departments themes in terms of understand of how their rates are going to be changing for next year. [please stand by for captioner switch]

cost of service may be higher than a half cent, so they aren't really closing the gap. at least they are moving up in cost. >> that's correct. yes. so as i mentioned, some departments will actually have a slight decrease, some are having an increase, and we have been working with departments to communicate on an individual basis how they need to adjust their budgets but as county manager kelly mentioned it still reaches the goal. >> i think it's great. i've been on this commission for ten years and i know this has been a constant conversation to at least get us

closer to beating the service costs. so these are just for the next two years we are approving this, correct? the half cent agreement, if you will, is just for two years or, is that, is there an opportunity, as our costs increase to figure this and figure out if the half cent will be for the long run what we need to be doing? >> i think the agreement with the mayor's office is to stay with this pattern of a half cent so we have included that in our long-range financial plan but we do a cost of service study t. will provide us again an opportunity to look at our cost base, customer base and how we are planning to move customers towards cost of service. so we will continue to have these conversations each year. >> great, thank you.

>> the last slide i just want to share is the point you were all describing, this consolidated rate is still below the cost of service as noted here. the dotted line represents cost of service. we are happy to provide discounted service, we would just like the customers to be closer to cost of service, which, as you can see from this chart, they are getting roughly a half or 50% discount off cost of service right now so we want to move them more toward cost of service. with that, i'm happy to take any questions on this. >> i would like to move -- sorry, do you have a question? i would like to move the item. >> the item has been moved. >> and i'll second it. >> it's been seconded. >> but i just wanted to share, i think this is brilliant. granted, it's the third time i've heard it. i do understand it fully now. no, really, as my fellow commissioner stated it's really something that's long been coming. terrific job. >> thank you.

>> i would like to ask a question that's not really related to rates but it has to do with municipal rates. when those customers aren't using hetch hetchy power are they going to be using our green power? >> assistant general manager for power, all these city departments will be using hetchy power. i'm not sure if i'm clear on the question you are asking. >> well, aren't there times we can't generate? >> we are still their power provider and we make the arrangements necessary. if, for example, the power houses are down and we aren't generating electricity, we are in the market procuring resources to cover that shortfall, so they are still a hetchy power customer. >> they were never with pg&e?

>> there may be situations where they are renting property in another building and pg&e is providing the power. it's very rare in those situations. >> yes, those are important clarifications. there are times because of arrangements the city has made for how departments are housed and what if a sills they are in, if they are in a facility not owned by the city as the general manager mentioned and they don't have a separate electric bill, we have trouble providing them with service. and then of course, there are times when pg&e objects to our provision of service to facilities and we have to wrangle it for a while before they become our customer but those circumstances hopefully are going to be in the past. >> eventually. >> eventually.

>> barbara, can i ask a question while you are there. i think i know the answer to this, but i know how hard you all and the p.c. has been working to create the clean power s.f. as a new line of business, if you will, and then i also know on municipal side we've got this cost of service conundrum. can we use, i don't know how to ask this. can we use the revenues generated, if it's above and beyond our cost of service for clean power sf to cover cost of service for municipal customers? >> we have segmented the rate payer groups and the budget and the financial statements between hetchy and clean power sf. so we are staying true to our rate payers and true to our, what's the right term, bond

covenants to keep the separate rate payers to the separate programs f. there was a way we could declare the surplus to the needs of one of the two, they could be, but no, as a general policy, we don't mingle, we don't co-mingle the revenues from the different programs. they are different sets of rate payers and they remain segmented in our budgeting and in our expenditures. >> and as you can see, you know, when we did the clean power sf, until, i think 2022 -- 2023, we wouldn't have the right amount of reserves. i don't want to borrow money from the infant. >> we know as we age we need to keep our money too. [chuckles]

