two different centers and were able to employ 12 youths and they learned how to become peer educators and they created a big event where families came and they had families recycled properly and conseven water. we gave them a little bit of the documents we created in working with the youth. when we saw this grant for us, we thought it was really to fulfill one of our biggest objectives of the organization was to be able to empower our youth to learn and we were able to do that and we were able to train our youth to be able to hold a job and be able to apply and interview and get a job and be able to also

speak and do events and be able to speak about what's going on in the community. so, we had an event a community event which they had their families and themselves take a pledge of how they were going to save water. we had over 100 people who took the pledge. we also had is surveys where they were finding out what people new about conserving water and the recycling and in the process, mostly girls and one boy, they got to really read a job description, understand what a job description means and then when they were going through project, what it means if you miss a meeting. what does it mean if you are not calling in, if you are showing up late and not dressed appropriately for a meeting. it was a great successful program for us. now the project is

scheduled to end in october. we are planning two days 2 days with the youth that they are making videos and we are also planning on collaborating with the sfpuc to figure out how we can track these kids and make she continue in getting internships and continuing to be involved not only in the community but finding ways whenever they can succeed academically. >>president vince courtney: great work, you guys. >> thank you. >> so we are not going to see t-shirt, i guess. juliette, does that conclude your portion. some of my colleagues want to join in. great work, the question is how do we define you, right juliette. will you come back up. i don't want to be labor the point but oftentimes i think it was you

who said it was a village. now we get into cliche land, you can get a man to fish or teach a man to fish. i know commissioner vietor was there before me but i did get to see the young ladies and the one boy, right and that was at the kak, and i know that commissioner veet -- vietor preceded my visit and we would consider and you mentioned it earlier about the time of this meeting, we'll schedule the meeting maybe next calendar year where we'll have every single kak member because they report directly to a board of supervisors. depending on how you are talking to, the youth go up to 29. i know when i was 29, i felt

like a youth. with a n i would like to explore real deliberately is the use of tools. i know that that happens from time to time and i get it and it's great work and the last thing i want to do is be critical of all of these outstanding efforts but i do want to have a conversation about the tools because there are great careers to be had especially in the private sector if we are able to create linkage between these kinds of programs and opportunities in preapprenticeship and journey level. and you talk about health and welfare, not just the employee but their families and that goes a long long way. i think we have an obligation to certain communities to make sure that we actually have that linkage there because there is under employment significant in some areas and i feel like we are

not doing everything and that's just where we need to set the bar, right? i don't know if my colleagues had any comments. i appreciate everyone that was here. i know i speak for my colleagues. outstanding work with the young men and young ladies. i was impressed when i got to see them the other day. maybe commissioner caen can consider this. i don't know if you have anything to add. >>vice- president ann moller caen: i appreciate that you went to the kak and i would appreciate if other commissioners went to the meeting and it's great for better communication and collaboration with the kak because i think it's a very bright group and represents variety and diversity of the city and however we can support those efforts and i also want to echo to thank the community groups and the individuals for all of their

good work an for their comments because you guys are the future, you are really making it happen and the multiple benefits that this program provides whether it's if you are trying to look at career opportunities and the conservation components, the community building components. i just think there is so much and even if you look at some of the financial output of this investment and where that will lead as far as is supporting our society and the potential and seeing the tools and track what data we can collect. i would like to thank you and appreciate this program because it seems to be doing a lot of work in the community. >>president vince courtney: thank you commissioner vietor. >> the second item i have is we

renamed -- >> can i have public comment on that. we can't mix them. >> please come up francisco. >> the commissioners when the youth are present it's difficult to be very analytical on this topic because they may feel we are putting them down and i don't want any of the youth to feel down. we must stop from making general statements in the presentations given. for example we are teaching the youth what to put and not to put in our sewer system. as we know that sfpuc has been putting gallons and gallons maybe thousands of gallons of clorox in our system which is going into the bay. so we have to be very cognizant of the

fact that when we are dealing with our youth you have to speak to the truth. you can't bluff them and tell them exactly how you feel about it which is okay. however in san francisco we have the polynesian, native americans, whites, we have asians and we must always try to get a diversity of youth so that we take them to a better place. good leaders show the way and know way. all my life i have been in education, when i was young, most of you may not know this, i was paralyzed my whole left side with polio myelitis and i was a good boxer and played all sports and i'm 68 years old and can

do what most people with two good legs cannot do. i'm saying this because if you have a mind you can apply yourself and you can attain whatever goals you want to. what we are doing is fluff. because we don't come from an area, the staff who know the history of a community that need a different type of model. now some of you have given a document precisely because we can talk the talk, but when we want to walk the walk, when we want to do some analytical toop models, then follow this document. the staff doesn't do that. now finally, before we create this model, we need to get the youth involved and we need to train them what is best for them because there is

a big gap. what adults want to do and what the young people deem that is possible like the young man said, being a minority, is a handicap. so thank you for your time. >>president vince courtney: thank you france isco, than is for your comments. >> going back to the report, we rename the water supply to the drought intake by ritchie. >> steve ritchie, general manager for water. if we have the slides, a brief slide display as we roll through the drought. first the water levels, as you can see hetch hetchy is down to 85 percent as has been coming down this summer as we are relying on supply. the water bank is low but has come up about 20,000 acre feet.

