tacall to order the regular meeting of san francisco public utilities commission. today is tuesday august 11, 2015. roll call, please >> president cane, here. commissioner courtney, here. commissioner kwon, here. commissioner moran, here. commissioner [inaudible] .

>> before you you have the minutes of july 28, 2015. any corrections? any public comment on the minutes? seeing none i'll call fl vote. all in favor? opposed? the motion carries. at this time i'm going to call for the public comments of any item not on todays agenda. have any speakers today? okay, moving on to the next item >> item 5 is communications. >> commissioners any comments? i do have one speaker on item 5 d. christine hanson. could you come forward, please? >> i have 2. good afternoon

commissioners. my name is christine hanson and i'm speaking to you today as a member of the save ccsf coalition. i would thrike address the real estate service report of the attempt of [inaudible] along where the mayors office to [inaudible] housing development at the bal bola reservoir. it is claimed on one end by the sfpuc and on the onet end city college is in deed still one parcel. the u.s. and history has been intertwined between ccsf and the water department for decades rchlt i document written by joans and stokes entitled common sequa mistakes [inaudible] to declare a parking lot full of car suhr plus is to [inaudible] with the common sequa mistake. when trying to assess the needs of

the nearest neighbor, ccsf, you're dealing now with the changing state imposed administration that sspuc is resting on the word of public officials who guven the school when no public input was allowed. the current board of trustee meet rgz not video taped or broadcats to the community. how can you know the impacts of housing will be on the school. another common sequa mistake noted by jones and stokes is failure to account for past, present and for seeable projects. this is a perfect discrepgz of performing arts center slate frd the riz vore that the school has spent 22 million dollars in preparation to brildbuild. no mention of the project exists in the planning dwuments thus far. that

project replaces the school odd torium raised in 195 saechb to build the current reservoir. as i said, city college and sfpuc are instwineed on the rez ver. the history is entwined and now the state of city college is grim and to base your development on the word of public officials that are not necessarily a part of the college community is messy. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other comments from general public? seeing none, the next item is other commission business. >> other commission business. adoption of resolution and supportf nominationf kathleen tiegs as president of association of california water agency for the 2016, 17 term

>> acwa is the industry association for public water agencies in california. in the last couple decades it started out as a aggregate district agency over the last several decades it has done a good job i think och representing the state more evenly. it has also done a good job of trying to address californias major issues in a thoughtful and methodical and balanced way. it is the tradition to have the president of the board alter nailt between northern and southern california. the current term the president is john colman from east bay mud and in the next term it would naturally fall to southern

california. kathleen has been active in aqua since 2008. she is from cock monga water agency and my experience of her is she is thoughtful and approachable and very effective. she has spent the last term as vice president and will be the nominee for president of the coming year, so i think her presidency would be very positive and it would be my pleasure to move our support of her for that position. >> i'll second that motion. um, any other discussion, comments? any public comments? all those in favor of the resolution? >> aye. >> all those opposed? the motion carries. any other

commission business? moving on to the next item, please. >> item 7 is report of the general manager >> good afternoon commissioners. first would like to start off with the drought update. steve, ritchie >> steve ritchie general manager for water. if we can have the slides. we'll look at where we are in the drought. some are familiar, the first is level of storage in the reservoirs and hetch hetchy is 88 percent full but that is dropping now. water bank is above 100 thousand feed at 18 percent full so we are going through a relatively normal cycle now, hetch hetchy going down. we can't fill water bank as much in the past because there isn't enough water in cherry lake to do that so will

look forward to hopefully a well winter. i have-this is state department of water resources puts out all the states reservoirs and major reservoirs and this continues to show. they are quite low, particularly [inaudible] is at 14 percent of capacity and there is controversy about how much water should be retained behind it versus released during the summer. [inaudible] which is merced irrigation is down 10 percent of capacity so it is extremely low now and don pedrois a third ow capacity. precipitation, oddly nch in the last several weeks we continue to have more precipitation than normally. the month of june we had 4 times more than we usually get in the month of

july. that number continues to creep up on the water year. as far as demand, our customers continue to do well. of the 15 lowest percapita users in the bay area are [inaudible] all doing a great job and think you hear more from that when [inaudible] speaks on behalf of baus cu. total demand picture, again we are below the level last year and well below the level we need to achieve to comply with state water boards requirements. it bumped up because we had heat and started to drop in the last week so we continue to do well on overall system demand. i would like to talk about state water board cur patement action and focus on june 30 is when we received a notice to [inaudible] points of diverse including

[inaudible] july 6 we responded in the point of diversion not subject to state board notice and haven't herd more from the state board after that correspondence. by the end of the week [inaudible] don pedro[inaudible] should exceed the natural flow of the [inaudible] river which is what the state board is measure success is maintaining the flow. i included a diagram which is different than what we have seen before. it shows the flow in cubic feet per second on the left acsss and the month along the bottom thmpt blue line is the full natural flow of the river if it weent diverted by us or the irrigation districts, so you see as the year has progress ed and run off flows, that lines coming down, the blue line. during the month of july it

jumped around. it is moving-what we typically do is go down close to zero below the yellow line. because we had the precipitation it stretched out longer than usual. the red line is our release into the river. you see them coming down towards july and there is a bump in july as we start to generate more at home and put water in the water bank. we are releasing a fair amount of water in the water bank. the yellow line at the bottom is what is coming out of don pedroand that is about 100 cubic feet per second, 50 we volen tearly we wut in the river. the difference between the yellow and red line is what is going in the water bank so that is where that is important at this time of year that we are generating and the water we

release is for our purmshsism we have a bump up with the ecpectation it will dry out and the blue line will dip into the yellow line so the release out of don pedrow will go into the system more than what the river puts there itself. at that point the question is a mute question because there is more water in the river than would already be there. the key thing to note is [inaudible] the water bank, that water the district holds so whatever we were told to do by the state water board is irrelevant because it is under control of the irrigation district. you can see the dealter. there is a lot in there but the basic message is the river is above the full natural flow level in 3 or 4 days and unless we get

storms [inaudible] >> whautd are the next steps if the state water board comes back and they assert the opposite that is within their rights to restrict, what is our next step? >> it is a legal matter but the message is there is more water in the river so it doesn't matter. legally we disagree with you and if we state that that is apologist choice to make. >> can we continue our operations and await legal action? >> we continue operations because there is more water in the river than would normally be there so they have no basis to tell us to do anything. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so the next update is cca. barbara hale.

