buildings, but this is what the a.d.u. legislation was designed to do. i live next to a five unit building in r.h. 3, and they're adding three units. and this is a small unit that i think makes sense. >> commissioner fong: second the motion. >>clerk: commissioners, there is a motion and a second to not take d.r. and approve the project. [roll call] >>clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 5-0. >> president hillis: all right. the meeting's adjourned.

>> third thursdays at the commons is a monthly event series to really activate krisk centkrisk -- civic center, fulton mall,

and other locations through social operation. >> in 2016, an initiative called the civic center progress initiative was launched, it was launched by a bunch of city agencies and community partners, so they really had to figure out how to program these places on a more frequent basis. i'm with the civic center community benefit district, and i'm program manager for the civic center commons. also, third thursdays will have music. that was really important in the planning of these events. >> we wanted to have an artist that appeals to a wide range of tastes. >> i'm the venue manager. good music, good music systems, and real bands with guitar players

and drummers. >> we turned uc center and fulton street into a place where people want to be to meet, to laugh, and it's just an amazing place to be. there's a number of different exhibits. there's food, wine, cocktails, and the idea, again, is to give people an opportunity to enjoy what really is, you know, one of the great civic faces in america. when you look from the polk street steps, and you look all the way down the plaza, down market street, daniel burns' design, this was meant to be this way. it's really special. >> the city approached us off the grid to provide food and beverages at the event as kind of the core anchor to encourage people who leave a reason to

stay. >> it's really vibrant. it's really great, just people walking around having a good time. >> this formula is great food, interesting music, and then, we wanted to have something a little more, so we partnered with noise pop, and they brought in some really fun games. we have skeeball, we also have roller skating lessons, and we've got a roller skating rink. >> if you're a passion jail skeeball player like me, and you're deciding whether you're just going to roll the ball up the middle or take a bank shot. >> our goal is to come out and have fun with their neighbors, but our goal is to really see in the comments that it's a place where people want to hold

their own public event. >> i think this is a perfect example of all these people working together. everybody's kind of come together to provide this support and services that they can to activate this area. >> there's no one agency or organization that really can make this space come alive on its own, and it's really through the collective will, not just of the public sector, but both the public and our business partnerships, our nonprofits partnerships, you know, neighborhood activists. >> i really like it. it's, like, a great way to get people to find out about local things, cuisine, like, it's really great. >> it's a really good environment, really welcoming. like, we're having a great time. >> we want to inspire other

people to do this, just using a part of the plaza, and it's also a good way to introduce people if they're having a large scale event or small scale event, we'll direct you to the right people at the commons so you can get your event planned. >> being a san francisco based company, it was really important to connect and engage with san franciscans. >> how great is it to come out from city hall and enjoy great music, and be able to enjoy a comtail, maybe throw a bocci ball or skee ball. i find third thursdays to be really

reinrig rat reinriggating for me. >> whether you're in the city hall or financial district or anywhere, just come on down on third thursdays and enjoy the music, enjoy an adult beverage, enjoy the skee ball; enjoy an adult playground, if you >> i moved into my wonderful, beautiful, affordable housing march 7th. i have lived in san francisco since i was two-years-old. i've lived in hunters view for 23 to 24 years now.

my name is vlady. i use titus and i am the resident commissioner for the san francisco housing facility. from the very beginning, this whole transition of public housing and affordable housing was a good idea. but many, many residents didn't think it would ever actually happen. it's been a life changing experience. and i'm truly grateful for the whole initiative and all those that work on the whole sf initiative. they've done a wonderful job accommodating the residents, who for many years have lived in delap tated housing. now they have quality housing. i was on a street where the living room and the kitchen and stairs. it wasn't large enough to

accommodate. the children are grown. i had the accomplish of having a dishwasher in my home. i really like that. [laughter] i really like not having to wash dishes by hand. we still do it from time to time. the mayor's office has been a real friend to us, a partner. we know that our city supports us. i love san francisco. just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, it's been a real joy. it's been a real joy.

>> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features.

>> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at

each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. >> this park is open. ♪

>> the teams really, really went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. this past year, the san francisco public utilities commission water quality division started receiving many more requests to test for lead in the public school system here in san francisco as a result of legislation that had passed from the state requiring all of the public schools to do

lead testing. and so as a result, the public utilities commission and the water quality team in particular was asked to meet with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a full service environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality enterprise, we have to also have drinking water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. and lead in schools, we're playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and

making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to know, and it's up to these individuals and their agencies and their commitment to the city. >> i enjoy the work because i can help people, and i can help the utilities to provide a better water quality, make sure that people feel that drinking hetch hetchy water is actually a pride. >> hats off to the water quality team because between them working on late nights, working on the weekends when the schools are closed, and working as a partner in the school district for the times they found a higher lead sample, they worked through to address that, so the team went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today.

