>> hi, i'm japanese with the san francisco public utilities combination sometime people call me sewer girl our systems has served the area for 1 hundred and 50 years we're planning you understand public health and our environment don't think that so come in down and see how >> president kwon: good afternoon, everyone.

welcome to the tuesday, september 11, meeting of the season -- san francisco public utilities commission. [roll call] >> clerk: we have a quorum. >> president kwon: next item, number 3, approval of minutes, august 28, 2018. any discussion from the commission? >> move approval. >> second. >> president kwon: any public comment? seeing none, all in favor? number 4, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on items within the jurisdiction but not on today's agenda. any general public comment today? okay. next item, communications. any discussion, commissioners?

>> on the advance calendar, we have some items on there that are getting pretty old, like a year and more. and i've asked before to get more timely responses on that. let me renew that request to the general manager. there is no reason that anything should be on that list for a year and we ought to be getting responses to that. >> president kwon: any other comments? any public comments on communications? item 6, other commission business. anything? >> i did want to take this opportunity to thank yolanda menzoni for her thoughtful memorandum on the conservation piece in connection with the unified school district best practices and then also the

animal agriculture. harlan and i have been bouncing some articles back and forth, but i didn't want folks to be under the impression that staff didn't kind of take to heart the conversation. it was thoughtful and deliberate and well written and hopefully it's the first of many. in addition to that, i wanted to thank i'vy fine for doing a lot of work behind the scenes for coming up with suggestions for the agenda item from last week. that in connection with staff, ms. ellis, the general manager, massoud, justine, working on the work force development policy that we've been discussing for a while. they're kind of all interconnected, right, the policy, land management plan, the contracts. and it's not to say that we don't know what will happen.

we don't know whether one of our bottom lines will be to require apprenticeship or any labor standard. when you look at them, you see there are millions and millions going out from our agency. a lot of that work is the kind of work that's being targeted by the community work force, by a lot of the c.b.o.s and the nonprofits that we work with. and i don't think -- i don't think it's a mountain for us to climb to make a determination on our own about what our objectives are with respect to a labor standard or a minimum labor standard or, you know, resources and equipment and so on. my concern is that if we don't at least have a thoughtful conversation about that over the next few months, we'll piecemeal it out without a lot of deliberation and i think that's a disadvantage not just to the rate payers and to our plan, but to the workers that are relying on us to be a little more

deliberate about those items. i'm looking forward to having the conversation with my colleagues and thank ivy fine for the work she did. >> president kwon: when you talk about animal agriculture, is that cows or also poultry, turkeys, stuff like that? >> it's anything. i'm not on record of being a vegan or a vegetarian or any of those other things, but in my conversation at some meetings and in light of what the governor is doing right now, i had an opportunity to meet with former agency employee tyrone jew, and francesca vietor, which i have a ton of respect for and in her wheel house. once guys like me, hard hat guys, industry growth guys, start talking about this, it's a

sign that we're on to something, so, yes, all animals. >> president kwon: okay. good. it's good to put a flashlight on it. i appreciate your efforts. thank you. any other comments? all right. any public comment on other commission business? next we have the report from general manager kelly. >> good afternoon, commissioners. the first item is our clean power sf update. michael heinz? >> good afternoon, commissioners. director of clean power sf for power enterprise. for the c.c.a. update today i'm going to cover three things. i will start with our usual clean power sf enrollment ander is russ is status update. i'm also going to provide some information related to the global climate action summit that being held here in san francisco. and i will update the p.c.i. at

the public utilities. with respect to our enrollment and service update, clean power continues to move along successfully. clean power sf is serving 108,000 accounts with a cumulative opt-out percentage of 3.1% since program launch. our super green upgrade rate continues to exceed the opt-out rate at 3.4% of active customers. and with an upcoming october quarterly enrollment of customers that have signed up for the program, we're anticipating that it will jump up to 3.6% so, it continues to climb, very positively. that means in october, we'll have more than 3,800 businesses and households in san francisco that have elected to receive 100% renewable electricity from clean power sf.