>> good afternoon commissioners. barbara hale. i have a number of items to update you on. lots of activity over the last couple weeks. august 3, mayor lee and some visor breed z mar introduced a resolution reaforming approval of the updateed implementation plan. that is the plan you adopted on july 14 and staff submit today the california public utilities commission for certification so it is now before the government audit and oversight committee. we have also been spending time on the 2 measures, ballot measures scheduled to peer on san francisco november ballot. july 31, the supervisors held a special meeting of the board and at that meeting they modified the measure that

supervisor breed had initiated in a manner that won over the support of the international brotherhood of electrical workers. they will campaign for the supervisors measure and against the measure they had submit frd the ballot. the ballot simplification committee convenes to draft the ballot digist and we staff activety participated in that effort and we are confident there will be a clear z accurate description of the measures cument composed for the voters. today we published the anticipated request for offer to sploi energy to clean power sf program. we asked suppliers to submit bids to sploi the prac with 30 mega watts of

electricity at launch with the opportunity to increase to 50 mega watts over the 6 month period. we asked them to provide firmed and shaped energy, so renewable and conventional power. we asked them to provide california renewable portfolio standard eligible bundled renewable energy. that is what is common referred to the bucket one energy, the more premium renewable lickticity product. we asked them to commit to pricing and deliveries starting marf 1 and continuing for 3 to 5 year. we told the sploiers we have a preference for projects in california and even stronger preference in the 9 bay area counties. that is our effort to get california project squz projects within

the san francisco region. we anticipate the program will serve residential and commercial customers ranging from 20 thousand to 70 thousand accounts. are there questions on this item? >> the change of heart from ivw, was there an agreement? >> [inaudible] measure expressed-at the root was kench that the san francisco clean power sf program would rely on unbundled renewable energy credits and not have much of a economic incentive to develop and build projects, right? so, that was sort of at the root of their concern about the program. the board sponsored measure expressed concern about

too heavy reliance on non renewable power on pg & e's sides oof the house and would require the department of environment to notify customers of the content of the power that pg & e was supplying and making mention of the nuclear conitant. i understand that emphasis on disclose thg nuclear content was what was troubleicing. what the modifications did that brought all the parties together is eliminate the nuclear description requirements in the

supervisors measure, requires the program that we implement at launch to rely on-to not rely on unbundled renewable energy credits to a degree greater than allowed by state law. it met the ibew interest with the positive statement and by dropping the requirements to disclose the nuclear content in pg & e's power supply got them comfortable and support the measure >> no conversation about jobs or prevailing wages or nothing like that? only on description? >> those items do not appear in the ballot measure, no. that's not to say there wasn't conversations about it, but-that is part of the interest ibw is bringing to the

table is interest in jobs but neither measure spoke to jobs as they were initially drafted >> thank you >> today we have a action item on the agenda- >> you mentioned that the anticipateation is cca goes out to residential and commercial custers and the business plan last meeting, we talked about the need to serve full serve commercial customers. is one part of hetchy going to be in competition with cca or how does that relationship work? >> you know, i think there is potential for that competition. i think for the municipal. the public owned utility power, the bundleed power we supply,

not all customers are cost effective to serve because of the distribution system investments that need to be made. we are hoping we will be able to identify customers interested in receiving service from the city and identify those where it is most cost effective for them to be a cca customer or a publicly owned utility customer. we hope in the dialogue with the customer we will be able to best place them within the options of service from san francisco. >> thank you. >> okay, so the next item i want to report on is the fact that we are going to be asking you today to act on a contract for the selection of the back office services provider for the cca program. we're asking you to award ongrument to noble

amare cs to provide the administrative and customer services for the clean power sf program. nobodyal amare cs would provide the meter data management, billing and customer care services. they will manage our customer enrollment process, tracking the customers who are opting out and establishing procedures and exchanging information about customer requests for pg & e. noble mare cs is a qualified provider and are providing to amu ren and sonoma and their cca programs. the action would amount to a contract not to exceed 5.6 million dollars over the 3 year term and end in october of 2018. under the contract noble will recover all costs by charging a per active meter fee

for each month and in that way we won't incur any cost under the contract until we have customers. so you'll have a opportunity to vote on that today as a regular agenda item. and then i wanted to put up our usual milestones slide. i have it on the overhead projector if we can get that up. thank you. i'm going to kind of try to focus it on the items that have changed. so you see we have listed today august 11, as the issue date for the request for offer, that is the first red item. we had target august 3, it is august 11 and we are a little late but none of the other schedule items are effected by that. i mentioned that today we have before you on the regular

agenda are equest to execute the back office and customer care contract. i don't know how we missed this after presenting this so many times but listing sept29 where we precent the analysis. i'm showing the next meeting date there-we will have that reflected properly in the future milestone charts. that concludes the update. we are still on track and moving ahead. thank you. >> thank you. is there a couple comments? i know you would be here. >> jason freed. i want to thank staff for doing a excellent job. i have in my

hands the rfo for power pure cure want released today. thank you fl hard work. i know this was more difficult than anticipated in getting done and they are able to figure how to get the calendar to work in a way that it is going out a few days later, they get back on track through the rest of the process so think that goes a lot to stay the staff and dissever congratuless on that. the timelinel just presented is the moving september 29 to october 13, i get why that occurs. we have started discussion about a joint meeting so if we get the meeting scheduled you could potentially move that item to the joint meeting and have approval of the risk analysis of whatever you are going to approve on that date . you can approve during the joint meeting and keep things on

track. october 13 isn't the wirs thing in the world but that is a idea to through out and think about. we already traded a little time back and forth between myself and your commission staff about the date. i understand staff submitted our potential suggestion which is the end of september we have our meetic on the 25 so if you are available that day we can make that day work for us. i know not all are here today so need to determine how many of you can be there and how many of our people can be there. the other item i want to fwring up is the discussion about the ballot measure. i want to thank you for your staff. comment your staff and [inaudible] submitted, we were able to get good ballot digest discussions occurring so there sadis tinction between the 2 ballot measures and that was going to

be very helpful for those purposes. as government we can't campaign for or against anything but can make sure what is pren today the voters is factual and accurate. we did a good job of making sure a accurate story is presented. we are not clear roof top solar in the city [inaudible] would not necessarily be considered clean green renewable energy under prop g and they would be counted under the boards measure, prop h. we are going to-while we are above the minimum compliance, we are going to be aloud to count roof tops that go solar sf [inaudible] all those roof tops could be counted against us for category 3 so it will give the

