their homes and a lot of people maybe lost a spouse or partner and can't afford to pay rent that's one of the main groups of people who have lost someone in their lives and case management wage increase is something the community advocated for we've talked about that the case management they've been unable to keep the case management because they tend to go to the city or hospitals they get better benefits we work hard to get the mayor who put that into his budget and the vinyl expansions came although the add back process and able to implement those with our 3 village programs we have

and then one of the other things shifted funding from the department of health for the housing site program that is a program that was really feeding the community living fund and providing housing for people who needed it in the community but something that was administrative code by the department of health and did have access the department of health when they moved their housing and homeless programs over to the new department of homelessness they decided that they would give us a scattered site and it's fits with dos internally 32 new positions were added in the dos budget i talked about the adult

protective services program and focused on the self-neglect for people that are reporting behavior and we have been able to start hiring that unit and had new ihss intact to address the in-home care services intact and have ihss social workers in our intact for the depression a good way to meet the skills of our staff go beyond the hours needed in ihss we've expanded our quality assurance staffing and added supervision for the in-home care transition preamble and also added support forever public conservator and i mentioned several times a new decoration

and those ta came from the add back process from the board of supervisors or is mayor's office. >> i have a question i was looking at you had staff reading the minutes or something so from the man says you've increased our staff in terms of. >> right. >> those are changes for - those things i'm mentioning we're doing in the current fiscal year. >> so - right. >> so, now the instruction not to add any new full-time employees right that's for next year we'll not be asking for new staff. >> when i mentioned way back when the mayor's office and the controller's office estimate the size gap between the revenues and side expenditures one of the things they're doing is

estimating the cost of annual listing - for us when we put a new position to fund it for half of the year or 3/4ths of the year and next year fund it as a full-time position they get into the budget and get more expensive in the second year but not considered new positions. >> commissioner loo. >> in the calculated budget our presenting to the commission will you be lining up where those positions are. >> i mean, we typically give us a break out of where positions are in the program i know we can if it is interesting to go over it we'll typically give you it in the back up.

>> okay. >> also when you present the next budget will it be compared with the actuals or compared to the budget for the current fiscal year because some - there will be normal listing - the expenses will appear to be going up that is an adjustment we normalize out so what about other money will we lost that how will that be handled. >> typically we don't lost one the phenomena that you marietta have noticed we often with we add new portions or new programming tend to under spend in the first year for example,

32 positions and we fund them at transpired for the first year we may not get them hired but other positions we'll post them and some of the people who look at getting hiring will be working for the department so one position to another position we may fill it october 1st but they're old position is vacant and go through the practice of filling that when we have growth and positions we tend to increase spend the personnel budget by the same token new programming that represents expenditures by community-based organizations we often get funding that is enough to fund a program for the full year

and yet we don't know that until maybe, maybe june 1st or maybe july 1st even if it comes back to add backs and through the procurement process we're well into the portfolio two items we're interested in we'll get into contracts before the end of the year. >> carrying forward money into the subsequent year because we'll be starting relatively late in the year so you know - so i'm not sure typically what we do in the presentation we do budget to budget comparisons i think that this is not absolutely a correct observation in the first fiscal year we tend to increase spend with the community-based organizations. >> there maybe other programs where the budget overestimated

was it might cost do we look at that in terms of budgets are not closing the books in advance but an estimate maybe overestimated certainly costs i'm wondering how we factored that in particular significant costs not to mention the cost of federal money how we'll see that open february 15th. >> i will talk with our budget and forecasting staff to see if if there is a good way to pull that information together in a way that is detailed enough to understand what is going on and not absolutely. >> thank you. >> so i wanted to talk about the dignity fund and as everyone knows we're in the process of looking at implementation of the dignity fund and with an of the things that is written into the - there's a

couple of things one there is the legislation requires that there be an oversight advisory committee and that i think the commission has two slots on the advisory committee the advisory council as 3 in-home care and at the mayor himself has 3 slots so i believe that all of the bodies have appointed those folks that will be on the oversight advisory committee and the mayor yesterday made his announcement about the 3 people he's chosen on the advisory committee so i think that melissa ma dbe heading up the operation is pulling together the advisory committee and trying to find a date right now for the first meeting which is great we been hoping to be able to get that group together that group is

really going to be providing some advise are brown both to me and well - to me so i can make good decisions around making a proposal to the mayor and the board on how we spend the dignity fund money we have a pretty i guess aggressive timeline may not seem aggressive if you don't work in governor but if you do we're looking at an allocation plan by mid march we can get to the mayor's office and the board and so that's just for this year i think one of the things i want to say before that this year it goes back to one of the questions that commissioner president james asked and 09 people have asked me we need to have to put together a robust needs assessment and survey process gap analysis process but that's probably going to be in the next year right now we want to get the money out the

