>> good evening. >> good evening, commissioners my name is mimish, and i am the director for the department on the status of women and i want to echo the thanks to the captain and sergeant for involving the community and the department and being able to give the feedback on this policy. i agree that there are important changes on the piece of when to refer to the child protective service and one piece that we think is important is that the parents should understand in which circumstances there is going to be a referral to the child protective service sos that they can understand the consequences and so it is really important that the criteria that are laid out are very clear, both for the officers who are going to be following this policy and for the parents or the guardians who are affected and in the current version of the draft, there is still a criteria that refers to criminal threats defined by the california penal code and while the police

officers know what that means, i don't think that the average parent will understand what is covered by that and so our suggestion is to spell that out a little bit more to explain, the threats of the great bodily injury. and other than that, we are very grateful that a lot of the feedback that we gave was incorporated into the policy and, we think that it is a lot stronger now, in preventing unintended consequences of people being afraid to contact police for help,, if they knew that there would be an automatic referral to the child protective services >> thank you. >> one last thing, that you may want to know about it, and especially commissioner, melara, there is a referral card that we are going to put together with the packet that the officers have to hand for our victims when we go to a scene, explaining exactly what is happening as far as the cps referral, and i have given that

card, that referral card that we are looking at to the occ, to marian and to the community advocates in this. and so it is self-explanatory, and a card that you will see. okay? and upon completing of the order. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hearing no public, or further public comment, call the next line item. >> line item 4, approval of the awards and committee recommendations, action. >> okay. >> commissioners in your packet, is a list of the recommended awards from the medal of valor meeting that we had at the hall of justice and i spoke about it in the last commission meeting and we met on july, 14th and i was the commissioner that was comment, and chief suhr presided over the day long event of making the selections and so what you have in the packet is the officers who have been nominated for in the silver medal of valor and the bronze and there are various awards,

and the police commission commendations and life saving awards and i was present for the presentation of each and every one of these incidents. where in, there was discussion, and questions asked by the most senior members of the command staff and the police department, and it is an unusually large number of awards, you will see a large number of gold medals of valor that we do not give often, i can say that the crash of the aircraft and these incredible officers that decided that it was their duty to run so to the burning aircraft while the firefighters were suiting up and we have the silver medal of valor for the officers that were involved in the life threating situation and so all of these have been provided to the occ to insure that they have been properly vetted and none of these officers have any charges that are pending or under investigation and all of this has been cleared and

vetted and if you have any questions for me and the chief regarding these, feel free to ask. >> so you answered my question, thank you. >> very much. and i still think that and this looks great, a lot of people here and i assume that it is from the rescue, and the other. >> yeah, the lion's share, that there were 19. 19 of those medals went to the folks that their actions in the asiana plane crash. >> thank you for that and i am sure that they are well deserved and i look forward to hearing and we should really start talking about a policy and you said that there is no one with the charges pending but we don't have a policy set in place and maybe we should talk about it as a commission or set the committee together whether we want a policy in place on that issue or not. but you did address my question and i think that this is great. and you got to talk about a policy going forward and you can talk about setting up a committee on that. >> commissioners any questions regarding the nominations?

>> commissioner hwang? >> could you let me know how do the folks get nominated for these types of award. >> it is an incredible process. >> and so an event happens and the captain or a commanding officer, prepares, a recommendation and it comes through the chain of command and it has to be approved to get to the chief and if i believe that it is deserving of consideration, we send it to a committee of three captains. that change each time that there are those and so there will be a new three that will do the next round and the three captains that all of the submissions and some of them are for, and some of them don't and they believe that are captain accommodation and in fact, in many of these there were more involved involved than the ones that are receiving medals. and they will be reduced, some of them to a captain's

