in san francisco, providing compassionate support for our community who live independently. the department of health, the department of aging, and i want to acknowledge that we have our department heads with us today. and both departments depend on these homes and facilities to ensure our clients are safe and that they get the care that they need. so we're so fortunate to work and live in a city that cares -- cares for its most vulnerable community members. our strongest leaders for this is our own mayor, mayor london breed. mayor breed is committed to ensuring those facing behavioral and health challenges are provided care and housing that they need. so please welcome mayor london breed. [applause] >> mayor breed: thank you, barbara, and thank you, everyone, for being here today.

i'm really excited to be here and as mayor i have made it clear that one of my top priorities is to not only address many of the challenges that we face with so many people struggling with mental illness, but, more importantly, to address issues of homelessness. we have to make sure that we invest in preventing homelessness in the first place. and we know that this particular facility, along with so many others throughout our city, continue to struggle financially. they struggle financially due to lack of funding from the state, from the federal government, and what that means is that time and time again in our city we need to figure out ways in which we can continue to support the great work that this facility is doing and others like it. so today i'm really proud to announce that we're investing over $1 million over the next two years from one-time revenue to stabilize residential care

facilities that support our most vulnerable population throughout san francisco. [applause] and, let me tell you what it will do. it will help 37 residential care facilities and house more than 350 people in our city, including many of our seniors. some of these people suffer with serious behavioral health and medical issues. many have a history of homeless homelessness. and we know again that the best solution is it to prevent homelessness in the first place. one of the care providers that support one of the ones that will receive funding as we said before is victoria manor which we are here today, located in district 5, which is now represented by supervisor brown. this place has 90 beds and it serves 26 clients for the department of public health.

the facilities like these have been under strain as i said in terms of lack of funding and the city currently spends $2.5 million through the department of public health to provide supplemental funding to close the spending gap. and i want to, again, i appreciate barbara g garcia for identifying where the needs are and making sure that we are using city resources in the most efficient way to support this community. but this is a complex issue which requires a holistic approach to look at now and the financial challenges of the future. and this additional funding is a down payment and demonstrates our commitment to ensure that these providers can care for and to serve our community. the department of aging and adult services is convening a working group along with the department of public health and the office of economic and workforce development to analyze the current demand and study options to meet the needs of the

future throughout this city. i expect to hear recommendations by the end of this year and until then this funding will help to ensure that we continue to serve hundreds of san francisco residents who would otherwise be at risk of homelessness and who would otherwise not be able to care for themselves. i want to thank the supervisors who are here today for their tireless work in preparing this coming fiscal year's budget, who is now our board president and was leader during this budget time, she was also the finance chair, supervisor malia cohen. and i am hoping to sign this into law hopefully soon and i have sent a letter to president cohen outlining my support for this funding and how we're able to move forward in our shared priorities. we know that there's a lot of work to do and it takes a village. it takes a lot of our departments it takes members of

the board of supervisors, and i'm glad to be joined by someone who has been my partner although he's just joined the board of supervisors, supervisor rafael mandelman who has really been a champion for issues around mental health. we're so grateful for his support here today. and i also want to take this opportunity to acknowledge roma guy who has also been an incredible advocate behind mental health reforms and pushing for more mental health stabilization beds in our city to, again, care for our most vulnerable population of citizens in san francisco. with that i'd like to provide an opportunity for the president of the board, president malia cohen, to say a few words. [applause] >> thank you, and good morning, ladies and gentlemen. what a wonderful day, mayor breed, also a fantastic start. this is exciting news. i'm thrilled to join the mayor as well as my colleagues,

supervisor mandelman and supervisor brown, as well as my partners in the department of public health that are standing up here with me, to announce this $100 million for board and care. san francisco has always been a city that has been committed to supporting our most vulnerable residents. you know what, we haven't stopped yet. we're actually recommitting and reaffirming that commitment today. this year i'm proud that the -- that our budget process was, quite frankly, most transparent. and policy driven. a collaborative process that we have seen to date. in the month leading up to the budget we spoke with community activists, we have spoken with our residents, we polled our residents and, of course, we surveyed the colleagues on the board of supervisors. resoundingly without a doubt we have heard that homelessness is a top priority for particularly those who are suffering mental health issues. we have a responsibility to keep

