>> madam secretary, read the roll please. >> president maxwell. >> here. >> vice president moran. >> here. >> commissioner paulson. >> here. >> commissioner harrington. >> here. >> we have a quorum. i would like to make an announcement. due to the covid-19 health emergency and given public health recommendations by the san francisco department of public health and government and mayor breed lifted restrictions on teleconference. this is being televised by sfgovtv. for those watching be aware there is a brief time lag

between the live meeting and when it is viewed. i would extend or thanks to the sfgovtv staff for their assistance during the meeting. if you wish to comment on an item dial 415-655-0001. followed by meeting id164929414. to raise your hand to speak press star 3. before calling the first item i would announce that item 17 to approve the california community joint powers agreement is removed from today's calendar and will not be heard. your first order of business is item 3. approval of minutes of december 22, 2020. >> is there any discussion or corrections to the minutes of december 22?

>> may i have a motion and second to approve the minutes. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. madam secretary will you open up for public comment, please. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on the minutes of december 22, 2020. dial 415-655-0001. meeting id1649294145-pound pound. raise your hand to speak press star 3. >> there is one caller. >> david pill plow. i have five very small

clarifications and word changes. i would just suggest it would be easier to take them up with donna after the meeting. if you will authorize her to make non substantive changes to the minutes, that would be fine unless you want me to go through them now and take up more time. i would prefer not to. thanks. >> thank you, caller. next caller. speaking to item 3. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i hope you are doing well. i am commenting on this because i do recall back in late december there was a lot of going back and forthwith the construction management with election process. i recall that the commissioners were asking questions to go back and address the gross violation

of the fraud lde participation on both contracts. i don't see anything in the minutes to reflect there and anything in your againca for this meeting to address those items. i humly request the commission take this item seriously. it is affecting a lot of small companies not getting work because fraudulent firms with the help of end are taking the majority of the work. you have seen this clearly more than one-time. you have another contractor award for the first time in the history of p.u.c. for the same issue. i beg you one more time. there is a lot of risk for you with these issues. you cannot just simply say i am not going to deal with it. this is a public policy that needs addressed by the

commission. thank you for your time. i look forward for someone to respond back to my inquiries. take care. >> thank you, caller. there are no more caller in the queue. >> thank you. public comment on item 3 is closed. roll call on this item, please. >> president maxwell. >> aye. >> vice president moran. >> aye. >> commissioner paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> you have four ayes. >> next item, please. >> next item is 4. general public comment. members of the public may address the commission for up to two minutes on matters within the commission's jurisdiction and not on the agenda by dialing 415-655-0001. id1649294145-pound pound.

raise your hand to speak press star 3. >> do you have any callers? >> yes, there are multiple callers in the queue. >> thank you. >> you have two minutes. >> the commissioners i am francisco de koster. recently there was a report about community benefits. now, generally if you look at you folks on the commission, we have two former general managers. you have a person who represents the union. you have another person who was a former supervisor and thanks that she knows quite a lot about

the sfpuc projects. yesterday at the rules committee, we welcomed a woman who purports to know a lot about environmental issues, climate change and so fort. whatever i have said the general in nature, but you commissioners have a moral duty to the taxpayers. we want to know how the taxpayers' money is spent. every single dollar. now when we have the audit and we read the audit. now we are told that a lot of what was in the audit has evaporated. that is disgusting.

we don't need to do the investigation to come to our rescue. we have two general managers, somebody who purports he worked for the union. the union is for the people. you have another person who purports she knows something but she knows nothing. who is going to be responsible to the taxpayers? i want to know. thank you very much. >> next caller. you have two minutes on item 4. >> i am dave warner resident of palo alto. thank you for your public service. in advance of next week's science workshop i would like to talk about the voluntary agreement and the state water board's plan. they use the term differently.

adaptive management as used by delta is important to fishing groups. it has two key features. tied to buy logical goals and additional resources are applied if they are not reduced if they are exceeded. the management feature in the plan was unimpaired flows increase or decrease 40% depending on the impact. quick to remember what adaptive management needs is there is a backup plan if goals are not met. it means optimizing a finite set of resources to native salmon. the management means optimizing timing for the fall run of salmon. no back up plan and no

application of additional resources. adaptive management as used in the bay delta meaning backup plan is one of the most important features of the bay delta plan. adaptive management is an excellent solution to the eye sense debate in front -- science debate. i would endorse the backup plan of unimpaired flows to 50% if the proposed plan didn't work. if someone says the t r.v. a has adaptive management clarify what the speaker means when using that term. i will provide a written copy of comments for the records. >> thank you, caller. next caller you have two minutes on item 4. >> thank you. this is policy director for the river trust. i want to give you an update on the irrigation district petition

to deny the state water board facility to issue water quality certification in licensing process. you might have heard last tuesday they cooled on that. 5-0 they denied the petition so the state is still in the game. it is very interesting the irrigation districts claim the water board did not act. in fact, they acted twice in denying without premthe application. theren they denied was irrigation districts did not complete cequa. they might sue. this is an authority granted by the clean water act protecting states rights to maintain standards of water quality. this is a great opportunity for the sfpuc to distinguish itself from irrigation district. we hope you join us to support

the deferred action on this item. >> next caller. you have two minutes on item 4. >> good afternoon commissioner. i am addressing one of the items number 10 on the consent calendar. >> i am sorry, sir. this is general public comment. if you wish to speak on item 10 i ask you do so when we call for public comment. this is general public comment for items not on the agenda.

>> pronouns she and her. i am concerned removing item 17 concerning the joint power authority from the agenda. i hope that this is the matter that will be brought before you so it can be discussed in public and you will have a chance to vote on it up or down. i am concerned about removal of items when they deserve to be heard. i think that is very important. moving past that as we continue with covid, we continue to streamline the ability for customers to interact with you, especially through payment networks in their communities. as we move forward the

conversation about electrification continues. i advocate for the electrification of restaurants and other cooking facilities. i have been watching videos. i notice that kitchens on cruise ships and ships of the united states navy are all electric. i submit some of the very best food i have ever had is prepared by the united states military. some of the best training in the world. in kitchens running on electricity we can addvo indicate to the restaurant industry it is do-able. i ask to expand electrification in the city and county of san francisco in buildings and transportation and lighting and heating. thank you. >> next caller you have two minutes on item 4.

>> thank you very much for being here during the time of covid. i am a public citizen. i just want to talk about history and how it relates to today and what is going on with the utility. back in 1906, the supervisors who, the city supervisors who set rates for gas, well they weren't a public utility. utility. there was a scandal as far as them setting the rates. out of it we hadgraphs and the public trust in our supervisors as far as protecting them for utilities was shattered. now we have with the recent charges against the manager we

have charges again and as far as my friends who follow things with the utility people are worried about corruption and how you are going to fix it. you know, i see it you can't fix it within. we look back to 2004 when the ethics commission said the person ahead of green for all contracts should resign. yet the utility kept the person on. it is not one individual, it is a culture. people with a utility know how cultures. they are aware of things how they have been going. if you are going to fix this, you are going to have to bring someone from outside. thank you very much. again, it is history repeating itself, corruption.

i hope you can fix this. thank you. >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. that closes public comment on item 4. general public comment. >> will you read the next item, please. >> item 5. communications. >> any discussion on communications? seeing none. open for public comment, please. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on item 5 communications dial 415-655-0001. meeting id1469294145-pound pound. to speak press star 3.

do we have any callers? >> there is one caller in the queue. >> you have two minutes to speak on item 5. >> david pill plow again. three items on 5a. advance calendar refers to staff no longer with the p.u.c. sometimes that can be adjusted. that will be great. 5d. i read through that memo. this is to the commission. if the pc power cost to acquire varies by time of day, i see there are time of use or tou waits. i wonder if staff could require or default customers to time of

use rates to both promote conservation and the environment and to reflect the cost of service and strongly encourage by way of rates. equal to use power at off hours where the cost to provide is less. something to think about. i am sure staff has already looked at that. it would be nice to hear back on that perhaps next time. we are talking about power rates or power enterprise business plan. finally, on 5f i am looking forward to considerable precipitation here and i thank steve and his staff for making that happen. let it rain. thanks. >> next caller. you have two minutes to speak to item 5. >> good afternoon,

commissioners. i am addressing item 5e, the cnmd division of performance on construction contracts. i want to bring to your attention. cmd have been certifying companies illegally for construction management without the required state of california license in accordance with government 4525 and ab605. in effect in the state of california. for whatever reasons cmd think they have authority to allow fraud, l.b.e.s with no experience whatsoever to come and engage in this. i want to reminds you one of your staff went on record in the december meeting stating and i quote. we will bring people in without

construction experience and put them in construction management. not only is this outrageous. i want to ask a common sense question. does that mean the city and county of san francisco have qualified minorities to work in these jobs and his corrupt company brings in people from the street and put them on the job because it is convenient for him? what is wrong with this picture here? if any one of you can say there are no qualified in san francisco, i will take that. you can bring in people with no experience to displace people with experience is outrageous but not public policy. i am not sure what it would take for the c. d to get this in their head. enough is enough. thank you.

>> next caller. two minutes to speak to item 5. >> thank you. she and her for the record. i will talk about the memo concerning the generation rate change. looking at the chart it does look that power sf is slightly more expensive, not by much. i want us to be able to encourage people to join and stay with clean power s.f. i believe in the long game. certainly, i think we have to look for opportunities to be able to reduce or acquisition costs and pass to the customers. the previous comment about time and use of electricity from the

previous speaker. i am a user of the time and use electricity and it works for me in an all electric home averaging 30 to 40 kilowatt hours per day. this is rate chart but the platform to make adjustments to continue to have clean power s.f. be the value oriented proposition for the county and county of san francisco going forward. thank you. >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> that closes public comment on item 5. communications. >> thank you. next item, please. >> next item is 6. bay area water supply and conservation agency update presented by nicole sandkulla.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for this opportunity to speak to you today. very near the 20th anniversary of the creation in 2002 to represent the water interests of 1.8 million residents and hundreds of community groups. this is a good time to consider and clarify the operational facilities of the commission going forward. this is particularly important in light of challenges that both bawsca faces today for the water quality control plan.

it is an immense challenge to protect health, safety, economic well-being of water users. by ensuring a reliable supply of high-quality water fair price when and where they need it. the obligations and responsibilities are spelled out by the legislation bill 2058. san francisco has a perpetual obligation to the customers in the three counties to provide up to 184 million gallons of water per day from the san francisco regional water system in accordance with the agreement. this policy in california law, san francisco must complete the $4.7 billion water system improvement program within the time ordered by the legislature. it is the obligation to maintain the system properly to preserve the operational life exectancy of all the infrastructure and

the sfpuc is to identify new water sources annually by bill 1823 which says the p.u.c. shall submit a report to the legislature each year describing the progress mailed on the supplemental sources of water, augment supplies during dry years. in addition they are responsible for environmental expenditures related to the operations and the watersheds it relies on to provide water supply for the system. water customers pay their fair share of the costs. as owner of the system from which they get 85% of the water, it is the responsibility to manage public resources. they understand the responsibility is shared with the irrigation district.

in october 2006, the sfpuc adopted the water environmental stewardship policy and the 2020 strategic plan identifies the stewardship as one of the six goals focused on achieving the mission and vision. they support this policy and the efforts to implement it. the agencies pay their fair share of costs to implement these policies. sfpuc and districts analyzed the impact on the system and water customers. bosca agrees with the impact analysis. as a result they have serious concerns with the bay delta plan, impacts on water customers and environmental analysis. the p.u.c. and district proposed the science based river voluntary agreement as alternative to the delta plan to

increase production of salmon in river and provide protection for water supply. that is important for the member agencies. the agreement forms the basis of preferred analysis. the state board is responsible for adopting and updating the bay delta plan which establishes the water quality control and providing reasonable protection to the watershed. state board has broad authority including existing water rights for the control plan. given this combination of authorities and responsibilities, they believe the state board should perform the environmental evaluation of the river agreement. if improvements to the agreement are needed, those should be

proposed and analyzed. by its enabling legislation they are authorized to represent the water users on the regional water supply matters, procuring supmental water, recycling and maintenance and repair of the water systems they rely upon. sfpuc has responsibility to ensure the operations and meet the needs of environment in accordance with the state and federal laws. in closing, on february 5, p.u.c. will host second in series of water workshop. it is appropriate for them to present the scientific data to support the voluntary agreement and sfpuc's position. it their obligation to defend the scientific basis of the

agreement. it is time for the p.u.c. to take this critical step. we look forward to the workshop and carefully consider the information presented. that concludes my remarks. i will send these to you in written format the end of the meeting today. >> thank you very much. any discussion? seeing none, madam secretary will you open this up for public comment, please. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes public comment on item 6. dial 415-655-0001. meeting id1469294145-pound pound. to speak press star 3.

