you because through introducing this you've begun a conversation of what people are impacting their body i hope this leads to a passage but greater understanding of the links between sugar sweetened beverages and type 2 diabetes. >> good afternoon. i'm michael and thank you for letting me speak. really quickly kevin and i are on opposite side of the issue i think we're not trying to band soda but i've said this the same argument in you look at 25 years ago you've heard about cigarette machines in lou gehrig's disease

stores it's cheaper to buy sodas then water i brought up the example to a v8 people don't realize how much sugar is in it and it's billed as a health drink a i applaud you >> is there any public comment? so mr. chairman we can close it. >> seeing none, public comment is closed supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. chairman i want to thank everyone on both sides who come out there's a lot of views that's healthy that's what a democracy is about our debate and decision of the board is no to the enact the tax but to ask the voters if 2/3rd's of them wants to generate

$38 million a year and there will be a vigorous discussion but in the end the voters is weigh in. i thought that was a helpful hearing on both sides i've heard interesting things i want to respond or comment on a few of the themes. first we've heard a number of times this is a regressive tax on protecting contingence. well you know what i will say people should look at the map that the department of public health put out the low income families will have the highest rates of diabetes and if you talk to anyone in general hospital they'll tell you the epidemic of people with cubes

and people getting amputations and people going blind its hard that's a regressive takes into consideration tax in terms of health. a number of the opponents made some interesting argument that support the legislation. and there was a reference to a sugar sweetened beverage as quote/unquote as unsafe products and we've heard don't tax it put a warning label on that it was one in the state legislation and the american beverage legislator killed it so we hear don't tax it only give people information but at the same time they're trying to prevent the information through a basic

warning label. we have heard about choice that's an important discussion to have one of the last public condemners really addressed that we're not banning anything there are people saying we should band it we're not banning it we're saying this artifical cheap beverage should not be cheap when people make a purchasing decision it's not a choice for the corner syrup those drinks are artificially chapel it's not a choice when money is spent toward lawyers toward kids and protecting communities their drizzle marketing to get kids

hooked and to make sure those are lifetime drinkers and people really don't know how many teaspoons of sugar in the drinks when i tell people they have 10 teaspoons of sugar in it but the bench industry has stopped the information we'll help people to make healthier choices and not have drinks that are highly subsidize and finally in terms of the governments roll and we all everyday we make choices about what is the government's roll brown whether it's an alcohol tax or helmets requiring people to wear helmets the

government frequently helps to make sure that we have a healthyer society when we move towards 1 in 3 people having diabetes that's catastrophic it effects us as insurance watts rates goes up and our tax dollars taking care of people that don't have insurance we have a orange county as a community to have those discussions and take steps to have a healthier community so colleagues with that, i'll make a motion to adapt the technical clean up amendments we've mentioned at the beginning and thank you for your time and support >> thank you supervisor wiener we have a motion and a second do i want to comment. >> yeah. thank the supervisors and jeff and i want to say thank

you so much for the perspectives that were presented and we're helping to increase the education on the impacts of sugar sweetened beverages and other harmful foods and beverages. i wanted to say from the coalition of true soda tax coalition it's allowing the young people that are engaging many merchant also the pedestri pedestrian s and others i believe that science is on our side like the soda tax and public tax experts and researchers on our side on our the other side are profits and the american beverage association may not have bought

kevin but they've started lawyers earlier but don't believe their lies they're trying to protect their profits science is on the side of the folks looking at our children my child was born in 2000 they say that one in 3 people will have diabetes if we do nothing that is a better future for our generation. i think this is not an overreach but a reasonable measure i believe that big soda and the american beverage association have been marketing with tv and print all over the place that's on overreach that harms young people that's why the generations have tripled in the

last thirty to 40 years since coca-colas have bloomed to the big gulp sizes and very large with the high fruk to say corn syrup are the ad itself off to the energy drinks we need to look at the offer reach of the big soda especially to younger and encourage which were in our community. lastly i want to say that is an important measure for the health not only of san francisco but other cities and jurisdictions around the world that are looking at what we do to protect the public health and the future of the children my hope with the coalition we'll pass this measure in november and make history in san francisco 3 will spread to other cities and hold

hold big soda accountability so thank you to supervisor wiener and also supervisor avalos and supervisor cohen and supervisor chiu and supervisor campos >> thank you, supervisor wiener. >> in addition to our staff and offices jeff and peter and in supervisor mar's office i want to thank. >> city attorney for our expertise into the legislation. >> thank you, supervisor wiener so colleagues, we have a motion on the floor can i have a second can we take that without objection? so moved and colleagues, we need to let that sit for a week so continue in one week we'll take that without objection. as well. okay madam clerk, any other business before this commission?

>> there's no further business. >> thank you everyone we're f just about expensive eat but

food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed

over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. >> so tell me 0 what's growing in this garden. >> a really at all plant. in the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community

in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning program so see how the garden community. >> so i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around san francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the department many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. >> i'm here with nang wong

hello nang. >> hello. >> i need to understand house this gleaning work. >> we come and harvest like for example, we'll come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. >> (laughter). >> made that good, good and ease. >> the trick is how not to hurt the branches. >> like the thing. >> i'm so excited about this. the people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private property owners give us the food they're happy that no of a t is going to waste