door that are people that need the people that need services we have wait listed in areas and new programming out the door we want to do that we have $6 million in the first year to be - to allocate for services we know are very important that's going to be the first task how we allocate those fund and start getting the rfp process going and our hope to get the money out the door by november and you know that's just the reality of our processes are there that it takes time we have to decide house to allocate our staff has to put together the requests for proposals and panelist and readers you know we have to bring everything to the commission and ultimately have to have contracts signed and the city attorney has to read them all that stuff if we get them

out by november that will be fantastic. >> is center a roster for the panelists. >> we got the names from the mayor's office yesterday and so melissa will get it out we'll send it to brigitte to the commissioners the second thing - one of the things the psych e advisory committee will get oriented to the process and then will be a group we'll be working to figure out how our ongoing process is and the outside advisory committee will be active 0 how - do we need to have consultants what kind of information and the

overall process there's more work to do and the committee about come back through the two commissioners that will be representing on the committee be able to come back and report and i'll report back on the dos side of that is look for that we'll have if commissioner president james agreed a standing line item our agenda we can report where that is so to support the planning will be also redeveloped internal capacities and hope to continue it we'll talk about that and what that looks like in the february 15th meeting and then we have money in the current budget to pay for surveys and focus groups we'll be figuring out how to get that money out

and we'll be working with the advisory committee to have the assessment i mentioned and develop an ongoing allocation plan those will be happening over the next two years so we're going to kickoff the circle but in the meanwhile we'll take care of the first year in getting the money out the door it is exciting to have money when everything dan talked about was bleak but it is really exciting to have the money and we'll be able to provide new services for people that's it for me. >> the last item that the schedule and as you may know we'll be back in a couple of weeks and present our recommendations and then we will be submitting our budget the week after february 21st and then also as you may know there is a period of discussion or negotiation,

however, you wanted to talk about it within the administration to get from our proposal to the mayors proposed budget like i said, one the things that will play what is happening at the state level especially with regards to the ihss program but possibly with regard to a number of another issues. >> one of the things we should be thinking about there has an, an increased number of set aside worthwhile programs if we are entering a period of declining revenues that means did general fund will get smaller fire and public works depends on those

services there maybe reductions in general fund money we need to be prepared for because this is not the pie is getting smaller and the demands have not declined it is probably premature but the mayor will is to make tough choices the general fund can't grow there the scenario you've heard. >> it is absolutely right and i think that note such the mayor but the people within the mayor's office and the controller's office have expressed that as a general concern with ceda set aside not to say that malcolm heinicke anyone is against any particular set aside but makes it tougher in a way that and terrible

phrase sorry i used that but, you know what i mean. >> and so set asides take big pieces off the table. >> i have two questions okay. >> the 32 positions is already in this current years budget but next year cut so we're cutting the positions or what you at a present time not our thought we will be cutting positions. >> okay. >> there's no money there you have to cut something somewhere somehow. >> well, there's money like i said, we work with a relatively large budget in total and relatively small cut at least

the $1.5 million in the scheme of things so you know so our revenues are not entirely static but certainly our budget staff has been spending a lot of time looking at the analysis of under spending in a number of places we are not thinking that we will need to propose the eliminates of public positions. >> okay. >> i also have a request i know the meeting is on the 1 can we have the bunch of package give us time to study this. >> okay. >> is there enough time?

>> commissioner i'm asking commissioner how much time at least one week. >> a week or so if possible. >> i'm sorry you like the friday before or the thursday. >> we'll certainly make that if we can get it earlier we will. >> it is a lot to digest i want to ask intelligent questions. >> i appreciate that. >> thank you. >> what i'm seeing i'm seeing a little bit unreadiness because all of us have commented about some additions we would like to see and i don't know are we ready

you want us to take action based on you're taking our input uh-huh. >> that we've given to you and bring it forgot any comments before i call for - >> commissioner president james i actually don't think you need to take action we put down possible action when we ask for action will be at the next meeting. >> okay. all right. there is a lot of comments we've made. >> i guess what i'm hearing most of the work associated with the comments we are really around commissioner vice president seriinas request on the actual budget numbers i think we can certainly do i don't think that will be a problem

so i think we will be able to complete that in time to allow brigitte to keep her schedule and review materials before the meeting. >> this is time for public comment i need to call for public comment. any public comment on this budget at this time? any public comment on this budget at this time? hearing none, >> thank you, dan for the presentation. >> okay. >> shall i call the question? >> ask for any announcements. >> any announcements? hearing none, any announcements hearing none, i'll entertain a motion to adjourn >> so moved. >> it is there is a motion that has been seconded that we adjourn