>> do we have any callers? >> there are multiple callers in the queue. >> thank you. >> two minutes to speak to item 6. >> supervisors, the way i look at this situation, and i remind you again and again you have to bring the indigenous people to the table. they were here for 15,000 years. you are regional partners, sfpuc has been delibberating this issue and my concern is that the river and the salmon and i ask a question that is simple.

who will speak for the salmon? there is only one entity that can give the answer. those are the indigenous people. if you do not do this, this matter can be easily now since we have a native-american who will be appointed as the head of the department of interior. we will approach her so that you can pay attention. don't kick the can down the street. we are changing our views but my main issue to you, commissioners, who is who will speak for the salmon? if we can increase the flow in the river?

that issue, that situation has been there for 15,000 years. thank you very much. >> two minutes to speak on item 6. >> thank you. i want to thank you for acknowledging the importance of the environmental stewardship policy. i want to encourage you to think back to a comment david warner made earlier today. pointing out the voluntary agreement doesn't have a backup plan. another problem is that in responding to the peer review of the fish models, irrigation district acknowledged the models were not based on long-term

management. they did not retire that. it is different than the state water board. the state water board requires to look at long-term management and improvement of eco systems. that is a problem with the voluntary agreement based on those models. last thing to mention is the sfpuc has a contractual obligation to 184mpg if san jose and santa clara are permanent then it is 193. if they are given 6.5mpg they requested that is almost 200mgd, higher than the total service area demands today. that question can be easily answered when it comes before you in 2028.

thank you. >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> that closes public comment on item 6. >> i have a comment before we move on to the next important item. i want to say. there has been a lot of discussions about l.b.e.s and work force development and what have you. it is very complicated issue, but straddling the line between pushing and making sure everybody has access to jobs as opposed to just policy itself is incredibly important for us to continue to discuss.

it is not like sometimes when we recruit people maybe they are not the most trained, but it is our goal in not just on the commission but throughout life to make sure that folks are going to have opportunity. i think that is not policy or people, it is opportunity for everybody. i just that is part of my policy moving forward on the board despite the different issues we have to deal with. i knewed to put that out there. there is a lot of comments about who gets there and that. it is all about opportunity. i just wanted to make that before we move to the next thing. thank you, madam chair. >> next item, please.

>> item 7. presentation by the city's department of human resources of the four highest scoring respondepartments to dhrs informal solicitation from a pre-qualified pooling for a firm to recruit candidates for the sfpuc general manager and possible action. >> good afternoon. i am kate howard. deputy director at d hr. i am here to report on the executive recruitment firms available to get additional direction from you, the commission, to support the selection of a firm. when i came before you i

provided this road map of the process which outlines how the key steps in how the commission might work with an executive recruitment firm. today i would like to provide you with ausummary of the proposals we received that were responsive to the commission's needs. i am happy to answer any questions. in our prior meeting we have 11 firms. mine submitted proposals indicating they were interested in working with the p.u.c., seven of those firms have become fully compliant to be city suppliers, and our team reviewed the proposals from those 7 and they identified four that most closely meet your needs.

i would like to -- go to the next slide. as i mentioned previously. we invited the prequalified group of firms to submit proposals to outline their proposed approach to recruit comment, i'd if i timeline, cost as well as the experience of their team and their work recruiting diverse candidates to an applicant pool. >> $115,000 to $125,000. we reviewed proposals and identified these four as best meeting your needs.

>> all four focused in public sector recruitment, they have extensive experience on behalf of city council's answer board of supervisorses and governing boards and commissions in other public sector environments. all four firms have a record of supporting and process to engage diverse candidates to an applicant pool and all four have recent city or utility experience. each of the firms have their style and they describe their approach differently. however, all four firms, the overall approach is consistent. they would work with you and key

stakeholders to understand the position and develop the job profile. they would conduct extensive and proactive outreach to build the diverse candidate pool, screen and evaluate candidates and present qualified candidates to you in order to identify finalists that the commission wishes to interview. finally, they would support the interview process as you would request. this table tries to present a high level apples to apples comparison of each of the four firms. they are listed in alphabetical order and highlights the overall professional services fee and timeline and that they do have these relevant experience. there are some potential costs that could change the overall price at the end. that would include things like

additional meetings or workshops beyond the scope that each proposed. additional marketing materials like videos, those kinds of things. these proposals -- proposals reflect the professional services fee. to the degree there are reimbursable costs, those might not be reflected here. the subsequent slides provide more detail on each firm. this is a brief summary of alliance resource consulting. in addition to the information listed here i would note for you

that alliance has existed since 2004. led by cheryl who has more than 20 years experience. she would be assigned to this recruitment. they are based in lapalma with a local office in palo alto. they have utilities and city and county variance within the past five years. they have proposed $48,000 fee and 11 week timeline to get you to interviews. essentially the profile development and outreach and screening would in their timeline take 11 weeks. they pride themselves on the diverse pool of candidates both

using their own professional networks as well as outreach to specific professional organizations and they do individual par getted outreach to candidates. babb marie was founded 30 years ago. phillips has 18 years of recruitment experience and based in roseville. they have recent utilities and city and county experience. $25,000 fee and 13 week timeline to get you to the interview process. next slide. you can see the approach. i just sort of outlined the approach that they outlined in their proposal. the overall approach for each is consistent with what i described

initially. the hr consulting has more than 19 years recruitment. pam derby would be the consultant assigned to this project with more than 17-years recruitment experience. it is based in sacramento and they propose the $27,500 fee with 13 week timeline. they have rent utilities experience and experience with other agencies. finally, the hawkins company was founded more than 35 years ago. brett buyers would lead. she has more than 15 years recruitment experience. hawkins is based in los angeles with additional office in sanra money.

15 week timeline. they have city and public utilities experience as reflected above. that is my high level summary. i am happy to answer questions. i would welcome any feedback you have that would allow me to support you in identifying the firm you would like to move forward with. >> a quick question, madam president. i think all of us or at least i know ed without going to the top level had to recruit candidates for various things. i have done the same thing. i question what the sweet spot is this between the four different people as to where the pool comes from. i have done everything from

craigslist to specific websites that deal with specific contacts and what have you. obviously, these are professional firms that know how to do what they are doing, which is not in my bailiwick. what is the sweet spot to look at talent? where do you find people that have the experience to run a major agency? how do you separate the four groups? you have separated them to four that you feel comfortable with. i am not telling you to recommend anybody and i am not going that line. what is the common denominator about where you can get talent? not political talent, not other stuff. where do you get the talent to run a major agency between them

all? is there a sweet spot in this that we should be aware of? >> i think one thing and thank you for the question, commissioner paulson. one thing that will drive the outreach strategy is the specific experience and qualifications of the candidate you are seeking. i think the profile or the description, job description drives where you focus your outreach broadly. however, all of these firms describe their outreach approach. to talk about specific things they would do to identify highly qualified candidates.

it might include things like using their own network for candidates or the recruitments previously. that is utilities experience because they have experience in the industry but also because they have a network of candidates they may have seen be in the past to recruit to a recruitment. in addition, trade organizations, you know,th mic professional organizations. blacks in government, those organizations would be places that these firms would be looking at. >> let me ask you this question. is the description for this position driven by what we set down, not what they are dealing with, right? this is what we want and they

are all using the same tool for recruitment no matter how they utilize the tool, is that correct? >> that's correct. they will work with you to develop the position description and job announcement. i do have the. >> no, no. they are tweaking what we are supposed to have as job description. is that what you are saying? >> what i am saying is first step they want to do with the commission is look at the prior job announcement and work with you to update that and make sure that it addresses everything that the commission needs at this time. once that task is complete they will begin their outreach. >> you assed that. i got it. even the description is a work

in progress? >> that's right. >> i read all of that stuff. thank you. >> the other thing that i think all of these recruiters will do for you. they want to talk with the commission and other key stakeholders you would recommend to them. one of the things they will ask is do you know any candidates you think we should try to recruit? are there specific organizations or people we should talk to to try to identify candidates that might be a good fit? they will be mining their own resources, using their network and the professional organizations and also be looking for your guidance and input about how and where they should be doing additional outreach.

>> thanks. i just was wondering how fluid this works. this is what we need versus this is how we get it in. thank you. >> any further comments? >> how do we derm? when we have a lot of stakeholders? how do we know what they described as their stakeholder approach? i think for me that would be important. it would be important to know the approach, to know if we decide we need more than what they said, how much would that cost? i think about low balls and work orders and all of the other things you want become piled up. they cost more than the highest one. i would like to have more

information on their approach. there are things you decided were important. there might be things we would like to see, who they are and how they go about doing their work. i don't want to get too caught up on this first part. i think it is important how we proceed and that we have a little bit more information on the selections. they certainly vary, and there is so much that is not there that you say they are going to do but we don't see it. i would like a little bit more information. >> thank you, president maxwell. i am happy. there is a couple options. one i can reach out to the firms and get clear information about

how they approach stakeholder engagement and then is there any additional cost associated with it? if you want to dial the scope up, what would that cost? that is a piece that you can use as informational and then you can derm how you want to proceed. to the degree the commission wants to review the proposals themselves, i am happy to -- >> i don't need to go through every proposal. >> they are quite lengthy. if there is specific other information i can provide to you related to stakeholder engagement and specific approach with respect totic topic.

recruiting diverse candidates or experience with utilities recruit meant or how they worked with the city and county in the past, i am happy to do that. >> they did help with the library, one of them. i would like more how that approach went. i think it was hawkins. from 50,000 to $25,000, what is in between there? i don't know how because again, we look at the price. you say, if they all do the same thing. there has got to be a little difference especially since you all use them to do the library. what was the ultimate cost for the library? did it go up from where it started from that recruitment

process? >> i don't have that number today, president maxwell. i don't believe it went up. the library did a series of public engagement forums. because of the work of the library distributed throughout neighborhoods and multiple languages, the cost of the recruit meant was more expensive than what proposed by hawkins here largely due to the community outreach work that they wanted to have included. >> this is commissioner paulson. sophie is doing the same thing i am doing. i am trying to find out are there four agencies that you are recommending based on the recruitment and the weeding down of stuff all sending out

different things based on their specialties as opposed to what the boilerplate job announcement is. i guess there is a little -- without getting in the weeds because we don't have to spend our entire life on this. we trust professionals. is there multiple recruiting methods going on as opposed to boilerplate job description? that is where we are going. the answer is, yes, each agency is going to be recruiting based on the skill factor and hopefully the job description is going to be one that we all can center ourselves on? i am be laboring this at the front end as opposed to later. that is where my question comes from and i think that is where president maxwell's question iscomming from. if we find something lacking in

the outreach it will want to flag it. >> thank you very much. i think you have an idea and we look forward to the next meeting. >> thank you very much. >> hold on. >> one question. have we done outreach to the entities they have done work for to engage their satisfaction or nature of their experience? >> i do have references and i can follow up with several more. they have generally positive references from everyone. >> one of the things that in a way it is like picking any other consultant. it is not what they listed but

the skills with which they execute and experience they have doing that. there is a couple that seem to have experience with large governmental entities and then there are others who are smaller or work agricultural districts as opposed to urban districts. the nature of those is very different in terms of how you have to do your work and the nature of the people that you end up knowing as part of your network. if there is a way of assessing that element of it, i think that would be valuable as well. how much does their experience represent ourself and who we are? are they comfortable working

this kind of environment? >> i am happy to review proposals with those kinds of elements in mind. >> thank you. >> any further dialogue? thank you, kate, we look forward to our next meeting. >> open this up for public comment. >> members of the public dial 415-655-0001. id1469294145-pound pound. raise your hand to speak press 3. i would remind the public if you have a radio or tv on in the background please turn those down so we don't get the

feedback. thank you. are there any callers? >> there are multiple caller in the queue. >> two minutes to speak to item 7. >> commissioners, on this topic, first and foremost you have to zero in on needs assessment. what has happened is we can choose these firms. they have to know what is happening at ground zero. we need to get a review about the talent project manager and the treatment plan, manager, what the previous general manager and his cronies have done is flaunted the worst type

of crooks. this woman trying to tell us that she chose this and she has any long relationship with making talent, that is dubious in nature. we need to go back to tony flowers and ask him the relevant questions. we need to go to mark harris and ask the relevant questions. we need to cubic and ask her the relevant questions. if you want a list of others, i will give it to you. we need to go to the engineers who contact me to tell me how rotten the sfpuc is. we don't need hogwash when the commissioners speak in

generalities or tweak this and skills and whatever. who can do a needs assessment? how can you do needs assessment when you do not know what is happening at ground zero? good leaders know the way, show the way and go the way. >> thank you. next caller you have got two minutes to speak to item 7. >> thank you. first of all, i want to express appreciation for recent effort by the commission to engage with the public. we have the science workshop november 30th. another on february 5th. a couple weeks ago there was a workshop on the water supply and demand worksheet initiated by commissioner moran. it was a good workshop. we identified opportunities for

improvement. that is positive. we need a new general manager who will follow this positive trend and equally open to dialogue and collaboration. i appreciated stakeholder engagement in the process. we are very interested and hope you get an opportunity to weigh in on the job description and interview process. thank you very much. >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> that closes public comment on item 7. >> thank you. madam secretary, next item, please. >> next item is 8. report of the general manager.