so today marks the opening of the 2018 global climate action summit hosted right here in san francisco. the summit, which runs through the 14th, but there's a number of affiliate events that happen all week, is bringing together state and local governments, businesses, citizens from around the world to showcase climate action taking place. and demonstrating how local communities are turning the tide in the race against climate change and inspiring deeper national commitments in support of the paris agreement. i wanted to use this opportunity to share, first of all, that there are hundreds of climate action affiliated events and anyone interested in participating can find information at globalclimateactionsummit.org.

the power enterprise and clean power sf is also participating in a number of ways. first, in conjunction with cal c.c.a. and the san francisco bay aira planning and urban research association or s.p.u.r., titled "local to global: how local programs are greening the sunshine today." it was followed by a guided tour of marin county solar one project completed in richmond, california. this evening clean power sf is sponsoring a film screening as part of the sf green film festival happening in parallel with the event, the summit,

excuse me. the film is called the point of no return. and it's about the inspiring first solar powered flight around the world. the point of no return is showing that yerba buena center for the arts at 8:00 p.m. more information on that and other films that are part of the festival can be found at greenfilmfest.org. last but not least, i wanted to heche that the s.f. p.u.c. will be delivering refreshing hetch hetchy snowcones over the next few days. so keep your eyes out for bicycle-powered snowcone vendors around city hall and downtown the rest of the week. the s.f.p.u.c. will be tweeting about the activities so folks get more realtime updates. >> president kwon: are these flavored snowcones? >> there are. and there's some creatively

named snowcones as well. it's all clean water. [laughter] >> why aren't they here at the meeting? >> pardon me? oh. so in honor of this gathering of action leaders 1 san francisco, i also wanted to highlight what clean power s.f. is mitigating. after just two years of operation, clean power s.f. has provided significant greenhouse gas reduction benefits to san francisco. by increasing the amount of renewable and carbon-free energy supply, we estimate that clean power sf has reduced the footprint by 82,000 metric tons. this is the equivalent of removing 17,000 passenger vehicles from the road for one year. so not trivial. in addition, as you know, the

sfpuc entered into two long-term contracts that will generate 147 megawatts of renewable power in california. that's enough to power 130,000 average san francisco homes per year. so it's a really big step in converting our power supply to clean energy. and i do want to mention our long-term goal that we're driving towards and that's to eliminate greenhouse gases entirely by 2030. that target adopted by the board of supervisors, is 15 years faster than the state's new target adopted by senate bill 100 and signed into law earlier this week by governor brown. so, again, demonstrating that local communities can be motivators towards these objectives. on the regulatory front, the

california p.u.c. had issued two proposals. as a reminder, clean power sf generation rates are set to absorb the impact of our customers. the first proposal was in you'd by the judge assigned to the proceeding on august 1. the second proposal is an alternate, issued by the commissioner assigned to the proceeding on august 14. broadly speaking, the judge's proposal is much better. it's a balanced decision that draws from the record in the proceeding. in terms of results, its impact is essentially neutral on program competitiveness. by contrast, our assessment of the alternate proposal is that it will shift costs to customers from customers of the utilities not participating in the programs. the alternate proposal will

impact the ability to deliver the product at lower costs. we've been working with cal c.c.a. to prepare and file comments on the judges proposal, done on august 21, and then the alternate proposal filed on september 4. replay comments on both are due thursday, december 13. we're also working with cal c.c.a. on those. california p.u.c. held a meeting to discuss the proposals. at that meeting, the commission indicated that they intend to make a decision on september 27, their last regular business meeting of the month. we also heard at that all-party meeting that the commission anticipates making additional changes before making a vote. through our external affairs

team, we've engaged with the mayor's office as well as other communities impacted by the pending decision. last week, mayor breed joined the mayors of oakland and san jose in issuing a joint press release and letter urging them to adopt the proposal. the mayor's letter urges them to not make a decision that shifts costs and could roll back the dramatic efforts that local communities are making to address climate change. in addition, we worked with state legislators and it's been signed by 17 legislators. finally, there's a full page ad in the chronicle this thursday endorse the by 120 local elected leaders having them to adopt a balanced proposal that meets the requirements of state law and promoting and not destroying

competition in the mark he all 11 of san francisco board members have signed on to that. if anyone wants to express their support, they can send a letter to the california p.u.c. the center for climate protection has issued an action alert for anyone that wants to lend their voice to this effort. one can participate by going on to the center for climate protections website at climateprotection.org. finally, i'd like to give a shout out to our external affairs team doing such a great job, emily lamb, megan scott, will riceman, and probably others that i'm missing, but wanted to acknowledge their hard work. that concludes my update. if you have any questions --