>> good afternoon, i'll like to call this meeting to order. it's october, 23rd, 2018. madam secretary, roll call please. [roll call]

we have a quorum. >> thank you. next item. >> clerk: approval of the minutes of october 9th, 2018. >> colleagues. >> approval. >> it's been moved. i'll second it. >> second is, is there any public comment? hearing none public comment is now closed. all those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> and opposed. the motion carries. madam secretary, next item. >> clerk: general public comment. members of the public may address the commission. and are not on today's agenda. >> thank you. i have one speaker card. it is renata decosta. good afternoon. >> today i want to focus on

water. i know that you have a long agenda and you are going to be speaking on various aspects of water. what i want to speak about is how many miles of sewer pipes we have. how many miles of clean drinking water we have. and if we can monitor to see how much of that water is leaking. so, if in our slogans we say that water is precious and we care for our water, we have brought this to our attention before. in real terms, when we see what is happening with your infrastructure, nothing much is

done. you are very fortunate to have on the commission a few people who have a good history about the water departments and the san francisco public utilities commission, which was formed in 1996. not long ago. having formed in 1996, only a few of the commissioners and only a few of our department heads can go to the times when the water department was there to make a comparison when it comes to standards. what i'm seeing now, from my contacts at the various departments is that the institutional experience and memory of our workers who are

retiring, they are leaving and the new people coming in really have no understanding of how things are working properly. if you look at our system, it's the sewer system and some other systems, especially our sewer system which is a duel system, we have real problems with that. so we cannot speak in terms of generallalities and create a rosie picture that everything is ok. we know. i'm here for a reality check. i read your documents. i also analyze them with imperical data. thank you, very much. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? going once -- seeing none. public comment is now closed.

madam secretary, next item. >> clerk: item 5, communications. >> colleagues. is there any comment on communication? seeing none. public comment is now closed. madam secretary, next item, please. >> clerk: item 6. other commission business. >> colleagues. is there any public comment on item number 6? no. >> want this to be 6? >> do you want speak under communications or other business? item 5 or 6? >> other commission business? >> it doesn't discuss anything under item 6. there's no public comment. >> maybe under 4?

>> street lights. >> that would be item number 5. >> that's good. i missed you guys outside. if there's no objection, we'll go back to item number 5. colleagues. that's the order. item number 5. larry godsburg. >> street lights? >> yes. >> oh, ok. >> well, i have noticed that the interim lights have started to be put in place on hyde street. we're still waiting for the -- what are we calling them. the historic lights we were promised to be put on the street. i'm just wondering when that

will happen? i notice there are historic lights being put up on poll polk street and post street but we still haven't had our lights put up on hyde street. >> if it's ok, we'll hear the rest of the public comment. the general manager will probably -- i had a conversation with someone but i think the general manager will be able to summarize it. let's do it at the end of public comment on this item. is that appropriate? >> we'll ask for the general manager to comment when we've heard all the public comments on this item. >> ok. >> thank you, very much for being here. i have simon bertrand. thank you, simon. >> good afternoon. my name is simon on the executive director of the tenderloin community benefit district. for property assessment direct representing 30 blocks in the tenderloin. including the area that the tenderloin lighting project is

underway. i just wanted to show up here today to let you know that we are very excited about that project because of the quality and scale of pedestrian lighting that's been brought to the neighborhood. however, we're very disappointed it has taken so many years. we still do not have that pedestrian lighting. so the point i would like to make is that, for the businesses that need the additional lighting to remain open at night and for patrons to vis et them , and especially for pedestrians making their way around the streets, in term of safety. the tenderloin of full of high-injury corridors where most of our cities incidents between vehicles and pedestrians are concentrated. for the people who live in the tenderloin and want to just make their way safely during the nighttime, during the evening hours, we really need those lights. so what i was going to ask the commission is could, while we're waiting for the historic fixtures, which there have been

