situation. so, what we're going to be doing is we're going to be building the new headworks right where the wet weather headworks is shown on this side. we're going to have to build a work around, we're going to build a by pass, wore going to have to build another pump station to maintain capacity and we can stay in permit complian compliance. ultimately, this is the red where now we'll be demolished our old headworks and the new headworks will be built in that same location. here is the new headworks. incredible ability to remove grit in all different flow regiments and we piloted this at full scale. for myself personally, i don't know how a.g.m. henderson feels but this is my least favorite part of the plant because it is

odor us. the odor will be sophisticated but it requires all of those facilities to be built and they're right where we're going to be removing the old head work and paramount is the grit removal. we'll build a new lift station and we will also be improving the bruce flynn pump station which is directly across evans so it will be very reliable because they're going to be really depending on that to work hard during this process. during our planning and discussion, originally this project had a lot of deep work that would come across evans and also it had davidson and we came up with other ways to engineer that because it was a lot of risk and a lot of cost and a lot of potential delays. we added in additional items. bar screens and electrical upgrades so we could count on

it. this adds nine months to the schedule and this is the total of the largest increase that is to the phase one portion of the treatment plant. i'd like 20 go to power. in the process of getting that going to build that. this is what that will look like. this is great for us because it truly is two independent supplies. jefferson martin supplies one and trance bait cable is supplying the other and the increase in cost is from 68.8 to

$84.3 million. it secure our pricing for the future. if i can go on to oceanside, none of the improvements are over $10 million. these are all relatively small. the one that i did want to highlight is hard to see with the person typing. was just an improvements to the oceanside digester reliability. we improved the power there too so that brian's folks would make sure everything was going to be able to be running. then if we can go to north point, the last treatment plant project to highlight is the north shore wet weather pump station. this project has a safings of $14.8 million. it has a schedule increase. this project was to provide redundancy for this critical pump station.

any pump station is one of our most critical assets. the original baseline scope involves building a deep pump station which would have been sandwiched in square one or square two are. it was going to be very, very difficult to build. i had high construct ability risk. we sat down with wastewater and we spent time talking about alternatives. and what we ended up with is a project that is actually going to be upgrading our existing pump station and meeting our redundancy needs. this resulted in a safings which was significant but it also resulted in us having to do redesign and that's why we had the schedule delay. now to collection systems they had no changes over all. still at $504 million. a lot of things have gotten done. we have e.i.p.s that have been

completed and a few more that are still coming along. we're starting the grant program. we have a lot of things that are still going to be happening in phase 1. but the majority of the rest of the work will end up being in phase 2. >> on the grant program? >> yes. >> are you going to be running that by us? >> yes, i know that we will be back -- definitely we'll be running it by you. i know we're coming back in a commission meeting or two with the monitoring of gren infrastructure but i'll talk to the project manager and team to make sure that they formulate that. they're not there yet to be able to bring it to the commission. >> ok. >> we'll make sure that happens. >> so with that, the reason to do this today is to keep it consistent with the 10-year c.i.p. this program is going to start the largest of the construction projects this year. that will be bio solids starting construction, head works has

started, it's important to, since the team we can get your support here, so we're looking foray approval for the revision to the 2018 baseline. >> any comments or discussion? >> we have one public comment an this item. >> david, again i'm in costume. very important. i should mention that i did not speak earlier on item 7. my experience with wendy aragon was negative when we overlapped on the c.a.c. we did not get along. it was not a positive experience at all. but i didn't want to dwell on that. i did want to support the new ssip baseline. i think that staff has done a good job of evaluating and re-evaluating all the projects

and the complexities and the scope and schedule and budget. i think it's important to keep these projects on schedule and in particular, the new digester and head works projects out at southeast. i think again, together those will have significant improvements to the system to the neighborhood and owe der and to the rate payers to everybody. so i'm a big fan of those two projects in particular. i just wanted highlight the inter departmental project in the book starting at age 37. those projects have a lot of complications with other city agencies in particular, m.t.a. and other agencies as well. i noted for example, that the taraville street project does not indicate, i think did not indicate a schedule delay or separate phasing but i had head that p.u.c. was asking to split

