together we can support your children. it's been my dream to start is a valley school since i was a little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it (clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun.

a lot of times parents say that valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. we hold the classes to no longer 12 and there's 23 teachers. i go around and i watch each class and there's certain children i watched from babies and it's exciting to see them after today. the children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular

schooling. they get self-confidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their

>> good afternoon, everybody let me please call this meeting of

the san francisco public utilities commission at the 1:40 p.m. sfgovtv requires you to speak into the microphone otherwise the public can't hear our discussion. call roll >> commissioner president courtney. commissioner moran. commissioner torres. conditioning and commissioner vietor are on their way a you tell me 3 is the approval of the minutes from february 11, 2014. commissioners >> move to accept. >> any public comment on the minutes of february 11, 2014, seeing none, public comment is closed. i'll call for a vote all all in favor, say i. opposed? the item is passed >> that concludes my presentation. >> is yolanda lewis here, please. >> good afternoon opportunity

i'm yolanda lewis i'm representing the coalition i want to remained the coalition that the bayview area is right lane on you to have the benefit policy resolution that all life that are directly effected receive a benefit we want to make sure that in the infrastructure project that are being taken under account with the water and a sewage we look at opportunities to - there have been great things on recommendations but we want to see more of those implement and this includes contractor implementation imposing on about economic sustainability and looking at at the significant impact and the qualities at

looking to take care of 80 percent of the sewage so this upgrade project that the community benefit is put at the forefront of the proposals and recommendations that are take into account. and insuring there is a true financial benefit to mitigate some of the innerer qualities through the upgrades >> for those of you who aren't away supervisor avalos was joined on the city town hall steps and talking some of the infrastructure some of the things you raised pr i think it's important to watch this go so there the legislative progress they're looking for workers anyone who is looking for a job any classification of any orientation they'll be

embraced with open arms working under the master agreement working on the master projects you're talking about and there so much work come up we want to keep reaching out to the community. thank you very much for being here. any other any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam secretary >> item 5 communications. >> commissioners. >> i'll entertain a public comment if no observations pblth seeing none, public comment is closed. madam secretary >> item 6 is other commission business. >> commissioners. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. we'll move on to the next item >> item 7 is the report of general manager. >> thank you, mr. president.

we have a couple of honorees who are retiring we want to present them to you as a special recognize of their long years of service first one is gail. if you could stand up >> you look two young to retire and don't go (laughter). >> gail is one of our watershed keepers she's one of the first female wolfed people (clapping.) but beyond that gail is what we call a legacy she's multiple generational and dedicated her life to the preservation of the waters the environmental values of protecting our water salt lake city sthooe she's gained admiration we called that on her

in the rim fire and she did so even though she's getting close to retirement but she did so. she's helped us change the base of our watershed keepers a face that people know and want to associate with. and because i can't get this right your father and great grandfather >> my grandfather and father. >> all worked on our watershed when it was the spring valley water company. we want to wish gail a good luck in her retirement i know she'll be around while but thank you on behalf of the city and department her husband is a efforter it's all in the family (clapping) and also their boss john is here

to recognize him (clapping) with that gail i have a little plaque for you come to the perfumed >> good afternoon sister. >> hi, and thank you. it's been such an honor and privilege to carry on the legacy. my father loved this land and taught me this watershed is so important so i'm carrying it on and keep insuring i still visit with the watershed people and stuff like this that's been a great 60 years because i was born there (laughter) thank you

>> (clapping) >> good thank you. >> thank you and congratulations. nice meeting you, sir, >> good luck. >> and while we're you shuffling the chairs anyone who hadn't seen the profile of gail the first paragraph is killer

and i commend that to you. so we have an excerpt from the newsletter but it's profile is gail and it's a very nice article telling her whole history of our association with our department. so moving on mr. president, next is missouri shall s missouri shall is a chemists chemists and he's been with the city since 1980 and working with the plant he's been a chemists he's a fine individual and a acknowledgingable and working on this project he's a respected and committed employee to our

department. he's approached his work in a professional manner i'm sorry to see missouri shall retire and congratulations from all of us missouri shall (clapping) >> good afternoon. >> ma'am, and commission thank you for the principal of service. it was a great honor to serve the city and it was wonderful people and wonderful environment and i hope i had a chance to complete something for the city >> thank you very much for being here

(clapping.) >> congratulations. >> thank you, congratulations. >> so next item on my reporter

is the water report mr. rich i didn't. >> thank you, steve assistant general manager for water the slides is an update on our water situation looking forward. you know, the total reservoir storage is about a million arc feet but we are dealing with 3 hundred thousand is directly available for our hetch hetchy reservoir. we're working on another project to make more water available for drink. the precipitation is good 40 in february in terms of the precipitation but still just a drop in the bucket to where we would be at this point. again, i included the table of

our assistant storage and the current storm in cherry lake is 2 hundred and accomplice acre and that's a significant amount of water. the two grafts you you've come to see and appreciate is first precipitation again, the red line is above 1976, 77 but been stable in the last few weeks we should see on uptick from the stormwater this weekend. similarly the snow pack is way below normal so we have a long ways to go in observer system. some of the management actions flaw just to receive january 3rd amendment we called for a

reduction in water citywide. this graft is basically over the last couple of weeks people have responded positively and the numbers are tracking where we need to be at a thirty percent reduction. on the twelfth the mayor hair asked us to reduce so we're recurring water in all departments. last friday the general manager declared on emergency for contracting purposes in particular for construction and rehabilitation of the lower cherry aqueduct it can take the water from the cherry to hetch hetchy. it was last used no 1988 some was effected by the rim fire but we're working on a project to

use the water in the system we'll have to filter this system but this project will cost if if the range of 10 to $20,000. but at this time of year that's a huge amount of water so this is a huge project for us we've talked about what we need to get back to october 1st level. we're also working in support of civic drought in the laegs legislation there's legislation that came out that accelerates the subcontracted water system of the 4 hundred and 72 millions

2 million is for drought relief set aside. so we'll tracking that and as well as the water conservation and looking forward to our schedule this is the contract with our wholesale customers march first, we'll wait to issue an estimate see what the storm wrinkles to us by april 15th we issue a fire permit and determine what water is available to our customers we may come to the commission and ask for a formal declaration but that's a step we don't want to propose yet. and that's where we currently

are if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> commissioners - mr. vice president. >> how does when the water comes down from cherry and has to be filtered does it come down in a separate way or conditional. >> water goes through cherry tunnel down to the powerhouse we generate with that the lower cherry aqueduct moves it down to the river my it is discharged into cherry creek and flows down pedro that feeds on don pedro but the water bank only does us good if we're down country so if

we're not getting water down we wouldn't get any water supply benefit. >> i believe part of it is weighed be mixing with our hetch hetchy project so it would have to be treated. >> yes. any of the cherry water has to be frirltd and we're working with hicht the cherry water is very, very good as good as hetch hetchy but it doesn't have all the watershed supplies so we may operate it in slope process just the hetch hetchy water and just the cherry water and have disfix in between. either way we'll extend the water so far as possible >> we'll have to filter it