okay. next item i believe. yes next item >> okay thank you, madam chair the next order of business public comment. >> do we have speaker cards. >> yes. i have one speaker card oscar james. >> mr. james. >> thank you very much commissioners i'm oscar james again with the boichtd i want to bring up one it is important i'm a certificate holder okay. and he received a letter of new affordable housing opportunities at 2175 market street and you know they ask for a count reference but on this particular operation they say a criminal background okay. i'm

totally against criminal backgrounds on any affordable housing or any housing that the agency or the government agency doesn't doss bylaw that holds back a lot of people when i was growing up in the 50s they laid out a lot of people in the hunters point shipyard and the fathers and the mothers had to go on welfare they were denied the opportunities because their husbands were in the housing because they didn't allow the males to be there so a lot of the kids luckily i wasn't one of them the fathers were not allowed to be in the housing projects because before that our community was prosperous a lot of people but the males were

alcoholics from the top of 3 to market street a lot of which of them was an item like a light pole because the males didn't center the opportunity to be in the housing so i'm asking the commissioners to look at that and another thing i want to bring up the certificate of preference i was on a committee with junior the chairperson on joint housing in 1968 when we wrote the certificate of preference guidelines and during the years you know, i wasn't secretary so i didn't know how to file stuff i was going through my papers and ran across a certificate of preference from

968 that was the first certificate of preference throughout the whole city and county so that's the certificate of preference if you had a child that was born a month that was on the lease they got a certificate of perch but the key thing think on that i worked for the agency for 40 years prior to that for years the commission the directors were trying to change different things but on like is for example, the grant kids clause what have they have a thing i want to give it to supervisor london breed first and bring a copy to you guys but it says a director or the joint

housing committee or at that time the impact could have made addendums to bring the - i'm saying for years the commissioners try to get if done and what have they is bring it back in the redevelopment staff will say we haven't did it or what have you when governor jerry brown discontinued that none of that transpired i want to bring that so the certificate of preference the grandkids you can put that clause in there some folks don't understand for for example, they had a lot of houses in the center that was torn down those people's are entitled to the certificate of preference those people are

entitled to the certificate of preference i want this the staff to look at this and i'll bring the paper and try to give it to supervisor london breed before the next meeting but i'll bring you a copy so you know amusement throwing out a bunch of hot air. >> thank you, ms. vincent and. >> the grandchildren are eligible london breed made that happen that's a done deal i'll research and find that is now a part of the certificates of holders all the grandchildren.

>> thank you. okay no other cards. >> no cards. >> so public comment is closed next item please and the next order of business item 7 the report of the chair. >> i have no report. >> the next. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> the next is the report of the executive director informing the commission of the proposed disposition of the moscone conference to the project lease and enforceable outstanding bonds as required by the 1988 yerba buena project area, ma'am director and commissioners an informational packet i'm sure you're aware of the total he

can't be center area including moscone north and south were finsdz by the issuance of bonds bonds from moscone north are now paid off they're under the terms of bonds with the city this is all in effective to create a conference space for the city for the city nerve paid for by paying off the bonds if 1988 southern deferred rental payments that went into the gardeners account for maintenance and other capital pursuant to the hud agreements that cover all the yerba buena properties because of the city for the construction work overall moscone the city wants sole control of the site they've agreed to make the financial payment by the off and on fall

give the city control of the moscone north side of howard and where the children's are on the south side of howard this is simply an informational action for the commission and the city is honoring it's responsibilities we've identified this process as part of property management plan unfortunately, the complete building and parks and cultural facilities we can't keep them forever we have to transfer them either to the city or another third party this is what we're doing now the oversight board the dissolution law says it is to be transferred with the state department of finance likes to take a second and third look this will be an action item to

the oversight board that concludes my report. and i want to acknowledge director heinecke necessary is here to answer any questions on any relied item. >> before i entertain comments from the commission on the executive director report counselor bryan any public comment on those items. >> you guys have 3 different meetings so i came it this public comment okay. so anyway, i wanted to say you know welcome back man, i really appreciate this is really a nucleus important point you may or may not know there first of all, i want to give a tribute to ms. reldz she gave me relieve on

information and very cooperative and came out to the community and stated she'll be willing to come back i don't know if you know this is called an edition but i'm happy about that ladies and gentlemen, i'm here to say i'll be part of the team they'll be breaking and entering here as well as the community team package but i want to request as i did before i see christina is the previous president i've requested and hopefully, this president she's history her father is has a history in the western edition i respectfully request you bring that meeting to the western edition of it's a special meeting that will be a relief to talk about the