we've seen water in to it and hopefully it can do next year for this year in terms of supplying water in our hetch hetchy. our storage is about 60 percent of maximum value. as normally happens during the summer, the levels come down as demand increases and there is no in flow in particular to note. precipitation, the charts have really stabilized now as we get into summer, we are about 2007 in terms of what that water year produced. just for information, we had on this slide one of the biggest year which is 1983 which is blue on the top which shows how variable it can be at the time and we don't know what we can expect going into it and it can be really dry years or wet years. on total delivers, this is

actually a really good slide now because for the last 13 weeks demand has been down and starting to drop a little bit more. we are about 224 million gallons per day where typically this time we are about 270 million gallons per day. folks are doing a great job of conservation throughout our system and we are well on our way to achieving 15 percent reduction that we wanted to achieve. this is our cumulative water savings that chart, that black dash line is the projected rate of savings that we expect to achieve to achieve that percent reduction in total. while you know we started off slow, the green line, the actual savings has go toen steeper dramatically over the last several weeks and i fully expect we'll meet that 10 percent reduction level as long as people keep

up the performance which has been very very good. those are all the slides i have for today because we are basically at summer and there is not #34u6 changing on the precipitation front. but one thing we'll be talking about at the next meeting is what will be in the future as we explained before we planned based on the eight 1/2 year dry period as our design drought. well, we are now into three very dry years. it's a real sequence now so we obviously need to be looking beyond just next year to three or four 4 years beyond that, and at what point we may have to make hard decisions into the future. at 10 percent, we are doing well, if we have to go to 20 or 30 percent if dry conditions persists what conditions might be out there given fairly bleak season cenarios as we look at that, i think the state board

said, if it's bad we are ready for it, if it's good, we have a party. hopefully we'll have a party but we have to prepare for the worst. i'm prepared to answer any questions. >>president vince courtney: questions for mr. ritchie? thank you very much. >> i have one thing, the napa earthquake. or you can read about it in the paper and wondering what we are doing or participating in any sort of relief efforts. we have been part of the discussions on a regional basis on relief. we have not been called upon at this point. we did contact our colleagues sunday after the earthquake to offer our help if we could. it's an on going situation and they expect to have their water running by sometime later this week or early next week and there is a lot of work to be done for the buildings that failed during the earthquake. most of them are may i sonry buildings. the marry is -- mayor is

conconvening his council to work on that. that concludes my report. >>vice- president ann moller caen: regarding infrastructure. with new sewer and water lines, is there any material we can use to withstand these earthquakes? >> this is withstanding the work with the san andreas fault. we have across the hayward faument. fault. the bay and the second tunnel gives us much more resiliency and the pipelines that we built out of division five. we built retrofitted pump

station and across transmission lines across the city. we are praepg for that event to occur sometime in the future. will it is survive, that's the question but we are better prepared than 1989. >> i'm talking about the actual pipe? >> the actual pipes in the ground, we are using the material that is flexible. that's what we used in our water distribution system here in the system. and that has some give to it more than the older iron pipes or steel pipes. >>president vince courtney: thank you. are there any public comments on the general manager's report? yes, please. >> thank you, i think that's a great request that you asked whether or not it could withstand in an quake. i didn't hear a yes or no but

i'm assuming it's no. we could not afford a system that will fail where the people in i ohio were not able to access their water. we need to centralised the system. we can have a sewage system so even with the tap water system. i was studying the plan that was put out. if you put a filtration system telling the kids to drink this water, if this earthquake damages the school, you may have the houses go down and your house maybe the only one standing, and people will ask to use your restroom. if you have your own system that only operated in your community and theirs went down, they can use yours because it's still up and running. because we don't have anything available that says yes, this is going to withstand an earthquake. we didn't participate in the geo is

survey to talk about what is happening. when they say the united states is going to have some major issues with water reliability california wasn't the state and today we are the worst state in the union. i think we need to look at what we have available. we didn't plan inform that and we just saw what happened in napa. what happened to earthquake history here in 1906, that big fire that just happened, we were using that i was using created long before my dad was born and to put these firefighters in danger. we are in silicone valley, we are california and leaders in the globe yet using technology to build 100-year-old dual system with this technology they delivered 100 years ago. what are we teaching these young people. if i'm young from san francisco i want to see that we have the best innovative. not san francisco, they are

building a new sewage system with sludge. you know environmentally on the people that are there. we are san francisco, we are silicone valley. i think president courtney gets it because if we look at what we can partner on to make a difference. i'm honored that you built up these young men's self-esteem, we need to get bigger on that. if we really want them to compete we need to give them the advantage through technology. i can show you handout you to do that because it appears that it's not going to people's minds and we have examples where it's running more than a decade. let's bring it to san francisco. >>president vince courtney: thank you for your comments, yolanda. commissioner vietor? >>commissioner francesca vietor: yes, i would like to respond to that because i have been interested in some of these questions too especially

