city-wide racial equity plan withoutcomes identified and a tool of racial equity analysis at t pending legislation on tat the d of supervisior s. it is long past due that san francisco's renews its commitment to civil rights and racial equity and this anniversary is a reminder of the importance of making that commitment real. the new office of racial equity under hrc will help hold us accountable as a city to ensure that we are snaefiaddressing ra dis pparity ies for communities color and making sure that everyone in san francisco has an equitable opportunity to thrive. thank you to the human rights commission for all your work in the past, present, and future and con grgratulation s. [ applause ].

>> thank you, supervisor few er and i just also want to take this opportunity, we have planning commissioner melgar who is with us, we have michael p a papas and rita simal. thank y thank you so much for bookiein e here. daryl, i feel you're on a commission but i don't know. you guys have to bear with me because i don't know everyone who is on what circumcisiommiss you never know. i also want to take this opportunity to recognize someone who i'm actually going to be swearing in after i think this particular event, a new commissioner for the human rights commission, thank you so much james deluca for being with us here. [ applause ]. >> mayor breed: with that i'd like to introduce the supervisor from district 10, supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: good afternoon.

let's give it up for 55 years of the human rights commission. [ applause ] you . >> supervisor walton: you know, i've been given two minutes to talk about the unfinished agenda for black folks in san franci o francisco. that unfinished agenda actually goes back a couple of hundred of years. it goes back to slavery, it goe s back to reconstruction, it goes back to csegregation perio here in this country and what was supposed to change and happeni happen after brown versus board of education. it definitely goes back to major reports that we've had right here in our own city, the u unfinished agenda and the o outmigraines report, awhich a lt of folks in this audience some in the back have worked on at this point a couple of decades now to make sure that the wrong s that have happened to us in

this city, and in particular people of color, people in the lgbt community, i mmigrant s, a people who have had a different starting point than a lot of other folks here in this city and country. with that said, it is an exci exciting time for us because we have policy ies in place now tt are focused on putting actual resources in to addressing the things that have been promised from reports. programs like black to the future that provide resources for organizations that serve black familyies to be able to work together more seam lelessl programs like road map to peace, where we're bringing the organizations and community and the latino community together, where they get to set their own agenda for the policyies needed to improve the lives of latinos here in san francisco. the resources that we put in the

budget for the lgbt community and for resources for transition al youth and housing for all communities here in san francisco. so we know that un employmeempl exists differently for those populations that i mentioned. we know that housing is different and created differently for those population s that i mentioned. we know that our mayor has done an amazing job even as a member of the board of supervisors to pass legislation like neighborhood preference to make sure that housing outcomes end up different. and this 600 million housing bond that we're all fighting for is a big piece of how we deal with equity here in san francisco as well. so i just want to thank fur our mayor, colleagues on the board of supervisors. i definitely want to give a major shout out to the executive director of the human rights

commission, ms. sheryl davis for all of her work. [ applause ]. >> supervisor walton: that did not start as a result of her serving as executive director of the human rights commission, but it started years prior to that in her work. so i just want everybody to know that we have work togeth do. we have work to do. but the office of racial equity and what it will require from departments to get busy, to put reports together that will be attached to the resources that you receive, if we don't make a real effort to provide better outcomes for heour communities here in this city. thank you so much and, again, happy 55 years to the human rights commission. [ applause ]. >> so again thank you to all of our previous speakers. i want to as we get ready -- there are two final speakers that we want to have and as we do that, just recognizing that

once -- that we do this work with our commission, and i wanted to recognize the commissioners that are here with us today. the chair of the human rights commission, susan christian, our new eest addition to the commission, james deluca, commissioner karen clopton, chirg cirg commissioner jason pelegrinni. thank you so much for being here today. and commissioner anton is joining us as well. our commissioners do this work and they help advance it and i wanted to just be able to show the impact of the work and our form er commissioner michael p a papas, when we talk about this work, we cannot talk about it without the intersection ality f race and gender and orientation and social-economic levels. so commissioner papas supported us, was an amazing member of the commission, and i just wanted to afford him a couple of minutes to say something about the work