properties that are there of it's a special meeting with a special request you all come to the western edition and let us know what's going with the barber shop and marcus book store it will reassure our community if you all come there and talk about what's happening now and in the future you say there's nothing going on there's a lot of he work that has to do with construction we've got major construction along the corridor and gary crossroad so there's a lot of construction going on right now and - offering special announcement i've september the position at fillmore corridor ambassador has

a rhyme but i'm going to put my community together in a way that has not been done like the cb d and cac and try to bring a relationship with all the developers over the last 25 years if i can make a change with the support of everybody i'm meeting are supervisor london breed so i'll get her support and move on i wanted to make that announcement you all are doing a wonderful job and continue on i'll be here to do what i can. >> thank you, mr. washington you can put our comments under public comments i know with the executive director gave a report on the moscone center anyone have a comment on the executive director's report seeing none, commissioners have a question

for the executive director. >> yeah. that's the next one we have two items by the only quick question i have so what you're saying this matter of moscone is not going to come back to us. >> the moscone north matter no, but a permit for certain improvements that is where the gentleman will be helpful to describe the scope of the improvements i mean the planning commission took a variety of action with the moscone project for improvements but the scope of improvements that will actually be done on our property we expel it to transfer the yerba buena gardens and the facilities unfortunately, the time now has come to transfer them to the city with the

proposal of the department of finance but there's a limited consortiums we're proposing it will have improvements to moscone south will come before you before the end of the year. >> it's actually everything but the moscone center it is everything that our ocii now owns outside of the premises of moscone north and south so in this case, the case of the permit to enter it involves the children's gardener and there's going to be a new potluck create by the moscone team as part of the project that will be happening that will involve ocii improvements and so they're to demolish some improvements and bring back new improvements as well as we own the property we need to get our okay. and that's one of them i got back

from two weeks vacation i'm sorry but the next one is related to the children's garden as well. >> okay. please call the next item. >> the next order of business commissioners questions or comments ass. >> commissioners questions or matters that the commission wants to raise no. >> the next order of business closed session there's no closed session the next is adjournment. >> yes. we've adjourned motion by commissioner singh and unanimously endorsed by everyone approximately.

>> so i want to wish everyone a good morning and thank you all for being out here we'll get this started some very important people has something to say about this tunnel project finally opening my name is vince a commissioner with the public utilities commission i'm proud to be here it's exciting just a moment agree we saw the waters coming down the tunnel we're standing 80 years ago we began it deliver precious resources to the customers we serve open this very location awe as accompanied 25 years ago we had one of the biggest quarters in modern times

this is a semireminder of how important it is to invest ♪ infrastructure to make sure we are prepared with protocols in place i want to give a shout out to my partners in labor many lopez and san mateo building trade and the engineers in the house the work you've done at the project managers the things you've done exceptional and an >> inspiring momentum the water is coming in and the next speaker will have a little bit more to say about the water he has a background it education and transportation and really

knowledgeable he is an attorney went to arthur dong college and one of the most important leadership in salting dave the president of the board. >> welcome everyone to setting san mateo county it is my privilege to celebrate this incredible accomplishment san mateo couldn't hearsay been pivotal to the water supply back to 1952 when a dam was constructed across the creek and create a water entry nor the city of san francisco and, of course, san francisco and the puc has been critical to the couldn't the san mateo we're the beneficiaries of the remarkable hetch hetchy system which was first brought water here 80 years ago that in and of itself was a remarkable piece of engineering a gravity system over

$155 million and serves tremendously well, for 80 years but today is an open tun time to talk about the upgrades that have occurred and celebrate the accomplishment of the molestation that tunnel as was mentioned the trying anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake and we read in the paper the u s is seeing movement in the soils and the geography it suggests another quarter could come sometime soon so this work is done ahead of that it is not often that you know government can get ahead of that problem it could have he'll seen an earthquake and seen an off water supply but thanks to the foresight of the puc the investments have been made at

that strengthen the system to when the earthquake is caring we'll be better off the peninsula is a tremendous beneficiary of the upgrades as and mentioned we receive all of our water from the hetch hetchy system as well the alamed in santa clara couldn't county we're talking about a benefit to after all us so, i say my thanks to all of the people to the self-puc and the contractors labor and others who have seen their water bills go up sometimes, we is having maybe a little bit disgruntled but the outcomes of the investment they'll be proud and celebrate with us again my pleasure to welcome to the san