our residents, to help them to remain in healthy condition, and it's a top priority of ours and we want to have them in a safe place to live and access to care and treatment. and so it is actually through our policy-driven process that we allocated $47 million in additional funding for homelessness. i think that is an important figure to note. the board of supervisors has directed over $4 million towards housing and homeless solutions and it's going to manifest itself in several ways, ways that you will be able to see instantly. first, in housing subsidies for families and seniors, mental health services and street medicine teams, patch the funding for residential care facilities. that's a critical one. patch 23u7din funding for residl care facilities. and also for those facing eviction. so this additional million

dollars for the board and care facilities is without a doubt welcomed. it's a welcomed investment to help 355 san franciscoians facing displacement and also dealing with mental illness. this is directly aligned with the board's budget priorities and our commitment to ending homelessness and ensuring that our most vulnerable residents are safe, healthy and housed. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> thank you, president cohen, it was one of the best budget processes i have been involved in so thank you. we are so fortunate today to have our board member from this district, i have worked with her for many years and we're very proud to bring her up to the podium. [applause] >> thank you. thank you to everyone that is here today. the residents of victoria manor.

and also thank you mayor breed for finding this additional million funding to help our board and care facilities throughout the city. and president cohen and supervisor mandelman, thank you for supporting this. i think that it's so important. i have to thank roma guy and barbara garcia because anytime that i have questions they're the boots on the ground and i call them. i want to just thank you for all of of the years that you have been supportive in giving advice. i have a personal story. a neighbor of mine actually was losing her place, her roommate situation because of her mental health issues. when i saw her on the street she told me, this was almost 13, 14 years ago. and she told me her social worker suggested that she go into a room and care board facility. she was really frightened. i think that she had no idea

what they were about, and neither did i, but then i saw her months later and she was so well taken care of. she was happy. and she told me how much this really meant to her. and she had a family -- i think she was an eighth resident in care. and i have been very supportive of the board and care. because if it's the right situation for that right person it's vital. it's taking care of our most vulnerable residents and we need to step up. it's part of our housing stock, and i said that affordable housing is one of my priorities. this is affordable housing for our most vulnerable residents. i want to also thank all of the angels out there that take care of our residents here. and thank bernie joseph for being one of those people, second generation, that isn't saying i can't do it, you know,

because a lot of people -- a lot of people age out in these board and cares and they can't do it anymore. they don't have someone to replace them. and i just really think that it's amazing that it's a family affair because they are a family here. so i want to thank everyone for coming out and i'm very excited moving forward of how we look creatively at supporting our most vulnerable residents. thank you. [applause] >> thank you supervisor brown. our newest board member rafael mandelman, and in recent conversations with supervisors he's very interested in looking at housing, skill nursing and residential care facilities i know is one of his top priorities. so supervisor mandelman, thank you so much. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i am incredibly pleased to be here to support mayor breed and her team, director garcia, for all of great work you have done to make this a possibility.

and for identifying these additional funds to help to meet the critical need. decades ago when california set itself on the path towards deinstitutionalization and closing our state mental hospitals we were promised a network of community care facilities. i think that we all know that that promise was never kept. but to the incident that it was kept it was through places like this in the community where folks could get the care that they need. today in san francisco we have lost and are at risk of further loss of dozens, if not hundreds, of board and care facilities that provide house askin housine for our most vulnerable neighbors. i have spoken frequently and over the last year about my mother and her struggles with mental illness. she was housed for most of her adult life in board and care facilities. some were good, some were not so good. but they were essential to keeping her housed. make no mistake but for

facilities like this one, hundreds, if not thousands of additional san franciscoians would be in hospitals or jails or on our streets. so as we work to move the thousands of currently unhoused homeless san franciscoians off the streets and into care it's critical that we stabilize our stock of board and care facilities and create more care options for those who need them. i like that the mayor referred to this as a down payment and i think that is the right way to think of it. it's an important first step in addressing a need that i imagine that we will be grappling with for most of your administration but that i have complete confidence that working together with roma guy telling us what to do, we will be able to solve. so i'm very glad to be here and very grateful to be included. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor

