personal space. it's all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their outdoor living room. >> why are you here at this garden core? it's amazing and i volunteer here every year. this is fantastic. it's a beautiful day. you walk around and look at gardens. you meet people that love gardens. it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the website

[roll call] >> clerk: we have a quorum. madam president, i want to make a couple of announcements. first, i want to let everybody know that closed session will not be heard today. due to the covid-19 health emergency and given the public health recommendation issued by the san francisco department of public health and that governor newsom and mayor breed have lifted on teleconference, this meeting is being televised on sfgovtv. please note that there is a

delay between live and what is being viewed on sfgtv. if you wish to make public comment on an item, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 146-710-1398, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star, three. please limit your public comment to the item that is under consideration. i'm going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones if they have not already done so. madam president, your first order of business is to approve the minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020. >> commissioners, do i have any questions or discussion? may i have a motion and a second to approve?

>> so moved. >> second. >> madam clerk, will you open public comment, please. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on item 3, the minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020, dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 146-710-1398, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star, three. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> clerk: thank you. minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020, are closed. >> thank you. madam clerk, will you read the

roll, please. [roll call] >> clerk: you have four ayes. >> it's approved. next item, please. >> clerk: madam president, your next order of business is item 4, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission for up to two minutes on matters that are win the commission's jurisdiction and not on today's agenda by dialing 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 146-710-1398, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star, three. mr. moderator, do we have any callers?

>> operator: madam secretary, there are multiple callers in the queue. >> clerk: thank you. >> hello. is it my turn to speak? >> operator: yes. you have two minutes. >> calling in to see how [inaudible] due to social impact partnership program. sfgc funds supports and construction workers early childhood -- >> clerk: excuse me. speaker, i'm sorry to interrupt you. >> yes. >> clerk: i'm sorry to interrupt you, but this is on general public comment.

the social impact item is later on, on the agenda, on item 8, so if you could please call in at that time? >> okay. >> clerk: thank you. >> operator: thank you, caller. queueing the next caller. >> good afternoon. this is peter dreickmeyer with the tuolomne river trust. back in february, former director viator made a motion that opposed the trump administration's opinion for the delta and opposed the state's lawsuit against the biological -- supported the state's lawsuit against the biological report, and nothing came of that. i mentioned this in early october, the turlock and modesto irrigation districts

petitioned firc to issue a water quality certification. just last week, ferc noticed the decision and gave people until december 7 to issue comments, and that gives time for the sfpuc to agendize this issue for your next meeting, and i hope you will. we need to support the state's authority to control water quality, and we need to make sure that the san francisco p.u.c. is on the right side of this issue. thank you very much. >> operator: thank you, caller. next caller? >> eileen [inaudible] calling on my behalf. a welcome to commissioner

harrington. on 19 avenue, there are currently dedicated high pressure, high volume awas hydrants between urban and ulloa. that being said, the sfmta on 19 avenue rapid project will include water and sewer replacement. the 19 avenue rapid project will be an opportunity to extend awas from the lower to holloway, as there are a number of projects adjacent to this area. besides that, there is also the el taraval muni forward project. like the 19 avenue rapid project, the el taraval rapid project includes water and sewer placement. again, this would be an

opportunity to implement high pressure awas between sunset and west portal to be consistent with the city's dig once policy. even though the fires are typically in suburban and rural areas, we have highly wooded areas. dedicated awas on 19 and taraval would allow the city to have a robust fire suppression capability on the west side. taraval has been endorsed by the san francisco commission for neighborhoods commit, the tarav taraval merchant association -- >> operator: thank you, caller. i'm sorry. your time has expired.

next caller. >> so, commissioners and staff, you're having some technical problems. we'll see how they go. i think they're resolved, but they were having some technical problems initially. this is what we want to say. when we have somebody like peter reminding you all again and again, using data and the latest scientific methods as to what is happening to the tuolomne river, he used to have one of the commissioners understanding the issue, but now, we want to revisit it. that said, the last time the

commissioners said that we should have focused meetings so we can given put is because we have the empirical data, okay? we live in a digital world. we happened to go to college. there's too much opportunity happening to some of the commissioners who just like not to pay attention to public comment, and that's bad. now, however, i have a group. why do we have this woman [inaudible] still on the roads? there was some announcement made about environmental justice, giving us 36 hours to

respond, until i confronted them, and they delayed it, and now, mickey mouse or whatever, and now, they announce this position again. who is really in charge of environmental justice? even if you paid me $10 million, i wouldn't work for s.f. -- >> operator: thank you, caller. your time has expired. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: thank you. that closes item 4, general public comment. i'm sorry, madam president. you're muted. >> madam clerk, will you read the next item, please. >> clerk: yes, madam president. your next order of business is item 5, communications. >> any discussions on communications? >> i have one question. on item 5-e, which is the like

merced report, it looks like there's an awful lot going on there. when we entered into the prior m.o.u., there were a number of requirements, and one of those was there was deferred maintenance where a lot of facilities on our land were not really being kept up. as i said, it looks like there's a lot going on. my question is whether there are still areas on that land where maintenance or other, you know -- safety or other issues are not being addressed or are not currently funded. now the report did not address the work unfunded or remaining to be done.

>> mr. kelly? >> yeah, we will follow up and provide that information to you as part of a follow-up report. >> okay. thank you. >> any other comments, questions? commissioner -- >> i had one quick one on item -- let me go back to my notes here -- item h, on the construction change orders on the wsip program, which has been moving, at least according to my watch, quite efficiently, and have you, and just great to see how crazy change orders are. just like the calaveras dam, there were certain pieces of the landscape that you never

know until you start undertaking the pieces. the fact that it was so minimal terms of the change orders should be noted, and so i want to thank whoever's in charge of those monitoring modifications or whatever else did such an efficient job because there's a lot of money at stake during the wsip program, and the fact that there is this minimal, considering how change orders can take, you know, with various orders that happened, as people know, in the development industry, was something that should be commended, so i just wanted to note that for the record on -- >> thank you for that observation. madam clerk, will you open this up for public comment, please? >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make public comment specifically on item 5,

communications, dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 146 146-710-1398, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star, three. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there is one caller in the queue wishing to be recognized. >> clerk: thank you. >> operator: caller, your line is open. >> can you hear me now? >> operator: we can hear you. you have two minutes. >> thank you. david pilpell, just in reference to item f. no objection, just a suggestion, if you can spell out n.e.m., so i would just appreciate if acronyms can be

spelled out in the first instance because it's not known to me. that's all. thank you. >> thank you. good observation. >> operator: madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: thank you. public comment on item 5 is now closed. >> thank you, madam clerk, will you real estate's the next item, please? >> clerk: madam president, the next order of business is item 6, presentation of the 2019 winners of the san francisco public utilities commission impact awards. this'll be presented by justine hennerlighter. >> madam president, before justine gets up to make the awards, i'd like to talk about

these unprecedented times. we are here to provide with a brief update on the p.u.c. recognition program and announce the 2019 award winners. we relaunched the program in 2016. p.u.c. recognition program has became a wonderful tradition in recognizing excellence in service. this year, we've asked our employees to help name our recognition program. we've asked them to suggest a name that represents the entire agency. the name that is inclusive and resonates with our employees from moccasin to san francisco. we received over 50 names or suggestions from across the agency. our recognition program is now called san francisco public

utilities commission impact awards, with an appreciation of attack line recognizing excellence in service. the p.u.c. impact awards is our highest commendation, recognizing the hard work and the commitment of our dedicated employees and partners. since 2016, we had about 160 employees and partners that we've honored, so now, we'd like to turn it over to justine hennerlighter, to do the honor of announcing the 2019 p.u.c. impact award honorees. justine, you're up. >> hi, everyone. nice to see everyone again. thank you very much, harlan. so as you know, there are more than 2300 employees across the

p.u.c., and only six individuals and three teams are awarded this honor annually. this year, we received a record number of nominations, 119 in total, and that's a 31% increase from the year prior, which is pretty awesome, and it absolutely confirmed how impactful this program is to our employees and our agency across all of our different functions. in total, 282 individuals were recognized and nominated by 93 different peers, so it's wonderful how far this is reaching. with that, i'm proud to announce our winners for 2019. these honorees exemplify our

mission of providing high quality water, power, and sewer services in our community. in the individual category, we're going to be honoring six nominees in alphabetical order. julia alman in community enterprises for the stakeholder and interest award. mike brown for business services for the environmental stewardship award. scott shanu of water enterprise for the organizational excellence award. james hendry of power enterprise for the sustainability award. kenneth prize, and brian thomas of infrastructure for the effective workforce award.

in the team category, we would like to acknowledge three teams, totaling 39 employees, and we'll be listing the teams in alphabetical order, as well. number one, distribution field services of power enterprise for the reliable service and access award, a mighty team of five. jessie d. block, david condon, hugh don, brian dunbar, ryan t. huntington. [please stand by]

>> can you hear me? that caller is non-responsive. there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. public comment on item no. 6.

madam president, your next order of business is item no. 7, report of the general manager. >> yeah, the first item is the planning and development for adoption of the puc asset management policy. michael carlin will make his presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners. michael carlin, deputy general manager. wanted to discuss with you today the development of an asset management policy. this is a draft, and we will be bringing it back for your consideration and adoption in december, but we wanted to present the draft policy to you early so that you could have input on it as we bring it

forward. may i have the next slide, please. so the question is what is asset management. it's been around for quite a while. it basically is a process that maximizes the life cycle value while consistently meeting levels of service, and it drives decisionmaking and maintenance practices in capital investment. so it has the effect of basically helping us to make budgetary decisions of where we place our money, what capital investments we want to make over time. next slide, please. why is it important? it's consistent with our strategic plan. it's to drive our asset management decisionmaking and it's consistent in an effective manner. it is a good utility best practice. and we have in the water supply agreement that we would develop one for the enterprise by december 31, 2020. there has also been discussions

with the strait's regional water board and others making it clear that a waste water enterprise asset management program would also be of benefit, and power enterprise has initiated an asset management program as well. can you see that we have all three enterprises initiating programs, and we just want to have an overall policy in place to kind of drive the overall decisionmaking. next slide, please. it's a high-level policy that we are asking you to approve in december. we will develop implementation plan for each of the enterprises in cooperation with infrastructure and the finance bureaus. and you have to remember also that it's not just the enterprises that have assets. 525 golden gate also will have an asset management plan, and this will help us guide our discussions to be tied back into what assets we need to replace, what assets we need to maintain and what is going to be the cost

associated with that. next slide, please. oh, there isn't one. so oop. >> there are no more slides. >> that's it, thank you. anyways -- i thought there was a slide that said questions. so i will turn it back over to you, but that's just a brief presentation. you have the draft asset management policy in your package. i hope you have a chance to review it, and if you do have questions about it, we can always take those questions from you between now and december when we actually will adopt the -- or recommend adoption of the policy. >> i wonder what have we been doing before we decide to do this? >> well, we have various asset management programs in place in different parts of the organization. what we thought would be good

would be to tie it back into finance and infrastructure so that we had an overall guiding policy so that everybody is tiering off of that, so the implementation plan comes down through the master asset management policy. it also ties in our -- our finance folks into the process which is really good about how we finance these things, and our infrastructure group basically on how we deliver these things that we want to build. so we have all the elements sitting all over in the organization, and we thought it would be best to put the building blocks together in one place and have an overall master asset management policy that the commission adopts. >> and is there any policy or something that describes maybe the life cycle of the asset so that we know -- so that we can look to the future of the asset and, you know, maybe our maintenance will make it last longer, but at least we have an idea of what might be coming up? >> yes, so each asset has a

different life cycle. so a building like 525 has a 100-year lifer cycle, but we have preventive programs in place. you also start looking at what drives replacement of water mains you were talking about in the streets. it's age, and so we do prioritize the pipes that are older. we do the same for sewers, and we need to tie that information together in one sort of place. >> because we do have a program for those assets, the mains, but the mains that are breaking are the ones that are -- we didn't know ta they were going to break or something else happens. are these the older ones that were maybe coming up next or we didn't quite get to? how do we look at that? >> yeah, we do look at it based on age and also where they are located, whether -- the types of soils they are located in.

and unfortunately with water mains, it's hard to really inspect them like you can sewers. you can put cameras down sewers. water mains basically are pressurized, so we do prioritize based on age, location, and sometimes it's just a question of whether or not we're going to replace some of the assets because, you know, in the streets it could be that muni is doing a job and we might be replacing our assets at the same time. but we rebuilt most of our treatment plants. we have life cycle information on those. we have rebuilt most of our pump stations. we're doing the same at the southeast plant. power is looking at rebuilding some of the substations like they are doing down at the airport. we'll have information on that. all of that kind of feeds into an overall asset management program. >> great, thank you. colleagues, any further -- commissioner moran? >> thank you. first of all, i appreciate this coming to us as a draft for our

comment before it's fully based before things get far down the line, and it's hard to have meaningful input at that point, so i appreciate this form r from a process standpoint. my main comment really follows commissioner maxwell, that it reads as if we had just discovered asset management, and clearly that's not the case. we've been doing a lot of it. we've been spending a lot of money making sure that, you know, known assets are maintained to the degree that we can. this adds a level of organization and consistency, which i think is important as well. so my suggestion would be that in the wording of it, that it would be clear that we are striving for consistency and expansion of existing efforts to

be more thorough and inclusive. >> thank you. those are great comments. >> yes, thank you. thank you for that. anyone else with any further comment? madam clerk, we may go to public comment on this item. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically addressing item 7a, the planning and development for the adoption of the sfupuc asset commission policy dial 1-415-655-0001 meeting id -- pound pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. mr. moderator, do we have any

callers? >> madam secretary, there are multiple callers in the queue. >> thank you. callers. this is on item 7a. >> can you hear me now? >> we can hear you. you have two minutes. >> great. hope for the last time for today. i was going to say this is a good start, but because michael was involved i would say it's a great start. yes, it's excellent that it was brought to you early before it's fully -- i think that's helpful. i will try and take some time and look at it. my initial thought is that having some more specifics in there about different asset types and maybe some examples of big and small- and medium-sized assets, whether it's mountain tunnel or a small pipeline or linear versus non-linear assets and buildings and other types of

facilities and assets would be helpful. i'm hoping that you can post michael's presentation because that was not on the website and was probably completed after you put the materials up, so if you could post that, that would be great. and if you weren't already planning to do so, i think it would be good to run this by the citizens advisory committee in the past all of these types of policies have gone before the c.a.c. for their review and comment, and that has often improved the policies, like the ratepayer insurance policy and things like that. so i hope that those things will happen. and i look forward to adopting and perhaps revising this in the future and continue. it looks like, once again, great work. thanks.

