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, its transfer storage boxes and

tunnels and we have prioritized that on age. we're doing assessments, which robotic and video, so we've gotten several assets and we're finding a lot of new information we'll be bringing back to you. some assets are looking good, but some are going to be pushed at the top of the pile and have to require some work and some construction in phase 1. they're up to 100 years old that we're looking at. on the climate change side, some breaking news. we have maps for the base side and west side which is going to help us as we plan this system, and i want to put up a map that reflects what the city will look like if we have a 36 inch sealable rise. this is a scenario that we're expecting to be seeing in the year 2100 on a permanent basis. so it's something that's a concern. in

2050, we'll be seeing some levels like this when we have storm surge or others. so 36 inches is quite real. we're using this information to inform how we execute the surge improvement program, how we design things, how we develop [inaudible] plans, where we sight facilities and it's a sense -- sensitivity when we're doing our site plan. we're sharing this with other city departments that has asked us that sits along the water front. the climate change information rolls into urban water shed. we're in the phase of conducting our alternative analysis for urban water sheds, focusing on improvements for the bay side. it's not great for infrastructure and we do have some areas

where we want to combine for discharge. we're looking armor green and gray and we're running different -- to arrive at those to give us a level of service. out of the urban water shed, we'll be able to ascertain what size tunnel we'll be looking at to provide our solution for central base side system improvement project. that as you recall is a project we have in ssip that will provide redundancy for marina and child basin, all the way to is the east plant and that broke in the 1989 earthquake. so that project is being moved along in parallel with urban water shed and urban water shed is going to inform that so we can determine size of tunnel and sectors and infrastructure that's apart of that. we have conducted our geo tech and we need to evaluate green

infrastructure. we'll have meeting with the urban water shed this summer. for the treatment plants a lot of work happening at plants. we have seven projects that will be occurring at the plant. while the treatment plant. we're playing out all those projects can and coming up with an inter face project. we need disinfection to be happening and we need to fulfill our commitment to the neighborhood and it's a complex thing. it's going to have different staging sites and a lot of overlapping, a lot of work and hand off, and transactions that have to be put in place. it's called our southeast plant integration and this is so we don't miss a step, so everything goes smoothly so the plant folks will know, operations and maintenance folks will know what is the plant

going to be looking like in two years, three years as we progress through the ssip. a project that you'll be happy to hear we're moving forward with is southeast head works. this is the facility of the plant off the third where all of the flows convert, it flows from the south to the north. it does a better job at removing grit. we're looking at pilot studies, testing out technologies for how we can remove the sound and grit from the system. we'll be moving forward with an rsp to help us to have a successful project. to give you an idea about expand grit coming through the system, it's 300 tens a year. that's a lot of sand and grit. bio solid, which i know

is everyone's favorite project is moving rapidly. some of the team is here behind me. we've been holding workshops. they had been burning the midnight oil to keep this project run and moving as quickly as possible. right now we're in discussion with executive management to talk about technology and our technology recommendations. from there, we can move forward and do layouts of the bio solid facility so we can accelerate into getting environmental review and moving this project along. >> can i ask a question about that? will it come to the commission when you have recommendation because i know technology and everything is changing so fast and just for us to have an understanding of what these treatment facilities are going to look like and what the opportunities are to be cutting edge? >> so what we can do at a point in time where we feel comfortable about what we're going to represent, we can bring forward

as part of what we're recommending. >> that would be great. before it gets to eri would be great. our thinking was we would do the final year meeting, the end of the year meeting probably december or november and feature bio solids and have that -- have the eight minutes be on bio solid. stakeholder engagement it's a core value and we've been try to go hit it at every angle, lots of venues and ways engage the public and i want to thank commissioner vietor because we've been having fun with our advisory group. it's sponsored by spur and it has been a neat forum to get different people and back grounds talking about things. we've presented to them about urban water shed and our triple bottom line approach and i think next meeting we're going to be talking about sustainable financing which is cool. southeast working group

