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from side board of supervisors it is out there for review i'm planning oncoming badgering bank on may to give the whole presentation may 15 is the deadline to get comments back i'm looking at a presentation on the draft and any february i've gotten up to that point and come back with a final reverberation at the june meeting for final filing of the report there is a lot of information on the fiber suicides side that is operate is from the under grounding that is happening last week at the board of supervisors supervisor mar and supervisor mar here has a is the digital divide it coincides with the report and supervisor farrell introduced an extension of that looking at other option there's a lot of movement on that side going on i'll keep my report up
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to date but with so thavg so i'll continue to add as much as i can this report kwoos meant to be a collaboration of various reports that are done over time within itself city and county i'll do my best to incorporate those reports and getting to a final version we've not gotten a lot of comments i'll be going to the capitol planning committee in early may to acid and have a discussions which is in that if with respect to agenda items your opportunity to address the commission to do under grounding for the fiber network capital planning plays a role i'll be sitting down to give them an understand we're looking for suggestions how to move forward i was not able to find new funding sources as well as the
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utility wires side all the reports show what was available old programs could have been continually but there's no current new funding sources from the federal level maybe some fund through the economic recoveries some ability to grab funds but the city didn't have shovel ready projects so keeping unus up to date i hope the country didn't glow the economic turn down we had but if it ever doesn't say shovel ready projects you could get extra funding not in the report it was of the comment i've noticed in reviewing of everything the one thing i found sharing projects reduced costs get everything
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done at the same time supervisor wiener and interest throughout the city of street light transitioning from city owned and controls thirty percent of the underground costs was for replacement of the actual street lightsism so if you do something that corridors if you have funding for the other thing you may not save a little bit of money but those little bits add up the one thing i'm suggesting perhaps the city and county they have a 5 year role plan of under grounding when we go out and do street resan francisco bay area the puc goes out and test all of it sewer and waterlines that are underneath that street and determine whanz had w who thinks needs to be replaced so they'll replace those to possibly wait
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how much in a given year long time the last 5 years and potential 5 years what streets need floup for fiber or the a utility you'll not need all of that the city did 20 to thirty miles for water or water and sewer together so how much would it cost to add utility wires how much more to do that work and how much total that gives the advocates doing the underground activity every year we need to raise x amount of money so go back to the ballot for the voters will you pay for a bond or increase in property tax several ways to a pay for it they actually understand this is how much we need to ask for it
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may not be as equitable you're following someone else's plans you gives a cost effective way to do that is one of the big suggestions scott wagner having the city and county look at the last 5 years and easily do it and look at the next 5 years to add in the work what does it mean and gives 10 years of averages and give an idea it is one of the bigger things like the city and county steps to take that is outside of lafco purview that's my report on this matter. >> i don't see any questions or comments public comment is open on item number 5 good afternoon one last bite and
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apple also public net san francisco which we've in light of the water been happening in the past few days around broadband and the digital divide we definitely you know we've been pushing for executive officer frooedz report to get into the fiberoptic question advocates from public net definitely see urging executive officer frooedz report as a launch point now to get to the next big thing that lafco ought to work on making sure we have low-cost fiber broadband to ever home and business in san francisco like in chatting nothing tennessee people pay low fees it is what we saw
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supervisor farrell come out with yesterday with respect is not that picture it is the kind of thing we with health care just like water and sewer and contribute and other public serviced and like our roads and highway especially broadband internet should be a public thing built built and owned by the government and public what we saw from department of technology in the hearing recently didn't reflect that we were going to go for making this a public utility that is big and low-cost to consumers and critically to small businesses that need a booster right now we really need lafco to get on this - >> (inaudible) strike while the
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iron is hot. >> thank you seeing no other members of the public in the room we'll close public comment do we want to go on to item 6 can we call 6 and 7. >> executive officer report and item 7 public comment. >> item 6 first of all may 15 is our next meeting it is our regularly scheduled meeting before memorial day so we moved it up next weekend is the third friday not the fourth and just as folks were known supervisor mar was pointed out to the board of supervisors he is not the additional important the board of supervisors that was a vacancy seat from the board of supervisors he took the vacant
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seat now for the alternates through the board of supervisors appoints so just wanted to. >> may 1 so this is all i have i want to wish everyone a happy earth day. >> happy earth day. >> earth day it is city hall's birthday one hundred years of city hall being opened and happy birthday city hall. >> public comment is open now the future agenda items colleagues. >> item 8 future agenda items. >> colleagues future things or issues seeing none public comment. >> one quick thing it is also to the broadband issue eric brooks san francisco green party
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net when we public nets been having discussions with public officials and supervisors the broadband issue we're identifying some things the department of the technology it is manages technology access for city purposes and it is not really a utility that would be a good idea to do something to start is an independent body or nonprofit to manage the citywide broadband system and that is something that the lafco could take up it would be much easier than we tried to do with clean sf where a charter got in the way in the case of broadband there is no chart block and the lafco could september up a entity to manage the broadband i urge you to put that open the
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meeting of san francisco public utilities commission tuesday, april 14, 2015 roll call please. commissioner president caen commissioner vietor commissioner courtney commissioner moran and we have quorum. >> thank you, commissioners before you you have the minutes of march 24th 2015 any corrections or additions. >> i'll move approval. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. i opposed the motion carries and i'm not calling for public comment so i don't have to put any money in the jar now i'd like to call for public comment for those items that are not on today's agenda i don't have any speaker cards seeing none, next item. >> item 57 communications. >> yes. commissioner.
