madam secretary, will you call the role, please. >> clerk: [roll call] >> clerk: we have commissioners present. we have quorum. the department of public health and the governor mission and mayor breed have lifted restrictions on teleconferencing. this meeting is being held via teleconference. for those of you watching the live stream, please be aware of the live and what's being aired

on sfgov tv. if you wish to make public comment on an item, dial 1-415-655-0001. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. you must limit your community to the agenda item. and ask you to limit your comment to the agenda item. that you refrain from the use of profanity. please address remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners and staff and i also wanted to announce that closed session item number 14 which is conference with legal council

is madam president. >> president: thank you. before calling the first item, i'd like to nouns that the san francisco public utilities commission with the territory of the ohlone tribe. the san francisco p.u.c. also recognizings that every citizen has and continues to ben hit of the ohlone tribe. since the founding in 1932. it is vitally important that we recognize the history of the

ohlone people but have established a working partnership with the san francisco p.u.c. and are productive and flourishing members within the many greater san francisco bay area communities today. madam secretary, will you read the first lied please. >> any discussions on the meetings july 27th or august 4th. >> clerk: dial (415) 655-0001. meeting i.d. 146 864 4853.

press pound twice and star three to speak. mr. moderator, do we have any calls? >> madam secretary, there are two callers wishing to be recognized. hello, caller. i've opened your line, you have two minutes. >> thank you. i want to speak on item number 13 which is on the agenda, but it's in the closed session. so is it proper for me to speak on it right now? >> i'm not sure. this is the public comment session right before we go into closed session. that will be called separately. >> next caller, i have opened

your. >> prior to the meetings. i hope you'll incorporate. that was the only one i wanted to call attention to with the description on the closed session. should read 67.10e.1 and i would encourage the city attorney or outside county council to check that code reference. i believe the 67.8 references are about the description for the closed session thanks for

listening. >> madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> secretary: public comment on item three is closed. >> president: okay. is there a motion and a second on i believe the minutes of july 27th. >> secretary: yes. so the nonsubstantiative changes for july 27th. >> president: all right. is it necessary for us to make an amendment to that? >> i would check with the legal council if it needs to be

changed. >> president: i understand i can try to get you an answer, but it won't be right now province. >> i gotcha. >> secretary: yes. the minutes reflect what was on the agenda. >> all right. so then should we go forward with this and then do something later? or you can't say anything about it. it's nonsubstantiative. may i have a motion to approve the minutes of july 27th?

>> i'll move. all right. is there a second? >> all right. roll call vote. >> secretary: [roll call] >> president: all right. then, may i have a motion and a second to approve the minutes of august 4th. >> president: it's been moved and seconded, roll call vote, please. >> secretary: [roll call] >> president: okay. next item, please. >> secretary: next item is item four, general public comment. general public comment on matters that are within the commission jurisdiction. do so by dialling

(415) 655-0001. meeting id 146 864 4853 pound pound. please press star three to raise your hand to speak. >> moderator, do we have any callers hello, caller, your line is open, you have two minutes. >> to commissioners, my name is francisco de costa and as i see it, from the corruption has

reached that point. every time you go behind closed doors, it's like in the land where we treasure our freedom. let me remind you, there's a big difference between freedom and license. and that is why you're practicing when you go behind closed doors. shame on al. ya'll agreed to a process to choose somebody to manage the san francisco public utilities

commission. now you have brought a fox inside the chicken coup and you have no shame. i see what alare doing. it's poor. it's not transparent. you are not doing a service to san franciscans. you are doing a disservice. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. hello, caller. your line is open. you have two minutes. >> i'm speaking on my own behalf. i would like to thank the p.u.c. commissioners and staff who participating at the event on july 15th on a foggy summer's day. supervisor mar was inquiring why there were no solar panels on south basin.

he was advised because south basin has been seismically retro fitted. i spoke regarding the rumbling noises at night which started roughly one year ago. i would like to mark the completion of the first phase of the project. regarding the erosion at ocean beach. being deposited in the disposal site. the p.u.c. commission, u.r.s. to study possible sites to the south facilities, internet service area. the site u.r.s. stated was the most promising on the ocean side treatment facility.

this south facility could be designed to incorporate an ocean water pump station. this is confirmed the designer of the facility in carlsbad. during catastrophic fires, the process could be bypassed to provide salt water to dedicated awol system. an article should be included in the commissioners' pact. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next caller, your line is open. you have two minutes. >> thank you. good afternoon. i wanted to draw your attention to the fact that the unimpaired flow between february and june of this year was just 13% so it

looks like we're competing a terrible pattern only to have to dump water following those dry periods. before year 2001, 2004, very dry and then we had the reservoirs still pretty full. we had to dump 66% the following year. and then the recent drought, five years. and 2017, 79%. so we can do something about this. let's not let this pattern continue. right now, you have in storage 71% of capacity. that's enough water to last four and a half years. there could be no rain, no snow

for four years and we don't run out of water. there's an opportunity to allow the tualamie to do a lot better. this is something we can do something about and i look forward in the coming months to coming up with a better plan to the way it's currently managed. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. hello, caller. your line is open. you have two minutes. >> hello commissioners. this is john, president of the golden states association. i represent most sport and commercial san franciscan men and women and related businesses and industry. tens of thousands of jobs. i just wanted to comment today that we understand the state of california approached the sfpuc and other water in the valley

last week and essentially laid out our plea might be the right word that the state is being pretty forceful. our understanding of the deal of the table is a very bad one under any way of looking at it. for one thing, it would make your water rights a junior to the state water project and the central valley water project which i would think you would find troubling. from our perspective, we think that the sfpuc should look broad support of the tualamie voluntary agreement until and unless the very significant questions raised in the national fishery service peer

