r.com. see good afternoon i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of sfrugs today's date is march 24, 2015, roll call please. commissioner president caen p commissioner vietor commissioner moran you chairperson wu is absent we have quorum

>> before you the minutes of march 10, 2015 are there any additions, deletions, or changes to the minutes. >> i'll move approval. >> okay all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? i failed to call for public comment which is common of my way of running my meetings okay any public comment on item the minutes of march 10 seeing none, the next item, please. >> item 4 is general public comment. >> i have no comment cards i assume no comments moving on to item 5. >> item 5 is communications. >> commissioners any comments seeing none, moving on to item 6

other commission business. >> i am now going to take the next item out of order moving to the cac report thank you very much for being here. >> thank you thank you for commenting a little bit earlier on a buzz workday our report the citizens advisory committee is growing and changing recently our vice chair stepped up to the plate down and rebecca lee appointed by sxhoud is elected to take her place as vp we conducted a survey by our members i talked

about the diversity and we've provided that data where our collective strength and arguable diversities and educational diversity we have for our priorities 2015 we had a general manager update and talked about the survey and set up the priorities last month we talked about our treasure island plan had people coming from treasure island there's a lot of interest in taking action we'll be talking about emergency preparedness as well as trying to do more around the vial update and more training for the cac members it is that constantly changing and members that have not bend from the

program last year i'll be working with members of the cac and staff to make sure we're meaningful and you productive we will try to build a broad program for most of the issues and try to impact a few key areas combrrp our staff and strengthening the relationship with the southeast authority commission and through the training and tours i want to raise the 1r0ish8 with the citizens advisory committee by co-sponsoring more events we responded with the utility commission and hopefully have our commissioners come and we'd love to see you there our

meeting is a joint meeting between the cac and the southeast committee meeting on april 8th but we'll continue with our regular scheduled. >> next meeting is april 8th and we'll be meeting with the southeast utility commission. >> what time. >> i believe that's at 6 o'clock. >> and it will be a community benefit update that effects the cac and the commission. >> and at the southeast. >> yes. >> and okay. your next scheduled meeting. >> the next scheduled meeting are the 13th day in may. >> well, i wanted to thank you for the insert in our agenda

with pictures i like pictures. >> yes. >> also exactly who is on what district we lose track of that. >> we have people moving out all the time and new members coming in so - >> exactly right good. >> any questions or comments. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> next item, please. >> would you like public comment on that. >> (laughter). you know maybe i should be fined like $10 all the time no, no, no >> okay public comment? i want to mention to not that i don't want to hear public comment i forget about it afterward >> all right. next item

please. next item 7 report of the general manager. >> so the first item like to address the drought and since we've had a little bit of rain steve richie decided to give the report. >> i can take credit for .28 inches at hetch hetchy over the last 2 hours can i have the slides please we know where we're at at the drought a number of slides are the same slide and format as far as shortage hetch hetchy is 55 percent of capacity we've backed up water into hetch hetchy to preserve it for drinking water we don't need the snow metal that's not much we're in a good position on drinking

water and the water is before $250,000 acre feet so the coming year we expect to be able to use water bank as far as there is run off to trade off to get water into hetch hetchy reservoir our total storage would be on the order of a million acre feet and the water bank is down to its full capacity of seven hundred plus feet the precipitation the red line represents 2015 matched up with last year's precipitation a good thing as hetch hetchy it relative last year was a banner year the concerning slide is the snowpack slide where you see the red line that represents this

year the snow pack is continuing to go down since december it is now well below where it was last year at this time so the snow surveys are not showing very much up country at all the that is of great concern and got everyone upset most people in the state are in the same situation we're in warlt available to the city we have 50 thousand acre feet that gives us more than last year but because of the snow pack we don't expect that number to get bigger unless late snow we might see that out there you never know for sure all indications things will stay dry for potentially the rest of this fiscal year we need to be presented for that. >> just flashing through the

precipitation around the country we're at 13.75 each month is not good except for that december it is on the medium and the local front a big december not very much precipitation so running about 18 inches total the interesting effect of this you've got the stream flow from 0 alameda cocaine is running nicely from the hillside from the december rains so it is an odd pattern those conditions are this year. >> this is our total deliveries and last week our demand was up again, it the city below 2014 that is acceptable but we're at the point we're starting to work and establish a campaign

building off the last drought campaign as we ramp up towards summer get the word out that people have to continue conserving we're in a deep drought the worst drought and make sure that message is loud and clear our total water sooifgz we are ahead of the curve this time last year we shall trailing that's good news the line is flattening out we're not savings as much we need to turn strongly soon to a communication campaign to reach out and make sure we're getting the message our with wholesale customers are using the wholesale areas we're going to or have the retail services in the month or so.