mandelman. i just wanted to acknowledge bernie's family, her husband and daughter are here and i know that it's a family -- a family affair for this project. so i do want to thank you for all of the work and the support that you give to bernie to provide such a beautiful location for our clients. one of the important processes for our clients is social support. and so to be together and to learn together and to support each other is one of the important processes and also important contribution that a facility like this provides. so it would be such a great honor and i want to acknowledged kelly, our transitions director, who really manages with bernie and i heard that she's one of the best negotiators as bernie says, that she does what she is told to. and we are appreciative of both of the teams and so i appreciate you, bernie, and i want to bring you up.

[applause] >> good morning. i'm bernadette joseph, the owner and director of operations at victorian manor. thank you, mayor breed, and supervisor cohen and supervisor mandelman and supervisor brown, and director of health garcia, barbara garcia. thank you for being here and for your support for our seniors. here at victorian manor we serve over 90 elderly clients with various needs, including dementia, medical and mental health needs. our home provides a place where seniors can live in the community and be as independent as possible. we welcome with open hearts and open arms a diverse group of residents, including a frail and vulnerable elderly population and we see every day what a big difference it makes for them to have the right place to live with the full activity program that enriches their lives.

thank you mayor breed for recognizing the work of residential care facilities for the elderly like victorian manor. the new funding will help us to make ends meet. and to continue to serve the seniors that we care so much about. we are happy that the city is also looking into long-term solutions to keep the facilities like ours, residential care facilities for the elderly, to have them remain in san francisco. so, thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, that's the end of our program. and i'm sure that the press may have questions and i'll leave that to the press. thank you. >> any questions... anything off topic we'll take on the side. >> can you say specifically what the funding will go towards, is

it services or more beds? >> one of the important things that we have done with the facilities is that we have provided them with an extra amount per day for the bed and part of that is because we have individuals with different levels of need and that really helps for the staffing of the beds, and making sure that the right staff is for the right client and their needs. so this will provide extra dollars for a per bed space that we pay for and we work that out with the owners so they have the right staffing. bernadette, if you would like to add anything? [laughter]. >> where is the money coming from? >> the department will be working with the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the one-time dollars that the mayor allocated for this. >> that money goes towards staff wages and health care?

>> and as you know we pay per diem per day and that extra dollars the staffing has. >> can you talk more about why this is a piece of the puzzle that deserves the extra money? there's a lot of other things out there that need help as well. >> i think that we don't spend enough time talking about stopping something from happening in the first place. when you think about the amount of money it takes whether it's wages for employees, or an increase in the dollars that it takes to feed people, whether it's additional services, physical therapy, social services and things that go into actually taking care of some of the individuals who are in board and care, the costs are going up. then what happens when there's a huge gap, that means most likely that sometimes they can't necessarily take care of all of the clients that they have. and the reason why this is important is because if they have a budget shortfall then

that means that they go from 90 beds to maybe even 80 beds so they could at least afford to cover the costs of those particular individuals. this is important because where are we going to put 10 people that might be displaced because of a lack of funds? and so in looking at, you know, all of these particular board and care facilities and the increase in costs and the challenges to meet the need, we have to make sure that we keep every single bed. we have to make sure that we do everything that we can to prevent, you know, something from happening in the first place and that is the possibility of losing those beds which means that those people are going to have to go somewhere. and we have to do everything that we can to make sure that they don't end up on the streets and that's what this is about is prevention. >> any other questions? >> can you explain a little bit about -- i was shocked by the number that we have lost -- it looks like almost 30 of these facilities in the last five years. why that is happening.