review are addressed for the public and everybody else to see what's going on here. we've not yet gotten a decent response from your staff to the findings of that peer review which basically say the so-called science in your v.a. is not sound science. so we urge you to reject the v.a. proposal that's being forced on water users by the state of california. i will stop there, thank you. >> thank you for your comments. hello, caller. your line is open. you've got two minutes. >> okay. thank you. commissioners, this is alvi. i hope you're doing well. i want to just comment on three items real quick. number one, the city establishment is a paper. nothing more, nothing less. i think you have seen the paper news, how this mayor got tried if for violations of ethics,

imagine, the mayor herself with a record number of a fine. to -- it came to my attention last week dwayne n. jones, the one that's the gate keeper for contracting in the city and one of the primary reasons why your contracts are going through the roof with their cost overruns have held an outreach meetings specifically for individuals that he knows and he contracts with. so it's city contract, a billion dollars or whatever the number is is being advertised through a third agent, annen agent of the p.u.c. and that agent is selectively asking individuals to come and attend an outreach meeting. what that means, you're lowering again the pool of available contractors that are willing and able to bid on the job. so, again, before you start blaming the contractors for the

overrun, this is one item where the corruption and the cost overrun that you're complaining about and your staff are complaining about is evidence. one meeting very few individuals does not reflect the city and county of san francisco inhabitants and the city. the last item i could mention that last time, but this time i want to mention on the record. you need to ask your staff, why did they include a very stringent specifications for the b.i.m., b-i-m and just to let you know that specification that your staff has asked for cost $18 million to implement. so, before your staff come back to you please try to understand. >> thank you, caller. your time is expired.

hello, caller. >> can you hear me now? >> go ahead. >> hi. david pillappeal. i just wanted to call your attention to the great highway which the mayor has announced will re-open to traffic need to be closed on weekends for the current situation. look. i don't want to get into the debate about the use of the great highway as a road, but i wanted to make sure it's a continuing interest not as a roadway, but as a containment

structure for what the west side transport storage and transport box from the richmond and sunset water sheds to oceanside treatment plant and southwest ocean fall. i just wanted to note that for the record that there should be thanks very much. >> thank you for your comments. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue.

>> secretary: thank you. >> president: next item. >> this item is. >> 5h, the water supply conditions update, i'd like to just know if mr. richie or mr. collins can comment on how bad is it? what are we doing about it? is it possible it's going to get worse? better? what do we know? >> steve richie, assistant general manager. is it going to get better? one certainty is that is uncertain. as far as the amount of water in storage currently, we're in decent shape in the water

projects have really dominated the news with how horrible they are off in the drought. we are looking right now and have advised our customers to try to comply with the governor's call for a 15% voluntary reduction from 2020 levels. we advised our customers of that back in early july. we're tracking that now. recently, it looks like we're at about a 10% reduction. so that's good. what we have told them is that while we're doing better off than some other systems, if this fall stays dry, we will likely be calling for something more dramatic beginning in early january so that people don't get the ideas they should be watering their gardens if it stays dry. so we're prepared to take more steps there as far as the state

of and working with customers on how to deal with the river downstream. >> mr. richie, i'm not advocating this, but i'm asking a question. if we imposed a 15% mandatory rationing and used the results of that to improve the condition of the river, can we do it? and how much difference would it make? >> well, first, we would have to acknowledge the same old truth which we've dealt with which the water goes in to don

pedro and the water is strictly controlled by the districts and so we'd have to make an arrangement with them if we wanted to do that. especially if we wanted that for a further reduction in use. how much water would that be. i can't tell you off the top of my head. it would be something that, again, would then be devoted to the river for relatively uncertain returns and knowing that we've reduced our water supply. the other thing we are actively dealing with right now is the second emergency executive order with government issued. because the state of oroville, the power plant has been taken off line and there are other places where hydro power generation is reduced. right now, we are working on conversations about what they're expecting from us as we move forward while we're at the

same time working with the curtailments of our diversions from the state water board. so, you know, we're looked at as somebody who can do something good on both sides of the ledger there, but we can't necessarily do both and maintain our system's integrity. so we're trying to get into that conversation and hopefully we'll have a meeting later this week on dealing with curtailments as well as dealing with the desires to maintain the integrity of the grid. >> any follow-up on that. is there any way you can bring a sort of briefing after you have this meeting. it would be great to know what conversations you will have and how the discussion goes and the second is i was wondering if the 10% you mentioned, is that sort of overall reduction for

the system or is it just san francisco? >> actually, it was 15% of the governor's executive order back in early july. >> i'm just wondering, you mentioned there's a 10% reduction in water use. >> oh, yeah. that was our observed during the month of july, we observed a roughly 10% reduction in water use among all the customers collectively. >> collectively. okay. thank you so much. >> what we can do is report back to the next commission meeting about the complexities of these things because we also will have had the state regulations on curtailments go into effect by then. it is frankly a very complex situation that we're dealing with this year because of the

extreme drought particularly being suffered in the sacramento valley. >> yeah. it would be great to see different situations, what role can we play? how much water are we talking about? how much electricity are we talking about and just get a broad sense and i'm really curious to now if you release the water and it goes to san pedro, sorry, don pedro. >> it might go to san pedro too. >> exactly. if it goes to don pedro how can we make sure that water if we make a deal with the if they release that water, how will remake sure that that water stays in the river like how can we make sure nobody else is going to take the water for, you know, agricultural use or other purposes. so it's just -- i'm just so

curious -- i'm really curious to kind of see if you can sort of have a diagram or something demonstrating the complexity of a system for us and i think for the broader public. >> yeah. i think we can readily do that at the next commission meeting because, you're right, it is complex and the whole matter of how the state is looking at curtailments, you know, rests heavily on all this. >> thank you. >> any further comments? questions? thank you, mr. richie. all right. is that it then? i'd like to open this up for public comment. >> secretary: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on item five

conditions update. raise your hand to speak, press star three. do we have any callers? >> secretary, there are two callers wishing to be recognized. hello, caller. your line is open. you have two minutes. >> to commissioners on this agenda item communication, i feel very strongly that most of the agenda items linked to number five are very general in nature. if you are living in the year 2021, and if you are reading or attending or listening to what is happening, climate change is