>> president kwon: commissioners? thank you for sharing. great work. any public comment on this item? seeing none, next item, please. >> clerk: next item is the bay delta water quality control plan update. >> thank you, steve ritchie, g.m. for water. a few, brief comments. we held a hearing at the last commission meeting on the matter of bay delta water quality control plan update. i left that meeting to go down to the center for the water district board meeting, where they were holding a similar type of hearing that lasted until 10:00 that night as well on the same topic. i presented our information on our behalf. i committed to coming back at the september 25 commission

meeting with the differences that exist out there. so we have them as simply laid out as possible between where the state is at with their proposal and where we are with our proposal, believing it is better for fish and water supply than the state's. i cannot go into any detail because of a nondisclosure agreement, but there have been an increased number of discussions on the negotiated settlement front that gives me positive feelings, but cannot share specifics in a public setting like this. i would be happy to answer any questions. >> president kwon: commissioners? any public comment? >> i have a question. i do have a question. i was reviewing the minutes from the last meeting which i missed, and i saw that we never did any

stud i studies, done at different locations in the pacific northwest and i was wondering why. >> well, our work and the work of the districts has been on the river. there's a very active research community particularly on salmon fisheries, so that's why it's in the literature from that area. it's more -- it's harder for people to get to work in our rivers here in california. work does get done. we funded together with the districts about $25 million worth of work on the tuolumne river in the last few years. but researchers go to where they think their action is.

>> is there any question that the work that has been done elsewhere wouldn't apply? >> i think that issue had been raised on a number of topics. for example, some of the temperature work that has been done for the pacific northwest and not for a southern area like this. so those are the questions that we are raising. i will try to talk about those rates at the next commission meeting and i will be prepared to lay those out. >> good. thank you. >> president kwon: thank you. next item. hetch hetchy capital improvement program quarterly report. >> i will start off by saying

that we have some schedule and budget appearances in the court and i would be happy to answer any questions on those, but i wasn't planning on doing into that today. i would rather give some updates on what has been happening recent ly. if we can go to the slides, please. thank you. i would like to update progress associated with the march, 2018, flood event, storm event, that caused flooding at moccasin reservoir and other facilities. as you know, hetch hetchy experienced large amounts of rainfall and debris. inundating the reservoir.

the water got very high in the reservoir, nearly over top of the dam and there were some seepage and we've addressed that. my purpose today is to update you on what's taken place since that time. we've continued debris removal, clean upand -- cleanup and repair. this was an emergency basis. once we got through the critical emergency cleanup, and that has been ongoing, but some of the most urgent work had to get done before we could really assess the damage and address designs that were needed to make emergency repairs so we could repair it as quick as we could. we've done designs and submitted it to the california division safety of dams and have obtained approval for the designs. it's in two phases.

phases 1 and 2 of our 2018 interim repairs and improvements. i will tell you about those in a moment. the funding needs need to be addressed. it's working on allocating funding as appropriate and looking at the capital planning going forward. so my purpose is not to address that today, but to tell you about the work that's taken place so far. we have applied for reimbursement through california office of emergency services for possible reimbursement, but it takes quite some time to get reimbursed for projects. as you know, it's taken quite some time. this is a look at with the it

looked like prior to the storm. as you can see, this is the moccasin creek diversion dam. there's a pipeline that goes under the reservoir that takes the creek past the hetch hetchy, stored in the reservoir. and in the foreground, the moccasin reservoir the fish hatchery is downstream of the dam. you can see the auxiliary spillway on the left. gate 3 is important because that's one of the items that we're addressing. i've shown you some photos of the damage. what we're doing in the phase 1 and 2 measures and improvements, is up at the moccasin creek diversion dam, we're replacing a debris rack that was destroyed, that prevented debris from going into the conduit, the reservoir.

