talking about water conservation, makes them look pretty socially responsible. we need to have programs that do the same thing or a link that if you're part of the puc family, here's the various things that you get, i think there's a lot of opportunities there. >> i think the biggest challenge is that as we talked about is each one of these accounts are still a pg&e customer, they get the bill from pg&e and we have a little line on their bill, so i don't know if they will be too receptive of putting our literature in their bill about that and maybe we can ask about it, but the other thing is we do reach all the folks on our water and sewer bill, so we can look at ways of doing that, that way, and we need to invest, you know, as you may know, i have solar on my roof and i have to look at my solar provider to see

how the performance is and then i have to go to the pg&e bill to see how much i'm getting back and forth because they're not tied together, you know, it's just the nature that it's not from all system and they're not integrated so it will be something that you would look another your pg&e in the generation and we would have to provide information on our website or through our mailers on our waste water and water bill. >> and we should be able to get access to the billing data on our cca customers. >> yes. >> we'll have access to it. >> is it timely? >> okay. >> so, i would just say, yes, we'll have access to that information, there has been some challenges that the other cca's that are already operating have had with getting access to information and being able to do things that you have been talking

about with pg&e, that doesn't mean we'll try, and there are some state law requirements that make it mandatory to do -- communicate bill comparisons between the utility -- the investor owned utility and the community choice aggregate tor, so we will absolutely try to work with them, but then there is also the state law requirement that they'll have to produce a bill comparison, an annual bill comparison or excuse me, an annual rate comparison for their customers. together with us, you're supposed to mutually prepare that and send it. >> my last comment is an overall one, that the first challenge that we have is the roll-out and how we accomplish that, but the customer care and marketing, i think it's going to be an ongoing obligation that we'll have, as we bring the budget forward, that's something

that if we're not appropriately staffed to really have a marketing and customer care program which is fully competitive with pg&e and fully serves the customer tos the same level they have grown to expect or better, we need to address that in the budget as well. >> right, i totally agree, i think that's our number one as i mentioned before, once we are able to get a customer, we have to keep the customer because the last thing i want to did is move to building more resources and i look behind me and all the customers left and went to the other side. it's not going help the program. >> right. >> and speaking about staff, i want to do my oscar moment, charles sheen as my power communications manager, amy st. clare, [inaudible] mike tota is over there as well, the cca team, my graphic designer, roy, and my mom and dad. >> [laughter]. >> that concludes it.

>> come back, ty. it was a wonderful presentation and a lot of good ideas. i do have some questions and some comments generally. i am having a problem understanding how we're going to define the difference between us and pg&e. in that, if you have 100% green and they have 100% green and if the difference isn't by price, how are we going the win those people over? >> and i think it really is going to have to be that grass roots emphasis which is why we're talking about that foundation and base and having that network talking to each other, that's the only way we're going to be successful, we're not going to out spend pg&e in term of marketing but the one thing we have is we are a public agency invested in caring about the public activity,

then investing back into public resources, that's a strong message to us, what we're receiving back or this program is being reinvested back into the community as far as jobs and local build-out, those types of attributes, we can say more than pg&e. >> probably more that we can say it, that's why we want to lead with affordabilities because when we talk about the green product, we can say ours is greener or costs the same or cheaper, but if someone chooses to go 100%, they can go with their supergreen or pg&e's product, so what we would say is affordable, also we can say the renewables that we have selected are within city, our local projects will be more local than pg&e, pg&e would be more on their territory,

that's what we can talk about the plans, this business plan that beear going to talk about, those are the two things, the good thing is that no matter if they go with our program is 100 or pg&e's 100%, i think the city is in a better place than the plan. >> well, that's the real reason, that's why we're doing this. >> yes. >> the other remark i wanted to make was regarding southeast. i think it's a great idea. the only stumbling block i see and then maybe because of your outreach, this wouldn't occur, but if it turns out that our automatic enrollment is the same price as pg&e's, i mean, the product is the same price, i think that a lot of people in southeast or any place for that matter would be pretty might halved that they were automatically put into a program and have

to opt out themselves, i think tla's the only danger with whatever area we start with, that's going to be the first [inaudible] wherever it is, and we have to be careful with this because you don't want to get people ticked off before you even start growing the program. >> i think one of the most important thing, it's not only the safe price, it's greener, so it's not -- >> i have a problem with that because if pg&e says theirs is greener than ours, who's to judge? >> so, on their basic green product -- >> they have a basic service. >> they have to declare the renewables, they have to declare, so it's not a mystery, and on ours, we have to declare ours, so ours will be greener than theirs and we will always make sure our basic product is going to be