>> we think over 50 thousand permanent residents in san francisco eligible for citizenship by lack information and resources so really the project is not about citizenship but really academy our immigrant community. >> making sure they're a part of what we do in san francisco

the san francisco pathway to citizenship initiative a unique part of just between the city and then our 5 local foundations and community safe organizations and it really is an effort to get as many of the legal permanent residents in the san francisco since 2013 we started reaching the san francisco bay area residents and 10 thousand people into through 22 working groups and actually completed 5 thousand applications for citizenship our cause the real low income to moderate income resident in san francisco and the bayview sometimes the workshops are said attend by poem if san mateo and from sacking.

>> we think over restraining order thousand legal permanent residents in san francisco that are eligible for citizenship but totally lack information and they don't have trained professionals culturally appropriate with an audience you're working with one time of providing services with pro bono lawyers and trained professionals to find out whether your eligible the first station and go through a purview list of questions to see if they have met the 56 year residents arrangement or they're a u.s. citizenship they once they get through the screening they go to legal communication to see lawyers to check am i eligible

to be a citizen we send them to station 3 that's when they sit down with experienced advertising to fill out the 4 hundred naturalization form and then to final review and at the end he helps them with the check out station and send them a packet to fill and wait a month to 6 weeks to be invited in for an oral examine and if they pass two or three a months maximum get sworn in and become a citizen every single working groups we have a learning how to vote i mean there are tons of community resources we go for citizenship prep classes and have agencies it stays on site and this is

filing out forms for people that are eligible so not just about your 22 page form but other community services and benefits there's an economic and safety public benefit if we nationalize all people to be a citizen with the network no objection over $3 million in income for those but more importantly the city saves money $86 million by reducing the benefit costs. >> thank you. >> i've been here a loventh i

already feel like an american citizen not felt it motorbike that needs to happen for good. >> one day - i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, for liberty and justice for all. >> you're welcome. >> (singing). >> (clapping.) >> introduce the san francisco field officer director ribbon that will mirror the oath raise your hand and repeat the oath

i hereby declare on oath repeating. >> citizens cry when they become citizenship to study this difficult examine and after two trials they come back i'm an american now we're proud of that purpose of evasion so help me god please help me welcome seven hundred and 50 americans. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> she wants to be part of the country and vote so much puppy. >> you know excited and as i said it is a long process i

think that needs to be finally recognized to be integrated that is basically, the type of that i see myself being part of. >> out of everybody on tv and the news he felt that is necessary to be part of community in that way i can do so many things but my voice wouldn't count as it counts now. >> it's everybody i hoped for a bunch of opportunities demographics and as you can see yourself there's a good life for

everyone. >> that's why. >> you have people from all the walks that life and they're standing in water 8 hours to be an american citizen and contribute to the city and that's really what makes this worthwhile. >> ♪ ♪

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edition of building san francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪ >> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department of emergency management. hi, alicia thanks to coming >> it is a pleasure to be here with you. >> i wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in san francisco. >> well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to

know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. >> how long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in san francisco. >> it depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. >> what kind of neighborhood and community involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. >> it is important to have a good relationship with your neighbors and your community. go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. it is important to have a

battery-operated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the community around and how you can communicate with other people. >> one of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. >> yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely. so a title to a home, a passport, a driver's license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any vital information on your computer. back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. >> in your home you should be prepared as well. >> absolutely. >> let's take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. >> we have no water, what are we going to do about water? >> it is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis,

both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. >> we have this big container and also in people's homes they have a hot water heater. >> absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for showering, drinking and bathing as well >> what other things do people need to have aren't their home. >> it is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. >> here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. and this, a manual can opener, your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. >> yes. >> so in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. >> having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be

working right away. it is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. >> and here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. >> i hope that you have an alternative one at home. >> oh, i forgot. >> and in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. >> i have them right here. >> good. excellent. that is great. additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. >> i am okay and i will meet you at... >> exactly. exactly. water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. >> we have matches here. and my spare glasses. >> and your spare glasses.