>> good afternoon president maxwell and commissioners. on 8a update on the delta amendments we have not been in a discussion with the state team. they are concentrating on the state budget to get that passed. there is no discussion. we continued to work on technical issues they ray raised on habitat improvements. we hope to get back to them in the beginning of february, second week of february. we have a meeting scheduled. we will have a better update for you in february where we are at on the delta negotiations at this point. that is all i have for that right now. i would be glad to answer any questions. >> open this up for public comment. members of the public you have

two minutes to comment on 8a. dial 415-655-0001. meeting id1469294145-pound pound. press star 3 to speak. do we have any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> thank you. that closes public on 8a. general manager. >> just wanted to update you last meeting we talked about bringing back a resolution on retroactive approval of energy contracts. we have been talking to supervisor peskin and may have a different legislative solution we are working on. we don't be have exact language we will report the path forward there. i want to make sure you weren't

expecting to see that on the agenda today. we have pushed it out because we have a different solution. i will answer be any questions. >> can you give us a little direction that solution is going on? >> it would be legislation that allows this to happen under certain circumstances. supervisor peskin has indicated recognition that this has his support. we are working with his office on the exact language. >> any further comments or questions. public comment, please. >> members of the public with two minutes of public comment on 8b dial 415-655-0001. meeting id1469294155 upon pound. to speak press star about.

do we have any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you. public comment on 8b is closed. >> next item, please. >> item 9. new commission business. >> any new business, commissioners? seeing none next item, bless. >> next is item 10. consent calendar. all matters listed here are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a separate single vote. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or the public so requests in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered

as a separate item. >> commissioner 10a please. >> madam secretary. commissioner harrington asked t remove item 10a. >> yes. we will remove that. >> the commission can open public comment on other items. >> any other items. that is it for now. public comment then. members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment be on item 10 consent calendar dial 415-655-0001 to

speak press star 3. 10a will be removed for separate discussion. >> there is one caller in the queue. you have two minutes. >> david pill plow. this is specifically item 10a. i understand that commissioner harrington pulled for further discussion. here are my comments. i have no concern about the protest issue. that is not my issue. the staff report doesn't mention any civil service commission approval for the work. fundamentally i don't understand why this work is contracted out. there should be enough staff to do this in house otherwise additional staff had been hired to perform the work.

it is not clear if staff considered having public works perform this work under a work order. whether this agreement is approved or not. i hope you consider contracting out. when do we start to transfer willing to city staff and start to reduce the amount of contracting out? thanks very much. >> that is it for now. >> caller you have two minutes. >> good afternoon, commissioners. this is delay is causing me issues. i am here to discuss item 10a if i am allowed to do so. what i am seeing through the documents that have been provided in your agenda is that

the group of contract administrators have selected a company as the highest ranked company with serious issues. for some reason none of the interview panel members have thought about it or included it even though it is part of the selection criteria. this is turned around only when a protest is filed. think about it for one second. a group of individuals working for the duc engineers or managers or whomever. they ranked them the way it was ranked initially. none of them have thought about the qualification and l.b.e. and what they qualify for. the same issues on the contracts

for the last 16 years. my question to you as a policy again, what would it take for the commission to straighten up the p.u.c.? how many more of these contracts do you want to have controversy, have it cancelled, reissued until it gets straightened up? thank you for your time. >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. that closes public comment. may i have a motion and second on the rest of the consent calendar, please. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. roll call, please. >> president maxwell.

>> aye. >> commissioner moran. >> aye. >> commissioner paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> five ayes. -- sorry four ayes. that is items 10b through 10e. >> 10a. >> commissioner harrington. >> commissioners i have a lot to say on this one. i will be brief as much as possible. big picture. i believe that natural resources are our friends and we can work things out. they are a partial solution to the difficulties we encounter. there is nowhere where that capacity is more available than stormwater management than flood control. when i was general manager

preparing the master plan i raised integrating green with natural resources and solutions with gray ones. the engineers kept telling me nothing worked for green. you couldn't make it work. i think as much as anything else they shut me up. a dollar amount in the master plan with no projects listed with the dollar amount. it was what was important. that was the best i could do before i retired. over the years i have heard mixed reviews how p.u.c. was integrating gray and green. when i returned to the commission i was told i would be happy because they embraced. this 10a is the first time since i joined the commission there is a specific item in front of us to talk about working on flood control, stormwater management and those things. i was excited until i started

reading it. the first disappointment is that there was no mention of green integration. the firms interviewed were on the qualifications, experience for the old things we could have done 50 years ago. tunnels, pikes and pumps. over the last two days i have been asking the staff questions. i am more discouraged. the idea of integration is use gray on everything big and important. take care of funding needs. green on less critical for stormwater management if they don't work who gives anything? the big things are going to happen. rarely if ever is there a mix of the two approaches on the project. i think that is something fundamentally missing. we should look for opportunities

within projects to integrate those solutions. in that e-mail correspondence i was asked to look at a presentation in 2017. that was discouraging because in that presentation which i gather was accepted there was an increase in the budget of $450 million for gray solutions and decrease of $84 million for green solutions. that was adopted by the commission at that time. i think our staff are good people, but i don't think they are approaching this topic in the right way or aware of all of the green infrastructure solutions through out the world to meet flood control problems. we decided to hard scape the cities and wonder why we had flooding problems. more concrete and pipes and pumps. climate change is not working because of more severe storms. our proposal is more concrete,

more gray infrastructure. i am not sure that is the right solution. what i suggestion we postpone this decision on the contract. i would love to have the commission workshop on green infrastructure and reintegration from the systems. we can bring in experts that have experience doing this and talk about the different be ways to do this that we are not exploring fully. this may be the last chance to do it right. i realize we will be told any label wrecks the project. the contract was held up for seven months for another bidder. it was to last six years. i don't think spending a month or two for a more full discussion of the larger topic is really a horrible thing. we are talking 10 to 20 years to complete the projects.

i am happy before i may being the motion. i will make the motion to continue after we hear from people. thank you. >> mr. paulson. >> commissioner harrington, i have to say that part of my business life has been i like concrete and i like infrastructure and tunnels and i like all of the things because infrastructure is important and of course that is in many ways the core of what we do here at the commission in terms of the water and the power as well as the things that we do. we do have to continue to deal with this incredible ability to not know exactly where green power comes into life.

in terms of all of the work that is being done, there are changes happening. people are like we are not going to dig coal probably and i will get killed for doing this. we will not be digging coal too much longer to sustain what we are doing. i support continuing that discussion because in our own world in the labor movement all of the different electrical and plumbing and other infrastructure stuff we have never quite hit the sweet spot, as we say. i am into having those discussions because there are a lot of jobs that can be taken care of if they are going to deal with our environment. did dealing with climate change and whatever else. i will support this amendment. i am not supporting not moving

this project forward just in general because we have to continue the process that we are doing. i will support the commissioner as we move forward. i don't think this is going to change the earth this tech piece but it is a statement that has to probably be said. that is where i am going to go with this. i am incredibly supportive of finding out the best ways of creating opportunities without destroying the environment. [please stand by]

>> roll call vote. >> motion to continue item 10a to the call of the chair. [roll call vote]. four ayes. >> president maxwell: public comment on this item? >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes public comment specifically on item 10a, dial 415-655-0001. meeting i.d. 146 921 4145.

do we have any callers? >> there are multiple callers in the queue. >> thank you. >> hello again, i'm with tuolumne river. i want to say i'm impressed and pleased by commissioner harrington's comment and by the vote of the commission. i attend lot of meetings with lot of different agencies. it's incredibly rare to see that kind of leadership. so thank you very much commissioner harrington. >> thank you for your comments. next caller. >> david pilpel.

i made comment on item 10a. i'm little unclear why public comment was reopened. i hoping my comment was clear for the record. thanks. >> thank you caller. there are no more callers in the queue. >> president maxwell: thank you public comment is closed. next item please. >> clerk: next order of business is item number 11, authorize the general manager to execute this amendment by $1,250,000. represented by how. >> good afternoon commissioners. kathy how. this item we need to request the extension of time and also the additional cost. the time is really because the

project has been delayed because staff were responding and the team was responding to the dam emergency work. the project was delayed for that reason. the other issue regarding the cost is that the condition assessment and the investigation ended up being a quiet bit more extensive. there were divers and underwater infections. we are asking that for the cost increase as well, the budget increase to the contract. >> i have a question. >> president maxwell: it says that it is not functioning as intended. did it ever function as it was intended or did it stop? is there a reason? the valves are encased in concrete, are you going to blow them up so somebody hang on the

side with a sledge hammer. how is that going to work? >> i'm not extremely familiar with the construction approach. i will tell you that all of that was functioning. it's just a matter of age and refurbishing some of the parts that go to the valve. the contractor, -- this is a design contract. the contractor would likely be breaking out parts of it and taking the equipment out and then doing refurbishment and then putting it back in place. this is for the design to put out a package for the contractor to bid on it. this is professional services and not construction project. >> i understand. i wanted to know -- i thought

somebody would know. if it's encased in concrete and it's a valve, how would you -- >> they would normally cut on other side of the valve is usually in the pipe. they would cut on either side. they would have to rebuild that concrete around the valve as well. >> president maxwell: any further questions on this item? seeing none, let's open up for public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make two minutes on item 11, dial 415-655-0001. meeting i.d. 146 929 4145.

to raise your hand to speak press star 3. do we have any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> thank you. public comment on item 11 is closed. >> president maxwell: may have a motion and a second to move this item? may i have a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> second. >> president maxwell: thank you. roll call please. [roll call vote] you have four ayes. >> president maxwell: it's been approved. next item please. >> clerk: item 12. approve the plans and specifications and award contract number ww-685r in the amount of $2,010,000 with the duration of 750 consecutive

calendar days. western water constructors incorporated. >> this item is basically to replace a dry weather pump with a wet weather pump. so that the wet weather system will be redundant pumping capacity. there was a protest on this that has been resolved. we would like to move forward with this project. the work would probably start in springtime. >> president maxwell: any comments or questions? public comment on this item? public comment on this item please?

>> clerk: sorry, i was muted. members of the public who wish to make two minutes public comment on item 12 dial 415-655-0001. meeting i.d., 146 929 4145-pound pound. to raise your hand to speak press star 3. do we have any callers? >> there is one caller wishing to be recognized. you have two minutes to speak to item 12. >> david pilpel again. item 12, i have no comment or concern about the protest issue. not my issue on this item. my concern is with the ceqa documentation. i'm not sure if this is a project management or environmental staff issue on the

bottom of page 2, top of page 3, there's a link to the environmental document. i was able to get that but neither there nor on page 4 in the resolution is the city planning case number referenced. the date is referenced but not the case number. i don't think it's necessary for this approval but in the future, if the case number could be included both in the staff report and the resolution along with the date, i think that would make it more complete. in this case, -- otherwise, this does seem like an important necessary and useful project and i support the contract award. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment is closed. >> president maxwell: may i have a motion to and a second?

>> so moved. >> second. >> president maxwell: don't race to it. >> i said second. i was muted. >> president maxwell: thank you. roll call vote. roll call vote. [roll call vote]. you have four ayes. >> clerk: next item is item number 13, approve the terms and conditions of and authorize general manager to execute amendment number one to the office lease dated april 5, 2016 between bayview plaza l.l.c. at

the existing annual base rent of $412,189.56. >> president maxwell: any questions or concerns regarding this item? seeing none. thank you. i think we're good. you welcome. we'll go to public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make public comment on item 13, dial 415-655-0001. meeting i.d. 146 929 4145. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. do we have any callers? >> there is one caller in the queue. you have two minutes to speak. >> david pilpel again. item 13, i have no objection to

this particularly extension. i do appreciate the real estate work including on leases. indid see that the last resolved clause was spelled hereby and signature page suggest 2020 approval and we're now no 2021. my real concern is the city through the p.u.c. t bought the 1550 evans property on the basis with the explanation we'll be leaving the bayview plaza office space. i would like to know what the current plan to move the staff from bayview plaza to city-owned space. wastewater rate payers was supposed to benefit from lower office lease cost by getting out of lease space and moving staff to city owned space. that has not been the case. it's really not about this particular lease extension, it's what the overall southeast

office facilities situation is for the wastewater enterprise. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment on item 13 is closed. >> president maxwell: thank you. we have a motion and a second to move this item? >> i like to hear some discussion of the question that mr. pilpel raised. >> i'm michael carlin once again. we do have looking at all our facilities. we bought 1550 evans to move the community facility thin we'll have 1800 oakdale additional. we're planning a administration building on the southeast plant

sites eventually. once we leave 1550 evans, we will vacate to bayview plaza. renovate that because the tenants will no longer be there. that's the interim plan right now. >> president maxwell: 1550 is not built yet. we can't move into it yet until it's finished. when will it be finished? >> i believe it's 2022. >> president maxwell: 2022 it will be moving from the plaza to that building? >> it will go to 1800 oakdale. once we have 1800 oakdale, the tenants there, someone will move down to 1550 and then we'll have space in that building and we have some other tenants that we need to negotiate with whether or not they are going to leave the building as well.

>> president maxwell: thank you. commissioner paulson, do you have questions? thank you. may i have a motion and a second on this item please? >> i'll move the item. >> second. >> president maxwell: roll call please. [roll call vote] you have four ayes. >> president maxwell: next item. >> clerk: next item is item 14, authorize the general manager to execute a memorandum of understanding with the treasure island development authority setting forth the term and conditions under which the san francisco p.u.c. will continue to provide utility services on

treasure island and yerba buena island with the term of two years expiring june 30, 2020. >> michael carlin again. we're contractors supplying services to the treasure island development authority. until such time that the infrastructure is completed on the island, when the city would accept those, then they will be our assets. for the time being now, we are just an operator to tie up. i'll be glad to answer any questions. >> commissioner harrington: is there a reason we can get it year by year opposed to rolling this through all the time? [indiscernible] >> i don't have a good answer for that. we've been doing it this way and negotiating with tida.

second thing is, we were expecting or they were expecting or all were expecting all the construction would have been completed by now. it slowed down quite a bit. >> commissioner harrington: than k you. >> president maxwell: public comment on this item? >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on item 14, dial 415-655-0001. meeting i.d. 146 929 4145, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak press star 3. do we have any callers? >> there's one caller in the queue. >> sorry, david pilpel again. my only question on this is why

it's retroactive, i have no objection to the extension. unless there's a need as acting general manager indicated to review capital cost and recapture those. i'm wondering why it's retroactive and wasn't handled prior to the expiration date june 30, 2020. >> thank you caller. there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment on 14 >> president maxwell: mr. carlin , can you speak to that question? >> i can. part of it was actually negotiating some capital reimbursement cost that we wanted to include in this one. also, refining the time lines

for construction of the wastewater plant and making sure that synced up. we got a new permit from the regional water board. all of those things compounded led to long-term negotiations with tida and others. again, it was unfortunate it's retroactive but it was agreed to with tida. >> president maxwell: any other questions? thank you. seeing none, may i have a motion and a second to move this item please? >> i'll move it. >> second. >> president maxwell: roll call please. [roll call vote] four ayes.