ability to count those similar to category 1 and not count against us so we can get as many roof tops in the city. thank you >> thank you. any other public comment? >> all right, the next item is a quarterly audit and performance review report. nancy hom. >> can i have the slides, please? good afternoon president and commissioners. as you are aware the performance [inaudible] sfpuc for the past fiscal year. provides a 12 month historical

forward calendar of all praunlect squz highlights, the breath and depth of oversight [inaudible] takes into consideration our recommendation made by auditors and agencies. we fenshed 2014/15 with 65 individual assurance projects. 22 audits and projects completed by [inaudible] with 29 pregress and 17 scheduled. the majority are performance related [inaudible] compriced of 51 percent of the portfolio. the next largest audit type is financial related and conducted by external [inaudible] in 4th quarter 2 projects were completed, the first is phase one of south east [inaudible]

framework. the first phase provided program project models data collection and reporting programs and internal and external audiences. the framework serves to support the program planning and management such as improvement, [inaudible] and also increased transparency, accountability, public awareness and funding support in the southeast community. the second project completed last quarter is the follow up audit of the job order contract program. the original 2012 audit was determine whether [inaudible] administered and monitored the program of the original 19 audit recommendations 4 remained outstanding and 3 were partially implemented from that 4. as we begin q 1 we have 22 projects over the next 12 months in addition to 22 in

progress. not all are listed here but the significant highlighted here [inaudible] followed by the annual financial report and the audit of statement of changes balancing adprount the whole sale revenue requirements for fiscal year 14-15. we have loyaltyies revenue for [inaudible] cash receipts and receive new and sf reviews and interdepartment invoicing and cost. the current fiscal years annual audit plan is finalized between csa and [inaudible] for fy 15 and 16. the projects scheduled in the next upcoming month. in collaboration [inaudible] continued focus is obtain values for planned projects thatkeepture cost efficiency [inaudible] policies

and procedures and facilitate continuous monitoring. as a result the managements planning audits in prior years added value enthe agency in the follow ways. include the franchise fee audit that led to a 1.5 million [inaudible] 35 fuv thousand dollars of ineligible discounts and provided [inaudible] collection of late fees security deposit and internal controls in property lease management and strengthen internal controls in areas of the organization including information technology, [inaudible] pure curement. as we continue through the year the staff will keep the commission updateed. if you have questions i'll be glad to answer them now. thank you >> commissioners, any questions? >> yes, thank you. first of

all, let me repeat a comment i make every time we do this. i think the commission staff should be proud of the audit program. i'm not aware of a publication anywhere that subjects to such a thorough and transapparent program. it is part of keeping trust with the people who gave us a lot of money to do their work and think it is very important, but for all that importance no less impressive. one overall comment i would like to make is that there are several audit find wrgz the solution identified is to implement a computer system and a computers by their nature take time to develop and implement. it is also true that financial and inventory controls were not invented after the computer age. they existed for a long time before that and the controls are established by

management and not machines. my comment is that we need to not take excessive comfort in the fact that somebody is developing a computer system and need to make sure the culture and management speak tooz the need for managers to protect our assets in whatever form their exist. there are several that have to do with inventory control that have been on the list for several years and hope we can make some real progress in getting those systems up and running and make sure that with or without those systems our inventories are being properly managed and protected. >> thank you. >> good point. any other questions? >> thank you >> thank you. >> so the next update is a water enterprise capital improvement program. quarterly report. >> good afternoon president and

commissioners. cathy how, agm for infrastructure. the written report is self explanatory but wanted to highlight we are finally moving into design for the peninsula pipeline seismic upgrade that was originally part of the-we discovered we needed to strengthen these pipes when we worked on the harry tracey projects under the water system improvement program so the last piece, phase 3 will allow us to meet the seismic reliability level of service goal under the water system improvement program. i can take any questions. >> commissioners, questions? >> thank you >> next item is dan wade will give a update of the water system improvement program quarterly update. >> good afternoon

commissioners, dan wade. [inaudible] director and please today give a update on fy 2014 and 15. may we go to the slides please? in terms of overall status, the regional program is now 88.7 percent complete. the local program is 99.3 percent complete and the overall is very close to 90 percent complete at 89.6 percent complete. pleased to report that the last construction project in the local program, that is the program within san francisco just completed this last month at [inaudible] reservoir. we now have 100 percent completion of construction with the one

small exception of outstounding electrical issues at lake merced pump station. we are in the close out phase. that is a very significant accomplishment for the program and commend those working hard on the projects to get us to this point. in terms of overall program status, we continue to have the majority of activity in construction in the regional program at 2.6 billion dollars of project value in that phase, but the great news is there is 65 projects totally complete in construction or closeout and we have one project, only one project in preconstruction and that is the alameda creak project. the overall program is on schedule to complete in

2019 as has been the baseline for had last couple years and it is also on budget at 4.765 billion dollars. that being said, you may have noticed a few red flags that i just want to acknowledge and point out. on individual projects, these won't effect the overall completion of the program, but if you look that report you'll see the san joaquin pipeline we have close out issues with litigation that was recently resolve so the date fl project is extended and have issues with drainage and solar panels we are fixing. division 5 pipeline, the bay division project pipeline, we had ongoing litigation with

mountain cascade but we are hopeful that will be resolved soon and there is a closed session item today. we have the [inaudible] hap tat restoration program. this geing well and over 100 million dollars to offset the nob nab of the seismic project squz the habitat values are reviewed by the resource agencies and they found the program to be going well, however, the extreme drought has impacted the timing of some of the projects and have to continue watering many plants and had to replace a number of plants as well as experiencing pathogen issues that effected the plants so we are eradicating the athgens to insure we don't have a long term issue. that has effected the schedule of that program as well. and then on the local

side, i mentioned the electrical issues at lake merced pump station but those are the red flag jz commissioner caen, i want to be sure we address those with you up front. in terms of recent accomplishments, i'm not going to read all these, but we have accomplishments every quarter especially as we get to this phase in the program. many of these regional projects are closing out and that is exciting. 36 of the 44 projects have now met the level of suvs goal squz that will continue to happen over the next year until such time we only have 4 remaining major projects in the program that go to 2018. the safety record is excellent but did have a issue this past muchckt so doubling down on the safety to make sure people go home safe at night.

