>> >> president caen: i'm the president of the san francisco public utilities commission. at this time i would like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today's date is tuesday, september 8, 2020. roll call, please. >> president caen? here. >> vice president vietor: here. >> commissioner moran: here. >> commissioner maxwell: here. >> commissioner paulson: here. and we have a quorum. >> president caen: good. will you please read the

announcement? >> during the covid-19 health emergency and given the public health recommendations issued by the san francisco department of public health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. this meeting is held via teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. for those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. on behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i.t. staff for their assistance during this meeting. if you wish to make two minutes of public comment on an item, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 146 087 5808, pound, pound. and star 3 to speak. i'm going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if they have not already done so. madame president, the first

order of business is item 3, approval of the minutes of august 25, 2020. >> president caen: commissioners, before you you have the minutes of august 25, 2020. are there any additions or corrections? seeing none, madame secretary, could you open it to public comment. >> secretary: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on item 3, approval of the minutes of august 25th, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 146 087 5808, pound, pound. to raise your hand press star 3. mr. moderator, any callers?

>> madame secretary, we have one caller in the queue. >> secretary: thank you. >> caller, you have two minutes. caller, can you hear me? can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> hello? >> yes, can you hear us. >> i'm sorry, this is barry nelson with the golden state association -- >> just so you -- >> mr. nelson, this is on the minutes, item number 3. >> yes, it is. well, i'm sorry, it's public comment. i apologize. >> okay, you can call back during that item. >> i sure will. thank you.

>> secretary: any other callers, mr. moderator? >> no other callers in the queue. public comment on item number 3 is closed. commissioners >> president caen: commissioners, a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> second. >> president caen: madame secretary, please take the roll call vote. >> president caen: aye. >> vice president vietor: aye. >> commissioner moran: aye. >> commissioner maxwell: aye. >> commissioner paulson: aye. we have five ayes. >> president caen: motion carried. next item, please. >> secretary: next item is item number 4, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission for up to two minutes on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda, by dialing

1-415-655-0001, 146 087 5808, pound, pound. to raise your hand, press star 3. mr. moderator, any callers on general public comment for items not on today's agenda. >> madame secretary, there are several callers in the queue. i will queue the first caller. >> secretary: thank you. >> caller commenting on item number 4, you have two minutes. go ahead, caller.

>> hello, can you hear me? >> we can hear you? yes. this is barry nelson with the golden state association. you should have received a letter in area packet, that letter came in this morning from a group regarding analysis done by the national treasure service, a pay review of the models used from the toronto river to develop the agreement proposal that the commission submitted to the state board. that review which you recall we requested for quite a few years, brings enormously important questions. there is also a number of new scientific developments on related issues, so the request in the letter is that the commission remove the v.a., stop making claims about the benefits

of the v.a. that we now know are not supported, but we also request that you agendize this item for discussion in future meeting, so your staff can present their thoughts about the peer review. but also so the ngo community can present our thoughts about the peer review. thank you. >> thank you, caller. next caller? commenting on item number 4, you have two minutes. >> good afternoon, this is peter. i wanted to comment on the same item barry mentioned. we were one of 14 environmental clerks that signed on this letter, which i'm guessing you haven't had a chance to read yet, but i hope you will and take a look at the peer review. it was done by anchor qea, an

extremely reputable business. i encourage you to check out their website. there is a lot of misinformation out there. the trump administration issued a biological opinion for the delta which was based on bogus science i would hate to see the sfpuc getting into a similar situation of embracing science that is questionable. obviously, when an agency has an interest in a study coming to a certain conclusion, the group that they've hired often will come to that conclusion. and the study finds that there is serious issues with the model for rainbow trout and steelhead and has a lot of problems with the salmon model as well. i want to point out the voluntary requires two things.

required discharge would be 38% greater than today, but total discharge is just 4%. that's because the main focus is on redirecting spill for better timing. and really that should have been done for the last several decades. the other problem with the voluntary agreement, there is no backup plan based on flow. so if it fail, we're just out of luck and that's problematic. i like the idea of putting this on the agenda in the future. and would encourage you to invite john rosenfield from the bay institute to present because he has done some great work recently and i think it would be quite edifying. thank you very much. >> next caller commenting on item number 4. you have two minutes.

>> president and members, my pronouns are she and her. i'm going to talk about the basics of sfpuc. i continue my support of a municipal utility district so we, as a public body, and have more control over the delivery cost of electricity. and while we should not be an island grid, storage is essential especially with these fires that are going on that can be problematic for transmission lines that serve our great city. so, seeing we're a densely packed city, we should put batteries in and solar panels to help and be able to ride through difficult times as well as be able to store electricity that you can purchase in the

overnight when it is inexpensive and send it out to the grid for our customers when market electricity is much more expensive. so continue the acquisition of renewables as we work toward a 100% renewable power, all electric san francisco and keeping the value proposition commercial utility power. thank you. >> thank you, caller. next caller commenting on item number 4, you have two minutes. >> thank you very much. good afternoon, president caen, member of the commission,

protection alliance. i'll speak further about the peer review that mr. nelson and the other caller discussed. i think they've given you a fair bit of background. i would like to highlight a couple of the points that came up in peer review. first, at the peer review stage that the district salmon model assumes rather than predicts predator control. in other words, the model doesn't demonstrate that predator control will be effective, it simply assumes it from the beginning. the only thing that the salmon model predicts according to the peer review that will be highly effective in increasing salmon abundance is large increases in flow. i'd like to point out that a number of us have raised the assumptions about the models in

the past in exchange with the irrigation districts and also with senator feinstein. we questioned those assumptions and in return our good faith was questioned. that was really particularly by the irrigation district, that was really in our view an unacceptable response. and we do feel grateful that the service has added the clarification about what was assumed and what is demonstrated in the models. i reiterate my colleague's request that you agendize a meeting to discuss these issues. and that we try to work together to find ways to have the puc successfully managed rather than deny increased flow in the lower river. thank you very much for your consideration. >> thank you, caller. madame secretary, there are no

more callers in the queue. >> secretary: thank you, mr. moderator. that closes public comment on item 4, general public comment. >> president caen: through the chair, i would like to make a comment on the public comment, if i may? first, i want to thank the public for participating. it's very much appreciated and it's not easy these days doing it technologically, so thank you for that. and for bringing these issues to our attention. i would be interested in hearing the results of the peer review and i know, i'm sorry i haven't had a chance to look at the letters that came in, i guess, today, but i'm just wondering if we can agendize it or get some signed of briefing on the results of the peer review, because i know we've been asking and eager to see what is being said by the scientists and the

peers in the field. and then i just would also like, you know, i appreciate ms. dupri's participation. she's always bringing us important. i know we're overdue for a conversation around battery storage in particular and would like to request that we somehow get an update on that, on our regular clean power sf tt. i know the city of san francisco does have ambitious goals on climate change and fossil fuel-free future, so it would be great to get an update on that as well. thank you. >> through the chair, i would also like to hear from our staff what they think about the peer review. i'd like to hear their response to it as well. >> very good.

we could put that on the agenda for future discussion. >> yeah, we can -- we will work with you to put it on the agenda. >> president caen: good. any other comments? >> commissioner paulson: this is commissioner paulson. i agree with what commissioner maxwell says. we'd like to have analysis of this since letters have been coming in. i'm not in favor of agendizing it as an item, but i'm -- i would like to have a staff report to that effect. >> president caen: fine. that can be facilitated. my point was it cannot be discussed at this point because it's not on the agenda. so the information will be agendized in some form. next item, please.

>> your next item is item 5, communication. >> president caen: commissioners? any comments on communications? seeing none, madame secretary. could you please open this up to public comment? >> secretary: members of the comment who wish to make public comment on item 5, communications, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 146 087 5808, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak press star 3. mr. moderator, any callers for this item? >> there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> secretary: thank you. public comment on item 5 is

closed. >> president caen: next item. >> madame president, the next item is item 6, report of the general manager. i need to make an announcement regarding public comment for this item. the general manager is going to give his report covering nine different topics. to ensure we have public comment as we consider the entire g.m. report, we'll pause the report at three separate points after item 6b, 6f and 6i, to allow public comment at each of the previous three topics covered. each time we'll call for public, speakers will be given up to two minutes for each topic for a maximum of six minutes if the speaker speaks on all three topics. the commission can ask questions about any of the nine topics during the g.m. report, or at the end of the report or before and after public comment breaks. we're going to ask the public when calling on specific item,

grouped item, please, identify which item or items you wish to speak on at that time. the first under the g.m. report is the update on sfpuc operations during covid-19 emergency presented by g.m. kelly. >> good afternoon, commissioners. just wanted to give you an update on the covid emergency operations at the puc. as you know, san francisco begins its path forward toward reopening last week by allowing outdoor activities that are lower risk. the plan includes steps for reassuming additional services, businesses and activities in the coming weeks and months. the gradual reopening of activities will increase traveling, interaction throughout the city, so the city will continue to regularly assess the key public health

indicators to ensure san francisco has the necessary -- the necessary resources available for those that are infected. the puc continues to follow state and city guidelines across all our work sites and facilities and continues to support the city's overall response effort. the department operations center remains staffed monday through friday and we are continuing to deploy team members on long-term assignments to the city's emergency operation center. our employees remain our number one priority at the puc. continues to provide water, power, sewer services to our customers. based on the city's direction, employees performing non-essential duties will continue working from home as long as it's possible through this fiscal year ending june

2021 to help reduce the spread of the covid-19 virus. based on this guidance, the business continuity plan committee has focused these past few months on doing as much as we can to ensure that the health and safety of our onsite employees supporting muni employees and determining if there is more we can do to reduce the number of employees coming on site. we also continue to equip our onsite employees with the equipment, tools and resources they need to do their job safely. the lines of communication remains open to understand and meet additional needs. to that end, we're holding focus groups this month with employees, managers, who spend

their days in the field, so we can understand what challenges they're facing with policies like wearing face masks and social distancing, especially given the hotter temperatures we've been experienced. we're also continuing to support our customers in need with our emergency financial assistance programs. last week we extended our emergency residential community assistance program which is designed to help residential customers struggling to pay their water, sewer and hetch hetchy power bill during the covid-19 pandemic. the program which launched in may was set to expire last week, but will now be expanded through the end of the year as this global pandemic continues to impact san francisco. since the program launched in may, more than 6,000 customers have benefitted from the

initiative. those customers have saved a monthly average of $53 on their water and sewer bills, and $15 on their hetch hetchy power bill. by continuing to work with our customers, employee, city partners and others we'll look to move forward from these tough times as a stronger, better and more responsive agency. finally, we are closing out our innovative virtual tour summer series this month that has allowed us to share -- or continue to engage with our customers during this time. it's called the san francisco public utilities commission source virtual exploration. and so we've had them in the past, but it's really -- our

resources and in-house experts on water, power, sewer programs to interact with our customers, answer their questions and teach them about our system. we only have two tours left. power tour tomorrow and a pollution prevention tour on september 23rd. you can sign up at sf water.org virtual exploration and it's a really great program and i think the tour barbara hill is going to be featured tomorrow. so i hope that you tune in on that. and, again, i want to thank all the commissioners for their support during these times. and that concludes my update on emergency operation during

covid-19. any questions? >> president caen: commissioners, any questions, comments? seeing none, let's move on to 6b. >> 6b, steve ritchie. >> thank you. can i have the slides, please? this is steve ritchie, assistant general manager for water. i'm going to report on the recent 2020, august 2020 fires that were near our facilities. if i can have the next slide, please. i'm going to be talking about three fires. the mark fire, the scu fire and the czu fire. first, the mock fire. i reported on these on august 25th. these are data as of august

31st. again, the red outline is the outline of the extent of the fire that occurred. and the little dots are hot spots that were within the last 48 hours. so this was a map that was developed last monday. as you can see, this fire is basically totally controlled. it did not threaten much of our facilities. it did result in the evacuation of the town of moccasin, which was then repopulated about 45 hours later. if i can have the next slide. i was up there two weeks ago and able to take a photo. this is looking from the east shore of priest reservoir across the west reservoir. this is the one area where it adversely affected our facilities potentially. you can see on that hillside, from the top of the ridge down, about halfway, some burned areas in the watershed. and also along the face of the

dam right where the dam meets the hillside, what we refer to as the groin of the dam. it burned right to that edge, but since there is no vegetation on the dam, it didn't burn the dam face at all. this was where there was some impact around our facilities as a result of the moc fire. we will probably be doing treatment in the area to help minimize adverse runoff during the coming winter. if i can have the next slide, please? this is the scu complex fires. what you're seeing is the outline again on august 31st. it was at that time 383,000 acres. it actually has grown to 397,000 acres, making it a huge fire. almost twice as large as the rim fire was. it is now 93% contained and you're just looking at a small portion that is of interest to us, which is here in the northern end of the fire.