>> well, it's exactly what mayor breed talked about is the fact -- and also the fact that some of these were family owned and the cost of doing this -- and this is all over california and this is not just san francisco. but the cost of doing these types of facilities, particularly as they depend on the ssfai dollars that comes in doesn't always match the overall cost of the facilities and the services. so it's exactly why we're trying to provide them some stabilization. we started doing this almost 11 years ago really looking at how to work with the residential care facilities in both ways. one, to provide them dollars to serve clients with higher needs and also to help them to cover their costs that ssfai doesn't always cover. because the increases don't match the cost of doing business. >> all right, thank you. [applause]

>> hi, in san francisco we're doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. and today we're going to be talking about the neighborhood support center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at the urban center in san francisco with sarah karlewski, deputy director of spur. we're talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay, exhibition at their center. and part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place

nearby where you can get the services that you might not have in your home. and that's what this little neighborhood support center is for. >> that's right. >> what are some of the services that might be provided in a neighborhood center like this? >> yeah. so, we think of the neighborhood support centers as really being homes away from home. so, after a major earthquake there is going to be a lot of confusion. people are going to need to try to meet up with other people. they're going to need a lot of information. so, a lot of what the neighborhood support center is going to provide is that information. basically we're going to be like a hub where people can come to get services, help, information, et cetera. what you see here on this table are a whole variety of did you ever rent things from tools, some walki-talkies.

this helps people know what is going on in their neighborhood. over here you have a whole variety of water and canned goods. we're really hoping that people will stock up for themselves at least for the first 72 hours if not more. i know that i have a ton of canned food and other sorts of things such as water within my own home. and everybody should, but there's going to come a time where people are going to end up running out and needing more. so, that's what we've got right here. >> so, this neighborhood support center, this doesn't look to be a major city sponsored fully stocked space. it can be a small commercial space, even somebody's garage as long as they have the information, a guide of information, who to call for what, communications equipment, some power, have a generator. >> that's right. >> thinking of lights and charge your cell phones and so on. and probably be operated by volunteers. >> volunteers, maybe members of nert could help out, people who

live in the neighborhood that have some building skill could be helpful. so, if there is a structural engineer living nearby or even an architect, they could really help people kind of understand what has happened to their homes and what sort of repairs might be needed. >> here we are with some of the things that you might find in a neighborhood support center. one thing we learned from hurricane katrina, people really rely on their portable electronics and their phone. we say here's a charging station tied up to the generation. the essential coffeepot. >> yes. >> maybe a computer, you can check your e-mail with. >> yes. we have our charging station here. and then over here you can see we've got a whole variety of things, including the all-important different tags. so, lawrence, do you want to talk a little about the tags? >> sure. people want to know what do these tags mean. is my building safe or unsafe. these are the city owe initial tags.

staying in your home doesn't require that you get a tag. it just means that you use common sense and maybe get help from people who might be around who can help you evaluate whether it's a safe place to stay. >> you might want to know because regular city services are disrupted, you might want to know when trash pick up is, if you need to get clean water, et cetera. also in the neighborhood support center, that kind of information would be available and we've got a little of that up here. >> trash pick up resumes regular schedule on wednesday. >> that's right. >> please mark your human waste. >> that's right. >> so, this is kind of an information center, communication center, also a center that hopefully will show people how to relate to their neighboring communities, what else is happening city-wide. and, of course, this is sort of the ubiquitous form of communication. my cat is missing, call me. >> exactly, because a lot of times, even if you do have a cell phone, and people do if you're really trying to save

some of your precious energy minutes, et cetera, or it's not working as well as it normally does, it is helpful to have a message board that you can get information to other people. and, so, that's what we're showing here. you can see people are going to be looking for their pets. they're going to be looking for rides. people are going to need to be sharing resources a much as they possibly can. another thing that you can see here is they're going to need to be fair tools and some of the things that people are going to need in order to be able to stay safer within their homes. so, we're just showing sort of a gesture to that with all these different tools here. but then also tarps, people are going to need to cover their windows if their windows are cracked, if their roofs are broken. so, ideally, the city would be able to know where all these neighborhood centers are and help deliver some of these supplies. >> they could come from a neighbor, maybe not. thank you so much for allowing

us to come in and share this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for >> i strive not to be a success but more of being a valued person to the community. the day and day operations here at treasure island truth in family is pretty hectic. the island is comprised of approximately 500 acres, approximately 40 miles of sanitary sewer, not including the collection system. also monitor the sanitary sewer and collection system for maintenance purposes, and also respond to a sanitary sewer overflows, as well as blockages, odor complaints. we work in an industry that the public looks at us, and they

look at us hard in time. so we try to do our best, we try to cut down on incidents, the loss of power, cut down on the complaints, provide a vital service to the community, and we try to uphold that at all times. >> going above and beyond is default mode. he knows his duties, and he doesn't need to be prompts. he fulfills them. he looks for what needs to be done and just does it. he wants this place to be a nice place to live and work. he's not just thinking customer service, this is from a place of empathy. he genuinely wants things to work for everyone and that kind of caring, i admire that. i want to emulate that myself. that, to me is a leader. >> i strive not to be a success but more of being a valued person to the community.