that he started at the commission that he's now continuing to work on i was going to say with the department of aging and adult service s, bt i know there's a pending name change. commissioner papas. >> thank you, director davis. i am grateful for this invitation to address you today on occasion of the 55th anniversary of the san francisco human rights commission. i was privileged to serve on the commission for over six years. as one of mayor lee's very first appointments in 2011 and his very last appointment to the commission commission on ages and adult services just a few day s befor he passed away. they were exciting years to be addressing issues of human rights in our city. during that time we saw the p d pendulum swing on some very

serious and pronounced issues from prop aid to marriage equ equality and simultaneously from a did he haevastating recession prosperous tech boom. as add to that the increase in the outmigraines of the african-american community and an emerging black lives matter movement and local instances that prompted justified voluntevocal concern over law enforcement's excessive use of force. throughout this journey in time, the human rights commission was present and relevant in its response to issues of discrimination and the cl collateral human rights challenges that en ssued due to these social changes. for me personally, perhaps the most re wawarding dimension of t service quus was following in the steps of commissioner s knu sen, swapark s, young as chair

the lgbt's advisory committee which in the very yenniend i sh with commissioner kelleher. during that period i was privileged to work with some of the most bright and passionate lgbt community leaders in our city. together we addressed issues ranging from repairative therap to sensitivity to lgbt clients in city shelters, economic wel wellness, em powpowerment, dis e displacement of lgbt non -profi s, hiv prevention as well as services to and the stigma suffered by those living with hiv, the particular challenges of trans women of color, the lgbt life beyond the neighborhood of the kcastro. the special needs of lgbt, deaf and dis ababled persons, immigration concerns, most especially those seeking asylum, the nuance s of bisexuality and

the ever-evolving understanding of lgbt familyies, the need to e revise city forms to better reflect gender identity, and concern for cyber bulbullying o lgbt youth as well as our city's gr growing lgbt youth home leless population. perhaps the most impactful contribution over our time was an effort in cubated under commissioner knutsen's tenure as cha compare a chair and birth of my service at the a cvmec. that was a group that recomme recommended the formation -- [ cheering and applause ]. >> they know the punch line. of this lgbt's senior's task force. thanks to the leadership of supervisors wooe s weaiener, ca and owen, the board of supervisors allocated the necessary funding to make that

recommendation a reality. iron ically commissioner knutse and i sit together on a board where we vote regular regularly for funding of programs that respond to the lgbt seniors task force. now we are in new times and a different era. as human rights are fright ening frighteningly and incessantly under attack daily, never has the rechlevance for the san francisco human rights commission been so valued and needed. i am confident under the insp e inspired leadership of mayor breed, chair christian, and director davis, that the commission will continue to distinguish san francisco as a moral campus compass and protective voice for all who suffered discrimination and whose rights, both civil and human, are unfairly jeopardized. with that, i wish a happy 55th anniversary to the san francisco human rights commission and the

commissioners, to the chair, to the director and to our mayor and members of the board of supervisors. [ applause ]. >> just by way of the future of the human rights commission and the he haevolution thiand ithis discussion around intersectionality, i thought it really fitting to have gineta t johnson share more about the work she's doing and the importance now more than ever about the work of the human rights commission, ginetta. [ applause ]. >> hello, everyone. thank you all. i wanted to say thank you to mayor london bried breed, thank you to the board of supervisos s and sheryl davis. i am the executive director and we work with black trans women coming out of jail s and prison

black trans, agennon agendgend m conforming people coming out of prisons. the reason the work is so important and i'm passionate about it, i'm a form erly in k s incarcerated person and i spent time in jail and prison. during my time in jail for 13 months, i noticed that there was so many black trans women like in and out of jail. during my period of time, i knew that i had made a bad decision and i knew that i was going to get back out eventually and i knew that i needed to create a change. that's when we developed our r re-entry program for non -binar people coming out of jails and prison. we are working through the support of the hrc in providing employment opportunityies for trans people coming out of jails and prisons. i think that one of the biggest

issues that i have faced is housing. it's very, very challenging for me to employ them and they have no housing because the housing is so difficult and t in the cid county of san francisco. i think going to a lot of different hfa meetings trying to make a request that whmen tran people come out of jails and prisons, they have a more immediate access to some a cotyf comfortable bed space because a lot of people don't know that trans people experience a lot of sexual trauma while on the inside and physical trauma. so i'm happy and grateful that we have an opportunity to create this employment structure and that our homes for trans people is happening i thi. i thank everybody that's been