it extends many miles to the south. and this was a fire that really came close to our facilities. you can see there, the reservoir on the left. and that there was fire on both sides of that. near the antonio reservoir, there is a small area burned. and around the al creek. and the fire did come close at thomas shaft. up next to the scu, there was a fire under the transmission lines. so this is a very widespread fire that had a lot of risk for us. and most interestingly --nd i know this from talking to the staff last friday who worked in the area, the watershed keepers in particular, the watershed staff, the folks who live in and around this area -- when the fire started with the initial lightning strikes that occurred, they were out there doing a lot of the very initial response

work. it took a while for cal fire to get on the scene. we talk about how we're supporting cal fire. in this case, we were doing the fire-fighting ourselves in the initial stages to protect our facilities and in some cases some of our watershed cottage. the alony cottage burned all around it and it was stopped due to fire break work by ourselves and some others helping us. we helped guide the cal fire crews into the area and the local fire departments and were part of the initial response which has been going on now for the last two weeks plus. and the staff has worked extremely hard to make this a success for us. we did not have any damage to our facilities, but certainly a lot of damage to our watershed. so if i could have the next slide, please? this is looking from the west

shore of calaveras reservoir, the hills above calaveras reservoir. you can see the reservoir on the right. in the foreground, you see oak trees along the shoreline of calaveras reservoir. beyond that you see what looks like green forest areas with grasslands around it. that's not green, that's black. that has all burned. and you can see off up that canyon, a little wisp of smoke coming up. we had extensive fire around the watershed. it is around a significant arm of the calaveras reservoir. we had 10,000 acres of our property burned in this fire. and about two-thirds of the whole watershed.

we're already talking about how to go in and assess that and see what kind of treatment, if any, are necessary that we can provide along with cal fire in terms of fixing damage, the fire-fighting costs and controlling erosion from where the fire occurred. make no mistake, this was a huge fire in our watershed. and we'll be dealing with it a lot. with a little luck, we'll get gentle rain in the beginning of the year get grass growing before we look for more rain. some big gully washes earlier in the year could have significant adverse impacts on our watershed. lastly, the final fire. thinks the czu complex fires. this is down the santa cruz, san matteo area. the mountain area is so rugged there is potential it could have

come up in the watershed. as i mentioned at the last meeting, we had 12 fires that started by lightning strikes that our staff were able to extinguish before it got anywhere. we're trying to make sure our fire breaks are in order in case it came to the north. fortunately, it did not. this is 76% contained. the risk to our facilities from this fire is virtually nonexistent, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet. the final slide. like to wrap up. the moc fire resulted in evacuation for 45 hours. the scu burned more than two-thirds of the basins, but none of our facilities were damaged. staff from hetch hetchy water and power, natural resources and

land management and water supply treatment did excellent work. this was a big team effort all the way around for the last three weeks. and, unfortunately, we can expect more fires. fire season is in september and october, so we still have a ways made of us in this -- ahead of us in this fire season. i'd be happy to answer questions. >> president caen: commissioners, any questions? >> just a comment. it's always sobering to see what nature can dish up for us. it's also impressive to see what our crews can do. if you would extend to them our appreciation for that hard work. hard work and a little bit of luck carried the day. thank them for that. >> i agree and thank them for

their commitment to all of us and to themselves and our environment. >> absolutely. there is total commitment in there. a little luck come in handy, but it comes with a lot of preparation and hard work. >> president caen: there wasn't any fire activity around hetch hetchy, was there? >> not around hetch hetchy itself, no. >> president caen: because i received a message from the chronicle inquiring about the fire around hetch hetchy. they must have meant moccasin. >> yeah, the moccasin fire, they were talking about hetch hetchy facilities. i think some people misinterpreted that as the fire at hetch hetchy itself. >> president caen: i wanted to clarify that. >> and chair caen, also, we had inquiries and you know folks

were saying, you know, what do we need to do because of moccasin? and as summarized by mr. ritchie, it was very serious and there was evacuations, but there was a very quick turnaround and recovery, both for the town and the workers that went back there. it seemed to be a highlight of all the things that mr. ritchie had talked about. and the moccasin part was like a fast turnaround, which is good. >> president caen: absolutely. we know what to do. it's very evident. let's move on to 6c, please. >> this will be presented by kat katie miller. >> good afternoon. i'm acting director of water capital program. and i'm pleased to have the opportunity to share with you

progress on the water enterprise capital improvement program during the 4th quarter of fiscal year 19-20 from april through june of 2020. this is a snapshot of where the program currently stands for the 36 water interprize regional and local projects representing $2.2 billion. four projects have not yet started. eight in planning. six in design. seven in construction. four in closeout. and five completed. to date, $841 million has been expended and the program is 37% complete. the major highlights from the fourth quarter include, of course, there were minor delays of 2-6 weeks in construction projects while we waited for contractors to submit their

health and safety plans to address covid-19. another major highlight was the new urban tunnel number 2 was inspected using a robot and no deficiencies were detected. the draft geotechnical report was completed for the dam. the project to replace the lock bar steel pipe achieved 50% completion. and finally, 12.6 miles of pipe were replaced during the fiscal year. now i'm going to show you the highlights of the different projects in the area. the highlight for the long-term improvement project is the beginning of the construction for the alameda center. thinks in close coordination with the tribes who has

representatives on site to support the removal of features and burials. and that is going very successfully. these are highlighting some of the construction activities out there. this is an aerial photo showing the sites of the watershed center. in the foreground is the water sample and in the background our native plant nursery where many of the plants are grown for revegetation work within our watersheds. it shows the outline -- outlaying of the whole area. >> at the su not valley water treatment plant, the work is under way. the health and safety plan was submitted and the conceptual engineering report work is under way. the design for the project will continue throughout the next year.

our two dam projects in the region. the san andreas dam facility project created nine alternatives to be further analyzed for the emergency drawdown outlet structure. these alternatives will be further evaluated under a new scope of work under the report that will be performed under our new engineering services for dams and reservoirs contracts during the next quarter. at this dam, the project team completed review of the draft outlet tunnel discharge facilities inspect report. the consultant incorporated our comments in the next reporting period. further more, test of soil samples was completed. the draft geo tech report will be submitted in the next quarter. not only to us, but the division of safety of dams for their review.

for the lock bar replacement, these photos show a 54 inch pipeline that is being installed in san bruno. restoration work for a pipe already installed is being completed. and as i previously stated, this project is now 50% complete. next slide, please. moving to san francisco, this slide shows our cbd plumbers helping to install pipe and great highlight of this period is that all four miles of water mains under van ness boulevard were replaced. and our work for the van ness project is complete. the work continues on many other

city streets, including geary and three locations. lombard, 16th street, between sunset and san francisco zoo, 22nd street, green street, clayton street, peer street, and protection for several sunset system pipelines. a total of 12.6 miles of pipe was installed during the fiscal year. next slide. for our san francisco ground water supply project, phase 2 work is now 97% complete. startup and testing began for the north lake well station and south windmill well stations, both located in golden gate park, and also landscaping communications and various punch list items. this project did incur a slight cost increase and scheduled delay due to the delayed delivery of the well pump.

i believe you all approved and agenda item for that in july. next slide, please. this photo shows the first floor shoring for the san francisco westside recycle water treatment facility that is located at the oceanside plant. you can see in the background. even with the suspension of work for one month due to covid, substability work was -- substantial work was still completed. the membrane filtration, reverse osmosis and ultraviolet units were delivered to the site. we're getting close. within golden gate park, the powering of concrete walls and columns was completed for the pumps and resume waervoirreserv. bids were opened in may.

the contract was subsequently awarded in july. next slide. with that, i would be happy to take questions. >> president caen: very nice presentation. >> i have a question. what was the soil samples for? what were you looking for with the soil at the dam? >> that, i believe, it's general geotechnical, standard practice to look at the soil samples to try to determine the characteristics of the soil for stability reasons. if there is anything more to it than that, i can get back to you with more information. >> all right, thank you. >> i was curious about the whole van ness project now that we're done. when is the completion date for everybody else to be completed?

>> i believe that is still about two years down the road. and i can get back to you with that for sure. the water and wastewater are completed, but there is still quite a bit of work to do on the bus pads and the rest of the street work. and i think that they still have quite a ways to go. i will get back to you for sure with that. >> well, no need to. i was just curious. >> as much as we would like to think we're done, i imagine we'll still be pulled into conversation about contracting issues on that. >> president caen: hmm, okay. >> and madame president, i should just mention that this is a -- my daytime job, offices are right on van ness. and this has been complicated in the sense that this is a huge -- even if you look at it as one street -- it's a huge project

and the mta and the public utilities and, you know, our agency, the puc, have all had different pieces to work on. and it's van ness is a historical avenue in san francisco. and there were times when people would dig stuff up and despite the greatest reconnaissance, it's like, what the heck is this? you know, some pipe from before -- before you know san francisco even existed they'd find and people would have to figure out what to do to not screw it up. so it's been frustrating, but there is reasons for it. i just had to make that comment as a commissioner and observer. >> president caen: thank you for doing so. so true, isn't it? everybody has a piece of that project. >> right. we all do. it's really going to be great when it is done. >> president caen: again, thank

you for the presentation. would you please open this up for public comment on items 6a, b and c. >> secretary: members of the public who wish to make public comment on items 6a, 6b, or 6c, dial 1-415-655-0001, i.d. number 146 087 5808, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. speakers will be given two minutes for each topic for a maximum up to six minutes for speaker. if the speaker wishes to speak on each of the three topics, when calling in specify which items or item you will be discussing. thank you.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. stephen robison, capital programs. >> excuse me? i was wondering with the presentation, i've looked over the presentation, can we take comments from the commission after each section?

>> of course. >> president caen: okay. >> yes, of course. so we have these three presentations. i can go through them, but happy to pause after each one for comments and questions from the commissioners. so firstly, the item is for the southeast area major project update. we've been doing that monthly. then we'll follow with the sewer system improvement program quarterly report and lastly, the wastewater enterprise cip quarterly report. happy to pause ever each one. so the southeast area major projects, the slide coming up is the one shown before to highlight these three projects with all the work going on in the community. and the southeast plant. it shows the project over to the top left. the site b. the top right and the southeast community project center at

1550. since all three projects are still working on foundations similar to last month, we felt to bring one of the p.m.s with us instead of all three like i did last time, so we have mr. chiu with us to help answer questions. perhaps as we go into future months, we can get with the monitors as needed. i personally visited the site last friday and i can say the landscape is changing as the work progresses. it's great to see these projects are moving forward and people are staying safe. so for the beginning of the three, just as we showed you last month, this slide shows the same forecasted project budget and schedule after the cost reduction effort earlier this year. there is no change. first bullet, to incorporate the cost savings measures are continuing. and construction activities are

expected to increase significantly beginning of next year, january, because of the excavation, dewatering and foundation work we'll move forward in a big way. there is 280 existing piles that need to be extracted from the former central shop buildings. and there is an additional drill rig has now gone on the site, that will increase the rate of the direction to the six piles per day. again, a production method we can measure. the third bullet is relocation of existing utilities and sewer lines. we have a couple of photos. this is the relocation of sewer -- former central shop area that allows the work to progress f. you stand on the left side of the photo, a look into the trench, you can see the next slide, which shows the 36-inch sewer line and the contractors are taking measurements of this existing

concrete sewer before making the connection to relocate this to a better area. the next slide just shows some of the welders really working at the bottom of the trench ensuring that facility to make it safe while we work on it. next is the new head works facility at southeast. same forecasted project that we showed last quarter, last month, no change. there was an error in the written report. it slows a slight variance, but that is being corrected and it hasn't changed since the last report. the head works project has made significant progress. scope one is complete. scope two is the pump station. a couple of bullets to say that the performance on functional testing of this asset continues.

and the testing is ongoing. scope 3, the main facility itself, this is a largest of the three scopes. efforts continue to reduce costs as we work within the cmgc model. installation of temporary pumps, piping will be starting soon. i got to see that on friday and it's amazing to think this is our open heart surgery we referred to. this is moving it along to the rest of the treatment process. now we have to figure out how to work on these pumps while they're working live. this is a great challenge. and the last bullet is about drills piers. that is what we showed last month. the drill pier operation is very much under way. to date, 131 drill piers have been installed out of 600. and we're continuing through the remaining of 2020. just a couple more recent photos

to show. this is the production pier operation we showed before. a nice wide angle view of the whole facility. you can see what is left of the existing building in the background with the drill rigs in the front. and to go to the next slide, just as we showed last month, this depicts the preparation of the steel reinforcement cages for those piers. on the last photo, on the next slide, shows this casing being drilled down to allow the reinforcement cages to be lowered into the hole and that forms our pier and there are 600 of these. let's go to southeast committee center at 1550 evans. the same project schedule we showed last month. no change. completed the ward on foundations and underground utility work is complete. the basin, demolition work, has

been completed and the sign removed. reinforcement steel for the slab base arrived in august and the flooring also started in august. let's go to the next slide. a few photos of that. you can see the contractor is preparing the reinforcement for installation. you can see the trenches behind them. the next slide you can see more placing a time, reinforcement steel is the foundation of the building. the last slide, a beautiful photo taken early in the morning when the construction crews like to do this work for a large pour like this to make sure it works well. on friday, when i saw the site one of the three buildings already had been powered and they were preparing to pour the second. so the work is under way a.nd

exciting as we get to ground level. we'll start to see the building go up much quicker. there are a couple of broader items we wanted to touch on. firstly, an update on traffic around the southeast area projects. really for construction workers, but primarily for the entire community who use these streets as they live and work here. we previously mentioned that the revenue would be closed through traffic and then we updated our forecast when that work would occur to be january of next year. the teams continued their outreach strategy to develop a flyer that will be posted online, on our media channels and shared door-to-door in the next few weeks. i thought this main graphic would be helpful to explain the plan, the proposed plan to reroute traffic around the site. you can see the red line in the middle, cutting our plans in two. the green lines depict where we hope and propose to move traffic around the facility.