greener than theirs, but on the 100%, you know, we have to really look at being more affordable, so that is where the -- that's why we're looking at what pg&e is proposing to the california puc because that's going the change our strategy a little bit, but you're absolutely right, it would be nice to be greener and cheaper because if it's cheaper and greener, who's going to argue unless you have great, strong feelings to being a pg&e customer, so i'm totally with you that affordability, if we can do that, that would be great, and also it would be great in the southeast sector where people can be greener at a cheaper rate. it would just be fantastic. >> yeah, i just don't want southeast to come back and say, they're doing it again to us, we're the guinea pigs and thanks a lot, we have to opt out now. >> duly noted. er >> so, we will obviously

know more when we get the pricing done. anyway, good job. >> thank you. >> i do have some speakers. eric brooks. >> god afternoon, commissioner, eric brooks, it's good to see you, i've been out for a couple of meet x here on behalf of san francisco clean power advocates, i first want to say that on the marketing thing that you just saw the presentation on, we're very excited about this idea of looking at district 10, saying, look, this is the most environmentally impacted neighborhood in the city, it's crucial that we put forward this program in a big way in that community first

z however, we have strong concerns about only doing in district 10 which is basically the plan right now is to solely do it in that district: that gives pg&e and other opponents the ability to specifically target the specific demographics that are in a specific area with a tax and they will roll out all kinds of clever attack, most of them will be false, so we think it makes a lot more sense to maybe do half of the automatic enrollments in d10 and half of them in the areas where polls show people are most excited about cleanpowersf and a green program so that you don't have all your eggs in one basket. as commissioner caen indicated, it could go bad on you under a pg&e ad assault, so we want to make sure we're being mindful about that and we're pretty concerned about that.

i was at a meeting yesterday where we heard this presentation about the marketing plan and it was not mentioned during that presentation that what we're hearing today about delay ins the program and that raises some major red flags. pg&e after marin started up, pg&e since the beginning has constantly been changing its rates and changing rate structures to play games with what marin can do -- competing with them on price. that is something that will be ongoing from the beginning that will never change. and as general manager kelly suggested, we can market 100% green to people by talking about the local benefits. the reason that we have and your staff wisely chose to have the light green program between 33 and 50% clean is that it gives us flexibility

in case pg&e does play games with the rates, so as we said at the very beginning of this process, when something similar was said by staff, we do not want you delaying, absolutely do not want you delaying your october approvals because of trying to make the perfect [inaudible] the good, by deciding, pg&e might do x, y, and z, and that's really not acceptable, and i wanted to make that clear. thank you. >> thank you. alright. >> jason freed, executive officer for lafco on the marketing plan, i think st staff put together a good marketing plan, you've already complimented them enough to try to address commissioner caen, one of your concerns. [inaudible].

so, those would be some of the things i would encourage you to do with that. as far as the timeline goes, you know, i always will encourage you to move as quickly as you can. i will drum that broken record, we do need to be cautious, i think there needs to figure out where that balance and i like the compare you two, commissioner moran, you're the one who wants to make sure everything is taken care of, as a

customer of the fcpur, and i think commissioner, you're willing to push it as fast as possible, if you pay attention to pg&e when they've networked, they seem to coincide with whatever you're working on creating this program, so the launch of their green tariff, i would not be shocked if it was around the same time whether we launched today or two years from now, that green tariff seems to be around the same time, i wouldn't worry as much about that, i think there are enough good way tos sell our product on the local side and on all the benefits we can provide tat local level. if we do get to that big scale build-out, we're talking about stable pricing you, ear not seeing really that competitive price today but five, ten years down the road as those projects mature more, as natural gas and as pg&e has to increase their own renewable load, their

prices go up, you would have locked in those build-out project, those prices would be firmed into a price, basic increases going on there, so i will yield to you at this time and come back to you on friday when we have our joint meeting to talk about some of these details as well. thank you. >> thank you, mr. decosta. >> commissioner, way back in 200 1, some [inaudible] would go to sacramento to see what it was all about, so morris campbell, michael boyd, lynn brown, paul sand, [inaudible] bloom field, these are a few people who initially gave a lot of input into what you are discussing today. now, it's very easy to talk about a business plan, but the real business plan has

