other comments, questions? may i have a motion? >> i will move the item. >> i will second. >> do i have any public comment on this item? seeing none, i will call for the vote. all those in favor. opposed? the motion carries. next item, please. >> item 15 public hearing under the california water code section 10723 and action to establish the san francisco public utilities commission as the ground water sustainability agency for the downtown, marina, lobos, and south san francisco ground water baifbs and the northern portions of the westside, islais valley and vezation valley ground water basins located within the city and county of san francisco.

>> ellen levin, this is complying with state water to establish a ground water sustainable agency and it makes sense for us to do this now. >> i have a question. how did you decide which ones to give to low priority? >> it wasn't us, it was the state that made those determinations. >> oh, i see. any other questions, comments? may i have a motion? >> i will move it. >> second. >> any public comment? seeing none, call for the vote. all those in favor. opposed? the motion carries. >> item 16, adopt a resolution of intent to prepare a groundwater sustainability plan for the northwest side ground water basin, located within the city and county of san

francisco. >> i'm just here to answer any questions if you have on the item. this will be, we have a ground water management plan that we've already gone through the first phase of development with and we're going to switch it to the groundwater sustainability plan and finish it out. >> i will move approval. >> i have a question. i guess at some point it would be nice to understand again, we've probably gone over this, the groundwater component of our integrated water management plan for the city and region and our wholesale customers, and whether this designation helps us in any way or whether there's anything to know as far as planning you know, because i know these regulations from the state level have come online now. this is probably part of compliance with those regulations. >> it is. we've been moving forward with development on our

groundwater basins that will provide us with water supplies. so you have recently adopted the groundwater storage and recovery project which is a joint project with some of our wholesale customers, a conjunctive use project to use surface water to allow the ground water baifrpbs to naturally recharge in the southern part of the west side basin and then in dry years we would be able to extract that ground water to supplement our dry years supplies. you have also adopted the groundwater, local groundwater project where we'll be able to (inaudible) there's about 2mgd that's being used in golden gate park now and we'll be adding two mgd so it will be four mgd coming into the potable system. the ground water sustainability plan we've been already developing management plan because it's very

important to make sure we manage those basins sustainability. we don't have water intrusion, we're making sure we're not pulling more water out of the basin than can be naturally recharged. the ground water sustainability plan have you set more limits and i would say in many ways we've been doing it already because we want to make sure we have a sustainable project, but this sets some more parameters to make sure you are including in your plan. >> that won't need to come back to us? we are adopting that we're going to comply with those new regulations? >> this is a resolution to prepare it and we will have a draft that will be available for public review. we'll do a public meeting on that draft so it will come back to you. >> for adoption. okay, thank you. very good. do we have any public comment on this item? yes.

>> good afternoon, peter jackmier, tuolome water trust. an employee asked me why i don't speak any more. because i don't have anything to complain about any more. i think it's great that the puc is getting on top of the groundwater issue. groundwater is going to be so important in the future. down in orange county, you probably heard about a program they have there, they do advanced purification of waste water and let it percolate down into the ground water and that's their primary water source. they use existing piping, they don't have to use the purple pipe. the santa clara water project recently brought on line a waste water fuer fie case center, it's distilled water, 8

million gallons a day. what they're going to do it is blend it with their typical blended water, bring down the salinity. i think there are a lot of great opportunities. i think for the west side basin maybe if we could try to recharge it proactively with advanced treated water that could be an additional water supply, not just during droughts but year round. we're looking into a project like that on the midpeninsula around the san francisco creek area. people are accepting it, there's a lot of interest, we are entering an era of these mega droughts for a decade. if we can find a way for conjunctive use, my congratulations to staff for

pursuing it. >> thank you, that's interesting information as well. >> again again, commissioners, eric brooks, i'm on the water committee of the bay chapter of the sierra club. it's really good to see such a strong move toward groundwater and hopefully toward the things that peter mentioned. and so it's much more desirable than the plans that have been on the table and are still sort of on the table for desalination which the environmental community would like you to steer away from. in my water advocacy i've run into some constituents in san francisco who believe that our water quality is going to be degraded by using san francisco groundwater. so it would be good to have staff prepare a

public education campaign if there's a budget for that to let the public know this water is just as clean as the water that you've been drinking out of your tap the whole time. i think that's really important and it's something that should be addressed. thanks. >> thank you. any other comments from the public? i'll call for the vote. all those in favor. opposed? the motion carries. next item, please. >> item 17, adopt a resolution supporting the job training academy at gleneagles golf course. >> good afternoon, michael carlin, deputy general manager. the item before you is to participate in the development of a job training center at gleneagles golf course. this has been under development with multiple departments within san francisco as well as a number

of labor and community leaders. this is a resolution that would allow us to continue to work towards that goal and establish the training center which would help a lot with training programs that we the commission, supports out there for people to get into the job training sort of pipeline. we support things such as stewards and other things that allow people to get some job training but this would be more of a job training pre-apprenticeship pipeline to get people into the trades or even further. at this point it's an idea that's come to fruition so we want to appear you to acknowledge we're working on it and working on it with other members of the city family and to get your support to continue to work on it and bring it back to you as it comes to more of a proposal to look at how we would actually implement it. i'm here to answer any questions.