the key is no man is an island. when anything actually happens, they don't look at one individual, they look at p.u.c. stepping in and getting the job done, and that's what we do. my name is dalton johnson, i'm the acting supervisor here at treasure island treatment plant. sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online,

it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bill. >> president kwon: good afternoon. thanks for waiting, folks. welcome to the san francisco public utilities commission meeting. today is tuesday, july 24. before we take the roll, let me just say one thing. we have a number of speakers here today. we have a lot of speaker cards. to give everyone time, we're going to hold strictly to the 3 minutes. when you hear the second chime, that's when your time is over to

make time for the next person. so hold it to that time or you will force me to sing to you and that will get you off quickly. the roll, please? [roll call] >> clerk: we have a quorum. >> president kwon: i'm going to announce that closed session items 20-25 will not be heard today. and another note, too. august 14, the commission meeting will not occur. that meeting is not on the calendar. it's been canceled. so august 14 commission meeting does not exist on the calendar. item 3, approval of minutes from july 10, 2018. any discussion, commissioners? >> move approval. >> second. >> president kwon: any public comment on the minutes from the last meeting? all in favor? opposed?

okay. all right. item number 4 is general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on matters within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. i have peter druckmire. >> good afternoon, chair kwon, and commissioners. i think you know we're a little disappointed that the bay delta plan didn't make it on to your agenda today. and your august 14 meeting is canceled. so that means your next meeting, august 28, is after the state water board hearing on august 21 and 22 and we've only had one public discussion of the bay delta plan, which was in january, 2017. so we really haven't had a chance to discuss it. we put together a slide show that i'm going to show you today and i'm supposed to let the

folks downstairs know that we're going to shift over to the computer here. there are three of us who are -- who put in speaker cards so, we're hoping to run through it, depending on how the chair would like to proceed, we can stop after each person's time and restart the video or run through. >> president kwon: let's just run through. >> okay. i will queue that up right now. do we have sound? >> yes. >> the san francisco bay delta is on the verge of total ecosystem collapse. the main cause of estuary decline is the last of sufficient freshwater in flow from california's central valley rivers.

>> we had a tech person in earlier and he was talking about the buffering on this. it looks like it's buffering again. so maybe we can go to speaker 4 and 5 and come back to this and it will be good to go. >> president kwon: sure. i will call them in the order i have them. if i can line up the next few folks. denise louis. >> denise and barry are part of mine. >> president kwon: okay. if they want to come forward and wait in queue. >> clerk: i believe bill martin is next. >> president kwon: all right. >> thank you. my name is bill martin. i'm a san francisco resident and

customer of sfpuc. i've participated in four meetings, beginning in march this year. president kwon was present at the first two, march and april. a major topic has been the socioeconomic effects of the bay water quality control plan update. dave warrant, who is also speaking today, and i attended two other meetings, one in may and another just yesterday. these meetings have been very informative and have helped us understand the assumptions and background information in the reports and the model used to generate the results. to prepare for these meetings, we read numerous documents, articles and reports. so please understand we have not arrived at our conclusions lightly. what do we learn? first, more transparency is better. even though these are complex topics, they can be communicated clearly. when people feel like they're getting the real story, they

will respond. we found at the assumptions were not clearly listed and explained. we feel that we now understand a lot of these assumptions, but they were not at all clear at the beginning. not enough reasonable outcomes are modeled. for example, in the most recent drought, the governor told the state to conserve. the bay area reduced water consumption by 23% with little or no effect. this was not even considered in model even though it really happened. a second example contracts allow the various water agencies to transfer water among themselves. they're allowed to do so. why not ask them how they would do it and put that in the model. the study did not include probability analysis. in the most recent drought, the