the program attracts media attention and were able to celebrate that last project in the local region by having a reporter from the chronicle come out. we continue to earn industry awards and that is a great accomplishment for the project teams that have worked so hard for many years on these projects. in terms of preconstruction, i mentioned we only have one project that is still in preconstruction which is alameda creak recapture and the design phase is in process and the environmental impact report is also in progress. we finish thd notice of preparation and had a public meeting and so we are moving forward on those aspects. we also have the admeada fix passage facilities which is a subproject. it is significant project and finishing 100

percent design this month and put that out to bid in october and proceed next spring and have a prequalification in progress. pausing to look at some of the major projects that are ongoing in construction, i would like to start off with a little project called cal varus dam. construction is 70 percent complete, which is ahead of schedule. we had significant risk reduction on this project recently because we were able to resolve issues that were of concern. steve ritchie tells me he doesn't want to hear about the geologic feature and were able to solve [inaudible] they were crossing the new outlot cond uit and have desire to address those

issues. we are getting close to the bottom of the excavation. we excavated [inaudible] have about 500 thousand lelft to go and that won't be removed until next year but have a good understanding what is beneath the material and so a risk we will find something new will go down. that being said, there is still significant risk remaining on the project because we still have to build a dam. some of those risks include the source material for the hard rock insureing that we have the quality and quantity of materials necessary to construct the dam without quality issues as we go forward. deal wg nesting birds, we had some minor delays due to birds being aggressive building nest so that is a risk

continuing forwards with construction. we have-any time we do a excavation at the site there is concern with slope stability so that is risk. we do expect it to rain so there are whether delays but the risk has come way down, i just don't want to leave you with the impression we don't have risk going forward. this photo shows a recent construction photo of the spill way. we are in the [inaudible] looking upstream. 40 thousand cubic yards of concrete is placed. by the time we are finished we will place 60 thousand cubic yards of concrete to provide 45 thousand cubic per second of pill capacity. this photo

shows the tower and architectural components. if you go on site today you see this taking place and this is really a nod to the history of the system that was built here in the bay area by spring valley water company that sfpuc took over and this is a reflection of the architectural team at the [inaudible] water temple designed by wills polk around the turn of the sentry. there is a blue man on the right doing his best to prevent nesting birds on the tower so we don't have delay in construction. if you look at the urban [inaudible] project what you see is some work taking place on the existing tunnel. you recall the new tunnel went into service february and took the existing tunnel out of service. we did

find [inaudible] repair work taking place and expect to be able to put the existing tunnel back into service in september and do the final testing on the project. on this project you see restoration work going on. this is the photo of the sound wall being removed to insulate the neighbors from the construction and we are also focusing efforts on resolving 2 outstanding claimwise the contract, one is for excessive hard rock discover said during mining of the tunnel and also the 2 buckling repairs that we did based on the incidence that happened last fall. the peninsula pipeline upgrade is our last major pipeline program and that is going very well. there are no major issues during the construction of the project. this is 5 site on the

peninsula to replace critical portionoffs pipeline that go through fault crossings. this photo shows a couple locations where we have trenches thatd cross the seismically vulnerable areas and the one of the right is near the site of [inaudible] this is in a fault crossing zone where we have a special trench detail with bedding that is allowed to deform in the event of a major earthquake. the regional ground water storage and recoverry project started construction in april and the project is off to a good start. it is about 6 percent complete. this continues to 2018. thes is 16 ground water to help the aquifer to help in the event of drought thmpt goal is provide 7.5 million gallons

of water per day in lieu of construction project when we experience a drought. we have drilled several wells that are up to 720 feet deep and also cart started construction of the pump station structures you see in the photo. the last construction project i would like to talk about that i haven't talked about much in the past is a biregional habitat restoration program. the program is going well. it is a very large program. it is 100 million dollars of mitigation sites mostly on sfpuc water shed and the folks working the program are proud of the work they have accomplished by restoring the pristine watershed lands and working with the natural resources folks in puc to do that. this project has experienced some delays due to

430 million dollars in wages that represents 12 thousand workers3 4 f1, 48 percent of th howererize [inaudible] 72

percent of apprentice hours are from the same tear toze. we work with 4 regional based [inaudible] for sfpuc territory residence placed on projects in partnership with trades and contractors. i also just want to mention a couple dynamic partnerships and initiatives under the leadership of general manager harlan kelly [inaudible] in partnership with labor. the small business contracting tips work shops was held in hayward which was a success. we updateed folks on changes to local business enterprise ordinance and so that was one thing done

recently. there are several job specific training programs that benefited the water system improvement program and benefit the sfpuc as we do projects in the future and include the operating engineers heavy equipment training held at cal varus dam replacement project. it include the [inaudible] training. and also the labor biregional hap tit restoration training held. i want to end with a photo of the folks that participated in the training. this was a tremendous success. sfpuc in collaboration with the training center in san rumoan and mission training center in san francisco launched the biregional habitat training program and the training addresses the need for skilled workers to support the construction and maintenance of the projects for the water system improvement program. happy to report that several of

these people have gotten great jobs immediately after the training on projects and their position to really enhance their careers and families and provides benefit to the city as well and there is a fantastic video that our folks in mu [inaudible] put together that highlights the testimonys of the individuals that experienced the training and encourage you to visit our website to view that video. with that, happy to take any questions. >> i want to appreciate your comments about the biohabitat training and that you mentioned to masud and all the heavy lifting. i can't sit here and not recognize the great work of general manager kelly because the laborers, we like to take credit for stuff that we do, right? maybe a little stuff that we don't do we'll take

credit for, but harlan does deserve all the credit and husband staff because it wasn't easy to get that done and we wouldn't be talking about how we were able to place people and wouldn't talk about success and longevity if it wasn't for your vision so i was glad we were able toget that done. i'm compelled to say that >> i agree and glad you took the cue to commend or general manager. >> curious on the video you have, is there [inaudible] involved in that? >> the sewer system improvement program really took that. we are not as cool but they did a great job with that. >> one serious question, i was having a hard time keeping track of pluses and minuses going through the risk and trends discussion and there

were several projects where it was clear it would take more money but it was vaivl in the directors rover reserve. for the program as a whole, is there enough money currently identified to deal with risks and trends >> i think we have a fighting chance to finish the program in the budget. that being said, there are significant trends that we know about, but there is also risk. the risk we run a monty carlo analysis and we can fund the 80 percent confident level of risk with the directors reserve and con tingency in the program. i believe we have a strong likelihood of finishing the program within thbudget, that being said there is igsug couldn't risk ahead.