going to drop physically change the fires are so intense that ya'll should do some documentary on it. you cannot rely on the glaciers because the glaciers have given up and the only way to know that is to do a documentary to see how the icecap has been reduced. so we have a president, joe biden who wants to enforce or he wants to encourage all of the agreements made in the paris agreement. we have other people who want to do the same thing, but when we see what is happening in germany, what is happening in china, what is happening in

paris, you cannot take for granted anything that's taken for granted. as environmentalist, i was left to travel all over the world and see for myself places that were flourishing. and, now, i cannot bear to read the reports. and we get the plea that we want to save the water. but we continue to waste the water. >> thank you for your comments. your time is expired. next caller, your line is open, you have two minutes. >> thank you again. this is peter. brief comment on item 5 which is the water supply agreement

update. a big part of that is what to do about santa clara and they've also requested an additional 6.5mgd and people often ask me who's going to pay for that water? is it going to be spread out throughout the system. and i just hope this is part of the discussion that's been happening around the water supply agreement. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. hello, caller. your line is open. you have two minutes. >> great. can you hear me okay? >> loud and clear. >> all right. david pillpell, i have comments

on three different items. 5b, the i will follow up with the staff and the management folks on the letter. very interesting. on 5e, the scu lightning complex deprivation of emergency. no problem with the declaration even though it increases that project cost. but if that was necessary, then so be it. my request is in the future where you've got the approval block on page two for the concurrent -- um, for the commission president you've got the date there so the permanent record indicates what the general manager's declaration of emergency under the relevant

admin code pro vision. and then, finally on 5f, the cpsf disadvantaged community, solar green at the ros program. the level of organizations and the staff content. to not just list an e-mail address. not everyone has e-mail access and in particular, if you're looking at outreach to those neighborhood organizations, they having a number or a contact person is incredibly important under those circumstances. thanks for taking my comments. >> thank you for your comments.

secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> secretary: item number five is closed. >> president: please read the next item. >> secretary: next item is item 6. the report of the general manager. >> thank you, president maxwell, and commissioners. jackie rodanzo and pierman herman will be presenting. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm kiara herman. today, i'll be providing a brief overview of the disadvantaged community and community full of programs

before my colleagues jackie. for more information about the plans and strategies for outreach to disadvantaged communities. can you get to the next slide, please. thank you. so over this year, this commission and the california p.u.c. approved clean power sf to implement these two programs. the programs were conceived by the state to increase development and adoption of renewable energy in california's disadvantaged communities. the states are the california p.u.c. to provide funding to program administrators to contact renewable energy facilities in disadvantaged communities.

customers in this program will be able to prescribe in the program purchasing energy from renewable facilities and are receiving a 20% discount on their total electric bill. clean power sf this september to availability while the new resource is being constructed. we are planning to do so and are targeting an early two thousand twenty-two within five

miles of customers. the service start date is dependent on the successful construction to supply participating to partner with local community based sponsors that will act as a champion for the project. the community sponsor will help and help eligible customers enroll in the program and community solar programs. i will now pass the presentation on to my colleagues jackie randezzo. >> thank you kiara. good afternoon, commissioners i

will briefly walk us through the outreach plan for the green tariff and community for each program, the plan will consist of two phases. program enrollment which is phase two. the program for plan will target primarily low income customers in san francisco's disadvantaged communities including renters, fica customers seniors and people with disabilities. currently, there are eleven eligible census tracks in san francisco which contain 16,488 residential electricity accounts. next slide, please. partnering with community-based

organizations is a critical component of the outreach plan. we know community members are more likely to listen or take action if they know and trust the messenger. community based organizations will primarily aassist within enrolling customers into both programs and will also provide feedback to ensure we are so the tariff and community solar programs are running on different schedules and that's

had different outreach timing. the table below highlights near term outreach activities for both programs. the first activity is conducting project sponsor outreach for the community solar program which is currently under way and i'll go into more detail on that, on the next slide next slide, please. so as kiara mentioned earlier that the developer partner wednesday at least one local organization to save as a project sponsor. the effort is to help foster a connection between the project developer and potential sponsor. the sfpuc will not choose the

sponsor. the project developer will do that prior to submitting a proposal in response to solicitation to power supplies for the program. to widely advertise this opportunity to san francisco nonprofit and community based organizations, we will utilize a variety of tactics including a press release, social media, blog posts and the clean power sf website. for each of these tactics, we will invite readers and interested parties to share this opportunity with their own networks as well. we have also developed a robust list of over 360 organizations to e-mail or phone for this opportunity from the agency's organizational database and databases developed by other city departments like the city planning department. the list encompasses direct service providers, religious organizations, community centers, advocacy groups, youth

services and more. we welcome your additions and feedback on this list which was provided a communication item 5f on today's agenda. clean power sf will also host an informational webinar series on august 31st and september 2nd to attract project sponsors. we will provide formallies on the webinar series for you to share with your networks as well. after the webinar series, we will post contact info of interested organizations on the clean power sf website in september so project developers can connect with them directly. and, next slide, please. and that is it for our short presentation. so kiara and i are happy to answer questions that you may

have. >> president: any questions, colleagues? >> i have a question. >> president: yes. >> commissioner: thank you, madam president. thank you for your presentation. this is great. just wondering, do we have a sense of potentially any of these community members already using something like this or interested in this or just have you done any tree launch survey or information gathering? >> yeah. that's a good question and kiara, maybe you can chime in on the program side, but at least in terms from the communication standpoint, we have not. i think just one of our goals as an agency is to be able to provide 100% renewable energy to all san franciscans and so

really working on being able to do that while also building new renewable energy projects in these communities is a goal. but we have not done any sort of survey of community members at this time. in terms of interests from potential project sponsors, we have started doing a bit of outreach in anticipation of those webinars and we have gotten some good feedback from organizations already. so i think from that standpoint, there needs to be interest and hopefully among community members as well. kiara, did you have anything to add to that? >> you capture tuesday all, thanks, jackie. >> specific question though. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you. >> president: along with that, it would be good to know where people are so you have an idea of how far you've come or how successful your outreach was

and so that might be something to consider. >> yeah. that's a good point. so i mentioned in some of my materials that we will be utilizing a consultant to help us with developing culturally competent materials and also doing message testing and researching barriers to participation in these programs. so, perhaps within that scope, we can also essentially ask that consultant to do like a preand post survey around some of these feelings to track that progress. so that's a good idea. >> right. thank you. >> president: any further comments or questions? thank you all. very good. well done and thank you for getting back on my ask. i appreciate that very much. thank you. >> you're welcome. thank you. >> thank you. >> president: all right. any -- no further -- so why don't we open this up to public comment.