>> if you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. if it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. >> inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. >> very important. >> we have a little first aid kit. >> and lots of different kinds of batteries. and another spare flashlight. >> so, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we don't have damage? >> one of the most important things that you can do is to secure your valuable and breakable items. make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. becoming prepared is not that difficult. taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra every-day items on hand helps to make the difference. >> that contributes

dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >> if you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building

the staff members on the subject should state to the commissioners what is being done. you don't have to come here like the previous gentleman suggesting things but then, nothing is done about it. water is precious. and we just take it for granted in san francisco because we stole the water from different people we don't respect them at all. we don't even have them in some way even though we brought them here at one time and they

promised to have them, nobody has reached out to them. they just take it for granted that okay that water comes so we use it for all her buildings, skyscrapers and everything. and yet, in a very general where we will talk about climate change, conservation and the footprint on not taking any concrete action in an unimaginable way to address a waste of water including our hydrant and huge pipes break. we need to capture that data so that we may have a dialogue that's gonna be a hearing. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comments? thank you, and we will move on to communications, this is the commissioners?

any comments or questions? we have no public comment to communications. all right. next item is other commission business. >> the last time we spoke, i talked a little bit about some of our concerns related to the community workforce, development approaches in the private and public sector and we believed at the time that given the fact the larger-all the unions were going to be negotiating contracts. the good news is that those contracts have in fact all been tentatively agreed to and it looks like there's going to be a rollover, the bad news is that we won't be afforded an opportunity as an agency or organization to kind of flesh this thing out. i have been, a little bit

focused on the workforce piece. it's both a bottom-up and down approach. i'm kind of looking forward to having some dialogue and we are asking that once again look at that piece have those combo stations and lead the way on that. a lot of those departments that are not engaging this in this way, the fact of the matter is the workforce piece isn't always a critical piece and that does not intend to put anybody off and i have begun to believe and it's not a critical piece that we do. it requires a little bit more engagement in them looking forward to having some conversation with staff. just before a presentation and not a full hearing.

just to look at some reasonable expectation. i hope that we can look at that in the next couple of months. bama sounds reasonable to me. and we can work with staff to make that happen. any other commission business. okay, say none. report of the general manager. >> good afternoon first, i wanted to give an update that is not listed on this of the stores that we have receiving. it's good for water for business, but it's been quite challenging on the waterway system. i want tommy to come up and give you an update on what we are doing and the challenges that we been fell act-- the challenges that we been facing during the storms.

>> please put up the screen. good afternoon commissioners. >> good afternoon. >> thank you. i am tommy sisson a general manager for wastewater. i gave you a update two weeks ago, if you remember we've had quite a few bit of rain. this is a ring amount, basically every single day with few breaks in between. what we have done, we have increased our rain and these are just the facts, since the last time i was here were average around 10-15 every day and we hope that it continues to grow until we get up to the 25,000

that we need. we delivered more sent back to the people 132 banks went out, on the last storm. we have deployed twice this month the last one was on friday the 20th in a just and it this morning with the removal this morning. i want to talk about the storm that really had us. our folks have come really adapted and just when we start to think that were good about predicting the weather, we got thrown a curveball last thursday night. our system is set up we have deployment thresholds that we do, we look at the updates by the hour for staffing purposes. our staffing purpose are deployed at. 753 quarters of an inch from the area we deployment. we put more staff out in the field.

that is just not but other departments help i department of public works, crews clear and remove debris to ensure that everything is clear. approximately half hour on thursday night david and wake you up, a lot of people were woken up it came in between 3:45 in the morning of the 20th, friday until around 4:00 p.m. friday. it was a five-minute. or certain part of the city got a 80 or 90 storm. i brought a little video just to show you what actually happens. this is taken from a security camera. if you guys want to start that, commissioners? >> i saw this earlier today and

it's very spectacular. we will not be able to see it on our screen. but we do have a good angle on the tv screens and if you can't try to move to get a good angle to see this. >> this is 15th st. we have a catch basin here and this is taken from a security camera of one of the residents. this is a 20 minute video and i'm going to speak through. you can see the stop sign here, the writing on the ground is very clearly and you can see the water, the catch basin still draining. coming down the road and it's rushing there was lightning right there.

the waters coming. the catch basin still training, the staff put up these barriers on sandbags to keep vehicles off these catch bass so they continue to drain. moving up a little bit. you can see the writing on the ground is gone now, it's flighted all the way across this intersection. in the water still coming. we three minutes in the video. at 5:12 this is what it looks like. look there comes a garbage can right here. there was a lot of residence out there and they said that it was literally happened in around five minutes. a wall of water came down and came across the street. you can see that the catch base is doing what it should do but it's overwhelming. you can see the flooding here continue to happen. again worth a ten minute mark, basically it stopped off and raining.