>> i just wanted to understand the parameters too. thanks. >> thank you. >> thank you very much both of you for that report. item 12 has been moved and seconded. is there any further discussion? is there any public comment on the item? hearing none, public comment is closed. i'll call for the question. all those in favor vote "aye", opposed vote "no." the aye's have it, the motion carries. madam secretary could you call items 13 and 14 together. we will hold two votes and hold public comment for both if necessary. >> item 13, consider and approve revisions to existing fees, elimination of certain fees and adoption of new fees for one billion in account services to water service connection, three land use, four regulatory compliance and five laboratory testing related to the san francisco p.u.c.'s provision of water and wastewater service. if approved they become effective july 1, 2018.

item 14, public hearing proposal to one reduce return check and turn off fee and turn on fee charge for customers of sf puc power enterprise. >> good afternoon, again, commissioners, charles pearl, chief deputy officer. these two agenda items together represent a comprehensive review of the miscellaneous fees charged by the sf puc. done in conjunction with the cost of service study in that these fees offset costs instead of being recovered by our rates. so another way of saying that, if we collect a dollar by way of setting a fee and charging a fee for that service, we don't have to collect that dollar through our general rate setting. this is the separate or second category of rates that will be presenting to you today. in the water and wastewater

enterprises we recover $8 million annually from these fees which is about 2% of our water and wastewater retail revenues. while it's not a big piece it's still relevant and important for us to go through with you. and we also did share this item with our rate fairness board. in march who voted to support it as well. so if i could have the slides please. so this, i'll be walking through a little bit of background on the work that we did as it relates to the fees, miscellaneous fees. i will give you an idea of what the existing fees are. i'll talk to you a little about some proposed changes and new fees and i'll be talking a little about some eliminations and reductions of fees. so in terms of the work that we did, fees for service, as

opposed to rates, as i noted earlier are associated with service provided to individual customers. if you are a customer and you are requesting a new connection or change in your service, that is specific to you and your needs, those costs are paid by you, the customer, rather than recovering them through general rate making. just like our rates, these fees are also based on cost of service, such as the amount of time or materials to do the work. we review all of these fees periodically and propose changes to bring them in line with cost of service. these fees are then adjusted annually based on inflation, until our next cost of service study review. so here with this cost of service update, we go in and look at all the details and make adjustments as we need to, based on how much effort or cost it takes to perform that service. as noted here on the slide we

created a master fee list which allowed us, frankly we are a big o. -- organization. we put all the fees on one page so we were making sure we weren't missing anything. we went in and looked at and asked questions in all the departments about how much effort it costs to provide that service, both in terms of labor hours and materials and expense. we then asked departments if there are any new fees that they would like to be considered and we have a few of those to share with you. then we looked at affordability and impact of the fee on our customers and we will make a recommendation how to eliminate or reduce some of our fees. so this is a list of many, probably not all but we try to get them all here on one page. as you can see there's a lot of them. we are a very big organization. we do a lot of work and

operations in a lot of various places and so the first check box we wanted to have with this work is we actually are looking at everything. you will see we do work as it relates to setting and establishing fees in several different categories. so you will see billing and accounts related services you will see laboratory testing services, you will see water service connection services and you will see land use and facility rental services. so again, all of these fees are looked at as a matter of how much does it cost to provide the service, we don't want to over charge, but we also don't want to under charge, we want to get it right, that's the goal. most of the changes we are proposing for fiscal '19 and '20 are for inflation but we have a few changes in this item. the first area we are proposing in terms of changes are noted

here with our water enterprise. we have two proposed changes. the first is the backflow tag fee which covers inspection of backflow prevention assemblis. after they have passed their annual test. here is a little back story on this for you, article 12-a of the san francisco health code requires certain property owners to install backflow preventers and this obviously prevents cross contamination. the current $12 fee for the tags was set in 2009 and the proposal before you adjusts this by $3 each year for the next four years. the goal here is to get closer to cost recovery but even after this four years we will still be well below our cost recovery levels. we want to increase the fee but we don't want to increase it too quickly. the second item is the cross connection control test fee,

which recovers staff time associated with performing cross connection testing. since 2014 the water quality division has been conducting cross connection tests in buildings with non-potable systems at no charge to building owners. before they could be put in place they need to pass a cross connection test to make sure they don't contaminate the potable water system inside the building. so this test needs to be conducted every four years and this fee is associated with providing that test to that customer. on the wastewater side we have a new, three new proposed fees for service. this is the first one. the first one is called the storm water control plan review fee. storm water management ordinance, which was approved back in 2010 requires all development projects creating