that from sunset boulevard out to the beach and from sunset boulevard in because maybe it wasn't a sewer site change maybe it was the water side that couldn't handle all the connections that the same time so that was going to impact munis project. anyway, all of those inter departmental projects have all these complicated and inter dependencies so i'm looking forward to your approval of this revised baseline and keeping things on track and i'm sorry i missed earlier in the meeting. has there been an announcement of the new a.g.m. for wastewater? >> no. >> ok. coming soon to a p.u.c. near us. anyway, good work to karen and all the staff involved in the ssip. thanks. >> thank you. >> i have a question. >> i'm just reflecting on the

fact that there is no increase with the bio solids, which i find curious. it's such a big project. will we see an increase in the future? is this, we're not going to approach it right now because we have these other increases and the other areas? >> >> eddie: we have some hard bid for head works. we are now going to be starting to put out some of the early packages for biosolids as we get into the late summer and fall and winter. i think then we will start to see how our bids are coming in. we took our latest firm estimate. the team still is in the process of design so those estimates will be redivided. we have three parties looking at it. our c.m., our contractor, and also an independent.

so we just brought on a program c.m. that will assist us with some of those things. did you have anything? >> i would sigh that we are concerned given the president's tariffs in how that will impact steel prices. we're sort of nervous about that. but, i think given the fact that we have this delivery method where we work directly -- the contractor works directly with the designer, we have some opportunities to kind of rescope stuff and troy to take advantage of opportunities. so we are -- but we also have a contingency as well. i'm hopeful that we are trending in the right way. i mean, so, but i'm just really nervous about the tariffs and

what that impact will have on not only this project but all our projects that we're doing and water wastewater and power. >> the market is tough too. we work with a lot of our other colleagues at wastewater programs that are actively building and are seeing lower competitiveness, single bids, trending high, so the sooner we can lockdown pricing the better we will feel. >> that reminds me the day that the president announced that, i left a message for harlen saying well, here it is. so that's a very good answer. i hope you understand the reason i asked the question. i'm not trying to stir up the pot. i'm just curious of the timing there. >> do we have a motion. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed.

approved. so we are going to read closed session items. calling for public comment. >> item 16 is existing litigation pacific bell telephone proposed settlement of action with release of all claims in the city to pay $67,500. item 17, louis versus the san francisco proposed settlement of action with claims in the city to pay $150,000 and 18 restore versus city and county of san francisco. >> do we have any public comment on matters to be addressed during closed session. >> ok. >> we need a motion? >> item 15. >> do we have a motion on whether to assert the client privilege regarding the matters listed below as conference with legal council.

>> all in favor. >> aye. >> ok. >> do we have a motion. >> motion not to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed. any public comments? next item is other new commission business. >> colleagues forgive me. i do have a couple items here. brian, can you come up to the front. we've been talking about the workforce development stuff for a while. i think we're all pretty much in sync. i am pretty proud to say that

after pulling back some of the layers harlinen couraged me to meet with staff and that's not always a great idea because staff is not always that interested in meeting with us. i want to thank you, brian. i met the other day with brian, carry and catherine curtis, as well as mr. harris, right. field coordinator for our apprenticiship. its wanted to share with my colleagues that our pre apprenticiship at wastewater utilizes a classification that is relatively new and came about as a result of president obama it's not a traditional building trades related scope and the

p.u.c. hasn't utilized that class because we frankly don't have time for it in a lot of ways. somehow our staff was able to find a way to utilize that classification and very meticulously deliberately apprenticed for the stationary engineers. and in meeting with catherine in particular, but with you brian, i learned a lot that i had not known before. that is that what i always assumed was that the public utilities commission pretty much does things better than most other city departments when it it comes to workforce development. i think catherine deserves recognition and i believe that we're going to find a way to do that. in the meantime, i'm asking that you have those individuals appear, make a report on the 22nd of may. to this group about how they came up with their plan and how