>> some things happening out there first on the control board less tuesday at the extended their emergency instructions they adapted and averaged some eliminating the number of days per week that outdoor watering can occur and drafted for two device per week they changed that again to a selected number by water agencies in achieving a certain reduction in use we'll be grappling with that and have our regulations the second week in april a plan to how to consultant that measure the water in restaurant only upon that request in san francisco as hotels must offer meddles for laundering we have the restrictions in place and

prompted from consumers if leaks are detook a look at on their property starting on april 1st we're going to identify the continuance con stumps u summation we'll use a water meter to - send a postcard it looks like you have a leak you should do something about it other things going on with the corresponded or reports we sent a letter on march 18 indicating we were interested in the potential water pretty much that's the south san joaquin and other districts and the turlock district and merced we received a response from modesto that

said they're not in a position to sell water we'll get a similar responses from merced their situation is a dire with the merced he river we hope we'll get positive response from other agencies and send water to us last wednesday the recycle water draft eir that is on president's table that project is underdevelopment for sometime and in the package of recycled water but the golden gate park and take the wells and convert them one the things we're evaluating is driver's license a way once we get through the eir period can say we accelerate those projects to bring them

online this elevation a going on lastly actions by another water agencies actually i'll be going to the santa clara board meeting their commissioner moran for severe restrictions like 3 percent restriction on use so we will be talking with them and others before the implications their situation is one where their worse off than us in terms of storage so we have a lot of concerns it is back to our storage slide the use of water bank we're in a better situation but at least we're positions relatively well so we're going to continue for sure the 10 percent water reduction through this year we demanded no more than 2 hundred and 9 modified per day of it's an extreme dry year hetch hetchy

will be potential near that and under our agreement with our customers mid-april we make a determination on the water outcome for the year we have hard decisions it will be around that timeframe and i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> commissioners yes. >> steve what do we know about san franciscans use and i'm thinking of two things the 10 percent that was i guess combined. >> that was combined. >> as far as the people that live and work in san francisco how are we doing. >> doing pretty good a couple of things last year, we called for 10 percent pauts because it's primarily indoor use san franciscans achieved 8 percent where the wholesaler customers

have more irrigation reductions we anticipated that san franciscans were you pretty much on target as far as the per capital each month and are blue bars that everyone reports to the bar in san francisco we retained over the passport six months between 46 gallons per capital and 39 gladdens as a low all the numbers in that range are the lowest in the state san franciscans are going a job. >> what about indoor and outdoor use can we track that for 0urd irrigation. >> we adapted the 10 percent reduction on irrigation accounts so we i think we're about to send out a letter or maybe just

sent it out to folks that have accounts a lot of them have reduced to 10 percent some not we put them on notice by the end of the fiscal year they'll on the one hand owe us excess feeds that is something i want to insure it is a clear warning. >> we have a curtail provision in the use is egregious we'll do shut offices on the account. >> i don't know if we have this authority already certainly the dollar finger figure i know we have one retail out of san francisco they're concerned that the baseline was inappropriate so we worked with them on a different baseline but they're releasing they have to pay they

want to make sure it is closer to one hundred thousand than ethiopian $10,000 arrest the wholesale customers sometime swamp the city numbers i want to make sure that the people that are san franciscans who we have the most direct relationship what we are doing what we can to make sure their doing the right thing as well. >> particularly for the last year we have a steady 8 percent for the entire year the san franciscans is a good number. >> there's no way we can distinguish between inside and outdoor use with the customers correct. >> only for those who have dictated the irrigation account we generally have a pretty good idea for more folks particularly those who are apartment twerlz

very few landscaping it is almost exclusively indoor. >> how much. >> we figure for most we have a factor about 10 percent of the water bill goes to irrigation so 90 percent is indoor use that's the basic rule for all residential use in san francisco confusing the irrigation. >> yes. vice president. >> have we ever considered not issuing additional water meters for a period of time? >> no all of our projections indicate we have ample supplies to provide for san franciscans. >> more or for all projected growth and druth situation.