to be vetted at all levels. so, you have to ask your staff if that is done. the last time around, we had some outrage and we had a joint meeting between you, the commission and the department of environment. we found out how some of your staff did the outreach with some buyers. you cannot mess with pg&e, as you know, every time when you go into your closed session and you're dealing with lawsuits brought by pg&e, you can tally how many of the lawsuits are won by pg&e and how many of the lawsuits are won by sfpuc. i have that empirical data, so i know where that

bafoonary stands, so what i'm saying is when we are dealing with whatever we are dealing and we have a business plan, let us not be foolish to leave the community out, and let us not be more foolish to speak on behalf of the community without giving them a voice. now, we all need to address the best product, what we have two advantage, and i'm talk b about sfpuc is not only land in san francisco but we have land elsewhere, and so we need to follow the direction of a nation like germany who's done so much in solar power by having the ability to produce and then we give our presentation, let's not talk about pg&e

and the overheadline that is you bring to energy, but we have to bear in mind the 400 megawatts we bring from pittsburg which you conveniently leave out. let us give the right information to the people of san francisco so that they can participate in this deliberations in a very truthful manner. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> any other comments from the public? your next item, general manager? >> the drought, steve ritchie. >> thank you, commissioners, steve khaoe, assistant general manager for watt e we'll go into the update of the current drought.

as usual, i'll show you the storage levels in our reservoirs which hetch hetchy is 78% of the capacity, that's coming down, as it normally does every year, so we're in good shape there, but it's a standard process, also the water bank has been steadily increasing in capacity, it's about 116 acre feed, we expect to get to about 173 thousand acre feed, so there's nothing that's changing about this picture, our system is performing as we expected to. the community precipitation, if you look really close at the red line, there was a tiny bump up, we did have a little precipitation just a cum of weeks ago, not much but obviously we're at the end of the water year and the excitement is all going to be ahead as to see what happen ins the coming water year. our total deliveries have continued to stay stable at about 200 million gallons per day, in full disclosure, if

you look close, you'll see the blue line looks a little different than it has in previous slides, we found an error in terms of how we were displaying it for 2014, it was higher than what we had displaying before, we were displaying it correctly last year when we were experiencing the comparison between the two was off because of a mathematical error, the message is the the same, folks are conserving well, and we haven't jumped above 200 mgd, that line has been essentially flat now for about the last three months. the net result i think is really a very important slide to see, we estimated that to meet our targets a year, we needed to save a billion dollar worldwideser we saved 11.4 billion gallon, we met the target for the year so far, we're going to continue

to save water, that's a great thing. folks have done an outstanding job of conserving both outside of san francisco and in san francisco. i showed yo awe slide similar to this last time we talked. it was for the three year running average periods of hot and dry and it was for california statewide, so i had our folks do some analysis and use hetch hetchy data and add in the fourth year through this water year, 2015 and not surprisingly for the hetch hetchy system, this last four years has been the hottest and driest four year period on record for our system. it is -- we are living in historic times here, i think you probably saw news reports that it was the lowest in many year, this is a deep drought and a hot one and the hot's important because that means plant usage of water

and the natural systems is up, this is a challenging time, no doubt about it. i showed this slide last time trying to show that at least historically, we have not really been able to correlate el nino currents here in the central coast area with precipitation, but i've got some slides to add to this now, last week, the national weather service has put out some new forecast data, i haven't shared slides that look like this because they're a little wonky, generally what they've shown is that white area is called equal chance, that means equal chance of greater than or less than normal precipitation and that's been sitting over the middle of california for the last year in their projections. what this shows is looking out to december, january and february, the green has moved north, basically they're looking at a between 55 and 70 percent chance of above

normal precipitation for the three month period from between december and february, if you look from january to march, it increases between 60 and 70 chance of above normal precipitation, does this mean it's going to rain? no. does it mean it's going the rain heavily? >> no. >> [inaudible] this is an actual change in what they're projecting at the national weather services, we won't go to the bank on this, it does give a certain amount of hope that we're going to see some precipitation above normal in the coming year. and then last but not least, i want today touch on the state water board regulatory actions. this last spring, they adopted various regulations for water conservation as they did also in 2014, those emergency conservation regulations are set to expire in february of 2016, so the state board has done some outreach talking to us and

other water agencies and non-profit organizations about what actions the state may take regarding potentially permanent regulations so they're trying to decide what they should do next, and there's a lot of con stern -- consternation in the swatted community that they're being aggressive on this. we're taking a wait and see attitude, a lot of the things they put in place are not hinging that are a challenge for us, we're going to take a look that the and see how that progresses over the next few weeks and make a comment on that. regarding diversion curtailments, we will continue to do those. any questions? >> something was announced the other day about the water rights, did that pertain to us at