many people have gone through their plan and real numbers is good. we don't need fluff, we have enough of that. but i believe and my intention is to promote catherine's work as the way. mr. harris in particular, the way he approaches the case management, on the ground, boots on the ground, working side by side with these individuals, and being able to call balls and strikes. it's not always being the good cop, sometimes you have to tell someone that they ain't ready. we have that obligation not to the rate payers and the citizens and often times that's the piece that's missing. i want to thank you, brian, for allowing me to speak to ask that they make a report. if you had anything to add, please feel free.

>> thank you, very much. i'll pass the word along to staff and i'll be glad to prepare a presentation. >> hopefully, catherine in particular. >> absolutely. i tell you what, we'll make sure she can be there. >> thank you, brian. thank you, very much. if it's ok with the chair the only, it's the end of the meeting but, we talked about having a conversation with mayor farrell's office. i don't think there's a reason for us not to continue governing and doing good business and everything despite what the perceptions are about the uncertainties, et cetera, et cetera. we need to move the wall. we met not long ago with the environmental advisor tyrone. i did get feedback very recently that they're interested in continuing that conversation. we were going to have that conversation as a part of this body. i expect that we'll get back with them soon and then i've

been asking to meet through you chairman kwon, with representatives from the mayor's office about the seawall, s. s.i.p., workforce development and the items we just discussed and our environmental agenda. i expect that we might do something towards the end of next month, i'm going to ask if it's ok with the chairman that we ask donna to coordinate with the mayor's office on a date where we can get a full compliment of commissioners, as long as it's not in conflict with our general manager's schedule. >> good idea. >> anything else commissioners? any public comments? meeting is adjourned.

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equity group. i love going to the workshops. it's where i met jessica. >> we hit it off, we were both in the same field and the only two women in the same. >> through that friendship did we discover that our projects are interrelated. >> the projects provide the power from san jose to san francisco and end in the trans bay terminal where amanda was in charge of construction. >> without her project basically i have a fancy bus stop. she has headed up the women's network and i do, too. we have exchanged a lot of ideas on how to get groups to work together. it's been a good partnership for us. >> women can play leadership role in this field.

>> i tell him that the schedule is behind, his work is crappy. he starts dropping f-bombs and i say if you're going to talk to me like that, the meeting is over. so these are the challenges that we face over and over again. the reality, okay, but it is getting better i think. >> it has been great to bond with other women in the field. we lack diversity and so we have to support each other and change the culture a bit so more women see it as a great field that they can succeed in. >> what drew me in, i could use more of my mind than my body to get the work done. >> it's important for women to network with each other, especially in construction. the percentage of women and men in construction is so different.

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being here today as we celebrate the individuals that i just had a chance to meet here right behind us. and today is really an amazing day for the city of san francisco. we're showing that once again our city employees, our residents, but our city employees are stepping up to the task. and want to welcome, i know there are 14 individuals that came from our department of public health that went to puerto rico to help the victims of hurricane maria and really dedicated their time and effort to helping those that are in need. as the city of san francisco, these are the values that we embrace as a city. we've had our own incidents, whether it's earthquake in particular, where we're the beneficiaries of other cities and jurisdictions coming to our help and participating in the rescue efforts here in the city of san francisco. and now we're paying it forward and replicating it in kind. i want to thank all of you personally for representing the

city the way that you did. the doctors, nurses, mental health professionals, they are representing our city on the international stage and showing what our city is all about. it's an honor to be here to recognize them for their efforts, for their volunteerism, and really, barbara, to thank you, because i think this is about the testimony of the department that you have created as well. and that you are supporting. we're so lucky to have barbara garcia running our department of health here in san francisco and the values that we are part of our dna here in san francisco, that we own as a city government, as city employees, are represented here in your department. i'm going to turn it over to you, but as mayor of the city of san francisco, i am so proud today to be here to recognize these individuals. i know we have certificates of honor. i was able to do this the other day, but we have a unique thing called the heart of the city