>> from reading the report it looked like we are in a different phase of the projects. as the projects come to completion, close out issues and claimerize in the forfront >> they are very much in the forfront and it is a lot of hard work that people are doing behind the scenes to address those issues, but just as a important as the start up phase or middle phase of the program to finish well and that is what we talk about all the time is finishing well. >> thank you >> thank you. >> congrats on the 100 percent completion, that is a accomplishment. question about the cal varus dam replacement. for the record, the california academy of sciences could not handle the whale fossil because of confrict of interest. >> we are in discussion with another entity and hope to have a contract in the future to

pure cure the fossil squz displace them >> thank you for you and your staff for [inaudible] >> the whale? >> they found how many whale fossils? significant importance in the project itself and the academy of science is in dialogue for about a year or so in terms of helping cureate and handle these but prevented us from getting involved after i joined the commission. >> any other comments? thank you slnt excellent report. we have public comment? >> okay, for my last update, would like to have a budget status report. have a [inaudible] eric sandler give you a update. >> president caen,

commissioners eric sandler, assistant general manager of business services and chief financial officer of pu crnchlths happy to be before you after a 10 year highates and here with a brief presentation that is a your relural quarterly budget report. the budget report that i'm about to present is a summary of fiscal year 15, recently completed june 30 that needs preodd audit numbers so they haven't been to audit for external audit [inaudible] and the way thais is organized, i have a presentation and there is a memo that provides narrative context on the year and detailed schedules in your package. before i get into the play by play for each enterprise, i thought there were helpful observations that aplayed to all. all thee enterprises experienced reduced

revenue as a result of the drought our drought response. we have been able to fully or partially mitigate the revenue reductions through a number of measures that are pretty much one time in nature either one time revenue or one time expense reductions. the good news is that all of your policy guideline frz debt service cov rrj and reserves are met but we have question about the implications for the financial planning for short, medium and long term. in the short term the question is what do we do for fy 16 and you took measures to adjust to reduce revenues when you adopted the 16 budget. we'll come to you in september to talk about the budget for fy 17 and 18. weal r what if the drought stops or continues or worse, those are the kinds of

things to consider and in the long term the question is how to rebalance the long term plan against potentially down shift in water sales volumes and sewer service volume. now i'll dive into what is going on with each enterprise. let's start with water enterprise. we saw a 41 million dollar reduction in revenue and that is just under 10 percent of the water sales revenues. 13.4 million of that was related to sales within san francisco and 27.7 is related to whole sale customers. one thing to keep in mind is the water supply agreement has a mechanism of balancing account so that the under collection in this year can be recovered in the following year. the issue with whole sale customer reduced

volume and revenue is timing issue than a absolute dollar issue. on the plus side, we had a number of one time positive event in the revenue picture. we had a 11 million dollar settlement with a contractor over some water main replacement and we also had a 8.1 million dollar sale of suhr plus property in mountain view. on the wrus side, wie also have-as a result of therefundings, the reserve requirement is lower and therefore we were able to take a certain amount of money off the debtd service reserve and

dollars, but we didn't use the 20 million in planned reserves so the waste water enterprise came out positive. 3 4 f1 with respect to hetch hetchy, we saw a decrease in sources and this was not really as a result of reduced of billed volumes but

there was less water so we produced less energy and we had lower sales of energy. we sold now power on the whole sale market this year and significant reduction in electric sale tooz the irrigation districts. on the e use side we did chbt have to punchs as much power as intended and saw the other enterprises 11.6 million dollars savings from not using planned reserves. as i mentioned earlier, all 3 enterprises meet the commissions policy targets for reserves and for debt service coverage and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> any questions? um, do you have any thoughts about what we are going to do if we have no rain next year? >> that is a good question. i

thipg that what me and my team are doing and what the exectev team is doing is looking at scenario planning. what if things get worse, what if they stay the same and what if they get better. there is no-what i can say is there no silver bullet but it will take a lot of everything to manage through this. >> i think the plan is september we'll come back with scenarios that if the drought persists that what are some of the things we will do to put us in a better position so we'll come back and talk about options. it is not only effecting water but waste water and power so we are going to do that as well. >> it isn't just a matter if the brout persists, if conservation persists which is

a good thing that presents challenges that we have to deal with. >> the last thing before we close, i don't know if we actually officially welcomeed the commission. eric, i know we talked individually and i was ought the last meeting but he stepped in and did a great job. it took the efforts of annhering [inaudible] and tod rr [inaudible] and michael [inaudible] to recruit eric to come back and apply for the position under probably a lot of pressure, but it is great to get someone in the industry because he came from east bay mud and was here previously and he has come in and fit right in like a old shoe. comfortable shoe. >> need a shine. >> we just wanted to thank you

and welcome you and he is a great addition. >> thank you. >> with that i conclude my report. >> very good. any public comment on the general managers report? okay, next item, please. >> item 8 is bawsca update. >> good afternoon commissioners. nick col sandkulla. if i could have the slides. i want to talk about 2 things today. first, i want to give a flavor for how the service area is doing in response to the call for water use reduction and i'll land and end on [inaudible] first, good

news. the bawsca agency are leading the state in achieve thg reductions requested by there governor. as a whole, if we wait their targets, they have to achieve a 15 percent reduction target and in fact, compare today the state wide reduction of 25 percent, in june the agency achieved 33 percent which is a pretty incredible number. state wide the state agencies as a whole barely exceeded the governors target and in fact, among the bawsca agencies all but one exceeded the target and that individual agency just found out what the reason for, it is was [inaudible] their major shopping center in town was close said june of 2013, demolished, 1.3 million gallons is a normal use in the month

that didn't exist and not on the books and now fully rebuilt and they were in demand of june 2015 that couldn't figure what happened to west burryo that is the answer. if you look that rest of the state, the state as a whole, 61 percent of reporting agencies are achieving the target. there are many agencies in the state that are 15 percent away from the target. for me the take away is that they are doing a very good job but need to continue to do more. this is the breakdown. this is something that my board had asked for and so each of the agencies, this is the june data and 33 percent overall savings is the solid dark line across the top and the 15 percent is the average. the conservation standard sin yellow and percent reduction they achieved is in

blue. so, what you really see is the fa nominal experience with each of the agencies. this is the same data but tr had residential per capita use. just some people like to look at that a little differently. what you see here is the broad difference among the region where you have low residential per cap taw agencies like dally city and east pally alto and high ones hills burrow being the highest in 2013 in june, but doing a very good job achieving the target and they are very serious about doing everything they can to reduce their water use. what we know is that that number is great for june, we must achieve the bulk of savings in the summer when you have the majority of