>> secretary: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on items 6a dial (415) 655-0001. meeting i.d. 1468644853 pound pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. >> secretary: mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> madam secretary, there are two callers in the queue. hello, caller. i have opened your line. you have two minutes. >> so, commissioners, chronologically, way back in 2002 in the bayview, we were the first to put solar on 58 homes. it took us six more years for

sfpuc to deal with solar. in the interim, from two thousand two, for six years, we were left to defend ourselves and put solar on other commitments. the first in the city and county of san francisco. now, during the pandemic, we've got we see some people say something without outreach. we have supposedly the space and exactly park that's reachable conducting outreach.

more outreach. anyone can make distinctments by taking sentences from somebody else's needs assessments. these people mostly from the east bay coming to san francisco and coming into our homes and trying to rearrange the furniture. you do not even understand what i'm saying. that's the way we have to talk to ya'll because the first question is when we affect such people, the second question is sfpuc. the third question is has sfpuc centered all your claims with pg&e. the fourth question is -- [bell ringing] >> sorry, caller. your time has expired. hello, caller.

your line is open. you have two minutes. >> thank you, commissioners. with all do respect, when i hear the word "outreach" it's a four letter word i swear to god i'm not kidding you and that's because of the bad experiences we've had with outreach. outreach is a fancy word for being a gate keeper. we have experienced this so many times actually on almost every occasion within the city and county of san francisco. when i hear the word "outreach" i hear the two equivalents of it is how can we exclude the majority and include the minority? when i hear civil rights office, i hear how can we violate the civil rights of residents in san francisco and then there's a contract list. this is the truth, commissioners, whether you believe it or not, this is the

truth. that is what's going on. so why don't you scrap this whole process again by issuing another rfp and just give it to, you know, dwayne f. jones. he'll do it for you. he'll take a million dollars and send an e-mail to few people and he'll check the box that he satisfied the contract requirements. i'm asking you again to look into the fake outreach that's being done on san francisco p.u.c. construction contracts. it is literally fake outreach. it is limiting who can go. it is limiting who has the knowledge and all of that is a violation of civil rights and violating the companies that work and have been established in san francisco and work in san francisco. commissioners, i'm begging you to wake up before it's too late. thank you for your time. >> thaur for your comments.

and, secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> secretary: public comment on item six is closed. >> so 6b is actually talking about operations during the covid-19 emergency. and before we start talking about returning to work on site, we want to highlight that currently 50% of our work force is already working on site. these are our field crews. together with the 50% working telecommuting, we have not had any major disruption of our core services throughout the pandemic. this is captive of off many employees and i want to start by thanking them. all employees are required to mask indoors. employees at high-risk settings such as skilled nursing or hospitals are required to be vaccinated. we do not have employees in high-risk setting category.

today, employees were required to report their vaccination as of july 29th. the city recently extended that deadline to august 12th. we have had 90% of our employees reporting vaccination status as of today and we will actually be at 100% very shortly. employees are ambiguous subject to the current requirement that they be vaccinated following ten weeks of the fda's approval following one covid-19 vaccine. all future employees must show proof of vaccination. our p.u.c. human resources team really has been providing direct services to employees to make the reporting process as easy as possible. they have also been helpful at the vaccination mobile pop-up sites at our different facilities. i would like to thank our acting d.h.r. director kim for the leadership in this area. as it currently stands, d.h.r. is department of human resources is directed to report back to the work site at least

two days a week in september. the city's currently revising their telecommuting policy. our employees will need to comply with this revised policy. once we have that information, we will begin the process to schedule people back into our facilities. a portion of our customer service function. so we do have a public facing function within our office. we need to take an equitable inclusive plan with our employees. our first step is data gathering. operation of plan or coop. this month, we're asking managers if supervisors to object their plans and help prioritize which employees will work first. when we're directed by the department, our current plan is to initiate a phased rendition over a one-month period. they will be signed two days a week of the month for their admission back to noo the

office. the first it allows employees to see each other again. second, it provides an employee an adjustment period. lastly, the i.t. staff and resources to respond to issues, progroups that are essentially returning back to the desk for the first time in over a yearment as can you probably imagine, we don't have cameras, the microphones at everybody's desk. we want to make sure they have a way to communicate with each other. in the midterm, we are piloting and customizing a work place evaluation tool first developed with different divisions. once teams are backed. the tool will be deployed agent wide and hopefully standardize the decision making around different positions for hybrid,

remote work. we also will be able to roll up the data so we can evaluate that decisions are being equitable across the agency. long temple, we'll be able to continue to adapt in covid-19 challenges or any other future disaster scenarios. what does the future work look like now. what do our work places look like. what are the technology needs that we need to have in place. covid-19 has really changed everybody's thinking and i agree we need to continue adapting our approach to attain employees and attract new ones. this will be done in approach with the city's employment department. to help lead that for the city. i will be glad to answer any questions you might have. >> yes. commissioner moran and some

