welcome mawulli -- supervisor cohen who is here to make a presentation to bj on behalf of the board of supervisors. thank you again for your service and congratulations. [applause] >> well, obviously i'm not her. but what i would like to do is take this opportunity to really express the closeness that bj and i have enjoyed over the ten years that i've been with the puc. when i started with the puc, i realized that bj was a large personality. in fact, i was wondering, i said who was bj's manager and then i realize that she managed her manager,

and so when we start working together as part of the c-bot committee, we actually -- we really worked well together and when i became president, she was the vice president and she managed me well. and at the event, we started together -- started with 13 folks, was it, bj? and it was over 500 people going to the event, and i'll tell you, bj has taken the responsibility of organizing that people and talking to people getting people excited. she has been an inspiration to me and to the whole c-bot committee and we're going miss her greatly. i always tell her you're not going to far. we're going to always have you participate in events that you help create. i'm going to miss you personally, and i wish you the best and i really love you, so i want to give you a plaque

so that you can remember us by, so let me come down there and give it to you. >> can i have the representative from supervisor cohen's office. thank you for being here. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> so my name is moli here representing supervisor cohen. she cannot be here because she's going to her own board meetings, but she did want to make sure that you're recognized for the incredible work that you do with the community and just on a personal note, i mean, at any time i interact with you, you make me feel welcomed and at home, and it's like i'm home at texas. thank you so much. so we just have this small token of appreciation from you from supervisor, and i'll just quickly read it. in recognition of your 30 years of service with the san francisco public

utilities commission, and in appreciation of the exceptional and honorable work you have done with the is the east community facility and the bay view community, the city and county of the san francisco board of supervisors here by extending their highest accommodations and sends their best wishes to you on this special day. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. so before we ask you to come up front, if you'd be kind enough to address us in your most authoritative way as an employee, let us have it. >> this is truly a humbling experience for me, and it has been a long time and i've been with the puc for 22 of my 30 years.

i've been under managers, commissioner moran and i was here when the water department was the water department. i know where all the bodies were buried. i want to say to everyone, i'm truly going to miss everyone, and i have to change my life now because the city and county has been a big part of my life for so many years. i was a young girl from la, my sassy swag and i came up here with that, and i'm leaving with that, so i want -- i still got my swag. >> you never lost it. >> so i didn't have my sun glasses on. my mother told me, please don't wear your sun glasses so i obeyed my mother and i didn't wear my sun glasses, but i want to

address everybody that i've worked with that is here to support me and see me off. it has been a ride and i'm looking forward to my retirement, open willing up my own business, my event planning business doing some shopping, i went shopping yesterday in the middle of the day and i'm, like, oh, wow, now i can go shopping in the middle of the day and get my senior discount and don't have to worry about getting back to work. this has been an experience and i love everybody and i'm going to miss everybody, and i humbly thank you and sam and everybody who played a part in this. >> thank you. [applause] >> will you please join us up here.

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>> well, the things you learn from working with bj is the powerful personality. it has been astounding over the years and no matter what's going on, she always has a smile and a good hug and keeps you going. that's a wonderful gift. >> so i'm going to go ahead and call for public comment on this item. if there's any, please let me know. feel free to come up. it's important to recognize the great, great work that's being done by the staff, outstanding capable staff that we have here, so don't be shy. francisco, thank you. >> on behalf of the constituents of the southeast sector, i would like to offer all the best to bj and i look forward to the next person who is going to take her place, to work very hard with

the community because we really need somebody that understands our needs, and that can take us to a better place, so thank you very much, bj, i wish you all the best, and we look forward to you sharing your experience in the future with the community. >> thank you francisco. any other public comment on the item? my doctor, good afternoon. >> good afternoon, dr. jackson. you know, i have to say something because bj -- as long as i have been knowing her, and the fact that she has been an individual that all the community needs that works on behalf of the community and have the concern of the community and have the joy of working for the community, and i would like to say, bj, i'm going to miss you, and