repeated delays to the ability to deliver those, could we get the lights up? is there a way we can immediately install some kind of lighting so that we can have the benefit of the lighting during this darker season while we wait for whatever the construction issues are with the historic polls themselves. it's important to the neighborhood we get lighting sooner rather than later. it's been several years of delay. the sooner we can get it the better. >> i'll move with the next public comment on the lighting. i have bryant davincia. >> thank you. good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to speak here. my name is bryant. we organize the residents in the tenderloin to fight for improved inhabit ability. as a background, we recognize the need for improved safety in

our neighborhoods. our residents organized and negotiated a community benefit agreement with cpmc to fund 100 lights in our neighborhood. that was approved in 2012. the original was to start in 2016. however, due to unsatisfactory bid process and a pg&e dispute with sfpuc regarding correction fees last year, the project was delayed start in 2018. the first face of installation was completed in march. there was a report there was a problem with the manufacturer. first a supply problem with caps. next was the arms. and we were told that it will be done the end of august. there was another delay.

after that it was delayed until october. when the supplies were delivered october 5th, it was reported to us that we'll have to wait eight weeks before installation can resume. in the meantime, while we wait for historic lights, we were promised there will be 54 to 56 temporary lights to be installed in the neighborhood. we waited for the past seven years and we are still waiting. this repeat inattention t will t be accepted in other neighborhoods. we in the tenderloin are treated very differently and we condition accept that. we demand two things. first, is for all the 100 polls to be installed with corporate head lights while we wait for supplies and also, we need -- accountable for whoever is overseeing this project. thank you so much. >> thank you for being here,

adam. i'm sorry, brian. next speaker, adam lessing. thank you, adam. >> my name is adam. i'm a resident of 315 hyde street for almost 15 years. i also started the lower hyde street association, which is the neighborhood association of merchants and residents near the 300 block of hyde. i'd like to reiterate what the previous speaker said and when projects like this drago drag on the neighborhood, it makes us feel neglected. we already feel like we're marginalized and the tenderloin is containment zone. when projects like this drag on for years, it reinforces the impression that the city doesn't really care about us. so, i think when you are dealing with projects like this in areas such as ours, you really need to

keep in mind that this is a marginalized area and we were trying to develop pride and moral. when you do project like this, it would help to keep in mind things would be perceived a certain way because it's the tenderloin. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker. >> hi, david elliott louis. i'm a tenant leader with the central city collab are tive and i'm also a community organizers with the tenderloin people's congress. for the last 12 years i lived near the corner of farrell and lar kin. i've had to suffer the ill effects of insufficient lighting, insufficient' loom enation. all along larkin now, teasing us

are half installed light polls from this project that started in 2012 and has been delayed through a number of screw ups from disagreements with pg&e and puc on connection fees and wrong parts ordered and having to be sent back. i don't know all the causes. it's horrendous. it's cost blood, sweat, tears and actually blood. in my building we've lost a tenant being hit by a truck that's backing up because it was too dark to see. there's been actually lives lost due to this darkness that is actually preventable. for the exact parts to a arrive i agree with the prior comments. let's get some temporary lighting in. something. anything to brighten the neighborhood. these are dark streets. our police have captains and the tenderloin have stated there's a direction connection between lighting and public safety. the brighter streets are the

safer they are. lives are saved. we have a lot of vulnerable people in the tenderloin, seniors, disabled. very poor people. people who are vulnerable due to these dark, dark streets. if you tour the tenderloin at night, you will see what we mean. you will see the darkness i'm talking about. it hurts commercial businesses as well. it hurts the commercial viability. we have a lot of vacant storefronts. this making part of the reason. there are other reasons. so you would be helping revitalize business. you would be helping improving safety. you would help to save lives. thank you for your time and consideration on this matter. >> thank you for being here. >> public comment is from calista. >> hi. so, good afternoon, commissioners. i don't want to repeat what folks said. i work in program and the reason why we're here is two things.

one is the delays that we have seen and delays in the last one year. we hope that this next delay that is eight weeks is what we were told, they would have the manufacture deliver them. we hope it's not another delay. we want to make sure that you guys are on top of it. second thing is p.u.c. we met with p.u.c. heads, folks here, not the general manager but barbra and other team members of hers. they basically promised to deliver about 56 lights, that's what they said. it's been delayed again so we demand 100 lights. all the polls up there should have lights on it. temporarily. that's what we're asking and it should be done immediately rather than wait for another weeks. >> thank you for being here.