here for the update on the program. can you bring up the slides, please. today i'm present a program and project specific update and i'm going the talk to you about where we are with the state resolveinging fund and [inaudible] projects are beginning to move into

design and we have several prompts ob the cutting edge going into construction at the southwest plant. this is how we feel it's going to be going. on the green infrastructure side, there's a lot of interest on how we're delivering these projects, this graphic just depicts right now we have sunset, we have holloway and mission valencia almost in construction, by mid to next year, we will have all of the projects in construction. then after that, we'll be hoping we get some of that wet weather that mr. ritchie describe sod we can monitor the performance and see how effective we are at removing stormwater from the system, we will be monitoring for a three year period after the projects are installed. right now, there's 68 projects that are moving forward, you can see this is a graphic i show at each quarterly report, the blue portion is getting bigger each time, more and more projects are going into design and our light blue

will be getting bigger too and our spending will be increasing. so, on a program status, i wanted to highlight, we go on a quarterly basis to the revenue bond oversight committee and i present what projects are doing, how we're forecasting, we gave them an update on state revolving fund work, we are developing rfp's for construction manager because we're going the need those construction managers in place to provide special inspection as we begin to move forward. we have initiated architectural design guidelines to other project that is are planned for o*ut east, we have consistent approaches on how we're handling the perimeter setback and is the like. we did have a board of supervisors presentation at the land use and transportation committee and i was accompanied by waste water urban watershed management program folk and is we talked to them about

urban water policy, the stormwater design guideline, how effective those have been and i gave them an update on the early water implementation programs, there's a lot of thought of where we're going to go with a green water, we were sandwiched with some items that had nothing to do with green infrastructure, so it was hard to be heard at that time. we are continuing our effort on flood resiliency, we're looking at this citywide to see what areas are going to be challenged with we have larger storms or even when we have our own design storm. that data was requested by general manager kelly and that will help to inform as to what projects we may move forward with in termser of flood resiliency. we did issue our annual report that went out this summer and it's online, you can check it out there, there's the link, it covers all of the accomplishments from the pascal dar year across the board, all the major things, all the heavy

lifting and the timeline, that's a nice document that staff pulled together. on the state revolving loan funds side, we're work witching the board and we're looking to obtain 1.5 billion dla*rs over the next five years, the highlight there is the interest rate, it's half of our ben bond obligation rate, it's [inaudible] and that is annually over the 30 year term, so it's a large amount of savings and it's really a wonderful thing and alexandra is here today in the audience sitting in and she's been steam rolling this, done a great job. we were designated as a frequent [inaudible] from the state and we have a capacity

of [inaudible] for the rest naufnlt some quick preconstruction highlight, the head works project, the head works is where all the flows converge to the plant and our challenge there is to make sure they come in but we manage the grit, that we pull the grit out tha,'s important to the success of our [inaudible] project, we're in the process of completing the conceptual engineering report, we issued an rfq which is a request for qualifications to pull on a project manager general contractor, and that was issued early september. the central bay side central improvement project is where you would have seen a red dot, commissioner caen, that was only dot in the sip report this time, we had the discussion about the size of that tunnel and where we

with want to move forward with that, we're studying that now, discussing it with the executive team and will be returning in the fall to bring that to you for decision. the biosolids project is moving rapidly, we are in the phase of completing the conceptual engineering report, environmental review is under way ask that will be complete by june, 2017. on the green infrastructure side, sunset boulevard greenway began construction in august, that as unique delivery, it's being design and had built by the department of public works, the job training program, holloway green streets is on your calendar today for approval for award, that will be our first project to receive state revolving loan funds, that is requested today. mission valencia, we expect that to start mid october, november, we had three

individuals go through our four section course for green infratrucker cheer training so we've had 25 companies represented and it's basically four module ins this training class, so it's quite a commitment when you go to that, but our plan is we're going to be certifying these contractors and there will be a precertification requirement when they do our future infrastructure work so that jobs will go smoothly as possible, on urban watershed assessment, they're the leaders in flood resiliency, as we bring all these questions and answers forward to you, we will be laying out our capital program on what we want to do on the green side as well as the flood control side. current projects wrapping up the digest tor roofs, we have 8 digesters currently operational, and numerous upcoming projects, that list will continue to grow. now i have an exciting slide