i'm hoping whomever that you commissioners decide to bring in, i want bj to interview that individual and let that individual understand that that individual have to deal with dr. jackson. thank you. >> thank you very much. are there any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. city clerk: item 7 is the report of the general manager. >> so the first item i would like to talk about is our water supply outlook, and as you probably have heard and seen on the news that we launched our campaign to heighten the awareness of conservation efforts. yesterday we announced that we will continue asking our wholesale retail customers to curtail their usage by 10%, and

that determination was made partly because in the last month, we start seeing everyone pitching in and actually we were trending below 10% so with this renewed action and commitment and also with the campaign that we've launched, we feel that 10% voluntary curtailment would be achievable, so with that, i wanted to ask steve ritchie to go over a presentation to talk about where we are today. >> thank you general manager. this is steve ritchie, assistant general manager from water. if we can have the slides, please. basically right now our total storage is 64.5% of maximum with $494,000 is available as water si ply and as i have emphasized

in past presentations and that's because of our water bank and preserving that and i'll talk about that. we need to achieve a demand production of 210%. this defers a production by 20% by one year in the future. if we didn't make a reduction this year, we would have to go to 20% this year, but keeping that up, that needs to go to 20%. that's important because 20% is a harsh cut. the demand response has been variable, but in the last four weeks, we've seen marketing improvements by our customers as a whole. our reservoir storage level as of june 22, they're at 94 percent and it's full, which is really good news for us. but at a price, water bank is down to about 35% of capacity. and i'll show the significance of

that in the next slide. this is a graph showing historically how much water has been in water bank. it has ranged as high as 750,000 acre feet and we have stored access. our current storage is 197,000 access and if you look at the feet, only during the last drought between 1987 and 1992 has water bank been this low, so this is just another sign that we're in a drought, but again the tool is working for us in terms of being able to draw that down to feed the disstricts while we keep the water for ourselves. the accumulative perception, i may not show this slide because it's not going to change until october 1st. i might as well drop the snow pack slide. it has been zero for a while. it ain't going

anywhere. our outlook is close to full while the bank is depleted. we're starting to ramp up releases from cherry to opt milliliters the bank. imize -- the black dash line is the reduction line and what you can see is the last four weeks, demand has come down and has stayed flat. if we stay flat until september 1st, we'll be on your way to achieving the total 10% reduction for the year. which we've got a new graphic on that. basically a water glass, as opposed to a fundraiser thermometer, it is filling up an

empty water glass. we have to save our customers 8 billion gallons of water to achieve that number. our goal is to get by the end of the summer, to 5.7. that's the level that we can get to if we keep demand flat. so hopefully as we watch the summer, this glass is going to fill up with saved water for us and that's important. the management actions that we've been taken, we're continuing the 10% voluntary water use reduction wide. we have two major projects under way. rehabilitation of the cherry aqua duck and the small treatment plant. through these projects, we rely to fill cherry reservoir as of january 15th. we want to use it going forward if the drought

persists. we're rolling out major campaign here in san francisco. i did not print all of the campaign displays, but this is what we're using with dirty hands and doing it and satisfied as you noted president courtney, for a quicky of a meet that we might have before us. that campaign, we rolled out yesterday and got positive attention on it and president courtney said it well, it may be practice vok tifb, but you have to be pro vok tifb to give them to save. as i mentioned, they have curtail notices for water right holders which is the irrigation system and we're watching that closely to see if there's an effect on us. the water board

just issued regulations regarding enforcement of curtailment notices. this could have an affect on us and we're reviewing it with the city attorney's office to determine what kind of action is appropriate and what comments are appropriate. the water board is expected to consider adoption as soon as july 1st. so we'll be watching that closely. on june 17th, they had a work shop on urban water supplies to reduce water usage. they expect to have emergency drought rescue on june 19th and considered by july 16. it's not clear what direction that's going to go, but what's likely is a state wide percent reduction and that's something to come up in the regulations. i think they'll focus on recommended actions that they would try to put in place as requirements for all users of water. but we'll see as those come out on july 9.