pins, that we're going to give each of these individuals, that did the heroic work in puerto rico. i want to say thank you to each and every one of you for what you did and know how proud we are as a city, but as mayor, proud you represented us so well. congratulations. [applause] we'll give them their gift in a minute, but i want to turn it over to barbara garcia who runs our department of health. [applause] >> thank you, good morning. and thank you, mr. mayor. we should be proud of all our staff and we're really proud of the support that the city has given our staff to be able to go to puerto rico. you know, we depend on the electricity and water every day. and the people in puerto rico still cannot depend on these fundamental services. the impact of hurricane maria had a detrimental effect on the

people and the medical assistance in puerto rico. this is one of the main reasons we sent our 14-member health team to provide support to one of the community clinic organizations. in the northwestern part of puerto rico. the response to emergencies is one of the core responsibilities of any health department and san francisco health department has had decades of experience, so we felt obligated to assist the puerto rican people and their communities medical providers. you'll hear more from the staff, they supported the clinical staff and continued to provide care to thousands, the clinics in puerto rico. our staff crossed rivers and climbed mountains with local clinic staff to provide medical and psychological support in people's homes. we want to continue to support these clinics and we encourage catastrophens to help us. -- san franciscans to help us. we set up a fund at our public

health foundation and all the dollars go to the clinics to continue their efforts. i'm so proud today. and i had my own experience of running a community clinic in a middle of a disaster. i know how important it is to get the support we provided to these clinics, so i want to ask the staff to come up and talk about their experience. the first one is ramona. she'll give opening remarks. [applause] >> hello, everyone. my name is ramona, i'm registered further at the family health center. i work in the complex care management team at zuckerberg general hospital. i would like to thank everyone who had a hand in putting this together. this was a wonderful medical relief mission. and i speak for everyone when i say this was truly an amazing experience, we feel so blessed to work the staff.

the community offers primary care and home care services to patients at risk in the surrounding area. and it's truly serving its community in a time of need. i'm hopeful that the relationships we made there will continue to grow. our time in puerto rico was spent working alongside our brothers and sisters, providing care to patients in their homes. these home visits were in remote mountain areas. our team of nurses, doctors, mental health professionals, pharmacists, outreach team and community leaders would travel up to two hours every morning along hazardous roads, trying to outreach these vulnerable residents. it's been 217 days since hurricane maria hit. and the people we visit still have no electricity. some no water. and many still have the blue temporary tarps as roofs. these people are still struggling.

what i found especially tragic, in these remote areas, many of the patients were elderly. as a result, many of these seniors are taking care of their geriatric parents. from a nursing perspective, patients in need of skin care, wound care, a lot of foot care, nail-trimming, reconciliation. much needed teaching and education around chronic disease management, these were some of the prevalent diseases. these diseases are made much worse by the stress, anxiety and fear related to this hurricane. we visited a gentleman in his 70s dealing with the stress of the hurricane maria aftermath, no electricity, his hypertension and diabetes and he's the primary caregiver for his mother in her 90s. upon entering the home, our

physician recognized that his elderly mother was not well. she had the signs and symptoms of sepsis, it's complicated because of delayed medical attention. we jumped into action, recognizing the signs of this complicated infection and the possible risk of death. the team facilitated medical attention and intervention. everyone working together to improve the outcome of this family. this is just one of many of the success stories we brought back with us. the most healing intervention we provided was our presence, our time. we provided a sense of humanity, it reminded us them that puerto rico has not been forgotten, seven months after hurricane maria, we still care and wanted to help. puerto rico. [applause]