francisco. >> commissioners, the tenderloin needs help. there's no doubt about it. other districts impact the tenderloin. that's why i'm coming here to speak on this topic. whoever is the project manager has to study the migration from other districts into district 6. that adversely impacts the tenderloin. as one or two speakers have stated, in order to have quality of life issues, respect the seniors, lots of seniors it is very important to have light. we know this but we don't know this. whoever is a project manager.

whoever is in charge of external affairs. all the fancy titled they have. they make a lot of money. they have to be held responsible. now if i stop, does this micky mouse happening between the sfpuc and pg&e. we have need to have outreach. we need to have mediators. if you do not have mediators, i can be a mediator because i know more people at pg&e then y'all think y'all know. we'll sit down and talk to the people. the vice president them and asked them if their parents lived in the tenderloin would they have tolerate this nonsense? pg&e ask sfpuc have been feuding for a long time. in feuding for a long time, i know, personally, that y'all have lost millions of dollars. we need those millions of dollars to have th help the peon

the tenderloin. these connecting foods and other hurdles, now, these all happened because of c whatever california pacific medical center. giving so many millions of dollars. ok. it did not happen because of sfpuc. but sfpuc chose to take the lead. in taking the lead they dropped the ball. so i know we have a good president now. i'm looking at you. you are supporters on the commission. and we have a goal and timelines. i'll be following it. if not, i'll initiate what they call a freedom of information act. thank you, very much. >> thank you for your comments, francisco. thank you, everyone for being here. general manager, might you be able to comment on the topic. >> i can comment under report of

the general manager. >> if there's no objection to that, we'll have a comment under the report of the general manager. that will be the order. please hold out for that. is there any other public comment on item number 5? hearing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> clerk: item 6. >> colleagues. >> is there any public comment. hearing none, public comment is closed. >> clerk: item 7 is annual policy and government affair updates. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is emily lamb and i'm the director of policy and governor affairs for the sfpuc. i am pleased to provide you today with an update on our activities of the last year. so, first, i want to thank my

boss for her support and my team meghan scott, john scarpula, chris whitmore, caro line bridgeford for their tireless work. i want to thank the enterprise liaison and our lobbyist for all their hard work as our suck is s is a collective effort. as you have our written memo, i'm just going to chose today to highlight a few things. at the local level for 2017-18, sfpuc we handled 43 business items approved at the board and tracked 218 pieces of legislation that impacted the sfpuc. most notably, we successfully add va indicated for critical legislation that secured the kia approvals for ssip allowing our agency to begin construction on the bio solid and head works

projects. staff also significant clean power legislation allow our for power and related products and services. this type of contract was the first of its kind and it was vital to allow buy power. finally pga received 209 requests from elected officials and working with the three enterprises all constituent requests in timely manner. at the state legislature, they marked the end of a second year of a two-year session. it was a busy year with pga reviewing over 400 bills, tracking nearly 300 and actively engaging on 70. for the water enterprise we worked on several conservation bills including securing amendments to move a bill we and fellow water agencies across the state oppose to one we supported in the end. for water, we successfully sponsored sb966, which was

carried by scott wiener. with risk base water quality standards for on site systems that align with the most advance and protective health nation wide. this is helping local communities establish consistent oversight and management programs for these on site water systems. this bill is a continuation of our leadership primarily of paul keyhoe and on site water reuse. first at local level mandating every project over 250,000 square feet on site. and now paving the way for other local tees to do it with this bill across the state. finally, we engage on high-impact and complex bills for the power enterprise around regionalization, wildfires and direct access. much of our activity, however, lately, has been focused around the cpuc's reform of the power charge indifference adjustment or exit fee.

on october 11th, however, the cpuc passed a exit fee modification harmful including clean power. pga working with a team of coalition of stakeholders helped organize a joint letter and three press statements from the mayors of san francisco, oakland and san jose calling for delay or no vote. we were able to secure signatures from mayor breed and all 11 supervisors opposing the modification to the exit fee. the team is working closely with enterprise with the power enterprise folks to determine next steps in appealing the decision. on the federal level, the pga team helped finance achieve the largest loan in the country at almost $700 million and work closely with the leaders nation wide to get a pilot grant program to fund water workforce coalitions in the water bill which the president just signed

today. and last but not least, we continue to engage our elected officials at the local state and federal level on the state water board's proposal. so we're working with enterprise staff to communicate the impact of this proposal and also securing support of elected officials for the negotiated settlement process and to mitigate the board of supervisors current revolution n on this issue. >> colleagues. >> any questions? >> is there a report on what we just heard, item number 7? francisco.