now were at the 11 minute mark. look at the catch right here. it is still doing its job but it's overwhelming. it's like putting a jug of water through a straw. moving forward, this is one of the neighbors here. you can see the catch base is so bright-- draining but it's overwhelming. we wanted to show you how quickly it happens and how quickly goes away. by the end of 20 minutes it's gone. i do not know if you stop these catch bases but it's clear in them just the same. love right now we can start seeing the writing on the ground. the sky is no longer bringing down rain and were into 60 minutes of the video. now, everything is clear. there's not much left. all the street is clear and the

catch basin still doing its thing. we can see that it's totally clear. what's more impressive to me is that it's hard to see it on the tv screen. the catch base, and you can see it. you know that there is capacity. you know that the catch base is working. as it was it was designed to work. you know it's not clogged up either. the system is working as it's designed but it's overwhelmed. what use on the street, basically rainwater. >> there was some damage, three

garage is flooded in this area. we also had some flooding over at kai you got and we had plating at 17 and fulsome. it did not meet the threshold for us to launch the barriers, we did get caught in the storm. we launch them on friday and we didn't take him down until this morning. >> what about this area here? >> yes, our response, we saw what happened. staff went out there first thing in the morning and by the way, before the storm came, our communications and emails out to these neighborhoods. these four primary areas.

this low-lying area as well, they send out the emails in the morning. that there is a storm and it's coming and to be aware. in the morning, the following morning, claims from the city attorney's office was out there and we began our clean up right away to make this right and restoration has artie begun this morning. >> where are we with this long-term solution? >> first of all, as we talk to you there is different areas performing different storms. i think were showing you today is that it's going to be very difficult to manage flash eve s events, but we are looking at increasing the capacity and the cost with that.

we have already identified some projects and i think our plan is to come back to you in a couple of months where, we will identify some alternatives so that people can kind of see the cost of some of these solutions. we have short-term solutions and long-term solutions. we been working on some short-term and we will give an update of where they are. but also with the long-term solutions and will give you an update of where they are. we have been working with those in the neighborhoods, i think the challenge that i'm seeing is that as we collect more data is that it's really hard to predict. with regards to what type of storm that's been a happen but also the types of storms we been seen.

it's like ocean beach for example, we are trying to beat mother nature. this is really hard. so, working a look at the same approach whatever we built up there the storm may be larger and we have to look a holistic way or a more permanent solution. this is what we hope to bring to the commission. >> this is about the flooding for the whole area? >> yes. were hoping that also pays for it all. >> thank you tommy. >> that was a quick update. since we're talking about flooding the next one is trout. we may have to rename this.

>> yes or general manager for water department. this is a drought update. this is a bit of a misnomer. first, i always show the reservoirs and as you can see were close to full, water bank is full, they all have a lot of water and the interest he won is this reservoir here. it's a 54,000 acre-feet our current level of restriction of the division and safety and am is about 33,000 acre-feet. we have more water than were supposed to because we have had water come in such a rage. the gauge on the arroyo hondo in the reservoir sunday before last was the highest we have ever read there. about 70 cubic for second that was a lot of water coming in. this is been filling up and we have been treating water out of

this area to move it out. in addition, we have been releasing this valve here which is a protector valve that we use to evacuate that reservoir. 250 cubic per second. we just reconfigured this valve and we did this in december and i'm glad we did because now we can use this valve. we headed up to 500 ft. per second, twice the flow we currently have it shut off because of the emergency work at alum maddie --alameda county is doing. there was account --car that when in that area and they still haven't found the driver. so once that is cleared up we will begin and bring it up to

around 750 ft. per second. we need to get that elevation down. it has caused some problems for contractor and we want to avoid that. we also want to avoid another start coming in and making that even worse. so were getting it out as fast as we can right now. just a quick slide on the reservoirs around the state. they are all well above average this time of year except for this one here. it's a little bit below. but other rise reservoirs are very weathered around the state. this is our our cumulative participation slight. the dotted line is 1983, the red line is this year. for the last three weeks we have been above the wettest year in our record. it's supposed to be dry about the next week but they --the risk at storms for neck wednesday. this is been a very wet year.

i almost thought about making this a one slide presentation based on this slide here. the black line shows the peak of the hundred percent snowpack on april 1st and you can see were above that already at the end of january. that is far more snow that we've seen in the last 4 or 5 years. not only do we have a lot of precipitation, but we have a lot of snow now as well. this is a barrier. water available to the city is already at 640 acre-feet. this is a kind of year where there's plenty of water to take, philip our bags are was of war and have a good year for water supply. this is the upcountry participation --purchased the

precipitation for january. we are already up the average at this point. on the bay area side were about double precipitation in january and were not quite at having for the year-to-date total so far. and last but not least, currently deliveries for customers are tracking last year so folks are continue to conserve. the fact that they're so much precipitation i kind of doubt that anyone is water anything right now. yes, this may be retitled flood update, i hope not. we are looking good. last time the state water board was having a workshop on drou t drought, they're going to continue their existing drought until the middle of may.