or replacing 5,000 square feet or more of impervious for a storm water control plan. this storm water control plan needs to be reviewed by our staff. since this ordinance was approved back in 2010, our staff has reviewed over 700 of these plans and the number of these reviews are increasing so the creation of a new fee is needed to recover these staffing costs and time. the last items proposed is the pre-treatment application and inspection fee. generally these fees apply to multiple permits by the pre-treatment division, batch discharge permits, industrial user permits, construction site run-off permits. all of these require staff time and the notion of these fees

are to recover the costs associated with reviewing those permit applications. so the last piece i wanted to leave you with before concluding is that we also looked at where we could possibly reduce or eliminate fees. that's probably something rare you hear from an agency like us but we wanted to make sure that we were being responsive to our customers, especially our low-income customers. now this proposal is the reason why we actually have two items associated here. the first item on the agenda covers the water and wastewater enterprise in terms of these fee reductions and eliminations and the second item on the agenda reduces the power enterprise equivalent fees. so when i'm speaking about this, it's across all three enterprises. the first area is the new account charge. it's something that's a

non-standard fee. we have been charging it as long as i've been at the p.u.c., almost 10 years now. it's a non-standard fee, if you you look across the our peer agencies no one else charges a fee just to sign up to become a customer, so we are proposing to eliminate this fee, it just doesn't make sense. another thing we are suggesting to reduce is the return check charge or bounced check fee, currently $105, that seems excessive. so we looked at the costs that we have associated with this charge and we are reducing the fee down to $50, which is the fee that's charged to us by the treasurer/tax collector office. we are eliminating fees from bounced check, and passing on the cost associated with the treasurer's office, we will continue to work with the treasurer's office to see if we could further get this fee down but this is an intermediate

step in terms of providing cost relief for our customers. the last area is our fees associated with our water and power shut-off process. we have costs, you may be aware of this, we did share some of these details when we spoke to you about affordability about a month or so ago. we have the 48-hour notice fee, which is the notice that goes to a customer's premise if they have a late bill and we are getting up to the point where we may shut off their power or water service, we actually provide a notice to that customer. we are proposing to reduce that from $55 to $50. but at the same time we are also proposing to eliminate the shut-off and turn-on fee. the reason being first of all these tend to penalize our low-income customers. but more importantly we wanted to focus on the first fee, the

48-hour fee where we receive more than 80, or 85% where they are behind on paying the utility bill. once they get the notice more than 80% come in and pay the bill and that's the biggest bang for the buck in terms of getting the message out. we felt the additional fees were not necessary. these fees tend to disproportionately impact low-income customers. so with that, those are the main changes that we are proposing. before i take your questions, i do want to thank my team who actually does all of this work. i'm merely just presenting this to you. i wanted to thank christina cordero, aaron franks and cheryl hooey who are here today. if you could waive. -- wave. i have some of my team, i have a really great team.

this is a lot of work and to get it right is quite tough. with that, i'm happy to take your questions. >> totally support shouting out to the team. commissioners? >> i have a question. so you are proposing, it sounds like, a couple of what seems somewhat significant but i don't really know because i'm not in the development world but storm water and cross connection fees it seems there's going to be somewhat of a range based on some criteria between, i don't know 1200-and 10,000ish. and i don't know what the implications for that are. are there any sort of unintended consequences that we might need to be aware of? >> well, i think the important piece is that we have the resources to perform the work. as the work comes in the door we need to be able to perform the service, this is a specific customer type requesting or

requiring this because of the ordinance so we wanted to make sure we had it to step up and perform it. that's the main goal. but beyond that, we wanted to make sure the other customers weren't unfairly burdened by it as well. >> right. i understand the goal, cost of service, covering that quickly and however we can. but i would want to make sure there's not going to be anything that comes back around saying here i am paying this huge fee, i'm already paying this and that. i would leave that to communications question, to do outreach. >> i think communication and education will definitely be needed. we are part of the citywide effort at d.b.i. we want to make sure this is all of that so the work is done