our work is ramping up. we're leaning forward to engage and get feedback on the proposals and changes on how they're rolled out. one of our previous meetings, we were asked for an update on the lbe and the local hire work. this slide shows the requirements that our projects fall under. we're able to say we're exceeding these numbers. it shows a range of commitments across the three projects. and our intent is to come back to you and provide the results, the performance metrics, snapshot in time, the human stories that go with this, because that's important especially in these covid days. i want to bring the right people to share that data with you. let's go to the last slide. san francisco arts commission, unveiled the first of four

large-scale temporary murals in hunters point. this is 300-foot artwork and it spans the temporary fence of the edge of evans for the project. it will be there for a year at least as part of the temporary art program. with that, that concludes the three of the first -- the first of the three presentations. >> president caen: commissioners, any questions? those piles are amazing. quite a sight. >> there are lots of them. so we can -- production, because there are so many. it's about pace and making sure we can keep up with the production rate. >> why did the india basin signage issue have its own

bullet? is that significant? >> i know that maybe other comments in the commissioners, too, but it felt significant because it's almost an iconic symbol, i suppose, for what the former site had been. and there is a line of sight question and access from 3rd street. there was some thought and careful consideration putting into making sure we're doing the right thing with the signs and what the visual perspective is from the street as we look on to what the new facility will be. >> okay. >> president caen: good question. all right. let's move on. >> okay. thank you. the next presentation is the quarterly report for the sewer system improvement program, which some of those projects we looked at are part of. this is april 1 through june 30, 2020.

we talked about construction continuing on site of the southeast because we just learned about the southeast and the main projects, but work continues across the rest of the city. we thought we'd highlight some of those projects. you can see a traffic-calming method that extends the sidewalk and reduces the distance for pedestrians to cross the street. but also gardens to capture and treat the storm water. in the middle is the southeast site liability and assessment project. this quarter, the contractor completed the seismic work on slab structure and pile installation and the construction of the new stairs you can see here which i hope to see on friday, which looked great. on the right, the mariposa

improvements and flow shows the construction work under way, contractor lifting and placing the reinforced steel in the forms of wall for the new pump station. progress keeps going for that one. next slide. we'll get into the metrics now. another pie chart shown before from previous reports. program status for the 70 projects and phase one, representing this same number of 2.9, $7.9 billion. currently now it's 46% complete. hard to believe. nearing 50%. at the last quarter we closed at 39.7. we now have on the blue area, the top representing 15 projects. designs and award. green shows 19 projects and construction. and grey to the left, 38 projects.

this is table 3.1 from the quarterly report. i have that little note at the top for reference, if you have it with you. it shows summary costs for phase one. those columns summarize the expenditures to date, the current approved project, the current forecasted cost and then the cost variance between budget and forecast. you see that at the bottom right and the majority is from bio solids from head works. what has changed is the expenditures to date. but the forecast remains the same. this is table 3.2. very similar. but it shows a summary of those additional projects that were added to the program at the end of 2018. and these were initiated into ssip in phase one, but were approved in the budget cycle as the 10-year capital plan.

these are for flood resilience. we track them as other so we can inspect them. you see the variance of $108 million, bottom right, again, no change since last quarter. so this report helps us understand the cost variances by using the green, yellow, red dots, the colors to indicate the health of the project. under is a summary. i showed a similar table last quarter. this quarter we're showing 15 projects meeting requirements, getting the green star. five projects need attention. we're being concerned about those. there are 15 that are red, indicating they're over the approved budget by 10% or more. so let's try to understand that better as we move forward. next slide, please. similar to this graphic, it shows the schedule straight from the quarterly report. again, compared to 2016,

baseline for the program. the top 2018 approved and current forecast schedules for phase one. to the next slide. to unpack a little more, last quarter there was a great question about looking at the -- what i've been calling the themes of why there are cost and schedule variance. so we did. we took a look at the projects in the report and opted to use the same categories we used for the bio solids project earlier in the year where there was extensive analysis. we asked the project teams to identify what we call primary reasons for cost variance, recognizing of course there is likely to be secondary reasons, but we wanted to try to do some exercise to look at the primary reasons why there are cost variances. this is the result. the largest, you can see here, are scope refinement and the bidding and the environment --

bidding environment conditions. they make up 12. this begins to help us understand what that means. go to the next slide. unpack it further. we look at these projects with the largest variances. you can see biosolids and head works that i just mentioned. and head works shows a slight variation from the last quart e. what you see on screen is correct here. these variances have not changed since the last quarter and that helps us focus in the right place. next slide, please. looking at schedule, in this case, you can see interdepartmental coordination at the bottom. 7 projects. scope refinement modification, 5. this makes up half of the

primary reason for scheduled delay. we can see there is a varied spread of reasons for the projects across all. and if we go to the next slide. you can see the largest schedule variances shown here. i'm having now undertaken the analysis, we can look harder at the key issues and learn lessons and mitigate it going forward. it was a great question. i'm glad we spent time looking at it. to conclude, just the last slide. willing to highlight a few achievements during this quarter. we did advertise construction for the mission street, 16, the cesar chaves. of course, we have been making steady progress with biosolids and the mariposa station as well. we did achieve final completion

for the projects highlighted earlier and the contract for head works. that concludes the second of the three presentations. i'm happy to take questions at this point. >> president caen: well, that certainly was a very crystal clear report. nothing left unturned. commissioners, any questions? >> through the chair, could you talk some about the scope refinement part of that that -- of the various categories? can you talk about what made that necessary and how we manage that? >> yes, of course, thank you. yes, it's a large one, so i think we had noted some criteria what we would classify within that category. there was a different category for differing site conditions

that we would experience through some form of investigation or during construction. but as the scope evolves, the project evolves, i would say planning through design at different stages and then to award construction, or alternative to the remodel where we're doing gnc for example, that would be captured in there. in the head works project, where we did change i suppose the approach to how we're doing that temporary pumping, the site b lift station, at one point was going to be a branding facility and then we helped with the cost reduction efforts. yes, more within our control. but inevitably some things do change and we want to control that as much as we can. does that help answer the question? >> it helps. these are things that are you are dealing with prior to the project going to construction,

is that right? >> yes -- no, i mean we're capturing this for the project duration, all the way through closeout. so the cost can change. typically in design and bid build, there is going to be less scope changes during construction, but in cmgc, where there is very heavy interplay and collaboration as we move forward because the general contractor is on board while the design is progressing, then there is room to take -- learn those lessons of feedback and how the contractor will actually build the project and that happened during biosolids, we leaned on the contractor to help inform us how to manage the costs and bring it down to more measurable as we presented earlier this year. >> i guess that goes to part of the reason for my question. the cmgc contracting that, part of the reason for that was to take efficiencies by virtue of

having the construction manager on board. it sounds as though in this case, they got in looked at what we were planning to do and the scope and time costs went up? >> that's true. and by bringing they on board, for biosolids, the contractor, they gave us a much more realistic opinion of what it would take to construct the project from a cost perspective, especially what was in 2019, 2020, with market conditions we see today. that gave us early warning. before we're in the ground doing construction work, we have an opportunity to change and improve it. we would have realized that cost impact later when we received bids from contractors and then that would have forced either a dramatic change in the scope, you know, to withdraw and change direction completely, or acceptance was going to be costing more than we thought.

it exposed it was a higher cost, but it gave us an opportunity to change it to bring it down to something that was more manageable. >> okay, thank you. >> president caen: very good. let's move on to the last presentation. >> thank you, this last one is very brief. for the wastewater enterprise capital improvement program quarterly report. in this case, it's q3 and q4. i think we skipped over q3 before, so we'll put it together. this summarizes the capital plan made up of various programs. so section 1 in the report that you have shows the sewer system improvement program for which you had a separate presentation today. section 2 is the program. in it, there are no projects to report as the remaining open projects are in the closeout phase. this is the same as recently quarterly reports.

that has a approved budget of $399 million, 68 projects completed and for 339 and three projects going to closeout, $57 million. section 3 of the report shows wastewater enterprise facility. there are five projects. no change since quarter 2 and the cost schedule stays the same. same red and green dots. but i'd like to share more about that. section 4 of the report shows that the program, collection and treatment programs all show green for the end of the fiscal year. i would like to say more about the infrastructure program because i don't think we talk about it as much. this slide shows these five projects. i'm showing all of them here. the slide shows variants in the quarterly report. for fraser island, this is the new treatment plant and it's

still in the planning phase. under the time of reporting and the r.f.q. was under development i would like to say that request for qualification, that r.f.q., has been released. and the water control board issued the permit. things are moving ahead, but significant difference in cost as that project has changed over time, the method of delivery has changed over time as we figured out what it looks like going forward. so secondly, the ocean beach project, the next one, there are a number of elements to this, the short-term improvements. the army corpse of engineers work. the long-term improvements. long-term, the climate change adaptation project, high level of coordination with other san francisco agencies, funding and project components. in association with san francisco zoo are under way. 35% design work is expected to be completed later next month in

2020, october. the cost variance here is about refinement again of developing the conceptual engineering report as we work with other departments and stakeholders to clarify what the scope of the project should be. thirdly, i just mentioned the crossing replacement project designed with the comments received from 95% of that. it's much further along. we're incorporating that into the final -- but we're coordinating again with support from m.t.a., for muni overhead control systems, third street. so again, interdependency on other departments and moving it forward. the costs change due to market conditions. there has been handling and disposal of contaminants and materials. the last slide, just to touch on the program, would be to look at it from a schedule perspective from the project. three are showing variance.

the treasure island mentioned, there is a variance because of the change of plan about the method of delivery, the procurement model. and the islai creek crossing. emergency buy past was added and some delay for the incorporation of the seismic design, the muni overhead work. the southeast outfall assessment, we have project and coordination with the state local agencies, jurisdiction of the site, accessibility of the project area and proximity to the that may trigger review again. i'd like to give you a flavor of this whole program. projects, some variance to report. but with the last side, say that is the end of all three, thank

you for listening and i'm happy to take questions on this piece as well. >> i have a question regarding treasure island, through the chair. can you give me the two main reasons why there has been a reason for the change? does it have anything to do with the sea level rise or what was expected or not expected from that? >> thanks for the question. not from the sea rise. i think the city and the developer, the work is good standards for what we're doing to understand what is happening with sea level rise. very visual and well known issue for a flat piece of land like treasure island. the changes fort project have been more about how we want to handle the project. if it is literally on an island, separate from the rest of the work from the city and county of san francisco, 7.7 miles, we invest quite a lot of time

keeping an old plant going. because we're doing it in an environment with the developer and the island has been looked at for a long time for development, and now we're moving forward, there has been a lot of discussion with tida and other agencies and other stakeholders how to do this project well. we've now landed on design build. allowing us to work collaboratively to take the project and effectively give it to an entity to think it through to meet our own performance objectives, design it, build it. and we accept it as an asset to own and operate. >> >> commissioner maxwell: thank you. >> president caen: any other comments, questions? madame secretary, could you please open the last three items, that is 6d, e and f, for public comment. >> secretary: members of the

public who wish to make public comment on item 6d, 6e, and 6f, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 146 087 5808, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak, press 3. speakers will be given two minutes for each topic, with a maximum of six minutes if a speaker wishes to speak on each of the three topics. when you're calling in, provide the item or items you'll be providing public comment on. mr. moderator, any callers. >> madame secretary, we have callers in the queue. >> secretary: thank you. >> caller, please --

commissioners -- my name is francisco lacosta. and i'm going to be speaking on all the three items. >> all right. >> first and foremost, when the task force was created so that the community would really have input on the sewer system improvement project, it started as a $6 billion project which is now $12 billion and some of you commissioners who are astute know that it may cost us $15-20 billion. so having said that, the tax force and what it kind of

represented at that time for the community, none of the expiration have been kept. i repeat. none of the aspirations have been kept. if you go along with it, not once have we discussed how much it will cost us when it comes to the energy, the electricity, to run those digesters. and you know that something linked with pg&e, but we don't bring it out. then you talk about the artwork. the artwork is necessary to a certain extent.

quality of life issues more for infants, children, youth, our young adults, our seniors who are dying. those with compromised health, mentally challenged and physically challenged, some of that money could be used for the community. no, no. [please stand by] [please stand by]

-- the standards and their morals and the timelines, the goals are adhered to. now we have the f.b.i. gathering all of the information for the last 15 years and all of that will be coming out in the newspapers for all the world to see. while you are doing a presentation as if everything is okay. everything is not okay. the last time that i spoke i spoke about this, and that

somebody is talking about the spiel about -- i didn't ask about reporting about the spiel, i know that. because the one who reported about the spiel was me. what i asked was that this is adversely impacting the community. why hasn't it been addressed for over six months? and where is the paradox that the day that i was talking about the spill there was a big spill at a plant. a big spill at a treatment plant. i repeat, a very big spill at a treatment plant. we are having all of the people that will be subpoenaed. you have heard about this before, but you better hear about it now.

over 40 people will be subpoenaed. and more will be reported in the newspapers. and you will not be able to do anything about it. but none of you, because you're sitting on the commission, people will be pointing their fingers at you. i'm not like that. i served through generals. i know about accountability. i know about transparency. i know how to speak truth to power. >> your time is up, caller. >> do the right thing. if you do not do the right thing, you will not leave a legacy. thank you very much.