accommodation, which is still, a notation of somebody doing something well. i signed four or five of those a day for great work that are done around the department but it does not cross the threshold to be considered for a medal of valor there has to be personal jeopardy involved, unless it is a life saving medal. there are other categories. we just had a submission of that nature for a cash of firearms that were ceased. these captains make recommendations and they put the people in and then it goes to the full medal of valor committee which are all civil service captain and above and then there is a voting and we do, quite a bit of sausage making ourself and separating people out like, some that we deserve were deserving of gold and some silver, and there is quite a heated conversation in

after it is all settled there is a vote. and you have to get two-thirds of the assembled civil service captains above to carry the day for the medal. if you don't receive a two-thirds vote it keeps going down to the medal until there is a two-thirds majority and then that is the medal that you get. so, it is very, very fair, in that not any one captain can sway anybody one way or the other. and gold medals are very rare this is as many and i have been on the committee since 1997 and i will tell you that is as many gold medals i have ever seen especially in one incident. >> and i think that it deserves and i voted the gold medal myself. >> i add that the department is the second oldest in the country. they have a great tradition and i think that it should be your turn to go to this as a commissioner and the tradition in how formal this is to be in

that room that the chief demands that every member of the staff and the captain and above be there on time and be in the address uniform and it is very formal and when the presentation is made, regarding the incident, for example, the aircraft and the captain made the presentation, those officers have been nominated are brought forward in the dress uniforms and the presentation is made by the captain. and there are requested by the captain and there are questions, by the captains in there for example, if it is an incident involving gunfire, how far were you aware from there and where were you, and did you fire back. and i mean that it was very, very thorough and first of all it is overwhelming to see the heroism of these officers and these men and women and then, the questions that are asked, the chief is right, it was, it is not an easy thing and i mean that they asked the very serious questions and in the officers responded to the questions, and then there is a vote and the part that left the chief left off was just amazing and it is a secret ballot and

it is a wooden box and there is colored marbles for the gold medal and silver and bronze and commendations and the police commission and then that box is passed around by inspector monroe and the captains and they reach in and take one marble and put it in on the other side and then the commissioner, and inspector monroe and i count the marbles i tell you when the officers do get a gold medal of valor it is one of the most impressive things that i have seen and those officers are called in, and they get a standing ovation from the command staff and the police department and there is a reception line and it is just, it is really awesome. and so, there is a lot of effort that goes into this. and there is a lot of debate. and again, it is amazing, some of these things that these officers did and i said this last time, they always ask, do you have anything like that, no we are just doing our job and they are all there because they did something above and beyond the call of duty, but none of them seem to recognize that and

it was just pretty amazing. >> and i might add, commissioner hwang, when i first got on the commission, we did not televise the ceremony and they said that it needs to be seen. and we thought, you know, with all that they have done at this time, this should be televised and so when we do the ceremony now, it is televised and oh, the commission, and it is great. >> it is great, and the chief apologized that it took a whole day, and i told him that this was so rewarding it was the best way to spend the day. >> so commissioners if there are any questions or comments, regarding the particular awards or we have to call for the public comment before i have a motion, any public comment regarding these awards? >> hearing none, do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> passed. thank you. >> police call the next line

item. line item 5, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 7 below closed session, including public comment on vote whether to hold item 7 in closed session. >> any public comment for confidential litigation matters >> hearing none, closed. >> next item. >> 6, vote on whether to hold item 7 in closed session, action >> is there a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> thank you, we are going to move to the closed session. >> could we vote wherever to disclose. >> i move to not disclose. >> item nine.