>> thank you, caller. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm pleased to be here and speak to you today virtually. i wanted to let you know that bosca supported the preparation of an asset management policy and this work that has been undertaken by your staff. the preparation and adoption of such a policy was one of the recommendations in the asset management audit of the sfpuc that bosca completed actually just this summer. bosca's audit results were presented to the commission as well. we look forward to working with staff and the commission on the policy over the next month, including the consideration of further detail as appropriate, but this is a critically important policy to bosca and a lot of customers it represents, so we're looking forward to getting involved in this. thank you very much. >> thank you, caller.

next caller, your line is open. >> let me say this. when we have an asset management policy, could we please focus on our path lines? for example, we have sewer lines about a thousand miles of sewer lines and 1,100 miles of clean drinking water lines. i have been saying again and again that millions of gallons are leached into the ground, and if the sewer lines that compromise our watershed. so the asset management gives you an idea of the quality of in this case the pipes, that what

we want to know is how durable are these pipes, and we also want to know what type of pipes are we using? for example, are we using flex pipes? or are we using the steel pipes that have a tendency to crack but the unions love it because it gives them work. so are we moving with the times? are we really giving the citizens of san francisco the good information, or are we just propping up some asset management policies or programs of which there are many? i [indiscernible] state-of-the-art which has to be tied to good fiber and servers.

so that's kind of [indiscernible] and posted on the website so that i can do a needs assessment. thank you very much. >> moderator: thank you, caller.

this includes key areas such as disclosure practices in training, procurement of our advisors and other members of the financing team, parameters and method of sales for the transaction. in addition to the debt policies, our debt management is guided by the capital financing policy and debt service coverage policy adopted by the commission back in 2017. we also rely on the independent oversight of -- all of this

culminates in our annual presentation to you of the capital presentation plan which provides the commission with visibility regarding upcoming financing activities. next slide, please. the amounts of -- as well as the low-cost loans that have been executed. it shows you the amount of commercial paper and the authorized amounts and what's been drawn and outstanding. we wanted to provide you with the credit ratings of each enterprise. can you see some are high grade credits rated in the aa long-term reading category. over the past years we have had a couple of upgrades to aa by moody's this past june. next slide, please.

so here i show that there are three primary types of capital financing activities as part of -- ongoing [indiscernible] the first is meeting its new money and credit need. the goal here so is to issue -- how much and when funds are needed is base on an analysis undertaken regularly of each enterprise's capital spending plans and rejections. given our significant debt portfolio, a large part of what we do is the ongoing administration of the portfolio. this includes the renewing or replacing of facilities and support commercial paper or interim funding programs. we constantly evaluate whether the needs are sufficiently med by the current interim funding programs or if they need to be either increased or decreased as needed. and finally we monitor the credit markets to look for opportunities that would result in making our debt portfolios more cost effective, resulting

in ratepayer savings. that and working closely with the independent municipal advisors is constantly looking for such opportunities. most notably the lower cost debt. given the historically low interest rate environment over the past few years we have been able to execute several refunding transactions primarily for the water enterprise that resulted in significant debt service savings to the ratepayers. a couple of taxable advance transactions that were quite cost effective. next slide, please. so this year there are four transactions planned. the first is the execution of a revolving fund which will be in the range of somewhere between 140 to 240 million that will provide low-cost funding for the water enterprise's share of the mountain tunnel project. the second transaction is a carry over transaction from last

year's plan. the commission will be asked to authorize short-term revenue notes for the waste water enterprise by -- project, the largest project in the -- interim funding of the project and an interest rate lower than if we interim funded the project by drawing down upon the -- recently executed for the project which will have a higher interest rate. upon completion several years from now, the notes will be paid off and the proceeds will be drawn down at that time. the third transaction should have occurred this year to fund a portion of the power's enterprise program. as part of the mid cycle budget update, the staff is revisiting, balancing. if after this mid-cycle evaluation is included the power enterprise will have capital needs that need to be funded this fiscal year then staff will determine the size and timing of the transaction that will be brought forward to you for consideration.

the optimal structure of the transaction will be considered at the time. [indiscernible] credit facilities that support the interim funding for advance of the water and waste water enterprise. brought forward to the commission during varying times depending on the expiration dates of the current credit facility. next slide, last slide. so this concludes any presentation and i'm happy to take any questions at this time. thank you. >> thank you. colleagues, any questions or comments? thank you for your good work. >> thank you. >> thank you. next item. >> very thorough, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> public comment on this item.

>> thank you, public comment on this item. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically addressing item 7d, capital financing plan, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting id146-710-1398 pound pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> moderator: madam secretary, there are no callers wishing to be recognized at this time. >> thank you. public comment on item 7b is closed. mr. general manager? >> the next item is our water enterprise capital improvement program, quarterly report. katie miller, program director. >> good afternoon, madam

president and commissioners. i'm katie miller. i'm the director of water capital programs for infrastructure, and i'm happy to be here today to share with you updates on the progress of our water enterprise capital improvement program. during the first quarter of fiscal year 2021 from july through september of 2020. next slide, please. could i have the next slide? thank you. this table shows a status update of the program and the 36 water enterprise c.i.p. regional and local projects with cost representing about $2.2 billion. expenditures at close of the reporting period were 39% expended. next slide, please.

brad, next slide? thank you. this is a new slide in our presentations to you. we wanted to do this to be consistent with the cost and schedule reporting that you're now seeing in the sewer capital program, so this is a summary slide of costs, the overall cost status of the projects that are rolled up by the category of projects. as you can see, the total regional c.i.p. baseline budget that was approved in 2018 is $631 million. the expenditures to the end of the quarter were about $130 million, and the forecasted total cost is over budget by about $320 million. the baseline budget approved in 2018 is about 1.6 billion. the cost variance is about 27 million under-budget at the end of the quarter. and i wanted to explain some of the major reasons for the cost variances that you're seeing.

mostly these can be attributed to three projects in the regional program where scope refinement that as the project had been developed over the past two years have resulted in higher costs. the ozone project was re-forecast following completion of the alternative analysis report and resulted in an additional $50 million forecasted budget increase. the potable re-use and other water supplies project was re-forecasted to incorporate future projects that are planned, and this forecasted 115 million over the 2018 budget. the mill rate lab and shop project was re-scoped in the last year as part of the ten-year c.i.p. and the current forecast for that project is 145 million over the 2018 approved baseline budget, so you can see that that accounts for the

majority of that forecast crease increase. all these projects were taken into account in the last ten-year c.i.p. budgeting and funding has been added to these projects, so we will come before you in early 2021, and we will re-baseline the entire program to have these scheduled and budgets and scopes more closely aligned with what was approved in the 10-year c.i.p., and there will be lots of opportunity for discussion of that in the next few quarters. next slide, please. this table is a summary of scheduled status from table 5 that is in the quarterly report, and it shows the number of projects on schedule or exceeding the baseline schedule by up to six months, which is the yellow triangle, or more than six months, which is the red dot. this table includes only the 23 active projects, and you can see from this table that 12 are on

schedule and 11 are forecasting to be delayed by six months or more. and some of the major reasons for these schedule delays, first off, as you saw with costs, many of the projects that were -- received a baseline schedule in 2018 since then have either changed phases or more scope scheduled budget information has become available as the projects have become more well defined. also due to the pandemic, there has been some slowdown that has occurred, and we have worked through issues of employee availability, getting remote work setups in order, and also receiving contractor and consultant health and safety plans with updated information. but the good news is resources are gradually becoming more available to help our programs stay on track. we have at least seven professional services contracts that will be advertised.

they are being developed now and they will be advertised this fiscal year, representing about -- at least $30 million in support for these water enterprise capital improvement projects. in addition, in light of the impacts of the pandemic, we are working much more closely with the public works department, the architecture and engineering group to negotiate their picking up more of the work that we're performing. and finally while hiring was on hold at the beginning of the pandemic, infrastructure is now starting to fill vacancies to meet the c.i.p. delivery needs. however, this process is still slow and requires close city coordination with the h.r. and our other groups. so as we re-baseline the c.i.p.

in 2021, again, you will see these schedules hopefully get re-set to what we believe are more attainable and something that we can deliver reliably over the next five to ten years. next slide, please. in the cover letter to the quarterly report, we listed some highlights of the reporting period. we had a couple of pipeline inspections of no. 4, and we did locate a leak there and have it -- were able to do a short-term repair and will put in our c.i.p. to come back and give a full repair in the future. the crystal springs pipeline no. 2 was inspected and was found in good condition. the ozone project started geo

technical site inspection and another project is over 75% complete. and in the local c.i.p., the san francisco groundwater supply project, achieved substantial completion. next slide. next slide, please. so this pie chart shows the regional water enterprise projects by the phase that they are in and the budgeted amount, and you can see we still have quite a few in planning, but these are moving to, you know, slowly moving to design and construction, so we are making progress. next slide. and now i'll provide some highlights of some of the regional projects. so for the long-term improvements project, the first contract was the shop, the yard

improvements, and that is substantially complete and in close out you. i had an opportunity to go out with steve ritchie and look at the site, and it's really incredible. the walls are going up now. it's just going to be a state-of-the-art facility. i just feel very proud that we will have this available for our customers and for the public to feel the history of our water system and the communities that we live in. one of the highlights is the excavation work is now complete. we did continue to find native american burials, and these were removed and appropriately dealt with in accordance with the tribes that we were working with, and one more highlight of this project is that in the last quarter the yard and shops

project received a partnering award from the city, so just have great cooperation with our contractors out there and with the native american tribes, and it's really a great successful project. next slide, please. so the sunol valley water treatment project, we are under way. violation evaluations are under way, and work has started siting the work for faults or concerns in soil. next slide. the san andreas pipeline replacement, this is project 75% complete. it's on time and on budget, and this very meaningful work that's

happening really successfully, team is doing a good job out there. crystal springs pipeline no. 2, two and three, we've been waiting to get the professional services contract in place to start the planning and design work on this. but we are doing a corrosion assessment, and this is the pipeline in the hillsboro area. next slide, please. the southern -- next slide, please. the southern skyline boulevard ridge trail extension project, the design work is mostly complete. we're working on the environmental approval, and the draft ir was published during the q4, and just in the last quarter there was a public hearing, and the many public comment letters were received. now mostly these were one viewpoint or the other and staff

has said that they -- you know, the comments are pretty consistent and can be addressed and that the planning department now is developing their response to comments. and just i believe you're going to hear a little bit more about this project on agenda item no. 13, which is an agreement with mid peninsula regional open space district for a crossing of highway 35 that will help connect this trail. so it's really exciting that this project is gonna be in construction very soon. next slide, please. and now for our local projects, can you can see that the multi-phases is because we've got the beam replacement program which has many projects under construction. we'll tell you about some of those now. next slide, please. next slide, brad. so the san francisco groundwater supply well conversion, as i

stated before, this project is in substantial completion, and we went out and looked at one of these sites too, and they are really attractive buildings. the architecture was really nice, blend in with golden gate park. i encourage you all to get a look at these sites too. there are punch list items work happening and the c.d.d. oerpgs staff is now operating these facilities. they are currently still being used for irrigation, but when the recycle water facility is online for irrigation, then these will be converted to drinking water wells. so great success story here. next slide, please. so the san francisco west side recycle water project, it is coming right along and also a very exciting things, project to see in construction. the major project equipment is now being put into place. the walls are up and the

membrane filtration system was installed. the reverse osmosis unit and ultraviolet light disinfection station. in golden gate park is where the pump station is, and they have the walls formed and now the roof slap and beams are being installed. so this project is coming right along as well. next slide, please. so the college hill reservoir project started as a seismic upgrade of the outlet facilities, but once we were in there and saw that more work could be used to replace the roof and do some other seismic improvements, and what's really exciting about this project is making this reservoir seismically reliable will be performing in conjunction with five of the main replacement projects that will bring seismically reliable piping from

the college hill reservoir directly to san francisco general hospital. this is a picture of a earthquake resistant pipe. in 40 years of installation in japan, they have never had a break with this pipe. it's really remarkable, and so this is a pilot project that the p.u.c. is taking on to build this technically reliable piping to the hospital, and this kubota pipe is also being used for our emergency water firefighting system. it's been accepted to welded steel for earthquake resistance. >> i have a question. does that pipe come smaller? >> yes, it comes i believe as small as six inch all the way up to about 108 inch. >> so are we considering it? is that something that we could

consider in the future for some replacement? >> potentially. the strategy for the distribution system since there's 1200 miles of pipe and a lot of that pipe is over 100 years old is to work on a backbone system, so work on the primary 50 to 100 miles of pipe of larger pipe called the trunk line that distributes water to the major facilities such as hospitals and fire departments, per se, and make sure that we can deliver water through those major pipelines, and eventually it would be wonderful if we could get to the other thousand miles of distribution pipes. but i think the focus should be on these major distribution pipes. >> absolutely. i was just wondering -- >> in japan they are slowly but surely turning over all their distribution systems, so it's a

great goal. >> yeah, that's what i'm asking, if it's a goal. great. >> i'm a little curious, commissioner, why would ask about 6-inch pipes. >> right. i just asked -- i recognize that a lot of them are four inches, but i just -- there was no reason. >> yes, and we have now made it a standard to have the smallest pipe be 8-inch distribution pipe. we do still have some smaller ones in the system, but with the 8-inch pipe, we get better refreshing of the water, better flow through the pipes and it's a little more consistent. so that brings us to our local conveyance distribution system water main replacement program. we currently are forecasting about 11 point miles of pipe to be installed, 15 miles a year is our goal, but we found that just with all the challenges of working in san francisco streets

and coordinating with other agencies, you'll see in the next slide that we've been averaging about 12 miles or so. we have ten projects under way during q1. we completed all the work on outer geric street. there are still two other projects going on, and starting in this quarter we'll be starting work on baker street, 19 avenue and casiltas. those are in conjunction with other department work. next slide, please. and this is a graphic that we have in the report that just shows our progress on trying to reach that 15 miles per year as sewer is doing with their replacement program, and you can see that we just almost get

there, a little over 12 last year, which was a really great achievement. and in the -- actually, in this year and next year, the funding is -- will probably keep us to about 12 miles a year, and also our commitment to joint projects, but we hope to see that get up to the goal of the 15 miles per year. and i think that's the last slide. i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> so i have one question. i understand that there's always some need, you know, to have interagency cooperation because of skills and scope and whatever. i think the most visible one in san francisco right now has been -- where you've got m.t.a. and p.u.c. and department of public works. and i think i -- where everybody's like, this is a pipe and this is a road and this is

a -- i mean, all the different things that come up with that, but when you said that you're putting little bit more emphasis on grabbing resources from the department of public works, i would like you to explain what that means. what does the p.u.c. incapable or just maybe -- that's probably the wrong word, but why would you go to the department of public works to take on something that maybe was normally something that could just be handled by public utilities folks. so if you could elaborate on that, at least a little bit, not a lot, but i understand the interactions. >> sure. i'd be happy to. so of course we will offer to our own engineers first and we always keep our own engineers busy first. the distinction was if something goes out to a consultant versus we're working a little more

closely with public works to see if they can do some of that work before we could offer it to a consultant. >> so you're saying keeping it in-house with city employees as opposed to contracting it out? >> that's correct -- very careful about specialty work where it's really in our best interest to bring in a consultant, such as geotechnical engineering, or other support services. but for the engineering and architecture, we are trying to, you know, make sure that our in-house -- of course first our own p.u.c. employees, but then public works, we will go to them and see if they have availability to perform some of the work. >> right, i got that, and you're talking more about the professional side of stuff h terms of the -- >> yeah, the design services more. in terms of street projects -- >> but i'm saying -- let me finish my question.