>> thank you, caller. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> president caen: that closes public commee. >> president caen: that closes public comment on item 6, e and f. and the next items are item g, the alternative water supply planning quarterly report. >> good afternoon again, commissioners. the assistant general manager for water. if i could have the slides, please. one of the things in your packet, commission, is the 49-page long quarterly report update. so i'm going to just hit the highlights here in the presentation, but i refer you to that report for all of the details. if i could have the next slide, please. i can just do a quick summary. we have a need for alternative water supplies. we have up to 93 million-gallons

a day. and we have three n.d.g. for the inflows and to make up for water transfer that we did not accomplish during the plus year round needs. and sainta clara making permanent customers of nine n.d.g. as much as another 6.5 billion-gallons a day plus additional customer demands. if i could have the next slide, please. our plan and approach is to deal with our all-year needs and our drought year needs and the all-year needs really focus on san jose and santa clara, regarding the timing availability and the location of water supply options and we're now meeting monthly with bosca, san jose and santa clara to review our progress there. and for drought year needs we need to have technical analyses because these are all fairly complex projects these day and

refine the demands to make sure that we're giving the right amount of water. any one of these projects that we might do needs to be integrated with the existing regional water system. we could have projects that appear to generate a lot of water but once you try to fit them into the delivery system they may not deliver as much water. so it's a fairly set of analyses that we need to go through. next slide. and this is a new presentation of our schedule that i want to focus on for a moment. each one of those sets of bars across running horizontally is a different project. there are 15 different projects that we are pursuing at this time. the timeline is broken by those little tick marks into two-year increments. so every two years is another tick mark, so it's 2022, 2024, 2026, 2028, 2030, etc., on into the future. because these projects take a long time to develop. the dashed orange line is where we are today and there are two

key milestones noted. first is july 2023, when we committed to the commission that we would be back with a package of projects that are ready for environmental review. and december 2028, which is the decision for dry air supplies for existing customers and whether or not to make san jose and santa clara permanent customers. so those are the really key dates that we're aiming for in our process. if i could have the next slide, please. again, these all require unique challenges. as i said, integration into the existing system, and partnerships. we find that as you add different partners, the complexities multiply very rapidly. they'll need additional operator training and dealing with new technologies and new governing regulations. in fact, i just saw a photo of

the progress on the westside recycled water plant showing the installation of reverse osmosis tube there is, which is very exciting. but that's the kind of new technology that we'll be dealing with. and move on to the next slide. so i'm going to quickly review the current project planning and highlights from about five projects. first the recycled water expansion project. we're currently focusing on collaboration and cost-sharing, and we're identifying the valueiated alternatives in coordination with the groundwater storage project. and one is looking at the viability of projects within the broader program objectives. their rate-setting process is governed by the california public utilities commission. so they have to make sure they can package up a project partnership that works through that process. and then, of course, reallocate the costs and benefits among the partners which are ourselves,

cal water and the city of daly city. and purified water projects we have two that we're working on in the crystal springs area with the city of san mateo and the allaaloeproject. and we're trying to understand the incremental benefit that these could provide to our supplies. we're doing analyses to look at the impacts. we're reviewing the experience of other utilities engaged in purified water collaborations, because they are challenging and difficult but potentially very rewarding. and evaluating the timing and supply and availability with the timing of our needs. our needs are dry air needs but supply availability from a purified water project is year round. so how do you marry those two things up. next slide, please. one of our complex projects is

truly a misnomer. this is a major collaboration effort among many partners, i don't recall the number but i believe that it's about 10. we're working on a joint powers authority agreement. so our staff, legal counsel and senior management, are all involved in looking closely at that, because we'd have to bring that to this commission for approval to participate in that reservoir, which is currently owned and operated by the costa water district. there's a new cost-share proposal with the district two months ago. we're deliberating on methodology with the partner agencies on how to divide up the costs of a large complex project. this commission just approved an amendment to the first multiparty agreement. these are the study agreements that we're carrying out. it was executed in june of this year. and we're looking at it as a second amendment to provide

additional study funding which would be on the order of a million dollars per partner. which is now being finalized. and maybe the most critical thing here, which is identifying the feasible conveyance for water that could benefit our system. this is the critical path and one of the key opportunities appears to be working with others to move water through the south bay august w aquiduct froe delta all the way to the santa clara water district. we're simulating the transfer, considering physical and institutional constraints. there's a capacity assessment that is under review now that the south bay contractors put together. the south bay contractors are the alameda water district, and valley water. and evaluating alternatives for how the south bay aquiduct may be used for conveyance. one key thing is that it might be a great project but if we can't move waters to our

benefit, then it means nothing to us. so that will be the big critical hurdle that we have to get over to decide whether or not to be a partner in this project. next slide, please. one that -- >> sorry to interrupt you. could you go back for one sec. >> back one slide, please. >> what you just said about the feasibility of the conveyance -- what is that going to entail? when -- sorry -- maybe i'll be more direct -- >> the south bay aquiduct -- >> there. when will you be able to determine -- >> i don't know. it is really quite striking how hard it is to get good solid information there. when we first asked this question about a year and a half

ago, the south bay contractors and the department of water resources kind of shrugged a little bit. and we said, well, a shrug doesn't do us any good, we need real information. this is an older facility, there are questions about its reliability in certain cases. there are also a lot of assumptions about how it get used, how it gets used, particularly in dry years that we want to examine very closely. one of the things that we heard early on was well, there's no capacity available during drought years because we have to move other waters through there. that's counter intuitive to me. what waters do they think that they'll move through there, whereas we may have water that we may move through it if we have the expansion in mind. so as with many things with the state water project it's a little -- um, difficult to get

details. and we're just now starting to get them. when will we really know an answer? well, we would like to really have a good answer before we commit serious money. and that would be probably within the next year to 18 months is when i think that we'll be confronted with that question. >> president caen: thanks, steve. and one more question on the los vaqueros project. the state measure to help to increase storage capacity. are those funds still available? and is that an opportunity here to access some of those dollars? >> actually you're referring to proposition one -- with it the water storage improvement program. actually the los vaqueros expansion, they have been able to demonstrate a lot of possibilities for this project and are in line to get a substantial amount of money.

that's one of the challenges here. that money is on a short timeline to be wrapped up and spent. and we're conflicted between everybody wanted to make sure that we don't lose out on that money while at the same time needing to make sure that we get the questions answered about the project. so we don't say, yeah -- and we actually could be confronted with this, saying, yeah, let's take a risk and be a participant in it and find out that it doesn't work for us that well. so we need an off-ramp on these agreements if we go down that path and we don't have all of the answers. so this will be a delicate one to work our way through. but, yes, prop one money is a big piece of it. >> president caen: great, thank you. >> okay, next slide. this is the expansion project and, again, we just completed the dam raze. we're looking very closely at this one. this is very attractive to us because there aren't any other partners. it's san francisco's project. and so we eliminate that challenge of it, but, of course,

there are many other challenges. but the dam was constructed with the notion that you could increase the size of it in the future. so we are identifying the opportunities and constraints for expansion and we're looking at four different dam elevation scenarios and looking at what does it take to move the water there under what conditions. and, again, this is where modeling it into our system is going to be very critical. we may find some additional plumbing such as, you know, san joaquin pipelines or the pump station improvements or so manyo valley popline pipelines that we helpful but they'll add to the cost. but these are very much within our control so it's an attractive project. and the last is needing to understand the water rights and potential for exchanges. so there's the water between valley water that will provide the additional information on that and that's expected to be complete late this year.

and utilizing and understanding the constraints on transfers to inform planning. when people talk about water transfers they sound very simple and easy on the face of it, but when you actually get into the specifics, particularly if it involves the central valley project or state water project water, it gets very complicated very rapidly. so, again, this one has some good possibilities but it also has some hurdles. so that's a quick summary of some of the projects where we're working on it right now and i'd be happy to answer any questions. again, as i said there's a 49-page report in your package for more details. >> president caen: commissioners, questions? seeing none, madam secretary, i have to go to another meeting for about 15 minutes. so i'm going to turn the gavel over to vice president vietor.

i hope that you were made aware of that. >> clerk: i was just before the meeting so we'll do our best here and we'll miss you. >> president caen: okay, i'll be back soon. >> clerk: thank you. >> vice-president vietor: madam secretary, read the next item. >> clerk: the next item is the alternative water supply planning quarterly report. we're taking public comment at the conclusion of this item, combined with 6g and 6h. >> vice-president vietor: great, mr. richey. >> if i could have the slides, please. if you will recall at the last meeting i made a presentation basically using just words

around the supply and demand worksheet and we changed the name a little bit to "supply and demand" to be a little more expressive. today i'm going to use words and then i'm going to show what the worksheet is starting to look like and how it might work that we can use to actually to examine the benefits of the project, some of them from many of the projects that we were looking at as well as other policy considerations that the commission could have before it. so the next slide, please. this is a repeat of one of the slides that i have shown last meeting about the worksheet mechanics to tee it up. again, what are shown in the worksheet are the projections of retail demands and wholesale customer demands on the regional water system over five-year increments from 2020, hopefully through 2050. and these combine into total water system demands. one of the things that we're generating out of this is the assessment of our firm yield.

and the firm yield is the amount of water that can be delivered over a designed drought utilizing all of the water that is available to us in storage. again, with the additional inflow. so it's a defining number for how much water can be extracted from our system in a design drought. so the regional water system is 219 million gal ons per day. post-wisip, we decrease it by 8 million-gallons per day due to the new instream and flow on alameda creek and san mateo creek that have already taken effect. so the post-wisip firm yield is 219 plus 16 minus 8, equals 227 million-gallons per day. so that's a significant number in the worksheet. next slide. so the impacts on firm yield that we can display in the

worksheet include reductions in yield due to 12 new river instream flow requirements and early implementation. increases in the yield due to implementing alternative water supply projects coming out of the alternative water supply planning program. and potentially yields -- excuse me -- changes in the yield due to a drought period, whether it's actually an increase in the drought period or a decrease in the drought period, that could go both ways, depending how we choose to view climate change and other things. impacts on total system yield that can be displayed include those impacts on firm yield as described above, but also potential changes in the yield due to a revised rationing policy. as you will recall our rationing policy developed in the wisip was 3.5 years of 20% rationing. we could change that policy, either requiring more rationing by our customers or less rationing by our customers,

depending on what policies and considerations all build into that. these are things that are within the control of the commission to change. impacts on regional water systems that can be displayed is the addition of a permanent additional wholesale customers, specifically santa clara and the supply to accommodate growth. now before i move to the next slide, just want to say that we've been working with commissioner moran on this a fair amount and this is very much a spreadsheet-based system. and so what we're going to look at are screen shots of two tables that are two parts of a single frea spread sheet. so it's a large spreadsheet and we're looking at how that spreadsheet can be used to easily make some choices and see how changes can occur. and then we'll be looking at a summary spreadsheet that is much

easier. and i will say, frankly, is more my type of spreadsheet on a level that i can digest. it's hard sometimes to grasp a big spreadsheet. and we are also looking at if we can produce out of any given run of the worksheet a high level summary at the end. so we want to make sure that the results are transparent in how the spreadsheet really works. but also very understandable to a wide array of audiences. so if i could have the next slide. this is the water supply-and demand worksheet comes in two parts. the first is the supply part. and so the upper part of this spreadsheet -- and i apologize if it's not totally lidgeible lt it is a big spreadsheet. the upper part is retail water demands and the various things that affect those over time.