about local workforce, i'm going to have to read it because it has so many interesting pieces of information. as you know, we worked very hard to provide small business and job opportunities to san francisco residents and particular those from the southeast community, i want to give you a report from the ssip world, out of those 328 million dollars that have been awarded on ssip prime contracts, 112 million have been awarded to subs, nearly half of that amount or 48% have been awarded to local san francisco lbe's, so we've been doing a tremendous job. in addition, san francisco businesses have also served as prime contractors on five of the six projects that we have awarded to date, representing over 30 million dollars. local hire, a quick update, san francisco local hire ordinance requires percentage of workers on each of the projects be residents of san

francisco, so through 2015, the range is 20-30% depending on what date we're advertising, so through june, 2015, san francisco residents have worked more than 40% of all the hours on the ssip projects, exceeding the requirements. what this mean iss we have 120 san francisco residents who have worked on ssip projects earning a widened 2.5 million dollars in wages, out of those hours worked by residents of san francisco, the highest presentation was district 10 represents bayview hunter's point and [inaudible] valley, the mission, district 9. so, we have spent a lot of time listening to communities, working with the community and certainly appreciate all the public comment and we understand the urgency to pull in as many small businesses as possible, so as a response, we have really put our feet on the ground at our contractor's

assistance center in the bayview hunter's point community and that's where it's a meeting point for contractors to come in. we have hearings there, we have bid openings there, we recently had a call for action where we were talking to the community and the contractor community about the construction management opportunities na will be coming up and that was standing room only. so, we really try today make use of that venue to pull people in and have it be a place that contractors use. stakeholder engagement, the summer usually is slow but we were still quite busy because we're doing a lot of community meetings to talk about the flood water grant program that was approved at the commission. we also were lucky that our interns put on a beautify the bayview shar ret process, it was swooped by the ssip, they had the community come and they went door to door to make sure they had great

attendance and they developed concepts for how the communities could be beautified, looking at the southeast plan and the corridor around there. on august 21, our sewer rap video received a reward from the california association of sanitary west, thank you, and we were honored with an amazing glass trophy, you can see on the bottom, agm [inaudible] and abrams went down to receive that report, we had 47 thousand hits on the video now, that has taken us a long way, that's one of ways we try to reach people and make sewers sexy so that we keep up with our enterprise. >> sadly, the summer ended and we said good-bye to our 21 students would went back to high school or college and hopefully they will return

after their lives away from us next summer. that concludes my report. >> yes, you have a question? >> so, i just want to thank you for your report, and it is real exciting, but i wanted to make sure we place enough emphasis on the data points about local hire and about the wages going into the community because then the small businesses and the local businesses start to get a kick back for lack of a better world as a result of that, it's really impressive, the work that you're doing and tommy and laurie and i know harlan is all over this stuff, we had all those kings about local hire and underemployment and overemployment and i think it's really important to stress those points because that's getting it done, i'm just honored to be here and i would like to keep us talking about it.

i did send a communication out in the green infrastructure certification. i would like to know a little bit more about that. there's a big difference between those -- you know, we refer to those construction industry jobs, especially for the building trades as seasonal work, there's a big difference between those position and is those maintenance type of positions so i want to flush that out a little bit more when time permits. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, madam chair, any public comments? seeing none. the next item, please. >> item 9 is a bawsca update.

>> nicole sandkulla, i had two things i wanted to talk with you today, i did want to update you on water use characteristics in the s*frs area to give you a sense of what's going on and update you on discussions i had with my board about the tunnel. so, first, this was a slide we pulled together for the board last week, they are interested in what it means on a per capita basis, so this is a comparison of july, 2014 per capita data to the most recent yule data, we are in the misleading of a drought but it's a comparison of what the state board used those numbers to assign the targets so the reduction that we're seeing on a per capita basis is significant just as we were already in the misleading of -- middle of drought. . inger is that saying that hills pro didn't use any water?