has convened. we have some new faces and old faces so we're trying to bring those new faces town speed. we're going to do a working tour next week taking folks -- that's the best way for folks to see the plants. we want them to be walking and smell and seeing and being there. and i think you were briefed on the composition of that group at the last meeting. we always have a lot of members, which is fantastic. we were given the opportunity to brief the waste water cac at the last meeting and they gave updates on the key projects and it was a fantastic time to get face time with that group. tours, presentations, we're still keeping along on that. work force development, this is the third year we've had our ssip internship running and we have -- a lot of student have been returning

each year. some we have -- there's third year and they're attending the meeting today so i want to see -- students can you stand up for a second. >> they look so mature, it's hard to believe they're students. we have some enrolled with the hopes that some want to be engineers or communication people. we love having them be apart of the group. very organized, been attending a lot of different meetings with us. i've been explaining a lot of what we do is meetings. contractors assistant center, as i mentioned, we have two infrastructure training and we have seven primes attend which is fantastic. we had members of the public attend. there was a network session last week also for professional services, primes to meet subs. we had over 200 attendee. we had nine different primes that set up

booths to talk to the subs about what type of work there is and to be able to network. this thursday we have a session with contractors, primes and subs, so that's going to keep going and that's been exciting to use the center. a bit of surprise, our waste water was featured in the comic strip of ssf weekly. this was the sff weekly issue, apparently there's one every year. comic issue. so tony and george have exceeded expectation with sore awareness for everyone and i've seen people on the fairy, on the bus, on muni reading about us. i brought you copies. it's page 10 and 12. one the riders attended a tour and there we are in colored ink.

good press. that concludes my report. thank you. >> do you have a copy for all of us? >> yeah, i do. >> i have a question. >> vice president caen. >> i'm sure commissioner moran would join me in asking, what's happen with the digester. >> right now we're in the process of stabilizing the rule -- the rules we have and moving as quickly as possible with the replacement project. we're still on schedule and have every one at the highest level at this city, harlan and my boss helping to make the pieces fall in place. >> the other thing i wanted to point out is that given the fact that the digesters is the largest part of the improvement program

and also it is the heart that will sorts of be as far as the southeast facility, we wanted to make sure whatever technology we've invested in is something that we feel comfortable, so one of the things that staff has been doing is going to other places where different technology has been applied and not talking to the sale's man, but talk to go the operation staff and maintenance staff to get, you know, their opinion on how the different technology is working. and so as we mentioned before, that has pretty much finalized their recommendation, they're planning to present, i think tomorrow to senior staff to give what their recommendations are, and once that happens and after we have that conversation, we will schedule a time where we can present that to the commission. and just to put in perspective, you need to kind of settle on a technology

because it has a lot of other requirements, so placing it also -- you have to know what technology you're going to use, what foot print you need so you can start doing citing so a lot of things are contingent on the type of technology we plan on using. >> staff has been supporting that through back to back workshops, operations, maintenance and our engineering staff. >> we have been through a lot of visions of digesters over the last number of years and i would like to be apart of the investigation. in reality, we shouldn't be because we're not hands on, but just because of our interest in it, i would like to be more

up-to-date about what we're looking at and where we are. so if you wouldn't mind doing that, sharing that with us, i would appreciate it. >> sure. if you would like to go and visit a couple of different technology, we would love to arrange for that because i think actually going and seeing what other people have done, you know, again, other cities are embracing the newer technology. the interesting things for the technology like kamby and that is being installed in washington, dc and they haven't installed it online, but we have looked at places where it's running and we've been looking at the challenges with that technology. we definitely can involve the commissioners and give them maybe an update and whoever would like to get more involved, we can give that information or arrange so you can look at the different technology that we've been looking at.