and maybe the most important thing that you can see there on the yellow line at the end is the net retail regional water system water demand. because we've taken up conservation, groundwater, recycled water and things of that nature. and we have the ability to add in projects that might be done on a local basis. so it has in 2025, 76 million-gallons per day, and 2030, 27, and 2040, 84 million-gallons per day. so that's the retail regional water system demand. the next section is reserved where we will look at the wholesale purchase projections by our wholesale customers. and we don't have any numbers in there except for those looking for the interruptible customer demands and that's because we're waiting for our wholesale customers to give us feedback there. we think that the wholesale

perfect projections will over the next few years range from, you know, 130 million-gallons per day or 165 million-gallons per day, or something on the orders of that. again, we have the supply assurance for our wholesale customers which is 184 million-gallons per day which is something that they haven't recently projected that they would need, but at the same time, under the water supply agreement it is a supply assurance, so if there is some major problem or change in their other supplies they could look to call on more of our supply, you know, i wouldn't say at the drop of a hat but, certainly, it's something within their purview to ask us for. and so the total regional water demand shows the retail numbers there at the bottom because we haven't filled in the table with the wholesale perfec purchase projections. if i could have the next slide,

please. this is the -- the first slide is all demand. this is the side that is where the manipulations can come in. so it starts at the top with the firm yield, pre-wisip and we get through that a little bit and it gets down in a few lines to the firm yield post-wisip and taken out of the 227 million-gallons per day. and then you have a section for alternative water supply projects. and then a section for contributions to the instream flow requirements and what those might be. potential policy revisions. and the next one, which is actually a little obscured by the draft mark on it is the effect on firm yield of changing the design drought. and then we have the potential policy decisions with the rationing sequence and policy. so all of those things within the spreadsheet were in the

process of being set up to be manipulated in a way that could actually make changes in how we look at our supply-and-demand picture. and so, again, you get out of the bottom of that an ultimate surplus or deficit, which here artificially looks very large because it doesn't have any wholesale customer projections in it. so that's a large spreadsheet, about 15 columns across and 130 rows down so it's a very large spreadsheet with a lot of details in it and very complex formulas. this is the one that we want to project because this will generate results that we can show other ways. if we could move to the next slide. this is a roll-up of that. so basically you see in the upper block the regional water system demands that is simplified, and then you see the effects on the regional water system yield, the alternative

water supply programs. and the contribution to the instream flow requirements. and the design drought policy questions. and then the next -- the effect on total yield can be done by, you know, manipulating the rationing policy. and then affecting demand. you know, whether or not we make san jose and santa clara as permanent customers and/or meeting additional demands. so this is a system leer spreadsheet, you know -- simpler spreadsheet that can produce results that basically would be imported into this. so no calculations would be done here. it really would just be importing results from that primary spreadsheet and that's the whole purpose of that. and we're working on a third level of results that can take this even into a higher level, so it can be as simplified as possible, but, again, the workhorse is the large spreadsheet that we would be working from.

so last slide. so our next steps are some further refinement of the worksheet and working with our wholesale customers and bosca to obtain the projected purchases from them over the next several years. we would move forward to a workshop for stakeholders on how to make use of this spreadsheet with the ultimate then being a future commission workshop to demonstrate the effects of various policies and considerations. and when we talk about the policies and the considerations, i'd like to just add that the projects, of course, will be subject to environmental review and the policy considerations, if not as policy by themselves or certainly linked to projects, will be subject to environmental review. and a lot of work is going to have to go into both of those. so these will not be simple considerations, it could be

quickly tossed around and decided on. these will be big deal discussions on both projects and policy considerations. i'd be happy to answer any questions. >> vice-president vietor: commissioners, any questions for mr. ritchie? i have a clarifying question. so there's so many moving parts it seems like -- and, first of all, i want to really appreciate and give a shoutout to commissioner moran for initiating this. i'm not a deep numbers and spreadsheet person either, but bringing it back to the 30,000 view and being able to, you know, the abbreviated spreadsheet and to get a better understanding of our supply-and-demand needs moving forward is really helpful.

[broken audio] so i just wanted to [broken audio] to thank you for the filling in of moving parts. i'd like to understand how they all fit together. for example, i know that the urban water management plan is being revised and redrafted. i also know that you mentioned that there's opportunity for policy revision, whether that is designed drought, you know, whatever that could be. there's also other plans and policies that are out there that might not have either been named or specified. and then there's this kind of looming state, environmental regulation mandate of how much water we're going to need to put down the river. and i appreciate that this worksheet is going to try to combine all of that and put it all in one place. but it's just hard to track all of that. and i don't know if there is some kind of visual or a chart

or something that uses that worksheet as kind of an input/output document? or if it's just always going to be so complex and messy and still hard for me to get my head around? >> i did -- unabashedly it will be complex and messy. one of the benefits of the large worksheet is that every one of those things has a line. and so there's a place for it. it's the large accounting of all of those different things. the challenge is that they all move at different rates of speed and, you know, for example, the urban water management plan, we will have new demand projection numbers probably by the end of the year and maybe ready to update the retail system demand numbers. the bay delta requirements and

the 12 new river, we'll continue to be in discussions on a voluntary agreement and the state plan and there's a report on that in the next commission as part of the regular update that we're supposed to give on that. so we're doing these quarterly updates, but i showed all of those alternative water supply projects that will all take time and we'll need to work through what they really deliver for us. so, you know, we'll continue to try to find things that will help visually, but the complexity is a beast, and, again, the marathon nature of this work is also challenging. you know, nothing happens as quickly as you would like, despite the best efforts of everybody involved. >> well, through the chair, i would like to thank commissioner moran and mr. ritchie for their work. i see this also as an organizing

tool. you can organize around something and you never know what else might happen. you might find that we did not think that we could get this information out of it, but we do. so i think that whatever we can do to organize, wave whatever wn do to see to have a better picture is really worth it. and i think that something else may come of this that we're not even thinking of at this point. so, again, thank you both for your work. >> yeah, and the staff that worked on this as well -- the organizing part i think is really the key. like i said, there's a line item for everything and in every batch there's a line item for "other." >> and through the chair, i am getting an echo somewhere -- first of all, i would also like to thank the staff for the work they have put in on this and it's gone slower than i had hoped. and as you look at that -- the draft spreadsheet that was up

there, there were a lot of zeros on it. and for that to be a useful document it has to have numbers in it. and i'm hoping that we could populate that. but i think that it is important to note that one of the reasons that there are zeros in some of those areas is that there are discussions going on as to how we should really look at those numbers and how we should measure them properly. and those are discussions that are important to have. i think that one of the benefits of going through this exercise is that it's causing some of those discussions to take place. they need to conclude, but i think that, you know, the commissioner maxwell, it's like those other things that come out when you start to doing the process and you shine a light on those numbers that you have conversations that you might not have had otherwise. so i see that as a real benefit of it. >> vice-president vietor: great, thank you, commissioners.

any other commissioner comments at this time, hearing none, madam secretary, open up for public comment. >> clerk: confirm with the general manager that there's nothing to report on item 6i? general manager? okay, i understand that there's nothing on 6i. we'll open up public comment. the members of the public who wish to make public comment on items 6g and 6h, dial 1-(415)-655-0001. meeting i.d., 146 087 5808. pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star, 3. speakers will be in two minutes for each topic for a maximum of up to four minutes per speaker if the speakers wish to speak to each of the two topics. again, speakers, please identify

which item or items that you are speaking on when you call in. do we have any callers? >> madam secretary, there are callers in the queue who wish to speak. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: (indiscernible). >> please identify which items that you wish to speak to. >> caller: am i up right now? >> please let us know which items you wish to address. >> caller: this is the policy director for the (indiscernible) trust. i have comments on 6g and 6h. briefly on alternative water supply planning update, i was a little skeptical when this item comes up because it's usually

similar in the information that we heard in the last quarter, but there was some new information today and i appreciated that. what always gets me about these reports is referencing the need for up to 98 million-gallons per day, which i find to be a bit absurd. i sent you a letter on may 11th, and i had some suggestions for how you might plan for future demand. my suggestions were to plan for a 7.5 year design drought, to take a year off of it. and there's two reasons for that. first of all, my colleague dave warner presented to you briefly at one point that he did a probability analysis and looked at the last 1100 years of data and he found that there were just a handful of times that we got into year six of the drought and never got into year seven. so the question is always, how about climate change. and that's the second point,

that we took a look at what would happen if runoff came three weeks earlier because less rain and snow packs left earlier. that shifts out from mid-april to mid-june when the irrigation districts are entitled to the first 4,000 c.f.f., into the time period when it's 2,400. and we found -- so the six-year drought on record which was 87 to 92, that that were to repeat with three-week earlier runoff, it would generate enough water to last a year. so at the expense of the irrigation districts, but to the benefit of the others. and we looked at the demand of 223 million-gallons per day, which is where it was before the drought and quite a bit higher than it is today. and considering that your financial team is projecting a half a percent decrease in sales over the next 10 years, i think

that's pretty generous, 223. we looked at 20% rationing starting in year three of the drought and staying at 20%. and we assumed that the bay delta plan, from february to june, was in effect. and what we found under this scenario is what you would need is 19 m.g.d. to survive that planning. that's very, very different from 98 m.d.g. i'm sorry that i wasn't able to attend your last meeting with the first presentation on the water supply worksheet but i'm happy that is happening. and i think that a big question for us is going to be how does the sfpsud look at this, and so i hope that you ask the staff to give a clear description of that. now we have prepared a water supply calculator earlier this year which is much more simple than what your staff has prepared. but basically we just used the

data that we know, because the years of the design drought are in the past so we know what entitlements were. and you can change the demand, and you can add water supply, you can look at all of those scenarios and it's very user-friendly. it's been looked at by the staff and they asked that we create and include monthly time steps instead of annual time steps, and we're working on that. and i think it will be very interesting and edifying for all of us to compare the results of both of those. if they match up we know that we're on the same page. if there's big differences we need to figure out why. so, thank you very much for the opportunity to comment. >> clerk: thank you. additional public comment? >> there are no more callers in the queue at this time. vice-president vietor: thank you, that closes public comment on item 6g and 6h. madam president -- or vice

president, your next order of business is item 7, new commission business. >> if i might so that there's follow-up comment -- the first is that all of the kinds of things that he was talking about are things that can be displayed in the worksheet. and that's part of the value, of course. so if you want to propose the different design routes you can put that into the worksheet. if you want to look at different rainfall assumptions you can put that into the worksheet. so the intent is that it be able to accommodate those things and kind of, you know, compare them and combine them in different ways. that's the first. and then the second is that getting back to the issue of the zeros that are in the worksheet -- one of the issues that's out there is just how current some of the information is that we have. and that is always going to be a concern that as soon as you publish a number, it will be out

of date. and there's a couple of approaches to that. and one is that you use the latest published data until new data is published. and that's a reasonable approach. and another is -- and the nice thing about that is that at least it's anchored to something, you can assume that before you went to publish something that you put a lot of due diligence into that and that they were, you know, as solid numbers as you could make at the time. another approach is that you can kind of estimate what changes are given current information. and that has the advantage of maybe getting it more up-to-date. and the disadvantage is that it's less rigorous. and then the third is that you periodically update those numbers in a rigorous way. and i believe that the whole sail customers are -- have all but published the revised numbers and that we are planning

to have revised numbers in the next few months. so what i would encourage people to do is to get those revised numbers out and included as soon as they can, otherwise, we have -- in order for our planning process to proceed and in order for that to be useful we have to put in estimates and that may satisfy us. but it may -- it may engender disagreements. so the sooner that we can get the numbers that people are comfortable with, the better off we are to encourage that. >> can i ask you a question to that point and it was the same kind of question that i was asking of mr. ritchie. in response to the questions and concerns around design drought -- i mean, once those zeros become numbers, and we're able to aggregate some of it in a way that we can all kind of understand and, you know, we know from the state what's happening.

so we basically have a better understanding of what our demands are on the one hand -- and supply -- will that then allow us to be able to revisit something like the design drought and say, well, you know, if drought is a factor here based on historical data, that's a line item. and we have this supply-and-demand data. so we should revise the policy and revise the scenario to better reflect the reality to your point of the most current data? >> a couple things on that. one is that i think that in using the tool, what it invites is for people to ask questions. it's unlikely that everybody is going to have the data necessary to plug numbers into the spreadsheet. but somebody could ask a question such as what happens if you knock a year off a design drought and staff could look at that and come up with the

numbers, that math is actually pretty straightforward. if you had another question -- as we start playing with it and the other questions are going to present themselves and i think that the correct thing to do with that is to then turn around to staff and say, that's an interesting question, do you either have the answer right now or could you develop an answer and come back and show it to us. so that's the first one. and the other is that the design of the -- of that master spreadsheet, the big one, is that it has the ability to toggle things on and off. so you can say, you know, here's a water project. and let's look at the bottom line with and without that project. and it's a very easy thing to say, toggling it on and off. you can say for the delta plan, we think that it's 93 or whatever the number is -- m.d.g. -- if you have another version of what that number is,

plug that in and see how that changes the balance. that's a complicated one because it's probably not just one project or one number the way that he talked about it, there were a lot of elements that went into that. and what you'd probably do is have a lot of lines reflecting all of those elements and see how they combine. but i think that -- yeah, it's a process of starting -- of displaying information, prompting questions, and then providing a means for presenting it and displaying and talking about those answers. >> so, commissioner, you took a word out of my mouth that i was going to mention. i consider this a tool. and it's a working tool that can be utilized with data, before we even get to the point of making demands and whatever else. this is a tool that is based on analysis. i didn't even read all of the numbers in there, whether or not it was zeros or what have you.

the fact that there are always different, you know, data pieces that are being placed in here, i just think that it's a great idea. so amazingly, you have the time and the willingness to want to work with staff on that, but, again, the idea is that this is a tool that we can utilize and staff can make decisions based on needs. so, thank you. >> and i appreciate that. and it is very much a tool, and like any tool, you have to know what that tool is about. you know, how sharp is it, what do you use it for. i think that it's a very flexible thing. on the other hand, we can't demand too much precision out of all of the numbers. and we can't stand by and just wait for the most precise answer, we have to put in the best information that we have and see where that takes us. >> and it's a working document,

not just a tool, but it's a working document. i think that is the best way of any type of planning is to make sure that, well, tell us what you've got and put it in there and vis-a-vis all of the other documents that we have. and in this case, you know, it's based on water. and, anyway -- a living document in its infancy and it's looking forward to the rollout. >> yeah, what i hope is that process that, you know, of talking with the interested parties and coming back to the commission with numbers in there so we can actually start playing with things, asking questions, and coming to some understanding of what we're looking at, i hope that can move as quickly as possible. >> great, thank you, commissioners. that concludes this item. i see that our chair, commissioner caen, is now back so i hand will gavel back to her. president caen: very good. where are we?

