service basis the agencies in santa clara county have been asked to reduce their supply by 20 percent and in addition alameda county water district fremont for newark have requested their owner water customers to reduce by 20 percent because of the water project on them. so they're taking this message and this issue very, very seriously. it's increasing their conservation savings and expanding their outreach to the community like our doing with pamphlets and other things we're constantly getting requests to speak about that and also launching a campaign we're putting out with our agency we were able to take advantage of the state law campaign and

modify it we think that the message is simple and pretty clear there's a drought and turn our water off it will really make a difference with the customers. i think this one is my favorite (laughter) i worry about i could have gotten any own dog >> what type of dog. >> i have an english span i can't tell. the second item relates exactly to the drought. yesterday was a phenomena be day in the service area for conservation. peter druk meier is not her but a strong property of what was the first silicon valley it was to connect those who are responsible it with landscape

managed for tools to look at how to sustain a landscape so there were vendors and property managers all in a series of events focused on the newest and greatest technology out there. it was a broad coalition of agencies. george gave the could he note address and with the focus again on the sustainable landscape studies there were things talked about and resources along with vendors trying to bring the latest and greatest technology for those who are in control of the water use it was successful. intend of that submit p there was a water conservation award

that is the fifth year we've done the silicon valley awards it highlights those water warriors those people's and entities and agencies that have made a difference in the water savings. the winners implicit are selected by a broad coalition of local vieflt and geogroups and businesses. so there were 8 award winners palo alto was one and i also want to call out kathy she won the lifetime achievement award the education coordinator and she's expand the outreach to schools. it was impressive they talked about the value to get the

message out about water conservation if the important situation we're in it was a great event i hope we can continue to build off of. lastly and this i think it very important given the notice of change you've put out in the water system improvement program the state oversight is going to exterior this january 1st, this will be the 89 accounting notice of change that requires you to go through the process i believe it's from the wholesale prospective is very, very helpful. i work closely with general manager kelly to craft language it san francisco could support and, in fact, senate bill 1435 was introduced into the water committee and that new oversight

would go to january 1st, 2022, and at this point through mayor's office have sent support we'll continue to watch that closely but not anticipating any change. so with that, that concludes my report i'm available to a answer any questions you might have >> thank you questions? what is the 2022? that seems terribly far out >> the current is 2019 and because the suspect has to end on a january internal revenue service because of the legislation it was important we capture the completion of the

program and possibly any changes not having to go back and extend the oversight. >> i don't like that. >> the original proposal was longer and i think appropriately we had significant discussions with general manager kelly of shortening the date. the originate only requires san francisco if you completed the program so you complete it by july 19th to submit an annual report that was done so but the bigger issue is going back if, in fact, you have any kind of extension into two 21 and going back to the legislator we'll prefer not to do that >> okay. what it is what it is but i do not like i want to put

it on record saying i don't. >> just to reiterate we wanted to put it in alignment of what our lastly forecast but given the fact that that we still have a period of time where there is some risk still out there we were looking at maybe a contingency time talking about what that will be and coupled with the fact if we complete on time basically, we don't have to do other than a couple of reports two annual reports so baselines that that's a good compromises moving forward and, of course, our goal is to finish by 2019 so the better given the

drought scenario we can use the prior to the full capacity and, in fact, if there's a possibility of increasing cal versus we're looking at as well. >> fine i want the minutes to reflect my opinion. thank you very much >> thank you. okay moving along. cds item 9 will you please read the items >> item 9 a through b >> item 9 a through b of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda at this time, members of the public may address the commission jurisdiction

commission will be afforded when of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, address the commission up to three minutes. >> so if you can read item 9 a and b. approval and increase in the construction costs for w w 503 richmond district sewer replacement in the amount of 39 thousand plus in the contract of up to one hundred and 61 consent calendar years. general manager or his designee to approve the contract calm up to a maximum of one hundred thousand plus and to extend it to a maximum of 1 hundred and 11 consent calendar days.