governor asked them to conserve. in planning for a future drought, you would assign a higher probability of the governor taking action. that would result in a different series of socioeconomic effects. greater transparency and openness and consideration of a much larger set of out comes and techniques would greatly enhance the validity of the report. thank you. >> president kwon: thank you, mr. martin. mr. warner? >> i'm dave warner. it's an honor to speak to you, guys. thank you for supporting our discussions regarding the socioeconomic studies. we've learned a lot in the meetings and our concerns come

down to transparency and probability. if the studies had been better understood, they would have been used in a useful manner. the reader is left to draw his own conclusions. if you are an environmentist, you con exclusived th-- you conclude that the economic harm will never happen. if you are a water manager, you assume that the harm will happen and start spreading the work. it's a mistake to leave this to the reader to draw his or her own conclusions. the answer is in the middle, as demonstrated as follows. one of the discussions was around the lack of inclusion or discussion of mitigation items, such as investments in i.p.r. or desalination. mitigation actions can reduce the economic impact of the state water board's actions. the studies can be one-sided and leave the leader to his or her own conjecture.

apologize if i misrepresent comments. ms. levin's comments were along the lines of, extremely long lead times needed, measured in decades to implement things like i.p.r. and desalination and cited a project started in the '90s that is still not done. if a project started now, no way that it would be useful in eight years. and another comment, the return on i.p.r. and desalination are not as significant as imagined. both were thoughtful comments that i had not fully considered. if the probabilities have been incorporated, we would have had a belter understanding. if they're not include, no matter how difficult it is to come up with, it's up to the reader to make his or her own guesses, which we don't want. i think back to the comments of

2017 regarding the studies. a number of us claimed that the studies were wrong and commissioner moran responded to us and concluded that you had to believe the studies. in retrospect, we were all wrong. the answer, while not precise, is in between. incorporating mitigating actions and their probabilities into the studies is just one example of many that would improve transparency and understanding. so there is only so much we can cover in 6 minutes and we would be pleased to discuss our findings further. we ask that you don't reference the studies until the multiple issues like the examples here are addressed. thank you for the excellent dialogue. >> president kwon: thank you. >> sorry about the technology glitch. i think we're ready to go. again, we're going to play a video. if we could have sound? >> the san francisco bay delta is on the verge of total

ecosystem collapse. the main cause of the estuary's decline is the lack of sufficient freshwater in-flow from california's central valley rivers. in a last-ditch attempt to revive the bay delta and tributaries, state water control board is updating the plan. the aim is to achieve theco-equal goals of restoring eco systems and ensuring a reliable water supply. phase one of the plan was initiated in 2009 to update in-stream flow objectives for the san joaquin river and for the delta. it will establish the flow objectives for rivers that flow into the san joaquin. in-flow would start at 40% between february and june, which are critical months for juvenile salmon rearing and outmigration.

the plan allows for adaptive management that in-stream flows may increase or decrease depending on biological or environmental flows are met. nonflow measures, gravel augmentation and habitats, could reduce flows. agriculture water districts have opposed the plan and the san francisco public utilities commission that manages the hetch hetchy has joined them. it provides water to several counties. one reason the sfpuc opposes the plan is because it has a contractual plan with modesto to follow their lead on in-stream flows. sfpuc gave up its right to think and act in accordance with the values of constituents.

a recent public opinion opinion found that 93% of san francisc n franciscans conserved water during a drought and 94% said they would conserve if it benefited the environment. 21% only if it enabled more development. three times as many people said they would be more likely to blend groundwater with drinking water if it benefited the environment versus enabling more development. 97% supported measures to protect san francisco bay and 92% restoration of the twalamy river. and 88% for affordable housing and 68% for market rate housing. support for more office space was low at 40%. another reason the sfpuc opposes the bay delta plan is because