>> thank you, madam chair. i do want to just quickly disclose that i do have a professional relationship with the lcgf which is documented in the documentation. i think a lot of time and energy has gone into it, i see a couple of my brothers there, jesus and javieer, i'm sure our new commissioner will have a comment to make on this issue. it's unique because depending on which meeting you come to at the puc you really don't know what issues are but a lot of times it's the work force and community development that we all hold near and dear to our hearts. for instance on our building at 25 market street we were hitting numbers nobody else was hitting in the public or private sector and we were proud of that fact. i think it's important to note this is a public private

partnership because a lot of the opportunities that we have to place these men and women in the community are in the private sector. a lot of these men and women are finding a way into the public sector in departments that i have relationships with with the laborer's union as a conduit, the department of public works, recreation and parks and some others. what this is intended to do is bridge that gap and create a pipeline into not just public sector job opportunities but also private sector job opportunities, which is unique, because if you don't have an opportunity to expose those folks and i know the commission will develop more on the idea but if you don't have an opportunity to expose those folks to that private work then you are missing out on an opportunity to really empower a community that's often times underserved and under represented. i'm excited about the fact our chief administrator, naomi kelly, has taken the toich on this, the det of human resources and

obviously our own harlan kelly, phil ginsburg and some other department heads, it's important to note that in order to put something like this together you need staff involvement. you have to have political will. julia ellis who has been critical in moving this forward, also massud orkadani has been outstanding. we are a labor business community oriented group and if you guys are interested i will make myself available cht i fully support the resolution and i hope you guys will too. >> any other comments? >> it would be my pleasure to move the item. >> i will second it. >> okay, we do have a speaker, chairman walton. >> thank you, commissioners,

attorney general kelly thank you for a brief moment -- i'm sorry, general manager kelly. >> thank you. i'll take the promotion. >> way to start off the afternoon. first of all i'm just here to talk in support of item 17. gleneagles as you know, is one of the hidden gems that we have here in san francisco, it is a great golf course, 9 hole course that a lot of our public are starting to access and have been accessing for years. we have public housing communities right around gleneagles where there is a community of folks who are dying and eager to get to work and so we want to make sure that those opportunities are provided. one of the things we know about training as evidenced by some of the programs we work with the puc on when i say we, jung community developers as the executive director, we have been working the last 3 years providing intern ships in accounting, government relations and architecture with

16 to 20-year-olds in various architecture and engineering firms in the puc, those have led to pipeline opportunities where some of our students are now in college majoring in those areas, particularly engineering and architecture, as well as the trainings we provide at ycd, we are placing over 76 percent in private sector and public sector employment opportunities through our training programs so we really know that training and internship opportunities lead to living wage jobs. so we're excited about this opportunity because not only will it be introducing some of our community to an opportunity that they are not typically used to working in landscaping and other areas where they can also learn about golf there is environmental aspects of this that are going to be magnificent for us. but it also provides them an opportunity to go on to opportunities in the public sector, private sector, or possibly the nonprofit sector in terms of what this training

will lead to. the partnerships through this have been tremendous. as you know, a lot of city government involved a lot of private sector involved a lot of public sector involved, bringing it all together to make sure opportunities are provided for citizens and constituents and isolated and disenfranchised communities becomes available. we want to make sure our constituents are prepared to go to work. so we're in support of this resolution and i did not state your name, shamal walton, executive director young community. >> my name is jesus lobos, i'm here in support of this resolution asking your support

also. like they're saying right here, it's hands on training if they decide to go forward it's a great path for a career, not just something they are going to do for a little while. it's a lifetime career if they decide to go that way, get their ears wet. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, one last time, eric brooks, san francisco green party our city san francisco and also san francisco dleepb -- clean energy advocates. i want to stand in favor of this resolution and ask san francisco for take being the lead on making union hiring much more robust, training much more robust. it's really crucial that this agency is driving that process because a lot of the other agencies in san francisco have dragged their feet on it, have outsourced a lot when we could be hiring union labor. and we

of course want you to continue that partnership with clean power sf because we're looking at upwards of 9,000, 10,000 jobs. it's vital that we make sure that those jobs are union jobs and as many of them as possible are local jobs. so let's take this as sort of a next step towards that even-bigger project, making sure that we really maximize union labor on that clean power, much larger clean power sf project. we can do that, one way we can do that is to make sure that we launch the local build out of clean power sf just as fast as we launch the program itself. we need to make sure that these are working together and what will really maximize the jobs for especially unions like the labor local 261 sheetmetal workers and others is to make sure we have very robust energy