>> thank you. >> thank you very much karen. so with that, that concludes my report. >> thank you general manager kelly. i have two speaker cards. if anybody else would like to speak on the general manager's report, please fill out a speaker's card. the first card is on acula. good afternoon, nicole. >> good afternoon, president courtney, commissioners. i did want to come and speak on the water supply in particular i had the pleasure and i think the honor, i appreciated participating in the press event yesterday. more than ever, we're working quite closely with your staff and your general manager and focusing on the message to

get the water reduced reductions. we got off to a bit of a rocky start, it was difficult with the rain that continued off and on. but we have seen a significant change in the last couple of weeks and in fact as we look at the data now, we're on track with an idea of getting an average annual water saving reduction. what that mean and you had a lot of conversation about landscaping is outdoor water use and the summer is our biggest area to achieve those savings and specifically we looked to the urban areas. everyone is aware of that and we're pushing strongly the idea that you don't need to keep your grass green. it can be slightly brown. you can watch it enough to keep it alive. we do not need to kill things and this is not a mandatory reduction. our water use has reduced by 19% on a per capital

basis in the last ten years. there's not that great amount of savings that can happen inside. you have to achieve these savings, hit the outdoor water use. we're pushing that strongly. many of our cities have adopted ordinances are the ones you're talking about in which they've asked their parks and rec department to reduce their water use, certain parks are not being irrigated, other ones depending upon the activity level at the parks and they're being irrigated less and the recycled water makes that go farther for those areas which is a great benefit of recycled water, but it's a big focus. in fact, one of the areas that we're pushing is our lawn be gone rebate program which is a turf replacement program that we offer through our office starting july 1st. the rebate amount will increase by 25% for most of the agencies and the maximum rebate has been removed. so there used to be a cap on the rebate,

it has been removed to encourage people to get rid of their front lawn and replace it with a drought tolerant landscape that's beautiful, but also water efficient. so i would encourage everyone to look at that. >> nicole you were great yesterday. i thought the mountain view story kind of peaked my interest too. >> my pleasure. >> okay. ej booker. good afternoon, brother. how are you? >> i'm well, how are you? >> i come baring gifts for the commissioners. >> that's always good to start. >> these are pamphlets from the last summer's program. but for that don't know me, i'm ej and i'm the director in the bay view. and boy, can i say how time flies. i can't believe that i'm standing

here before you and this is the third summer with the sewer improvement program. it's known as ssip to the kids, but thank you to the commissioner and the executive team at the puc for showing what a public private partnership looks like. it looks like those students you saw earlier. we've doubled the amount of private sector partners which includes those at akon and brad and caldwell, black and beach, mwh and urs. we're just excited and ecstatic to kickoff this third year. i won't take too much of your team. i want you to hear from those job shadowing. i want them to talk to you about their experience and what they've been learning. thank you for y cd and the folks in district 10. >> thank you.

>> hello. >> hello. i'm a current summer intern and i'm here to announce that city works has launched its third year. we're apart of the mayor's summer youth initiative and the sspuc communities program. the program includes a diverse group of youth who are from the southeast interested this careers ranging from engineering, urban planning and communications and other related fields. of the 21 students, 11 are returning. >> nice. >> hi. >> hi, i'm clemon and i'm an intern. those are able to intern -- and so i want to take the time to thank the supervisors who stepped up and has been mentored us all. i want to invite you to

our project which will be held at the southeast community facility commission on august 13th 2014 at 6:00 p.m. thank you. >> thanks very much for being here. [applause] >> ej, thanks for coming in here, brother. the next card i have is from francisco. thank you francisco. >> commissioners when mr. ritchie talks about water, we have to agree with him because water is trying to tell us is how water is preserved in some of our [inaudible] areas and how it's delivered. we need to look at it also from the point

of view of the data which i have mentioned here many times. for example, if you have a thousand, two hundred miles of clean water in our city, we need real time knowledge of the leakage. real time. why? because we need to know that if our pipes are 85 years old and leaking, how many of them have been replaced? and over the years, say five years, ten years, how many billions of gallons of water have been wasted. why is this? the water that we have from [inaudible] which are the constituents of san francisco have to know, belong to the first people. and for thousands of years, they