is that if there is -- if somebody is doing a backhoe or they are going to be, you know, digging the ditch or they are going to be laying the pipe or they are going to be doing something, that is more the piece as opposed to, you know, the actual construction staff that might be doing maintenance or repairs or whatever else between the department of public works and the m.t.a. or whatever that is? if you could comment on that, if that was part of it or was your first answer the only one? >> i don't think -- >> do you want me to respond? >> yeah, sure. >> so typically we contract construction out unless our own crews, especially from the water department, we actually perform the work through c.d.d., you know. we're rarely dependent on public works. we do coordinate because we

have, you know, leaks and they have to come and they have contracts to do paving. so there is coordination. however, on the water side is mainly we perform the work or contract it out. there's situations, you mentioned vaness, where we try to coordinate and just have one coordinator doing the sewer, water, they work in coordination with p.g. and e. and the m.t.a. and public works to do the whole street, hopefully go in there one time and just do everything. >> okay. i think katie answered the question. it's more on the professional level, the engineers, designers and architects. not so much to who's driving the trucks and that kind of stuff.

am i summarizing, katie, what you're saying mostly? >> yes, that's correct. yes. >> okay, thank you. that was my question, madam chair. >> the chair: anybody else or we'll go on to -- >> so, katie, thanks very much for the report. when i read through it, i had all kinds of questions, and in your presentation you answered all of them, so i appreciate that very much. thank you. >> that's great. i was trying to anticipate what you might ask. >> the chair: madam clerk, will you open it up for public comment, please? >> member of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically to address item 7c, the water enterprise capital improvement program

quarterly report, dial 1-415-655-0001 meeting id146-710-1398 pound pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. >> moderator: madam secretary, there is one caller in the queue. >> thank you. >> moderator: caller, your line is open. >> this is francisco da costa. first and foremost i would like to say something about the sunol project. i represent the first people of san francisco, and much before i think this project started i had opportunity to reach out to the general manager.

his name is harlan carey, and we brought in some other sfupuc employees. and the chairperson was very -- she appreciated very much the help that was given not only by the headquarters but by some of the s.f.u.c. employees at the site. they got to be good friends, and i say that because the commissioners always hear me say about this the other, but behind the scenes i do whatever is possible to bring people together in very difficult

circumstances. the first people lived here for 15,000 years. the remains of the first people are sacrosanct. whether directly or indirectly the sfuc participated in reaching out to skeletons, be they human beings or dinosaurs, as they found at -- this part of the history, buckley knows a lot about it, they played a role, and the tribe, the tribe played a role. all this has to be documented as part of history so that people can read it on the website. >> moderator: thank you, caller. your time's expired.

madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> this closes public comment on item 7c. general manager? >> all right, the next item is our water system improvement program quarterly report. but first, i just want to acknowledge that katie has done an outstanding job, and she actually is now permanent in the position. now she's on her probation still, so i just want to congratulate here, you're doing a great job. go ahead, katie. >> thank you very much, harlan and thank you, commissioners, for your faith. i will say that this is the highest honor i've received in my career, and you know, i've worked with the p.u.c. for 24 years, and i am thrilled to be

in this position where i hope to have a very positive impact on delivering these critical projects. my whole life is built around water, and i'm passionate to work closely with you to deliver this on time and on schedule, and i just thank you so much for the opportunity. this represents status from july 1 through september 30 of this year. next slide. this slide provides a snapshot of the status of the regional program and the 52wsip regional projects. $3.8 billion was expended and the project achieved 99% completion. note that the local program was completed in the last quarter on june 3, 2020, and we will no

longer be reported on this in the quarterly reports. for the regional project, there was only one project remaining in design. this is alameda creek recapture project. six projects are in construction. one is in close out and 42 have been completed. so this table is also new to our presentations to you and provides a summary of program cost rolled out by region. as you can see, the expenditures, the current approved budget is about $1 billion, and expenditures to date is about $946 million and our forecasted cost is about 1 billion with only about 2 million cost variance at this time, and you can see that most of that is in the san francisco regional region which is -- represents the regional groundwater storage and recovery project. we are currently at 95% design for the phase two contract, and

in the next quarter it's likely that we will have more information on the actual forecasted costs for that project, but overall the health of the entire program budget-wise is very good. next slide, please. i'll give you an overview of the remaining projects. our favorite project is in the closeout phase, but we are continuing to have monitoring inspections. we are waiting for the reservoir to fill to the next level so that we can have the next inspection. next slide, please. this fish passage facility at alameda creek diversion dam, and the lower photo of this i think was taken by a drone, and it's really a great photo to be able

to see how the creek moves -- how the water moves and how the fish might get up past this diversion dam up into the upper creek. so this construction is 99% complete. we had a few repairs to make to the debris system, but unfortunately when the contract was ready to mobilize, we had a fire in the watershed that came right up to the boundary of this, but fortunately there was zero damage to this facility and to the dam, so we got very, very lucky. thank you to the good work of hundreds of firefighters who helped protect this facility. so hopefully we'll have a wet winter this year so we can complete our west testing. next slide, please. the alameda creek recapture project is the last project that will go into construction in the wsip, and at this time the

project team is working on drafting the regulatory permits for construction and updating the design drawings. in addition, the geotechnical consultant began evaluating erosion in the pond and potential effects from pond operation to erosion. and we anticipate advertising this construction contract in the current quarter. next slide, please. for the regional groundwater storage and recovery project, there are two active sub-projects. so phase one project is in construction, and this includes improvements to 12 of the well stations. phase two is at 95% design, and this includes installation of the south san francisco main well which is the 13th and final well, and it also includes an additional minor improvements to the other 12 well sites. for phase one, the four-day start-up testing was completed

at two of the well stations. progress was made to address galvanic corrosion that occurred at three of the well sites, including issues change orders to rebuild three pumps and ininstall gal vonnic protection. this work will happen in the next two quarters. >> what was that? what does that mean? >> so three of the wells had pump performance issues. they were having trouble pumping at their normal flow rate, and it took a long time, probably six months to diagnose what was going on. when we finally pulled the pump shaft out, there was corrosion to the pump body and/or the pump shaft, and each of the three sites was a little different, but it was found that the findings were the water was highly corrosive. so for those three sites we need to rebuild the pump and the pump shaft in some cases, which is

pretty expensive change order, and we also need -- we will be installing active protections, which is where we put an impressed current through the metal part of the well to prevent it from corroding in the future. so it was a finding. we were not anticipating it, and it severely affected performance of three of the wells. >> okay, galvanic. that was the word. >> cathode and anode, like a battery, with a charge going through, if you remember your old chemistry classes. for phase two, we have completed 95% design at the one well site. next slide. you may recall with this that we have four closeout projects in each of the the regions, and these are all getting very close to completion. in the san walk-in region, we

were installing lithium ion batteries to replace propane-generated backup power, but however, during the quarter, most likely related to covid-19, following a four-month lead time, the selected battery manufacturer was not able to deliver the batteries on time.

funded. but the report is there ready when the puc is ready to take this up and go back to -- go on to design. next slide. in the peninsula, the lower crystal spring dam project, the bridge replacement project, a

joint project with san matteo county is completely finished now. we're just doing punch list items and there will be security system items. the physical fencing and gates that will be installed as an agreement with san matteo county. the spilling base and connecting channel was completed. this project, too, is just down to the last little bit. and that completes my presentation. and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> any questions for comments? seeing none, public comment on this item? members of the public, who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on item 7d, the water system improvement

program, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 146 710 1398 ##. raise your hand to speak. press star 3. >> there is one caller in the queue. go ahead, caller. as you all know, this was a very lengthy presentation. some very important projects. the two that come to mind as far as i'm concerned, mountain tunnel. and we really have a needs

assessment on both these projects. so, mountain tunnel -- a lot of money. and then when we revisit the tunnel, we found cracks. then we had the option either to fix it or build a new tunnel. we chose to go with fixing the whole tunnel. and some of you commissioners think that the millions of dollars are spent on something and we don't get a report on it, then we move to phase number two and spend more money. the reason why i'm saying this, it's all connected, because money is not like water.

soon water will be like gold, but money is not like water. you have to be accountable. but there are some people, they spend money, they cheat us, hood wink us. you'll be getting a presentation where someone is saying i'm spending the money this way. but we know the federal bureau of investigation is paying attention to this presentation. and the federal bureau of investigation wants to know how you spend it and the connection with the parties involved. >> thank you, caller. your two minutes has expired. madame secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. public comment on item 7d is closed. mr. general manager.

>> the last item is e, southeast area major projects update. biosolids, head works, and 1550 evans. it will be n. robinson who will give the update. >> thank you, good afternoon, president maxwell, commissioners. capital programs. today, we have our monthly update on the southeast area major projects. next slide, please. these -- this is the same slide we used before to show the three projects together that we're calling the southeast major projects. biosolids, head workers and the 1550 evans. today, we have shelby with us and she's a project manager of

the community center. next month, we'll be rotating between other project managers. i've had the pleasure of visiting there again last week. i can say that the work is very much progressing. there is now some real visual evidence that the work continues. but like we described in the past, there is quite a bit of work going on underground, so it is harder to see. here we have the first project for biosolids and similar to what we last showed you in september. if you remember last month in october, we provided an update on the workforce efforts. so last time we showed the slide in september, it shows the same budget and schedule. after that, cost reduction effort we did earlier this year. so no change. for the few bullets. the one of the redesign. the cross production effort, we're expected to incorporate those cross-setting scope efforts and complete that by january of 2021, next year.

the second bullet, construction activities are expected to increase significantly in january of next year. really to the excavation, the deep water work, the shore work we're ramping up. we talked about there being over 280 existing piles that are extracted from the former buildings. so an additional second rig has been added and is increasing the production rate for the construct. there are six piles being removed each work day. since last time we talked, the sfmta has approved the gerald street closure plan we submitted. so it looks like we're able to hold to that plan of closing gerald at the beginning of the year early in january. this is the main effort of work that has been going on.

relocation of the existing utilities and lanes within the project area. that work is being continuing. this is all included in scope one. and the demolition. that is targeted in early december. hoping to beat that. so that has been going well. and as an example of that, is our significant milestone, we sent the first flow of sewage through that relocated sewer on friday, october 30th. so i'll show you a few photos of that. that's an important piece. a few photos. with the photo that comes up, you can see the contractors unloading that pipe. 36-inch pipes, vcp, off the truck, getting ready for installation. next slide shows that being installed in one of the arrangements that is now complete. and the sewage is flowing through that. if you go to the next slide, you

can see one of the associated holes with the sewer work. smaller pipe, 15 inches in this case, but there are the crews with the rebar getting ready before the concrete is poured. the last before biosolids, when i was there last week, it was the day that i visited, i took this photo myself which is unusual. but this is a micro pile rig. this was work starting to drill the very first new pile for the project. this is another milestone. it's transitioning from all the other work that needs to continue removing piles, but this is now actually building the facility, putting in the new piles to support the new structure. so that's exciting. okay, we'll go to the next project for head works. again, the same forecasted budget that we showed last time.

scope one having reached final completion. scope two, pump station, next door, up grades to the pump station. at the moment it's about performance, functional testing of the various equipment that is being installed. especially now as we get into the wet weather season if we do get rain in the next few weeks. we'll get to test that as well. this includes full construction of the new main head works facility. the interesting part for me, the initiated the work for the site rehabilitation work and revised order control facility design, but the installation of temporary pumps, piping and structural, electrical modification, are is ongoing. this is really interesting piece. it's keeping the flow going. this is different than the die biosolid project. head works continues to receive

flow 24-7 and will deal with the wet weather when it comes. in the last bullet, the focus work is installing these drilled piers we've been showing photos of. for this foundation work, the second of november, 249 of those piles have now been installed. we last reported 131 in september. so the last couple of months we've narrowed it over 100 out of 600. that work will continue through the next few months through the remainder of 2020. go to the next slide. you get a perspective of the size of these reinforcement cages. there are 600 of these piers going down up to 150 feet. they were three feet in diameter some of them. today, 249 of the 600, rate of five or six per day similar to biosolids.

>> this is gives you an idea of the perspective of that. here's one of the reinforcement cages. gives you an idea of the magnitude needed to support the structure. when i got to see the site last week, as the piers are being built, they started the excavation work and the piers that have now been finished. that is another exciting milestone for this project. as the piling work continues, we're able to excavate around those to get to the next phase of construction. we'll go to the next slide for our last project in the southeast community center, 1550 evans. the same project budget and schedule is holding. we have completed all four slabs for support of the building. so now we're out of the dirt effectively and starting to build above grade. each of those pours consisted of 1400 cubic yards.

for bullet 2, the steel erection is going on. that is starting to get above ground. you can see it from the head work site. we're looking at scheduling a topping off ceremony in the second week of december. topping off when they reach the top of the steel structure. it's a milestone in the vertical construction business. the third bullet is installing power trenches, getting utilities around the new buildings and site. we launched a website. if you go to the next slide, i have detail. this website is a one-stop resource tool that includes relevant project information and construction progress, time lapse videos and construction site images for people to see what is going on. the renderings of what the facility will look like. hiring, community involvement

and opportunities for folks to get involved. just a few photos to show what i've been talking about. the first one really is very powerful visual that the structural steel erection -- you can see from one of the buildings. you can see it now taking shape. if we stand back a little bit, you can see the steel work in the background, but you can see? of the trenching and earth work going on around the site getting that ready for the next phase of construction as well. that's electrical conduit going in there. rather than switch over to video, just to respect time, i'll show a time lapsed video. we'll save it for later when the building is further along. but i thought i would take a few still images. this is what the facility looked like before demolition. go to the next slide. you see it as it's being demolished. everything is gone. they start to do the foundation work there. in the next slide, you can see

how we've done some of the concrete and slab work that is complete. in the next slide, in the distance, you can see the steel work starting to go up. there is more equipment on site. and then in the last side, you start to see, as it looks today with the steel work. that is a quicker version of the time lapse video as you kind of accelerate through how the project developed. that concludes my presentation. as always, happy to take questions. >> president maxwell: thanks, any questions, comments? all i can say, is i see it. it's coming along. it's amazing. if you don't see it in a week, you say, wow, when did that happen? so great.

may we have public comment on this item. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on 7e, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 146 710 1398 ##. raise your hand to speak. press star 3. do we have any callers? mr. moderator? can you hear me? >> we have one caller in the queue. >> thank you.