>> president maxwell: next item please. >> clerk: next item is item 15, authorize the general manager to execute the 2021 amended restated water supply agreement between the city and county of san francisco and wholesale customers in alameda county san mateo county and santa clara county to another wholesale customer when transfer portion of its individual supply guarantee to another wholesale customer. presented by ritchie. >> good afternoon general manager for water. i will talk about the water supply agreement amendment described in the title.

basically, the proposed amendment is to carry out to make the use of water supply more efficient and to maintain the guaranteed revenue stream. the proposed amendment is intended to encourage individuals supply guarantee transfers among the wholesale customers while maintaining certain minimum purchase requirements for revenue stability. it does not include any increase in the supply assurance of 184 million gallons per day or changes in water supply or facilities. just to go over the term, supply insurance is 184 million gallons a day and mentioned earlier in the meeting. it was a perpetual obligation of the p.u.c. to the wholesale customer. individual supply guarantees are

wholesale customer shares. in terms of supply assurance that were negotiated among 23 of the wholesale customers. those individuals supply guarantees were not dictated by the p.u.c. but rather they were negotiated among the customers. they are the basis for the urban water management plans and used in land use decisions by the planning agency associated with the wholesale customers. section 3.07 of the water supply agreement talks about the minimum purchase obligations. there are four customers that have minimum purchase obligations. they have access to other supplies but they are required to purchase specific minimum annual quantity of water from the sfpuc. if they do not meet the minimum purchase requirement in the fiscal year, that wholesale customer must pay the sfpuc for

the difference between meter water purchases and the minimum annual purchase quantity. these referred to as imputed sales. all of the wholesale customers benefit from the minimum purchases. the four customers are shown here that have minimum purchase requirements. alameda county water district, city of mountain view, city of millipedes and city of sunnydale. where we are today, wholesale customers may transfer a portion of their individual supply guarantee to another permanent customer. they are limited incentives for professional transfer to take

transfers. no wholesale customer exceeded their supply guarantee. city of mountain view has a minimum purchase obligation to exceed their total annual. demand. they -- this obligation to purchase or pay for water above their demand can be incentive of recycling investments. particular case have been the mountain view transfer of east palo alto. it was the first successful transfer of individual supply transfer of one million gallons a day. at the same time, mountain view has been paying 2.5 to $3 million annually for imputed

sales. east pal alto paid mountain view $5 million. it was intended to offset the minimum purchase obligation. this transfer highlighted the interest in developing new terms for the w.s.a. that allows a minimum purchase obligation as part of a i.s.g. transfer. this slide has a lot of information and kind of a compact form. listed across the bottom are all of the wholesale customers and the things to know first the blue bars are the fiscal year 2019 and '20 purchases. the green bar is the individual supply guarantee for each of the customers. as you note upon inspection, you can see lot of green. which means that people are generally well below their individual supply guarantee. the orange bars are gold bars are the projected 2040 purchase

requests. you can see most of those are still within the green bars. hayward is unique in that, it doesn't have an i.s.g. that's noted here in quotes. they have a contract that does not put a limit on the amount of water they can buy. they're projected to actually grow beyond their allocation and at that time, they will be able 184 issue. others are well within the bars on san jose and santa clara show projections above. they have no i.s.g. they are not permitted customer. also, to note, the red bars are for the four minimum annual purchase customers. on the left alameda county water district, their demand exact

exactly the minimum purchase quantity. they have other supplies. milipitas they are just above. mountain view is the one that has the challenge where they can't keep up with their minimum purchase because of demand is so low due to lot of conservation and recycled water use. sunnydale also the red bar is right about exactly at their demand level. the proposed amendment is proposed to revise section 3.07 to allow minimum purchase customer to permanently transfer obligation to other wholesale customer to that wholesale customer. transfers will be subject to the same requirements as transfers of a portion of i.s.g. and other conditions. with the p.u.c.' role in those transfers, basically limited to evaluation of two things.

one, does the transfer comply with the terms of the act and two, is the transfer actually accommodated with the hydraulics of our plumbing system. we're not allowed to make judgments on it but rather on whether or not it meets those conditions. this slide is actually a depiction of what is shown in the attachment e of the part of the amendment. this shows graphically what a transferrer would experience if they transfer one million gallons a day when they had minimum purchase obligation starting out five million gallons a day. on the left, you see that the green bar, minimum purchase obligation, the blue bar is annual purchase. you can see, they fell short of their purchase obligation by a

half. they had to pay for those imputed sales. the next year it is automatically transferred to the transferee. -in this case, you see their demand kind of bumps around. they have a new minimum purchase obligation of only four. this one is pretty clear cut. actually, from most transfers the transferee would be relatively similar. we chose e2 is shows more nuances. this shows that the customer with one million gallons a day with minimum purchase obligation is acquiring a second m.g.d. of minimum purchase quantity. six million gallons a day, usage in year zero. for years 1-7, they have a

period of the temporary modified minimum annual purchase quantity. what that is, they're obligated to purchase an amount equalth to average of the last five years of their demand plus the new minimum purchase obligation that they have. in this case, they continue on about seven million gallons per day per year, little bit 6.5. they had some sales in there. the temporary modified minimum annual purchase quantity continues until they have three consecutive years where they demonstrate with a track record that they will actually have additional demand online. that they will be fulfilling. if they never reached the three consecutive years, they got that temporary modified minimum purchase obligation obligation going on.

this is point where question has come up about, does that diminish the minimum purchase obligation? the wholesale customers collectively have worked on this quite heavily and they have analyzed lots of different possible scenarios and they are quite confident that having that minimum purchase obligation really turned into real demand is something that will stick. these two tests of the stabilities some of the demand, the prior five years and then three years and new level of demand is the satisfactory test to making sure they will accomplish in that demand is going to be unlikely to go away.

there's some restrictions. proposed restricted minimum purchase customer transferring 50% minimum annual purchase quantity. folks felt that we shouldn't just spread all the minimum annual purchase around. let's little bit more prudent about this. second restriction is that collectively no more than 6 million gallons a day of the total current minimum annual purchase quantities can be transferred. we have noted that if the minimum quantity of transfer exceed, that the p.u.c. and wholesale customers agree to consider further amending section 3.04 to increase. i think it's unlikely that will be a goal that might be

achieved. we're also proposing there be certain authorities delegated to the general manager. basically, there are a number of small details that need to be included in the water supply agreement in attachment ce and e1. also in the individual water sales contracts. we're proposing that the commission would basically approve a transfer. once you approve the transfer, the administrative details can be handled by the general manager consistent with the approval action. policy considerations kind of summing up, we'll get greater

utilization of supply insurance, customers will use existing supplies rather than new supplies. we'll get revenue stability, minimum purchase obligation will remain until greater demand is established. the revenue stability risk is when minimum purchase obligation may become less meaningful if demand decreases. we get rid of the incentivization of recycle investment. because they result in impugntive sales, we think that's a bad thing to do. there might be some increase in overall system demand. it could increase up to 6 million gallons per day

because actual sales will be replacing imputed sales. this is that limitation that we're going to live with. i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> president maxwell: any questions? >> sound like a very complex but managed relationship of all these different places. sound like you're in control of it. is there any downside to any of this stuff? >> we don't think there's a downside. we've been working on this since the end of 2018 when we approved the last amendment. mountain view has been a very

proponent of doing something, anything to resolve this. this took a lot of work by our staff and very frankly, they have been working with all their individual members to answer all their questions and include changes to help satisfy them all. they were all concerned about the potential for somebody demand falling off. i think they went through a lot of work and lot of analysis to indicate that is not really expected to be the case. certainly the new demand coming in as we talked about with our water supply seven. they are all coming in extremely low water users. those demands once they hit, will stick. i think we all feel confident on that count. >> it sounds pretty cool.

mountain view bought too much and they decide to share it with somebody else. you're moving all those different pieces. okay. >> you said they bought too much. that's one of the problems as they didn't have to pay for the i.s.g. they all divided it up. that might have changed the situation if they were obligated to pay for it. but they aren't. >> i'm just doing the math back and forth. great report. thanks mr. ritchie. >> commissioner harrington: i'm supportive of this. the reason we put the transferability in it 2009 contract, you had larger agencies that had do of the water. you had these smaller, poor

places like east palo alto who had to do moratorium on buildings where the larger -- the ability to move water to where it was needed in places i viewed as an equity issue. moving the transfer with that makes sense to me. >> president maxwell: thank you, anyone else? any other comments? we open this up to public comment please. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on item 15 dial 415-655-0001. meeting i.d., 146 929 4145, pound pound. raise your hand to speak press star three. do we have callers? >> there are multiple callers in the queue. you have two minutes to speak to

item 15. >> thank you. good afternoon commissioners. this is nicole. i'm very pleased to be speaking to this item today. this amendment informations between p.u.c. and member agencies. this conversations centered how existing water supply provided about the regional water system is managed under the water supply agreement to meet the region's water needs. bosc and the p.u.c. supported the water transfers outside the region as a means to increase water supply reliability. sfpuc and bosc will continue to investigate this concept. water transfers between the wholesale customers are existing supplies to meet the needs of developments. this proposed amendment would overcome a current hurdle that

is limited transfers of existing regional water system supplies between eligible wholesale customers. the amendment protects the interest of san francisco retail customers. as mr. ritchie mentioned, we have been in intense and complex discussions and analysis concerning this over the last year. this was essentially the starting directive from my agency. that does not participate cannot be impacted by this. the bosc member agencies are prepare to present this amendment to the governing body following the commission action today. thank you very much. >> next caller. you have two minutes to speak to item 15. >> thank you. i think this is one of the occasions where we all agree. that can happen.

one other issue, there's often concern about running out of water. there's also i heard an issue raised recently that water demand and water sales has been up slightly. which is a good thing based on revenue. that's a reality of economic. i'm wondering if there might be some way to decouple sales and revenue, similar to the way we done with electricity in california. i haven't seen a great example. it will be nice if there was an economic incentive to conserve. mountain view and east palo alto is a great example how this can be helpful. mountain view has done a great job at conserving water and using recycled water. unfortunately they were

penalized because they weren't buying much from the sfpuc. they have this obligation. we want to encourage conservation. i think this will help do it. we also want to help make a community like east palo alto whole. that raises the issue again that mr. ritchie brought up that when the 184 was divided up, you have to pay for i.s.g., just the water use. that's problematic. communities can sit on water and there's no penalty and other communities are worried and they lobby against the bay delta plan. i think we can avoid some of that. my only concern is, it's easier to shift water around, which do you think this will be a problem, we might get more development --

>> clerk: thank you, your timex priored. >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: that closes public comment on item 15. >> president maxwell: any further comments? may i have a motion and a second to move this item? >> i'll move it. >> president maxwell: roll call please. [roll call vote]. you have four aye. >> president maxwell: next item please. >> clerk: item 16, authorize the general manager to enter into a transmission facilities agreement with the pacific gas and electric company in the amount not to exceed, $18,000,600 plus monthly cost of charge of $57,000. initial term of the agreement is

five years. represented by h. hale. >> good afternoon. the commission approved about $167 million in the power capital plan to support that project. it's under construction. it's critical to provide a power service to the improvements the southeast wastewater treatment facility and other of our new customer in the southeast waterfront. the project will connect to the electrical system at a new p.u.c. owned yard. the agreement lays out the term and condition for pg&e to construct a transmission line that will interconnect from

station to our new switch yard. under the agreement, we would be compensating pg&e for the work needed to upgrade their switch yard to our corridor of transmission distribution which we're calling the davidson substation. the work includes final specification for the project, purchase of the major equipment and materials that are needed, construction of the switch gear. not to exceed amount of $18,600,000. with your authorization of this item, we would take the item forward to the board of supervisors for their approval.

i'm happy to answer any questions you might have. >> commissioner harrington: two questions. we have often been critical of pg&e for expecting us to do too much or overcharging from our point of view. is this what you consider to be a reasonable thing and these are reasonable charges for a reasonable project? second question, smaller one is, we said five years, is there somebody we don't extend it in the first place? >> second question is quick and easy to answer. we're syncing this agreement up with all other agreements with pg&e. so we'll able to approve them and move them forward in a cohesive way. with respect to the reasonableness of the cost, yes, our engineers have gone over what's being asked of us here.

we regard it reasonable. we have found the transmission conversation that we're having with pg&e to be much more business like than the distribution conversations we have with pg&e. that's part of the reason, frankly, that reinforces our interest in connecting with pg&e at the transmission level rather than relying on that distribution service. >> commissioner harrington: than k you. >> president maxwell: any further questions or comments? thank you. seeing none. i like to open this up to public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make public comment on item 16, dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 146 929 4145.