whatever they do, i don't think it's can make a difference because we have plenty of water. currently were not wasting water so, i don't see them doing anything that will affect our water management in the context of drought. i will take this opportunity to a goal what peter said, we have a meeting with the water stewards and environmental groups on february 10th. this is a friday. this, to go over in detail. so i look for to that discussion and i'll be happy to answer any question about the drought update. >> i have a question. the participant --precipitation side. the wettest day in record was --year was 83 and the driest? >> 1977.

you see this brownish-maroon area. >> and 2016 was dry but more precipitation? >> 2016 is a yellow line it was above average. when was the first year that this recording started? >> we go back around 90 year so it's around 1920 give or take. >> thank you. >> it makes one have more storage. thank you. >> on the next item we have the 2018 water and sewer-- >> i am sorry do we have any public comment on that. thank you. go ahead. >> the next item in 2018 water and sewer rates study update.

>> i'm eric sandler. i have a presentation you've heard about flood and drought. so i have when i love this-- just a joke. >> let me please have the slides. i have a brief presentation it's basic an update on her 2018 setting. we are going to be talking ab t about, to provide you some context and some updates on some key task. what our goals are, some of this you're familiar with because i printed out prior to this presentation. and share some of the discussion and consideration for the proposed action with regards to the charge.

just remind everybody that city charter requires us to do an independent cost of service study for each unit. every five years. that is what were doing for water and sewer. the last time you sit rate for water and sewer was july 1, 2014. effective july 1, 2014, and that ran through physical year 18. the rates of were talking addressing in the study that were currently undertaking this fiscal year 19. effective july 1, 2019. we got started early because were ambitious. just to arrive --remind you what the key task are. i look at it at three levels the first one has to do with how much revenue you want to collect from your charges. that determined by your operating expenses, expect pictures and everything that

covered policies like reserves how much of a capital plan you want to finance with cash and/or debt. that has to do with the revenue requirements. also how much you want to recover from rates and charges it's a cost study. this, looks at how your customers and their use the characteristic structure cost so you can allocate costs fairly to different customers. and finally, rate design. how do you structure the rate and charges to recover the cars --cost of services. you have a fixed charge, tears in your rates those are the kind of things that we talk when we talk about rate design. the next light is briefly talks about what we talk about with rates study and structure. the policy and consideration that we look at one of the things that we can wait and consider.

here is a summary categorize, we look at customer equity, affordability, how is he it is to understand the rate structure is, we look doesn't recover civic --cost for the enterprise. are those costs recouped in a good way are they variable, are they simple to implement do we achieve our objectives. these are the lenses to which we look and evaluate any rate discussion or consideration of rate. i'm in a talk a little bit about, we seen this line before but i thought i'd give an update on some of the work. not all of this is within the scope of the right and cost of service study, it all feeds into the work of setting rates and charges.

the things that we made is a lot of progress and we engage with their financial advisor miss road to send a very good study with regards to various financial policies. will become before the commission before the months and talk about the policies like reserves, debt service coverage, capital financing policy and dep management. you'll be hearing from us as a result of that survey and evaluations over existing policies and recommendations for changes. this, is how much money you need to collect. the next area wastewater structure. we've had a lot of time looking at the creation of storm water charge. this is where i'm going to spend the rest of the presentation talking about.

we got the scope together with the consultant and the updates in our string charges. basically, we charge for storm water best on flow so this is a water that you return to the way system but also based on the strength of your discharge. it doesn't have a lot of grease, organic matter so we are updating this and it's a big undertaking. this is very important for conducting cost of service study and making sure that were operably charging our customers. that work is kicking off on the affordability front, we have a good scope of work that one of our city hall fellows is working on and looking at how her rates and charges a picture low income customers. where they live, how can we design better programs for them.