>> let me state very clearly that 1550 evans is linked with 1800 oakdale. and we have to bear in mind that 1800 oakdale has to -- try to reconstruct it to build house organize stuff like that. -- housing or stuff like that. because that site was built for the community really and that's why it's called the southeast community facility building. let me state that clearly. now at 1550, much is made about this building. that the building has been built

for the community. and as we are doing a needs assessment of the community, the community is suffering. we have our elders put in trailers at pier 96 and we have people smiling and they're dying there, slowly dying. you have lack of food security in the community for the children, the infants and the children. and soon you all will be talking about community benefits. and i want to know how are the humans being treated? and why are the same people given opportunities for outreach? jones and james bryant?

i want to go into detail, but i can't go into detail. so you commissioners, just don't be listening and looking at conceptual plans. the real plans, i mentioned before, there were two big spills at treatment plant. >> thank you, caller, your time has expired. madame secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you, public comment on this item is closed. mr. general manager? >> that concludes my report. >> president maxwell: madame clerk, will you read the next item, please? >> your next order of business

is item 8, update on soeths impact partnerships program. sfpuc's good neighbor strategies in contracting. >> commissioners, before we get into tracy and the presentation, i wanted to take an opportunity to kind of walk down memory lane, the journey of where we were to where we are now. the one thing i would say, the puc has a longstanding commitment to build strong, vibrant and connect partnership with the communities that we serve. we want to do this well. however, there has been, in the past, you know, some challenges, especially with wastewater. one of the biggest challenges that we had was the 7-year rate freeze. i know some of the commissioners recognize that challenge. we were unable to really invest

in infrastructure. and then the other challenge we had on the wastewater side is that in 2000, when we moved forward with the water system improvement program, or the c.ip, we moved first with the water side and we deferred the wastewater side. so until we had a general manager that really wanted to focus on the wastewater, because we went far along on the waterside and i would just say that was ed harrington. we started to really look at planning on the wastewater side. and so we had this task force of looking at where to place the digesters. and that was something that we worked in the community. as part of that, i was working with then supervisor maxwell, and we talked about and i made a commitment to her that whatever we build, it will be a place of destination. we're going to make that we

represent the community and the community would be proud of what we built there. as you saw in steve robinson's presentation, you can really get a look at what their commitment is. so we're moving away from a treatment plant to an energy recovery. you know, we are now valuing resources. and that's what the change is all about. and then in 2009, 2011, the commission passed a community benefit policy and a good neighbor policy. good neighbor community benefit is a good neighbor policy. and then we also passed the environmental justice policy. and with that, when we start focussing on the digesters, we actually did as part of the ceqa process, an environmental justice analysis to determine what the impacts that the community is experiencing and

how can our project not have cumulative impacts, but how can we operationalize our project that will benefit the community? and that was what it was about. then we did a supply chain analysis. for those of you who don't know, the supply chain is to look at what services directly would be needed to build these projects, but also look at what other ancillary benefits. like, for example, we know we need contractors, but those contractors need supplies. where are the supplies coming from? where are the people coming from? where are the people going to eat? we look at the supply chain and start working with the community. then, you know, we had a general manager, ed harrington, open a contractor assistance center to really work with local contractors to talk about opportunities to plug into these

opportunities. and the other challenge that we had is that we knew that there would be a lot of jobs. a lot of union jobs. we created the biggest in the nation. i think it's one of the motto. it created over 27,000 jobs. we've invested $1.4 million a year to city build to train local people to get into these jobs. and then in 2011, we asked our consultant partners to join us in this effort and we launched the social impact partnership program. many of these firms who -- that are participating do this type of work globally. and, you know, what we've asked them to do is really look at focusing on the neighborhoods that are impacted and see how they can assist in doing that.

and some of the programs very special to me -- actually, every time i hear what the firms are put as part of their proposal is just amazing. the one is that they have the city works -- i'll use that as an example -- is an intern program. instead of, you know, i used to go and recruit. i'd go to the national society of black engineers, society of women engineers and we'd recruit to try to look for black and brown women. i see these firms alongside of me. we will try to hire folks from the community. so -- [indiscernible] -- organizations -- bring them in. help them -- [indiscernible] -- and the firms will provide --

i'm sorry to interrupt, but your audio is gurgling. >> can you hear me now? >> president maxwell: that's better. >> okay. and so the firm then presented as part of the community benefits the actual paid internship. they provided a value for the mentors who were working with the students. and they also provided the cbos for tracking. and what is really amazing about this project that tracy will go into. out of 91 students, you know, a quarter of them just have graduated and there are still in the industry and we actually, the city has hired some of them. we have another consulting with a newer diversity program because his kid was on the

autism spectrum. so they offered a program which is 70% of the folks in newer diversity are unemployed. they came up with a program for internships and provided within their team opportunities to work with these consulting firms as part of first source. and it was just amazing and tracy will go into it, that some of these kids are now being hired by these firms. you know, i can go on and on. but i think the other major thing is when we talk about workforce, and opportunity to get into the union jobs, as far as construction union, it's just trying to remove barriers. and like child care or trying to get their license or driver's license because they're behind in their child payment. they try to work with these

adult services so they can get their child care payment plan, so they can get their driver's license and then help them pay the union dues so they can join the union. there is no nonunion stuff going on. we're just trying to prepare -- these firms are trying to prepare folks from the community to participate in these 27,000 jobs that we've created through our project labor agreement. and so you know, i'm just really proud of the program. and i will introduce tracy zu, the manager to walk you through the presentation in more details. >> thank you so much, general manager. good afternoon, commissioners. i'm the social impact partnership manager. i'm joined by my colleague heidi

fine in the infrastructure division. as a general manager, we're going to provide you with an update on the program. it's been a little over a year since we spoke with the commission on the program. so we'll go over what the program is, how it works and why we do it. by the end of the presentation, i hope you walk away as excited as we are about the incredible work happening in this space. our work is guided by the environmental justice. this directs the puc to reduce any negative effects of our operation and add positive to our communities. it expands the puc's ability to do that by inviting contractors to give back to communities on which they form work on behalf of the puc. the commitment is directly to committees. first commitments are valued that provided to non-profit in the form of volunteer hours,

in-kind donations and contributions. examples of volunteer include firm employees spending time supervising interns. examples of in-kind donations are laptops, energy report, that includes a learning environment. financial contributions are direct contributions to non-profits and schools for the costs like interns and training. this 2011 social impact commitment are included in contracts $5 million and above for professional services and procurement and alternative delivery construction contracts. puc has awarded 84 contracts with social impact commitments to date. a majority, 80, are for professional services. while just four are related to construction. over these 84 contracts, they've pledged $35 million of value in commitment with $9.3 million to

be delivered to the community as of august 20, 2020. of the $3.9 million delivered to the community, 46% is in the volunteer hours and in-kind donation. only $5 million is financial support. it's important to note that these commitments are not a pool of funds that go to sfpuc. these contributions go directly from the firms to the non-profits and schools that the firms have chosen to work with. then the benefits go to communities where they belong. this will provide a sense of the way that firms directly supported the community. delivered to the communities where sfpuc firms are doing work where our hetch hetchy reservoir is located. of the $9.3 million in value

that firms have delivered to the community, volunteer hours and in-kind donations, as i mentioned earlier -- to give you an example of the volunteer hours, it's the firm's employees spending time supervising and mentoring interns. to talk about the careers and concepts. no dollars are delivered for the volunteer hours. the volunteer hours are valued at a standard $150 an hour. to translate the hours into a monetary value. the smallest category of firm contributions is inkind donations. examples include equipment and supplies purchased from local vendors and laptops donated to sfpuc schools. these are the biggest areas where firms are supporting community needs. around the area of workforce, support s.t.e.m. or professional services training and

internship. these go to s.t.e.m. interns or trainees. the majority of whom are african-american, latinx, women. valuable work experience including engineering and design. while a majority of social firms are professional services firms, they've supported the training program for southeast residents. these training programs along with barrier removal programs support local project labor agreement construction projects. the environmental justice has supported a number of housing initiatives to prevent displacement and restriction. in education, professional firms have used their expertise to advance s.t.e.m. education and scholarships for kids and teachers. the firm has done a lot to support business development for small local businesses to

overcome barriers. we will share specific stories about the impact of the community. i'm going to turn it over to my colleague to elaborate on how firms impact the community. >> thank you, tracy. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is ivy fine. i'm the manager of the program administration bureau which includes the contract division. i want to speak about the impact in the contracting process. sfpuc procures a large number of diverse contracts, some of which you've heard today from katie miller and steve robinson. sfpuc follows best practices at every stage of the process. there are many legal

requirements that dictate the contract selection and execution process. these include, but certainly aren't limited to the san francisco administrative code, the san francisco charter, multiple departments, rules and regulations, california state contracting code. and others. there is no one person who directs contract solicitation or award. there are many checks and balances in the process to prevent undue influence. next slide. the threshold to include social impact commitment in the solicitation is $5 million. this means that the request for proposals are issued for contracts valued at $5 million and above. social impact partnership guidelines are included in the request for proposal. and firms social impact proposal are included as part of the evaluation process. if they so choose.

please note that a propose decision to submit a proposal is optional. if a proposer decides to include a social impact proposal, then similar to a proposer's technical proposal, proposers independently decide their approach, commitment, team and organization and their internal systems to track, report and hold themselves accountable. put another way. just proposers find and solicit which technical consultants make up their team, including which firms will help meet the contract's local business, interprize, participation requirement. proposers find and solicit non-profit organizations and schools that they will utilize to deliver their social impact commitment. further more, requests for proposal contract language states that firms must make commitments in the communities

or neighborhoods where the project work is located. firms can't charge the puc for the value of the commitment. and no contributions can go to the sfpuc, its employees or other city departments. next slide. taking a step back. i'd like to take a moment to discuss the proposal evaluation and selection process. sfpuc has established business practices for all of our procurements. and as part of this, there are consistent procedures as to how proposals are evaluated and scored. as you can see, written -- the written technical portion, which includes minimum qualifications, work approach, reference projects, is usually 60% of the overall evaluation.

the oral interview is 25%. overhead and profit, 10%. and the social impact proposal is worth only 5% of the overall score. this points to the social impact session, incentivizes proposers to create the best plan they can implement. regarding the valuation panels, there are two separate and distinct evaluation panels. one for the technical evaluation. and a second panel for the social impact section of the proposal. a panel with specialized technical expertise reviews and scores the technical written proposal and the oral interviews. which constitute 85% of the total score. a separate panel with social impact expertise reviews and scores the social impact proposal. which as i previously mentioned

constitutes 5% of the total score. there is specific required criteria for both panels. each panel must be approved by the contract monitoring division, which is a separate and distinct department in the city and county of san francisco. to ensure ethnic and gender diversity as well as half the panel is from outside the department. each panelist must sign an acknowledgment confirming they have no conflict of interest. this means they have to sign their name stating that they have no financial or personal interest with any of the proposing firms, the teams and the proposed non-profits for schools. -- or schools. both panels must observe the cone of silence which means they may not discuss the proposals,

evaluation process, and most importantly, the scoring until after the award of the contract. staff involved with developing or reviewing the r.f.p. are not allowed to serve as panelists. senior leadership such as assistant general managers and the general manager do not serve as panelists. the contract monitoring division as an independent oversight department, proctors. all panelists discussions, including panel orientation and oral interviews. and reviews all scoring. and then after the contract monitoring division completes the review and approval of the evaluation process, and the scores, the contract then comes to you, the commission, for final approval. and the commission authorizes the general manager to execute the contract. next slide, please.

separate and distinct from the social impact partnership program, there are cost control measures in every request for proposal. starting in about 2007, as the water system improvement program ramped up, the then deputy general manager tony irons along with now general manager kelly and certain infrastructure assistant general managers in collaboration with the city attorney's office decided to include costs as part of the evaluation process. the intention is to include a cost control measure in the solicitation process that carries through the term of the contract and incentivizes firms to provide competitive pricing. there are two cost control

measures. one is the average multiple ire, or effective overhead. this is a multiplier figure that anticipates the profit. firms receive points based on their multiplier. the lower the multiplier, the greater the points, as you can see on the slide. this incentivizes firms to have lower multipliers. the second cost control measures is the rate cap. each r.f.p. includes a cap on individual consultants' hourly rates. this prevents unreasonably high billing rates on our contracts. the combination of both of those cost control measures maximizes the amount of services and the quality of services for the contract value. tracy, i'll now pass it back to

you to talk about what happens after the winner of the contract is selected. >> thank you, ivy. next slide. when the firm makes commitment, there is accountability system in place to make sure firms follow through. once the winning proposer is selected, the commitments are included in the final agreement. the technical work for the contract, they're responsible for holding a kickoff meeting with puc staff, providing annual work plans and reporting to the sfpuc on a regular basis. there are a number of reporting and documentation requirements as you see on the slide. these reports help us confirm that the firms are on track to delivering the commitment they promised over the life of their agreement. next slide. later this month, we're excited to launch a dashboard on the web page which will highlight

stories of individuals whose lives are better as a result of this. these are firms that participate in the program and break down the financial, volunteer and inkind commitments delivering accountability and transparency to the public. the social impact partnership program is good for our communities. and that's why we do it. the social impact partnership program is not about policy, it's about the people. there are a few examples of how the program has impacted our team. next slide. central workers throughout the puc service area from san francisco to the county, face barriers such as unanticipated hardship, lack of access to child care at early hours. these barriers can especially prevent black workers, low-income workers, and women from earning steady employment. child care is a big barrier to

regular employment. particularly for mothers. this need is acute for construction trades that do not have traditional work hours. requiring early hours for child care, or before child care centers are open. to address the challenge, firms have supported child care programs and children's council of san francisco. these trusted community-based partners provide enhanced supports for parents participating in programs or who are employed in the construction field. these organizations support parents like mickey, to find a child care provider who provides early morning hours and secures transportation from their home to the child care location. they ensure that workers like her have a career opportunity to work at a job that offers equitable pay and benefits. this is a win-win for all of us. our city benefits from our her

hard work. access to good careers build strong communities. because the utility sector is aging, there is need to expand. so that we reflect the community and customers we serve. for these reason, they participate in programs. city works recruits black, asian high school and college students. they are placed in partnership firms where a summer internship can gain experience in engineering, design, and our utility related careers. former intern javon graduated from morehouse college.

since 2012, 91 have gone through city works. while three quarters are still in school working on a degree, a quarter have graduated from college. they've gone on to positions at the sfpuc and tech companies. there are many more stories about interns and workers who benefitted from professional services training. these types of program extend beyond to the region where firms support professional services training for women and other underrepresented. next slide. diversity internship program is an initiative that focuses on inclusion of different -- [indiscernible] pre-covid, the employment rate was at an all time low.