agencies using 5 oor 60 gallons per capita today you won't get reduction from those in december. you have to get the savings in the summer, so that is a very important message and one we have talked about through the suvs area that now is the time to achieve those savings and need to do more so we make sure overall throughout the year we save everything that we need. so this is our push. these are 2 of the billboards that are down on 101. one is going north and the other south in the vuscenity of red wood city. the push is really about outdoor irrigation and it is about going native, planting drought tolerant species and allowing the grass to go gold as mine has and looking at either givling it up or

replanting with natives after the drought is over. that is a big push and i think we are seeing the results with these numbers and hope that will continue. now, on to my second topic. mountain tunnel. i do feel it is important to speak to that today. it was my understanding you were going to be present would a schedule today and anyhow that is put off until your next meeting in september which your next meeting. houv, it felt like this challenge is so important and the need for progress is urgent and to protect the water users who are dependent on the water system that delay of weeks or days do matter and want to say a few things since i have your time today. the tunnel according to staff and consultants is at risk of a failure which can could reduce water deliveries to agencies and customers for a extended and undetermined length of

time. i believe the situation requires the same attention that is given to a lot water system improvement program which is successful [inaudible] and really that was where back in 2005 we felt mountain tunnel should have stayed at the time. last week i met with your staff and we areiveed the schedules to do the work necessary to improve access to the tunnel, the work to inspect sw repair and build the by-pass tunnel if required. we are working with your staff and together to determine how to protect our water users and assure reliable water supply. each of the 3 projects require a lot of time to complete, 2-12 years. amazing to think about. that doesn't include contingencies or thij things we can't anticipate today. mean while, 24 threat of extended outage continues to exist until the project is complete. as

you know, may 26 i asked the commission for a plan to determine how to meet water needs fl customers in the event of a outage where a certify actry water supply can be found and how can it be delivered and our biggest priority now is the protection of those water customers. 1.seven residence squz 30 thousand businesses and thousands of community agencies i represent. given the schedules we received and the 3 mans i focused on 2 issues. the prompt identification of the water supply plan in case of tunnel collapse and urgent approval of the best plan to fix the tunt, the efforts are connected and equally important. they are both critical to protect the interest. continue to ask the commission and staff to give

priority to these challenges and urgent implementation of plans that will hopefully be approved. [inaudible] thank you. with that, i'll take any comnlt you may have. any comments? >> >> thank you >> thank you commissioner. >> next item, please. >> item 9 is the consent calendar. all matters here listed counsitute are considered rutune by san francisco public utilities commission and [inaudible] vote of the commission. there is no separate discussion of the items unless a member of the commission or public requests in which case the matter is removed from the calendar. 9 a, approve kubra [inaudible] award agreement cs 310 and offer profession agreement for

an amount not to exceed 1 million for 5 years. [inaudible] for total contract amount of 876, 177 and authorize final payment to the contractor. c, accept contract number, w rks with 526 approve modification 3 decreasing amount of contract by additional 257, 353 and authorize final payment to the contractor. d, award contract number ww 569 in the amount of 746, 492 to the lowest qualified responsible and responsive bidder lc engineer and construction >> any request to remove any of the items? to the public, same question? seeing none may i have a motion? >> i make a motion >> second >> all those in favor?

opposed? the motion carries >> item 10 approve the selection of noble americas energy solution award agreement cs 247 r and authorize professional service agreement for amount not toexceed 5 [inaudible] >> did you want to present this again? no. i should ask are there any questions on this? jrk jason freed. this isn't on the critical path this is a item that should have been put on the critical path so encourage you to pass it today. i think a contract is important in get thg program or the agreement is important to get the program up and running since the only way to collect funds is if we have back office support system. i encourage you to pass out the staff recommendation today.

>> good, thank you. any further questions from the commission? may and a motion, please? >> move >> second. >> all those in favor? opposed? the motion carries. let's see, where are we? madam secretary could you read the items for closed session? >> 13 is unlitigated clam [inaudible] versus city and county of san francisco. 14, existing litigation, ccsf versus pg & e. item 15 existing litigation mountain cascade contract litigation. item 16, existing litigation restore hetch hetchy versus city and county of san francisco. item 17, unlitigated claim, ccsf versus ae com. item 18, litigation city county of san francisco versus [inaudible] golf and

recreation. item 19, conference with real property negotiator water shed lands known as parcel 61 and 65 containing 218 hole golf courses located at [inaudible] under negotiation is price and terms of payment. items 20-26 will not be heard today. >> um, first of all, i need a motion to recuse commissioner courtney from closed session for item 13. >> i'll move. >> i second >> all in favor? opposed? motion carries. any public comment on the items in closed session? seeing none, we will now go into closed session after a 8 minute rec

>> >> the commission has now reconvened to open session. in closed session, the following was done: item 13, 14, 15 were settled. item 16, 17, 18, 19, no action. i have a motion regarding whether to disclose? >> move to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor? opposed? the motion carries. other new business? the only thing i can think of is i don'ts think that commissioners should wear cubs >> i conver, thank you. >> be aware. >> would you like to announce

the august 25 meeting is canceled? and august 25 meeting has been canceled, so the next meeting will be the second tuesday in september. >> i can't promise to wear these until the next series. >> the meeting is adjourned at 4: 32. >> i have 2 job titles.

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purifyi purifying.org or stop by any place for our clean slate program. our team looks forward to serving . >> good morning, everyone yeah. today, i'm very proud to you know have this meeting because we are very luke in our you know city history we have the best leader you know leading us you

know we've even though i feel everybody agree with me our mayor is the best you know working and dictated that's why we learn from him the department of building inspection our mission so to protect life and property for the public that's why today, we are proudly to have our honorable mayor, mayor ed lee to come over to you know make that announcement please welcome mayor ed lee (clapping.) >> director i'd like to give a quick interpretation.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) >> . >> (speaking foreign language.) (laughter). >> i just want to say thank you to the young people here to the family people here and not so young folks that are here to come together to receive this very good news of our city's willingness to support grants that are aimed another residents, small business owners are property owners as well and visitors get educated about the very strong possibility of the next big earthquake

i wanted to first of all, say thank you to tom when i was a young attorney many, many years ago my for at a in chinatown was to do hours i want to venture have an active department of buildin inspection speeding i also wanted to make sure i always had is strongest district supervisor as we have in julie christensen. >> (speaking foreign language.)