>> i forgot to comment about that, i believe they had a data error, they submitted overall consumption data but not a per capita data as of when we pulled this off, so good catch. >> sea hills burrow on this, they're having great success this last month exceeding their target, in fact, all the agencies exceeded their targets, both in june and now also in july, so this graphic shows both those numbers, it shows the july number and then also the cumulative number, the cumulative number is in blue and the july number is in yellow, and their target is in green, and what we're seeing and what we expect to see which is they're exceeding their target in these summer mothers because we know it's the opportunity for them to do that, overall, their target is 15% from the state, so they're basically doubling that in july. and in fact this is the trend

that we've continued to see for the last several months, the 32%, 33% and 31% for those last three month and is we ant pate the august data to be coming out very shortly, so this is a really good picture but as we've been telling everybody, it doesn't mean to sit back and do nothing because in a service area like this where you have per capita that is low in the winter, it's hard to achieve a significant save rinsing the winter, this is exactly what we want to see. a different way of looking at it is if we were to -- the state says you have to save so much basically from june through the following february, we have a target savings, a volume savings for that overall period, if we were just to add up that's your savings target as a total volume and add up how much agency saved for june and july and created a percentage, that's what this graph is showing, as a group,

the agencies have akhao*efd over 57% of the total savings they have to achieve by february, so again, very, very significant with some agencies already exceeding their overall target, that would be north coast, and this really reps just the june and july data, essentially only 25% through the period of savings opportunities, so really seeing a response if you will in the community to the call and knowing that we're going to achieve the state target which is very good. so, that's what i have on the conservation data and the demand data. and i think it's a good picture. i did want to -- i also provided to the district secretary and you each have i think a copy of a statement i gave to my board last week. they wanted an update on mountain tunnel and to see where things were at. i was able to really provide them a description of the progress you've made and i

think there's been a lot of progress. you've adopted a schedule and a plan, parallel processes to deal with both increasing access to the tunnel, doing repair work and section and repair work and then also a potential bypass project if in fact that seems to be necessary following the inspections and those are a very good thing, and then i did call out from my board the one thing that we're continuing to work on is this question of in an unplanned outage beyond 90 days, is there more that can be done on the supply side to increase the

ww-490 with a non-compensable time extension of 60 consecutive calendar days and authorize the modification tos the contract. >> c, award contract number ww-579 in the amount of 849 thousand 750 to the lowest, qualified, responsible and responsive bidder, an vil builders. d, approve modification number 2 to contract number ww-592. erkts, approve contract

number ww-609r in the amount of 5 million 591 thousand 892 dollars. f, authorize a letter of agreement with the california water service company. >> did you want to take 10f off? >> [inaudible]. >> well, we'd have to take it off if you wanted to discuss it. >> i just wanted to let you know i was speaking in support of it, that's all. >> good. >> commissioners, any item to be taken off the consent calendar? >> i'll move approval. >> second. all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries. next item. >> item 11, authorize a memorandum of understanding between the treasure island development authority and the sfpuc regarding naval

station treasure island utility service by extending the term of the mou by one year to september 30, 2016. >> david carlin, if you have any questions? >> i'll move approval. >> second. >> further discussion? all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion karis. er >> item 12, amend the existing authorization for water enterprise revenue bond funding and authorize a reimbursement of associated project cost from the state financing proceeds, direct the general manager to submit to the board of supervisors a proposed ordinance. >> i'll move approval. >> second. >> any public comment on this item? all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries. >> would you read the items for closed session, please. >> item 15, existing litigation al le hand rena

versus the city and county of san francisco, 16, it's many cases. >> item 17, existing litigation, cal state construct tersest incorporated versus city of san francisco et al. item 18 z and items 19-25 will not be heard today. >> are there any public comments on the issues to be discussed in closed session? may i have a motion whether to assert? >> move to assert. >> second. >> all those if favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries. we are now going to go into >> we have reconvened into open session. the report from closed session is the following, item 15, settled, item 16, no action, item 17, settled.

and item 18, no action. 19-25 were not heard. may i have a motion to -- regarding whether to disclose? >> a motion not to disclose? >> second. >> all those in favor? >> aye. >> the motion karis. >> is there any other business today? i would like to announce that there will be a joint spucs laugh ko*e meeting september 25th at 1:30 the n the board chambers to discuss the cleanpowersf activities. this meeting is adjourned at 4:09. ( meeting is adjourned )..

>> a hi, i'm karen fry a project manager and sfpuc and the bureau of environmental management honestly i've not considered a public sector job i realized this was an opportunity to work on large capital projects from san francisco all the way to our hetch hetchy and the yosemite national park i work with engineers and city attorneys and scheduled and we all work tom nolan e together on the project. >> the excavations are in red we'll have the interference to go under the street.

