pushing it as far as it could. and so i think, you will be, sorely missed and i will certainly miss you and i hope that you write everything down that you know. so that... >> i am going to give 2,000 e-mails that i have safed to my successor. >> thank you. >> commissioner wa*ld? >> thank you. >> and david, i am the longer serving commissioner but i know where i have barely scratched the surface of the time that you have been here. but, i have been here long enough to really see, the impact, that you and your values and your compassion for the environment have had on the department not just in terms of the role in the city but the way that the people do their work, the way that they relate to each other. and the way that they relate to

us. and then, you have, not only had these incredible accomplishments that are listed in concrete accomplishments that are listed in this resolution, and but, the impact that you have had on every single person who has dealt with the department either directly, by interacting with them, or in directly through their interactions and which the staff members which you have mentors and inspired. and motivated. and it is true that the department will miss you terribly but as a recent retiree myself, i cannot even question your decision. although i did for a period of time, but i stopped now, that i have actually retired and i hope that you have a fabulous next stage of your life, and

that you get to enjoy the environment as much, well, as much as you possibly can and it can never be as much as you deserve to. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> and thank you. >> all right, any public comment? on the items? seeing none, the public comment is closed. colleagues, perhaps, just for housekeeping, we can get a motion to amend our resolution, and commendation to reflect the number four? that monica mentioned and that was on page. >> it was on page 1. and i moved and second on that? >> second. >> and all of those in favor. >> say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? >> all right could we get a motion to approve the commendation? >> i move that we approve the motion of commendation. >> all right, so moved

the second from commissioner stevenson and, all of no, sir favor, say aye.. >> aye. >> opposed? >> thank you, david. >> for everything. >> monica if you could call the last items, 14, 15, 16 combined. >>announcements. (information and discussion) 15. president's announcements. (information and discussion) 16. new business/future agenda items. (information, discussion and possible action). >> on my end, any announcements in the future agenda items? >> thoughts? >> commissioners josefowitz? >> i just want to thank our dear president for organizing what i thought was a tremendous joint meeting. and we have been here for a very long time now. and not as long as that longer meeting that went on for bloody ever. but, for the pleasantly for this time and thank you very much for organizing that i think that it is tremendous that we can do some more and i think that there are exciting things and opportunities that

came out of that. >> glad to do that and, thank you for the feedback. and you know, you sit there through a long meeting and you are wondering, how we are doing and so, we appreciate that commissioner. and commissioner? >> i would like to suggest, that we consider inviting roger kim from the mayor's office to come to maybe even our next full commission meeting to discuss with us the mayor's environmental priorities. >> okay. >> we can do that. >> and one other announcement is that, i said that i don't have an announcement but i do, germ o has been working like crazy behind the scenes to coordinate and i notice that he has been here this entire time and thank you, for everything, and for making this happen, and david, and the team, and you know, it was not easy and of course, you know, i hope that when the city attorneys get assigned to the commissions it is not just like, rolling the

dice or lottery, and it is like subject matter. and that you know, that tom, and when he is here on a night like this, it is like, he is, you know, the environmental, stuff that we have talked about just like, we that he thinks that he is so glad that he is here to be here for a long meeting like this. and i might be right? >> yes? >> okay. and thank you, we don't often thank you on a night like this and we have to and of course, monica and she is running around this whole time and fixing the technology with our friends at sfgtv, and thank you. >> thanks. >> and okay. >> any public comment? >> i just have one quick thing to mention is that there is a temporary new temporary system for the new director, ryan jackson who will be getting in touch with each of you to set up an individual meeting with debbie for hopefully next week with each of you. >> so if you hear from ryan

jackson, he is debbie's new assistant. >> okay. >> all right. thank you public comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 17? >> public comment, on items not on today's agenda? >> any public comment? >> seeing none, it is closed. >> adjournment, 8:10. we are adjourned. thanks. i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be

here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area.

>> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have

volunteering every single day of the week. get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come >> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in

store. >> i definitely recommend it to people. it's a fun afternoon and you learn so many things. >> this is so much fun. i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more susta good afternoo

gentlemen, let me first a call this san francisco public utilities commission to order at the 2:00 p.m. mrrtd read the roll >> commissioner courtney. kwaen. commissioner torres. commissioner moran is expected in a moment and commissioner torres is excused >> thank you please call the roll. >> the next it the minutes for may 13, 2014. >> commissioners. >> i'd like to move the approval. >> it's been mofld and seconded my public comment relate to item 3 the approval of the minutes of may seeing none, public comment is closed. it's been moved and seconded i'll call for a vote please certify by you and opposed the

motion carries madam secretary next >> i have 3 speaker cards please submit a speaker cards the first is from francisco. good afternoon >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'd like to first take action (inaudible) >> advocates come over here to speak so there are some new assistant general manager's who have come on board that are other assistant general managers who have already about this on board and, of course, our general manager who knows elsewhere that i'm going to be speaking about in the two

minutes and 21 seconds that i have. so let me start with reminding everybody at one time a force main by third my marine was compromised the extractions in this area explicit do it good job on the main force and on the side that conduits that were dug compromising the main force you all need to get some explanation but that was a very, very serious situation it commodity the park and sit down that is in existence and destroyed number it you, you know, commissioners at one time not a general

manager and another assistant general manager wanted to put there three combustion con biennials we had a commissioner richard who worked for the community to stop that nuisance and none 3 for the last 4 years i've been writing about cal versus we know the situation the good thing is we have a project manager his name is dan his past experience will help him to address the situation at hand arrest number 4 my writings i mention about the mountain tunnel so somehow the spashgs wasn't done correct and now we have to pay for it. number 5 we need to study go

solar and 6 weighing the testimony we'll can you think some real injustice with the community choice we need to reflect we if we don't have community members speaking up some community members do what they want and we need a buffer >> thank you fanning kiss the next card. good afternoon >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm a long time resident of san francisco. i've been a member of the armed forces over 18 years and if upper here 5 years ago me and my team won the i love sf water competition we wanted to promote easy ways for people to conserve

water i'm here as a grassroots and resident to promote for consumption of san francisco water. i know it sounds strange but we'll all agree on water is life. and it's a human right. people throughout the world live throughout cities like san francisco need save cleaning drinking you water but throughout countries the water has turned into a highly profitable business it's sold in the form of plastic bottled water. this consumption trend is accelerated from 20 and empty that plastic water bottles file our water resources.

we know it takes a huge amount of water and we all agree this consumption model it extremely wasteful and unsustainable if san francisco wants to continue to be a leader for our generation and future generations we have to phase out plastic water bottle we passed a law banding the plastic water sales from all public buildings how this alone will do little to go change consumers behavior people buy bottled water in plastic because it's little weight. with is we have a solution we used to use in the past called drinking fountains the only long time solution is to invest like

new york and boston and san jose have realized this and building more drinking fountains we can't do this with 10 or 20 drinking fountains by 0 one thousand might. ultimately drinking fountains should be prevalent and they know the water is safe and tastes good soon they won't think about buying bottled water i realize oh, done >> go ahead and finish. >> i realize it won't be easy there's high-up front costs and reoccurring maintenance costs by with sf leadership we can get this done san francisco residents want and deserve this our grassroots organization will

support you in that my way we can to make this happen. >> thank you, sir for coming. >> your services. next card is john m. kelly. good afternoon >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is john kelly i'm a native san franciscan and democratic and a member of the sierra club, however, today, i speak four myself today thank you for your service. i have come to speak about your agrees ground water supply project you know because you approved the project it was an historic decision because for the first time after 80 almost 80 years ground water will be mixture in to san francisco's high quality hetch hetchy water.

this is decision t is going forward whether the drought conditions exist or not your spooilz our agency is not proud of this decision there's been have little publicity about it and very few san franciscans know it ground water is subterranean and a decision to insert ground water into our legendary hetch hetchy you high quality drinking water shouldn't, subterranean i ask the commission immediately send notice to all san francisco residents informing them of your historic decision to change the composition and quality of our drinking water let the sunshine in commissioners. i have a letter i've written to the commission i will request

that it be made part of our record >> it will thank you, very much. mr. kelly for being here today. any other speakers on general public comment. seeing none, general public comment is closed. . madam secretary next item >> item 5 communications. >> commissioners on the communications. commissioner moran >> thank you, my apologizes for being late. on the visual interject piloting program there was nothing in the item that mentioned the program and it's final come back for puc approval. it's my absorption and wish it will be required and my desire to have it brought back