involved and making that happen because black trans women face a lot more dis pparity than peopl really, really understand, a lot of discrimination and stuff like that. tho that's why re we are doing the best that we can to create more opportunityies for their safety and welfare. so i just want to thiank everybody here that contributs s in this work. thank you. [ applause ]. >> so as we prepare to kiclose t out, i just want to invite up the chair of the human rights commission to come and say a few words, and then just to also share very quickly the calendar that we have for this week. this evening we have a conversation with cornell west at the commonwealth club. tomorrow we have a sim pymposiu 12 to 5 at the war memorial. on wednesday evening, 6:00 at the stf jass jazz center we wil

te secelebrate 55 year s, recognii some of our leaders and having a little bit of music. then on thursday, the young people part of mayor bried -- breed's opportunity for all will share their presentations at the pal aace of art s. if you have additional questio questions, please feel free to talk to us or ask questions. i also want to recognize a form er director of the commission, mayor vic ban mba. he served as the executive director of the human rights commission and is now a proud support er he eer during her wo clark construction. final words from our shachair sn christian. [ applause ]. >> thank you, director davis, form er commissioner davis. i had the privilege of working with sheryl for several years as commissioners on the human rights commission before we convinced her to take on in --

this role that we are thrilled she is in and has done so much for the city that she has been appointed to be the executive director. one of the things i appreciate most about sheryl's work is -- you know, 55 years human rights commission started to deal with ant anti- blablack discrimination ie city. what we found ourselfves at 50 years looking at the same problems, maybe in just a slightly different way, happening to black people in the city and people who are otherwise dis advantaadvantaged, but particularly black people in the city, black communityies continuing to suffer the same kinds of discrimination. so clearly the question and the issue of structural in equequal and structural discrimination has not been screfdressed addr in a way that impacts and prevents this kind of dis advantage. that has been my passion, my -- the thing that i want to really

tie try and accomplish during my time on the commission and as chair of the commission to look for ways -- and the mayor talked about programs that work that provide outcomes, looking for what ways that we can interrupt and address structural problems so that we don't continue to rep i replicate the in equequality. you know, the human rights commission over the last at least teb ten years ago i think has been -- the commission itself and the people who have worked on the advisory committee s have made major contributios s to not only the city but national conversation about national in equequality. the lgbt and lgbtq right now, i don't know that we've officially chang changed the name, the liègeq liège blooej lgbtq committee has picked up reports. this is work that came up from the community through the commission. we have the agency and the

commission. so it's in cecredibly important work . also, ban the box started with the human rights commission, the equity advisory committee. now that's also something that's traveled nationally and gets stronger and stronger every year in different places. one of the things that i am personally most proud of is that we instituted a pilot under mayor lee to deal with implicit bias. so we were able to -- it was an idea we had at the commission. i brought it to the commission. i wasn't the first person to think about this obviously, but we were able to get a pilot program going with the mayor's support and the supporter support of the family. kimberlypapinon, we were able to work with her to create a program and the mayor funded it. so that was an amazing thing.

and i know now that the department of human rights is dism administering a program and i really look forward to hearing how it's going and seeing what we're doing with it now, but it's that kind of thing the commission has done and can do and we're all looking for ways to do that whas we move forward. so i want to thank everybody o who's here and all the community members who over time have supported, cajoled, ciriticized lobbied the human rights commission. it's going to continue and i'm grateful for that as well, but we have a lot of work ahead of us. i really do feel like we are now getting at programs that will address structural in equequali. sheryl, i'm going to hand it back to you. >> for those saying we are going to be in room 201, we have the recommendations from the out appmigration task force as well the unfinished agenda, as well

as the environmental safety. there have been has felisha said pneumonnumerous time s three rsd what has changed. this year as the mayor talked about, we are going to spend some time looking at those recommendations and seeing what, if anything, has changed. if nothing has changed, really consider what we can do to see what we can do forward mo-- moig forward. we can see what the office of racial equity can institute. lastly i would ask before we start to disperse, some of the members part of the original task force, if you could stand so we can thank you for your time as a part of that. ken montero, daryl davis and ms. saxon, thank you and please

join us in 201. thank you. >> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador.

we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys.

>> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. you never know. somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311.

they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot

of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. i used to be like this, you know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. >> i came to the san francisco public utilities commission as a san francisco fellow. as a sf fellow i was in financial planning where i had the joy of working for a me.

>> part of the financial planning that sets rates. >> amy is just incredibly kind. one of the most generous and good-hearted people i have ever met. having her assume pe as as supes very helpful. this was my first job out of college. amy supported me every step of the way. i felt like i can do this. >> i have a staff i manage. we have a complement that joins us once a year to help us. they give them the chance to learn financial matters. >> amy would it is for an hour or hour and a half going through these complicated financial things with you, patient.

>> i find my strength in sitting down and walking through the project, how can i help you? they appreciate that. it means that you are giving time to them. i hope or interns will be the new leaders. >> amy made should be we were well trained. >> she gave me mangoes. i went home and ate them. the next day i said i like these. two days later there was a crate, 3 36 manning 36 mangoes. >> she embodies public service in everything she does and the way she does her work. it was great having her as a supervisor. >> she is not in it forehead

lines or awards. that is making me glad she is getting an award. the huge ilty, dedication and integrity and wisdom she brought, that is public service. >> my name is amy. i retired earlier this year. before that i was the rates administrator.

[ gavel ]. >> good afternoon. i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. this day is tuesday, july 23, 2019. roll call, please. [ roll call ]. >> before you, you have the minutes of june 25. are there any additions or

corrections to the minutes? >> i move approval. >> second. >> any public comments on the minutes? all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries. the next item, please. >> item 4 is general member of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. >> mr. di costa. >> commissioners, i want to talk on a number of issues, and i was watching one of the committees the board of supervisors. two of your consultants, one who deals with iso, electricity, and the other one is, i suppose he's an engineer that i haven't met before.

so i'm very much interested in how you commissioners are going to be dealing with the transmission line from the 75 megawatts. so i had to do a little bit of investigation, and i see that the digesters cannot go forward unless they have steady energy, electricity. so why don't we have this conversation? are we dumb or something? we have a contracting center there and we don't have any discussion what really is happening with the digesters, where are they going to get the energy and electricity to do it. why are we kept in the dark? in the interim, there is community benefits and outsiders are getting $300,000 in grants,

and we advocates who have been monitoring everything, we are getting shafted, but not for long. not for long. so commissioners, some of you all are astute and i worked with you all, and we need to get the empirical data first before we make all these plans. now, reflecting to a different time when ed smelof was here, we were good friends and we would discuss about some of these areas. so this transmission line, i want to know more about this transmission line, there's full accountability and transparency. it's supposed to be bringing about 75 megawatts so that the

digester project can go forward. now, paradoxically we started with $6 billion and now this system, the sewer system improvement project is $10 billion. it's like the central subway that started with $600 million and ended up with $2 billion. somebody has to ask the question and commissioners and those appointed in high places and who get high salaries, they have to be accountable with full transparency. thank you very much. >>president caen: thank you. [ bell rings ]. >>president caen: any other speakers snr i would like to take this opportunity to welcome the project management bureau interns who are seated in the back row. welcome to our meeting. next item, please. >> clerk: item 5 is

communications. >>president caen: commissioners, any comments? public comments on this item. i see none. let's move on to the report of the general manager. >> good afternoon, commissioners. first, i wanted to update you on one of the items that you requested from me about working with the planning commission to present on our water supply assessments. so what has happened is that the twalimee river trust has engaged with the mayor's office and so the mayor's office is helping coordinate a lot of activities they would like to see happen. so the first thing is that the

mayor's office will sit down with the twalimee river trust and have a meeting with them, and i believe it's scheduled for august 6. and then the next thing that we're working on is actually the pc making a presentation number of the planning commission i think sometime in august. we're nailing down those dates, where we will give an assessment of our water supply and then they have an opportunity to present their case in front of them. so i just wanted to give you an update on that because that's something you wanted me to follow up on. and then the other item i just wanted to give you, that today was a very exciting day. we had an opportunity to really partner with the community about the best use for our different