it's planning for a massive amount of development. plan bay area prepared bye-bye area metro forecast 4.3 million new jobs and 2 million more people to the bay area between 2010 and 2040. when asked if they thought that plan bay area would improve our worsen their quality of life, 11% thought it would improve their lives. 65% felt it would maybe their lives worse. 85% believe that plan bay area would worsen their quality of life. to predict how the bay delta plan would impact the bay area, it's important to understand the sfpuc water rights, demand and storage. the sfpuc has junior walter rights to modesto and turlock. the first cubics belong to the irrigation districts, increasing to 4,000 cubic per second for

spring runoff. above that, it belongs to the sfpuc. in a normal water year, the sfpuc is entitled to three times the water that is used. at full storage, we have enough water to last six years. even at theight of the recent drought, sfpuc had enough water in storage to last three years. the sfpuc had enough water and storage to last 4 1/2 years. 2017 was the second wettest year on record and the sfpuc had the right to capture enough water to last 12 years. they didn't have the ability to store all of that water, so they had to dump it. the water we conserve during the drought didn't benefit the environment was behind dams,

only to be dumped in a single season. sfpuc staff have used scare tactics. they claim it could lead to the loss of up to 188,000 jobs and $49 billion. their projections are based on an extremely flawed socioeconomic study that has been debunked. water demand decreased by 30% between 2006 and 2016. had the sfpuc's projections been accurate, we should see the loss of 25,000 jobs. and $6.5 billion. in fact, 125,000 jobs were added in san francisco alone and the economy grew stronger than ever. in san francisco and san matao

counties, jobs increased by 27% and water use declined by 23%. the trust modeled what would happen if the drought repeated with the bay area plan. the sfpuc could average the drought with 10% rationing. sfpuc has not challenged our model, but asserts they will plan for a design drought, that combined the two worst droughts from the latter part of the last century. most water agencies plan for a three-year drought, but the sfpuc plans for an eight-year drought. if they did follow their rat n rationing scenario, the sfpuc would have enough water for two years. all the economic impacts that

they forecast would have been unnecessary. in a worst-case scenario, if we experienced a drought worse than we've ever seen, water could be purchased from an agricultural walter district at a reasonable price. thank you for taking the time to learn more about the bay area water delta plan. we can have a vibrant economy and healthier ecosystem. please share this video with others that you think might be interested. >> president kwon: thank you. so you arranged that speakers 1, 2, and 3 would be in this time frame. i will call on speaker 6. i will call you up three at a time, if you can queue up on this side. so i have speakers 6, 7, 8, mr. harry bernstein, ms. anne clark, and ms. sonya deermaier.

mr. bernstein, please come up. >> good afternoon, president kwon, and commissioners. my topic today has to do with the balboa reservoir near city college. as you know, the upper balboa reservoir site, east side, is owned by city college. the lower western site by the p.u.c. so i just have a few points to make. during -- so there's a major development being considered for that lower reservoir site. during previous moves to put housing in the reservoir, which is '80s to '90s, serious concerns were raised about the safety of the basin, especially involving fire and drought. those are two different issues, of course, given the physical

layout, a fire would pose a tremendous threat and get easily out of control into the neighborhoods. another part is in the case of drought, the city has been trying to husband its water resources, i know especially in the western side. there's been a number of engineering studies over the years, trying to discuss whether certain potential reservoirs should be used for storing water in the case of fire and other emergencies. and one, i guess, was done as recently as 2000/2002. and can i give you citations. and it was thought that it was a good idea to retain one of the reservoirs and then parking could be put on top of the

various plans. so i think that should be considered rather than just declaring the property surplus. second, the city college board of trustees and administration have now agreed, the board has voted to finish the performing arts education center, which began as a proposal, at least 10 years ago. it's imperative that no project goes forward in the lower reservoir until the completion of the pack in the upper reservoir, to allow proper staging for construction to occur in a timely manner. chancellor rocha has advocated for construction to be in as early as this year and estimates vary but it could last until 2002. the last thing is, the p.u.c. has said, when there's a north

reservoir, that they with never develop that. they would change their mind. thank you. >> president kwon: thank you. next, ms. anne clark. how are you? >> good, thanks. i will talk very fast. i'm anne clark, a member of nrdc and san francisco resident. i'm speaking for myself. i want to thank the sfpuc staff for all their work. during meetings with them, they've provided short and long-studied data and projected about sfpuc water and power programs. i attended meetings when sfpuc were working on lines and water flows. i attended a meeting july 19 in san matao and realized i looked some information. there are long-term and

