supper to the students and they're n they're n they're not sdprrsz. >> i think we should have that. thank you. report inform the grounds committee commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell >> he did a positive recommendation for renaming the school and having had two kids. >> pardon me. >> the library. >> we speak to a different resolution. and then we had a really good informational item we got an update of willie brown academy and i i guess it's the willie brown junior middle school and

progress is being made there's holes in the ground and they're starting to build euand you're going workings in the community and looking at at opening up in was it august of 2015 we got on update on another site which is another building their removing the bubble losses and building a new building opening in august 2016. nick castro came down who has been a really great resource and we've talked about his funding we've requested from the city again for the next two years but he gave an update on the grant funding we're getting over 8

homicide thousand and a couple of million over the next two years for energy efficient in our school we talked about the share energy program we want 23 schools participating and saving lots of money and the savings the school gets 50 percent of the savings they save it's great we need more schools and have principle here from nick so we are going to work toward getting the principles her. on the district and purchasing of bottled water we are determining whether to renew the water and getting more hetch hetchy water in our schools it

was a good meeting. thank you. any other reports. commissioner murase >> on monday, i prarmentd in the arts festivity that was a really lovely ceremony on thursday at the museum to honor the awards including our own kevin and many other sfusd faculty members and i want to thank all the folks admiring the effectively work and march 19 i wanted to add kudos for commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell for the toll that was favorable to the community and a shout out to the public schools. i want to worry about folks a

heap chavez holiday and commissioner maufas and i have been activity that the street ceremonies and asian-american teachers, faculties members and educators the deadline is april 4th do to asia fair sf.com and nominate our favorite asia person and that's speck for teaching diversity so you're looking for those teachers teaching diversity and their schools are yes, ma'am latino the diversity >> thank you for that clarification. there be joshua activities and

finally the ad hoc is meeting on april 30th at the 6 o'clock in this room >> commissioner commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> i wanted to monopolies that tomorrow morning through the around is the first annual we day educational day i'm sorry it's the program for free the children the first time in the bay area and 16 thousand students will be attending a fro concert and the students earned a ticket to go to the concert they couldn't purchase those ticket they raised money for other students around the world so it is a really great event and 17 of our schools are

participating and that's in sfusd they're going going to go over in the morning with a line up of guest like magic johnson and flaerg a woman that survived genocide we did thank california and our staffer for encouraging the students to participate. i wanted to mention on march 13 i was so pleased to attend the brotherhood, sisterhood with our superintendant at lincoln high school that was cool loved the whole thing and on march 14 i

joined chairperson nicholas and their mother with a hundred regimes of paper to the elementary school and we met a lot of folks in the afternoon are i want to remind everybody this wednesday is the lgbt annual directorship at the app to say million dollar school from 5:30 to stouks. the item t the closed session read out the board about a vote of 6 i's xhekz doesn't renew the contract of one principle the vote of 6 i's commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell doesn't renew

the contract of one - o ah case 2014087 the vote commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell gives authority to the district to pay up 0 a stipulated amount and 2014 the board by a vote approved the competently public department of transportation off one student and the replacement of one high school students in the matter case no. 20/201420115 the board by a vote gave the authority of the district to pay up to a certain amount and other items the staff report open

clarified personnel tracks it's with a great a good deal of sadness the form director of transportation for the stuffed dennis was born on july 10th and passed away he retired from the district as what we rehired as a consultant i had the privilege of reading the boards letter at the retirement directorship he, he worked until his intimely passing he was dedicated to his family and was a loyal friend to so many here at the san francisco unified school district. it's memorial this past wnld was

a true testimony both respected professionally once you knew dennis titus his obituary stated this honorable man was loved. the board of education expresses their sympathy to his wife linda and his loving family and to his sister mary. i end up with some words i read in 2009 the transportation department about not be the same without you but providing the best transportation for our students will carry forward. meeting

>> i'd like to call the order. the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today is is tuesday, march 25, 2014. roll call, please >> commissioner caen. commissioner vietor. commissioner torres and commissioner torres are xoud we have a quorum. item 3 is the approval of the

minutes that you have in your binders. may i have a motion >> so moved arrest second. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. we now move into. those are items not on the agenda that can be discussed >> hello. >> hello. >> i'm david i'm here on behalf of the gun club. i know you're all aware of our concern of our future of lake merced i'm here today to ask for the commissions focused attention on two seers matters of impact like lake merced and this site.

we are definitely in support of efforts to clean up the site we're definitely in support of the site of what's going on. but there are two mistakes being made with regard to the analysis this necessary out there. i've got a letter here for commission. two matters deal with first, the proposal that was sent by the city to the water board it is designed to clean up the site. as you may know anytime the clear up of the site the first analysis that's required for any agency to regulate this it to determine what is the future use of that site because that determines the standards under

which the site should be cleaned up the end result is a warehouse or public park, etc. and each one surveys or carries its own standards for clear up. obviously, the highest standards are for residential use and ironically that's the standard that city has petitions the regional water board to do but this is ludicrous and waste taxpayers' money that site will never have residential uses it's not zoned nor that but it's been study to do residential studies. the current estimates are over 10 millions plus to those standards. we believe that you can clean up that site and still have recreational uses regardless of the recreational uses include