water supplies. it kind of follows a whole one-water concept. we worked with energy center san francisco, which is previously in our deed. they use 33 million gallons of water to produce steam to heat buildings in the downtown area. meanwhile, bart was pretty much dewatering their foundations and putting it in our sewers which was nearby. we found a unique opportunity to have those folks partner to save water, and what we did is we participated with giving them a grant to help them put a reverse osmosis plant there so they actually now are using the groundwater that bart would normally put into our sewers, treat it so that they can use that water instead of our water. we thought that was a great

partnership. that is one of the largest on-site use projects in san francisco today and we're really proud of it and you will probably see it in the news today. i think it was earlier today. but that's the type of projects that we're really pushing and that really means a lot to san franciscans. other than that, that concludes my report. >>president caen: that's wonderful news. why do they have to use reverse osmosis? is there salt in the water? >> the groundwater that they're using is from from aquafer. so it's not only to remove sod, but it had other things in the water. so they're actually spending i think the whole processing train is about $4 million, and we

provided a grant for half a million dollars, but they're saving about 1.2 to 1.5 million in water costs purchasing water. so it actually benefits them in like four or five years. they get a payback. >>president caen: so the bart water then, the bart water goes down our system and then we do something with it there? >> it goes to our treatment plant. they pump it into our sewers and it goes to the treatment plant. now it doesn't. >>president caen: it doesn't go to our treatment plant? >> there's an infrastructure there that we have to build? >> what they did as part of the whole coordination is that energy center san francisco, part of their whole design was to also give larger pumps so that bart can actually pump it to their location. so instead of pumping into a

cistern that pumps -- that it goes into our sewer system, they actually pump it directly to them. so they worked in partnership, which is very challenging working with city government and a sort of quasi state agency bart. so it was a partnership. it took about seven years of going back and forth and figuring out all the obstacles that we had to figure out to get around, but very excited about it. >>president caen: thanks. any public comment on the general manager's report? next item, please. >> clerk: item 7 is the bay area water supply and conservation agency update. >> good afternoon, commissioner applis s, thank you for having me here

today. last month i talked to you about the new dry your water supplies in the san francisco water system that are needed for the water that is represented and mandated by state law. i was encouraged by commission's strong positive response, and i want to take part in the conversation. for your successful water improvement program which was built to rebuild the earth quake system, you established a strong and qualified organization within the pc that was led by an outsider at the time who reported directly to the general manager. that was a very bold step and i suggest that you need to take another bold step now, perhaps with someone already in the organization or another outside executive to lead this new water supply area. this new leader should be responsible to the general manager. this new leader should be responsible to the commission. this new leader should be assigned the huge and urgently

needed task to find and develop new water sources for future drought years with an adequate program to make process. this was about rebuilding the pipes and infrastructure of the system. this new program will be the water to put through the system during drought years. annual reports about your progress should be continued to the state, as required by law, and they should talk about the real water sources and their development. as bosco's chair said during our board meeting, the next dry year for water users should depend on your regional water system may not be far away, so there is no time to lose and time for the pc to find a water center as needed during drought years. similarly bosco will respond and fulfill its obligations. so i suggest by december of this year, 2019, that the pc staff

should bring to the commission a plan that documents how your agency will develop and implement a program, not a plan, to deliver new critical water supplies for future droughts. they shall have a realistic budget. they should have full staffing, focus and responsibilities. this program should be included in your cip that you will be considering for adoption in 2020. also needed will be a schedule that will be met with updated details as they're available adds this program gets implemented and with continued engagement of bawsca. with that, that concludes my comments. i would be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> i had an opportunity to talk to nicole and i do agree that we need to focus and make sure we

have a program manager. we've been talking internally about that, but i would say that the way we structure the water system improvement program, we have a program manager that actually reports through infrastructure and because that's what they do. and so i think we will come back with a structure of what we feel is appropriate and what resources we need. we will try to put together an overall schedule, but it is a little more difficult than designing a project when you have a lot of negotiating with other parties. so i don't know how a realistic schedule that you could put together when you don't know what your people that you're trying to coordinate is very challenging. but we will do our best to put it together. we understand the seriousness of this, and we are going to put resources we need so we can be

successful. >> thank you. >>president caen: it's a start. >> it's a start. thank you very much. >>president caen: any public comment? >> commissioners, i'd like to go to the source. so i mentioned the raker act umpteen times over here, but i think some of you commissioners haven't read the raker act. some of you commissioners -- and i know one or two of you all have been in the capacity of being the general manager, i don't know if it was under the water department or the san francisco public utilities commission which was formed in