-- >> there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> clerk: public comment on item 16 is closed. >> president maxwell: may i have a motion and second to move this item please? >> so moved. >> president maxwell: roll call vote. [roll call vote] you have four ayes. >> president maxwell: item is moved. >> clerk: next item, item 17 has been removed from the calendar. i can call items to be -- call the items and public comment for closed session? members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on closed

session item 20 and item 21, counsel receiving advice from city attorney regarding city litigation in which the city is petitioner in specific gas and electric company. members was public who wish to make two minutes public comment on closed session items 21 and 22, dial 415-655-0001. meeting i.d., 146 929 4145, pound pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star three. do we have any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue. >> clerk: thank you, public comment on closed session is closed. >> president maxwell: may i have a motion to assert the attorney-client privilege regarding the matters listed

below as conference of the legal counsel? >> so moved. >> second. >> president maxwell: roll call vote please. >> [roll call vote]. you have four ayes. >> president maxwell: next item. >> clerk: at this time, we'll enter closed session. >> starting closed session for

second? >> motion. >> second. >> i'm sorry not to disclose? >> a motion regarding whether to disclose the discussions during closed session pursuant -- okay. request of motion and second whether to disclose discussions during closed session. we have been moved and seconded. >> the motion is not to disclose. >> correct. >> right. >> clerk: president maxwell. >> aye. >> vice president moran. >> aye. >> commissioner paulson.

>> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> president maxwell: then this meeting is adjourned. thank you. . >> you're watching coping with covid-19 with chris manners.

>> hi. i'm chris manners, and you're watching coping with covid-19. today, my guest is phil ginsburg. he's the director of the san francisco rec and parks, and he's a national rec and park ranger. thank you for being here. >> hi, chris. thank you for having me. >> i've heard you have an exciting new exhibit that features social distancing and is outside, so it's safer. can you tell us a little bit about it? >> the golden gate 50 anniversary wasn't the celebration that we hoped for, but when life deals you lemons, you hope to make lemonade, and we tried to engage people in

the park in different ways. behind me is what we did. it's a public exhibit which has transformed peacock meadows into an enchanted forest of other worldly shapes and lights. it's to close out golden gate park's 150 years and to allow people to have outdoors socially distant fun. >> great. and what are the hours, and when can people go see it, and are there access for wheelchairs and strollers? >> well, it will run until february 27, and the ways are

wheelchair accessible. it will close in time to make the city's curfew. we're not supposed to be gathering. we're not supposed to be celebrating out there, unfortunately. it is a beautiful exhibit and is one that can be seen from the sidewalk or you can wander into the meadow, but we ask that people be really mindful of the circumstances in which we find ourselves. the most important thing for us is to be safe and healthy. do not show up with other households. come and see it, get a little taste of the holidays and leave so other people can enjoy it. if it's too crowded, comeback because it's going to be around for a while. >> how long does it take to walk around the exhibit? >> well, you could be there for

five minutes or 15 minutes or longer if it's not crowded. it's about in an acre of meadow, but it's very visible even from a fully accessible sidewalk. you'll get a sense of it. basically, there are sculpted trees, and it's gorgeous. i got an opportunity to visit it over the weekend. the conservatory of flowers is there, and then, we have our amazing spreckels temple of music which was recently

renovated and lit up in lights. >> i have information that it was created by a local artist. what can you tell us about it? >> well, it's a new concept, but the lights were previously installed in a park in toronto and also in las vegas. the installation has been paid for through private donations to the golden gate park's san francisco 150 campaign. it reflects a culture steeped in science and history and culture. >> i can't wait to visit it.

safely, of course. >> wear masks, distance, sanitize, and don't gather. >> well, thank you for coming on the show today, mr. ginsburg. i appreciate the time you've given us today. >> thank you, and thank you for giving so much attention to golden gate park which has been so wonderful for us during covid and deserves a lot of extra love and attention on its 150 anniversary. >> and that's it for this episode. we'll be back with more information shortly. thank you for watching coping with >> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can

be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy heritage, and i discovered this

awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it.

why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful

opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling

technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most

exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers.

when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our

community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people,

the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy >> good morning, everyone. my name is susan breel, and i am a judge here in san francisco, and i am the chairman of the san francisco

human trafficking collaborative. i want to give a welcome to everyone at this press conference today. we have over 170 people who are currently logged on, including the press. i'm going to ask everyone to mute themselves, and i do want to begin by acknowledging the traumatic and horrific events of wednesday at the capitol, a spectacle that radiated contempt for our country, for its laws and traditions, and most of all, for its citizens. i find it profoundly reassuring today to be here with citizens who are responsible, who are concerned, and who are compassionate. i find it conspireing to be here with esteemed and duly elected public officials, who by their concern for human

trafficking both honor and reaffirm the worth and dignity of every human being. this is our 12th annual antihuman trafficking press conference. at our first press conference who was then district attorney kamala harris who is about to be the vice president of the united states of america, so who knows what is in store for our illustrious public servants who are here today. i'm going to turn it over to my cochair, bonita hawkins, to introduce herself and who is our first speaker. >> thank you, judge breel. i echo your sentiments of this week, and a hearty welcome to all who are watching here today and who have joined us here for our annual event. it gives me great pleasure to

start our program today with none other that the mayor of the great city of san francisco, mayor london breed. welcome, london breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, so much, bonita, and thank you so much, judge breel, for the work that you continue to do to address human trafficking in our city and throughout the bay area. thank you to the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking and its cochairs for having me here today. i want to start by recognizing all of the partners, advocates, and awardees who are doing so much work every day to prevent human trafficking from occurring in the first place. your work helps make the city a safer place for everyone. every san franciscan deserves to feel safe and live without exploitation, but for too long,

these tragic crimes have persisted throughout the day despite our best efforts. the risk of being trafficked are very real. even as we face one of the greatest public health crisis of our lifetime, our work to end human trafficking in our city must continue. no one should have to wonder every day how they escape from an unsafe situation or experience the daily trauma of being taken advantage of. we in san francisco have a responsibility to protect survivors and implement new policies and programs that will help us end human trafficking in san francisco, and i really want to take this opportunity to point out the need to address the challenges that continue to persist in the tenderloin, the people who are being trafficked to sell drugs, that is definitely something we should take on and address as soon as possible. it has been going on for far

too long. as we are here today to commence national slavery and human trafficking month, i am announcing two new initiatives to prevent human trafficking in our city. first, all of our inspectors under the department of public health will be trained to recognize the signs of human trafficking do you remember their inspections at hotels, restaurants, bars, and other sites. they will be required to report their findings immediately to our san francisco police department for investigation. this gives us one more tool we can use to identify people who may be the victims of trafficking and then take action to get them out of that very dangerous situation. second, the san francisco international airport has installed multiple signs in multiple languages to inform

people of the signs of human trafficking and encourage them who might find themselves in danger to call the airport hotline and get help immediately from trained s.f.o. staff. as we know, in these situations, time is of the essence. our goal is to be both vigilant and responsive so that we can prevent human trafficking and get people the care and services they need. i want to thank everyone in san francisco. i want everyone in san francisco to know that help is here if they need it, and they do not have to suffer in silence. if you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, you can call 911 or reach out to the national human trafficking hotline at 888-373-7888. during this year's national slavery and human trafficking prevention month, we renew our focus on supporting survivors,

honoring their strength, and working on preventing trafficking from occurring in the first place. thank you to the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking for organizing this very important event and keeping it in the hearts and minds of people throughout this city. thank you, again, for all the service providers and law enforcement partners who are working day in and day out to serve and protect survivors of human trafficking. i know that, working together, we will make san francisco a safer place for all those that find themselves in this unfortunate situation. let's continue to do the work. thank you so much. >> thank you, mayor breed, and thank you for those two initiatives. please know that we join you in continuing this work. thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule these days during these unprecedented times. and now, i would like to

introduce the u.s. attorney for the northern district of california, david anderson. >> thank you, bonita. thank you so much for including me. i want to thank you and i want to honor the remarks by the mayor and also judge brielle, and also everyone who has joined here the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking, and this conference at the beginning of every year is such an important reinforcement of work that we're all doing to combat human trafficking. so as u.s. attorney, i lead all federal prosecutors, also known as ausas, in enforcing federal law in northern california. and i want to mention one particular ausa to this group, someone who's known to many of you in this group. marissa harris is a past

speaker of this event and i feel a force of rare force and power. marissa ensures that any referrals make their way quickly to an ausa who can evaluate that case referral for the filing of federal charges, and we at the u.s. attorney's office are joined by ten federal agencies in the federal human trafficking collaborative, and included in that is homeland security investigations. i know that tatum king, the special agent in charge of human trafficking investigations, is on this call, and you'll be hearing from him momentarily. but i just want to acknowledge

ausi in the importance of investigating human trafficking. i feel strongly that we are all safer when we work together. i'll close, and i know that there are many speakers, and i've been asked to speak for just a few minutes. i'll close with my observation that at the federal level, we don't just work the cases, but we also feel the pain that these cases represent, and i think that in some areas of the law, there can be a tension between law enforcement and compassion, but in the human trafficking area, we really see that enforcement is compassion in so many ways, and vigorous enforcement of the laws against human trafficking are critical in the fight against the misery and the suffering that we all in our own ways are trying to bring to an end, so i honor you

for your work, i thank you for your work, and i look forward to working with you, and with those comments, i'll pass the podium back over to you. >> and i'll pass it over back to you, judge brielle. >> excuse me. it looks like we are at capacity. i want to encourage all members of ncaw to leave the call, and all the volunteers so that we can admit the district attorney. >> i think our next speaker is public defender. is he -- has he been able to log on? >> yes, i'm here, judge. >> okay. thank you. so i do want to thank our u.s.

attorney and all the great work that he's doing. and now, it's my great privilege to introduce our public defender, mr. raju. i think he is the only public defender to be an elected official in the united states. no other elected public defender, and he's not only one of our public officials, he is really an amazing trial attorney in his own right. [inaudible] >> i'm going to ask everyone to mute themselves other than mr. raju, and it is a my privilege to ask -- it's my privilege to ask him to say a few words at this press conference. >> thank you, judge. it's an honor to be here at this collaborative. the empowerment and holistic solutions and people on this

call really represent that. as a san francisco public defender, i think it's crucial that people are aware that we view ourselves as a public safety organization. and what i mean by that is when you truly see someone, when you truly hear someone, when you're really willing to see and hear their complete story. that in and of itself can be a spring board to moving one's life in a more positive direction, and we really encourage all of our staff to develop that trusting relationship with every single person that we represent because it's only when you have that relationship of trust that someone will confide in you something like they may be a victim of trafficking, so we encourage and insist that our attorneys have those long meetings with people that we represent. we encourage that they reach out to community members, also,

because each person is a member of family and communities in some ways. you know, what is important that i'm seeing in things like the collaborative is we're thinking about long-term visions of a more just world. there's a lot of people who get caught up in our system for a lot of very complicated reasons, and it's very important that we listen to the victims. it's also important that we address the condition that lead to the proliferation of trafficking, that we look at things to see if we're doing things in a way that empowers individuals and communities as opposed to disempowering them. we try to do that one client at a time. we also work on local policy,

we also work on state policy, but i think if we're guided by few principles, that we are aware that, you know, there is a lot of intergenerational trauma, but there is also a lot of intergenerational resilience in our communities, and i think if we tap into that resilience, we can come up with solutions that both empower individuals and implicate systems in a way to reduce trafficking going forward. so i just want to tell everyone here that i'm honored to be here, honored to be in community, and look forward to working with everyone going forward. thank you. >> thank you so much, and we look forward to working with you. i think our district attorney is having trouble logging on still, i'm wondering. >> hi, i just made it -- just made it on. >> oh, i'm so glad to have you.

we are so glad to have you. it's my pleasure to introduce the district attorney in the city and county of san francisco, chesa boudin. he is one of the new wave of district attorneys who always has something provocative, intelligent, and interesting to say in human trafficking, so we give it to you. >> well, thank you, judge brielle, and i hope next time we can have a zoom account that has unlimited access so all of the people that want to participate can. it took me a while to get in this morning because it was full. i think it's a good sign that there's so much interest in this issue, and i hope the next event will have a bigger space, whether in-person or virtual to accommodate every single person in the city who are as dedicated as i am, and who i know as you are, judge, to

discourage the scourge of human trafficking. let me just start by thanking the heads of this initiative. judge brielle, antonio breen, and marissa hawkins. without your leadership, we would not be here today. i also want to thank fellow he leaders for coming to this call to action. i want to congratulate the champions that we are honoring today. may we continue to learn from and be inspired by you. each year, this event creates the opportunity to raise voices often not heard or forgotten, the opportunity to address concerns shared across system partners, and the opportunity to discuss our plans for the year ahead. today, i'd like to share three main priorities to combat human

traffics in 2021. -- human trafficking in 2021. first, continue to provide high quality victim services to survivors of child sex and labor trafficking. as a lead law enforcement official in san francisco, i am working with our system partners to design and implement new strategies to identify victims and address criminal exploitation and trafficking in all forms. the district attorney's office continues to have a dedicated human trafficking advocate who provides support to victims and survivors. the victim services division human trafficking team provides multilingual trauma responsive services to survivors for both crisis and ongoing needs. we collaborate and partner with other city nonprofit and government agencies to ensure that all human trafficking victims receive comprehensive

and coordinated victim services. antihuman trafficking networks like the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking and its member agencies are essential in order to increase the identification of victims of human trafficking and coordinate timely humane response and services. in addition, my office funds two community agencies: huckleberry youth services and safehouse to provide services to victims and survivors of human traffics who may not choose to access services through the district attorney's office directly. in 2021, we are committed as ever to working together to ensure that even those who do not identify as victims or survivors are able to receive the support they need. now second, as guardians of the constitution, we need to ensure that all victims and survivors, regardless of immigration

status, feel comfortable reporting to law enforcement and seeking services. criminalizing undocumented individuals and immigrant communities increases the motivations for traffickers by driving the immigrant community further away from the resources that can help to keep them safe. exploitation of the most vulnerable population is a public safety issue for all community members, and when victims can't come forward, harm is perpetually underground. third, my office is developing and implementing new strategies to identify, investigate, and hold those who harm and exploit others accountable. covid-19 has pushed trafficking

victims and survivors further into the shadows, making it more difficult for people to come forward or cases to be discovered and investigated. victims and survivors of all forms of trafficking have several unique and layered needs for safety, basic resources for daily life, trauma recovery and life skills development. victims and survivors frequently experience trauma, linguistic and cultural isolation, fear related to immigration status, and cultural, familial and societal attitudes and believes to perpetrators control, exploitation, and violence. we know that a person may be arrested for assault, drug sales, or other crimes, and when we look deeper into the case, that behavior is an expression of trauma linked to human trafficking.