the unemployment rate is as high as 85% for those with a college degree. people are not without jobs because of the lack of desire or ability to work. in many cases they're well suited for a job. they provide on-the-job training opportunities for the social impact firms, work environments designed to inclusive. proudly, eric is one of the interns who upon completion of his internship was hired by a firm working on biosolids project. he was honored at the artwork-life awards. as an intern of the year. next slide. small businesses are the backbone of the economy and employ many local workers and

create vibrant commercial corridors. unfortunately, small businesses face many barriers to getting access to regular business income. when baby bistro first launched with the support of the social impact, black and latino merchants activated a lot. at this outdoor food bark park, they supported small businesses to increase their outreach, serve food to workers and residents and grow their business. baby bistro, across the city depended on food traffic and had to shut down because of shelter-in-place. because of the entrepreneur spirit of the lend understand, they got together and came up with a way to continue making and selling food. they watched the bayview bistro box, something they preorder

featuring food like banana pudding, barbecue ribs and quinoa. they deliver food to the elderly, food insecure families. they were successful on multiple fronts. from june to september, 2020, the bayview bistro food vendors made 120% more income than the prior nine months. the initiative not only helps vendors increase their income during shelter in place by providing technical assistance and training. become city registered vendors so they can continue to grow and expand their businesses. next slide. now my last story is about an elderly widow who purchased in the bayview in the mid 90s.

she spent half of her income on the mortgage. unfortunately, last year, she fell on hard times and got behind on her mortgage. the bank immediately moved to foreclose on the property, sold the property for $50,000 and cent her a check for 1 cents to represent the 25 years of investment she made. the new owners, an investment group, filed eviction. it turns out the bank didn't have the legal authority to -- she received free legal services from open door legal, a legal non-profit. open door legal filed a wrongful foreclosure action. property was retitled in her name and eviction dismissed. with the rest of the mortgage and consumer debt paid off, she worked with open door legal to create a trust so she can pass

it down to her daughter. this program went from almost helpless to being able to pass down an $800,000 home. bayview had home foreclosure rates four times the city-wide average. our southeast community neighbors are concerned about displacement of neighbors. this is why social impact partnership firms are proud to support the effort. the partnership of open door legal, the san francisco development corporation. they provide free legal counseling, real estate planning to prevent foreclosure on longtime residents. social impact partnerships have positively impacted people in the community.

the program is good for the future of the sfpuc. it is good for our communities. and sets an example for how public and private sector can play an active role in ensuring equitable outcomes for underserved populations. supporting your young people, helping small business owners, helping residents stay in their home, or they hire and have the resources they need to secure and keep a job, the program is making a difference where it counts locally and regionally. and we'll be happy to take any questions. >> i have two questions. through the chair. and there is two of them. during the screening and the bidding and process of moving forward, 60% of what was going to be asked during the interview

had to do with technical questions. so i have a question. my first question is, so who have prepares those -- who prepares those questions? who has the input to determine who those questions are before those questions get out? so i want to start with that question. i don't know if tracy or ivy want to answer that. >> i'll take a stab. so, the questions for oral interviews are developed by the project team. often the assistant general manager will -- sometimes they'll review the questions, but mostly it comes from the project team. you know, every once in a while, if there is a question that the panelists, you know, or that comes out in panel discussions from the written evaluation

might be integrated in, but for the most part it's the project team that develops the questions. >> so just puc staff that is already on board that develops this, right? no outsiders? no apprenticeship? traditional apprenticeship people or people technical about their own particular trade? or engineering stuff or whatever? this is strictly in-house development of the questions, is that correct? >> correct. >> well, let me -- can i add to it. i want to make sure that we're talking about the technical, the way that projects are going to be designed or, you know, what is their approach going about designing this project. that is about the project team. they don't really talk about construction because that's a construction contract, but we talk about the design. it is only that portion.

as far as the -- it is no questions. it is actually, they put their presentation in front of the panel and the panel will evaluate that. so there is no questions on that component. but i just wanted to say that the questions as it relates -- the written to the oral, is questions that were put together by the project team because they wanted to make sure that questions are answered to determine who is the best person that will design the project. >> i got that. design is one thing. but it's like giving a project out, people actually have to execute whatever that project is. so i was just curious if there was anything, you know, remedial, like is anybody on your team, as you ask for this r.f.i., is there anybody that knows how to use a screwdriver? i'm being very remedial and stupid on that.

or have you ever driven a truck? or do you have any -- do you have people that know how to get up at 6:00 in the morning and can perform 8-10 hours a day of their entire life to do stuff? are there questions like that in there? and if there are, is there anybody else -- i think that was already answered -- is there anybody else that asks those questions? and if that is totally impertinent, let me know. i think you're leaning toward that. that is the question, because that is, you know, how people determine competency sometimes, by digging deeper in terms of the skill sets. >> well, i can -- i can say that, for example, when we selected the designer for the biosolids, we basically asked him how would you design it in a

way that you keep the plant operational? [please stand by] [please stand by] >> my second question is how do you derm, because you have thrown the word around. that is where i started with my questions as to what qualifies a

firm, design company, construction company overall organization to, you know, make sure the p.u.c., you know, whatever gets taken care of in a competent way. how do you determine the difference between pre-apprenticeship like getting ready to be able to be available to do the right work and actual apprenticeship? it is an intense curriculum of making sure that you are a competent person that can, you know, perform the work that is being done as part of the package. does somebody have a comment on how the they they doter min thaw that can be used to talk about direct entry what is in san

francisco a middle class job if you are one of the 30 to 35 different skilled people to make our system work. that is maintenance or whether or not it is a contract? between plumbers and bricklayers and all of the folks that may being our system work? how do you determine the difference between say pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship? i don't know if you have a piece of that. connected to the technical questions. >> maybe i should take a shot at that. as you know, all our work is under project labor agreement. we fund city built $1.4 million a year, and we have worked it, and you know this commissioner because you have seen him in

action. when we bring folks in from the community, they go through city built. now what these firms are doing is looking in the community and they are seeing how can we bring more women or black and brown people in to the union? that is what they look at barrier removal. you know, having conversations you have got to get up in time. you have to listen to your supervisor. these are the types of training that they are receiving before they go into city built. i just wanted to, you know, say that there is a process where, you know, people are recognized or identified in the community, and then they identify what their barriers are. there is resources provided to try to remove those barriers,

and then they are brought into city built. city built would dispatch them to the projects. >> so despite, and thank you, general manager, for answering that. that is what i am getting to. the entire screening process for contractors and who their staff are are basically if it is going to be taken care of, there is a screening process. that means people don't get to do their own promotion and recruitment outside of city built to make sure they can be -- whether or not it is staff or contractor, it definitely has to go through the standards you are mentioning to me in order to be the benchmark where people

actually can perform the work that is going to be done. >> yes, i can. we spend $1.4 million, and, you know, we have a process. you know, hopefully, we all follow the process. so if there is any situation where it is not being followed, we would definitely like to know about it. >> thank you, harlan. >> commissioner harrington, did i see your hand go up? >> i just wanted to express my gratitude to the folks who work on this. it is a big job to make it work. here are my thoughts, you know, if you supervise the water services and it is not just

about pipes and pumps and plants. it is about the people whose lives we affect. we inconvenience a lot of people. to think it is okay to have outside contractors come into the community and make the money and walk out the door again is not okay. we are asking people if they are impacting communities, they should improv improve the commu. it is not outrageous to request. it is hard to get all of the different structures and ways to do business, but you seem to have a way to do that. that seems to be working for people, and i applaud you for that. >> thank you. i might add. it is a good way to do business. thithis is a good business model because you bring the people in that you hope at some point will help be part of the system. this is how you grow the system

and this is how cities grow. it may beings a lot of sense if you don't care about the people but you care about the business and the business model, it is a good business model. thank you all for the great work you do. again, some of our 2300 employees that go beyond. thank you so much all of you. >> commissioner moran. >> i want to raise a comment. this is a program that is unusual in the country. even within the city most departments don't have programs like this. one of the nice things about this presentation and what it shows is that the program is reaching a point of real majority. some of the initial efforts of

you learn as you go and figure out what works and what doesn't. we are learning and also the contractors are learning that. the contractors the first time they were asked for this may have scratched their heads to figure out what to do. now they understand what they need to do. as part of that they understand the community they work in better. i think it is tremendously positive, and it is great to see a program like this start and reach maturity in a relatively small amount of time. >> can i respond to that, commissioner, you are absolutely right. there have been utilities across the country have been asking us about the program. not only because we have talked about how to give back to the community and have our partners participate, but the contractors, consultants are

going to different agencies across the nation and saying this is a great model to do. now you are getting people like as harrington said, that will make money from communities to work with the communities to see how they can minimize the impact. also, other city departments are looking for guidance because, can you imagine on vanness extension as part of that process the contractor would ask the merchants and the residents how can i help minimize this impact of this work on your businesses? they would have that conversation before the construction starts, not have a conversation with m.t.a. or the p.u.c., then we go to the contractor and say you have to make these changes because you are impacting everyone. they would say you need to give me a change order. that is why it is powerful to

have the consultants have these conversations early. you know, several supervisors have reached out to us because they feel that this is a great model and it is about introducing legislation to standardize it across the city. >> that sounds wonderful. if i can say something. the reason i am asking these questions is that because i want to compound on what commissioner harrington said about the total impact on the community. part of this is because of what i have done for many years is dealing with diverse communities, in particular, in construction. there is a difference between thbetween2300 dedicated workersh

full-time job and that is an absolutetic piecabsolute particr system. there is the temporary nature of the contractors and construction workers and everything else that will come in and do one piece of vanness and then they move from job to job, and maybe for two weeks they don't have a job. so the wheel idea if there is -- whole idea is stability about how people get and become part of the career. not just the one that so many people have taken, just to work full-time and are proud to work for the p.u.c. or m.t.a. or airport or whatever else it is. those that work on a contract basis, which is, frankly, the biggest expense. all of the piecharts what is

going to be done and bid and what is completed and whatever is temporary work. it is not like being a teacher or p.u.c. worker every day. it is people that have to actually work harder to make sure that they are going to be able to stay with their company. they might move to build a high rise with their company when they are done with this one. the ability to make sure that they are trained, and it isn't as people said. not just in and out business. you may being make the money and go. i made the money because i got a piece of some dam somewhere. i made my money. see you later. there is sustainability in saying that whether or not you are an engineer or a plumber or a electrician, this is going to

be a career. it is a different type of career than others because you get paid by the hour. you don't get paid as a salary. to make sure that is a protected way of, you know, a real career is something we have to be mighty about. the apprenticeship programs do that and train people to say you are not going to work at this place forever. you might work on a house at one day and work at the dam the sore day. that is where i am driving my questions. it is sustainability of the men and women who decided to make careers in infrastructure and construction and deep sign and -- design and what have you. those are my comments, president maxwell. >> thank you for your comments. any further comments or questions? thank you so much for your presentation.

it was excellent. well-done. public comment on this item? >> members of the public may address item 8, update on partnership program di dial 415-655-0001. raise your hands to speak press star three. do we have any calls? >> there are multiple callers in the queue. >> thank you. >> you have two minutes.

are you there? move to the next caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: thank you. good afternoon or now evening, commissioners. i am trisha dunlap, teacher up in son nora. currently also the stem consultant for the superintendent of schools office. i am calling to share how mcmill lynmcmullen and others have

supported the stem program for students in the area through the social impact partnership program. i personally as teacher have been bringing fifth through eighth grade students to dinner with a scientist for the past five year. each year the di students are pt to meet with and talk to real scientist and engineers, many of whom come from the partnerships with sfpc. they love the event. they dress up. they eat dinner and desetter with the scientist -- dessert with the scientist and engineers and get excited about careers in their future. it is a tradition at our school. we have to choose who gets to come. last year i was involved as a consultant in planning of the

event. we had over 170 students all between fifth and 12th grade and 30 teachers came to the columbia college to have dinner with the scientist. this year we are planning to go virtual and calling it an evening with a scientist. our numbers will be lower because of virtual. we are expecting 85 students 6 through 12 grades to join us to learn about stem careers. as a teacher i have had engineers come as guest presenters to my classroom. >> thank you, caller. your time expired. next caller. i opened your line. >> caller: i am emily bellger.

i am the chief education officer at united. we provide teachers with industry experience and coach them to bring the experiencing in learning back to their classrooms. they learn about careers and educational pathways and bring awareness and critical building opportunities back to their students. sfpuc's partnership program enabled us to connect companies with local schools, teachers and students. this summer 15 teachers in the underserved schools learned about city infrastructure, government policy and water management. they developed lessons for history, english, science and math classes. each teacher reaches 150 students over the course of one school year.

this reaches more than 2000 students this year alone. these efforts take relatively little time from the companies. they serve the teachers and students directly and prepare the next generation of engineers and architects of san francisco. thank you. >> thank you, caller. next caller. i opened your line. >> caller: commissioners, i think we have a situation here. the only way to find out the truth is by taking an oath. that is going to happen whether you like it or not because we have schools that the questions and the answers are shared with

one another. that is how they derm things. if they want to come on the tv and lie to the community that is on them. if you look at this program from the inception, you look at it 200,000 for all. this is at the inception of the program. that is what is on the job. that tells you that the seed that was planted was corrupt. this emboldens me, commissioners to go to the f.b.i. with a type of information i have. now, i am going to go to the f.b.i. with the type of information i have. that is all i will say. i believe tracey and holland lied. they lied, man.

don't lie because if you lie you are done. you are playing with fire. don't lie. joint ventures are done. transparency, yes or no? if you lied you have to apologize before this reaches the end. thank you very much. >> thank you, caller. next caller. i opened your line. >> caller: thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. i am robert davis. i am here to speak on behalf of

the partnership program. i feel fort mat to be part of -- fortunate to be part of the organization that is part of the program here. the social responsibility is a part of our culture. i feel like you understand the long-term interest. since 2011 i have been working with city works and the opera house and others. more recently we were able to respond quickly to the needs of the small business community to proudly support along with our ongoing backing of the organizations. on a personal note many years ago i was an interim myself in

programs that holed a special place in my heart. i express gratitude for leadership for the program that can partner to move forward. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next caller. i opened your line. >> you have got two minutes. >> caller: good afternoon, commissioner, nicholas miller. i oversee the pre-apprenticeship training program. fifth year of the partnership. first it was all female. now we blended with all participants from the community. the county preapprenticeship training supports participants with job opportunities and exposure to trades, carpenters,

labors and electricians to name a few. the big reason for the success is due to the support made possible by the social impact partnership program. because of the program the direct support of the participants receiving having tremendous. they receive wide range of support, transportation assistance, union support, child care, sponsoring graduation, providing tools for new job, stipend, industry certifications to name a few. the construction training programming appreciates and supports the partnership program and the valuable work they are doing to change the communities that we serve. thank you. >> thank you, caller. next caller. i opened your line.