>> good morning. so i'm ricardo, i work for comprehensive crisis services here at the department of public health and feel fortunate to assist in the disaster relief as a senior psychologist. one of the things that happens is that you have the honor of hearing people's pain. you have the honor of maintaining the confidentiality of what people are suffering. yet in a disaster there is no

included behavioral health and we found some very chronic conditions. a lot of anxiety. a lot of depression that existed before the hurricane, but exacerbated because of the lack of water, lack of electricity. one of the behavioral health interventions was to get a generator started. a woman could not pull the generator. that is the only way to get electricity. she's by herself. lost her husband 11 years ago. depressed by herself. children don't visit and there was nobody there to pull her generator. so two of us did. a younger guy than me, he was able to pull it, make it happen. [laughter] so that was our behavioral intervention for her, but we were left with lots of

different thoughts about follow-up. one of the beautiful things, the agency responsible for that community took our recommendations and will follow-up, so hopefully this woman will do care. i was in the middle of doing a panic attack treatment when they say, sorry, we got to hospitalize your mom. so he needed medical attention. he got treated for that. and the mother, yeah, she was really in grave situation. and had this agency not been there, this team, or the other team that was serving them, a number of those people might have died because they just really needed that attention. so i think, i want to support this effort and any other

further efforts to continue to do that. we do that at crisis. we respond to disasters, we do the fires up north. i got deployed to katrina and rita and that's the kind of think we do in the city and county of san francisco and we're able to do it. the fact that we're able to spare the staff helped them and gave us the psychological boost. they taught us a great deal on how to be humble, responsive, responsible, ethical. and i'm glad that we in the city and county of san francisco were able to do that. thank you so much. [applause] >> i want to introduce dr. hammer, i asked her to find a group, identify the group and to lead the group. i'm really proud she did that and she did that with so much pride and also i think, i'm really proud of the work and her leadership. doctor? [applause]

>> thank you. thank you for sharing your stories. and to the other members of our amazing team for your service to the department of public health and the people of puerto rico. and sincere gratitude to the mayor and director garcia and everyone at dph for giving us the opportunity to represent the city and county of san francisco on this important mission. our team spent seven days in puerto rico, working alongside colleagues, a group of four federally qualified health centers based in the northwest part of the island. they're sister clinics to us in many ways. the clinics in san francisco are federally qualified health centers with a mission to serve the most vulnerable members of the community. we each came back from our time with so many stories and images.

houses and cars washed down mountainsides, broken bridges and roads. dark living rooms, empty fish tanks. but i think and hope that our most lasting memories are the incredible resilience and sense of hope we encountered. speaking for the clinicians, this mission was a natural extension of our mission in the dph. each of us is called to service. and to a person, we were deeply honored to have the honor to serve in puerto rico. we rode vans deep into the forest, where we stopped in tiny communities and attended to people in their homes. all of us were left of a renewed connection of what brought us to the healing profession in the first place. our ambassador of hope, as i like to think of them, were the puerto rican partners at csm.

they are health care professionals working tirelessly since the hurricane seven months ago to do anything in their power to help their community. ever since the storm passed, their teams have traveled every day to find people in need and bring them whatever they can. food, water, medicine, generators, or just a healing presence. we feel honored to work alongside them. we learned from their example. many people have asked us what they can do to support puerto rico's recovery effort? first and foremost, we should remember puerto rico and visit there. it's alive, but suffering, and definitely recovering. it's a beautiful and great place to live and work. also, we encourage san franciscans who want to support the relief effort to donate to the clinics we worked with on our trip. you can do that through the san francisco public health foundation. we handed out this flyer. the public health foundation has

set up an account to support the clinics and the outreach efforts. please take one of the flyers with you in you want -- if you want to get information how to donate. one of the most enduring memory from our time in puerto rico is families welcoming us into their home, so grateful for the care, medicine, water and food we provided. thank you for coming, these beautiful elders would say to us as they gave us coffee. thank you for not forgetting us. and they expressed their gratitude not just to us, but the people of san francisco. it was a great honor to represent the department and the people of san francisco. it's also an honor for us to bring back a certificate of honor from the executive director of csm to present to mayor farrell and gift to present to director garcia. [applause]