>> adjournment. >> could i have a motion. >> so moved. >> thank you very much. >> we are done. >> (clapping.) sociogood morning, everyone. good morning. good morning. my name is harlan kelly the director of the public utilities commission i'm excited to welcome you here today, it's a diverse group we're going to talk about the issues we're

looking and facing the drought. the puc you're in headquarters of the puc it's a if you don't know about the puc we're responsible for water wastewater and power our water system is a vast water system we provide water to 2.6 million yourselves in the bay area not only in the retail but wholesale swill as the a regional issue we talk about the water not only our drinking water see but our wastewater we have a unique opportunity to look for opportunities to expand our water supply and a lot of is it reconstrict we're looking at ways to take advantage of that. this headquarters represents what the puc is about later today, you'll take a hour of the building and so we treat our wastewater on city i site we recircle it through the

urinalysis and the toilets it's a amazing building and you'll look at all the great features we have today so i wanted to first start off with introducing the mayor of san francisco he's an infrastructure mayor he's been promoting investor in san francisco infrastructure and one the great things we're able to do t is fix a lot of our that is my understanding that bring water here we had a lot of leaking that is my understanding our system is over one hundred years old and with the ability to reinvest in infrastructure that's the 4r5rg9 saving of water are we've experienced at the puc donates my great pleasure to introduce the mayor of san francisco (clapping) >> thank you harlan letting express my appreciation for

hosting this beautiful building. i also want to say thank you to you all of you. those are important and serious times. in our state and i suggest to you that this is an emergency that we're in that's why we are could i convening xhvnlt with our great governors request we hold those he meetings on the basis of the state of california we've got to manage this impending disaster we're experts in disaster preparedness and management i want to thank the governor mark for hosting this recreational meeting >> thank you all how are stakeholders in this to be working and sharing information with each other as an entire region. san francisco while we will do

our best we have to work in concert with the north bay arresting and all regions this is not going to go away we've not be lucky like maybe in the world series or something where we can count on someone else's failure to be our success we have to make our own success we're doing our best in san francisco. since 2007 our san francisco government agencies have reduced water by 20 percent but still that's not enough i've called for on ailed 10 percent because if we are going to have some serious conversations with our businesses before i do that before i indicate to them what we need from them and they are

the biggest water yourselves in our city we have to demonstrate our own commitment per diem and having the puc and our compliment department of working together to reduce an additional 10 percent is important so we have the moral foundation but the practicality to begin those discussions with our businesses. not only is water reduction important i think we're at a cutoff we have to signal behavior real life changes have to happen in order to manage this pending disaster so i'm about making sure our kids grouping just as they've done with education to emphasis the demands for education we want to get all our - our city represent

the effort to conserve and collect as much ground water and recycled water where a appropriate to keep the freshwater this is what we have to do an aggressive agenda thanks to the governor's office for leading this effort those conversations have to go more than a regional approach we've got to have actions that we'll promise the public we're manage a crisis in the making not only do we lead by example and cut waste and water i imagine has much as possible we have to talk to the public about behavorial changes that's the most difficult thing but as a leader in this great city anita and i

my wife has talked i talked about how to demonstrate at the home we can say to our kids we're leading by example and be the behavorial change this is a calling of us as government right now those are the challenges of our time this is a very serious thing we're not going to go through a simple agricultural thing that's a strong, strong part of our economy it's going to challenge our hospitality our hotels one of the greatest parts of our city and get challenged by this and so all of this has to be managed by stewart's experts i'm looking forward to the examples we can have for each other i'm very glad to welcome our state officials and someone i can introduce someone that's been

working with us in the city she's began her career from her job and articulating her managerial skills to the local management that's ann she's done a wonderful, wonderful job. ann take it from here (clapping.) good morning it's wonderful to see so many familiar faces there's a number of people from our approval authority around the region and working so closely together in the bay area. i too want to thank our state officials for hosting this meeting here in san francisco. it's the eight drug - drug drought task force kind of like it the drought task force meeting that's been held. i think the bay area is a very important place to hold such a

meeting i also want to thank harry less than kelly for hosting this this room is fantastic i'm in awe of what we've being able to do with 24 green building. nancy ward is someone who we worked closely with over the years when she was at fema and mark stole nancy from fema but luckyly she didn't go too far we get to work with her still we're worked with cal we say that john doe i didn't talks to my staff on 0 daily basis if issues ranging from reimbursements to the rim fire occupying we've worked closely with cal o s and