>> my next project is the largest project in the water system improvement program this is the southeast plan that involved a lot of kworpthsdz with the community groups and public when 9 commissioners such the planning commission and the board of supervisors or this ftc commission they help us in city hall this is a beautiful building it really is the inner workers of the building you feel you're in the heart of government and it's exciting to government and it's exciting to be part of that

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>> i want to learn more about it. >> social networking and e-mail. >> i want to know how to use it. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> divisional divide is a divide between those with access to use digital tools and those who don't. >> with young people, having computers and i just don't know. they're doing it fast. so, i want to know. >> not knowing how to navigate

the internet or at a loss of what to do. >> we don't have a computer. >> we're a nonprofit that unites organizations and volunteers to transform lies through literacy. our big problem right now is the broadband opportunity program. a federally funded project through the department of aging. so, we're working in 26 locations. our volunteers are trained to be tutors and trainers, offering everything from basic classes all the way to genealogy and job search. >> to me computers, knowing how to use it. >> i think it's really important to everybody and possibly especially seniors to get enough of these skills to stay in touch. >> it's been fun. with seniors, to get them out of their homes. >> so they can connect with

their family members. or their family members. >> [speaking in spanish]. >> so, what we focus on is transferring skills from volunteer to learner to help them get onto facebook, find housing in crisis, be able to connect with friends and family. >> i decided to teach what i learn and it made me want to give back. i discovered that seniors do a lot of review. >> i am a beginner, so, little by little i learn. i learn a lot now.

>> if you get the basics, you can learn it. it's simple. it's easy. once you know it. and that's what i want to learn, how to make my life easier and more knowledgeable with the computer. >> so, what we need right now are more people who speak languages other than english or in addition to english who can give their time during the day and who care deeply ideally about helping to close the divide. >> it's a humbling experience. it's something simple to ask in our daily life, but to someone that doesn't know and to help somebody gain that experience in any way is awesome. >> [speaking in spanish].

>> no matter how tired or cranky or whatever i might feel, when i walk into this place i always walk out feeling great. >> if you feel comfortable using computers and you have patience, we want you on our team. >> would you show me how to type? >> [speaking in spanish]. >> will you help me learn mor week. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the san francisco. the reporter: has many opportunities to get out and placing play a 4 thousand acres of play rec and park has a place

win the high sincerely the place to remove user from the upper life and transform into one of mother nachdz place go into the rec and park camp mather located one hundred and 80 square miles from the bay bridge past the oakland bridge and on and on camp mather the city owned sierra nevada camping facility is outings outside the gate of yosemite park it dates back before the area became is a popular vacation it i sites it was home to indians who made the camp where the coral now stands

up and artifacts are found sometimes arrest this was the tree that the native people calm for the ac accordions that had a high food value the acorns were fatally off the trees in september but they would come up prosecute the foothills and were recipe the same as the people that came to camp camp is celebrating it's 90th year and the indians were up here for 4 thousand we see every day of them in the grinding rocks around the camp we have about 15 grinding sites in came so it was a major summer report area for the 92 hawks. >> through there are signs that

prosperity were in the area it was not until the early part of the century with the 76 began the construction of damn in helpfully a say mill was billed open the left hand of the math for the construction by which lake was used to float logs needed for the project at the same time the yosemite park and company used the other side of the camp to house tourists interesting in seeing the national park and the constructions of damn when the u son damn was completed many of the facilities were not needed then the city of san francisco donated the property it was named camp mather the first director it was named after him

tuesday morning away amongst the pine the giant sequoia is the giants inventories first name if our title is camp means there's going to be dirt and bugs and so long as you can get past that part this place it pretty awesome i see i see. >> with a little taste of freedom from the city life you can soak up the country life with swimming and volley ball and swimming and horseback

riding there you go buddy. >> we do offer and really good amount of programming and give a sample p of san francisco rec and park department has to offer hopefully we've been here 90 years my camp name is falcon i'm a recession he leader i've been leading the bill clinton and anarchy and have had sometimes arts and crafts a lot of our guests have been coming for many years and have almost glutin up, up here he

activity or children activity or parent activity here at camp mather you are experiencing as a family without having to get into a car and drive somewhere fill your day with with what can to back fun at the majestic life the essence of camp mather one thing a that's been interesting i think as it evolves there's no

representation here oh, there's no representation so all the adults are engine i you know disconnected so there's more connection the adults and parents are really friendly but i think in our modern culture i you know everyone's is used to be on their phones and people are eager to engagement and talk they don't have their social media so here they are at camp mather how are i doing. >> how are you doing it has over one hundred hundred cabins those rustic structures gives camp mather the old atmosphere that enhances the total wilderness experience and old woolen dressers and poaches and rug i do lay out people want