in a very closed loop, other than that we will be reviewing it every cycle. what feedback do we getd, how will it impact customers in the door, what are their comments etc., we will take that into account and adjust as we need. >> the other thing i would add, before we have to move folks from the sewer system improvement program and shift resources since it has a dedicated resource, we can assign folks who are dedicated to review these plans. >> right. >> and as you know, i'm a big supporter of it. i think it's great, i would just want to make sure there isn't something we weren't seeing here, i appreciate we have those numbers did stick out to me. i also wanted on behalf of the

commission to also thank your team. you could tell the amount of work is significant. i appreciate that and i just want to echo the chair's sentiments. thank you. >> very good. unless there's an objection, why don't we take, entertain a motion on item 13 first. >> i'll move the item. >> second. >> moved and seconded. i'll call for public comment. is there any? >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon commissioners. i'm laura cam from spur, i came to support the item related to reducing or eliminating fees, especially disproportionately impact low-income rate payers and we also wrote you a letter about this but seems like a really important equity move in the city of increasing costs.

i thought you were going to talk about this today, but related to the 2018 rate study i also wanted to support implementation of a form water service, an important step between separating water and sewer fees which our organization has been supporting for more than ten years. not a new concept. practiced in other cities. four years ago when we wrote the package we were hoping for the storm water and sewer fee to be separated. we want to encourage you before the next one in 2022. and while i'm here a want to make a comment about the rates, once in a generation opportunity to improphesied mic resilience, reliability, sustainability, and climate

radiologist. i want the urban water shet collection we have been hearing about for a long time but we still haven't seen, by the end of the year and to invite some public comment on those documents and we want to make sure that the planning approach ensures that environmental and social co-benefits for the city are maximized and prepare us as soon as possible for the risk and threat of edge quakes. mostly just wanted to say thank you for your attention to equity and supporting elimination of fees that disproportionately affect low-income people and encourage you to keep your eye on the storm water fee we are hoping to see get fully.

and a copy is in your packet. thank you. >> thank you very much for being here. >> may i respond? >> yes, of course. >> i am curious around the planning documents. i know we have talked about that. i wonder if at the next meeting someone could come back from the staff and let us know when those planning documents will be posted to continue that conversation? >> i think we may have that information when they will be ready. i know folks are lookinging at them. kathy. i think we still need a month or two. we also need our city attorney to review that document before we could share that with everybody. it will be before the end of the summer. >> great, thank you very much. >> on the equity piece, you

know, it jumps out at me when we are having that conversation, i felt the same way, the general manager just thought it was stupid, he didn't think it made sense to have these really disproportionately affecting people. we give them a fair chance. if there's anything we could do to make sure some of these workers could get drivers. that's a credit to the a.g.m. but i'm equally appreciate of that particular piece. if i'm not mistaken, item 13 has had a motion and second, we had public comment. all in favor signify by saying aye. opposed? the aye's have it.

the motion carries. we will move onto item 14. commissioners, i will entertain a motion. >> i would like to move. >> it's been moved. >> seconded. >> any public comment on item 14? >> can i just say one thing? >> yes, general manager kelly. >> with ms. spur, i know we met with and spoke about issuing the collection report but we had meetings and we actually looked at the report, we were able to tell a story and so we wanted to pretty much, rework a lot of it. so i just want to let you know, it's kind of delayed because we wanted to put more emphasis and i could probably talk to you offline about some of the things we wanted to make a little stronger. [please stand by for captioner switch...] ..