we're addressing severe erosion and also addressing repairs to the abuttments of that facility. we're addressing a small water line that provides water to ranches in the area. that work is complete. it's a 3-inch water line, but there's a significant length of that water line that was destroyed. so that has been completed. we're going to automate gate 3. until this point, it's been a manual gate. so during the flood, operation staff could not access this gate to open it. and that did have some impact, not a lot of impact, on the overall event, but we will automate that gate. as well as creating access to that gate, so that in a flood event, we can get out there in

case the automation doesn't work. there's a partial catwalk there now. we'll extend that catwalk all the way to the shore. there's severe erosion at the toe of the main dam that's been addressed. the primary spillway was okay. so we'll repair that. downstream of both spillways, you can see where the vegetation is, on the left in this photo of the fish hatchery. we're placing a flood protection berm that will keep water from inundating as during the storm. there are also culverts along the highways and moccasin yard. so i will show you a couple of

photos that's taking place. work got started in earnest in july and things are really ramping up. it's really busy up there right now. the light hold water line, the small, 3-inch-diameter water line that needed to be repaired and you can see the damaged line on the hillside and the photo on the left coming from the powerhouse and going across the reservoir and the photo on the right shows the excavation made for the new water line and it's been essentially covered with concrete to keep it protected in the future. and that project is complete and the water line is in service now. the moccasin damn toe repair is essentially complete and you can see this articulated map. we call it flex map that was used to help the toe of the dam. and the other projects are just

getting started now. and so we'll show you more as the work progresses and we expect the work -- the majority of the work to be completed by the end of this year with is of the work going into spring of next year. moving on to other projects, as you know, we did ask the commission to terminate the moccasin rehabilitation contract for convenience and it has a direct relation to moccasin. on the day of the storm event, there was a scheduled attachment upstream that was unable to take place because of the storm event. it was extremely important to get that inspection done and do repairs prior to implementing this contract. because we were not able to do that, it was the last opportunity to do it until next march. we'll reschedule the work after

that inspection has been done and have the contract for a future day. other construction milestones are that we did achieve substantial completion on the cherry dam outworks rehab age station project. we expect completion in the near future and also on new shops and office buildings at moccasin. moving to mountain tunnel. interim repairs was awarded to sierra mountain construction. the work will take place in a 60-day shutdown scheduled for january and february next year. this is a photo of the repairs being done in the last phase 1 of the interim repairs. this is similar work that will take place early next year and

in the main contract, the proposed over the long term. regarding that project, we are in design. we've achieved 35% design. we expect 65% this fall. this profile shows the length of repairs that were done in 2017. length of repairs that are expected in 2019. and then the repairs that are expected as part of the main contact over a five-year period. and so we're moving forward on that, both on the environmental and design phases. and then i will just end by showing a couple of proposed solar projects that are being managed by the power enterprise and part of this report and there's one in design at the san francisco police academy. we have a memorandum of understanding with them to do that installation with them as well as the san francisco

unified school district. >> president kwon: and are these funded by the p.u.c.? >> excellent question. my understanding is that they're funded by the p.u.c. but also a -- there's a possibility of some funding coming for the marina middle school project, but it's not clear whether that will take place or not. >> president kwon: thank you. >> i have a question. under your summary, looking at the moccasin information. we have a current forecast cost of $12,000. watch was not in the budget originally. we have not done any inspections, so i was wondering how we came up with that. >> right. thank you for the question. the approved budget -- and i

reported on this in the past, and as a reminder, for the moccasin pennstock was for improvement and not construction. it came out to $12 million. now that the project has been canceled, it will be repackaged. so we're rebaselining the project and then in the next quarterly report, the project schedules and budgets will be aligned with the newly approved capital plan. >> i see. >> yeah. >> president kwon: other questions? any public comment on this item? okay. thank you. public comment for this item? please come on up. do you have public comment for this particular item?

