>> moved. >> second. >> director lee and a martin luther. >> vice chair harper. >> chair kim. >> puffed. >> this is the approving of the minutes from. >> can we call item 11 and 12 together. >> 11 being approving the minute of the last meeting and the january 24th meeting. >> move approval. >> so we have a motion i did want to make sure that director edward reiskin requested for the last meeting minutes marry p. >> mohammed. >> with that both stems. director lee

>> i. . sxhelg >> i. chair kim that's improved. >> today we are going to recess our meeting. >> we didn't receive any member of the public wanting to speak and so this the itself the opportunity for pub the public to comment on closed session. we'll close and convene into closed session. we'll ask the members of the public to leave the room so we can convene and thank you, everyone >> yeah. we've done that at the

board. we're no where back in open session and the announcement of closed session will be by council meeting >> as to item 15 the property located at 81 2e the price for the property interest in that property including contemplation the board unanimously authorizes the executive director to execute an agreement and, llc to provide a settlement as to item 169 conference of legal council with legal litigation on howard street the name of the case city and county of san francisco vs. 564 howard street, llc accident board released the payment of

$18,000 for the exchange of damage claims to the city and a tjpa. >> thank you. i want to take a moment to acknowledging the staff for videotaping and archaic our meeting here today and seeing no further items the meeting is good morning and happy new year. >> happy new year. go 9ers. all right. (clapping) well, thank you all for km i know there are symso many

departments ease our newly scorn or sworn in actually 4 times sworn in and our fire department and mary from treasure island and our commissioners that have been sworn in and about to be sworn in. today is a great day where we've got 44 appointees people who are upping upism in taking open this fantastic responsibility in representing our city in being what i have also said we need con did you notice to run this fantastic city. so i want to say thank you your recreation and parks department some 16 different bodies for our city and county of san francisco. and let's say it runs the

gambling bit of how we manage a great city like san francisco. you've got people joining in the arts community and people joining in our bay adversities committee representing a community that i think we have to pay attention to and we'll up the ante on ourselves to do more. you've got people in building inspection you've got folks that are going to top responsibility in fiscal entities, you've got advisory council committees and preference and people that are going to help us entertain more of our adversity and resident whether in the arts or treatment we've got folks for the oversight for the puck promise

when they provide for money important the bonds we see that the projects get down, health care and housing, local business which is a big farther of ours because we want to promote more of the success of a local business we've got people coming into help us and small business owner, of course, is treasure island. this is running the gambling bit of responsibilities our city has taken on i want to personally thank alleyway all 44 of you joining me not only will you help share in the from successes but the flag we get from the public and i need more people to share in that responsibility (laughter) but i also say thank god thank

you too because f this is one of the greatest cities in the world and for you to take up personal time, personal effect and sacrificing sometimes with family and a friends is credible. this is what makes our city special. you look at all the city's and great cities it depend upon their citizenry to bring out the best of our resident to hear and be those effective conduits. i'm going to ask you to pay attention to the responsibility you occur in our bodies of work but pay attention to issues looish like affordability and housing and people being hurt or the folks on the streets or the need to produce a better health

plan and health care. all the things that make our city great no matter if you sit on entertainment or arts paying attention to the quality of life for everyone is important. for me it's about collaborating and you be thinking freely. this need not be your issue but if you pay attention you'll find of the conduits whether you're fire or local business you'll find the conduits that make the collaboration better. thank you for thinking outside the box and thank you for being responsible citizens that take up the cause for all of us. let's go and precede and if i can i would like you all to stand. and when you raise our right

hand i would like you to repeat individually each of our names and the entities upon which you are about to enter for this fantastic responsibility. so i ask you to please join and raise our right hand after i please repeat your name and the committee or body you'll be joining. i >> i state your name. >> thank you likelihood and clearly. >> repeating.

>> ed. >> jamie hope and citizens committee. >> (inaudible). steven adams soft story commission >> loudly. >> paul. >> ken arts division. >> harland kelly regional finance. >> leslie. >> lee row housing authority commission. or not advisory council.

>> bond oversight. (inaudible). faye >> be (inaudible). rubin santana advisors >> joan i didn't advisory committee and a rebecca ryan's sense oversight bond. >> entertainment commission. >> bayview citizens advisory committee. >> (inaudible). theodore miller >> james mccray junior building inspection commission. >> all right. >> do solemnly swear. that i will support and defend

the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic that i will bear true faith and alliance to the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california that i take this obligation freely without any mental restoration or purpose of evaluation and i will well, and faithfully discharge the duties about which i'm about to enter and during the time as i hold the office of for the city and

county of san francisco. congratulations and thank you very much >> happy new year everyone. thank you (clapping)

>> 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 current