mateo county for this historical event. >> our next speaker is a yack of all trades yesterday touring our meeting he continued to make sure that the san francisco giants were in a position to win that game i know that harlan kelly makes sure he shares the credit i see members of his team here for me it's an honor to be working with those folks including andy moraine we're going lucky to have harlan kelly managing this entire system (clapping.) so good morning, everybody. so can you imagine in 1906 we had a major earthquake and the city of san francisco broke down this was the impetus of our

water system a startup and 1934 was the day that the city engineer actually designed and built this system and at a later date this system in operation right here 80 years ago so 25 years ago we had another ground shaking event was the loma prieta earthquake in 1989 that was the impetus our our water system program 83 projects $86 million we are investing a main backbone of our system is the tunnel an amazing system the ferries tunnel that is built under the bay most people thought it was the bay tube but it is the actual tunnel under the bay it was amazing you know,

i had the opportunity to go down and witness the actual correction that was being done it is like a factory underneath the bay it was just to expressive how the contractor our design team and the management how we all worked together to finish this project under budget it's significant i'm here to sing praise to everyone the one that thing that people don't recognition when we talk about water infrastructure it is also buried invisible so if we look at a dam or you look at streets and bridges you actually see that infrastructure is failing but when you look at buried pipe and tunneled you don't see that condition so when we actually bring this in operation i want to everyone to remember we deliver water underneath the bay my job as

1yrd or general manager we're invested money it maybe invisible but vital to deliver you water the source of everyone's existence i want to thank the team the team that was put together because it was amazing the first when he landmark the options we were thinking about putting a pipeline where the existing pipeline we were looking that but wanted to make sure we put something in place that was ritualistic to earthquakes we of time the funnel was the best option and want to minimize the virginia and the tunnel was also the best option it was more expensive by our with twhoerl customers think this is the best option i want to thank everybody

i'm excited i here the water flowing thank you very much. >> thank you very much harlan i want to give a shout out to betsy she works with the public utilities commission and she helped to set this whole thing up and just handed me more notes about construction numbers i want to thank betsy for all the work today. >> it's important to note especially i come out of a labor union for the workers we were confronted with one of the biggest recreations in 2008, when this project was getting jump started the numbers were more 60 percent of the half million dollars were performed by people in if the bay area and the apprenticeship hours were built by residents of san mateo county it's about doing the work

but making sure the community gets an opportunity to perform those functions in our industry and get health care and pensions and everyone else this was a triple bottom line effort the next speaker is the chairwoman of i scombrietd spending time with her i think some of our board members are here i want to welcome ruben and marty and john weeds they're on nicole's board nicole please come up to the front. >> well commissioner courtney and timing hines and harlan cell thank you for inviting me here i'm happy and revved to see it water come through thirty this

area 12 years ago we only mingled this this is a great day the 4.5 million residents and the corporations that my agency represents truly building that this is a project that will sure the emptying emptying supplies in the future this is an expensive project but critical for each one of them their water supplied risk to the community it e community from the 80-year-old pipeline no longer exist we say the first every tunnel underneath the bay and not only is this an expressive job with the team meeting their deadlines and exceeding many but $29 million under budget i want to say there's another projects on the water system program that

remains to be completed we look forward to our work with the puc as we see these move forward this is completely reliable in the event of an earthquake including the new dam in our work with the puc we're proud of the fact the $4.7 million is one hundred percent ratepayer funded our communities seen the cost increases in our builds and yet stand here today and see the benefit i look forward to the work on the water improvement program and on behalf of everyone say thank you to the team for their completion of the job thank you (clapping.) if you haven't had an opportunity really do take this opportunity to look at the work

of the men and women and the law workers and the electricians they take care of the ground we have a dprauth go on they replaced the state of the art the applicant and went with a water conservatism so diverse users a chance the message for mayor ed lee the santa fe san francisco baifr is stronger and more resilient because of the tunnel this mask achievement makes us you fortunate we're able to complete f it i want to thank you for all being here please give users a retained yo

retained of >> the 25 years ago today at 5:04 p.m. a powerful 6.9 earthquake read into the record across the bay area the loma prieta earthquake was probable for deaths and $6 billion in dpaj game 3 was about to get underway due to the media coverage that is of the first major earthquake in the u.s. that was broadcast live over national television traffic on the freeways was vacant and millions were watching ton tv this may have prevented a loss ever life as the major transportation structures you suffered