to decorate the front of thaifr their cabins and front poefrnz their living room is outside in this awesome environment they're not inviting their guests inside where the berms are people get creative with the latin-american and the bull frogs start the trees grow and camp mather is seen in a different light we're approaching dinner time in the construction of the hetch hetchy damn the yosemite park built jackson diane hauling hall to serve the guests it does was it dbe does best service s serve

the food. >> i'm the executive chef i served over 15 hundred meals a day for the camp mather folks breakfasts are pancakes and french toast and skranld eggs and hash brown's our meal formulate is we have roost lion it's reflecting of the audience we have people love our meals and love the idea they can pick up a meal and do worry about doing the dishes can have a great time at camp mather

after camp people indulge themselves everyone racks go in a place that's crisis that i air after the crackinging of a campfire a campfire. >> the evening is kept up with a tenant show a longed tradition it features music i tried this trick and - this talent show is famous for traditional things but we have new things ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

the first 7, 8, 9 being on stage and being embarrassed and doing random things >> unlike my anothers twinkling stars are an unforcible memory ♪ ♪ ♪ admission to camp mather is through a lottery it includes meals and camp programs remember all applicant registration on line into a lottery and have a rec and park department family account to register registration typically begins the first week of january and ends the first week in february this hey sierra oasis is a great place to enjoy lifeiest outside

of the hustle and bustle and kickback and enjoy and a half >> everything is so huge and beautiful. >> the children grew up her playing around and riding their bites e bicycles it's a great place to let the children see what's outside of the city common experience is a this unique camp when you get lost in the high sierra wilderness camp mather is waiting and we look forward to city manager's office you here soon

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to vote at your local polling place, in san francisco, the workers, that greet you, check the roster, and give you your boll lot, might a little young, like they could be in high school, this is part of the poll worker program, this provides, every election, with thoun poll workers, how did they become a poll workers, and what is it like being a poll worker as such a young age? let's meet some poll workers. >> hello, i have been a poll worker for about poll workers

for 13 years now. >> hello, this would bymy my 7th year now. >> my name is eddie, i'm 20, i'm a senior, i will be graduating this may. [music] >> students don't just show up on election day, they're recruited and trained by the department of election. [music] >> we visit to almost all san francisco high schools, talk to students, in government class, and talk to them about being a poll workers. >> students play an important part in poll workers in san francisco, we're going to hire about 1,000 this year, it's a great opportunity for them to learn about the democratic process, they also earn a stipend in work, and earn

credits. >> i was excited to see at my high school, to work for the department of elections, we can get extra credit for one of our classes. >> i was like, i need money, i want to do something for her, my city. >> i said, hey, why not, it might be cool, i have been an active community person. [music] >> it gives a real experience that takes the concepts i'm teaching in class, it's real life, it's not something that is just in a textbook, it's representative of democracy, and direct democracy, all in one day, for the students to interact with the public, it is complicated, there are problems you have to you know deal with these issues as they arise immediately, and come up with a resolution. >> it was really crazy, and

hectic, there were a lot of voters. >> it gives me experience with helping people and getting to know people, and how to treat people. >> being a poll workers, it's a cool way to see what life is about beyond school. [music] >> students must be 16 years of age, get permission from their parents and school, and have a 2.5 student gpa, to become a poll workers, they also have a two hour training session. >> i'm glad they had training, i had all my questions clarified, so i really prepare you for election day. >> san francisco is a multicultural, city, with many languages, spoken every day, more than 80% of the precincts.

>> i know spanish, i want to help them. >> in addition to english, they proviet student voters with spanish, japanese, vietnamese. >> it does look grade on a resume, they're interacting with the public, they're problem volume ving. >> you have to be responsible what you are doing, you got to work with a partner, team work, it's not just about me, it's about us. >> it's kind of a precareer experience, and it can open up doors later in the future to job tunts. >> you feel more connected to

our government for the participation in this program. i see the impact in my students work, i see it in their writing, in group discussions. >> i just really like the sense of going out there, doing something for the community and being part of the community, helping others voice their opinions, work as a student and be a part of their democratic process of san francisco. >> i feel that i did something for my community. >> when you are a high school poll workers, you are excused in class, you gain so much knowledge in skipping school, it's probably one of the best experience i had had, i'm glad i had it all throw high school. >> they recruit new student poll workers, through every election, for more information, go to sf elections.org. [music]