>> oh. thank you. thank you. again job aura natural >> (laughter). >> from backyards to back lots let's take a look at the food and community bonding at the free farm. >> my idea was to start growing food and giving it away. and getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. we were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. >> what's the most rewarding

aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. >> well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away it's giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you it's primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. >> now serving number to 49 come on down. >> we have the capability of producing this food and in san francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea we're capable of prougdz food in our own backyards we're here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in

have to be a comedy. >> we build time together and it's the strength of any ideas of the connections we'll turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money that's the people power. >> in this episode we've seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and

teach our children the connection to the earth and environment it's truly

>> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, let me please call this meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission to order at 1:39 p.m. madam secretary, would you please call the roll? >> president courtney? >> here. >> commissioner moran. >> here. >> commissioner torres. >> here. >> commissioners vietor and caen are excused today. >> next is approval of the minutes of june 24th, 2014. >> move approval. >> it has been moved. >> second. >> and it has been seconded. >> any further discussion, seeing none, i will call for public comment, is there any public comment on item three, approval of the meeting minutes of june, 24, 2014. seeing none, public comment is closed all of those in favor, aye. >> and the motion carries, next item please? >> four, general public

comment, anybody who is interested in in addition to the cards that i have before me from ann clark if you could step forward, anyone who is interesting in speaking under public comment, fill out a comment card. >> and good afternoon good to see you again. >> i am ann clark from san francisco, and i want to let you know that it is hot up at maser and it was getting close to 100 degrees and i think that i am going to stay in san francisco. also, don't forget it is 5,000 feet up there and so it gets hotter i think sometimes as you go higher, rather than cooler. mostly i wanted to share with you that we have published a book for one of our very favorite people who has written it, niel who has been going to the camp for a long, long time. and so i have extra copies in case you have not gotten yours yet and i will give them to harlin so you will be able to take a look at his wonderful life and his life experiences and as always, i look forward

to seeing you at the camp thank you. >> thank you very much for being here, i appreciate that. >> are there any other public comments to be had on this line item, item number four, seeing none, public comment is now closed, madam secretary, next item? >> item five, communications. >> commissioners? >> seeing no comments, from my colleagues, is there any public comment on item 5, communications? seeing none, public comment is closed on that item. next item, secretary? >> item 6, other commission business? >> commissioner moran and torres? >> there is an item that i would like to discuss briefly not long ago, several months ago i raised an issue related to opportunities in the south east sector related to intratoe hortoculture and maintenance and construction-type of jobs,

opportunities. and specifically mcclarin park and other areas located near that and i think that it is appropriate for us to have that dialogue and i requested it under other commission business, several months ago. given the relationship that this very cozy relationship, and cozy in a good way that this commission has with the recreation and parts commission, certainly the announcement recently from the professional golf the pga in addition to an article in the newspaper today, dealing specifically with the golf course located in the south east sector, the problems that it has with respect to ongoing maintenance, and capitol improvements and water and i would like to begin to have thoughtful deliberative conversations about how we can best work together, with the recreation and parks department, dealing specifically with those areas, we do a pretty good job and we did open, and reopen the boat house today. that is the land of the puc, being over seen by the

recreation and parks department and management and staff and which in the interest of full disclosure we represent at local, 261, we see a lot in the gun club that is in the news, and the park is in the news, but i think that we really have to be careful about not losing sight of the fact that some of these resources in the south east, often times kind of get overlooked and iment to make sure that on our watch, that does not continue to happen and so that is it for that and i would like to see agenda item coming up from the staff if there is no objection. >> commissioners? >> seeing none, madam secretary, next item? >> please, report of the general manager. >> update on our water supply and have steve richie come up.

>> if i could have the slides, please, again, this is the meeting update on the water supply as we are in the continuing drought here. and first off, again, the water storage is starting to drop a little bit now as we get into the dry part of the year we don't anticipate much precipitation, but again we have 487,000 acre feet of drinking water in storage and so again, the water bed is working and we need to achieve a reduction to avoid going to 20 percent next year and the response is good for the last six weeks. and our storage levels, again, hetch hetch y is at 97 percent and the water bank is down at 34 and a half percent and again the systems need to be continued to be managed. precipitation, i have to say

that i was there last week and there is a little bump in the water line and we got two tenth of an inch while i was up there and made the ground wet and puddled a little bill and no run off from it and there was anticipation from the additional precipitation this week and still, back, again and gone is the drop these five presentations because, they are not going to change very much. and this is a slightly modified version of a slide that i showed the last meeting about what the water bank is at 200,000 acre feet which is comparable to the levels in the last drought 87 to 92 and so we are in a dry period, this is the driest three year period that we have seen in our history. the reservoir is close to full and we are starting up to storage level of 150,000 acre feet of january first.

and the delivery slide, again, shows that the deliveries have it has flat lined for the last six weeks and hopefully we can continue those efforts of working closely with the wholesale customers to be sure that everybody is working hard, and we are seeing that turn off in terms of water use reduction and here is our, fill in a lot of savings and hopefully we see the glass come up quite a bit by the other day. and so, the items and i want to get into a little bit this time and a little bit more detail and we have the request for the ten percent reduction and you really have a major out reach campaign as we discussed last meeting and we have two drought reductions under way and i will talk about those in more dethail than we have so far, that is the aquiduct project and the small treatment plant and emergency improvements. first, this is a map of the

country system with the three reservoirs and the cherry, and the take the water from the resources, and the lower aqua duct is from cherry creek below and brings it to the intake, where it can be put into the drinking water system, and it is actually down in the 87 to 82 drought. so our project is an effort that costs $18 million combined and phase one will be to repair the deversion plate, and clean out the tunnels and sometimes, starting this fall. phase two is to make repairs and replace the old lines, and we have much, on the quality of the water that will be coming through there. and that will be planned to

begin some construction next spring, and be ready to go in july of next year. you can see the rock debris and over for the last 25 years. and so, they will be cleaning those out, and again, it is more debris in the open channel section there. and again, this open channel section, where there is corrugated metal that has fallen in and you can just clean those out and that is what we will be doing as far as the first project that we have under way. on the coast range,