we know that a person may be identified as a victim of domestic or intimate partner violence, and when we look deeper into the case, they are being trafficked. we are instituting criteria for additional case review, leveraging analysts to flag cases with characteristics common in exploitation. once these cases are flagged, my team works towards solutions centered in healing and recovery that simultaneously hold people accountable for harmful behavior. these three priorities will prevent future acts of exploitation, allow for successful criminal prosecution, and protect all san franciscans. we look forward to your partnership in making this vision a reality. lastly, my office, under the leadership of dr. gina castro rodriguez, is hosting our annual human trafficking awareness training on monday morning at 10:00 a.m.

i encourage all of you to end at that. for more information, please go to our website at www.sfdistrictattorney.org. thank you so much. >> thank you so much for your information, and i didn't know about the link with huckleberry link services. i'm very impressed with all of the programs the district attorney is implementing. i'm now going to turn to our next speaker, patty lee, from the public defender's office. she is the head public defender of the juvenile division and an expert on children who are exploited and trafficked and, really, a mentor to me. patty? hmm, she might have had trouble coming on. >> i am here. >> oh, there she is in hawaii.

>> yes, i'm in hawaii. i bring the sunshine to you all. so i am deeply, deeply appreciative for all of the work of the san francisco coalition against human trafficking. thank you, thank you, judge brielle, antonio, and bonita, for always being there for us. during covid, it has become even more difficult in providing advocacy in this virtual world for trafficked youth. they're likely to fall through the cracks as they're hidden from view during shelter in place, and this was mentioned by our district attorney, and they're trafficked over the internet and over our borders. the juvenile justice focus for children who have been sexually exploited is generally one of girls that we deal with in our system, and they're trafficked locally county by county and even across state lines. our system involved girls,

however, really require a wider lens. none will admit on our first meeting that they mighting victims or at risk of being trafficked, but on further assessment, i would say that 99% of our girls have either been propositioned by pimps or their boyfriends or actively engaged in their own exploitation or previously engaged. they suffer from substance abuse, and many become addicted to heavy drugs such as coke, meth, or heroin provided by their pimps to keep them coming back for more. sadly, we know that system involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice system are at highest risk for exploitation. they experience failed home environments, multiple placements, and awol. even in foster care placement

and juvenile hall, we know of situations where girls are being recruited or pimped by their peers to be sexually exploited. fortunately because of the work that the partners here in the coalition over the past decade, we've seen a huge shift in treating sexually exploited children. no longer are children charged with prostitution in california. we divert them from the juvenile justice system, and we provide humane treatment and resources to heal the child. unfortunately, we have also seen a huge population of undocumented youth who are trafficked by drug pushers and cartels. we are a sanctuary city, and we

must focus on the boys, as well, who have been sexually exploited. they come over the border at a young age, experiencing some of the most horrific circumstances of physical violence or sexual abuse just to come to the u.s. these youth are pawned off on the street corners in the tenderloin, and that was mentioned by mayor breed, to sell their bodies to payoff their debts owed to their traffickers. the majority are unaccompanied youth who suffer from isolation, extreme poverty, and resulting complex trauma. our office has provided incredible advocacy to immediately contact the families in their native countries to secure the birth certificates and work to reunify them or advocate for other placements or work with our immigration unit for

immigration relief or those who might qualify for asylum. so i want to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude to the coalition and all of the partners here, and a big congratulations to the awardees for more commitment and dedication to end human traffics in all of its insidious forms, and i really appreciate the opportunity to speak to you all today. thank you. >> thank you so much, patty, and i should mention that patty lee was a modern day abolitionist award winner last year, and i'll turn it back over to you. >> it is now that i get to

introduce one of the -- the project director of one of the leading children's clinics not only here in oakland but the bay area who has been very concerned with the assessment of our children as well as just the care of our children there at west coast children's clinic, and that is, may we welcome hannah haley. >> good morning, everyone, and thank you, to the collaborative for inviting us to share our work today. west coast was founded in 1979 and provides mental health services to 1500 children and youth in the bay area each year. almost all of our clients are involved in either the child welfare or juvenile justice system. almost all of them are living in low-incomes and almost 86% of their are children of color.

we have researched training and policy departments to inform our own practices to see if what we do helps with legislation. by 2009, we had noticed a growing incidents of teens in our program demonstrating troubling behavior, running away, drug concerns, and they were all suspected human trafficking. sea change works with youth through all stages of exploitation to provide case management and therapy. because the trauma of

exploitation occurs within a relationship, that's where we focus or services, as well. our staff offer a relationship that expects nothing in exchange from the youth, countering the message that all relationships are transactional. through this, there's an opportunity for youth to build trust, develop their sense of agency, and restore faith in themselves and other people. we were recently approached by the partners of the san francisco safety opportunity and learning project to provide sea change services to san francisco youth through a pilot project, and we were honored to come on board. the s.f. soul project, as we call it, includes a sand plaster care pilot, a hype center, and multidisciplinary collaboration with other partners, and we seek to do just that through the project. we are proud to be part of this

partnership with the san francisco department on the status of women, freedom forward, huckleberry youth programs and family builders, and to continue building knowledge about how to best meet the needs of children who have been trafficked. and lastly, i just want to congratulate all of the awardees today, but in particular, our own team member, sable, for her award. thank you so much for being part of our team, and we thank you for your work. >> thank you so much, hannah, for those fine words. and moving right along, whenever we have asked for help or have a committee that is seeking help, this person is always raising his hand and volunteering, and that is homeland security

investigations special agency tatium friend, but here -- tatum king, but here at sfcaht, we call him friend. so turn it over to tatum king. >> thank you. again, just tremendous professionals, we know that this work really requires, you know, specialized experience, knowledge, and patience, to thank you very much to them. you know, without their leadership, we would not be successful in working on this critical issue. so good morning, distinguished speakers and distinguished guests.

my name is tatum king, and i'm here to represent homeland security investigations. thank you very much to sfcaht leadership team, cochair hawkins, and executive director levine. these meetings are getting fuller and fuller, and it's all hands on deck, and we appreciate everyone working together. so for sfcaht, they have more than 11 years sustained efforts combatting human trafficking in the bay area. they bring together a wide array of individuals, agencies, organizations to support human trafficking survivors. i would also like to offer my congratulations to the 2021 modern day abolition awardees. it is their collective grass roots work which has significantly contributed to

addressing the -- and discouraging the reason. we at d.h.s. as a d.h.s. partner agency, we understand getting the word out to all agencies, all divisions, is so important to let folks know what to look for and, of course, report it to competent authorities. too often, the perception of our law enforcement work only consists of enforcement actions and incarceration. for h.s.i., we ensure support and recovery of the survivor as our priority. whether or not a particular case results in a criminal prosecution, while ideal, h.s.i. will still strive to be a voice for all survivors,

regardless of immigration status, and provide services to which they are entitled, including immigration assistance, and we work with our partnership agency, united states immigration services to help with obtaining any visas. last year, we established the center for human trafficking, and this is an integrated law enforcement operations center, and this center consolidates 16 d.h.s. programs and is led by homeland security personnel. with this center, together with new partnerships and more public awareness, we believe we can better tackle human trafficking and provide survivors with the hope they

deserve. last year, h.s.i. has grown our team so that we can increase support to survivors, and during 2021, we'll continue our partnerships to continue to work to get the information out. at sfcaht continues to build bridges in our community, this is hope that victims of human human -- and survivors of human trafficking will reach out for help. we are collaborating more efficiently to provide better awareness and knowledge of the resources available to

survivors of human trafficking. thank you very much to sfcaht, coalition on the status of women, c.b.o.s, u.s. department of labor, the f.b.i., u.s. attorney anderson and team as well as district attorneys in the region making san francisco a safer place, and i appreciate your effort. >> thank you very much, special agency king, and thank you for always being there and lending a hand, you and your team. and now, we will hear from craig baird, f.b.i. special agent in charge. >> hi. thank you very much for having me. it's a pleasure to be here. i'd like to thank the u.s. attorney's office for the northern district of california, san francisco

district attorney's office, and the other supporting organizations. so the f.b.i.s work in 2020 certainly was not done in a vacuum. a majority of the operations that we participated in were done with our task forces, and that includes san jose human trafficking task force, the bay area child exploitation task force, the bay area innocence lost working group, san francisco santa clara county working task force, and the vice and child exploitation unit. so our efforts and approach, much like h.s.i., are victim centric, and the ultimate goal these past four environments are to recover victims and investigate traffickers at the state and federal level. the f.b.i. also employs three victim specialists in our division here in san francisco, and those victim specialists

work with victims long after they have been recovered. these task force operations in 2020 have led to the arrest of 42 traffickers who were mostly involved in trafficking of underaged victims, and those operations allowed us to look at 17 underage sex trafficking victims. so the f.b.i. investigates all forms of human trafficking regardless of the victim's age, their nationality. what we're finding is the number of cases are growing, and it's unclear if this is because there's a greater awareness of the problem or because the problem itself is growing. nationwide, the f.b.i. caseload has increased significantly in the past several years, and as of november of 2020, there were more than 1800 pending human trafficking investigations.

2020 also marked our annual human empowerment annual art, or heart. that art was displayed throughout the bay area, and it's also did i employed in the offices of the f.b.i. here in san francisco. so in closing, human trafficking has been and will continue to remain amongst our highest priorities here at f.b.i. san francisco. thank you very much for having me today. >> thank you, mr. fair, for all

the work that you're doing. i also want to take the opportunity to acknowledge the work for alameda county district attorney o'malley who is also a modern day abolitionist awardee from a couple of years ago, and thank you for being here today. next, we will have herinana utarte, and she's representing the asian women's shelter in san francisco. >> thank you. good morning -- i guess it's good morning. good morning, everyone, and thank you, sfgov, for having me, and congratulations for all our awardees, number one. many of you know about asian women's shelter. we're an older organization,

and we are an agency that provides social services for all survivors of violence in 40-plus languages, including the rare ones like mongolian or arabic. in the last few years, we have expanded our services. we provide shelter in our safe house, but we also provide shelter for women ready to go out on their own. many, many of our trafficking survivors actually have a need for our support. so secondly, i want to highlight also our support for our survivors of violence. our program here is called

queer, asian women, and transgender support. i want to emphasize, that even though we have the word "asian" there, we serve everyone. 70% of our clients do not identify as asian. we know that violence happens in all relationships, and we all know that survivors who are lgbt identified have less and less places to go as opposed to the other folks. and also, when they speak little english, there are less resources for them. i want to share with you that we have quite a bit of cases of young people especially both in labor and sex trafficking situations, and they run into this situation when they left

or disowned by their homophobic or transphobic families. this is something that i would like all of you to think about, and when they come from a smaller community, then, they also face all kinds of persecution by their own communities. any way, i also want to let you know that our work is not only about sadness and strife but happiness and hope. we try to provide as soon as we can wraparound support for our clients and survivors, so i think this is it for now. thank you, sfgov, for highlighting our work, and thank you all for the opportunity. >> thank you, heriana, and

thank you for the great work. judge brielle. >> yes, i just wanted to say to miss dutarte that it's a lucky day when we have a representative from the asian shelter to support survivors. thank you very much for all of your work. we are very lucky because we have now, as our next speaker, a real live deputy consul general, the honorable raquel solano, the honorable philippine general consul for san francisco. >> thank you, city of san francisco mayor london breed, and everyone. the philippine consul in san francisco joins the san francisco coalition against human trafficking in

acknowledging human trafficking month. cognizant of the plight of filipino women and children and even men becoming victims of human trafficking, our country was among the first in the world seeking to prevent trafficking, protect the victims, and prosecute the perpetrators. the antihuman trafficking persons act of 2002, this law has made it possible for the philippines to comprehensively deal with the issue of human trafficking. this law was amended in 2012 with the passage of the public act then 364, or the expanded antitrafficking in persons act of 2012 which expanded the list

of crimes prosecutable in this act. the interagency council against trafficking was created by the head of the department offus i say who moderates for the implementation of these laws. all the philippine foreign service posts are working towards the elimination of human trafficking. the philippines has made significance in its inroads to combatting human trafficking. in 2016, the philippines was declared a tier one country dealing in trafficking persons

report. much still needs to be done, however. every day, women and men continue to fall victims to human trafficking. it is important to hold events such as this to shed light on this serious issue. it is our hope that our collaborative efforts will be able to help us make significant and lasting changes towards finally eliminating the scourge of human trafficking. thank you very much. >> thank you so much, and our last speaker before we get to our awards winners -- our award winners, last, but not least, is lori cohen. she is the executive director