the work performed by w w 506 declaring the excelsior district for a total of one million plus. and for one-hundred and 87 million funded by w e and 45 thousand for dpw in a contract for 2 hundred and 19 consecutive days for the contract >> commissioners any request to remove any one of the item as i'd approve the consent calendar. >> the motion carries. we now move into oh, sorry - and

let the record show no one wanted to comment. okay. so commissioners secretary could you please read the items we will be discussing in closed session today >> closed session item 12 existing claims and item 13 existing claim and item 14 existing claim vs. city and county of san francisco item 15 existing litigation for mcdonald vs. city and county of san francisco et all and item 16 existing legislation for jack listen et all vs. city and county of san francisco and item 17 anticipated litigation and item 18 for the stoic vs. the gas and electric company and

item 189 city and county of san francisco vs. panic and electric company and item 20 for the gas and electric company vs. the city and county of san francisco. item 21 is filth tradition concerning the security of sf water and power system. very good any public comment to be made for the items in closed session. seeing none, i'd like a motion whether to assert >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i opposed the motion carries we're going to go into closed sessi session. >> they have a strolling could

listen in the explicitly. we've reconvened from closed session. item 12 settled is he item 13 and 14 and 15 and item 16 settled. item 17 no action and item 18 removed and item 19 and 20 removed. may i have a motion not to disclose >> all in favor, say i. >> i. the motion cards any other new business excuse me. >> the april 8th meeting has been cancelled. and vote seven hundred i voted i was in to her one in my water

bill >> what did that mean. >> you'll find out. okay. the meeting it adjourned at >> hi, i'm corn field and welcome to doing building san francisco, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on

your home. let's take a look at that. >> here at the spur urban center on mission street in san francisco talking about staying in your home after an earthquake. i have guests today, pat buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both structural engineers and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake, what should we do? both structural and maybe even important non-structural things. >> you hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and water tank and that is important. what you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself feel better. if you have a bad structure, a bad building, then you need to be looking at that and everything that you do to keep your collectables in place is

small and compared. if you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is non-structural and your chimney and water tank. >> let's talk about what the structural things might be. >> and he is exactly right. you don't want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. there are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the building department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a building permit and hire a contractor. but you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i don't have

to worry about going to a government shelter. >> that is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours. here is a better idea, stay in your own home and in order to do that you have to be make sure that your structure is okay. if you have a house, the easy things to do with the wood construction is feasible. if you have a renter or you live in a concrete building, you need to talk to the building own , and make sure they have done their due diligence and find out what the deficiencies are. >> when i have looked at damaged buildings,vy seen that a little bit of investment in time and money and structural work provides great dividends. >> especially if it is the wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good

investment. and the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma, you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. on top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west half of the city have a water tank and the water tank fall over because they are gas fired and start fires. and that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that

your water tank is braced. >> if you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the fire department is going to have to fight and we don't want to have any more fires than we need to. so bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. >> and so easy, and you go on-line and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the hardware store and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. that is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. if you are in other types of building it is complicated. if you are in a high-rise building you just can't anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owner's and the managers about earthquake preparedness >> and don't take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. that is not the right answer,

ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. >> what is the right question? will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake? is that a good question to ask? >> yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. >> thanks, pat. >> thanks, harvey. and thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on >> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco.

nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store.

in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look

for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even

harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to you as well?

>> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you

have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley, only one earth.

this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print shop. >> ok.

the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful things. anyone who has told you paradise

is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team. "culturewire" team. man: 60-inch screen, high-definition. football season is coming up. you can watch it right here. what do you think? i'll take it. huh! huh! now, that's what i'm talking about. you're right. i don't need it.

gavel] >> good evening and welcome to the regular meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. we'll begin by taking the roll. vice-chair renne? >> present. >> commissioner? >> here. >> commissioner andrews? >> here. >> commissioner keane? >> here. >> the executive director has an announcement. >> i just want to take a moment to welcome the new deputy director jesse minarde. he brings a wealth of experience to this position and we're delighted to have him.