>> vice-president vietor: commission secretary, can you read the next item for the chair. >> clerk: yes, president caen, we're on item 7, new commission business. >> president caen: i do have some. actually i was expecting to hear from -- in the general manager's report, of hearing from the h.r. approach to the issues that we were about in the report in july regarding the state and status of black and brown employees at the p.u.c. and i think that certainly during this time, as any other time, this is extremely important, especially what was brought out in that report and that was the underrepresented black and brown people in

management and the overrepresented black and brown people in disciplinary actions. so to that end, i would like to have a monthly update on what our plans are, how we plan to approach this issue, and how we're going to deal with it. i think that it's evidenced by some of the issues brought out at the c.d.d. recently. it was in the newspaper they had issues over any number of things. i think that looking at this and using this as an example of how we're going to deal with this issue will take us a long ways. so through the chair, i would like to ask that it be agendized on a monthly basis for an update, starting with the last meeting in september. >> madam president, if i may. commissioner, that is scheduled

with the first update to be held at the next meeting. >> great, thank you. >> president caen: good. any other new business? seeing none, madam secretary, could you please open it for public comments. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make public comment on item 7, new commission business, dial 1-(415)-655-0001. meeting i.d. 146 087 5808, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star, 3. do we have any callers? >> madam secretary, there is one caller in the queue.

>> caller: commissioners, i was denied public comment the last items, but that's fine. i can speak on it right now. the way that i look at it is that as much as i say that we need to have an analysis made on real time when we have two spills of millions of gallons of water, we need to put that on the agenda to address it. millions and millions of gallons of water are wasted and we don't even talk about it. now right now we have a huge fire, millions of acres are burnt. and we make no mention about it. are you going to tell me that

when have millions of gallons of our forests burning, they don't have any impact on the watershed, on our rivers, etc.? the pollution? the toxicity? the runoff? put it on the agenda so that as intelligent human beings we address it. , and finally, we need to bring the first people at the table. and bring them and inform them about this virtual meeting so they can participate. thank you very much. >> thank you, caller. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: thank you, that closes public comment on item 7. >> president caen: okay, at this time i'm going to call for a recess.

let's see what time it is. okay, please return at 4:05 frr. >> clerk: madam president, your next order of business is item 8, consent calendars. all matters herein are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission, and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. stwhrr no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the public or the public so requests in which event the matter is removed from calendar and considered as a separate item. >> president caen: commissioners, any item to remove from the consent calendar? madam secretary, could you open this up to public comment.

>> clerk: members of the public who want 10 minutes of public comment on the consent calendar dial 1-(415)-655-0001. meeting i.d. 146 087 5808, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak exprespress star, 3. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> clerk: thank you. public comment on item 8 is closed. >> president caen: may i have a motion for approval of the consent calendar? >> moved. >> second. >> president caen: thank you.

madam secretary, please call the roll. >> clerk: president caen aye. vice president vi vietor aye. commissioner moran. aye. commissioner maxwell. aye. commissioner paulson. aye. five ayes. next item is 9, to approve the terms and conditions and authorize the general manager to execute amendment number 1 to the office lease dated january 12, 2016, between 150 executive park, l.l.c., as land already and the city and county of san francisco, through its public utilities commission, as tenant, at $339,to $149,904. by deputy general manager carla.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. this item is for a contract assistance center. we have a five-year lease with four one-year options and the five-year lease expires january 2021. and this was giving us the opportunity on an annual basis to extend it up to four years and we do have an early termination clause of 180 days to get out of the lease. so i'd ask for you to approve the agenda item. >> i'd like to move the item. >> second. >> second. >> president caen: oh, public comment. that's okay. madam secretary, could you please open this up to public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make public comment on item 9, dial 1-(415)-655-0001. meeting i.d., 146 087 5808, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak,

press star, 3. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> clerk: thank you. that closes public comment on item number 9. >> president caen: okay, we have a motion and a second. so let's take a roll call vote. >> clerk: president caen. aye. vice president vietor. aye. commissioner moran. aye. commissioner maxwell. aye. commissioner paulson. aye. you have five ayes. >> president caen: the motion carries. next item, please. >> clerk: item 10, authorize the general manager to execute an amended memorandum of understanding by and between the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco recreation and parking department to allow the sfpuc to

use state grant funds to construct irrigation system retrofits in golden gate park and lincoln park golf course to support the sfpuc's westside recycled water project. presented by a.g.m. ritchie. >> this amendment would allow us to actually to operate -- contract on rec and park property. the contract was the one that you approved as item 8a on the consent calendar. so this couples with that item and allows us access to rec and park property. it would have to be approved by their commission as well, which we have no doubt that it will be. so i recommend that you approve the item. >> president caen: commissioners, any questions, comments? madam secretary, please open this up to public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make public comment on item 10, dial 1-(415)-655-0001.

meeting i.d., 146 087 5808, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star, 3. bmr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue at this time, madam secretary. >> clerk: thank you. public comment on item 10 is closed. >> president caen: may i have a motion for item 10. >> move to approve. >> second. >> president caen: madam secretary, please do a roll call vote. >> clerk: president caen. aye. vice president vietor. vice president vietor.

aye. commissioner moran. aye. commissioner maxwell. aye. commissioner paulson. aye. you have five ayes. >> president caen: the motion carries. madam secretary, please read the items for closed session. >> clerk: yes, madam president. we have one item on closed session, number 13, conferring with or receiving access from the city attorney with the existing litigation where the city is the petitioner and the pacific gas and electric company is the adverse party. president caen: madam secretary, please open to public comment for the closed session. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make public comment on closed session item 13, dial 1-(415)-655-0001. meeting i.d., 146 087 5808, pound, pound.

to raise your hand to speak, press, star, 3. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> clerk: thank you, public comment on closed session is closed. >> president caen: may i have a motion on whether to assert. >> move to assert. >> second. >> president caen: roll call, please, madam secretary. >> clerk: president caen. aye. vice president vietor. aye. missionecommissioner moran. aye. commissioner maxwell. aye. commissioner paulson. aye. you have five ayes. >> president caen: the motion carries. we are now going to enter into closed session. >> the commission is now back

into open session. the announcement from the closed session is that no action was taken. may i have a motion regarding whether to disclose? >> moved not to disclose. >> second. >> second. >> president caen: roll call, please. madam secretary. >> clerk: president caen. aye. vice president vietor, aye. commissioner moran. aye. commissioner maxwell. aye. commissioner paulson. aye. you have five ayes not to disclose. >> president caen: the motion carries. this meeting is adjourned at 5 5:47. thank you. >> thank you. >> see you all. today.

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four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in san francisco we're doing an average of $6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand that's a

lot to >> working with kids, they keep you young. they keep you on your tones -- on your toes. >> teaching them, at the same time, us learning from them, everything is fulfilling. >> ready? go. [♪] >> we really wanted to find a way to support women entrepreneurs in particular in san francisco. it was very important for the mayor, as well as the safety support the dreams that people want to realize, and provide them with an opportunity to receive funding to support improvements for their business so they could grow and thrive in their neighborhoods and in their

industry. >> three, two, one! >> because i am one of the consultants for two nonprofits here for entrepreneurship, i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the small business development center. i thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. they really give back to the neighborhood. they are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. >> when molly -- molly first told us about the grant because she works with small businesses. she has been a tremendous help for us here. she brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be up-to-date and redone totally. >> hands in front. recite the creed. >> my oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six.

it instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. we think it is great. the moves are fantastic. the women both are great teachers. >> what is the next one? >> my son goes to fd k. he has been attending for about two years now. they also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. they took the kids everywhere around san francisco. this year, owner talking about placing them in summer camps, all he wanted to do was spend the entire summer with them. >> he has strong women in his life, so he really appreciates it. i think that carries through and i appreciate the fact that there are more strong women in the world like that. >> i met d'andrea 25 years ago, and we met through our interest

in karate. our professor started on cortland years ago, so we grew up here at this location, we out -- he outgrew the space and he moved ten years later. he decided to reopen this location after he moved. initially, i came back to say, hey, because it might have been 15 years since i even put on a uniform. my business partner was here basically by herself, and the person she was supposed to run the studio with said great, you are here, i started new -- nursing school so you can take over. and she said wait, that is not what i am here for i was by myself before -- for a month before she came through. she was technically here as a secretary, but we insisted, just put on the uniform, and help her teach. i was struggling a little bit. and she has been here. one thing led to another and now we are co-owners. you think a lot more about safety after having children and i wanted to not live in fear so

much, and so i just took advantage of the opportunity, and i found it very powerful to hit something, to get some relief, but also having the knowledge one you might be in a situation of how to take care of yourself. >> the self-defence class is a new thing that we are doing. we started with a group of women last year as a trial run to see how it felt. there's a difference between self-defence and doing a karate class. we didn't want them to do an actual karate class. we wanted to learn the fundamentals of how to defend yourself versus, you know, going through all the forms and techniques that we teaching a karate class and how to break that down. then i was approached by my old high school. one -- once a semester, the kids get to pick an extra curricular activity to take outside of the

school walls. my old biology teacher is now the principle. she approached us into doing a self-defence class. the girls have been really proactive and really sweet. they step out of of the comfort zone, but they have been willing to step out and that hasn't been any pushback. it is really great. >> it is respect. you have to learn it. when we first came in, they knew us as those girls. they didn't know who we were. finally, we came enough for them to realize, okay, they are in the business now. it took a while for us to gain that respect from our peers, our male peers. >> since receiving the grant, it has ignited us even more, and put a fire underneath our butts even more. >> we were doing our summer camp and we are in a movie theatre, and we just finished watching a film and she stepped out to receive a phone call. she came in and she screamed, hey, we got the grant. and i said what?

>> martial arts is a passion for us. it is passion driven. there are days where we are dead tired and the kids come and they have the biggest smiles on their faces and it is contagious. >> we have been operating this program for a little over a year all women entrepreneurs. it is an extraordinary benefit for us. we have had the mayor's office investing in our program so we can continue doing this work. it has been so impactful across a diversity of communities throughout the city. >> we hope that we are making some type of impact in these kids' lives outside of just learning karate. having self-confidence, having discipline, learning to know when it's okay to stand up for yourself versus you just being a bully in school. these are the values we want the kids to take away from this. not just, i learned how to kick and i learned how to punch. we want the kids to have more values when they walk outside of these doors. [♪] today we have madame

mayor london breed, health director grant colfax. director of the department of emergency management mary ellen carroll and abigail here do you to the bad air quality due to the wildfires. you can submit up to two questions by chat only. submit them as clearly as possible and include your name and outlet. we'll do our best to take your questions in the order received until the q&a begins. we'll be happy to take your e-mails. welcome, madame mayor. >> thank you, very much and good afternoon, everyone. fire season unfortunately has

begun in the state of california. and with that here in san francisco comes challenges with our air quality. in a normal year we'd be able to focus entirely on the air quality challenges but as you know we are not in normal years. we're living in covid. even as we have been focussed on responding to the covid public health emergency, we haven't lost sight of the need to respond to other emergencies. whether that's an earthquake or air quality event due to wildfire smoke. in san francisco we know we have to be prepared. now, i want to start first by recognizing that while our air quality here in the city is a challenge, we have to focus first on those communities that are being impacted by the fire. when people's lives are at risk and their homes are at risk, that has to be the top priority. we all have friends and family

all over the bay area in california. our communities are connected and we are there to support each other during these very difficult times. as we've provided hospital beds for counties overwhelmed by covid, san francisco is proud to offer mutual aid for other jurisdictions battling fires. recently we sent the san francisco fire department to assist with the river fire and we will send the personnel wherever we can in the weeks ahead. we do this because we care for our neighbors and we know that when the san francisco in the eye of the storm, they'll there be for us. with that being said, we are still 100% focussed on keeping the people of san francisco safe and healthy. unfortunately, we've been through this before.

