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>> i moved for approval. >> item 11 can remove item 11 >> item 11 is the next item. were not there yet. >> suzerainty public comment on the consent calendar? directs all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. without objection, how they to continue item number 11. to to the july 14 meeting. is that the meeting? yes. it is no objection from any of the commissioners, will continue that item. next item, please. >> i am 12, authorize memorandum of agreement with several the bayer's largest public water agencies for an amount not to exceed $50,000 to develop a area regional reliability plan. >> is a motion to approve this item? any questions for mr.
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richie? any public comment? all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. the motion carries. >> just one request of mr. richie, i would be useful if you could distribute again there's the map that shows the regional projects. it really goes to some of the goals concerned about there's a lot of projects bay area is tied themselves together in the response another one is drought seismic events or other related events. i didn't be useful for the commission to see the extent of that program. >> yes. with the caveat that many of those are buried. the just ideas, lines on paper. some are more developed some unless. but all of the trust. >> can i ask you a question on this. would you anticipate the
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plan being in draft form? >> this, i think, we're anticipating probably about a year. >> a year >> yes. >> the great get some regular updates on how it's going because i think it's very innovative and important project. thank you. item number 13. has that officially been removed? we don't need to continue it >> as they will continue it to july 14 >> without objection that i like to continue item 13 to the next meeting as well were to july 14 next time, please >> item 14, authorize separate agreements to provide a credit facility authorized under 22 proposition kathy for the wastewater enterprise commercial paper program with bank of america and bank of tokyo mitsubishi and authorize to extend the terms of reimbursement on the quiddity facility agreements with bank of america for an additional two years on substantially the same terms without further approval of this commission. >> good afternoon commission.
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charles -- cfo. before i jump into the santa monica let you know we've given you replacement agenda item at your desk there. in the version online the root couple extra redundant pages. duplicate. which is getting the clean version here. just for the record. this item before you today request your review and approval onto replacement bank agreements. support our wastewater commercial paper programs. these agreements are placing to expire agreements that are expiring next month. as a reminder, we have a $500 million commercial paper program that are wastewater enterprise. that serves as a bridge financing opportunity for capital projects in between are larger that no bond sales. this commercial paper is backed by bank agreements, which provides a guarantee paper investors that their investment will be repaid should there be an issue with her investment. i just have a couple slides to share with you. again we have a
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500 million commercial paper program that's been in place for several years. the item before you today is putting in place two new agreements were to expiring agreements. the agreements that are expiring are put in place three years ago, back in june 2012 and we had a competitive rfp process and we reach out to different banks and got four responses. the two, the lowest bidders are before you today are bank of america and bank of tokyo so again to place these agreements. the other good news that happened since we put these agreements in place three years ago is the price has dropped. the cost is less. cost of actually been reduced by about half resulting in anticipated ratepayers savings over the next couple of years about a little over nine or thousand dollars. so that's
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good news. here's just a comparison. we like to show this commission and those of you watching at home, some of the details of these because the documents can be somewhat voluminous. i'll talk about that more in a moment. this chart just shows the expiring agreement over proposing as replacement agreement next directed first, you will see union bank agreement is expired. if a new agreement were posed to replace that. this bank of america at the $75 million level, placed as i noted is dropping in half as you'll see right there in the middle from 0.65% down to about a third of 1%. for two years agreement. make of tokyo agreement in the third column there, waxy proposing to extend that agreements to lower cost for an additional three years. but total of six years. again, 0.35%. just when around one third of 1%. so it's about half
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the expense of the current deal. as i noted, there's typically with a category of items that come before you there's a lot of paper on electronic version. i just want to walk through the documents that are in front of you just quickly. we have the facility agreements which are the actual agreements with those banks for this credit facility with this letter of credit to so, there's one for each of the two banks one for bank of america one for the bank of tokyo. get a few letters which goes into the details of the cost and the pricing gesture review. the issuing and paying agreement is the agreement with us. the sf puc and us bank serves as essentially as a trustee to move the cash around to make payments to investors and for us to get our money when we issue the commercial paper. the offering memorandum is what the
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dealers bring to the street in order to sell our commercial paper and again that the agreement surrounding that transaction. then, the dealers are those entities actually go and saw commercial paper when we do need. so, always her failer boilerplate agreement cinnamon updated for these two new banks and the one other thing i want to add that this item authorizes the general manager to extend the bank of america agreement as well get again, were posing is a two-year agreement for bank of america and should the terms be acceptable to both the bank and for the sf puc, we work to the general manager to extend that agreements for up to an additional two years. that authorization has been included in this item. with that, i'm happy to take questions you have. >> questions, comments? is there a motion? >> on the commotion. >> second >> public comment? on this item? all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. thank you
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very much. next item, please >> item 15 public hearing discussion and possible action to adopt many rules and regulations for ministering interruptible water service during the effective period between 2015-2016 drought program. >> hello, mr. rich. would commissioners like an update on this item? >> briefly, this item was bought back at the request of the commission where it adopted two meetings ago rates as well as the drought package where we are reducing irrigated usage by 25% [inaudible] we also included 25% adoption for irrigation for interruptible customers. we did have a one-time 100% excess use charge for normal customers and a two-time interruptible excess use for interruptible
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customers. as you saw from the demand chart earlier, reducing demand isn't the issue con. demand is really low. so, it's a matter of what's the most equitable thing between interruptible customers and regular customers. what we prepared here for your consideration is changing the interruptible reduction from 25% to 3% and closing increasing the excess use charge from increasing the excess use charge from 2x23 times. manager telling i had some conversation about this. there's concern from some of our interruptible customers that 30% village they're already doing a really good job and that concern him and him make that, so i would offer for the commissions consideration simply bumping up the excess use charge. so the penalty is really their sony doesn't perform. that's one way to
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publish equity. the others to increase percent reduction but again given demand item of cleaning to do that at this point. as we get into next year, that something whether we need to talk about it we would table in your that shows it getting up to 50% if everybody -- that's where the rubber would hit the road because we be hurting at that point in time. so, i recommendation at this point would be to increase the excess use charge to three times, believe the reduction level at 25% for interruptible customers as well. >> what's in front of us actually is different than that is in it but >> yes. it's a 30% reduction for interruptible customers. i'm recommending at this point do we limit that to 25% because were actually getting the performance at a people. i'm not sure we need to bump that up but deftly bump up the penalties so [inaudible] have to pay more if they screw up >> i like to keep it at the