the gun club but half that cost that's a waste of money and secondly under the planning department uses of environmental review there are two standards there are no alternatives so you couldn't study another alternative and secondly no analysis being done of the significance of the historic right away that's there the club has been there over 80 years and every building in san francisco requires an analysis if it's over a southern amount of time my point is this is a waste taxpayers' money if the question from the board of supervisors when we come to the end which this clean up and someone says well could we have done this cheaper or differently and you won't have the analysis in front of you 200 no studies you'll

have to going on go over it again and start from the beginning that's a waste of taxpayers' money i'm asking the commission to focus on both of those issues studied by the department >> i have a question. >> i'm not terrible clear on what you're saying to us are you asking for a lesser clear up to me there's recessing residue that has to, taken away so there are other ways to do this. >> yeah. to give you an example i represents clears up on other sites through the bay area and

every time they do a clean they have to go to the recreational water board and they have to say here's what i intended to use the site for later and depending on that use the recreational agency says i moos must do this or you only have to do this may be only cap it or pick it up and brick it to another state it requires different levels of analysis because if you're going to have a warehouse just put concrete down and you don't have to clean up but you're going to have people there and it will require a higher standard of clear up and residential uses has the highest standard and that's the request being made now that does not make sense.

>> the chair if we do a lessor review they'll august they can stay on the site but the higher standards eliminates their presence. >> that's one of the issues. >> however, if it remains a gun club there should be certain standards to that that he you're going to tell me we can't discuss this (laughter). >> she knows. >> welcome back serena. >> i can tell by here look. okay. >> could i have this overhead, please we can zero in its

stipulation document. yeah, that's good. commissioners, yesterday, i was before the san francisco ethnics commission on an issue that deals with ethics and morals and standards. i've spoken about this directly and indirectly many times. a bunch of people came from the east bay and there was some from supposed to live in san francisco i'm not sure about that. but anyway, there were representing san franciscans but they were not representing san franciscans in the right manner

what do i mean by that. in this place when any type of deliberations took place as i'm talking to you and others are sitting down over there they shouldn't be talking and making noise and acting like i say holy goods. they shouldn't why am i saying this? commissioners in the last 5 years we have had over thirty incidents or instances some of sexual harassment and robbery and others are harassing people and i can say very clearly and my name is francisco that one of

the who was discussed at the san francisco ethnics commission has been doing that for a long time it's simply wrong simply wrong for people who are in a position and for people who are on the commission to come up front and say that all those things that are stated in this document which is on the overhead if anyone can read and the person admits to them that it's okay. so i said so somebody you know i had a feeling i shot him oh, you know what i really didn't know i had to steal but now i'm sorry. those types of things shouldn't happen it sets a bad persistence

thank you >> thank you, sir. i'd like to call dr. jackson. >> good afternoon, everyone. i want to state that the fact that this commission operates under the robert rules of order >> actually, we don't. >> no oh, no wonder it's messed up here. >> it's a little known a fact but we don't. >> now i understand thank you very much. >> don't you want to add anything? >> well, i still got two minutes up here i was going to request that you all suspend the

time today especially on item 7 on the limited time of speaking because 3 minutes is not long enough especially, when the staff is making a presentation i'd like to have equal time to make comments on those issues. thank you very much >> i see well, we'll think about that. any more public comment? good moving long next item, please >> item 5 communications. >> any comments on communications advanced calendar. >> i'd like to point out i've been in communication with

commissioner president courtney about the two twin fooifrdz that would like to be painted silver to i have a communication out to the foyer chief joanne to see if that he, accommodate that. >> and that's going to occur april your date on that? >> the 17, april 17th. >> the 17th. well, that certainly was a little known fact did anybody know that >> i don't think we could have a silver fooifd. >> but the roll is in a great fire. >> thank you.

would you come forward, please >> good afternoon. i'm bill san francisco fire department retired and museum director and presently guardians of the trustee we're the ones that presented this proposal to you. i gave you the package of material if i can answer any questions >> are there other silver fire hydrants in san francisco. >> i've seen some but i've seen some. >> better check these out and paint them white but i'm not the fire chief. >> thank you very much for your service to our city. >> thank you. >> and presenting this to us. >> it's - >> a revolution.

>> i can say in 18969 the doctor asked the mayor to paint the hydrant on church street it's been going on and four years ago the history committee started the research been the water sources in the 18906 water and in 1905 there were over 5 hundred hydrants and we found 45 had water working and the hydrant on buchanan supplied water a anytime of 19 hours in not longer and during the ceremonies that for many years i mced the golden hydrant and what

about the western edition hydrants we didn't know where to look for the hydrants and the other one on ellis and venice avenue to california street. you can picture that that's a greater distance than the length of the hydrant at 20th and church so was the haze and buchanan was twice the distance and all 3 hydrants supplied the water to stop the fire from good morning into the mission district and the ham and egging is district was the first arriving company didn't know where to find water they found water locally and it turned into

a longer period of time because the 395 gulf street fire was large but the fire department stopped it from going west at california and van ness avenue. so generally, that's it and we think it's time that the two hydrants be honored by calling them the silver twins did outstanding work in 1906 >> i think it's an outstanding idea hopefully, they'll do the same thing. >> they're still in service fire hydrants we've been in touch with the chief and she knows about it we're proposing to have it on buchanan at

10:00 a.m. and invite you to be there. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. >> all right. any public comment? moving on to other commission business. anything new? >> so item 7. report of general manager >> first up i'd like to have steve risky to gave you an update on our water supply outlook. >> steve risky assistant general manager for water again, this is an update on our water supply because the drought we're in. some of those slides are familiar and our water is