>> my comment is about something that i read in the newspaper that i think -- >> president kwon: is it related to this specific item? >> it's a general comment about any project. >> president kwon: we had general public comment in the beginning. if you can include something related to this comment, we can hear you out, but must be specific to this item. >> okay. about the hetch hetchy capital improvement program, it's important for san francisco to maintain its pro-environment p reputati reputation. sometimes we hear from the l.a. times or yesterday by supervisor peskin that we're tarnishing our reputation. whatever you do with the hetch hetchy capital improvement program or others, please do san

franciscans a favor and keep our environment-friendly reputation intact. thank you. >> president kwon: thank you for your comment. any our public comment on this item? yes, sir. [laughter] he's preparing for the next topic. the acting director for the sewer system improvement program. >> can we have the slides, please? >> good afternoon. i'm howard fung, senior project management southeast plan and wastewater program. i have the quarterly report

followed by the wastewater enterprise quarterly report. the 70 projects in stage 1 representing $2.79 billion are 25% complete with $649 million at the close of june. there are 18 projects in construction represented by the green. it's still the biggest piece of the pie with the largest, dollar-value projects that are in this phase. the team is working diligently on design. we anticipate completing 95% by december. the team's also working on a few early-out packages that includes sewer replacement, demolition and utility work, which we anticipate will break ground in march, 2019. we have assumed ownership and

will do the same for the greenhouse site once demolition is completed later this month. more recently, the agreement was signed by e.p.a. and p.u.c. on july 27. and the contact for construction management staff augmentation was signed on august 1. so we expect to have n.t.p. later this month. it's a bit hard to see, but the photo is the physical hydraulic model of the flow stream for the facility. it's used to evaluate the position and flow characteristics under varying flow conditions. regarding progress, scope one for site prep is under construction. we're taking delivery of the 54-inch-diameter, temporary bypass pipe, that will allow

flows to be rerouted for future construction of the main facility under scope 3. on scope 2a, we've advertised various packages for improvement. we plan to open an award on this corridor. we achieved 95% design milestone for scope three and are in the process of evaluating the cost. this shows the progress. this shows us where we are as of june 30. blue represents preconstruction and green, construction. we're finishing up design on the west side and the north shore pump station improvement projects. as well as the southeast plant power upgrades project, all of which will go into construction

next year. the primary and secondary clarifyer upgrades project was substantially completed at the end of june and currently working through lists to close out the contract by january. the 521/522 disinfection project is 83% complete and the project will be done in early spring next year. the existing project is about 87% complete. and the photo shows some of the new waste gas piping at the plant. we have completed half of our projects. and now chinatown. for the remaining three, baker beach had to be re advertised.

sunset boulevard phase two is in design with public works that should be completed by the end of this year and yosemite creek daylighting is in preconstruction as we coordinate with rec and park. on the ssip, 458,000 hours have been worked but 1,550 workers who have earned $21.9 million in wages. san franciscans have worked 32% of all the hours, exceeding the 30% requirement. the sfpuc is working with contractors, trades, unions and service community providers to train and place qualified apprentices on projects. so far, 65% of those have been worked bill san francisco residents. this equates to 110 apprentices

working 40,000 hours and earning $1.4 million in wages. one important thing to note is that the city's central system for tracking wages and benefits is going through a software transition. currently, it does not include account for fringe benefits. what you are seeing are slightly lower wage amounts that what was reported last quarter. we hope the new system will be up and running by next quarter. throughout the summer, we're focused on projects entering or in need of construction, whether it's celebrating the ribbon-cutting of the recently completed projects like the chinatown living alley or masonic street improvements.

our communication staff are actively attending and tabling at events that range from sunday streets to the children's day festival in the bayview. to keep our neighbors across the city informed of the work that we are doing. some of the other ongoing efforts include continuing to evaluate projects for phase 2 and bringing to you the recommendationserliy -- recommendations for early out and move forward. we'll soon be mobilizing at the southeast plant to actively coordinate with the construction teams. this concludes my report. i will be happy it answer any questions if you have them. >> thank you.

i have a question on the digester facilities project. it has to do with the projected end date. and i take it from your graphs that we have been delayed in starting construction. and your chart shows that that is basically extended us for a year on completion date. is that right? >> no. we're still holding to the existing -- the final completion date. i don't believe we're showing an extension to the schedule. we are having a delayed start in march, 2019, for n.t.p. we are working to make improvements on

construct-ability and cost-saving measures. so we're working to implement them. >> the chart that you have -- your graph number three, our slide three, it's extending to 2025. >> for the full closeout including the starting evacuation of the digesters. so the target remains the same, no variances in the baseline for that. as a closeout for the digesters, including deactivation. >> when we quote the completion date, are we doing construction or -- >> president kwon: once you complete, right, then you may take time to close the contract out, right? >> i understand that. what is confusing to me is what