and finally, some other areas that we will be getting on a little further down the line in the rate study. which are fixed variable, do we want to consider other rates so that we don't find ourselves in the situation that we have been in the several years. asking for reduction and affecting the financials because of that. i wanted to give you a little bit of background of all of the work that has been happening with respect to the stormwater chart. this is worth's kickoff with the consultants and you might want to consider thinking about a storm water charge. the staff has been plugging away over the last couple years throughout the country. we've done a gis analysis of san francisco to try to map partial

data to storm water data. we've done a cleanup of our service data with model definitely. developed implementation budget and plan for storm water charge which is not an insufficient get the effort. is probably more significant change that we've had in a very long time. in conclusion of this effort, we had one of the ways were governed this rate study little differently, we have a formal steering committee made up of executive staff. we had a meeting where we discuss all the stormwater related meetings --issues

proposal and ideas. we looked at rebuilt and impact strategies, we look at implementation costs and complexity and then, one of the policy goals and how well the charges go with it. this is what the staff and see committee is recommending and the path were to be moving forward with the commission. we wanted to tell you about that. were looking at a phase approach and the idea is that, because this is a dramatic change in how we will be charging, charging our customers it's a pretty significant change requires education. it will have some impact on some customers we want a lot of to be able to mitigate some of those charges ahead of time.

the approach that were talking to is a ploy and develop and then develop and deploy which is a charge. were talking about in the next rate package is to bring in new customers, there is a certain group of customers who currently don't recover any recross and their customers that currently receive water service. bacon lots, parking lots and we want to release a grant program for this and be fully impacted by a storm water charge. lots, want to release a grant program for this and be fully impacted by a storm water charge. lots, want to release a grant program for this and be fully impacted by a storm water charge. lots, want to release a grant program for this and be fully impacted by a storm water charge. lots, t to release a grant program for this and be fully impacted by a storm water charge. lots, parki to release a grant program for this and be fully impacted by a storm water charge.p lots, parkt to release a grant program for

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related, that were going to be conducting and bring for you over the next year and a half as well. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. commissioners? >> thank you. looks like there's been a lot of work and i am eager to see it move quickly. i thought there was a lot lost opportunities with some of the lots that we see and specially with these rains that are coming. i appreciate that and just understand the idea that everyone's going to see in a pretty short print of time i don't know when. but storm water charge of their bill. >> they will be seeing a charge that they currently see on the bill. but there will be a breakdown of how much that relates to --two

storm water. >> that's gonna be sober and average? >> one of the things that we want to do is make sure that we introduce the concept in the next bill. a rate structure and really focus on the folks that are not receiving the bill and try to get them into the. have a bigger base. as we wrap up the stormwater, will make adjustments accordingly. how many people are they the portion of them? >> i think it's about 2000. >> why are they not getting bills? >> they don't get water service like parking lots. >> even though they don't receive water service to going to get a fee because the impervious surface that they have?

>> yes. >> and then you go through them and see what the nature of the businesses? is that tighter grant program? this will be some criteria for who will be eligible for grant? >> yes. >> what is some of the criteria? >> we have not developed one yet. we've been working on the funding mechanism. we want to really target the program for the folks that probably are the most impacted so that they can have a chance to mitigate some of the impact before the charge. >> so the timing of all this, if i may school it just say no one apply for a grant because i've seen on my bill with the stormwater fee is, right?

and i want to get some help with that, when would all this start to be able to happen? >> we propose-- the grant program as part of the next budget and repackage. they would have a four year. to be able to assess potential impact pursue a grant program, do improvements on their site before being impacted by that storm water charge. >> which within happen? >> in the four year rate package. >> four years from now? >> more like five. >> the people wouldn't get charged for the fees? until five years? >> what were talking about-- what are the options that were talking about is part of this next rate fee is to identify a portion of your court bill and

introduce the concept of storm water. we have been talking about how do you start education dean folks about manning the storm water. so we been having conversations of how do we do it how do we do this transition of where we are and introduce a stormwater and start with all the customers. >> online bill in my house, i will see separate line item? based on my property? which are repaid, actually. but that would introduce the y pay? i'm to try to understand. >> there is some indication on your bill of what percentage of what you're paying xhosa storm water. >> currently?

>> yes >> but i can have a choice say, that's a lot i'm going to tear my asphalt and put a-- >> we have not really talked about how were going to face it in. there is a lot of variables that we need to work through before we, that's why we want to come back and talk to you more of some of the options. >> will that be? next couple months? >> in term of which option? >> yeah, when-- >> let me talk with the general manager. >> yes. i would like to understand this a little bit better from a public perspective.

what this will look like and what my options might be. >> it's a tricky one. we get a little bit schizophrenic we want to roll it out as quick as we can and we want to do it quickly. on the other hand, sitting of change it can be a real surprise to some people that they have to pay for a service that they're not paying for. you have to somehow figure out how we can make it work. i look forward to hearing proposals. >> thank you for working on this. >> you're welcome. >> any other questions or comments? any public comments? been commissioners. this presentation should really take its impetus from the act.