>> and i do have now as the mayor very strong representatives of very important departments like our fire chief our department of the emergency services and our police department and whitens our rec and park department that are all here together to join not only in this announcement but in the various roles they'll play in preparing people so for the expected earthquake in the next 25 years.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> most importantly is you who are the residents, people that work in chinatown, people that live here and the people you invite and also the invaluable services leaders like sarah or other youth person speeding i know that many of you in in this room in english or chinese saw the san andreas movie that is i'm not sure i cannot but we

have 3 serious facility lines that come into the city and county of san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> supervisor christensen and i have had many discussions about making sure that our communities all over the city but particularly those that maybe immigrant and low income communities like chinatown and mission and other areas of the city get attention when it comes to education, and preparation to withstand and survive successfully an earthquake.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm very fortunate and so are other agencies to have a department of building inspection leader in the name of tom huey that made sure the building fees results in education and preparation for people like families and seniors to be better prepared in a multi cultural way. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so we're now and then two specific grants today each for a hundred thousand dollars those

grants will be granted to c y c and to conduct the training workshops to have practices in sro's buildings to have finally communications with youth in our city with seniors and family anybody's not only to prepare but practice everything from cpr to having enough applies to making sure there are ways in which to contact family madam clerk, any other business before this committee? men's all with a goal of making sure that everybody survivors successfully after a major

earthquake. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> chinatown is particularly important to us because of the historically old buildings that people live in and the number of people that are condenses in this area we want to make sure you're all safe. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> thanks to the leadership of our rec and park we're here at a major center our for the square to make sure that the education

programs can be conducted safely deeply in different languages but also do so at the willie playgrounds where c y c community colleges their sessions between my sessions of playing ping-pong (laughter) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and again thanks to our leader and department of emergency here collaboration with our fire chief i want to especially thank her and her

staff makes sure we're stave during the 4th of july weekend and we were but we're also working outside find chinatown to prepare young people and seniors and their families to make sure they have all the training and preparation we must do this on occasion every if one or years people move out and forgot we have better technology to help us and better practices as we learn i want to thank everybody that joins us to make sure that everybody is safer and make sure we don't have the devastation but people that are well prepared school sites, parks, recreation centers, sro's our senior housing complexed our family housing collections and nonprofits all engaged in a very

good ongoing dialog to support each other that's why we will be a city that will survive the major earthquake. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so let me now introduce someone that is a fanatic and already shown herself to be a great supervisor not only working on this but helping to create a lot of senior housing we'll, make those announcement in the short weeks to create more housing opportunity for

chinatown and north beach but champion from the district let me introduce to you our supervisor julie christensen (clapping.) just. >> good morning. i think the best time is when we have leadership like our mayor ed lee and our department heads and they're working closely together with nonprofits like c y c and self-help for the elderly and the residents of the community to do good thing for chinatown in district 3 i'm excited bmw this program is a good example of the way city government worked with the nonprofits in the community and we all benefit but especially important that peep brarpt in this program they come to the train an earthquake will happen you know someday

there will be a occasion we'll need the information i want everybody in this room to be among those people that know what to do that have the supplies and the information they need not only so keeping you informed we know keep ourselves save but be helpful to our neighbors and friends in the community i'm encouraging everybody to participate as a volunteer and an advocate in the neighborhood before i was supervisor i was always asking the city for money and support please give me money for this park or street or for that project it is wonderful as a periphery now to be the giver of these things to the community so i'm very grateful to mayor ed lee and to my colleagues at the board for being so generous this year with chinatown we have money for the nonprofits, we have money for safety we're going to make kearny street

safer and our situations near lady shaw safe we have money to do do have money for the parks it is a good year for chinatown and district 3 with the budget i'd like to mention it is related to the earthquake safety program we have a project with the fire department and roof deck we'll put free smoke alarms in people's houses you only have to call - sorry.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> yeah, he get excited all that 234u78z very are a free smoke alarm call and basically contact and union contributes will put a free smoke alarm in our house to you and your neighbors will be safer please support in program and please give big thanks to the mayor and the c y c and self-help this is a great program (clapping)

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> first of all, i need to thank you supervisor christensen you know for coming to talk to you today first of all, i want to tell you a story regarding myself you you know a person that touched was prepare this is very important for earthquake i joined the city one day before city earthquake as a service as luke the united nations is a major u.n. loss of the tragedy but i do the training bra i join the city and

internet buildings but i helped the other departments how to internet and all those those i feel you know this is my duty to help you when there's a major event you need to do it yourselves that's why we put the fund for you know both like the mayor echo with the mayor said the young generation to help and then you know we don't want let me say people with respect and be treating as our angle to help out to reach out to make sure the public know how to prepare themselves during the major event but you know this program takes some time more an year with the

mayors and supervisors help my department willing to fund the education we'll do more our department efficiently to do outreach before i'd like to ask a person from c y c to come up and say a few words (clapping) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you

thank you tom especially for the department of building inspection to make this possible also especially to the leadership of mayor ed lee and sxhieshgsz and all the department heads to make that possible but c y c we're going to launch this in partnership with the rec and park to offer working groups on community festers and have a display at the clubhouse for seniors and residents and business owners to get more prepared for the big earthquake coming in the next thirty years thank you for all the support and the program to be the presenter and outreach to the owns and seniors and residents in chinatown in their own language chinese and interesting and others to reach out we

really hope the outreach is extended to the rest of the city thank you, mayor ed lee and others to make this possible.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you (clapping.) now i'd like to ask you know ann annie choung. >> mayor sxhieshgz may i announces everyday you're coming to the square clubhouse. >> (laughter) this morning i was kind of worried we captain david has been wonderful every time we have to do something major he sends the officers to gentle talk to the folks outside and there's a nice environment but thank you to rec and park i wish they were here to see how both sarah and i from the c y c have

been able to work siding with rec and park to bring this for the youth and residents in chinatown but today, i want on on behalf of the elderly on behalf of the self-help to ask our seniors today to give a big, big applause to mayor ed lee (clapping)

speeding i want to announce that as of july thanks to tom from dbi and mayor ed lee and supervisor christensen we sarah and myself are going to put on weekly education working groups so the idea starting on july 20th we'll have a class every monday in the afternoon and go around you know and sign up all of the residents and all of the merchant and i sometimes here nonprofits workers our city workers may not be living within walking distance to chinatown and so we really need all the residents no chinatown to be prepared and educated thank you to do police department and

department of emergency and rec and park to work on this project together thank you all (clapping.) >> okay. before i end the presentation also i would you know repeat again to people here the mayor that leads here a sxhieshgsz is here and the fire chief kings and the department of emergency and ann is here also bob that rec and park and, of course, everybody you know captain lazzaro is here and also i want to mention about. >> (repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. choung from david chiu office our supervisor is our senator and assemblyman

sorry and thanks to everybody coming to join us and stay over to go through a demonstration to see how to prepare yourselves for the next major event but this is not only earthquake we are aware of fire you know and other hopefully, you can enjoy and learn quite a bit from this thank you very much (clapping)you.

