission. as to whether they want pedestrian lights at all locations. we presented the better street lights plan guidance >> for example, we recently learned that along a significant stretch of interrestraining order street puc is replacing all the street lights. so will those replacement street lights include the grade

>> not at this time the germany restraining order is the existing street lights are failing. we had not had plans for making those improvements this year but because they are failing we have reprogrammed funds to fund the improvements there to avoid the safety hazard that failing to address it would result in so we don't have funding at this time for pedestrian scale lighting or in germany restraining order we're only making an involvement for poles >> it's frustrating once we're out in the street to limit ourselves but we don't have the fund and don't want to take the pause on making the improvements in order to do the design work because those, you know, those

pelosi poles are failing over we can't wait we need to make the improvements and we are. along with our efforts to improve the street lights generally, we also have an l e d conversion program underway we're funded to convert all of our existing cobra head street lights to left to right technology which is more energy efficient and as supervisor jane kim mention it improves the quality and service of the street light performance. we're including within that led conversion a wireless control system that allows us to remotely monitor the street lights performance and we'll be able to know without having to wait for someone to tells you that the street lights are

malfunctioning whether a flicker or a dimming in the lighting because the lamp is getting rode to fail or a complete failure. the system will remotely tells us and we'll be able to role a truck. those are more efficient light they use less electricity and last up to 15 years so that should really help us extend the life as well of the fund we have available for street lights. we that won't be bowing and replacing lamps nearly as frequently as we are presently are. this slide shows you where we've done some led conversion of street lamps here in the city. we're at 2 hundred and 92. the full programe