i say this again and again. so, i tell you commissioners do not know what the regular act states he up to mediate. if you read it, some of the things like the charts that show is to show accountability. with the water, with the energy at one time public housing and electricity. now, nobody gets it for free. and nobody gets it for the subsidy, but we want to say something but there's nothing in place. we all kind like --you all have this kind of presentation just like happen that donald trump's

press conference. alternative facts which means nonsense. having said that, people are hurting in san francisco. this, over 100,000 families have left in the last eight years, we have a population of about 850,000. you have to factor this data to see like his left and why are we burdening them. in the past you've had propositions were we have stated to the taxpayers that they're going to address the clean water and we put the water side and

address a clean water and no one has taken responsibility. that was sent by the commissioners. you are just decided to stick with the clean item. so now we have close to a $9 billion program is going to go, deal with us, this sewer system and the project and were still going to tax the ratepayer. who do you think pays for those bonds? the ratepayer. but, are they looking at this incidence or they looking at them as bonds. this should stop. >> thank you. any other public comment? let's move on but before we do

that i just want to announce that my intention is to have a close session item at 4 o'clock this afternoon. as you recall the last meeting we ran out time and did not have the close session. i want to make sure that we don't do that again. are you going to close session at 4 o'clock and if there's any business that we have to that we will take care of that we come out of close session. thank you. i am assuming that that was the end of the general managers report? >> that is correct. >> good afternoon. at its meeting last week the board elected new leadership. l councilmember was elected as chair and barbara pierce was elected as a vice chair. we have initiated our budget

planning and actually processing we always begin our budget process with workplan looking at long-term challenges. i will plan to brief this commission on some highlighted issues that i think would be of interest to you. i think i'll be helpful. beyond that, i have nothing urgent to say i will not take up your time. with that any questions? >> we're always glad to hear from you. >> thank you. >> thank you. okay, fiscal the consent calendar. commissioner one of the things that we talk from time to time is instead of reading all the consent items because of their nature like her to have the material that we asked the

secretary simply to read the initial part of it without going through item by item and reading that. i would propose to do that if it ends up feeling that somehow we change yourself. we can always go back, so i made it give it a go. any objections? okay let's go. >> all of these are considered to be retained by the san francisco commission and will be acted upon by single vote of the commission. there will be no separate percussion unless a member request this in which event it will be removed from calendar and considered as a separate item. >> thank you. commissioners any items that you want removed? i would like to remove nine-a. any items from the public to be removed?

none, may have a motion from items nine-b. although he up to jay. >> i will second that. all those in favor. can you explain just what this policy is and what it is what the circumstances are please. >> i am michael general manager. what's before you is align the city to change the outline pipe on one of the reservoir tanks.

currently, the la pipe is six feet higher than the bottom of the tank. that is because in 1971 we make them reconfigure their outlet pipe. what this means is that basically they cannot fully join the tank so we leave about a day and a half of water that it takes a long time to maintain. we have been working with them over the past couple of years to reconfigure and siphon what comes in a tank. we thought the best way was to run in parallel to our 3-4 lines in our easement, this is what we have with the cigarette oak. will be working with engineering staff to better utilize all the water tanks, they come out of division iii. working through that solution we thought it was a good exception that we work with the staff there and that will solve everybody's needs. >> i am pretty jealous of her

right away. they're hard to get to. but they're really easy to go away and that there --that's a bad idea. the reason for the policy that we have, our policy states that we will approve areas. the reason the policy prohibits encroachments that are imperiled to the pipelined my understanding of that is at the were a couple of pounds of that one is that it's part of what a right away is therefore. not to interfere with that right away. in general. we don't do that. i understand the project they

were trying to do what i don't understand is why we think that placing this in the right away is a good idea? >> it's the engineering solution to make it all work. basically, we reconfigure those tanks in 1971 and this tank or reservoir has been in place since the 1930s. the more resilient and having more storage available on being able to service this tank in the future, we feel that this is the best solution. >> let's hold us over for a meeting. what i would like to see for this purpose, not so much interested in the other problems but i'm more interested in the right away problems. what i would like to see is basically what the right-of-way looks like, what's in it and

what potential other uses there are for it. and i like to see what were losing. we can do that off-line and come back in a meeting or whatever. >> sure. i will also need a discussion. mok. so item nine a will be contention to a future meeting. and it's been crescent that we call items 10 and 11 together. mme. sec. ? >> item ten is public hearing possible action to improve change and to administrative procedures. this of water and water capacity resulting from theit