>> this is a certificate of recognition dedicated to the honorable mark farrell, for your initiative of sending aid with health professionals from the city of san francisco to assist those affected by hurricane maria in puerto rico. thanks for your support. it is signed by the executive director of csm. thank you. [applause] beautiful neck and we bring a gift for director garcia. we acknowledge and appreciated your support everywhere we went when we were in puerto rico. you were the spark that made this happen, so thank you so much for giving us this opportunity and a necklace for

you from csm. [applause] ellen davis. [applause] ricardo. [applause]

richard santana. [applause] ann daleman. [applause] ramona. [applause]

steven delgado. [applause] vita mullins. [applause] jody scottniss. [applause] kenneth pilon. [applause]

jesus pestano. [applause] last but not least, halle hammer. [applause]

we're going to do a picture, but how about one more round of applause for everyone here? [applause] i see that vivian is here. and she was our connection to puerto rico. and so i really want to thank her, she also worked for the health center in california. thank you, vivian. [applause] and this ends the program.

>> hi, i'm lawrence corn field.

welcome to building san francisco. we have a special series, stay safe. we're looking at earthquake issues. and today we're going to be talking with a residential building owner about what residential building owners and tenants can and should do before earthquakes and after earthquakes. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at this wonderful spur exhibit on mission street in san francisco and i have with me today my good friend george. thanks for joining me, george. and george has for a long time owned residential property here in san francisco. and we want to talk about apartment buildings and what the owner's responsibilities might be and what they expect their tenants to do. and let's start by talking a

little bit about what owners can do before an earthquake and then maybe after an earthquake. >> well, the first thing, lawrence, would be to get together with your tenants and see if they have earthquake insurance or any renters insurance in place because that's going to be key to protecting them in the event of a quake. >> and renters insurance, there are two kinds of insurance. renters insurance coffers damage to goods and content and so forth. earthquake insurance is a separate policy you get after you get renters insurance through the california earthquake authority, very inexpensive. and it helps owners and it helps tenants because it gives relocation costs and it pays their rent. this is a huge impact on building owners. >> it's huge, it really is. you know, a lot of owners don't realize that, you know, when there is an earthquake, their money flow is going to stop. how are they going to pay their mortgages, how are they going to pay their other bills, how are they going to live? >> what else can property

owners do in residential rental housing before an earthquake? >> well, the first thing you want to do is get your property assessed. find out what the geology is at your site. get an expert in to look at structural and nonstructural losses. the structural losses, a lot of times, aren't going to be that bad if you prepare. an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. get in there and get your property assessed and figure it out. >> so, what is a nonstructural issue that might cause losses? >> well, you know, pipes, for instance. pipes will whip around during an earthquake. and if they're anchored in more numerous locations, that whipping won't cause a breakage that will cause a flood. >> i've heard water damage is a major, major problem after earthquakes actually. >> it is. that's one of the big things. a lot of things falling over, ceilings collapsing. but all of this can be prevented by an expert coming in and assessing where those

problem areas and often the fixes are really, really cheap. >> who do you call when you want to have that kind of assessment or evaluation done? >> the structural engineering community is great. we have the structural engineers association of northern california right here in san francisco. they're a wealth of information and resources. >> what kinds of things might you encourage tenants to do besides simply get tenants renters insurance and earthquake insurance, what else do you think tenants should do? >> i think it's really important to know if they happen to be in the building where is the safest place for them to go when the shaking starts. if they're out of the building, whats' their continuity plan for connecting with family? they should give their emergency contact information to their resident manager so that the resident manager knows how to get in touch. and have emergency supplies on hand. the tenants should be responsible to have their extra water and flashlights and

bandages and know how to use a toilet when there's no sewage and water flows down. and the owners of the building should be proactive in that regard as well. >> so, george, thank you so much for joining us. that was really great. and thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for joining us