mark has been in his position since 2012 was appoint by governor jerry brown and serves as the homeland security advisors he comes with us with thirty plus years in the field and responded to so many disasters in california i'm he can't remember but we have this critically close work are, manship here's mark (clapping.) i may have caused some disasters in all those years too anyway mr. mayor and all of you thank you very much for taking advantage to deal with this very, very important topic and

ann said drug she meant drought she mentioned rim fire california is, you know, truly as the governor said a nation state 38 million i difference people complicated and managing in a crisis like drought this is statewide incorporating all 58 counties and the impacts from that drought to all 18 sectors infrastructure and transportation and education you name it really is a challenge for all of us and san francisco has done some phenomenal work in this area. some best practices we're going to talk about today and really is a model for an urban environmentalist to be able to demonstrate how taking a crisis like the drought and leveraging

the best practices and implementing those in a large way i my say congratulations to the team here not only meeting the governors 20 percent but asking for an additional 10 percent it's a heavy lift but something we need to know this is a marathon not a sprint and in many ways the drought is while it's a crisis situation really to a degree is the new no more in california as we look at ourselves moving into the future years increasing in the population requirement we need to think about how we are sustaining this very, very critical resource n and san francisco again is one of the places we lead the way. i'm excited to an opportunity to meet with you and we'll talk about what we're doing at the state the governor's actions and

the state agency to stay out in in front of this it, it's not a state action ensue a state and local and non-governmental private effort we need to stay out in flown front 0 of this. i thank you very much for hosting today and look forward to talking more as we move forward thank you. brown are we going to do a - introduction around - >> can i start with two topics and then we can move forward yeah. okay. with that, let us begin and, you know, as i mentioned sort of the objective of today is meeting

and the challenges of managing this stating event as you all know, you know, this is the third year of 3 dry years. we've been hoping working with noah in the national weather serves next week we'll have an el nino pattern there's an interpretation of what that means we need to anticipate another dry year or at least plan for it and be prepared for another dry year. our challenge has been to remain out in front of this evolving event most disasters in california is the disaster occurs we'll respond collectively and we sort of mitigate the crisis and begin the recovery process that's not

the case with the drought its at viewing every expanding challenge. its something that it's not going to go away we need to think about it in the context of long term sustainable solutions to change the way we in our society our culture in california deals with this problem and the legislation and the governor are looking at the variety of different solutions that we'll talk about today but there's some tough decisions to be made and part of it is occur contaminate of water delivers deliveries and even 345ur7bd restrictions in the state of california. to the desegregate that the drought is its everybody's everybody is combangd other places in the state are worse

off our central valley agricultural has been hit hard farmers are having problems and we're having a trickle down effect of the economy in an industry that is one of the largest economic murnz in the state of california. so the long term economic impacts in that one sector will have a tremendous impact we're working hard to provide did balance of dealing with those problems while maintaining public health and safety so we incur that people don't go without drinking water for public health and safety standards there's many places in california that individuals are on wells and wells are running dry and their tied into a system

he have a little bit flexibility but tied into a well your options are limited so we're really leveraging that and looking at ground water boycott to some larger term solutions a lot of this has been been in the governors document that outlines the direction and strategy that the governor in the state is moving forward in. we've had look at of precipitation this year but certainly not enough and one of the greatest threats as a result of drought has been that of wildfire our companies are so dry throughout the state it takes age a spark and with the wind behind it it moves rapidly

because of the dryness of the fuel those fires get moved out rapidly we say this come to fruition plus the 80 different fires burning at the same time 18 were major we had to the evidence will then show everycy in the state of california to move up into northern california to support of the fire activity. the governor moved forward increasing the number of firefighting to put all the state agencies on notice to be responsive with the strategy that is get to the fires fast and keep them small. this year particularly we can't afford the fires getting too far out in front of us and the locally strikes