>> caller: good afternoon. thank you for this public comment today. i am aaron. i coordinate the community benefits program. i have the honor of working with the social impact teams. i have to say our wonderful and top-notch. we are a relatively small business and participating in this program helped funnel time and money to programs where others are giving in a cordnated way which helps us with our impact without reinvesting every time we two the community. as a woman owned business we enjoy giving back to communities we work by investing in women and minorities with a career in stem. this is great because it overlaps with sfpc program that may beings it an easy way to

participate and stay aligned with our firm's values and priorities. this is a quick example of the partisan program we are able to support an intern and were able to hire her for our team wheel she looks for a job. she was hired by another partner team. it is cool to be part of a larger program with a lot of different programs to get it off the ground and stay in the bay area. it is really a fulfilling program for our company and staff and ad enough teams and biologists and engineers value and love to work and participate in the program. thank you for your time today. >> thank you for your comments. next caller.

your line is open. >> caller: good afternoon, commissioners. i am the executive director over at community action. quickly it is a social environment organization based in east palo alto. we hire young people and equip them with skills. i am giving public comment. thank you all. i want to share with you the impact sfpc has had in our organization and in our community. specifically, on our human rights. it left a lasting impact in east palo alto. the partnership that young people were able to learn about the water system and scarcity of water in e.p.a. and equipped for

the information to share with the community. i can't do this justice in two minutes, but the other thing i want to highlight. we serve mainly latino, black african-american, pacific eye pc islanders. a four-year university is something they can achieve but location and trade and other possibilities are on the horizon and the network that is offered is valuable to see the growth that they have taken from this program. thank you so much. it is an honor to work with the professional staff. they are very gracious. i appreciate this program and can't wait to see the legacy and

impact it leaves behind. thank you all. >> thank you, caller. next caller. i opened your line. >> caller: good afternoon, commissioners. i am marty. i am a apprentice in the local three operating engineers in the social impact construction worker child care program. i am calling to share how sfpc through the suppor the support e program. it helps construction workers like myself with early morning child care starting at 4:00 a.m. so we can get to work at time for the safety meeting at 6:30 a.m. in my case the covid-19 has not

been able to assist me since january 2020. i am a single parent of a five-year-old child unable to afford child care and unable to work in my profession. to help provide healthcare is only available to my son and myself with working on the construction project. i would like to see adequate funding for child care for essential construction workers and myself and low income san francisco residents so we can return to work and support our families. there are many fathers that are single parents, not only women. the process to gain assistance to these programs at this time anyway is also another job in itself. hopefully you can help with that. i would like to thank the program and the joint venture for listening and supporting

these programs. >> thank you for your comments. next caller. your line is open. >> caller: thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. i am andrea baker, c.e.o. of interaction. calling today to share on you sfpuc's firm supported us through the social impact partnership program. support of the social impact partnership program allows interaction to provide access to commercial kitchen, develop and maintain website and social media assets to result in three fold growth in followers and building the brand awareness of our vendors. to support our vendors in operations and distribution and delivery of orders and work to create opportunities for our vendors to grow not only in

experience but as well in increased revenue. we have been working with the great place and other catering orders through the sfpuc consulting firm. we facilitate payment of invoices within seven days to allow small businesses to manage their growth. our vendors have utilized sipp investment in them to accomplish the following: putting at the sunset farmer's market, utilized to try new recipes and own skills that have attracted the attention of the nationally recognized vegan chef who lobbied the salad dressing on instagram. it will have a cameo appearance

in the bud light commercial during thursday night's 49er game. some of our vendors are able to hire staff proving that when our businesses flourish they can help the communities thrive. thank you for the partnership and sfpuc for supporting interaction and our program. thank you for your time. >> thank you, caller. next caller, your line is open. >> caller: i am the owner of the social. i have been there with the baby bistro. may 15 of this year i have been laid off full-time from employment. very emotional.

[ inaudible ] the bistro gave me the will, power and support to get up every day and to buy food for people, gave me the opportunity to do my craft. i am very grateful for putting this program in place. also recipient of the fund which has allowed me to grow my business. i am resident of bayview. there are three generations of my family in the bayview now. it has allowed me to show my kids the way to entrepreneur, something to be proud of. my mother something to be proud of. in my community all for good

food and positivity. i just want to say once again thank you for everyone on the social impact program and what it has done for all of us at the bistro. please be more social. thank you. >> thank you, caller. next caller, i have opened your line. >> caller: good evening. i am daniel handle, project director. i am calling to share how we have supported the community where we have a solar energy facility providing clean power. we were happy to participate in this program we believe in supporting the communities we serve. when the covid-19 pandemic hit we expedited the timeline and

reassessed the resources allocations to meet the pressing needs. we contributed $270,000 for emergency cash relief, mental health services and food banks. i would like to share with you the highlights from this effort that we are most proud of. rental assistance providing rental assistance to six families, keeping the most impacted and vulnerable families housed in the midst of the pandemic. the mental health services to teltototelehealth and serve wour 3,000 individuals in the food bank. 99% identified as hispanic and were currently unemployed. we established $100,000 school

scholarship fund at the community college to support education. scholarships are available for stem majors, career technical such as building construction. this is the first scholarship for the students. during the program we served nearly 5,000 individuals so far. on behalf of the black community and the resources i want to thank sfpuc for commitment to supporting our most vulnerable communities. >> thank you, caller. next caller, your line is open. >> caller: i am the program developer speaking on behalf of our city works program. thithis is the the ninth summere program that puts us at 91 stem

duplicated interns. of those 91, 30 college grads. some are now pursuing masters degrees. of those some adults are now working on engineering projects, some are in departments at p.u.c., fullerton and others are at apple. those are success stories. the internship would be nothing without social impact partners. they are the ones who show up every day for interns and put the work in professional mentorship, showing work experience and actually putting them to work. i am not just talking about data entry. they are exposing them to the work that is valuable to push their career forward. it is invaluable to the youth especially in bayview. we are thankful for the

engineers for offering scholarships the last couple years to one of our third year interns. we worked on that for many years. we are extremely excited about that is we were able to get income contributions from different partners such as caldwell who donated laptops that we were able to give to interns to use them for the rest of their college programs. i just want to say how important this program is not only to the community but to all of our interns who continue to come back to us and we have those interns who are now coming back to san francisco and looking for jobs and coming back to their mentors at work sites following up to see if there is anything opening with their companies. it is working. it is really working, and i hope we see this across the city in

other departments because it is awesome. >> thank you, caller. your time has expired. next caller. >> caller: hello everyone. thank you very much for having me today. i am the program director at the san francisco education fund. today i am calling to share how the sfpc firm supported the scholar program through the social impact partnership. we acknowledge students with a commitment to the educational goals. it is to support the needs of underserved students in the san francisco unified school district and demonstrate a strong education. through the sfpuc and the firm we are able to provide more

collar ships each -- scholarships each year. in 2017 we awarded the first scholarship. the student is close to graduation. we have been able to provide 10 additional scholarships through the students in the hunters point community. we are thankful for all of support they supported to the program not only in funding but also in volunteer hours. they help us select students we will ward scholarships. students like marissa, our intern at the moment. interning as a scholarship recipient from 2019 and is grateful for the opportunity to have the funds. she doesn't have to worry about attending college and having to worry about paying for that. we are able to provide the

program. i want to thank the social impact partnership program for supporting the may son scholar award and at the san francisco education fund. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, caller. next caller. i have opened your line. >> caller: good afternoon, commissioners, i am elissa gomez. i am a former bi beneficiary ofe program. i got an intern that was set up through the social internship program. i had the intern with the conservation district and that was through the support of the

firms apple and associates. after that ended i was hired. i am the early career scientist that aaron spoke about earlier, the project manager at apple and associates. after that part time work, i now have a full-time job as a biologist. i also continue to help out with the community benefits program on the firm side. this past weekend i helped out with a trip leading activity with the radical monarchs through the community benefits program. i have seen this program go full circling. i am someone who was able to benefit greatly from this, being a first generation college grad

coming out getting an internship and full-time job. now, i am in a career that i love and also help other young girls, especially girls of color and others in the community with the same goal. i want to say thank you to the partnership program for the help throughout this past couple years, and i look forward to continuing that relationship. thank you. >> thank you, caller. next caller. i opened your line. >> caller: thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. i want to let you know i have over 24 years of business. what i am to share is a true fact based on my experience working in this industry. first, i want to address this to mr. harlan kelly. it is difficult to understand

the term in kind donation. it is equalizing bribery. the statement that this is optional to participate. it is over rated. would you show me one company that did not participate and got a contract? i don't think you will find anything. i want to direct the comments regarding cnb. it is funded by the p.u.c. with the function related to the contract. they mentioned something about the license. when you have reviewed the west side observer and the last two weeks you will see an article clearly stating this study indicated 66% of the lbds working in san francisco have no license. then ivy comes in to blame tony. the last time i saw him was 10

years ago. why using costs as part of the selection. he was admitted by the bar anne kelly is a professional engineer. he would know about the brooks act. none of them allow by law to be admitted as the scores item for professional services. these are serious issues. i am not talking about any social issues. the fact is the p.u.c. excluded purposely legitimate firms that work in the city and county of san francisco from getting work. that is a fact. when they talk about -- >> your time has expired. thank you, caller. next caller. i opened your line. >> caller: good afternoon,

commissioners. i work for. [ inaudible ] the work being done. [ inaudible ] the council in the heart of chinatown in san francisco. the department i work this is r and r. we believe families need quality child care. [ inaudible ] when children are well cared for parents can work and families can succeed. [ inaudible ] construction gaps in the bayview-hunters point. they have to be to work at 4:00 a.m. or 5:00 a.m. this may beings it possible for working families.

it is challenging for them to find affordable child care and transportation during the early morning hours. we were able to. [ inaudible ] special needs. she could be at work in the early hours. we allocate the need for transportation in the area. funding that has been provided. the family could be able -- to the family. [ inaudible ] thank you. >> next caller. i opened your line.

>> caller: good evening, commissioners. i am calling to share how the p.u.c. has supported my business through the partnership program the bayview bistro. it started in the bayview. partnering with the bistro allowed me to serve my customers on a regular basis and makes me grow my customer base. i cannot stress enough how these partnerships are important for businesses especially during this time. when the pandemic hit i had just quit my job. when the bistro was launched. being associated with this program in the efforts of the staff that made this happen my

business has multiple streams of revenue and opportunities for catering in the community. this has allowed me to about the people and their families during this time. also, the bistro has reached not just the bayview. i was overwhelmed by the amount of people who came to my booth at the outer sunset market and purchased the bistro box. i want to point out mentorship that provided me different perspective. a lot of times a more positive perspective of the business. ththe menthe me mentorship helpy business on organizing finances and being an ear as i go through this learning curve of being a

business owner. i want to thank the partnership program. thank you for your time. >> thank you, caller. next caller. i have opened your line. >> caller: hello. good afternoon, commissioners. i am james bryan. c.e.o. of partners a lot business based in bayview-hunters point. i am here today to talk about my company partnering with panco to give back to the bayview-hunters point community through the social impact partnering programming. we are local companies that are

building a new southeast community facility. we have participated in social impact partnering programs to give back to the community because this reflects our values and diversity, equity and inclusion. as the bayview based company we felt responsible to meet the needs of the community. we participate in local community programs such as give aways, magic, volunteering at the opera house with winter wonderland. we respond to covid-19 through companies by serving hot meals to the homeless, delivering groceries to the sheltered in and preparing boxes for families who lost jobs. we create programs to support work force development training for residents with agencies like

city built programs and construction exposure program. we provided assistance in business development to local small businesses through bayview-hunters point in different ways. it is educational training for k-12 students during the covid-19 by partnering with schools and communities. we are proud to support our communities. we are able to work with the big company who shares the values with us. >> thank you, caller. your time expired. next caller. i opened your line. >> caller: hi, can you hear me? >> yes, you have got two

minutes. >> caller: i am a senior marketing manager and benefits coordinator. the engineering firm hearing engineers talk about infrastructure projects they worked on that they would leave be hype for future generations. wastewater or power infrastructure. however, the community benefits coordinator i had the opportunity to partner with sfpuc to coordinate activities in the concept. at schools in the communities that work. at the high school in san francisco our engineers have had real opportunities to engage students and teachers in our project work to show first hand how stem concepts help solve real world problems or in this case flooding issues in their community.

i have raised three little kids through kindergartners and help them engineer structures out of straws and toothpicks. so many of our youth are passionate about making a difference through water conservation and solving climate change. the partnership program has been rewarding for myself and others at my firm come together to help connect the dots to see how they can help shape and curve the communities they live in with careers in stem. thank you for the opportunity to participate in this program. >> madam secretary. there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. that closes public comment on item 8.

>> any further comments, commissioners? >> again, i would like to say this is tremendous. thank you all for your commitment. thank you to the people who called and waited. certainly our staff and those who are on the commission before that when that happened and those who were the harlan kellies at that time, thank you so much 40 your vision. we can see exactly what it is doing. thank you all so much. madam secretary, next item, please. >> next business is item number 9. new commission business. any new business? comments or questions?

madam clerk next item, please. >> your next item is 10. consent calendar. all matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or the public so dids. staff has requested item 10 c be removed they are going to present revisions to the resolution that was provided. >> thank you very much. we will go ahead and act on the calendar with the exception of item 10c.

>> are there any other exclusions? then may i have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar? >> i will move it. >> second. >> thank you. it is moved and seconded. madam secretary, will you read the roll, please. >> sorry. public comment. >> sorry. thank you. members of the public who wish to make two minutes of comment specifically on item 10 with the exception of 10c dial 415-655-0001, meeting i

id14671231398-pound pound. press star three to speak. >> do we have any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you that closes public comment on the consent calendar with exception of item 10c. >> moved and seconded. now we call roll, please. >> president maxwell. >> aye. >> vice president moran. >> aye. >> commissioner paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> consent calendar items with the exception of 10c is 4-0. four ayes.

are we moving on to item 11 now or going back to 10c? >> back to 10c. we will present the changes to that resolution then public comment afternoon separate vote on that item. >> good afternoon. program administration bureau. we are amending two contracts for services at the contractor assistance center. the original agenda item and resolution requested amendment to two of the contracts, and we are revising or amending the resolution to only move forward with amending one of the contracts. 10122 the technical support for

small local construction contractors. the reason is because when we were moving forward with the amendment for the second contract we realized there were inconsistencies in the naming convention and after consulting with the city attorney's office decided to move forward with just one contract. i am open if anyone has any questions. >> any questions? comments? seeing none. >> may i clarify. i believe ivy said you are moving forward with pro 022 and it is 0122 c. there were two contracts so you are moving forward with c and not a. >> correct. >> thank you for that clarification. public comment on this item?

>> it was on the consent calendar. do we still need public comment on this? >> yes because we took it out. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on 10 c as aed please dial 415-655-0001. meeting id (146)710-1398-pound pound. to speak press star three. do we have any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> thank you. public comment on item 10c is closed. may i have a motion and a second to move item 10c. >> so moved as amended.

>> so moved. >> moved and seconded. madam clerk, roll call, please. >> president max women. >> aye. >> vice president moran. >> aye. >> commissioner paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> you have four ayes. >> thank you. item 11. authorize the general manager to execute amend meant 2 to the multi-party cost share agreement with the reservoir extending the agreement by one year for a total duration of 32 months increasing the financial contribution not to exceed $1,013,661 for a colts not to exceed 146-7790 under the agreement and total overall agreement of $6,081,967.