so in summary, the drought is still on. we'll continue with 10% conservation through calendar 2014 and we're working closely with the customers to achieve that demand and we're doing better. we need to keep on track on conservations and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> i have a question. so speaking about serving, i think it got a lot of press that the sacramento capital has let their lawn go brown, and we've received a letter in our packet about the greenness of our lawn here at city hall and it made me think about the water use that we do as a city or agency, and whether there's savings there and some potential to draw some attention to this important issue throughout the public you curtailing our own water use. >> i think we'll talk about the mayor's office about that very directly. i think that's a good question.

>> i think one of the things that we are working with other departments, for example, rec and park is responsible for irrigation and i think august 1st, they're required to come back with an action plan. they have initiated some actions already, which i don't have all of them off the top of my head. speaker: rec and parks, for example, they asked all their gardeners to reduce watering times by 10%. turned off a lot of fountains and you'll see a lot of dry fountains around the city and the only ones running is the ones to keep the mechanisms from falling apart. we're working with them. we're going to try to work with them to get fixtures replaced in the recreation center that will reduce water usage. i started producing a report for rec and park that shows by individual meter, their water use. currently it's all rolled up into one and they pay their bill,

but we're working with them to turn their meeting into a management tool in terms of water use reduction. >> if i may, so i also took note of the letter. the letter come from, i believe it's a board president of one of the hoa's at one -- i guess it's a cooperative housing unit and it's pointed, but i think it's important because i'm also talking to rec and park, and what we wouldn't want to see is we wouldn't want to see the neighborhoods not have input. what i think would be tragic is if we kind of expeditiously let all the grass and trees and bushes in the southeast just die because that was easy to do without having some kind of process. i did take note of the city hall comment, but i also know this area, if you go out there right now, it's lined for play. the kids are relying -- they're going to play soccer there or

something. there's an important recreation use and because i do have a relationship with the rec and park, i know the difference between the golf course and the golden gate park and who gets the recycling water and what doesn't count, but i would hate to see us in an effort to expedite this, not have appropriate public participation in that conversation at each and every level. >> i agree. i will note that i did see a comment on the capital lawn and that that was -- there was one small piece of lawn that was allowed to die. everything else is still alive because it's a large public park and it's the same issue you're talking about president courtney, is parks are valuable for our structure, so we have to balance the water savings with the utility as public space. >> not the entire capital park is going to be left brown, is

it? just the governor's office. >> i was talking about this advertising campaign and the potential to draw attention to this issue and i thought it was effective and what they did in sacramento and there's been a lot of press to let the capital go brown and people are saying they're doing their part as the state to show they care about the drought and doing what they can to make a difference. >> he feels this has already happened. >> we're hearing there's a plan that's brought to us, on august 1st of what these measures are, which will be great and shows the savings as a city we're committing to. it will mobilize people -- it's interesting to note how much attention the sacramento project has brought to this issue. >> well, i think that's really more of an example as opposed to what we have to do. i think if were

following a 10% reduction, i think that's what we should be doing. we do have to water, but we to respect what is going on in california. but that does not mean that we have to bear everything. i went through the 70s where everybody had dry lawns and everybody gave it up. we're not at that point yet and i don't think we should go to those measures at this juncture as long as we're conserving. we've all learned with our own little plot to land that you can waterless and still have good results, so i don't think it's anything we should jump into right now. >> the one thing i want to point out, we're working with all the city departments to ask them how they can meet the mandate of