we talk about. on page 260 of the binder that we have, there's the project performance and it shows a may, 2025, date. >> that is the project schedule for completion of the whole project, which includes substantial completion, final completion and closeout and activation of all the new digesters. the biological process takes some time. >> that can be confusing. the thing that you said that i like the most is the idea that even though we've had a delay in the start-up time that we will try to figure out how to meet the original completion date. and i think we received some inquiry about that and we need to be clear about what we mean

when we say end of project and how the projects are affected by the slip start date. >> understand. >> i don't understand. what is -- is the project going to be completed in may, 2025? >> the project will be completed in its whole, including construction, final completion and closeout, by may, 2025. >> so what's the may, 2024? >> final completion of the construction contract. >> president kwon: once you complete construction, there's a whole process that you have to make sure everything is working properly. so it's a startup. when you finish construction, you have to operate it. you have to make sure that the stationary engineers are comfortable with everything. you are talking a completed project and now you have to get staff on there making sure they feel comfortable that it's

working correctly. as soon as you finish construction, you don't just start operating it. it takes a year for startup. that's included in there. >> the construction contract will be completed, but the biological digestion takes some time. this is the year to make sure that all the digestion, the process, biological process, are completed correct ly. >> what date do we use when asked? >> full project will be completed may, 2025. >> and it will be in operation. >> yes. >> it will be in operation on that date. >> correct. >> the construction of the facility will be done the year before. >> the year before, correct. >> so when we promise the community it will be done, what we mean is the end of closeouts

and it's up and running and operational? >> may, 2025. >> so won't be operational -- >> some of it will be, but it will take time to develop the b biologic process. >> president kwon: it depends on what we're trying to communicate to the community. most of the community is concerned about the construction and when will that happen and we'll say the contractor will be complete, 2024. everyone will be in place and everything will be working perfectly and it will be 2025. so between 2024 and '25, we'll

run the digesters. we may find that we have to do some tweaks and it's a process where it operates correctly. >> i would suggest that the community doesn't care as much about completion of construction as when they care about the old and smellyer digesters will be retired and new and improvement ones will be fully in service. >> yeah. i will just add, the community work force will know when it's done. the construction workers. they will tell us when it's done. [laughter] >> the question also, what do we tell the community? we've been saying, 2024. and part of the inquiry was saying, you are slipping the start date. doesn't that mean you are slipping the end date?

then you try to pin it out, well, 2024 isn't when it was going to be in service. >> if you look at the water system and all the pump stations, we give the exact same. the contractor, it may be a year because they can't operate until the next, you know, dry weather. so it's sort of the same way that we reported on the waterside. >> i get that. from an engineering and construction standpoint it makes sense. from the community standpoint, it doesn't make any sense at all. >> i think the community knows about when we stopped construction because we explained to them every year what to expect. and so i believe that they're very clear that we will finish construction. once we finish construction, we will have a ribbon-cutting and

say, it is finished. and now we have to build up and operate the system and get the whole process. the contractor will leave unless there are some issues and then they will come back. and then the staff will be ramping it up. that's how we do all construction projects. when the contractor leaves -- >> most construction projects don't have the same level of community interest and stake, if you will, as this one does. the pump station goes up today or tomorrow. this one does matter to the people that live around it. so those differences are important to be clear about. >> i agree. we should make sure that that's clear. >> we'll do that. >> one other question. on a previous slide, you showed the project with rec park. was it --

>> yosemite. >> okay. thank you. >> that one was with public works. the alleyway. >> so we're going to say that construction will be over in may, 2024. >> president kwon: yes. and then it will be turned over to us so we can start operating it and get the biological process work, because you have to put the bugs in and all that stuff. >> it takes some time. we have multiple digesters and it takes time to seed and develop them to operational. we're trying to phase in the new and taking out the old as well. >> president kwon: so we may take one digester out at a time? it's not like you will do just like that and then switch over. so it's a process. the main thing is, we want the contractor to be out of there. that is what will delay us.

once that's done, it's to our operations staff to get the new system on-line. [inaudible] >> no, no. >> it's not like a mechanical system where you switch over and the flows just mechanically cleans everything. this one you have to grow the bugs and make sure they're happy, you know. and they produce gas. and at the same time, you are talking down the old ones. there is only so much solids you can have. so there's limitation about how much you can convert over to the new system. it's a process. >> president kwon: maybe a better way is you have the actual facility will be complete, but then a year transition, right, where you are transitioning from the old system to the new system?