>> good evening commissioners. assistant general manager for water. this is the extension of a study m.o.u. between us and six or seven other agencies interested in participating in the local expansion project. this is one of th of the may jor projects to enhance -- major projects to enhance the water supply. it is critical to ascertain how much benefit we get out of the project and what price. this is a important step in the study pro is sessto carry forward. the hope is we have a good answer to present you before the end of next year so we can decide whether to continue with the projector not. >> thank you.

any comments? questions? seeing none. madam clerk will you open for public comment please. >> members of the comment specifically on item 11. dial 415-655-0001. raise your hands to speak, press star 3. do we have any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> that closes public comment on item 11. >> may i get a motion and second? >> i will move the item. >> second. >> thank you. don't all speak at once. madam clerk, call the roll please. president maxwell. >> aye. >> vice president moran.

>> aye. >> mr. paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> four ayes. >> motion is passed. item 12. approve amendment 2 to agreement numbers pro004a and b. execute amendment to the agreement by two years by 8 years and 8 months each with no change to the agreements' amounts. this is presented by norby. >> assistant general manager to waste water enterprise. this is a time expense of the contracts. as you can see in the staff report. there was a prior amendment in the past that did adjust the budgets so is not to exceed amounts for each is

$2.9 million. the extension and duration of the contract is primarily to allow us to make up some time that is lost over the last 8 to 9 months as a result of the covid emergency and also to allow much of the progress work these teams are performing for the wastewater enterprise to continue. it is a wide range of technical services they are providing and one good example of the progress work is the updating their assisting us with design guidelines for our treatment plants and pump stations. you can see the detail in the staff report and we also have bryan henderson, the engineering division manager available to answer any questions. with that i will hand it back. >> thank you. any comments or questions?

seeing none, madam secretary you open up for public comment, please. >> members of the public who wish to comment on item 12 dial 415-655-0001. meeting id1467101398-pound pound. to speak press star three. do we have any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> public comment on item 12 is closed. >> may i have a motion and second. >> so moved. >> second? >> second. >> thank you. roll call, please. >> president maxwell. >> aye. >> vice president moran.

>> aye. >> commissioner paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> you have four ayes. >> thank you. next item, please. >> item 13. authorize the general manager to execute an agreement with the mid peninsula district to conduct a highway 35 multi-use trail crossing for an amount not to exceed 114,000 and with a duration of three years. >> this is the item that we referred to earlier. this is a study to work with other agencies to define the best way to cross highway 35 at the end of the bay ridge trail extension project we are working on. the small amount of money and few years of time to come up with good solution to make the trail most effective in connecting with other trails. i would be happy to answer any

questions. >> any discussion or questions? madam clerk, public comment, please. >> members of the public who wish to comment on item 13. dial 415-655-0001. meeting id1467101398-pound pound. press star three to speak. >> there are no caller in the queue at this time. >> thank you. public comment on item 13 is closed. >> may i have a motion and second on item 13? >> i move it. >> second. >> we have to do better than

that. it is moved and seconded. madam clerk real the roll please. >> president maxwell. >> aye. >> vice president moran. >> aye. >> commissioner paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> you have four ayes. >> it is approved. next item, please. >> item 14. approve the terms and conditions and authorize the general manager to execute amendment number 1 to the lease between the san francisco pd and charter school to suspend the application to pay rent for up to 11 months from may 1, 2020 to march 31, 2021 to provide $31,888.45 in total rent relief and authorize the general manager to grant further lease suspensions through

december 2021 if wanted due to covid-19 presented by carlin. >> it says it all. i will answer any questions. >> any comments or questions? >> no, i have a question. is this because of -- why is is there not funding through there were they need the suspension? i don't know the details. >> they occupy 3,000 square feet of the community center. right now the community center is closed. they are not taking in students at this time. as part of covid-19 we are looking at rent forgiveness or suspension of leases to help small businesses that occupy some of our spaces to stay in business. >> that is simple. thanks. >> public comment on this item. >> members of the public who

wish to make two minutes of public comment on item 14, dial 415-655-0001. meeting id1467101398. pound pond. to raise your hand to speak press star 3. do we have callers? >> there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you. public comment on item 14 is closed. >> may i have a motion and second to approve this item please. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. madam clerk. roll call, please. >> president maxwell. >> aye. >> vice president moran. >> aye. >> commissioner paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> four ayes. >> the item is approved. next item, please.

>> item 15. authorize the general manager to execute m.o.u. with port of san francisco for the 3.5-megawatts of available capacity from the port's primary metered service in a cost not to exceed 463-0000 for a term up to three years. >> the secretary is reading of this item is comprehensive. what this m.o.u. with your authorization would do is construction power for the mission rock development project and the pump station. we initially applied for wholesale distribution service as the typical approach. they delayed possessing the application so much the timing of services no longer works with

the project schedule. we work with the port to establish a connection point given the fact that the existing service they have at pier 70 is under utilized at this time. they had a vacancy on their property. with that i would be happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> i have a quick question. are the giants happy with what you guys did? >> i am not sure what you are referring to with respect to this m.o.u. it doesn't affect them. >> they are trying to get rocking and rolling. this is the first time i heard this is an impediment or not. >> hopefully that is a good sign

that they know their needs are met at mission rock. thank you, commissioner, yes. >> any other comments, questions? we open up to public comment please. >> members of the public who wish to make two members of comment on item 15, dial 415-655-0001. meeting id1467101398-pound pound. raise your hand to speak press star three. >> do we have any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue. >> public comment on item 15 is closed. >> may i have a motion and second to approve this item please. >> moved. >> second. >> thank you. roll call, please.

president maxwell. >> aye. >> vice president moran. >> aye. >> commissioner paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> we have four ayes. >> item is approved. madam secretary will you reeseed the closed session item, please. >> i had announced at the beginning of the meeting that we will not be holding closed session today. >> i thought i heard that. thank you. >> it was awhile ago. your next order is item 21 adjournment. >> well then thank you, colleagues, this meeting is now adjourned at 5:17 p.m. >> thank you.

>> the hon. london breed: good afternoon, everyone. thank you so much for joining us here today. we're here with dr. grant colfax of the department of public health to provide a very important update around what's happening in san francisco as it relates to covid-19. as of today, the total number of cases in san francisco are 13,139. the total number of hospitalizations are 36. sadly, the total number of deaths has reached 151, and we are seeing 5,000, almost 6,000 tests per day. our positivity rate has went from a record low to now 1.28%, and what does all this mean? we are seeing an uptick. two weeks ago, we put a pause on our reopening efforts, and we made it clear to the people

of san francisco that we are seeing the number of cases increase, and we should be concerned. we had plans. we had plans not only to continue our reopening efforts, but we had planned to really expand so many services, so many businesses, and a number of other i think thisethings, o weeks ago, we knew we were probably headed in this direction, and sadly, what we're seeing today has put us in a situation where we have to take a moment and to recognize that there is a problem. the upticks that we have seen are really a cause for concern, and it's put us in a situation where we have had to make yet another hard choice. san francisco has been praised over the past couple months around the number of cases, our

testing capacity and positivity rate and having one of the lowest number of cases in the country, but that's only because many of have been very cooperative and have supported the efforts that we put forward. and unfortunately, you know, we've been in this for a long time now, and people are tired, and so people have gotten complacent, and as a result, because of behavior, we're seeing an uptick. and as a result of that uptick, it has forced our city to make some very, very hard decisions, and not just pause the reopening efforts, but to, in fact, roll back some of the gains that we have made. so sadly, beginning the end of the day friday, we will need to

eliminate indoor dining, we will need to reduce capacity as gyms and movie theaters. we will be putting a pause on opening additional high schools, and so there are a number of things that, unfortunately, we will now need to do as a result of this. and dr. colfax will talk a little bit more about what that entails why we are in a place of doing something that i wish we didn't have to do, because i understand, especially as the weather gets colder and it's the holiday season, and people are starting to hire back their employees and purchase food and get prepared, that this is having a tremendous impact on so many businesses and, in

particular, the restaurant industry in san francisco. i understand that, you know, we're not making any roll backs on any elementary or any middle schools because what we know about high schools is, unfortunately, the transmission rate is similar to adults, so we need to put a pause on opening high schools, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't move forward and get our elementary and middle schools open as soon as possible. in fact, we know that the board of education has plans to vote on a resolution to get our schools back open sooner rather than later. we are committed as a city to

work with them to do just that. this concern around this uptick does not mean that we cannot still move in a direction to get our schools open sooner rather than later. we also know that, again, some of our cibusinesses are struggling, and we can't do it alone. just recently, we put out some information around providing some additional support for our restaurants. $2.5 million in fee and tax waivers, $1 million in grants to restaurants to support outdoor dining, and we're redirecting the $3,500,000 interest s.f. help loans towards low and moderate income residents. we know that help is needed, we

can't do it alone. this is why i wholeheartedly support the restaurant act, h.r. 107, which will support investing $20 billion in restaurants in this country. we need to do more, but the fact is the virus is spreading, and we have to make the hard decisions. the good news is that we have a new president and a new vice president, and we just heard the good news yesterday that we made progress on the vaccine, but those things aren't going to help us today with what we're seeing. they're going to help us for the future, but for now, we have to make sure that we're protecting and saving lives here in the city right now. it's a very hard thing to think about just what impact this is going to have on the people of san francisco. when making these decisions, we

don't take them lightly. we look at the science, we look at the data. we think about every single restaurant and every single school and every single business that has not collected any revenue whatsoever since this pandemic began. we understand cthat challenges exist, and it's why we've continued to recavamp our jobs now program to pay for employees, and deferred and even waived city fees, and we will continue to work to do as much as we can, and like i said, we're not going to do it alone. we're going to count on the decisions made in washington to provide some additional support that could help put us in a better place. but for now, we have to do what's necessary to protect the people of san francisco.

and so when there are people who are out, not wearing their masks and not following the public health orders and doing things that, sadly, spread the virus, then it causes us additional delays on our reopening efforts. when i think about, you know, what's been happening as it relates to the virus, we know that in the past, we talk about the disproportional impacts with particularly the latino community. we made a record $28 million investment to try and curb that, and the good news is we're seeing the numbers change slightly. so we are seeing is more impact by the virus. we're seeing people hanging out at the bars and some of the places, and we're seeing masks coming off and people who are

getting comfortable and complacent. this virus definitely reacts to behavior that does not follow the suggested public health guidelines around mask wearing and social distancing, and so we know that we're going to have to change our behavior as we come possible the holiday season. we know that people are going to want to get together, families and friends, and it's a little bit colder outside, so people are going to want to be -- they're going to want to be indoors, and so we're going to have to think about how that's going to impact this virus and its ability to move around. the hard choices that we make now will help make things better in the future. it will get our city open, it will get our businesses open, it will get our kids back in school faster, so we have to continue to make the hard choices. i know that the people of this city are tired of me asking so

much of you. time and time again, i've come out here and have asked you things that make it very, very difficult for you in your life, whether it's taking care of your children, your elderly parent, or even going to work, but we need everyone's cooperation, we need everyone's support. we know this has not been easy. we know it's not been easy for so many people for so long, and we didn't think we'd be in the midst of a pandemic as long as we are. we're seeing places like europe, where they've had to roll back their reopening efforts. we've seen upticks all over the country, not just san francisco. and the reason why -- and so many of you have been understanding, and you've cooperated. so i want to thank you for

doing that, but we are asking for a lot more, i know. and as we approach the holiday season, we need everyone to be mindful as to what is at stake. making a decision to support opening a business and then asking that business to close, it is heartbreaking. it is very, very unfortunate, but it is necessary, and the way that we make sure that this does not continue to happen is if we realize that the possibility of rolling back even more could happen if we don't change our behavior. so sadly, we are at a different place. i'm hopeful that we are going to have a president and vice president that is already working on a covid response and

a national response around wearing masks and doing what's necessary in order to get this country through this because even if san francisco is doing well, it means nothing if everyone else isn't. think about this holiday season and people traveling and moving around more. that could potentially spread the virus, so we're asking people not to do unnecessary traveling at this time because we really want to get this undercontrol under control so next year, we're able to do exactly what we want, and that's celebrate with one another. we're asking you to sacrifice so we can get back to life as we know it. this is hard, yes, but it's necessary. i want to thank you again for your cooperation and understanding. this is really tough to put a pause and to hold back some of

the things. i know how hard this is to do, especially with reopening businesses and things that people were preparing for, and the cost of that preparation. we're going to do everything-- continue to do everything we can as a city to make sure we support our communities and our businesses and our schools and our families. it is a hard, long road, but we're going to get through this. a vaccine is inevitable, but it's not here yet. so at this time, to provide

clarity around the data and what it means and to provide specifically detail around what will open and what will be paused right now, the director of the department of public health, dr. grant colfax.