parts of the city to re-opening orders. and you had mentioned the retention issue to what extent to we have a retention issue as by virtue of the covid requirements on site who are i guess part of that is also the people who've been working remotely have to reside within the state of california. what kind of challenge does that present to us? >> it is presenting us some challenges. we've had some key personnel resign or take other positions elsewhere. and, we have people that basically for a variety of reasons and can't go into great detail here who do not wish to come back to the office because of the exposure potential prop 70 to other people. we're trying to accommodate schedules, you know, people with young children. you know that the school

districts are the -- they've changed their time that the school is actually open. so it creates a problem where a person may want to be come engine early and leaving early and how do we accommodate that and also we're facing a lot of pressure from the private sector who seem to be more flexible in how they're accommodating the employees going forward. so we're evaluating that, we're tracking that and we want to make sure that, you know, as we talk to other city departments and the department of human resources with the city that we can create some flexibility coming back not having a hard comeback, but rather a soft comeback. >> president: any further questions or comments? >> i -- will we know -- you've mentioned there are 50% of the

people that we have were on site. will we know or do we know how many of those people are vaccinated? >> that's a question that, you know, they have to report their vaccination status, but it's a privacy issue that you really can't ask a person if they've been vaccinated or not. they are reporting that, but i can't see that data. >> i see. and, will we know department by department how many people are generally vaccinated? >> again. it's a really difficult question for me to answer because of the privacy issue. medical information is not publicly available to me. all i know is people have reported their vaccination status. the key here is once the fda does approve a vaccine.

you will have to be vaccinated to remain a city employee. so becomes another question of, again, are people going to. are we going to have medical exemptions and religious exemptions for vaccinations and how are those going to be handled. >> thank you. >> president: why don't we open this up to public comment. >> secretary: members of the public who wish to make public comment on item 6b dial (415) 655-0001. meeting i.d.. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. do we have any callers

moderator? >> madam secretary, there's one caller that wishes to be recognized. hello, caller. your line is open. you have two minutes. >> so, today, president joe biden gave a speech to us in which he stated that he used the bipartisan model to proper infrastructure bills. you commissioners are talking in very general terms. first and foremost, the san francisco p.u.c.'s an enterprise department. you have failed us when it comes to community benefits. there are a lot of people doling out money to others that know about it but you're not doing nothing about it. i think that it's time for

ya'll to stand now when it comes to high-speed internet especially in the bayview. to have those who need to have so that they're moving to the digital world because ya'll failed miserably when it comes to the community benefits. and, still patronizing and others. who should not be anywhere on the radar. so ya'll can apply for grants and help the community and make up to your misdeeds. but just a suggestion because ya'll seem to be rambling too much. the community is slowly dying.

our youth. our children our elders are slowly dying and there's no empathy and no compassion. and i'm at ground zero. and so is everybody else. [bell ringing] >> thank you, for your comments. your time's expired. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> secretary: public comment on item 6b is closed. >> madam president, that concludes my report for this meeting. >> president: thank you. next item, please. >> secretary: next order of business is item 7. new commission business. >> president: colleagues, any new business? seeing none. next item, please.

>> secretary: next item is item 8, consent calendar. all the matters listed here are constituted consent calendar are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or the public so requests. in which, the matter will be removed from the calendar and be discussed as a separate item.

>> hello, caller, your line is open. you have two minutes. >> can you hear me now? >> loud and clear. >> great. david pillpell. so i have comments on 8b,c, andd. i don't think they need to get pulled. i don't have any fatal issues with them. could i just make comments on those three items right now within two or two and a half minutes? does that work?

>> i believe it does. >> okay. thank you. so on 8b, the cdd warehouse office suite renovation contract award on 8b and 8d, the staff report indicates that it's not subject to the ceqa review. i'm just questioning whether that was a planning department determination or a p.u.c. staff determination it's not like a huge issue and i don't disagree with that determination, but i'm looking to find out who made it and whether it's documented somewhere. i'll follow up with staff and the environmental group on that. also, on 8b, i'm interested in whether there's a p.u.c. overall about these spaced plan that talks about staff at c.b.d., whether they remain a newcomer moves the power field

services that i understand is moving to 2000 marin and where the various wait water staff and everybody else is in the area. there's a lot of real estate stuff out there and i'm hoping that there's either a memo, a plan, an app and, again, maybe i'll follow up with the acting g.m. and he can order somebody and point me to the right person or if there are responses documents on the overall space plan for the southeast. and, finally on 8c, i'm hoping on the gary boulevard work that supported and facilitated whatever elements of the gary improvement projects whatever it's called this week that the m.t.a. has been doing and that hopefully it highlights good project coordination between p.u.c., m.t.a., and d.p.w. and

perhaps there's even a model for how we would do coordination among the various departments on important public works. those are my thoughts on your consent calendar. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. hello, caller. your line is open. you have two minutes. >> thank you. commissioners, i have comments on two items 8b which is a minor and 8d, the gary boulevard. i'd like to pull that out of the consent due to a similarity to the van ness v.r.t., but right now i do want to comment on 8b. the pictures that were released as part of the public record from cellphone, texts, and other messages.

$60,000 table. i think the p.u.c. needs to be very proud of the taxpayers' money that you complain about that's being -- that projects are -- a lot of money is being spent on projects and is going through overcross and so forth. so at least recognize the fact and this is exactly the same building, the same location where the p.u.c. has spent $60,000 just on a table and the picture of the table and the text messages are all over the internet. so, with that, i'd like you to move the gary boulevard item out of consent. i'd like to discuss the civil grand jury report related to it and what is going to happen on this one similar to the vanness

crt. >> thank you. madam secretary, there are no more comments in the queue. >> secretary: consent calendar is pulled. request to pull 8c for discussion. all right. then, colleagues, on 8a, 8b, 8d, may i have a motion and a second? >> i'll move it. >> i'll second that. >> it's been moved and seconded. madam secretary, roll call, please. >> secretary: [roll call] you have four ayes. >> president: thank you. may i have -- will you read

that itemc. sorry. yes, you're right. >> secretary: item 8c is accept contract number ww674r. gary boulevard water improvements, improve modification number two. issue contract amount by $994,459 and increasing the contract by 55 consecutive calendar days for total contract of 750 calendar days and authorize final payments to the contractor. and mr. johannson is on responder's item. >> president: any questions or comments? all right. mr. johannson. >> president maxwell and commissioners. this is allen johannson,

assistant general manager for infrastructure. this particular contract in the early phases, it was anticipated would be an interagency contract led by another agency besides the p.u.c. and at the same time, we were involved with the van ness prc. so to have this p.u.c.-led contract and so this was advertised and managed by p.u.c. staff and actually is coming in now within the 10% contingency on both cost and schedule. so it's actually a very successful project. >> president: any comments? questions? thank you, mr. johannson. may i have a motion and a second to approve this item?