of expat u.s.a. >> thank you, miss hopkins, judge brielle, and the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking for inviting expat u.s.a. to join identifying preventing human trafficking month. expat is the nation's first organization to address the crisis of child sex trafficking and exploitation. founded 30 years ago, it belongs to a global network active in 104 countries, all sharing the goal to halt the on-line sexual exploitation of children, the trafficking of children for sexual purposes, and the sexual exploitation of children in the travel and tourism industry. we came to prominence when we led a national campaign against the immensely profitable but

deeply exploitative child sex industry fueled largely by north american and western european men. with the passage of federal legislation, banning pedophile tourism, we turned our attention to events happening on our home turf. we saw that our youth were being criminalized as child prostitutes, when in fact they were victims of domestic sex trafficking. working with coalitions across this nation, we advocates for safe harbor laws that offered children supportive services instead of arrests and incarceration. we have an inextra gram

campaign by trains educators and students on healthy relationships in -- instagram campaign by trained educators and students on healthy relationships in on-line events, and we do this through our work with local, federal, and state law makers advocating for education and policies that protect our kids while holding exploiters accountable. but our work remains more urgent than ever. the covid pandemic, which has shuttered schools and i say other owe lated students, has also heightened the vulnerablities for child sex trafficking and exploitations. as a response, we quickly rolled out an on-line safety campaign for young people, their families, and educators, with no nonsense guides on way to protect their virtual

identity from predators. the guides are available and downloadable on our website for free in english, spanish, and in honor of today's event, chinese. we have also moved our content to a virtual format so that schools worldwide can participate in our learning workshops. we have launched a free course for the hospitality industry, available in 17 languages, to ensure that hotel workers can identify indicators of human trafficking and respond to it safely and quickly. we are honored to partner with the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking, and we look forward to working with you throughout 2021 and beyond to ensure that every child has the right to grow up free from the threat of sexual

exploitation and trafficking. thank you. >> thank you so much. bonita, i'm going to turn it over to you for the awards, to kick them off. >> yes, the moment that many of us have been waiting for. thank you to all of our speakers this morning. we are so honored to have you all, to take time out of your busy schedules. earlier, i neglected to acknowledge our planning committee members, and i want to do that at this time and thank you all for your hours in preparation for this event, our kickoff event, as well as the rest of our events for national human trafficking awareness month. our committee members and partners are team from h.s.i.,

as has been mentioned, mayor breed's office, the department on the status of women, and the women of the national council of jewish women san francisco, who is the sponsor of today's event. thank you, one and all, and for all of the volunteers who were on the committee with us. thank you so-so much. it's at this time that i would like to acknowledge also my fellow award recipients over the years past. we have mentioned patty lee was here with us. if you could just -- those of you that are on the call, i see so many of you, if you could just let us know by raising your hand or giving a shoutout or something to let us know that you are here, that would be great at this time.

i know heriana and, i think, sharon denoa is on the call, who was a fellow awardee with myself the year that we were awarded. thank you all for being here today. and now, it's my greatest pleasure to open our awards ceremony. today is different than any other previous awards ceremony, and that is we have an inaugurate award that we'll be offering today, and it is my greatest pleasure to introduce this person. if you are not familiar with her and her bio, it is on-line at sfcaht.org, but i'm going to

give my own personal experience, so i'm going off script just for two second here today. noah brantley has made an indelible mark on my life. she's an inspiration, an educator, a trainer, master trainer, visionary, and friend. i had the privilege of sitting under her tutelage, her training, when i was first introduced to this issue of human trafficking back in 2007, 8, or 9. i couldn't quite remember the year, but to hear her speak what was happening, and right here in our own backyard. we don't even have to go outside of our state, but right here in our area, i was appalled as an educator in a school at that time, and i knew then and told her then that our

paths would cross. needless to say, i did not know how often our paths would across over the course of these years, but miss brantley has done amazing person and is an amazing person. the person who nominated her said this: miss brantley, with her fierce heart, rare love, and strong vision, created the foundational and necessary blueprint for abolitionists' work in san francisco and beyond. her heart is both the creative force and the enduring model, and i might add, is still used today. nola brantley is our modern day harriet tubman, sojourner

truth, all rolled into one. sometimes we are privilege to walk the earth with someone who possesses tremendous amounts of courage and grace. they are truly magical, and we are blessed to be in their presence. nola brantley is such a soul. it is my greatest pleasure to present sfcahts inaugural member of the decade award -- we had to make it special -- to nola brantley. >> going to make me cry before i get a chance to say a few

words. well, good morning -- good afternoon, actually, everyone. it's both an an who and a pleasure to be receiving this ard with a, especially given the award that it is. thank you so much to the san francisco coalition against human trafficking, and for all the work that you have done. i started my work in 2005, under the leadership of gary thompson, barbara loza, and shandra murray of alameda county. i was joined and supported by local leaders, grass roots organizers, fellow professionals, concerned community members, policy makers, and the faith-based community, and together, we were able to make an incredible impact. i am so grateful for every

single person that i have been supported by on this journey. in the beginning, we were addressing a journey that we had referred to as teenagers in prostitution. thanks to our partners in atlanta, georgia, who had already begun to address this issue, we began to understand it in the sense of exploitation. in the years to umm can, i was introduced to an incredible human being by the name of david backston of not for sale. david helped me connect the dots of people in my community and the broader issue of human trafficking. it was then that i began to understand this issue through the framework of commercial sexual exploitation, the language used in the victim and trafficking protection act of 2000. i was able to learn that commercial sexual exploitation was not the only form of human trafficking, but there were many, many individuals suffering as victims and survivors of labor trafficking, so thank you to mayor breed and

others that have mentioned that because it's important that we begin to highlight that, as well. and since that i am too, it has been a -- since that time, it has been a constant learning journey. collectively, we have been able to learn about that, the needs of the population and how to better support victims and survivors while taking care of ourselves, and we still have so much more to learn. the experiences and knowledge of victims and survivors is key to our continued learning. one thing that has become clear to me over the years of doing this work is that human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation are symptoms of much, much larger societal ills. in order to truly, truly address the issue of human trafficking, we have to be willing, as hard as it is, we have to be willing to address issues such as historical

oppression, abuse of power, and without addressing those core issues, we will never eradicate human trafficking. i would like to dedicate this award to all of the advocates who have dedicated their life to this work. i admire you, and i would like to dedicate this award to my family, who have sacrificed and supported me every single step of the way. i adore you. most importantly, i could not have done any of this without jesus christ, who strengthens me. thank you. >> thank you, nola.

it was at that first global forum with days of stone that we met, and i think the audience can understand the indelible imprint that this person has made in my life. antonio, i'm going to pass it over to you to show off this beautiful plaque and certificate from the mayor's office. [inaudible] >> denise, can you mute yourself? thank you so much. thank you, antonia. and now, our next recipient is a young lady who is making her

mark and making her mark quickly in -- here in the bay area. sable marie horton is a survivor consultant at west coast children's clinic, who we heard from earlier. she is the owner of agape design, and she is the founder and executive director of shades of beauty, and an educator and survivor leader with love never fails. when i first met sable a couple of years ago, i could tell, i could look at her and tell that great things were ahead for her, and man, has she

blossomed, and we're so proud today to honor and award sable marie horton with the award for outstanding advocacy. sable -- well, actually, antonia, will you show us sable's award? yea...and certificate. thank you. and sable, would you share a few words with us? >> sure. thank you so much to everyone for being here today, and thank you so sfcaht for this award. i'm super grateful for it. i actually wrote a poem when i was being trafficked. it's called, does anyone hear me? >> she can't stop crying, but no one can see her tears.

she was forced to grow up so quickly, barely reaching her adult years. she's so young, but has lived through some of her biggest fears and then some. men enjoying her body and threatening her just for fun. they threaten her body with knives, sometimes with guns, and when she thinks it's over, here comes another one, and another, and another, and another, and another, and they come all throughout the night, constantly giving this girl a fright, and finally, she gets mercy, and daddy calls it a night. she's finally allowed to clean herself up in the shower, finally free to allowed to try to sleep, but she won't be able to, and it won't help to count

sheep. she'll have nightmares as she tries to sleep. she's have a smile on her face as people tell her she's adorable. she's expert at walking around outside, but on the inside, she knows she'll have to soon perform for men, knowing to the world that she's invisible, and if she see her wounds, they'll become judgmental. make no mistake, this isn't a choice she decided to make. she's afraid and wounded, and hundreds of times, she's been violated, been raped. wondering in her mind what freedom looks like and to get there what it would take. this young person, like so many others, has been trapped in the

21 century, and the modern demagoguery slavery. thank you so much for this. >> thank you, sable, for that beautiful poem, and thank you for being here today. now we know why you were recommended by so many people this year for this award. thank you so much. judge brielle, for our next awardee? >> i just want to say to sable that there's many things in the chat box, and one of them says thank you, sable, for your fierce vulnerablity, and we all thank you, and we all want you to know that we see you and we hear you, just to respond to your poem. i am very excited about our next award winner. it's the modern day abolitionist award winner. our award winner is carly

murray with huckleberry youth program. carly has worked with huckleberry youth programs since 2016 on the huckleberry advocacy and response team, and that's for youth experiencing sexual exploitation. in addition, carly has provided a variety of training, shaping city and statewide policies supporting vulnerable youth here in san francisco. her successful youth has been based on honoring the guiding principle that youth are experts in their own experiences, and that effectively supporting them involves prioritizing their voices and their definitions of safety, well-being, and justice, and i just have to

really say that carly devlin has made me a much better judge by listening to her, having better conversations, and having her, like, personally helped me and trained me on many of these issues. i could not be more proud to present this award to carly devlin. >> thank you. it is such an honor to be recognized by sfcaht for hard work, for huckleberry's work. i just wanted to start by recognizing my team, and they are working hard to provide the direct support to young people that we work with.

[names read] >> and i am so deeply appreciative of their contributions, creating heart, sustaining heart, and just the approach that everyone has created around youth empowerment, equity, and harm reduction, so these are all really incredible people, and we have really seen that young people can move towards healing, and when providers and systems truly meet them where they're at. and i also want to thank the many bay area partners and across the state that i've had the pleasure to work with in the last couple of years. it's been a pleasure to work with everyone and move the needle forward when it comes to systems and policies that can benefit young people. and i also wake up every day thinking about the young people that we work with, and i want to recognize and prioritize that reason why we're all here is youth themselves and really holding that their voices and erns spoos should lead the work we're doing, especially taking into account the issues of marginalization,

invisiblization, especially classes of young people and thinking through issues of equity. i think our role is to provide support and change the systems that enable this issue all coming from youth centered perspectives. i have been and am so humbled to witness so many young people's processes in doing this. it's great in receiving this recognition and all of the work that's being done around the bay area with these young people and for these young people. thank you. >> thank you so much, carly, and i know you're not on video, but antonia, can you show the plaque and the mayor's commendation. just know it's there for you, and it's very impressive,

carly. so turning now to our next modern day abolitionist award, and this is for outstanding legal policy and achievement, this award goes to ruth silver cow. she is the attorney at the catherine and george [inaudible] a delegate to santa clara human trafficking commission, and coordinator of the santa clara wage theft coalition. ruth has conducted numerous trainings on civil litigation and human trafficking cases. she has assisted forced labor human trafficking clients, seeking civil remedies. she has trained transit operators to identify human trafficking, and she has partnered with minority bar

associations to hold clinics to screen for human trafficking. ruth's tireless and highly inspirational work in advocacy has yielded numerous awards, and we are proud to add to that, sfcahts prestigious award. ruth? >> thank you so much to the collaborative, and judge brielle, i echo the sentiments in the morning at the very beginning. i'm humbled to be a recipient of this award and in the company of such colleagues.

the name of the award abolitionist harkens back to my days teaching at a school in sierra leone. the british navy intercepted slave ships and settled liberated slaves in sierra leone after the liberated the slave trade in 1803. however, they were never truly liberated. they were sold for amounts as slow as $20 to british under the false premise of

apprenticeships. today, labor trafficking victims are unpaid or receive minimal pay, and they're forced or coerced into working against their will. in the past few years, the south bay coalition has participated in operations in cases that are eerily similar to the 1800s. care homeworkers receiving little pay rate, forced to clean assault weapons and threatened with deportation. a man forced to live in the back room of a liquor store and forced to wash up in a sink, 15 people living on the floor of an apartment, and a worker told he'd be forced to jump off golden gate bridge if he tried to escape.

unfortunately, trafficking abounds in our culture, and there's little understanding of what trafficking really entails. it's falsely equated with smuggling. it conjures up images of barbed wire fences. to dispel these myths, there's been training of hotel workers. this morning, before this ceremony, i trained both v.t.a. bus drivers, who i've trained for almost six years, as well as sfmta bus drivers that i've been training for several months. i also was gratified to hear d.a. chesa boudin about

trainings in the area. fairly recent positive developments include the fact that by statute, the department of fair employment and housing now has jurisdiction over civil sex and labor trafficking claims. wage theft is a pernicious part of human trafficking and, at the location i trafficking, we screen for trafficking. i started a coalition six years ago to advocate for legislation at the local level to combat wage theft which will help to combat and detect wage trafficking. we've had success in enacting wage theft legislation, but there's more work to be done. we need to eradicate the system

that was established in the 1800s to an intersectional and collaborative approach, which all of these attendees are doing. with the work of the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking, my fellow awardees, and the attendees, i'm optimistic that we will make great strides. again, i'm grateful to you all for your work, i'm grateful to the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking for honoring me today with a modern-day abolitionist award. thank you all for the great work you do. >> thank you so much, ruth. antonia is showing the plaque to everyone, and i love what you said about wage theft being a pernicious part of human trafficking, and who knew that there was a canadian peace corps. thank you so much for all of

your hard work, and i'm going to turn it over to you, bonita. >> thank you, ruth. >> thank you, judge brielle, and thank you, ruth, so much, for all the work that you have done over the years. we so appreciate you. last, but not last, we would like to honor our last two awardees. this is the second time that i'm aware that we have coawardees, and these two are being recognized as modern day abolitionists for outstanding modern day abolition.