short-thermostatistics for customer and customer properties. i request that before closed session that the following information is provided to the public in an open session. public disclosure of short and long term statistics about development, employment, density, water use and conservation in the last year, five years, 10 years, 15 years, going back 20 years. we all know how important water and rivers are for california and worldwide. water is not a cap-filled use and flush commodity. it's a lifeline of our planet. commissioners have vital and critical decisions to make. water is not just for real estate density and development. water must be conserved for use in cities, farms, orchards, vineyards and rivers.

the public must be included in the decision making and not behind closed doors. thank you very much. >> president kwon: thank you, ms. clark. next, sonya deermair. is that right? >> yes. thank you. good afternoon. i'm sonya deermair, speaking for sierra club bay area and california. we find it appalling that san francisco is opposing the state water board's proposal to leave some water in the twalamy river. we are also appalled that the commission has not seen fit to make this an agenda item for public discussion. san francisco is allying itself with greedy agricultural interests and central valley republicans and the trump administration, which is staging a full-scale attack on california's right to determine its water future.

they are spewing extreme rhetoric, demanding the right to continue draining our rivers to the bottom, to the bed, and killing fish. the sfpuc is fueling the flames with misinformation campaigns. the palliative measures that you are suggesting instead of flows, are akin to the idea that you can have a swimming pool with a leak and the water level is dropping and you're talking about adding a diving board, some waterslides, maybe lifeguards, and then maybe people will come back to swim. it's absurd. water quality control plan is a watershed moment in our state's history. it's pretty simple. without water, a river isn't a river. without freshwater to balance the incoming salt water, the delta is not an estuary.

it's that simple. and san franciscans, i believe, would be outraged to know that you are siding with the interests that are about to drive smelt and salmon into extinction. thank you. >> president kwon: thank you. all right. next three speakers, michael adams, fred mohime, and mark gonzalez. so mr. adams, welcome. >> thank you very much. michael adams with the small grassroots group city college first coalition, one of several groups springing up to try to address the potential for transferring the balboa reservoir, which we call the west parking lot, to private

developers, at great consequences, negative consequences, to students and neighborhoods. during previous moves to put housing in that reservoir, serious concerns were raised about the safety of the basin, especially involving fire and drought situations. no one is addressing this as it's already a basin, which never had water in it, but the potential is there. all parties involved have publicly admitted that no research has been done current and future ridership needs of the 20,000 students a day that attend city college's main campus and need to get to their classes ontime, to say nothing about professors that have to move from site to site and need their cars. muni is great, but it's often late. they had voted to finish the world-class performing center. it's imperative that no project goes forward in the lower reservoir until the completion,

perhaps 2022 of the performing arts education center and upper reservoir that will displace some of the parking supply. p.u.c. would be wise before approving a surplus in density. we hope that's where we remain. areas described -- i'm a city planner by training and we describe transit-rich sometimes when we mean transit-gridlock. that's what we're facing in that area of the city. it's a nightmare at commute times. during the last few years, city college, as you know, was under what turned out to be an illegal attempt to terminate the college, which would have released the public land even easier of the whole college

site. not only did c.c.f. survive, thanks to the efforts of many, but it's thriving, thanks to the efforts of wise political folks who sponsored free city college which supervisor increasing the need for parking. just a thought, that that parcel is well suited for a solar panel-mixed use and parking underneath. it's not unusual for the city for that to happen. it happens on bart parking lots and the pg & e parking lot, where the trucks park under solar. thank you. >> president kwon: mr. fred moheim. >> good afternoon, commissioners, and chairman kwon. 43-year resident of san

francisco and life-long learner at city college. i am a proponent of optimiza thank you -- optimizing public land. the current plan limits parking for the college. in trying to optimize the use of the land, we end up diminishing the ability of the college to train the taxpayer work force that the city requires. and that's because we have many students and faculty members that can only access the college by vehicle and don't have access to public transit to get there. maybe not all the parking need it, but it m