>> commissioners. if there's no objection that will be the order. any other items on communications commissioners? seeing none, i'll call for public school public comment on existence my public comment madam secretary >> other commission business. >> commissioners. just one item at the attraction we'll have the commission think the environment madam secretary oh, call for public comment seeing none, madam secretary next item >> the report of the general manager. >> first item i'm doing i'd like

tooz give an update on the water supply steve ricky pursue. >> the general manager if i could have the slides this is a regular update on our water supply conditions here at the puc our total reservoir storage is 3 hundred and 6 of architects the water bank we talked about is working for us in terms of having the supply the precipitation at hetch hetchy is normal we don't expect any more water this junior year. the demand response is variable for the 10 percent reductions. this table shows the current reservoir storage the two are hetch hetchy is almost 91 percent at the capacity which is a again thing the reason it is

so high we have served the needs of the turlock with the water banks you see 42 percent of maximum capacity it's working the way it should with hetch hetchy as normal we're not out of the drought, however. this is the precipitation chart i've shown you see the 2014 level is approaching the 2007 level closely and the snowpack is gone for the year it's running off into our reservoirs. the delivery slide the green diamonds that show the level of delivery continues to be variable it drops once again and pops back up with when the weather warms up this is our

delivery to the whole customers to reconsider my different message to the folks out there. the control board is considering issuing occur contaminate nos to the water right holders they are walking up to that if the water board issues the curtailing we'll have our pre2014 are modesto and turlock the state boards staff stayed they're trying to make sure that the legal water yourselves down stream are okay. and our staff t is working with the legal council to make sure that our rights are protected should anything go forward. heave given the indication i they maybe considering emergency

recollections in june. we are relieving the water from cherry to make sure we've got the maximum amount of water and ramping up to open missing our water bank. the cherry is one hundred and 50 thousand and hetch hetchy may fill this year. in terms of management actions there's a couple of things to highlight we've talked about our where for 10 percent volunteer reductions and we're looking at the data hard to see if my additional action a warrant and on may 7th we asked our wholesale customers to look at this and we're working hard on outreach campaigns win and without san francisco. we have a website we've just put up open web call my account and

that's something individual yourselves in san francisco people who have water meters can go online and see their daily usage and compare. we think that's a helpful tool to educate people and is if that effects consumption and the cherry act duct is happening and we're helping people to get funding for that and looking at snow valley improvements to treat the lower cherry supply if we need it in the future if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> vice president commissioner president caen. >> so we can deliver our allocated amazes of money wrong topic water which is fun n fibula in a sense to our

wholesale customers we don't have to cut back. >> no, but we've asked them to reduce by 10 percent if the coming winter is dry if we don't reduce our use next summer is going to be worse yes, we have water and if this winter is good but we have it to make that supply last 3 years into the future. >> but this time is volunteer. >> yes. 10 percent but we're not seeing results so we may have to do more we'll examine the data. >> thank you. thank you, mr. richie.

so the next item which is not on the agenda by you wanted to give an update on the budget we've submitted to the board of supervisors. we had a hearing on the may 21st we presented the mayors budget and in the mayors budget the mayor actually reprogrammed the cac 19 point plus million dollars for the go solar program and the 15 million he reprogrammed it to allow us to fund the capital projects so we won't have to borrow as much money important capital projects we've been working with the mayor's office on scenarios we found out that late april that

was a scenario that he lapped on we informed the budget finance committee on i think on april 30th that was something that the mayor was going to move forward in his budget so may 21st when we presented our budget the board of supervisors was very clear that they wanted a conversation to be had around the cac for whatever the plan is for cac. so we've been working with the supervisors to pretty much articulate that whatever the mayor budget that he presented it is probably the best financial solution for hetch hetchy because we've articulated th