thank you very much so much for your test.

>> good afternoon everybody i'd

like to call this meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission to order madam secretary next item, please. >> item number 2 is roll call. >> commissioner courtney. >> here. >> commissioner moran. >> commissioner torres is excused today. >> can you call the next item please. >> approval of the minutes of april 22, 2014. >> are there any comments on the meeting of april april 22, 2014? >> i'd like to call for public comment on the meeting seeing none public comment is now closed. all those in favor please signify by saying aye

the ayes have it that motion carries. next item please. >> matters within the jurisdiction and not on today's agenda. >> i do have speaker cards thank you donna i'd like to call doctor jackson to the front please. good afternoon doctor. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon i came to request that today you change from the fact that when there's items pertaining to different subjects, we would like to speak on it. it happened to to me at the last meeting because the director have to make the report and you have to wait until he makes the second and third because that don't give us enough time. i'd like to say i received a call the fact i requested that she come

her name is rosemary cambra the chairperson for the alaqua tribe i'm going to put this card so maybe you can see it on the over head. i have been the spokesperson and liaison for the tribe for a long time and in fact i'm also a member of the tribe and rosemary brought to my attention that some of your staff that's working with is trying to do something with the olone's here in san francisco so what i came here today to request is that anything that you want to do discuss about doing anything in san francisco concern the olone tribe give me a call or you can also call mr. decosta

who he also represent and i told her you would be meeting today maybe your staff don't know who's who i wear many hats and have been for many years and i don't just represent bay view hunter's point i represent the whole city and county of san francisco as well as the east bay. now, i want to thank you because when i come before you i give you respect and i'm going to demand respect from your staff. thank you so very much and you all have a blessed day. >> thank you doctor for being here the next speaker card i have is from francis co, decost a. >> good afternoon i spent 2 weeks in new york lived in long island and man oh man i love

san francisco. [laughter] let me talk a little bit about water commissioner as you know, that plans are made to build over -- i would say 40,000 units in the next 15 years and it's very easy to say they are going to build this high-rise buildings do this and do that, but then you all were watching the tv screens and there was a huge huge humongo u.s. fire in mission bay believe me 8 or 9 huge structures could have been burned miracle lo u.s. ly there

was no wind what am i trying to say? whether you like it or not you commissioners are responsible for advising and making sure that when people say they are going to be building these high-rise buildings and there are human beings in these buildings that we have to provide our fire fighters and our law enforcement and our emergency teams all the amenities linked to safety and we have a couple of supervisors and you always have supervisors that bid the horse again revive it as they know the -- what is required in the standards of our city thank god we have a very good fire

chief who is a woman and thank god we have a very good chief of police who's a man and thank god we have good people and we have to support them. we need to know exactly when the new planning is done, what type of high-rise buildings are going to be placed and in in an emergency, if there's a big fire, that we have the best type of firefighting equipment to address those fires because we can not afford to have a huge fire and have hundreds and hundreds of people lose their life but some talk about new york, and i've been there, some talk about boston, and i've been there, if you want to have smaller fire engines, go to new york and go to boston: san francisco we need the high

standards, the standards the fire department has adopted which are the international fire standards thank you very much. >> thank you francisco thank you very much for being here the next speaker card i have is from ann clark hello again ann. >> it's really a pleasure for for me to be here and i'm ann clark a resident of san francisco and vice president of friends of camp mather and i want to see you all at camp find your volunteer leader and look for me when you are there. we're so grateful to all of you and to everyone who's here for everything you did and are doing to protect camp mather. it's really a miracle that we're opening on may 31st st

and we'll be able to hold camp open all summer until we close august 16th and from the deepest part of our hearts and from everyone we talked to we really want to thank you and i hope you hear that message loud and clear it was tough it was rough and it was hot and for you to go and keep going and protect things and now do the restoration work it's beyond our imagination that we're opening camp. again our and my deepest appreciation look us up and again i hope you really understand how deeply appreciative we are for a really tough job. thank you.

>> commissioner vietor. >> i want to extend our thanks to you at camp mather as you thank us i want to be sure to appreciate you as well and thank you for all the work it takes your efforts and all the work you put in to keep the camp going and active and vibrant so thank you. >> i have one thing i forgot there's volunteers of the friends of camp mather going up next week a lot of things melted because of the heat of the fire and making sure we can do what we can do to get the camp ready for the first group of campers. >> so please extend our appreciation to them. >> before you go i think it's curious that we had linkage between yourself and the last speaker it's important to

acknowledge the great work being done by the men and women in san francisco fire department because to francisco's point and to your point -- they are our local heroes and i'm glad that camp is opening and glad that the recreation and parks department gets to do all that programs thanks for travelling here. >> one comment we've never ever done this before we do raise money through raffles and t-shirts but we're having our very first gala we're very nervous never done this before but we want to honor all the people that did all that work to save camp mather we'll get an announcement wish us luck