betty ann kavanaugh, and brian wo, the chief program officer and cofounder of the bay area antitrafficking coalition. we'd like to call baatc -- have both been prominent leaders and speakers throughout the community on this issue and has been instrumental in their strategies to fight human trafficking. in betty ann's case, it has been over 18 years. she started her career with international justice mission, whom i'm sure we all know. she has worked collaboratively with over 100 antitrafficking organizations and government agencies here in the bay area and around the world, and i think that she would say that

the most compelling and the most rewarding, teachable experience that she has been a part of has been her 18 months that she spent interviewing former human traffickers in san quentin prison to better understand the lucrative business practices and to inform the development of baatcs current strategies and programs. brian, on the other hand, participated in an antitrafficking work back in 2008 in thailand, and that opened his eyes to this travesty of a crime here in our area. he worked diligently to dill collaborative networks through

outreach organizations, service providers, and government agencies, and both of them have been very instrumental -- the district attorney mentioned the training at the airport, and mayor breed mentioned that, as well. they have been instrumental in a lot of the training at all of our local airports here in the area as well as restaurants and hotels and motels. it gives me great pleasure to introduce and to award betty ann kavanaugh and brian wo the modern day abolitionists award for outstanding community innovation. >> wow. i'm taking all of this in. i want to thank noble, carly,

and sable. i think i've taken all of this in today and seen so many faces over so many years, is brian and i thought we should come today with the thought of what gets us up in the morning and what keeps us going in the fight? everyone who has spoken before me, this idea of that it's going to take all elements of our community in order to fight such a heinous crime, and one of the things about the collaborative piece that has always been key to our d.n.a. from the very first day was literally opening the doors to our first freedom summit back in 2011 and seeing 2,000 people

show up, seeing every speaker on the podium tell us what was happening in our neighborhoods, and even then as i was holding the microphone, having come from an international perspective of talking about this issue, and then trying to have a forum for talking about it in the bay area was a sense of being a learner along the journey, just being open to say we're going to stand here with you so that everyone saying whether they are with a government agency, a local agency, or someone showing up saying i care, was just to honor everyone's voice in this and the collaborative piece of being willing to come together, willing to work together, i think has benefited the region in three ways. one, i think it's given us an amplified victims at the center of this issue, being at the center of all, and bringing

knowledge to this issue. as nola talked about how far we've come, even how we identify victims of trafficking in the midst of their exploitations and talk about those terms, our angles of approach have not only influenced things here in california but around the country and around the world. i think it's also given us amplified voice. i am honored every day by how much the work in this region really is a voice that is carried around the world, and i hear that reflected especially by individuals that have moved to different parts of the country or the world and how their work here is touching the very work, the very people, the very organizations that we have heard from today, how it has inspired them to go do something else when they've moved out of area, and lastly, i would say that our collaborative spirit has led to amplified impact. i remember the first time that sfcaht held this press conference, and how honored i was to sit in that room with so

many people who are sacrificing not just when the spotlight is on, but even in the midst of much, much darkness. so as we've kind of been walking this journey together, i think i would love to just reiterate how thankful i am for such a strong and steady cofounder in brian wo, the many volunteers that helped us carry out the large trainings of the treedom summit from 2011, 2013, and 2015, the huge super bowl effort that was put together and so many agencies that have partnered with us over the years. obviously, our tireless board that has helped strategically lead our efforts. but i think one of the things is we've tried to remain as nimble in the ongoing efforts that needs to shift and adjust in how the crime is taking place, how traffickers are actually learning ways in which we are trying to combat this,

and then adjust accordingly to be effective, and that is where we find ourselves now, having taken the advice of the former traffickers who said you know what? general trainings and whatnot, yes, that raises the watermark, but the thing is show up in the place where i conduct my business, you disrupt my incredible profits because you're changing the places where i need to move, work, and sleep my victims every day. so we're showing up in hotels, motels, and all sorts of property trainings where people are definitely identifying that this is where trafficking is definitely taking place. so by that inspiration, we are seeing more and more just actually coming to light, again, bringing the light to the darkness so that we can all see this eradicated from our

community. we are strengthened by everyone who is on this call. i'd also like to thank my family. there are many days that they endure long hours. even my young daughter says go out and keep tackling against the bad guys. so thank you, everyone. it's such a gift. >> thank you, betty ann. brian? >> thank you. i'm going to segue off of betty ann's comments. one of the founding values of the coalition has always been to equip the individual. we believe you don't have to be a full time human trafficking organization to make a difference. you can be a teacher, an artist, an engineer, and have an impact and make a difference in people's lives. we've been blessed to walk

alongside people to identify their gifts, identify their passions, help them see their skill sets and their particular spheres of influence and help them step up. we've been blessed by people stepping7into those roles, and as betty ann mentioned, we focused a little bit more on the general public, and we've been blessed to work with employees who work in industry that are more likely to see human traffics every day when they go to work, and helping them not only recognize suspicious signs of trafficking but making sure that the workplaces they're at has protocols in place so they can report those suspicious identifications and that they can receive a timely response so that the people that need help will get help when they need it. as i look at all the people in

this press conference, we've been privileged sips we started this almost ten years to continue collaborations like this to be a part of people creating new coalitions and task forces. we're encouraged to see not only growth in each county in the response to human trafficking, but as we look at the bigger picture, the whole region of the bay area has developed a more strategic response, and we're sharing information and working together and developing best practices. it really has been a privilege. we appreciate all the work that has happened through sfcaht who has really been a cornerstone in the response against human trafficking, and thank you for all the work you do and thank you for the modern day abolitionists award. >> as antonia is showcasing your awards and certificates, i

would just like to piggyback on what brian said. the baatc has been no toreous for bringing the every day person -- notorious on bringing the every day person together to help them find out what it is they can do to engage in the fight against trafficking. i remember before they formed, they were just having groups come together to talk about, what is it that we can do to shed light on this issue, and i was very privileged to be a part of that group way from the beginning, before it even started, so thank you all for your work and partnering in the classroom and around the bay area with educating the area. i was so pleased to see that you were nominated for this award. well deserved to you and all of

our awardees today. thank you so much, and i thank you all for being here. i am going to turn this back over to judge brielle. >> i echo you, bonita. i am so blown away by our awards recipients. i know we have at least one questions from one of the members of the press contingent who's here from kqed. did you want to ask your question now, and now if it's to a specific award recipient or to us, but go ahead and ask your question. >> thank you, judge brielle -- >> can i just tell you, i listen to you all the time on kqed. >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you so much for this event, and congratulations to the awardees. i feel like i've learned a lot about the -- this very

important today just from listening to you. i do have a couple of questions. miss patricia lee, i believe she was with the public defender's office. she mentioned she's seen a growing number of minors who are victims of human trafficking, and i wonder if she could give me a sense of the latest demographics of victims, like, who the victims are and how -- what is the share of unaccompanied minors or undocumented boys that she mentioned who are victims, either the number of cases they have or how do they know that, basically? and then, i have another question, which is completely unrelated, i'm sorry, for u.s. attorney anderson. i believe he's still on the call. can you comment on the attack on the u.s. capitol and

president trump's involvement in inciting the violence, and the charges against any rioters in the bay area? >> so let's start with patty lee. are you still on the platform? >> yes, i am, judge brielle. >> great. and you might want to talk about the minors that are trafficked into drug sales and whatever else you want to talk about in your answer. >> all right. since covid shelter in place, we have seen a drastic reduction in the number of youth being arrested. no surprise because they're staying at home, or unfortunately, however, with the traffic the youth, as i mentioned, these are the youth that are falling through the cracks, and so we have had fewer girls come in and, for a period of time, we actually had no girls in juvenile hall. i would say in the past -- since march, we've had

approximately ten to -- ten to 15 girls coming in, and we do not represent all of the girls, but i address only the girls we represent. i cannot talk about specific facts because the information is confidential, but i would say specifically about ten. and i would mention, we have to have a wider lens on these girls because they are at great risk and virtually all of them have experienced incidents of trafficking either to themselves, their friends or being solicited by actual strangers or boyfriends. and in terms of the undocumented youth, i know there's been a concerted effort to cleanup the tenderloin, and rightfully so. however, that has a large umbrella and has brought in a

high number of young boys into the system for drug transactions. and in terms of the numbers, it actually was creating a problem for our attorneys because of the bilingual nature of the youth, monolingual for the families, and recently, we had -- in the past month or so, i would say we had anywhere from -- or two months, from five to six new youth. this is a high number because we -- and judge brielle knows this. we have not had many new children coming in, and they pose a great problem because we have nowhere to placement -- place them. they do not qualify for federal title e funding for out-of-home placements or foster care, and

so we're put in a position of having to find placements that are not federally funded and hopefully also secure immigration relief for these youth, and we also have worked actually in the past with law enforcement to ascertain the trafficking nature of these youth in order to secure trafficking relief in immigration court, and we're also securing immigration status for these youth so that they can be placed into foster care and hopefully in the child welfare system, so i hope i've answered that question. >> is it accurate that it's, like, a growing number of victims. i believe the f.b.i. agent on

the call said it's a growing number of cases? >> it is a growing number, and i'm only addressing the young people, and those would be youth 17 and younger. and for us, we've noticed -- for us, it's a huge increase, and they present many, many challenges in providing the defense for them, but more importantly, the outcomes for them, and they do have -- they're going to stay in longer. the average length of stay for any youth that is detained is approximately two to three weeks, but for these youth, they can be in custody for months or longer. >> so just to i'm clear, it's -- so i'm clear, it's a growing number of people younger than 17 who are victimed and also a growing number of undocumented -- >> yes. my office in the yufl unit, we only represent youth -- juvenile unit, we only

represent youth 17 and younger charged with criminal offense does. i do believe we have the same situation in our adult courts. >> so patty, you're actively seeking immigrant juvenile status for these youth, correct? >> we [inaudible] that involved a lot of work in terms of outreach to family members in their native countries. primarily, we know it's in guatemala, some from el salvador, nicaragua. >> any further questions? >> and maybe just your number, miss lee, if we want to follow up? we can even put it in the chat?

. >> i'll put it in the chat. >> thank you so much. >> and pass it off to the u.s. attorney. >> exactly. >> to marissa, maybe if there's any comments on what happened in the capitol? i don't know if you're able to comment on that. any comments? is marissa still on the call? >> i believe it's mr. anderson, the u.s. attorney. >> oh, mr. anderson, are you still on the call? >> yes, i don't think he -- i think he left. >> how about miss harris? is miss harris on the call? >> miss harris is there? >> i am on the call. unfortunately, i cannot give any comment as to the ongoing nature of the federal investigations into the events that happened at the capitol.

thank you. >> okay. are there any follow-up press questions? and i'm not hearing -- >> yeah, i have one question. greg >> and you're from what press? >> san francisco community news bay area radio coalition. >> okay. great. >> my question is to the mayor's office, hearing about how the tenderloin's really being looked at closely by all agencies and departments in san francisco. is there any plans that the mayor's office, for instance, will set a curfew in that area to help keep people off of the streets? and number two, will the federal agencies collaborate more with sfpd and agencies to

clean it up? number one reason is because funding from the city, a lot of times, are not able to prosecute, so will there be more federal charges instead of state? >> unfortunately, i don't think we have the representative any longer from the mayor's office, and i don't know if, miss harris, you can address collaborations with local law enforcement or not regarding cleanup of the tenderloin or prosecutions in the tenderloin? >> i would direct the gentleman to the office's public statements regarding the fit initiative for the tenderloin. you can find those statements on the d.o.j.s website for the northern district of california. i know it's a -- a very important initiative to u.s. attorney anderson, and that initiative remains ongoing as

to various types of street-level crime that's happening in that neighborhood and affecting quality of life. >> thank you so much, and i think at this point, i wanted to direct everyone to san francisco -- sfcahts website, because there's a lot more information on the website and there's a lot morpublic events throughout january, and i just want to thank everyone, along with bonita and antonia, for say -- staying so long at this press conference and for being so valuable to this collaborative. we can't have a collaborative without all of you, and so that includes the press, and so thank you for being here. >> thank you so much to all. >> hey, judge brielle? >> yeah. >> hey, this is tatum.

i can make one quick comment about the federal initiative to the tenderloin. >> okay. great. >> obviously, it's led by u.s. attorney anderson, but the h.s.i. is involved in that initiative. it's important to us for public safety, and many other federal agencies are on that task force, and we'll continue working with closely with the san francisco police department and other federal and local agencies to -- to address that situation. >> and, once again, thank you, everyone, for your commitment and for saying on this call and at this press conference. >> we hope to see you at our team summit in february, and please check our website for all the details in that regard.

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makes it present again. ♪♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone

of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of times they don't represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary.

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were just kind of electric. families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue it also.

that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump administration and i think how each of the artists

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