>> good afternoon. dr. grant colfax, director of public health for the city and county of san francisco, and thank you, mayor breed. as always, we are fortunate as a city to have your leadership and tenacity. today, we are unfortunately taking a step back. we are taking a step back to ensure that we can move forward in the future. if we take these steps today, we can mitigate the spread of the virus and, in the long run, we will be safer and stronger. but this is difficult, and this is a sacrifice. we are halting indoor dining, pausing on in-person learning at additional high schools, and reducing the capacity of some indoor activities. this is because the spread of the virus is aggressive and

threatening. let me do a deep dive to show you where we are, and where we could be headed if we do not take these aggressive steps. our cases in san francisco have been increasing dramatically over the last month. we have seen cases increase, as shown in this slide, by 250% since early october, and, in the past two weeks, from october 21 through november 5, our rate has increased from 3.7 per 100,000 people to 9 per 100,000 residents. we are averaging nearly 80 new cases a day now, up from just 32 new cases at the end of october, and this is consistent, unfortunately, with

what we are seeing across california and across the bay area region. in fact, while california still remains in much better shape in terms of case increases compared to the rest of the nation, california has seen a 29% increase in cases in the past two weeks. so where may we be headed if we do not reverse this trend? let's go to the next slide. this shows how cases are increasing, and the projection for those cases. so you can see on this slide that we're in a position where cases have increased dramatically. our reproductive rate of the virus, that rate which the

virus spread through the community, has increased above 1, meaning cases will continue to increase dramatically in the future. as you can see, we will go up to over 300 cases a day by late december if this increase continues, a sharp, rapid increase in cases. reproductive rate above 1, remember, that means that the virus is rapidly spreading through our community. let's go to the next slide. so our current level of increase is greater than the last surge. this suggests much greater transmission and has the potential to be explosive. the orange line here shows what happened this summer, when we had that summer surge of the virus.

we peaked in our cases on july 19, but again, as this slide indicates, we are on track to exceed the surge in the summer as our current cases show -- are shown here in blue. so that blue line indicates since july 25. that summer surge is imposed on the orange line, at the beginning of that summer surge, june 15 to june 30. the point is not only this increase that we're having now in this fall surge commensurate with this increase.

this means if we do not turn this around, our fall surge will exceed our summer surge. if we stay on our current course of activities, if we do not pause, and we do not reverse, it is entirely plausible that we will face a situation where our health care system could become overwhelmed and reverse the community progress that we've made all these many months. therefore -- next slide -- our action today will limit indoor activities. we will close indoor dining and bars serving food 11:59

fridfridap.m. friday -- this friday. we will also close -- we will also limit -- can i have the next slide, please? i think there's a next slide here. yes. we will also pause the opening of more high schools and restaurants and movie theaters. schoo high schools already open wi high schools that are open at this time will be allowed to stay open, and elementary and middle schools will be allowed to continue open, but high schools that are not open at this time will be paused as we determine our next steps in possible reopening or even a further restriction of activities. i also wanted to discuss the

holiday season, which is quickly approaching, and we need to remember that the virus is not only still with us, but there is more around than ever before. the virus, unfortunately, has no boundaries, no limit, and unfortunately, it certainly does not have a holiday schedule. today's announcement goes a long way in making sure that we will have a much healthier holiday season. as we move into these holiday months, we are maintaining our focus on our hospital capacity and ensuring san franciscans can receive the care that they need during this holiday season. and we want to do everything we can to avoid reinstating a shelter in place order that would unfortunately shut our city down for the holidays.

and even if we beat back the rapid and aggressive spread of covid-19 that is currently racing through our city, we must continue to act with caution and diligence during this holiday season. this means following the principles and guidelines that i have been sharing with all of you since the beginning of the covid-19 response. and i know that these messages continue to remain demeaning, but we have to continue to beat back the virus. for the holidays, our guidance includes the following. traveling outside the bay area increases your chance of

getting the virus and spreading it upon your return. nonessential travel, including holiday travel, is not recommended. additional precautions must be taken when hosting and interacting with people who are traveling to the bay area, especially from other communities with widespread covid-19. wear face masks and stay 6 feet away from people outside your immediate household, and that includes family members who are not in your immediate household. eating and drinking together is higher risk because people must takeoff their masks to eat and drink. restaurants are often relaxed around social distancing, while eating and drinking create more respirato respiratory droplets. please, have that holiday meal

in person only with the ones you live with. join your family over the holidays on zoom, on teams, on the phone. this is not the year to pull together a big holiday table with multiple households, multiple members of your family indoors, potentially spreading the virus to your loved ones. if you do have a holiday dinner or gathering, please, it must be outside. people must say 6 feet apart and wear masks, and please, use caution when actively eating or drinking. now, i know this is not how we imagine -- this is not how i imagine this holiday season, but unfortunately it is the holiday season we need to have this year top truly show the

people that we care and to protect the people we love how to keep ourselves, our families, our friends, our communities safe. we need to protect our aging parents or grandparents, and this can only happen with caution and diligence that includes that masking and that social distancing and limiting interactions. but everyone needs to do this part, and do it with caution and care. we will get through this together, and i continue to thank all of you in san francisco for doing your part. thank you.

>> operator: at this time, we have a few health related questions for you when you are ready. the first set of questions are from alex bareireira. are the numbers today from business openings attributed to these activities? >> so we are taking a break from reopening based on the science, data, and facts on the most risky. we know that the virus is likely to be transmitted indoors where people take their masks off, so the decision -- the difficult decision that we made today is based on the data that we know how the virus is spread, and that those

activities increase the risk. we also know that the virus is more likely to be transmitted in large groups or gatherings, which is another reason why we've reduced the limit on gatherings today. >> operator: thank you. the next question comes from gerald chin, san francisco bay. does the city expect the state to put the san francisco back in strict [inaudible]. >> so what we're responding to is the local date on that we have, and as -- data, that we have, and as you saw, i just showed the recent data, you saw the slides. we are going to continue to watch the state, we expect the state will shift us to another tier, but we need to move fast here. we need to look at our local information, and that's why we're responding so quickly right here. you saw that that rate of

increase. that increase is very concerning, particularly the fact that it exceeds the rate of increase that we saw at that summer surge, so we need to act to turn the tide now on this fall surge. >> operator: there are no further questions, and this concludes the press conference. thank you, mayor breed, and dr. colfax. >> my background is in engineering. i am a civil engineer by training. my career has really been around government service. when the opportunity came up to serve the city of san francisco, that was just an opportunity i really needed to explore.

[♪] [♪] i think it was in junior high and really started to do well in math but i faced some really interesting challenges. many young ladies were not in math and i was the only one in some of these classes. it was tough, it was difficult to succeed when a teacher didn't have confidence in you, but i was determined and i realized that engineering really is what i was interested in. as i moved into college and took engineering, preengineering classes, once again i hit some of those same stereotypes that women are not in this field. that just challenged me more. because i was enjoying it, i was

determined to be successful. now i took that drive that i have and a couple it with public service. often we are the unsung heroes of technology in the city whether it is delivering network services internally, or for our broadband services to low income housing. >> free wi-fi for all of the residents here so that folks have access to do job searches, housing searches, or anything else that anyone else could do in our great city. >> we are putting the plant in the ground to make all of the city services available to our residents. it is difficult work, but it is also very exciting and rewarding our team is exceptional. they are very talented engineers and analysts who work to deliver the data and the services and the technology every day. >> i love working with linda

because she is fun. you can tell her anything under the sun and she will listen and give you solutions or advice. she is very generous and thoughtful and remembers all the special days that you are celebrating. >> i have seen recent employee safety and cyber security. it is always a top priority. i am always feeling proud working with her. >> what is interesting about my work and my family is my experience is not unique, but it is different. i am a single parent. so having a career that is demanding and also having a child to raise has been a challenge. i think for parents that are working and trying to balance a career that takes a lot of time, we may have some interruptions. if there is an emergency or that sort of thing then you have to

be able to still take care of your family and then also do your service to your job. that is probably my take away and a lot of lessons learned. a lot of parents have the concern of how to do the balance i like to think i did a good job for me, watching my son go through school and now enter the job market, and he is in the medical field and starting his career, he was always an intern. one of the things that we try to do here and one of my takeaways from raising him is how important internships are. and here in the department of technology, we pride ourselves on our interns. we have 20 to 25 each year. they do a terrific job contributing to our outside plant five or work or our network engineering or our finance team. this last time they took to programming our reception robot, pepper, and they added videos to

it and all of these sort of things. it was fun to see their creativity and their innovation come out. >> amazing. >> intriguing. >> the way i unwind is with my photography and taking pictures around the city. when i drive around california, i enjoy taking a lot of landscapes. the weather here changes very often, so you get a beautiful sunset or you get a big bunch of clouds. especially along the waterfront. it is spectacular. i just took some photos of big server and had a wonderful time, not only with the water photos, but also the rocks and the bushes and the landscapes. they are phenomenal. [♪] my advice to young ladies and women who would like to move

into stem fields is to really look at why you are there. if you are -- if you are a problem solver, if you like to analyse information, if you like to discover new things, if you like to come up with alternatives and invent new practice, it is such a fabulous opportunity. whether it is computer science or engineering or biology or medicine, oh, my goodness, there are so many opportunities. if you have that kind of mindset i have enjoyed working in san francisco so much because of the diversity. the diversity of the people, of this city, of the values, of the talent that is here in the city. it is stimulating and motivating and inspiring and i cannot imagine working anywhere else but in san

lesb ri >> by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. i came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [♪] >> hello, friends. i'm the deputy superintendent of instruction at san francisco unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. what you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our san francisco teachers for our students. >> our premise came about for san francisco families that didn't have access to technology, and that's primarily children preschool to second grade.

>> when we started doing this distance learning, everything was geared for third grade and up, and we work with the little once, and it's like how were they still processing the information? how were they supposed to keep learning? >> i thought about reaching the student who didn't have internet, who didn't have computers, and i wanted them to be able to see me on the t.v. and at least get some connection with my kids that way. >> thank you, friends. see you next time. >> hi, friend. >> today's tuesday, april 28, 2020. it's me, teacher sharon, and i'm back again. >> i got an e-mail saying that i had an opportunity to be on a

show. i'm, like, what? >> i actually got an e-mail from the early education department, saying they were saying of doing a t.v. show, and i was selected to be one of the people on it, if i was interested. i was scared, nervous. i don't like public speaking and all the above. but it worked out. >> talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, it's so very weird. i'm used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where they're all moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them?

let's listen. >> hi guys. >> i kind of have stage flight when i'm on t.v. because i'm normally quiet? >> she's never quiet. >> no, i'm not quiet. >> my sister was, like, i saw you on t.v. my teacher was, i saw you on youtube. it was exciting, how the community started watching. >> it was a lot of fun. it also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. >> i want to end today with a thank you. thank you for spending time with us. it was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. >> i'm so happy to see you today. today is the last day of the school year, yea!

>> it really helped me in my teaching. i'm excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. >> we received a lot of amazing feedback from kiddos, who have seen their own personal teacher on television. >> when we would watch as a family, my younger son, kai, especially during the filipino episodes, like, wow, like, i'm proud to be a filipino. >> being able to connect with someone they know on television has been really, really powerful for them. and as a mom, i can tell you that's so important. the social confidence development of our early learners. [♪] i've got time i've bp got

with 25 jobs so for young people one of my favorite days in san francisco thank you, thank you to the companies that are hiring. >> (clapping.) >> the city of san francisco and united way are calling an employers to have jobs for youth in 2012 president obama issued a challenge and the challenge was get disconnected young people connected to jobs and so mayor ed lee said we should lead this challenge that the city will have 25 hundred jobs that first summer 6200 jobs and been

building. >> i'll high are ups we like to pledge 50 jobs so for youth this summer. >> excellent. thank you. >> a large part of the jobs it did manual resource center started off a a youth program and our first year 35 percent of the young people working full-time we know there the pressors looking for committed young people the resource fair attracts over 6 hundred people if all over the city and the greater bay area. >> we have public and private partnership the employers came from hertz rent a car and many private sector jobs sea have the city staff so the airport is here, starbuck's is here we've been retail we have restaurants, we have offices and so the young

people will get an opportunity to partner search warrant with so many of the great champions for jobs. >> for the past 5 years we've hired over 3 willed youth to work as business traces they have been promoted to supervisors. >> if you're doing a job at starbuck's the opportunity for them allows them to understand math if tire working at anothers architectural firm understanding debris or a media to understand reading and writing differently those are opportunities that the mayor is clear he wanted to provide we're going to be do mock interviews helping young people that the resumes a it pulls them to the career opportunities and building inspection commission make sure they're prepared for those opportunity educational and in terms of their preparation skills by the time

many of them leave they'll leave with jobs and new relationships building their network of the opportunity to thrive and i think i could focus and i check around the booths to see had is available i'm hoping to get a job but have employers you know employers give practice. >> i feel this will be a great way to look for jobs we can do this like you get paid. >> when our young people walk we capture their information so we can do follows up and we have a room that has a our computer lab an opportunity for them to do cover letters and talk about updating their profile and i think how you do things on the internet we help quam and they

can update tare resume and can look in interviews and on the spot job officers we hire about one hundred young people today lee alone it is exciting out of that it is if they come through with one hundred walk out with a job. >> we'll rock and roll i guess in the job interviews it went great. >> as a youth we get to go through experiences 3 builds a great foundation gymnasium a positive outlook and more importantly confidence. >> we really want to do at the end of the day exist a young person with the possibility of what we can be and do we have them go home i want to get there let me connection with those folks and ultimately got on the path. >> good morning

good morning caitlin i'm caitlin lopez 23 years old i moved out to california and san francisco, california had i was about 8 years old and actually put in foster care at the age of 9 or 10 had a baby at the 16 years old so i've kind of had this crazy like youth experience. >> despite the challenges she faced caitlin finished high school and take advantage of program. >> i heard will mayor ed lee's program through my social worker and i interviewed with entrepreneurs after i was matched walking sweet spots office i thought imitated not been in that type of office ones i got into the office with my supervisor we boptd and i got a

call from h.r. i got the position and i'm in. >> i have. >> we hired merry for 8 weeks and saw how she did she was only going to work 8 weeks but at the end question offered her a position part time. >> i have those traits it has been great working here my term of 5 weeks was pretty much like family supporting each other i feel like the mayors job program helped me to get in job without the jobs plus program i - i probably would have not even had a job. >> in her case she's a mother of two now going to school full-time and making it happen so if she can do it differently

anyone that has a willingness to try at least try to make it can do it. >> those programs are amazing they're so important for young adults to really go out there and make a better future for themselves and despite not having a traditional - you can go out there based on the programs that's what they're for they want to help you succeed. >> we'll be committing to 25 jobs in the tech. >> the san francisco rec and park is hiring 3 and 50 youth that summer . >> (clapping.) >> and only child born in the office development allocation to r so for me is a network of the community that made the difference no way i'll be with united way this network was here for me this was personal and

professional so important we create the opportunities who know the next ceo or champion of the community is coming today to find their path. >> that's the roll in san francisco we really by helping each other out >> (clapping.) >> the goal for 2017 to create 5 thousand jobs for youth if you want more information invite them at sf youth.org >> >> >>

my name is jean alexander. i'm an attorney in the san francisco city attorney's office. i supervise the tax team, giving tax advice to the treasurer, tax collect or, drafting tax legislation. the thing i remember my mother telling me as a child is that you need to be prepared to take care of yourself and i knew that i wanted to be able to do something that i enjoyed. i didn't expect anybody to give me anything because nobody ever gave her anything and i also i always saw her fighting for the things that she wanted in life for herself and for her

children. >> my name is jasmine flores. i am working as an admin assistant in the city attorney's office. i have always enjoyed the tasks that i have been given. on the days i show up and work on my own is empowering. for me, happiness in being more involved in a person-to-person interaction. my dream jobs includes being a physician, paramedic, firefighter, working with animals with the public. on a personal level with self improvement. my sister is the biggest influence in my life because she taught me to go forward with what makes you happy rather that what makes you the most money. >> i graduated from law school

in 1972 at a time when there was a beginning to be an influx of women in the legal profession and tried criminal cases for about 10 years, treatment for delinquent operating programs, government budgets, analyzed fiscal legislation. i came to the san francisco city attorney's office and i have been here for about 12 years advising on tax matters. i did just about anything you can think of. some things that lawyers do and some things that lawyers don't do. >> i'm from the mission in san francisco. i have grown up there and i have lived there pretty much my whole life. living there, i do see other women, some of them older, some of them look just like me like my age and a lot of them work nanny jobs, child

care jobs, retail jobs. i don't know, it seems kind of like a reminder that you are kind of lucky to be where you are, i guess. just when you haven't gone so far at all. i want them to go on maybe go on an interview that's more challenging that they think that they can't get that job. you know, just to kind of challenge and surprise themselves when they get that job and feel better. >> there had been women practicing law for many years, but there were so few of them that a lot of the issues hadn't really come into play and some of them worked out and some are still

being resolved like equal pay and women in lawfirms and making sure women get fair assignments and in the decision making and working with law firms. i consider myself more of a beneficiary of all the women that fought really difficult battles along the way. >> >>