1996. so when you say san francisco public utilities commission, people think it's a hundred years old. no, it was formed in 1996. the reason why i say that -- am i wrong? >> the commission's been around for a long time. it has had some changes in structure. >> okay. the structure. >> but it's -- >> i made a mistake -- >> it goes back at least -- >> the structure in 1996 when things were changed. i'm saying this because originally we have to come to an understanding why did we damn the hachachee dam and reservoir and whose needs did we have in mind? that's what i'm focused on. some years ago i was doing some

investigative reporting and i found out that ibm and some of the companies in the south were using inordinate millions and millions of gallons of water. and we agreed to those contracts because we get some money. now, i've attended a few of the meetings and they do a good job, but again i want to come to this place when the raker act was established, whose needs did we have paramount in mind? that's what i'm focused on. and the reason why i'm focused on that is because i work very closely with the native americans, the first people of the area, whose water that was. [ bell rings ]. >> and without their permission, the water was taken away from them and dammed. today we think we can flush our toilets with clean drinking

water, and that's a shame. i want y'all to connect the dots. i'm not going to go into the details because i'm not here to teach adults what is right and what is wrong, but those are my comments. thank you very much. >>president caen: thank you. any other public comment? next item, please. >> clerk: item 8 is other commission business. >>president caen: commissioners, any business to bring up? no? okay. the next item is the consent calendar. >> clerk: item 9 is a consent calendar, all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. there will be no separate of these items unless a member of

the commission or the public so requests, in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered a separate item. >>president caen: is there any item you would like removed from the consent calendar? any item that the public would like removed from the consent calendar? seeing none, may i have a motion. >> so moved. >> seconded. >>president caen: all those in favor? >> aye. >>president caen: opposed? the motion carries. next item, please. >> clerk: item 10 is a workshop: overview of the sewer system improvement program including update on new headworks facility and biosolids digester facilities projects. approve the terms and conditions >> if i can figure this thing

out. donna, can you -- >> can i have the overhead -- or the computer, please. >> good afternoon, president caen, commissioners. howard sung acting director of the water programs. commissioners, this will be our second part of our two-part workshop in advance of our monthly updates. at our last workshop we provided an overview of this program and went over the construction manager, general contractor cmgc model being used for our headworks and biosolids. we also discussed how we incorporated environmental justice into the program and went over our workforce development strategies.

for today i would like to recap on the approach as well as go over how we cost estimate -- how we cost estimate our projects and how we address project risks before we dive into the two biggest projects in head work ones and biosolids given they their respective project managers. at our last workshop we presented the concept of a traditional design bid build and the construction manager general contractor, cm/gc approach. to recap the majority of our projects were using the bid build project where we developed 100% of steins and put the project out to bid. at no time during the design phase do we interact with the designer. for more complicated projects like head work ones and biosolids we have decided to

utilize a cm/gc approach. with that approach we bring the contractor in as an integrated team member, usually after 35%, and utilize their experience and construction expertise to help improve our design, reduce risks, and validate schedules. the cm/gc approach fosters collaboration between owner, designer and contractor, integrates the contractor entering into design phase to bring the benefit of construction expertise and improve our overall design, increasing our confidence of the design 100%, which is now more developed and vetted with the contractor and pricing and schedules are more realistic. that gives us the ability to identify construction risks and verify and mitigate them during design, which is less expensive than trying to find them during construction. both the design and the construction can be done in parallel, which can increase schedule efficiency, versus the

linear approach to design-bid build, which requires us to complete 100% design before starting construction. bidding in smaller packages also increases our opportunities for lb participation and allows for more time to develop a certain -- develop and train local workforce to suit the actual construction schedule. and lastly, it's more agile and flexible in bidding. when certain bid packages come in over we can elect to rebid that package or design or break out the scopes to better increase participation. although cm/gc has many advantages, there are still some considerations we need to recognize. it is a new process for us and for our organization. we are not yet as efficient as we would like to be, so we are still working on developing efficiencies. we need to establish or amend some of our administrative functions, policies and procedures, and increase our