>> secretary: madam president. we need to call public comment again. >> president: okay. public comment. >> secretary: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on item 8c dial (415) 655-0001. meeting i.d. 1468644853 pound pound to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. moderator, do we have caller? >> madam secretary, there's one caller that wishes to be recognized. hello, caller, your line is open. you have fochlt minutes. >> thank you. commissioners, i'm addressing you related to the similarities between gary boulevard and the van ness projects. i'm glad there was an admission

-- some sort of admission they are similar and the p.u.c. this time decided to take a lead on it. that does not change the fact. again, it does not change the fact how the van ness vrt was an example of not only the corruption, but also the racism within the p.u.c. toward middle eastern and american engineers and contractors. the reason why i say this is twofold. one, i was a victim of it, and, two, if you read the civil grand jury report that wassished roughly about a month or a little over a month ago, they eliminated, they admitted the fact that the p.u.c. specifically the p.u.c. went after the contractor that was listed to do the underground utility and i'm going to go on the record here. the reason why they went after that contractor is because of his origin, because of his

national origin and also because the mayor is a pathetic racist when she was at the board of supervisors, started picking up on that contractor. probably knowing that the plans, the underground utility plans were not marked properly. what's interesting what was also not in the report and for your ben if fit is not only they canceled the $20 million underground utility project with that l.b.e., but they reawarded the contract at $30 million when the p.u.c. said that $20 million was way too much over their estimate. so at one point, you come up with a bogus estimate, you use it to terminate that contract with the true l.b. and then you go and revisit it and the $20 million becomes $30 million. do you know who benefited from that $30 million? bribery.

[bell ringing] >> thank you for your comments. your time has expired. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> secretary: public comment on item 8c is closed. >> president: thank you. may i have a motion and a second to approve this item, please? >> i'm glad that we are out in front on this one and not stuck in the middle of all this stuff on van ness. so thank you. and i move approval. >> i'll second that. >> president: okay. so moved and seconded. role call vote, please. >> secretary: [roll call] you have four ayes. >> president: next item, please. >> secretary: next order of business is item nine, approve amendment number three to agreement number pro0101 and authorize a general manager to

execute amendment number three extending immigration agreement by 19 months. for a total duration of 55 months with no change to the agreement amount. this will be presented by derek adams. >> hi, good afternoon, commissioners. my name is derek adams and i'm the project manager for the folsom project and i'd also like to introduce paul louie as my project engineer and the contract manager. he's here as well. i have a brief presentation on the project and starting with a quick background, it's a flooding resilience project addressing historic flooding and the intermission neighborhood from 10th street to 18th street to the sf.p.i. service levels. next slide, please.

so the project shown here subpoena what we refer to as upstream components. 500 linear feet of traditional sewer pipe and box either up sizing or on auxiliary lines to increase capacity in that neighborhood and get it down to the blue line there which is a storm water only tunnel. at 4,500' linear feet and a 12en diameter concrete tunnel over to channel creek. next slide, please. we're currently in the design phase. we've split this project into four separate design and construction contracts, so our progress is varying between 35% and 95% completion. environmental is pending right where acquisition is ongoing and the planning phase is

complete. next slide, please. as i previously mentioned, we have four separate contracts. we're doing the project under. the blue is the initial pipe contract. it's our first one out of the gate. the red is our sewer box contract. that's the bulk of the components work. the large sewer box. purple is our large pipe contract. that's large pipes on piles and then the black is the tunnel. next slide, please. our current project schedule is driven by the four contracts, the design and construction and the single thing between them. says this corresponds to the previous colors on the different contract. the darker shade is designed through an award and the lighter shade is construction. as you can see, the initial

pipe design is due to start construction early next year and then the three other contracts would follow there shortly after staggered in sequence. next slide. and, our total project costs right now is $290 million and it's got everything hard costs and soft costs and i've pointed out just the property acquisition line item is a pretty large number there that points to the importance of the property acquisition over a project like this and the neighborhood that it's in is a very dense neighborhood. the property is at a premium there. next slide, please. so this project has had its share of challenges in the initial design. the first that arose is a conflict we have with piles holding up the caltrans overpass in conflict with our tunnel and these existing

piles. resolving this is going to require quite a bit of coordination with caltrans and their approval. so this is all new scope that's had to be added to p.r.o.o.1010. the next issue we had is the uncertainty with the launch application. so for the tunnel, we need to have a place we can launch from for a pretty long duration. the c.e.r. and planning identified this parking lot in blue to the left there on the west side of the tunnel. but after investing a lot into that design with the s.f.p.c.a., their board eventually declined to allow us to use that property and now the project team has been scrambling to find alternative staging locations or alignments for the tunnel. we have recently settled on using a caltrans parking lot right about where the circle is

in the middle of the tunnel and tunnelling out from that point into two directions and then acquiring the surface permanent easements for the three properties, the florida street properties where the tunnel just has to pass under those properties. that's what we're pursuing properly. so the item today is the third amendment to p.r.o.0101 the second amendment was budget and time extension to hand, to address all of the conflicts, challenges that i brought up on the previous slide, but we did not ask for the full time extension at that time, just enough time to kind of work out how we're going to proceed. we knew we were going to need some money to resolve it. but we weren't sure exactly what that would be at that time. so now that we have chosen a path forward. we've come forward today asking for a 19-month extension for a