around the generations piece about the rim fire and the importance of redundancy in our system and what it might look like especially as we start to lose power capacity. i would love to hear at some point a deeper conversation particularly on the potential for some distributed generation not only in the energy sector but also in the water space and what that might look like to have some, i noticed the puc building, the model with the living machine system, but what else might be some opportunity whether it's new developments coming online and taking it to the next generation of distributing the generation either the generation or distribution of water and energy. >> we can do that and we were talking a little bit about emergency response and recovery which we have shelves full of plans that we use and

talking about decentralized treatment and inter generation al. well rim fire, we were able to bring it to the customers need. for our water, we spent $4 billion which is one of the main issues we address with the water systems improvement program. with the waste program, we are looking at what happens after a major disaster. a lot of the things we've em employed in our programs are cutting edge. the fault, the hayward fault is the only one in the world. >> absolutely. i think the structure holds the same promise but i'm not just talking about seismic reliability, there are things that are related to flood and climate and water and intrusion and all kinds of things that we want to stay ahead of

that curve to see what we can build in terms of resilience and understand what the future is going to bring. >> we can talk about tla and mr. ritchie is going to bring you the motion deling about the system's reliability in general and we can talk about that. >>president vince courtney: thank you, commissioner vietor. francisco? >> i stated this before. we have propriety technology that will give us realtime reports on leakage. we have to look at that because we have to stop fooling ourselves by saying we are doing good with the drought. we are not doing good with the drought. how can we be doing good with the drought when we know that millions of gallons leak because our pipes are old and all pipes have holes.

when you have holes in the pipes, they leak. let's not kid ourselves. we need to be very realistic and practical. we are propriety technology where we can get realtime reports about leak acknowledges. -- leakages. having said that, we are spending $4.7 million on water improvement projects. it's linked to this drought and linked to conservation and linked to our resources. so we want a realtime report or evaluation on mountain tunnel and calaveras. because they are looking at us. we did not do a good job.

the commission should have had a checklist and no. one on the checklist should have been mountain tunnel. you are now going backwards. i don't want to use another catchword but you are all going backwards. mountain tunnel, we need an evaluation. calaveras, we need an evaluation. the big one is coming, most probably it's going to be on the hayward fault and we need an evaluation. now, as our young people are here, one of my heroes is frederick douglas. he never went to school. he went against president lincoln and he won. what am i saying? you really don't need to go to the schools or to go to some of the institutions or centered around these groups that are fluff who can

not think outside of the box. we need to think outside the box, much like the ones that were built that technology cannot build them. think outside of the box. thank you very much. >>president vince courtney: thank you very much, francisco, is there any other comments on the general manager's report? great work on the community with the youth and those that are on their way to college and the great thing with the women on water. we have to figure out a wait to trade water for wine and so you guys can put together a report i'm sure and we'll figure that out. if there is no other public comment, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, next item, please. city clerk: item no. 8,

bawsca update. >> good afternoon, commissioners. nicole, bawsca ceo. i wanted to comment on the drought. i just gave a presentation last night to the city council that was packed in the chambers room because they were having quite a bit of discussion about water supply and i was pleased with the response they were getting internally. i have talked several times about our collaborative effort with your staff on the regional drought campaign. that was launched earlier

this month with several billboards throughout the service area that are now up that are using some of the artwork that your staff and your consultants have put together so well. we are also doing short commercials, the commercials on google and youtube with ads which will be a new approach for us and we are excited to see the possibility and how it works and looking forward to seeing some of the results and you will get a lot of statistics on that as well. i will be pleased to share this with your staff and movie theatre ads where we can target the approach for getting the message out and the commercials are being made available for many new customers that are putting them up on their sites in various channels as well. this is a map of the boards where we put them on major commute

corridors starting by daly city into san mateo and over in the east bay in hayward area and highway 92 as well. you will notice they are focused oh on san mateo county and that was very deliberate because the santa clara county is doing their own and we agreed not to create confusion for the messaging. we feel it's a great time to have this come up because it's a great window of opportunity for the continued savings through the end of the summer here. the campaign is focused on the outdoor. i felt it was consistent with the governor's message about watering lawns and we use the other message as well. when i talked about

this last into it at the redwood city council, i did not show the video but counselors have all seen it because i heard jittering. it's definitely getting attention. one of the things that we have seen in our office, in our programs is a significant response in our lawn be gone program. we started this program 3-4 years ago and it got off to a slow start. changing perceptions of how longs should be is a big push for us, but with this drought we've seen over 180 percent change in question in the applications change. it has been a dollar per square foot and a limit on the rebate

amount. usually you get a $500 rebate. that has now been removed. so someone who is replacing all of their glass, they get a rebate per square foot. we hope this will be a lasting remnant of the drought and hoping we can sing and dna -- dance in the summer and hopefully a continued push for the program. in addition, one of the other things that we do very aggressively throughout the service area is free landscaping classes and workshops. we thought it was great to change landscaping and perceptions of landscaping. we have 28 schedules for this september and we do this in the spring and fall and they