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higher level. i understand people and performing very well and with that hopefully will mean nobody runs into these limits. these are folks that have been getting a rate reduction and i think we really need to make sure the reduction that we water is greater than for people not getting that great benefit. it's a small increments. just to maintain the integrity of the rates. >> so would you like to make a motion? >> yes. i'll move it as presented to us. mr. ritchie is suggesting a and lex >> i guess from our standpoint within partnering with the interruptible rate customers and they've been performing well during some of the challenges they have i think one of the things were looking at was
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achieving the 25, but hiring the penalty if they don't meet it. so, that was something that was a first step then, as we start really honing in on interruptible rates we didn't really think about it when we initiated interruptible means relief to shut off someone's water will be the first one to shut it off. so, now as we progress a request for reductions, were trying to find tune it. were sort of suggesting that 25 is probably good enough that the higher the penalty. i do understand that you want more conservation from those accounts. so, it can go
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in either way. i think were recommending higher penalties, if they fail to meet the 25%. >> the objective that i have is not to make money to save water. if people have been getting a rate benefits on the expectation that it august curtailed. we need to have a stronger cutback provision than is for people were not getting this. i would move it as presented to us and i would not support the amendment >> is there a second to motion? >> i will second >> public comment? all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. mr. courtney.
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>> i would >> motion carries. next time, please >> item 15 i'm sorry. i am 16 authorized 25 year lease to mission valley rock company were proximally 199 acres of number six to number six in snow california for what is the management at reconveyance overburden and finds placement and recognition for rental rate of $60,000 per year +4% annual rate bands increases. >> stephen g assistant general manager for. if i can have the slide please. i just have one slide here. this is a map of the area in question. the area outlined in red is the collection of mission valley rock leases that were posing to consolidate into a single lease extension with mission valley rock company. it encompasses a parcel is referred to in many cases as s&p 24 surface mining
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permit 24. which is necessary for water management and fine management for mission valley box operation. the area to the northward of it is number 32 was the active mining area they use reyna. so this v-6 engine would match up with the other lease and allow them to continue their operation inefficiently but also has benefits for us in terms of water management, both for the alameda creek recapture project and the san antonio bypass i plan parts. we recommend approval of this item to extend the lease permission value valley rock for these parcels. >> thank you for that. when i was before us before, was not clear to me at the time this was not really prominent. that the extraction of this site has
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terminated and were renewing not for mining purposes but something else. that's a very different kind of lease. tenant unusual circumstance. i'm prepared to support it. >> i have the same questions as i thought at first it was a renewal and as i said before, i'm not a big supporter or even a small supporter of mining operations. i feel like the pc is not really central to our core mission but i understand it's part of an existing lease. a different site that mission rock as where they are going to continue to c quarry am reluctantly all right with supporting this but with an eye towards eventually going out in a conversation about quarrying
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and mining and whether we should be using a glance that purpose. checked on the echo your comments as well. there's a discussion for the [inaudible] and mineral rights in general. i would welcome the discussion. check it so, perhaps, before we call for the vote to be calendar a conversation. we haven't had one and sometime especially just have an overview of our coring operation with mission rock and maybe the terms of the of the lease. we've spent a lot of couple times a lot of time on it or lost is because of to speed with the projects are sure to guess. we can definitely do that >> i'll take that to move the item >> second >> any public comment on this item? all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. thank you. next item, please >> would you like for me to read the gauche items
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>> yes, please that would be great >> item 19, unmitigated cram bianco versus city of san francisco. item 20 unmitigated claim jane sandel francisco file and josé alvarez versus puc. i'm 21 city and county of san francisco versus an old valley golf and recreation. gauche items 23 through 31 not be heard today. >> great. thank you. denied a motion, please on attorney client privilege on the matters as stated? all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. thank you. i also need a motion to recuse commissioner courtney from items 19 and 20 due to a conflict. is there a motion? >> i make a motion >> second >> all those in favor say,
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>> thank you. back into open session. items number 19 and 20 were settled. please have a motion to disclose our discussion during close session? >> i move not to disclose >> second >> all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. the motion passes. other new business? >> hearing none the meeting is adjourned. >>[gavel]
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>> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features.
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>> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had
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i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he
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was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. i thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are great stories for on opera. i was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. a friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. why isn't it are that i have the
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support now we can do that. i realized that was something that wasn't being done in san francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in san francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality >> you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision that's the final product felt opera. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the
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daily. >> so much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work there's great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs we've worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. i had a model they have a professionally music yes, ma'am assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor i'd be able to work with them and it's helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial >> it operates as a laboratory
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we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. that's part of the opera lab >> i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so that's why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. >> there were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and it's different it has a story telling quality
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every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and that's part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. >> so one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. >> that's what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know really great you have to have both some people don't like it and some people do we're concerned about that. >> it's about thirty something out there that's risky.
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