organizations and able to reach 500 young people just through that community based strategy. so we have been extremely enthusiastic about that. >>president vince courtney: what's the average amount? >> $25,000 and those would have come to you for approval prior to them going out. and then finally we had a strong focus on puc issues and also had young people engage others. what we saw last year is youth engaging other youth rather than us working direct ly even though we feel young. we really try to expand on this strategy. this past summer, almost 600 young people toured our headquarters and southeast plant and those

tours were led by young people. it's something we are going to continue to do throughout the school year and have young people lead those tours. over 100 youngster were able to tour hetch hetchy. as you remember we had the class from the high school that we are supporting open up the season of camp this year and first time we invested in that way of having a high school class exposed to that and all of those young people as well as others were able to tour the hech tch hetchy facility this summer and we that had clean up and the young people helped facilitate that event. demand closing lifting up the engagement of the work of the young people did. we did a much better job this summer of creating opportunities for the young people to talk about their final work product. so we did an event of the san francisco public library

where the young people showed these documentaries that they made over the summer that we had a great turnout that we made over the summer and this advisory committee toond show case their good work. the truth is when you hear them talking around our content whether it's biogas and the system and talk about what civil engineers do, i give some of these examples just to expose light on we are really trying to get the young people to be able to see. had are is what civil engineers do. we had a lot of engineers do and we talked about it and this is what they do and there is different types of civil engineers. we do a much better job of providing opportunity, exposure and letting the young people digest it and report it out to their peers in the

community. this slide let's you know what's coming. we still have a couple more events that we would like to join us where the young people will show case their work. we can send that to e-mails to commissioners who may not be able to see it on the screen. we have a youngster who wants to share his experience and we have anyone smn someone from the center. i want to thank the staff because having coordinating a thousand people is not an easy task and even though they are at different places it makes it more challenging because you are tracking people that are off sight. it takes a stroilg make -- village to make this all happen. the groups on the ground that made this happen, is fernando

smith, steven curry, who two 2 years ago when we got the money from the board of supervisors who said we wanted to engage more young people had three months 3 months to get this initiative up and running, deplore gloria page, williams, miller and deb really were the main crew that made all the components happen as well as the enterprise staff. they took the time to say these projects will be helpful. i just wanted to give them a very quick thank you as well. >>president vince courtney: a shout out, right? >> yes. a shout out to my people. i can take questions. >>commissioner francesca vietor: i have a question. i love this idea that the youth are getting exposed to different career opportunities through these learning projects. i also love the idea that they are getting some experience on

the presentation and work that they have done. i'm wondering if this can involve in the strategy because even if they don't end up being a civil engineer or work for the puc they can develop skills around presentations and i know we are going to hear from a couple of the youth, so i'm looking forward to that and i would love for that to continue to be an opportunity that is presented as well. >> definitely. where the staff have done an amazing job is that they have taken the time to pause between last summer and this summer and say what worked and what didn't work. we know we wanted to have a much clearer tie to making sure that all people whether you are in an internship program or one of seven vehicles that all of them have an experience and they all have

a tour of the facity and they have an equal sxoent -- component so when this get the tour of the system. what do they need to know? they need to become strong writers and communicate and be able to come in and dress professionally and we've had a very more intentional eye towards those skill sets that we wanted to make sure they are getting as well and when you hear them present, they presented a couple weeks ago. it blows your mind. they are so confident and they talk about things that honestly i have worked for the puc for four 4 years and i'm saying what is cogent and they were able to communicate it out that is inspiring and accessible.

i think all of us were bloen away. it's very clear that they came in and left better prepared and they got paid over the summer. those are all sumer clear to us. >>president vince courtney: i would just add there was a little celebration at city hall a couple weeks ago and i can't remember how many hundreds were there, but we had someone get up and speak and when i was in high school, i couldn't do that. we saw students get up and spoke articulately and inspiring people. the real success is actually in them. it's not who runs the program. you just talk to them and you get a feeling that they really were engaged this time. we really have a program. it goes to juliette and theo and others and having a real structured program, we can see the results now. >> and to evaluate and track over time.

that hopefully we'll see these kids again and whether they have additional opportunities whether it's through a track >> to join a labor organization. >> exactly. if there is no more questions i can turn it over to our guest. we have canine thornton who is going to be a freshman in a couple weeks. where are you going? his partner is part of our city with part of the project pool. he was at the community center this month. we saw him often when we were down there. >> i didn't hear you.

and leroy worked with theo but placed at the community center and we saw him all the time because we were down there often an he did amazing work as well. >> where is he going? >> lane community college, right next to the university of oregon. >> we wanted to see if any of our high schoolers could come, but because the meeting is so early, they are in school. >>president vince courtney: good afternoon, welcome. >> good afternoon, my name is caneen thornton and i'm beginning first year as a college student. [ applause ] a little bit about me, i graduated independent private high school that is very rigorous with a high

demand in work load. my first couple years i was struggling academically and diagnosed and difficulty with learning. i felt adversity and felt isolated at times and inferiority in school. people of color are often under represented and private institutions. sometimes i would look across the table and there would be no one looking like me and i would lose hope and sometimes passion in my schoolwork until my later years in high school. when i came, i was surprised to see people that looked like me and that had same goals and passion and had the level of the standards that

wanted to make a difference in the world and wanted to make a change. my parents disciplined me while i was young so one can say i had a running start. however it really prospered in my professionalism to those that didn't have as many opportunities as i did. it has shown me the importance of networking, mentor ship and giving back in any shape or form for i believe those are the catalyst for success. i would like to thank the commissioners and ms. ellis for making this opportunity possible. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> good afternoon, commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, how is everybody doing today? my name is leroy, 19 years old and just graduated fwr high school. i'm originally from alabama. i can honestly say this summer for me has

been one of the best you -- summers i have ever had in my entire life. i have built close relationships with so many of my colleagues that are not able to come today. and we spent so much time with our mentors and they helped us dwell on so much knowledge and helped us see the right way and step into success. it really impacted me in a major way and helped me see things in a different broad in life. i wanted to give a special thanks to them because i had so many positive experiences this summer that i never had in my entire life. i just wanted to give a special thanks to sfpuc and all the staff that put in hard work and dedication into this. i just want to thank you all

for listening. have a great day. >>president vince courtney: thanks very much for being here. [ applause ] >> the last person is susanna. >>president vince courtney: i just want to say something to the two young men. you are lucky, right because you got a head start. you make us all really really proud. it's really good that you were able to be here and bussing -- busting the bow tie. thanks again, guys. >> hello, my name is susanna roses for mission girls services part of mission neighborhood centers. this is my partner valentinea. this summer we did a project that's called god water. we collaborated together with 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