total of 55 months in order to complete the design as laid out previously. next slide, please. and, next steps for us is environmental clearance, imminent. the right away acquisition, as we say we still need to acquire easements and we need air space lease for tunnels. i'm also taking park in upper uslus creek water shed planning to see if there's any opportunities those folks are doing that could be applied. it's a similar type of project although, a very different neighborhood, but i'm joining to see if i can find these in

my work. that's it. do you have any questions. >> mr. adams. i have a question. >> yes, please. >> just wanted to first of all thanks for your presentation cps i'm a little confused how we ended up in that situation with the caltrans pile foundations because it's just so obvious that there might be some problem there. i would have said like maybe the first thing would be would have been like should we go check that and that makes me really concerned that this wasn't done earlier and then

now we are like talking about alternatives and i'm wondering if you are seriously thinking about alternatives in a different way and maybe future projects, we should not be dealing with this issue or we should actually flag such locations as a location of concern that we have to pay more attention to or do our due diligence before getting into the project design or contracting. another question i have for you is i noticed in your circle, in your presentation, in your slide that you had, you said, i think the problem area was that circle and you also said the new design in one of the alternatives, you're thinking about to directing their water from the same location down, is that what i understood correctly? >> so, yeah. the conflict is in that circle

area is with existing piles from caltrans. in -- it just happened z to be kind of a happy accident that the resolution with the option that we're going with is just a little to the right of that circle is that caltrans owns a lot of parking lots there and so we're going to stage from that area to tunnel. so it's just a conduction staging thing. so it's not shown from the florida strait there all the way down to the tunnel. so we'll be digging that in the middle because there's just not a lot of open parking lots in this neighborhood that we can access and so this is one of the few where we had a property owner that was willing to work with us and in your first

question, that's a good one. it's something that occurred in the c.e.r. before i took over the project. so i can't speak to the level of due diligence that was done in that time. so essentially what happened was we knew there was an overpass there. folks looked into the belts to determine what they looked like and to determine there had been a subsequent retro fit from the 89 earthquake that was not available and also that we had expanded the foot panel piles and implemented where we were in the planning stage and got to and discovered there was essentially this retro fit that occurred. >> i think it was just a matter of them digging deep enough. i apologize i wasn't around to know what kind of due diligence

they did at that time and maybe paul louie can provide more detail than i and when they dug into this a bit deeper and discovered that something that, you know, was just not foreseen to be that large. >> i'd like to add that i recognize i came in late after the planning process was over. however, i'd like to say that part of my job is to obtain those drawings from whatever agency along that alignment. and when i asked caltrans for their as builds. so d.p.w., they did the initial planning. they requested two years before

i did and then when i compared two as builds together, they were the same. so then what happened was i handed it over to consultants and they did their due diligence and they realized that something's wrong here because they realized that there was -- there should have been some drawings there for this retro fit. but that's when i went back to caltrans and i asked them, hey, are you guys missing some as builds. and what happened was they sponed that they gave me everything they had, but we know something's missing. and they searched through their records on their own and that's how we were able to find the

missing records. >> and, i appreciate that. thank you for clarifying. i just want to say, you know, obviously they want to do their due diligence because they don't want to end up in the situation. i think from our end, maybe it would be like -- it would be important for us to be a little bit more, you know, dig a little bit deeper sometimes because obviously, we are -- i mean, it's such an obvious location. that's one of the reasons any project can have a lot of surprises. but sometimes, certain locations are prime for such conflict. so it's very important to kind of identify those and maybe do a little bit deeper due diligence to make sure we don't end up paying for something

that they would not be able to deliver and then they'd have to charge us again for more work just that's my observation and i ambiguous wonder if sfpca was a driver of that line and try to which is again sort of makes me wonder if we should sort of settle that situation before sort of going through this design project. >> yeah. i was going to say the same thing was that sfpca was designed to be a thought process. >> it wasn't. >> no. it was a so. again, i totally agree.

>> i'm not sure i'm following where we are right now. reading this project scope says we might have an alternative. so what have we decided to do? i mean, because in the scope of work it says that, they've discovered the foundation or moving them moving the tunnel. so what have you decided to do? >> so we're relocating the piles. that's what we've decided with caltrans' initial feedback was that we were relocating the

files and we are tunnelling from the middle and i apologize my slides were not we have resolved what we're doing and have a final schedule to move forward with. >> so why did you choose to move the foundation rather than relocate the tunnel? >> we looked extensively at relocating the tunnel and it was actually quite a bit more expensive and it turned out because of the tangle of those freeways, you can see there's freeways in every direction. every relocation attempt was

worse and we ran these pascal transand they degreed that our proposed relocation in the piles was the least intrusive thing we can do. >> and so i know things have been overlooked. to me, this has really, you know, moving the piles, are we sure? and do we have everything on board? have we done all of our due diligence to make sure that we don't make any mistakes? and, who's doing this work? how long is it going to take? and what goes before that so that we are sure that when you do this work, it's going to be done correctly and there's not going to be oops, we didn't see? >> yeah, so the relocation work is being done by our consultant under p.r.o. and under design. it's going to be reviewed and approved by caltrans.

the caltrans is going to sign off on the work consenting to the movement of the piles of the relocation of the piles and the work itself would be done by our contract or in coordination with caltrans. so they're going to basically have some input into the work itself, how it's done and they're going to then bless it and then take it when it's done. they're going to accept the work, the relocated piles at the end. >> and, so, if they accept the work, we are no longer liable? >> we are no longer liable. there's some provisions and state law that allow us not to be liable that caltrans is reviewing and approving the work. there's still some reliable. but they feel the risk is no greater than anything else

we've been doing. we've also gotten larger insurance from the contractor, not the contractor. sorry. the designer for the design work. >> and, authentic the contractor has done this work before and you know it and you've seen it and it's approved. the contractor's going to be doing this work? >> the construction work itself, we have not hired a contractor yet. >> oh, the designer then. >> the designer that's designing it is in our o1 o1 contract and caltrans is aware that's what we're doing and is work with them. >> and then so once we do, do

we have any idea how long it's going to take? >> the work itself or the construction work? >> the construction. the design is almost done, is that right. >> the design, yes, moving forward. the construction itself, paul, i need you to help me out with this one, but i think the relocation of the piles is a couple months. >> the relocation of the piles should take place while the contractors are mobilizing their tunnel boring machines. it will take about a year to arrive. so during that one-year period, the foundations will be moved. >> so this is not an open ditch. it's tunnelling? so there's less conflict?