>> madam secretary, next item,

please. >> i will read item 17, the closed session item, prior to your calling public comment. item 17 is pending litigation, charlene maghzi versus city and county of san francisco, proposed partial settlement of claim with city to pay $510,698 for home foundation repair work and claimant to retain the services of an engineering firm with at least five years of sub grade foundation repair experience. >> any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> we need a

. >> thank you, donna. i have an announcement following our closed session that an item number 17 was approved unanimously by the commission. a partial settlement of the claim with the city in the amount of $510,698. is there a motion regarding whether to disclose discussions? >> so moved. >> it's moved not to disclose discussions. is there a second? >> second. >> and i'll call for a vote. all those in favor signify by saying aye. the ayes have it. the motion carries. thank you, matthew. so i did -- i'm sorry. do we have to call public comment now? okay. there being none, public comment is closed. new business. i had a special treat for us, but i think she left.

so we're not going to meet -- miss ellis, we're not going to meet before the golden pride awards, so i was hoping we could have a conversation about what the planning was 'cause the commission won't meet, but maybe we'll do that offline. [inaudible] >> okay. [inaudible] >> we won't meet, though? [inaudible] >> oh, okay. perfect. perfect. is there any other new business, commissioners? hearing none, is there any public comment? hearing none, public comment is -- >> wait a minute, i question. >> okay. >> no. >> please. >> no, i changed my mind. >> is there any public comment on other new business? hearing no public comment, this meeting is now adjourned.

>> 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. light for streets illuminating our ideas and values starting in 2016 the san francisco public utilities commission is xhoefl that light with new led with the did i

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you'll have the peace of mind that you're doing your part in your household to help the environment. ♪ ♪ >> all right. so good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us today. you know, for the past four months, as mayor of the city of san francisco, i have from reside

residents across our entire city up and down the ladder about the streets of san francisco. our streets are filled with trash and debris, and it is unacceptable, and i've said from day one the cleanliness of our streets is going to be one of my biggest priorities as mayor of the city of san francisco. san francisco residents are fed up with the conditions, and i am the first to say that i feel their pain, and we are doing something about it. so last week, along with a number of people who are here behind me, we announced a comprehensive budget proposal that we're going to move forward with to aggressively cleanup our streets here in san francisco. we are no -- we know that our conditions on our streets exist across our city. it's not confined to one neighborhood. every single neighborhood is feeling this pain, including right here in the castro district. so this plan that we announced last week includes 44 new street cleaners throughout the city of san francisco, four in each supervisorial district

that will have material impact in the conditions of our neighborhoods, in particular our commercial corridors. we're adding five new pit stops to address the feces and urination issues that we are seeing in many different neighborhoods here in san francisco. and also talked about and announced a dedicated team to picking up syringes and needles across the entire city of san francisco. family members and individuals should not have to step over needles on the way to school, on the way to work. it simply doesn't need to be part of our landscape here in san francisco. and we are also growing our fix it team, sandra, who runs or fix it team, and does such an amazing job. how about a round of applause for her. [applause] >> the hon. mark farrell: we are expanding it to ten new districts in san francisco. because they do such an amazing job in san francisco. when there are areas to be picked up, when there is anything that needs to be done, they are there doing it, doing

such an incredible job. but we need to do more. we need to put our foot on the gas pedal, and as mayor, until i leave office, i am going to do it, and street cleanliness is something i am going to address. we have a big effort to cleanup our streets. san francisco residents do, as well, and now today we're going to have some bigbellys to help us with that effort. and sorry, i had to go there with that line. so today, we are announcing five new bigbelly trash receptacle here in the castro district and 15 others in different neighborhoods throughout san francisco. now these bigbelly trash cans, as you will see, there's going to be a demonstration at the end, are different than your normal trash cans. they have automatic compactors inside, allowing them to hold five times the amount of waste of any normal garbage can. they tick recycling, compost,

and trash, and they're outfitted with wireless technology, real-time technology that alerts those when these are full to come pick them up and empty them. that means no more wasted trips to pick up half full garbage cans. you know, we are the technology capital of the world. we should not be afraid, and you know i believe as mayor, we should embrace technology to benefit the daily lives of our residents, and we are doing that today. we are making this investment now in partnership with our small business leaders. our community benefits districts are the ones that really do the work on the