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the bloody marys in the airport are great shikz it up. and then we're going to garnish it with olives. and some lime and a fresh stalk of selly. right on. >> we like >> hello, i am with the recreation and parks department. we are featuring the romantic park location in your backyard. this is your chance to find your

heart in santa and cisco with someone special. -- san francisco with someone special. our first look out is here at buena vista park, a favorite with couples and dog walkers. both have a significant force. a refreshing retreat from urban life. the romantic past that meander up and down the park under pines and eucalyptus. hang out in this environment and you might see butterflies it, fennel, and then the lines. -- dandelions. is ada accessible.

public transit is plentiful. we have conquered the steps, we have watched the dogs, and we have enjoyed a beautiful view. this is a place to take someone special on a romantic stroll and enjoyed a beautiful look out. welcome to corona heights located in the heart of this district. it offers a view of the downtown skyline, the bay bridge, and the east bay. it is one of the best kept secrets in the city. it is hardly ever crowded. on any given day, you will run into a few locals. , bought a 37 bus to get there without any parking worries. for legged friends can run freely. there is also a patch of grass for the small box. >> it is a great place.

it is a wonderful place to have these kinds of parks. that dog owners appreciate it. >> take time to notice of the wildfires that are on the grassland and keep your head out on the lookout for hawks and other bird life. be sure to take your camera and be prepared to take a view of the city will not forget. it has a beautiful red rock formations. you could watch the sunrise over the bay. this is another one of our great lookouts. we are at mount davidson. 928 feet. this is the place for you to bring someone special. to not forget that dogs and enjoy all of the pathways and greenery that surrounds you.

it provides a peaceful oasis of open space and great hiking trails. the spectacular view offers a perfect place to watch the sunrise or sunset with someone you love. >> it is a good place to get away from the hectic life of the city. come up here and listen to nature, i get some fresh air. that view is fantastic. >> where sturdy shoes. hikers get the feeling of being in a rain forest. mount davidson is also a great place to escape the noise and the bustle of the city. take the 36 bus and it will drop you at the entrance. it is quite a hike to the top but the view is worth every step. this is the place to bring that

someone special. golden gate park's largest body of water is an enchanting place. is a popular spot for paddling around in boats, which can be rented. created in 1893, it was designed for these your boating -- for leisure boating. it is named for the wild strawberries that once flourished. there is also a waterfall, two bridges, and trails the climb to the summit, the highest point at more than four hundred feet. you can catch glimpses of the western side of the city that

make this hilltop a romantic look out. for public transit, i take the n train. the lad the ad -- lake is ada accessible. watch many ducks, swans, and siegel's. -- seagulls. it is a great place to stroll and sail away. many couples come here to take a ride around a lake, going under the bridges, passing the chinese pavilion and the waterfall. for a quiet getaway, making for a memorable and magical experience. located on 19th avenue, this growth is the place to where you're hiking boots, bring the

family and the dog because it has so much to offer you and your loved ones. it is a truly hidden gem in the city. the park is rich with eucalyptus trees. long paths allow you to meander, perfect for a dog walking in a wooded environment. >> i enjoy the history. the diversity of nature that exists in such an urban city, concrete streets, cars, we have this oasis of the natural environment. it reminds us of what the history was. >> there is a section for dogs and plenty of parking. transit is available on the 28 bus to get you very easily. the part is ada -- park is ada

accessible. it is also a natural lake. this is your chance to stroll around the lake and let the kids run free. it also has many birds to watch. it is a place to find and appreciate what you -- a wonderful breath of fresh air. come and experience in this park and enjoy the people, picnics, and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take a stroll with your loved ones. in the middle of pacific heights, on top of these hills, it offers a great square, a peaceful beauty, large trees and grass and greenery. it features tables and benches, a playground, restaurants, and

tennis courts. there are plenty of areas for football and picnics. it is very much a couple's park. there are many activities you can experience together. stroll on the pathways, bring your dog, or just picnic at one of the many tables and enjoy all that it has to offer together. many couples find this is a perfect park to throw down a blanket and soak up the sun. it is a majestic place that you can share with someone you chairs. lafayette park is also easily accessed from the 47, 49, and 90 buses. it is ada accessible. we are here at the historic palace of fine art in the marina

district. originally built for the 1950's exposition, the palace is situated on san francisco's number waterfront. it is ada accessible and is reached by the 28, 30, and 91 bus lines. set against the reflecting waters of the lagoon and eucalyptus trees, the palace is one of san francisco post most -- san francisco's most romantic spots to relax with that special someone while listening to the water and gazing at the swans. a beautiful to view from many locations along the mattoon, an ideal place to -- all -- lagoon, an ideal place to walk with a

loved one. reservations for weddings are available at sfrecpark.org. discarding contains plants referred to by william shakespeare's plays and poems. welcome to the shakespeare garden here in the famous golden gate park. located near the museum and the california academy of sciences, the garden was designed by the california spring blossom and wildfilower association. here is a truly enchanting and tranquil garden along a path behind a charming gate. this garden is the spot to woo your date. stroll around and appreciate its

unique setting. the gorgeous brick walkway and a brick wall, the stone benches, the rustic sundial. chaired the part -- share the bard's word hundred famous verses from a shakespearean plays. this is a gem to share with someone special. pack a picnic, find a bench, and enjoy the sunshine, and let the whimsical words of william shakespeare and floats you and your loved one away. this is one of the most popular wedding locations and is available for reservations. take a bus and have no parking worries. shakespeares' garden is ada accessible. located at the bottom of this hill, it is a secret garden with an infinite in captivating appeal.

carefully tucked away, it makes the top of our list for most intimate pyknic setting. avoid all taurus cars and hassles by taking a cable car. or the 30, 45, or 91 bus. the garden was designed by thomas church in 1957. grow old with me, the best is yet to be is inscribed on a sundial. it is anchored by twin white gazebos and flowers that bloom year-round. this is the place to tell someone special or the place to declare the commitment you two share. weddings and the event

reservations are available for this adorable hidden gem. we know there are many other romantic parks in san francisco. we hope you have enjoyed this torre of lookouts, picnics, and strolls that are available every day. until next time, do not forget to get out and play. for more information about reserving one of these romantic locations or any other location, call 831-5500. this number is best for special events, weddings, picnics, and the county fair buildings. or for any athletic field, call 831-5510. you can write us at --