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>> thank you on the advanced calendar several items the commissioners asked for information from the staff this have been there no notice as to what the status is not a delivery date and nothing you up a summary in the process let me ask staff for a report a memo that should be sufficient basically saying for those that have not been responded to yet where are they in the process the prognosis. >> may i clarify that's the outstanding question summary. >> yes. okay. >> that's a good point i noticed that two any other comments or communications? any commission business to be discussed? seeing none, we'll move on to the report of general manager >> thank you, ma'am mr. kellys
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out of town in the nation capital doing business for the city we'll start with the usual round update of the snowpack. >> snowpack steve richie the assistant manager can we have the slides go through a number of items many of which you've seen reserving but a lot of the new because we have a executive order first on the reservoir storage level those numbers have not shifted a lot we've continued to have above normal storage on hetch hetchy the water supply and water bank is decreasing that allows us to capture the water is it will normally belong to the district at this time so hetch hetchy is 69 full 2 hundred acre on the
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water bank this is a dropped down on the cumulative - in terms of of perspiration up at hetch hetchy that's a good thing we're certainly above 1977 by trailing last year and the year before not a lot of perspiration notice pack this number looks at bad at the same time we got the precipitation we got melting as a result of the downturn the water available to the city is still on 50 thousand acre feet a small number than normally expected to get precipitation xaurtsz some accomodation in up in the north country 50 powers normal for the
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most this is not a bad thing the bay area front is but that the 85 inches less than 50 percent on the local front we've done descently because of the big december both the reservoirs are benefiting from it our deliveries they've been going up that means the triangles are the increases in the water due to the 4re78d was having more water earlier in the year they've backed off on the number of water because of their reserves this is the triangle that drops down back to where we are on the saving can i ever that's a good thing we're about on top of the savings curb to
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try to receive 10 percent of targeted we've been seeking the number summary of where we're another now the policy issues that have been presented by the state board and the governor's exclusive board on the state board the ongoing actions to limit outdoor watering to make sure that the drinking water upon request the hotels offering options on a daily basis and get involved in the notification program so the implementation is coming technique for consideration as item 2 the rugs for san francisco be applied to our retail customers another activities we've engaged in we sent a letter to the
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contributoryy for the 5 thousand acre feet and more discussion technique there authority meeting the west side recycle draft dir is on april 23rd we up to the present time e expect to be hundred percent design for the construction in 2016 if everything going goes well, we don't anticipate any problems we're evaluating the ground water project we say 4 wells under construction and now the construction contract has been to see if water da can be brought on with a augmentation of our supply. >> when will that be. >> i'm hopeful we can have a
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well online in 2016 and another well is going to be under construction in a few weeks it called for all 4 wells to be done kwurl and maybe two faster and have that online sooner. >> which well. >> the two wells that we're looking at is the pump station a well by itself which is water into the lake and the pumps station into the sunset reservoir and the other one is the west side pump station that water goes in there to help the reservoir the reason that's important that's where the treatment equipment is for ground water and the to two windshields one in dwrp and nset has to go there for the
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system for the drinking water that's united states priority of 3. >> thank you. >> now moving to april 1st there was not april fools day the governor had a new executive order on new 24 items in order first, the effect i use quotes that is a executive order the state water board to achieve a statewide 20 percent for urban water usage through february 2016 compared to the amount in 2015 there will be establishing baseline of 2013 and called for upper water users for 25 percent reduction statewide also called for collectively replacing 20 feet of tooufr
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landscapes that is a big number but gg park is 45 million square feet it is the size of gg park people to water their lawn restrictions for the institutional proposals in the golf cowards and cemeteries targeting outdoor irrigation all the governors actions on this is asking the state water board to target the our irrigation for california next one is pro bono irrigation for tooufr and other mediums already dph has stopped watering mediums so we're ahead and the water our newly constructed building that is good for mick
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space systems and our irrigation next item there are permitting agencies that move along faster employing may faster like surface and stormwater capturing and basically the governor said if anyone amazing has planned to develop a water source they want it to be processed with a 90 day turn around time for the applications and a few other things in the order as well that may affect us but those are the ones that are the most significant to the regulatory framework how they'll achieve the 25 percent reduction we're basically to take all the agencies in california have more than 3 thousand connections and rate them all accordingly to the residential per person use per day for that agency so i'm
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showing you a few things in san francisco writing to gallons per person per day so they then took the holistically and said those are users only have to pay 10 percent but higher than 25 or thirty percent for the big users so in san francisco we would be in the 10 percent category and most of schoerl customers are 10 and 20 percent and bosco submitted a letter we think we should be a 15 percent category and change the use because some of the bosco members are a small amount and should be regarded so we said we'll support their recommendations on that because we can't achieve the whole writing to percent but changed
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the line albeit this state requirement is independent of the 2009 agreement so normally about this time of year we tell the customers not to plan for the coming year this is the result of as that proposed noted finalized until mayor 5 or 6 and 25 percent resurrects so we'll be sending a letter to the customers saying the state is mandating that for all the individual and that is something we support and go forward with the exception this will occur rather than the puc mandatory separately that's united states way that will be used going forward and sooipd the state should adapt this for june 1st so the anticipated actions we've
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got for san francisco for the commission is require that all retail customers needs to reduce by 10 percent pea residential has achieved 8 percent and last year relative to 2000 to people need to keep doing what they're doing but that's not going to get the real results we expect to look at the irrigation consumers to reduce by a higher amount in the order of 25 percent with the expose uses of non-compliance we think we should bump of number up we expect to target a subset for the water use universities and other big users especially, if they that haven't take advantage of our reservoir and we can
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