ground. i want to thank andre who is here today for all of your work in the castro, and we are partnering with them to install these new bigbelly trash receptacles, but also to maintain them going forward. we are going to cleanup our city here in san francisco. we made a number of announcements last week. today is just another step in that direction, and i want to make sure to reaffirm my commitment to the residents of san francisco that cleaning up our streets is going to be one of my biggest priorities, and we will not stop again until the day that i leave office. i look forward to seeing these trash cans across the city of san francisco. we are going to swallow up the trash with our bigbelly garbage cans, once again. so with that, i want to thank everyone for being here. we have a number of speakers, and i would like to introduce and bring up supervisor jeff sheehy, who's right behind me. and i want to make a quick comment about supervisor sheehy. there has been no one, since i have become mayor, who has been more forceful in his advocacy of cleaning up the streets of his district than jeff sheehy. you can clap. it's great. we have gone on neighborhood walks. we have walked this commercial

corridor right here with our department of public works. there's no supervisor more focused on cleaning up the streets of his neighborhood than supervisor sheehy. and with that, i'd like to hear from him. supervisor jeff sheehy. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you, mayor farrell. thank you for those kind words, and i really want to thank you deeply for your leadership on this issue. it's been a challenge, but the inno-nateti innovation that you're bringing to this, the resources, it's making a difference, and i know the people in my district, we're grateful. i also want to thank the department of public works because they have been so steadfast, so diligent in cleaning up this neighborhood, in cleaning up the district. it's a struggle because we know that this is an ongoing problem, and i think your new

initial initiatives are going to help us turn the corner on this. we are moving forward on this. i want to thank the community benefits in the castro for their leadership. these things are great. compacts, signals when the trash is full. and i do want to note that recology is here. recology is doing a great job. this is allow them to be enormously more efficient, so as the mayor said you're not emptiying half empty trash cans, you empty them when they're full. we've seen the problem. we have the open trash cans, people rummage in them. they overflow, and sometimes that creates a mess. so andre, thank you for your partnership with recology, with the mayor. i'm going to address you, but sandra zuniga, i can't say

enough about you. she comes in, she solves problems, she works so closely with the community to identify problem areas and find solutions. she was telling me, for instance at glen park park, we have a little flower stall that was graffitied up. and you know, she just went and painted it herself. that's the type of attitude she brings towards san francisco. that's how much she cares about this city, so i am honored to introduce sandra zuniga, who's director of the mayor's fix it team. >> good morning, everybody. thank you for that introduction and thank you to both mayor farrell and supervisor sheehy for their leadership in this city. special thank you to mayor farrell for giving me this assignment. being able to work on these bigbellys has been fun. so fix it, i run the fix it team, and what we do z we work closely with communities, talking to residents, listening to residents to find out what

concerns they have, and we want to act quickly and effectively to help address those. in the castro, we've been working here about two years, and we've seen improvements, a lot of great improvements to the castro. one of things that's a great concern is litter and the amount of litter we see around our city, especially trash cans, when they've been rummaged through or overflow especially when the wind blows and blows them away. so we're happy today to show you not just an efficient can but a very pretty tran ca-- trh can in the castro that we hope will bring new life, new energy to people who are shopping here, passing through here to use the handing, throw their cigarette butt or bottle away in the right place. today's announcement is part of

a larger strategy that fix it has to make improvements in neighborhoods based on what we hear about from residents, so we plan to implement new strategies in neighborhoods across the city, and find out what works and when something works, we can replicate it in other neighborhoods with confidence. i really would like to thank all of the community benefit districts who are working with me on this project. of course f andre aiello with the community benefit district, and several others who will see their bigbellys this summer, and a special shout out of course to public works, recology, economic and workforce development and kevin from bigbelly, who will give you all a demonstration soon. so with that, i would just like to introduce a wonderful partner in this who has been tremendously hard working and really fast at turning around a

lot of giving us, you know, ideas, information, feedback, andre aiello, for getting the -- from the castro c.i.d. for getting the first big belly on the ground. >> thank you for that. the castro community benefit district is so excited to be the first neighborhood that will be getting these bigbellys in a special program that has been sponsored by mayor farrell, and i want to thank the mayor so much for his dedication to keeping the neighborhoods clean, not only just downtown but the neighborhoods. and we are -- we'll be working with the city to develop metrics on how do we evaluate and measure these to make sure they're effective. and as everyone has been