resources that are necessary to fully implement cm/gc more effectively. because packages are bid out over time we do not have a contract certainty until the end of the bidding process, which can take a couple of years from the start of construction. moving on to cost estimates, we conduct cost estimates at standard intervals, 10% conceptual, 35, 65, 95, and 100% as our project design progresses. what this slides shows is the industry standard for cost estimating over the life of the design. the accuracy of the estimates are expressed as a plus or minus percentage range around the estimate intervals. these are the green and orange lines that bound the blue cost estimate line in the middle. basically this line indicates how much a given project cost should vary from the estimate. the accuracy reflects the move from the earlier less-accurate estimates to more specific and

more refined estimates that design approaches 100%. this is an example -- in this example, the flat blue estimate line represents an ideal situation, where the overall total estimates remain the same. this does not take into account changes such as scope additions or risk factors or such things as operational logistic constraints, market factors, tariffs, and other uncertainties that develop over the design duration. in our next slide we will talk a little bit about risks as well. a more realistic line would tend to slope up as some of these changes or risk factors are incorporated into our project. for risks, these are some of the potential risk factors that can impact project costs and schedule. these are the same types of risk that we'll find on head work ones and biosolids projects. for risk mitigation, the team does prepare a plan to identify, assess, evaluate and manage potential risks in their

projects. some of these risks can be mitigated, some cannot, like market conditions, tariffs, or commodity cost increases. what we -- we account for the risks in trends or it is incorporated into the project as a higher cost or potentially longer schedules. however, one of the advantages of the cm/gc approach is to provide greater flexibility in managing and mitigating risks prior to starting construction. this approach allows us to quantify risks prior to design rather than encountering them during construction. mitigation can involve changes to the design, material selection, construction means and methods, or even resequencing work. you'll hear more of these examples in our next two project presentations. i'd like to take the time now to stop and ask if there's any questions before i turn it over to my colleague to go over the details of the head work ones

project. >>president caen: any questions? thank you. >> good afternoon, president caen and commissioners. i am the superior project manager for head work ones project and i'm also a district and bay view resident. i have been working on project programs and operational aspects over 20 years for puc. first i want to thank president caen and commissioner maxwell for coming out to the site yesterday and look at the progress of the construction as well as the constraint with the site logistics. as howard recapped cm/gc process and its salient features, i will provide overview how we have applied those principles on h d

headworks project. i would like to spend a few moments to explain what headworks is, what are the current deficiencies, and how new headworks will address those shortcomings. as the name suggests, headworks is the head of the plant, also known as a preliminary treatm t treatment. all the flow from collection system first enters into the plant into headworks. it is also a highest elevation at the plant and wastewater flows by gravity to all remaining liquid treatment downstream. the majority of existing equipment associated with the headworks process is over 30 years old and approaching its normal replacement interval. in addition, the existing preliminary treatment process does not meet the level of service established by the commission and exhibits inefficiencies in the fine

screening and grit removal, which if not removed it can clog up the downstream process or affect the downstream processes. the grit loading that we experience is 6200 pounds per million gallons. imagine a day like today, we are treating 50, 55 million gallons. so multiply each million gallon by 6200 pounds of grit, that's enormous grit coming to the facility. any well-functioning plant, the maximum upfront removal of debris that you can achieve, everything works as designed on the downstream side. the current headworks only removes 50% of grit and screenings, which comes with the influent flows. the new headworks will -- it's designed to remove 90, 92% of this debris coming into the plant.

the plant also as a seismic structural vulnerabilities and has control along the fence line. along with reducing odors, the project will reduce the noise and ensure the quality of the structure along the road. in the next few slides, i will describe evaluation of the scope to mitigate risk by utilization of cm/gc delivery method. the original scope as depicted on the slide had three scopes. scope one was the site preparation, which includes demolition of the existing wet weather facility, installation of permanent 78-inch bypass line, which is the blue line shown there, and various utility relocation and readouting. scope two which is upper left, which is known as a flint pump