>> think about it.

they are putting bid packages before the actual documents are complete. ninety-five% complete and they are putting bid packages out already on the stuff like the retail -- utility relocation, foundation got all that work is happening before the actual 100% of the documents. so that is one of the reasons we went there to allow us to start construction. so i think the thing is that we pretty much -- in construction, we got the contractor on board. issuing the first trade package was delayed. >> correct. there were recommendations for constructibility improvements and scheduling. we are working to implement some of those improvements. >> with those, we would finish at the appropriate time. >> it reduces a lot of our risk, some of those recommendations

are constructibility improvements a simplified construction, reduce a lot of our construction risk. we are making a better package but it may take a little bit of time to incorporate in and implement some of those. >> i can appreciate the concern. i understand the engineering and the construction, but i am also sensitive to we don't know what the narrative will be. that is kind of the issue. i know what is done is done. we all know what is done is done but a lot of folks don't have the liberty of having the information that we have. isn't it really safe to assume that we are going to have a narrative on the ground, and i would at this, rb going to explore having dialogue with our southeast community group so that there is already a message about this, so that it doesn't bubble up unnecessarily? >> i can double, but i think

that we've been out to the community. we have been talking about the schedule. >> we have just got together with external affairs and talking about communication and mrs. jo's just messaging as we start the construction. there will be a kickoff meeting with external affairs communications, workforce development, just so we get on the same page in terms of what message and how often we keep the community up to date. >> that is not really -- it is to talk about the progress on the schedule of the project, but the main reason that we are having this group, it is not like to talk about when it is complete. it is to talk about opportunities during construction and making sure that people in the community, some of the outreach specialist to live in the community, we

actually have opportunities to bring them on board to deliver messages to the computer and it does to the community. that is what that is. to make sure everyone is clear about opportunities during construction and then opportunities in the future. because some of the things we are looking at it is we are identifying businesses that there may be an opportunity to years from now, how can we get you prepared for these opportunities? we are doing -- that is what we are doing. as part of that, we will make sure that we are absolutely clear that in 2024, that the project infrastructure facility will be complete. edge will be our year of transition where we will start transitioning from our old digester to a new digester. >> there is also a construction

communication office at 1800 oakdale. as people have questions about ongoing issues tied to construction or lack of information or just are wondering what is happening if we have not been able to reach them, there is staff house at 1800 oakdale actively receiving people walking in all the time. there is a squad of communication staff that are working with the merchants and with their community-based organizations in the community, giving them information on a regular basis with regards to expecting for these roads to be closed soon and let us know as issues come up and that type of thing. we have been out there and ramping up now but construction, that greathouse just got demolished. people had questions. there's a lot of activity happening down there already. we have people fully staffed down there. candace kathy mentioned, there is a committee of the pms under howard's leadership and our communications team having regular meetings so that as

issues come up from the construction people who are out there saying that things are delayed, or that kind of thing or if we are hearing from community stakeholders that they are upset around mass and debris and whatever things are going on , that there is communication happening both ways from a coordinated structure at the p.u.c. >> we will have somebody who is very clear about what is done is done and what starts is when it starts. that is the point. >> absolutely. >> that is good to know that we do have a squad out there. the community has access in the community to answers and if the answers aren't forthcoming then and there on the spot, they know someone is there to get it for them. >> i will ask our people what they are communicating with regards to ending it. >> this is a question of managing expectations and making sure that we don't end up in 2024 with people crying foul.

thank you. >> for the wastewater enterprise quarterly report -- >> we want public comment. any public comment on the prior items before we go on to the next? ok. last item is the wastewater enterprise capital improvement program. >> for the wastewater enterprise quarterly report, there are two red dots on this report. one is on the ocean beach project and the other one is at griffith yard improvement project. ocean beach, the scheduled variance represents additional time needed to continue with the ongoing short-term sand nourishment work and the long term planning efforts with the various stakeholders on that project. for that great 50 yards completion, it has been completed. but additional time is needed