10% reduction and so one of the things is we're working with them to actually make sure that we are providing them with accurate data and now they're paying more attention and in some cases they realize there's leakage, so we're working with them to fix some leakage. the other thing is in recreation and park, they have a lot of urinals that are old that actually use a lot of water. the problem with -- although we give rebates, the problem is having the plumber to pay for someone to actually install it, and so we're trying to figure out ways that we can help them to, you know, look at ways that they can work with maybe the union to get some of this work done, so there's some of the challenges. the other thing is they make investments in lawns and trees, so they have to make sure that they sort of reduce their consumption without

allowing everything to die, so i think 10%, if they achieve 10%, you know, they just need to tell us what their plans are. the department of public works do a lot of sweep cleaning so we're trying to work with them on recycled water, so we're coming up with all these plans and ideas and august 1st, we'll have a better idea for the departments and what they're doing to meet the 10% reduction. >> vice president king. >> could you talk about the water bank? do we supply the water bank or what -- tell us about the water bank? >> the water bank is a storage volume in dawn pedro reservoir where we can deposit water that we owe to the districts when most convenient for us and fill it up, leave it there, and then they draw when we need not to put water

there. it's just a certain amount of water that is the volume of water that we the districts and they can take that before they take water. >> that's what it has always been. >> it's nothing more than the two districts, right? >> it's an arrangement between us and the two districts. for example, this year, the in a natural in flow we would have been entitled to is 8,000 feet. we were able to store 200,000 acre feet. >> so we don't really reap any value from the water banks? >> we reap nothing directly. >> or that we have to give to the district or choose? >> it's a matter of timing. that's the key thing that makes it work for us. >> all right. any other questions on that. i'll move onto the next

item. thank you, steve. the sewer system improvement program update. karen kubick. >> okay. if i can get the slides up, please. good afternoon, karen kubick, i'm the director of the capital improvement program and i'm here for the update. to move to the agenda, it's a program status update and i'm going to talk about where we are with our eip's, the condition assessment work and climate change, and give you some updates in our projects that's in planning and design phase and an update on stakeholder engagement and work force

development. so the projects are shown here, they're program wide status schedule. we have 33 projects in design phase and two projects that's in construction. these projects are being executed in accordance with the level of service that were developed in collaboration with the commission and endorsed. we're using triple bottom line, particularly on the green project to help us narrow down alternatives so we can have one single alternative. we're beginning to date that test that on treatment plant projects. we've been using it on iep and collection systems. the intent is we'll be returning to the commission in the fall actually, and do a detailed briefing on bottom line we're going to add

treatments. there's a great deal of interest in the project, so this schedule lays out all eight projects and the construction phase is shown in the baby blue. what is fantastic is construction on the wiggle is going to be starting next month. that includes green street components, along felon oak. it's a project with mta and dpw. the next project is mission viejo. we've actually started up some green infrastructure training classes and we've had two sessions to date. commissioner moran asked at a previous meeting about the performance of the eip's, so this chart breaks down the individual areas managed, the annual storm water removed for a typical year as well as the budget for each of the eight

eip's. the eip's hand been designed to remove the first three quarters inch of rain. you can see the performance is vastly greater for areas where there's a large drainage area that's managed. >> a couple of questions on that, and i appreciate your providing this information. you said that you're doing a triple bond analysis on these, i would be curious in seeing that because when you look at this and you do a unit cost kind of thing, the china town islands come in an order of magnitude worse than everybody else and that's what i would like to see, what the balancing of that is. how do we like at that as a project. >> when we're looking at triple bottom line, we're looking for alternatives for any given of the iep's. we have four different alternatives for china town and

for wiggle and they're across the board. two commissioners have brought an interest on but there's a briefing so we can see what they're looking like. >> that would be good. as pilot projects, part of the problem is when would you say that i know enough to decide whether i like it or really don't. >> we'll be monitoring performance of each of these as well, so along with the construction based on performance, we'll be looking at three years to see how much storm water is removed and be able to track that back. it is going to inform our standards that we developed for green infrastructure and how the city will build this or not built in certain areas. the next slide, please. another part of the program that's one that i want to highlight is our condition assessment work. we have a lot of large assets,