efficiency and solar and other what's called behind the meter resources put on homes and businesses in san francisco. that's where we're going to maximize jobs and it's where we're going to maximize local jobs. that's where it's also tough to maximize union jobs so we need to make sure we're on top of that situation so that that, we don't drop the ball on union jobs for local distributed behind the meter resources that are small like that. that's a challenge and it's a challenge that needs to be faced if we're going to continue this agency is going to continue to lead the way on union hiring. so that means we need to really flesh out well what was not fleshed out that well in the internex report which is exactly how we're going to do those behind the meter resources so i hope you will pursue that as well. thank you. >> thank you. yes, vice president. >> i have a question about, and maybe for michael, it does

say in this language making the golf game a more environmentally sustainable activity and talks about water conservation. can you speak to that? are there specific goals around that? >> there's not specific goals but i would say part of it is a partnership with gleneagles golf course to do integrated pest management, water conservation, all those types of activities that would be part of the training program. there might be more so we're just kind of covering like scratching the surface at this point in time. but as we develop the program we'll have more specific goals and objectives. >> also i just wanted to point out that we've been working on this not per se the glen eagle but the habitat restoration where we had a, part of the water system improvement program we had land that we had to maintain as part of the ceqa mitigation and so what we've done is we work with

contractors because there are certain wetlands that are sensitive land that we had to establish and what we did was we worked with the contractors to do a training program and that's one of the programs that we brought forward. and in doing that we talked to vince about maybe doing an academy and have it located one place because the model that we were having before was that we work with the contractor and work with city build to provide some type of training into working with these contractors but it really didn't have a training core. and i think this was sort of the missing piece that we are thinking that was needed. i don't know vince, if you want to add on to that. >> just to commissioner's point, adding a environmental component, we expected to have president arse here today who

is also participating in the conversation, he just had a child so he won't be here. but i think he will be satisfied, they actually amended this resolution to include a environmental component dealing specifically with the items that we touched on at our joint meeting, the ipm that we wanted to do some pop-up there. we have integrated pest management specialists throughout this city in various classifications so we wanted to do something a little more centralized through the environment department. >> i love the idea of there being a training academy to look at golf courses in particular and the opportunity to become more sustainable because there are a lot from pesticides to water to hab at a time conservation issues. i would love to, as the program develops, at some point to have you come back and to hear about those specific environmental initiatives and how we can really lift up this site and the career opportunities around environmental goals. >> absolutely.

>> thank you. okay there's a motion on the floor. all those in favor. opposed? the motion carries. next item, please. >> would you like me to read the closed session items? >> yes. >> item 20, existing litigation, arturo torres et al. versus city and county of san francisco and items 21 through 30 will not be heard today. >> is there any public excellent on the item to be heard in closed session? seeing none, may i have a motion on whether to assert? >> i will move to assert. >> second. >> all those in favor. opposed? the motion carries. we are now going can you please rise

for the pledge of allegiance? >> pledge of allegiance. >> president, i'd like to call roll. >> president loftus. >> here. >> vice president turman. >> here. >> commissioner marshall enroute. >> . >> dejes u.s. >> here.

>>. >> also here with us is joyce hicks and chief of police. >> welcome everyone to the to the march 11th police commission meeting welcome to those here in attendance and those watching at home. we haven't been here in city hall since february 4th so it's good to be back. >> please call the first line item. . >> certificate of appreciation mr. jeffrey man hierm man heimer and i understand we're going to have a presentation. >> i am lieutenant chin from the -- mr. manheimer, are you here? come on up [applause].

>> sorry sergio. >> correct i'm lieutenant sergio chin from the investigative team. tonight we're here to president the citizen's commendation. let me give a little bit of detail. there was a robbery incident that occurred at the 1800-block of polk street the the suspect tries to leave without paying and mr. manheimer hears the ruckus and turns around and sees a big fight. a couple of things he

could do take no action or push him off the bike and he did that pushed him off the bike the suspect falls to the ground, the cop shows up and arrested and most people wouldn't take any action but mr. manheimer here risked his own safety and displayed a willingness usually reserved for police officers and fire fighters and a select few of our civilian population and mr. man heimer heimer should be commended for for his brave action and be awarded the commendation award. >> commissioner commissioner

mazzucco gets very excited about this [laughter] there is one one less rob er on the streets of san francisco due to the to the courageous actions of mr. man heimer and such an example of behave bravery is worthy of the highest esteem by the san francisco police department. [applause]. >> and for those of you watching at home who can't see, there's a large contingent of supporters for mr. man heimer. welcome. >> i just wanted to say thank you it's an honor to take this award. it wasn't something that you expect walking into work and it was good i could help out with the police and i know what you guys deal with on

a day-to-day basis so it was the least i could do so thank you i appreciate it. >> wonderful. >> [applause] somebody should take a picture. >> mr. man heimer [applause] inspect tore please call the next item. >> adoption of minutes for the meetings of january 28th, ,

february 4th. february february 11th and february and february and february 25th, 2015. . >> colleagues in your packets you have the minutes prepared for these 4 meetings are there any discussion about these minutes. >> i move to approve. >> all of those in favor? those opposed? the motion passes. please call the next line item. >> heist. >> >> action. . chief there's a request here from the department to accept these 13 hyster forklifts. >> actually i'm going to let to let sergeant matthews speak to that. >> thank you. the police department