in 2018, following the camp fire when our air quality was severely impacted for days, i issued an executive director to strengthen san francisco's response to future air quality emergencies and other weather-related events. as a result, we revised and improved our air quality emergency plan. this plan includes specific strategies to reach out to our most vulnerable residents especially our seniors, including working with existing community networks to get the word out and make sure people have the information they need. we all need to look out for one another and make sure our residents know what to do to stay safe. right now, our air quality is red, which means the air is unhealthy. que know this can -- we know

this can shift and we will continue to update the public as things change. the best thing you can do is avoid smartphone to outdoor air by staying indoors with the windows and doors closed. and for those unfortunate enough to be able to work from home, please continue to stay home as much as possible. it is important both for the slowing of the spread of covid-19 and minimizing your exposure to poor air quality. we know not everyone can stay home and we need to take steps to protect our unhoused residents. the department of homelessness and supportive housing will provide an update on what we are doing for our homeless residents but we are prepared to do everything we can to keep people

safe. as with covid, our ultimate goal was to keep the public informed. when we have information to share, we will share it. the affects of climate change are already being felt and sadly we know events like these are only going to become more common with dryer weather and hotter temperatures. but we will do everything that we can in this city to keep people safe and healthy. we'll be providing updates throughout the day online and will continue to notify the public in the coming days and weeks with more information. if you have questions and concerns and don't have access to the internet call 3-1-1 and i'd like to thank the people of san francisco for continuing to listen to our public health guidance. to be clear, we're still on the state watch list around covid.

we anticipate hopefully tomorrow we may no longer be on the state watch list but in the midst of these wildfires and everything we're dealing with, we have got to use common sense and good behavior if we want to beat the virus and make sure we make it through this challenging time with this poor air quality. please, don't forget, wear your masks, keep your distance, cut back on your social engagement, make sure you are taking care of yourself, your family and your community. we all play a role in ending covid in our city. and now i'd like to take this opportunity to introduce dr. koufax who will talk talk more specifically about the facts of covid as well as air quality.

>> dr. grant koufax is having technology difficulties. we can take another update for now. >> if someone wants to start the video i'm ready to go. thank you so much and thank you madame mayor. today, as we've already stated

we're experiencing poor air quality with smoke and ash visual throughout the city. we have faced hazard after hazard in this year in 2020 and the city has been prepared to respond to the incident we faced during this time of covid. in the past seven days we've dealt with a heatwave, rolling power outages, rain, thunderstorms and now poor air quality as a result of the wildfire. we have been and will remain prepared to tackle multiple hazards while continuing to respond to the global covid-19 public comment is closed. san francisco's covid command center will lead response to the multiple simultaneous hazards. the air quality will vary depending on the amount and impact of smoke particles in the

air. if the situation gets worse our response will increase. we've been fluctuating between earning and red air quality levels index just today. red is considered unhealthy. that means we already initiated city wide coordination for widespread public information and messaging through our social traditional media and our emergency alert notifications, alert s.f. through the incident we'll continue to push out messaging to the public so everyone stays up to date on the risk level in the city and knows how to protect themselves. if the air quality in san francisco remains unhealthy or gets worse, we're prepared to respond by protecting the most vulnerable and ensuring the

public gets the information they need to stay safe and will issue personal protective equipment as the air quality continues to be healthy we're distributing n95 respirators to the unhoused and those in shelters. we'll evaluate our officering outdoor operation -- our existing outdoor operations. if we reach the high range we may pull back some of our outdoor operations such as neighborhood outreach and distribution of door hangers and sliders. we'll activate respite sites. if we reach an air quality level of purple, which is considered very unthe, we'll activate -- unhealthy we'll activate centers. the locations will be based on a neighborhood approach that focuses on the areas of highest need and promoted through community use.

we will keep the public informs. multiple times a day we'll issue updates on the current status of air quality in san francisco and the actions the public should take to protect themselves. this professional will be conveyed through our emergency notification system and alert sf and our traditional social media outlets. we prepared due to planning and we have learned lessons from previous heat waves and power outages. after back to back years of devastating wildfires and resulting poor air quality, we embarked on a regional effort to make sure each area, city and county were coordinated in our response for air quality. the resulting effort ensured we are all communicating with the

same health and safety guidance to our residents. i'm proud of our regional efforts as they have laid the groundwork for successful response in san francisco. we're also better coordinated because city departments and our partners have been united in our fight against covid-19. here at the covid command center we overcome the challenges of the global public comment is closed. this helped us in times of additional challenges like air quality and extreme weather. finally, please remember whenever smoke is unpredictable as we've seen today we're going back and forth between air quality index levels and residents should be aware. if you smell smoke, keep windows and doors closed, if possible. stay up to date by signing up for for instance emergency text alert by texting the zip code

where you live or work to 888777. the department of emergency management will continue to share information via these alerts and alerts to sf72 dot important we all know people from san francisco are resill interand have taken care of each other during the public comment is closed and i know no matter what emergency is layered on top of this one, we'll get through this together. thank you. . >> thank you, dr. mary ellen carroll. i present to you dr. grant koufax. director of public health. >> i'm director of health for the city and county of san francisco. thank you, director carroll for

your cooperation and collaboration and leadership during covid-19 and now during the speak events. there's -- smoke events. there's multiple fires burning throughout california including in northern california and santa cruz county. today, for instance is experiencing unusually hazy and smoky air as a result. the air quality index is currently at level red which means unhealthy. in other words, everyone may begin to experience adverse health effects and members of sensitive groups may experience more serious affects. that includes people with lung disease including those who have asthma and copd and asthma and children. these groups are particularly susceptible to elevated air pollution levels and should take

extra precautions to avoid exposure. these individuals should avoid prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion and people should limit prolonged health guides. if you have an respiratory illness, chronic or acute make sure you have an adequate supply of meds and contact your health care provider. people should be cautious when they choose to go outside and wear a mask and always be aware of whether you're having an challenges breathing. the air quality in our area changes daily and throughout the day as it is dependent on wind speed and direction. air quality may improve at times or worsen very quickly and we've seen that even today where we've varied between levels of red and orange.

now we must manage both air quality in the context of the covid-19 pandemic and as we said with regard to covid-19 for many months now the best thing you and your family can do, if you're able to, is to stay at home. even during days of poor quality conditions we must protect our community from covid-19. during poor air quality condition and covid-19 the intersection of these concerns, the healthiest thing for everyone to do now is avoid exposure to outdoor air and the virus by staying indoors as much as possible. if you must leave your home and go outside for essential activity, remember to bring your face coverings and socially

distance from people outside your household to protect yourself and your community from covid-19. we continue to live in unprecedented times and air quality is another challenge to address as a city. please, again, stay at home if you can. and through social media please check on your friends, family and neighbors and,0 those pregnt or have respiratory illnesses these are people at risk and should take precautions to avoid exposure. the reality is that as we enter whenever season and changing wind patterns we'll be living with both the intersections of covid-19, poor air quality and likely heat events for some

time. we must stay vigilant and resilient as we take all actions to protect ourselves and our community from the elements. we continue to find ways to protect each other and our community and we will continue to rise to the occasion as we continue together to work to slow the of covid-19. thank you. >> now the director of homelessness abigail stewart kahn. >> thank you for your partnership and leadership through these complex, multi faceted events. we have learned for instance has

heart. we've always known this and we as a city need to continue to pull together to be nimble, compassionate and responsive. civil servants and many are rising to the occasion today and for that we are grateful. as you heard covid is still the number one priority for all of us in public health. we need to ensure we're caring for those most vulnerable due to covid, heat, air quality and other in clement weather events. during our heat emergency our homeless outreach team who were heroes even before the pandemic have been activated for their lower level extreme heat response. at this level that activation included increased wellness checks, providing appropriate resources and guidance on how to stay safe during covid and the heat.

we continue that support. our department is working closely with the command center to monitor air quality and as director carroll shared we strongly encourage everyone, housed and unhoused to activate your alerts because it is changing by the moment. as you heard from the experts, we are partner at red level of air quality. based on this and pos -- policy decisions distribute non-medical grade n95 masks and water and other resources. this is in addition to look for those most vulnerable to covid and bring them indoors and continues to partner with hsoc

and we'll didn't distribution of n95 masks so have access though they're such a scarce resource. san francisco is living its values by dedicating these resources to unhoused neighbors where we all know every civil servant at mayor breed's leadership wishes everyone to be inside the shelter in place. i want to pause and particularly this many the members of the homeless team and hsh and providers for adding work on top of work to take care of those most vulnerable in our community. the city is exploring what to do and the next stages should air quality deteriorate further. the services agency is responsible for mask care and shelter and evaluating

alternative sites where people may come inside if we reach higher levels of air quality challenges. as you can see, many departments, many civil servants, many leaders and many citizens are coming to the aid of our unhoused neighbors. while you should stay inside if you are housed, if you are outside and encounter somebody who is sheltered, encourage them to mask and ask them how their day is, say good morning and good afternoon. the homeless outreach team we hope will be there soon to provide mask. we'll continue to provide updates through our boards, governance authorities and website and encourage all of you to stay connected through the various ways to get up to date information. thank you to mayor breed and the city for continuing to find another year in which to keep

san franciscans safe and cared for. thank you. >> thank you, director stewart-kahn. we'll now begin our q&a portion. the first set of questions are for dr. colfax. >> we are not currently planning to close any covid-19 testing sites at this time. we're assessing the situation and obviously testing and identifying those infected is and remains a top priority. we will continue to assess the air quality as things go forward with regard to changes in our testing sites but at this points our testing centers will remain open and we will provide updated

information if that changes. >> a follow-up question is what is the threshold for making such a decision and how close is s.f. air quality to that point now? >> again, we are assessing the situation, testing sites remain open and if there are any changes we'll certainly make sure people know that. >> thank you. the following question is for maryellen carroll.

if the city opens respite sites how will they mitigate the risk of covid at those sites? >> we will follow all the social distancing guidelines that already exist. we will see an additional health screen for anyone coming in many other jurisdictions having high levels of temperatures have been doing this and we have a plan and feel we can do it safely should we need to.

>> thank you very much. it seems there are no further questions at this time and this will conclude today's press conference. thank you, everybody, for your time and please stay safe.

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please submit your questions as clearly as possible and include your name and outlet. we will do our best to receive questions up until the q&a begins. remaining questions can be sent to des@sfgov.org. and here is the mayor, london breed. >> >> the hon. london breed: good afternoon, everyone. today, i'm joined by community organizations that have always been amazing partners with the city and have really stepped up during covid-19 for our community. i was out with the latino task force earlier this week to distribute p.p.e. for all businesses, and they are doing amazing work organizing and fighting for resources for the

community. the sisters for perpetual indulgence are always at the forefront for keeping the sister of lgbtq healthy, always while having a little -- okay, a lot of fun. and the african american arts and cultural district has been working hard to make sure the community members know where they can go for support, from sharing information about testing, business grants and loans, and working to empower youth in the bayview, and opportunities for all has helped distribute books, activity kits, and technology that students need to be successful this school year, and their terms and fellows have repaired with community engagement and outreach

throughout the city. so since the start of this global pandemic, we have always heard and received advice about how we can protect ourselves and others and slow the spread of the virus. overtime, as our understanding of the virus has evolved, some of that guidance has changed, like face coverings, while other guidance shall stayed consistent, like frequent hand washing. you can't walk down the street, go to the grocery store, listen to music our browse social media without someone telling you to stay 6 feet apart, wear your mask, and wash your hands. since january, our city has launched multilingual campaigns on t.v., radio, social media, newspapers, bus shelters, and bill boards. a team of disaster service workers han been on the streets

daily, blanketing our city with posters, multilingual posters and flyers. since january, this team has distributed more than 3 million flyers. posters, and fact sheets across the city. you can't turn anywhere in the city of without seeing our blue and yellow signs. this provides good information, and many people are listening. however, as we've stretched into our seventh month of this pandemix, we are looking for new ways to capture people's attention to sustain the good work of our residents and communities. we want to be bold and strategic how we reach out to people who aren't wearing masks. we wanted to find out why people might not be wearing face coverings and see if we can change their behavior

because we're all safer when we cover our faces when we go out, and regularly wearing face coverings will help us keep san francisco on a path of reopening that we so desperately need. i asked our team, our city team to start working with people and organizations in our neighborhood to did he vel community led education campaigns and outreach efforts specifically around mask wearing, and many answered the call. our nonprofits arts and faith organizations are on the frontlines impacting communities. because of their relationships, they are often the most trusts and the most influential than the government. i'm proud to say, today, we are launching our first series of community-led campaigns ahead of labor day weekend, and you are going to hear from some of our partners shortly. but first, i want to address

why we are launching this ahead of this current weekend. historically, labor day is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of american workers. because of the pandemic, this labor day has a special significance. it is a chance to honor the special workers in our community. we know this virus has disproportionately impacted our frontline workforce, many of them who have to reuse their medical equipment every sipping wisipping -- single day. labor day marks the end of