preserved it. so 300 years ago when the council made to come to california and do this and that and the other thing, we found that here in san francisco we had no water. so that's why i gave you commissioners that chronological data of some of the things that happened. the water was expensive, so because we had very powerful congress people, they went to washington dc and they managed to damn and get hatachi so our young people shouldn't floss over trivial things, but they should be able to go down to the source, gather empirical data and evaluate it to educate

everybody. on the improvement project, i attended one meeting where they were discussing about greening project and i did participate in initiating such projects when i worked at the [inaudible] of san francisco. so from time to time, we need to find out and hear from the small businesspeople who attend these meetings, how many meaningful those discussions are. those workshops are. thank you very much. >> thank you francisco very much for being here. are there any other public comments on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. madam secretary, next item. city clerk: item 8 is a citizen's advisory committee report. >> hi, wendy. >> how are you? >> thank you. >> donna i have a copy for you. we found a small typo. so this last

year has been a transition. in the past 12 months, we've had ten new people come on representing neighborhood and disciplines through how the city including filling our long vacant district 10 chair which is now filled by goodwin and we're excited to have her a board and it adds knew vibrant to the city. we have a representation of people of color, lgbt community and we're at 50% women on this committee now. we stream lined -- sorry. this is too high. we streamed line our meetings for our sub-committee so they would be on tuesday, which works out better with every schedule and that's cac day. we have our newly elected leadership which was elected, myself as chair, tar as the vice chair and jennifer

clairy who is a long member and secretary. we have made sure to orientate and train our new members with enterprise one on one with their individual enterprises that they're interested in and the 522 golden gate tour, the head tour that has been going and also the [inaudible] tour of our different facilities. we have also had trainings on on social media, how to better engage your community, strengthen your relationship to your appointing officer and we'll be talk beginning the brown act and sunshine ordinance. that will be our next training next month. commissioner sandkulla came. we want to work with you and

develop that relationship. >> commissioner vietor. >> i want to echo when she just shared with us. i did attend the meeting on tuesday and i was impressed with the members and i would encourage my fellow commissioners to attend one of the cac meetings and it gave me hope. as you study all of these issues, i want to appreciate your welcoming from last week. >> we also passed one resolution on mobile technology to develop a better use of mobile technology to regulate water use. since everybody is on smartphones these days. that was submitted in district 5. so when we get this, you'll have that

resolution in front of you. >> any other questions. >> thank you very much wendy for being here. keep up the good work. any public comments on this item. dr. jackson, item number 8. thank you doctor. >> you're more than welcome. commissioners, what i decided i would do is give you history about the cac because most people don't know when the cac began. it began out of the water department in bay hunter's point and the committee members was like who are passed and gone away, mrs. arlington, mr. madison and there were others, and the meetings was being held there on 5th street at the office there. and the community was involved at that time and the purpose for the cac when it was set up to make sure that the water department and

dwp would do what they said they were promising the community they would do. the main thing was the cross town tunnel. i know most of you all never heard or known about the cross town tunnel. but what happened is that after the out fall was built, then the money was gone. this are was no cross bound tunnel because the people in the sunsets, there's no way they wanted tunnelling going in their area over to the zoo because the out fall was built ten miles out into the ocean. that's where everything was suppose to go to. so, i came before you before this body not long ago and stated because alex landsberg came to me and asked me whether or not they can start back the cac and i said sure because

no one from bay view hunter's point was involved, but i was involved. because everybody had died off and gone in other direction. so what i would like to see happen with this cac now is to start holding meetings back where the sewer plant is and they were meeting on market street. it's hard to get to market street from bay hunter's point. just consider the fact that we would like to have and i know i would like to have input with the cac, and about the concerns that we have dealing with that storage plant and then environmental issues that is going on and that has been going on for a long time in the southeast sector. so i just want -- i met the young lady and she invited me and we're going to get along just fine. >> thank you docto