>> yes. our current design dwrauth and we'll continue to make sure we can continue to do that you know we will be looking at the drought continues we'll look at other options that are extreme conservation. >> so cost wise with what do you mean. >> i mean i've point our storage is in good shape if the drought continues for 3 more years we'll get to dangersly low levels and the alternative supplies generally fall into the direct and direct quotable wastewater. >> so the potential moratorium on wastewater meters. >> that's not something we in

san francisco think it is is right kind of control measure. >> also when development comes from the planning process we evaluate the water use our allotment we have room we look at our normal allotment we'll have do that in the planning process i don't think it would be a good thing someone build a project and at the last minute we hold it up. >> it's time to explore the range of where we might end up if this mega drought continues. >> beyond why additional water meters would alleviate the problem with additional water use for more hookups. >> we'll say no more hookups

not enough water it doesn't sound like that's been on the table let's hope we don't get that. >> when we do certifications for development part of analysis says in drauthsd there be occur contaminates it's to the an unanticipated factor not what we use to decide whether someone can hook up or not so given the fact of life that's built into the process we have to withstand the curtail time after time and it shouldn't be more than 20 percent i think that will be our right to justify the curtailment. >> any other questions or comments. >> thank you, mr. richie.

>> those are quarterly updates. >> good afternoon, members of the commission i'm the general manager for infrastructure you have before you the quarterly report for the hetch hetchy system improvement program as well as for the watermelon enterprise cip i want to point out four projects for your information with respect to the hetch hetchy cip program small hydro university mound project is in changes because of the cdcs request for the changes we're moma those changes and it's increased the costs so

we're reevaluating the return open investment and making a decision whether that project will move forward with respect to the street lights project we have had some details in implementation of the street light project as well as cost increases by emergency work by the storms in december and need to divert crews to address street lights that were impacted as a result of storms but back on schedule and moving forward physical evidence with respect to the projects sorry i forgot my glasses the low monitoring projects those are detailed as a result of the inter - yes. i will take those thank you,

donna. >> she has to do everything (laughter). >> just give her your paper. >> the interconnection agreements we're dealing with the interconnection agreement is coming to an end to put the resources and as a result of those the metering and low monitoring as well as the assessment projects are detailed those are the 4 projects that have red dots in the hetch hetchy and with respect to the wastewater cip. >> can we stop and take questions anybody questions for hetch hetchy yes. >> thank you one question i've asked sometime ago whether we're using the appropriate metrics for the projects hetch hetchy is one of the places we have one

that caught my eye whether there's a lot of projects it's hard to tell whether or not we're on schedule cause we've put so many things together i don't know what the tournament metrics are but we talked about that before we gave thought and how are we persuading. >> as it relates to the hetch hetchy project we're in the process of developing and articulating the hetch hetchy program very similar to what we did with the water system and the sewer system to and from program it is true we have a collection of projects in hetch hetchy tradition move forward as a collection of projects but we're doing this year in 2015 and hope to be done in april to bring is to the commission by november is that same delivered approach on the water and wastewater to develop the

programs to identify specifically the levels of service goals the benefit that each project brings to the loaf and the scheduled and budgets so you see the return on investment and start to report on the problematically for the service calls it's a significant effort particularly because of the impacts with respect to the rim fire we have had details our goals in november coming with the comprehensive program that is outside of the r n r work we continue to have in hetch hetchy and reported on separately. >> one the difficulties when i have that many little promotions it looks like everyone is on time and schedule but felix on

the scope that ends up being something you can't see i'm looking for ways to make sure you know projects have if theirs issues with completion those are highlighted job i don't see it. >> we're not at that level that's our goal and the inverse if you simply have a list you may pay attention to not good investments so i apologize we're not there yet again we were detailed as a result of rim fire but our goal to bring a patriarchs approach to the work on hetch hetchy. >> i'd like to add amends the r and r fill in work you say a bigger project is detailed i

have a window you may be to fit in work our staff is funded on the project that the project is detailed you'll still get a check by having the fill in work r and r it will be hard to schedule so when you have time move it up so sometimes, the r and r work is public. >> that's why i'm not suggesting a solution i recognize that's required this project is a $30 million project more than just a full in work there should be more inches on that. >> sure. >> right so have you address the lower aspect. >> no and i cannot because of conflict of interest. >> oh okay.