summer, and most years, we have barbecues and cookouts with our families, and i personally wish i could attend one of those gatherings. as we set at the beginning of the pandemic, the safest thing is to do is for people to stay home, but let's be real. people miss each other, and they're going to decide to get together. so if you do, we ask if you're going to be other with others, keep it outside, make sure everyone is wearing a face covering, and avoid sharing food and drink. we know that oftentimes, when people come together, especially when they start drinking throughout the day, behavior changes. in addition to keeping our friends and our family safe, wearing a mask is one of the most effective things we can do to keep reopening san

francisco. let's be mindful what we are doing and how we are impacting the spread of this share. let's share the love, not the virus. and at this time, i'd like each of our community partners to talk about their campaign and why it's important to protect our communities this labor day weekend and beyond. first, we have dr. scott sampson from the california academy of sciences, which lent their creative and innovative design experts to help our city. >> thank you very much, mayor breed, and thank you for your strong leadership during this challenging time, including in relation to this coronavirus. and warm thanks to all of our partners. i'm scott sanchez, director of the california academy of sciences. the academy has been part of san francisco since 1853, just

three years after california became a state. we care deeply about our city, and we are here to putting all of our cutting edge science to keep our community safe. when we heard that san francisco is so close to hitting an important mask wearing milestone, our organization jumped at the chance to help get the word out. the science is crystal clear, wearing a mask makes a big difference, and we need everyone, especially young people, to mask up. we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that wearing a mask, watching your distance, and washing your hands will help crush the covid-19 curve. this campaign, available in four different languages all over san francisco, is asking young people to take one small step that can make a giant difference helping to keep our

entire community safe. whether you're missing outside lands or dinner at your favorite restaurant, a giants game or inspirational evening of night life at the academy, we are all in this together. we are excited to keep the city's reopening on track so that we can all return to enjoying the many amazing benefits san francisco has to offer. i wear a mask so that we ask safely open the academy and welcome you back for more awe and wonder in golden gate park. thank you, and stay safe. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, dr. sampson. now next, we have up annie chung from self-help for the elderly who will talk about efforts to conduct outreach and education with our asian and pacific islander community.

annie? >> thank you so much, mayor breed, and good afternoon, everyone. i'm annie chung with self-help for the elderly, and as mayor said, we've been on the frontline, providing essential meals and other elder care services to all of our seniors in san francisco. and we're honored today, mayor, to partner with you and to support you in your relentless fight against the covid-19 pandemic, and to educate the chinese speaking seniors and families how to protect themselves once they step outside their homes. mayor breed, i think the seniors are doing their part to abide by the health order. i urge all the seniors and families to remember what dr. sampson just said and practice the three w's: one, wear masks,

two, wash your hands, and three, watch your social distancing. i know the labor day weekend is coming up, and we may be tempted to invite friends and family over for barbecues and gatherings. only invite people that are in your immediate household, and if possible, try to meet outdoors, which will be much safer for you and your family. remember, prevent everyone from sharing drinks or using the same utensils or chop sticks with each other. be aware at all times. protect yourselves and others, and think positive.

[speaking cantonese language] >> thank you, everyone, and thank you, mayor. >> the hon. london breed: thank you so much, annie, for all the work that you continue to do. next, we have director glen from the african american arts and cultural district. i understand the district worked with local rappers to produce a music video that we'll see at the end of this press conference. evan? >> thank you, mayor breed. we really appreciate the continued support that the city of san francisco has shown the african american community. it's been a lot of unprecedented work over the last several years, and we deeply appreciate that. my name is evan glen. i am the executive director for the african american arts and cultural district located in the bayview and third street

corridor. so it was a process working with fran says zamora, the -- frances zamora, the department of emergency management, making sure the message put forth in our campaign was representative of the people in our community: our culture, the way we look, and it just resonated with our spirits and our soul, and so that's what you're going to see in bill boards across the city. we also thought it would be a good idea to put a rap together to resonate with the young people. after talking with my codirector, erica scott, she says hey, you know, my daughter's going to parties, and the young people need a message, as well. so we got together with a rap

group out of the fillmore, 16-year-old girls called the poppin' twins, and they wrote the rap that we're going to share for everybody today. with that being said, i just want to send a message out to the community to remain safe because statistically, the bayview has been hit the hardest with covid-19 out of any other area in san francisco. we need to be aware of that. we need to wear masks, stay 6 feet apart from each other, and remain safe. and think about your grandparents. think about the elderly in your neighborhood because their immune system obviously isn't as strong, and so we have to start thinking about each other. but again, i just want to thank the city of san francisco for the work that they've been doing to support the african american community. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, evan, for your remarks and for joining us here today, and

we're looking forward to seeing that video. now we also know that the latino community has really been the hardest hit in our city. in fact, over 50% of the cases that have been diagnosed were people of latino descent, and we have not been able to do -- we would not have been able to do the incredible work that we are doing to support this community and to address this disparity if it weren't for the latino task force. they've been an amazing resource in not only mask wearing but keeping people safe. they're here to discuss the latino awareness campaign in san francisco. so thank you, susanna.

>> thank you, mayor breed. my name is susanna rojas, and i am the director of the latino task force. thank you so much for allowing me to speak and to collaborate dpsh-for allowing the latino task force to collaborate with the city so that our city can feel empowered to take action. the virus is just one more challenge to conquer, to stop the spread of covid-19 and to protect our latino families ahead of labor day weekend and beyond, i'm here to showcase the latino community. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation]. >> our actions speak leader than words. we can show love by masking up.

we can stay 6 feet apart, and most importantly, by not sharing food and drink. now we in the latino community know that food is central to our interaction. it is the backbone to our community, and gathering with large families is how we show our love. love during the coronavirus looks like wearing our masks, washing our hands, staying 6 feet apart, and protecting our seniors and our young people. hugging in our families and physical contact is something we do on a daily basis, but right now, we have to demonstrate our love by hugging virtually by wearing a mask. and last but not least, we have

sacrificed -- [speaking spanish language] >> thank you. >> the hon. london breed: thank you again, susanna, for joining us and for all the work that you do. i'm so excited for our next speakers. sister, you are one of my favorite speakers, and i am so glad to have you here with us today. the sisters of perpetual indulgence along with supervisor mandelman launched an outreach campaign, focusing on the lgbtq community. the poster that you created was

just amazing. thank you, and join me, everyone, in welcoming sister roma. >> hello, mayor breed. i can't wait to see that video, and of course i'm hungry for some great latin food. i want to thank you for unprecedented leadership during these very hard times. your team is amazing. since the beginning of the pandemic, it's been hard for people in my community to not compare it to hiv/aids, which we all know ravaged the lgbtq community very badly in the early 80s. and the sisters stepped up at that time and were actually leading the fight against hiv/aids with providing information and education. so when this got here, we

thought oh, this sounds familiar. when tom temprano approached me, i went back to my sisters, and we were all on board, and we went back to our methods of harm reduction and reminded our community that it's best to stay safe and stay away from each other. this weekend, people are just itching to get out and dance and see each other. it's difficult, and it'll be trying, and i want people to know that there'll be a time that we can get together with each other and hug and hold each other, like we used to. but the sisters want to let you know that wearing masks can be fabulous. look for us in dolores park on friday, where we're going to be handing out 1500 masks, and

then we're going to be heading to the castro for our first friday event, which will be at 5:00 p.m. in the castro. so thank you for including me, and it's been my honor and privilege. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, sister roma. i almost didn't recognize you without your makeup on. maybe i'll join you on friday. that would be amazing. >> oh, thank you so much. >> the hon. london breed: okay. finally, i want to introduce a leader who has a bright future ahead of her. athena matthews. >> it is so important to

demonstrate proper covid-19 behavior, and masks are just one tool to prevent the spread of covid. bypassi -- covid by catching droplets when you sneeze or cough, protecting those around you. indifferent while understandable is not sustainable. it is imperative that this generation feel empowered to take care of ourselves and take care of each other because we need to be more active and take on an active role in fixing our nation's challenges, even beyond covid-19, so to my fellow general fellow gen-z'ers, let this be a warning not to just be aware of covid-19, but be aware of those

around you. tag us on social media at #60s. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. at this time, i wanted to play the video that evan mentioned, so let's get to it.

[♪] >> the hon. london breed: very nice. thank you so much. that concludes our press conference. i guess now we'll be opening it up to a few questions. i want to take a moment to thank everyone for joining us and really express my appreciation to all the organizations for the work that

you are doing to make sure that we are staying healthy, and we are staying safe. i love the amazing posters, the graphics, the videos, and all the cool things that we are using to really get people actively engaged in this need to finding creative solutions to get folk to see comply with the mask -- folks to comply with the mask wearing compliance. i think about when i was a kid, and talking about wearing your seat belt and the work that had to go into getting folks to wear your seat belt, and today, it's just natural to get in your seat belt when you get in a car. and i remember when i was little, people used to smoke in buildings and on planes, and now, it's completely different. even wearing a condom and the

push for safe sex, the conversation about mask wearing, we have to get creative in what we say in the culture and the fabric of this country. the work that you do in getting the community to trust you to know that twhat they do is important and it saves lives. so we're thankful for your work, and at this time, we're happy to open it up for questions. >> thank you, mayor, and thank you to all everyone who joined us here today. we'll jump right into the same questions. mayor breed, we received multiple questions on this, and this is one question that'll cover it. what do you think about speaker pelosi's decision to get a blowout in san francisco on

monday? does she owe the service industry an apology? is ignorance of the health orders an excuse? >> the hon. london breed: well, let me start by saying that it's really unfortunate that with everything happening in this country, with the fact that we basically have a dictator in charge of running this country, and we have our speaker, nancy pelosi, working day and night to try and fight, again, the challenges we have with the white house. she has spent her entire career working for this city and working for this country. it's unfortunate this conversation has blown up the way that it has and distracted us from the real issue. the fact is we don't have good, solid federal leadership that is helping to facilitate this covid-19, and over 180,000 americans have died as a result

of this virus. and had we had what we needed from day one from this federal administration, then we would probably not be in as bad of a situation as we are. our focus should be on making sure that we as a city are providing also good information. i know that there's been a lot of confusion with our small businesses and operations and whether or not they can operate indoors or outdoors, and so we as a city, and the confusion between the local information and the state information, we have to do a better responsibility of doing a better job around communication. so we can either focus and blaming and saying who should do what, but we have bigger issues as it relates to this country, and i have a tremendous amount of respect and appreciation for the hard work that nanny pelosi does every single day to take care of this city and this country. and that's what we should be focused on because we are dealing with very challenging times, and leadership does

matter. i do understand that the industry is suffering, not only the hair industry, but the masseuses and the salons. i understand the frustration, and some businesses may not ever open again. i understand this is hard for everyone. the decisions that we're making around public health have everything to do with keeping people safe, and unfortunately, the economy and people's li livelihoods have suffered. so i understand that, but i think it's important to get back to the main part of wearing masks, and staying apart, and staying heath healthy, and the city will do a better job of communicating with our small businesses in san francisco as we begin or

reopening efforts. >> thank you, madam mayor. the next question comes from cristian captain with ktvu. with the weekend almost here and warm weather for the forecast, what city parks and impeaches are open -- beaches are open, and what distancing steps are you asking for people to observe? >> look, we know that parks and beaches are open, and it's important for people to socialize and pick up a date or two, but what we also need you to do is comply. there are more parks that are dolores park or chrissy fields. there's other places you can enjoy, as well. so what we're asking people to do is to just make sure that you're using good judgment. if you go to dolores park, and

you see that it's crowded and there's no place for you to go with your people and maintain your distance with your mask and so forth, why even step foot in that park? we will be out doing enforcement more so than we have in the past, but we want people to use common sense because we tend to see spikes in our numbers as a result of the holidays, and labor day, i'm sure, is not going to be any different. i've had people reach out to be to invite me to barbecues, people who want today do a jumpy with the kids, and i'm saying, why are you calling me? i'm going to say no way. it's not that i'm not only going to go, it's just that these are places where the virus could transmit. i'm just asking people to remember, be a part of the

solution, and we will do our very best to be out there, to do enforcement. we don't want to have to do enforcement. we don't want people out there, creating more attention than already exists because of people not being good citizens by wearing masks. we just want people to do their part. we're going to do our part. we hope we don't have to shutdown parks and parking lots and make it difficult for people to get out and enjoy things. we have so many parks where there's no reason why people have to crowd in one or two or three park in san francisco. the beaches have been a lot more manageable because we've opened up more space there. again, just use common sense not only to protect you but the people around you. >> thank you so much, madam mayor, and everyone else for your time. there are no further questions at this time, and this

concludes today's press conference. thank you, and stay safe. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. >> 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. cut. >> we are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. a place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and it's beautiful and it's been completely redone and been a gathering place for this community. >> i have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. that is not a joke. i live in

an apartment building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. >> let me tell you handout you -- how to build a community garden. you start with a really good idea and add community support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. this is great. it's about environment and stewardship. it's also for the -- we implemented several practices in our successes of the