it's our very first gala we wanted to do it so we could publicly say to all the firemen and fire women to say thank you. >> that's exciting thank you very much. >> i'd also like to add that commissioner vietor is a regular camper. >> i am my 9-year old especially is a big fan in the family so i thank you on her behalf as well. >> thank you ann thank you for being here the next card i have is from my sister melissa, macdermat. >> good afternoon. >> hi thanks for having us i just wanted to say thank you again for your support support of the commission mayor ed lee

and supervisor chew as some of you know that program transformed my life so i just wanted to let you know that i'm very grateful that you are dedicated to continuing that so other people's lives can be transformed as well and all the good things the program brings thank you very much. >> thank you very much for being here. the next card i have is betty awn. >> good afternoon counselor. >> afternoon. ed die echoing the comments just made again wanting to thank this commission and leadership in helping ensure full funding for go solar sf each year for the

next 2 years will go a long way in creating over 400 jobs and demonstrate hopefully the power of the partnership in in the solar industry and apri and as well as solar installation company goes to show this pathway that we can build to green jobs to the state of california as it continues to be a model for everyone. >> thank you for being here you have to give a shout out to the electricians who are with us today. please forgive me is it tony lee how about mr. lee for now? >> thank you, sir actually i

came in for the meeting next room i saw you had a meeting i'm chinese been here for years we had a water crisis now we don't have water only and properly you need to compare with lots of countries san francisco do very well the price is reasonable and it's fine very good but i use very little water only when i was young every water we had to carry physical bring home to use it even now i've been here 27 years already i don't make money now i can afford to live in the city we have a lot of asians that live in in the city we all come together. i think that you should tell the people now i tried to put a lot

of container trying to save the water so i can use for the water so i don't need to pay my bill plus. now water in china look at the news only 2 hours the whole region is flooding every where flooding flooding i was so sorry california no rain look at the sky every day it's hot very nice but look at china flooded with water. it's monday for chinese so you are going to not only -- i know you have a lot of big projects more and more tower coming our main industry in san francisco is tourists and hotel and restaurant they use the most water in industry so i hope

that you can teach some of the family make a very simple system tell the people in the wintertime they can put it out collecting our water on and on teaching the people how to use it. they had a system. we had a lot of engineer and a lot of public relationship you can tell the people how to collect the water from the sky the free water for us i'm a taxi driver i'm trying to complain about uber next meeting room so -- >> thank you mr. lee thank you for being here thank you. i do not have any other comment cards on this item is there any further public comment? hearing none public comment is now closed madam secretary next item please. >> item five the communications the formal protest letters

received the commission has on the table all the letters received since thursday's publishing and we have a letter from david and elizabeth frias. >> thank you. any comments on the communications? i do have a speaker card for item 5 i can i please call lorraine lucas? >> hi lorraine. >> hi. >> good afternoon my name is lorraine lucas coalition for san francisco neighborhoods i testified at the last hearing and received a response from the puc, the staff, and i want to say they have been very helpful in responding to my

inquiries and i thank them very much. we're having a difficulty in terms and what i meant in the last resolution was policy expenditures and some of the things that we think should not be paid with puc by the rate payers are capital projects and one example the wastewater treatment facility on treasure island we think should be paid by redevelopment money and capacity fees and the redemption project should have been paid by recreation and park and large conservation programs should be paid by recreation and park and the youth employment should be paid by the mayors office of community development and the sheriff's budget i'm not saying these projects are good or bad i'm

not making a decision or -- that they should be paid but i think the rate payers don't know these are in their rates when they are paying for water -- they are not aware of this and also community benefits programs when i talk to people they are very surprised that these are in water rates and i think the commission what they should do is look at the total ity of the projects and community benefits and i think those should be taken out of the rate payers and if we need, as a city, to fund these projects we should fund them as a city, not through our water rates. thank you. >> thank you very much for being here today. so on this item there is no action i'll call for further public comment on item 5. >> good afternoon joan girardo

i wanted to comment on 5 l and wanted in particular to comment on the response by mr. pearl to miss ann moller caen's question on why the 2-tier wastewater rate was being delayed for 3 years. and he states because the change disproportionate ly impacts customers with low water use and they want to make it more gradual for those customers, i just wanted to state that i'm having a little difficulty with what the true cost of service is for treating a unit of residential wastewater and i know that in the corollo report they recommended a 9.93 cent uniform rate and before you is

to delay that for 4 years but i wanted to point out that right now the current rates -- people that have families that are in tier 2, for the tier 2 units are paying $10 and $0.53 that's 6 percent higher than the recommended uniform rate going out 4 years so it seems that families households are larger and therefore using more water and are in tier 2, have been subsidizing tier 1 users for many many years and we used to have 3 tiers now down to 2 and going to 1, but i think you should take another look at this point why would the uniform rate being proposed in the future be less than the tier 2 right now thank you very much. >> thank you again for being here.