>> foundation modification is excavation. they're going to dig four shafts straight down next to the foundation and then they're going to remove the piles and then they're going to drill new piles in replacement. >> all right. well, yes, commissioner harington. >> commissioner: sorry. my connection is weak, i hope it works. i realize this started several years ago and in some way, i'm happy we've had all these problems because this in time gives us time. i'm hoping by the time you get to go out to bid would change that quite substantially. so i'm hoping that you do not overconnect and so i would

caution you not to overconnect which may not be blessed in the way that you're working on it right now just to be clear about that. >> excellent. and i would go into that and say whatever you do. we'd like to have as much information on that as possible. we want to make sure we've done our due diligence, you know. yes. >> commissioner: i think maybe another thing to remember is it would be good to every one of these missteps is an opportunity to create a work plan or a process plan that would help us next time to not end up in the right situation. so it would be kind of good to create some sort of expectation

and i know you sort of have something like that as you go through the project design, but that did not take us where we need to be with that one. and i just also want to add my voice to the comments by my colleagues on this is a new opportunity. you know, we struggled, but maybe this is a new opportunity for us to think what we are going to do. >> president: all right. thank you. thank you, gentlemen. why don't we open this up for public comment. >> secretary: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on item number 9, dial (415) 655-0001. meeting i.d. 1468644853 pound pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3.

do we have any callers? >> madam secretary, there are three callers in the queue. hello, caller. your line is open. have you two minutes. >> thank you. where do i start on this item? >> first of all, the celebration over the success of gary boulevard is short lived, commissioner harington. city property sold for $1, that can only be done by willy brown. two, i recognize that the project manager just took the job after it was initiated. but it is extremely concerning to hear that presentation that i heard today. first of all, you're dealing with caltrans. caltrans ride away. they are highly unlikely that

will allow any contractor to come in without a retro fit work on a major pile under the 101 and allow anybody to mess with it to begin with. two, i find it extremely difficult to believe that the retro fit that took place in '89 due to the loma earthquake, they couldn't find the as build plans for them. they have stringent requirements and excellent record keeping for project. something is definitely wrong here and maybe we can call cathy hao and her son, the engineer she hired to work under her and asked them what the hell did they do here. $4 million is just the beginning. you can't blame anybody except the corruption at the p.u.c., the corruption that has been

instituted for years and years. $4 million is just the begin, commissioners. you have no idea who's going to come up next. here's what happened in seattle. that's a real story and that's a justified story because really, no one knew sitting in someone had it anywhere. >> sorry. caller. your time has expired. next caller, your line is open; you have two minutes. >> first and foremost, way back in two thousand two, we had somebody dig three conduits and

one of you on this so-called commission knows what i'm talking about. marin street, the large main was compromised that took over two years to fix. i don't know if ya'll think that the people at home are stupid, they're going to listen to this conversation and they agree with the adjudication. first and foremost when we have a situation like this, which is very serious. we should of had somebody from caltrans. secondly, we should of had a structural engineer. i don't know if anybody. i don't know. either one is somewhat of an advocate. one is a high drol gist. somebody else is good in

financing. but i don't think we have a real qualified structural engineer. i know what i'm talking about because i established an infrastructure group a technical support group and property management group at the presidio and worked with qualified engineers. i will not tolerate nonsense like this. this is nonsense trying to mess with it. i wish ya'll the best. >> thank you for your comments. hello, caller. your line is open. you have two minutes. >> can you hear me now? >> loud and clear. >> great. david pillpell. on item nine. i take a different approach from those previous speakers. the presentation on this item

is not posted on the website. i he or she request a copy of that presentation and i just want to reinforce, this is exactly the kind of item, this is exactly why these staff presentations while we're meeting online like this need to be posted whether they were provided to the commission secretary by the deadline or created beforehand. they need to be posted. the public needs to be able to see the slide not just by staff, but when they refer to them. i've made my point on that. i would ask whether other nearby public buildings muni has some facilities there. animal care and control is in the neighborhood. there's public right of way and a treat avenue which is an old

railroad right of way. were those locations considered? i don't know. the city should have design immunity on a project like this but i don't know how this relates to the resolution from that item. 21-204 and staff has not provided a copy of that settlement agreement in response to my records request. i got a nice letter saying it won't be available until it's available. i'm not happy about that either. i would add an absolute completion date, may 31st, 2023 in the resolution which is october 31st, 2021, plus 19 months and the comma is in the wrong place in the final resolve clause if you go to --

[bell ringing] >> duration of >> thank you for your comments. i'm sorry. your time is expired. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> secretary: thank you. public comment on item nine is closed. >> president: may i have a motion and a second to move this item. is there any further discussion on this item? seeing none. may i have a motion and a second to approve the item. moved and seconded. role call on the item, please. >> secretary: [roll call] you have four ayes. >> president: thank you. would you please read the items and call for public comment to

be heard in closed session. >> secretary: the following items will be heard during closed session. item 12 pursuant to government code section 5479 and 57b. consider for employment. the san francisco public utilities commission pursuant. 5.4945f and 57.56 and san francisco's administrative code section. labor negotiator unrepresented employee to the negotiator, commission president sofie maxwell. issues under negotiation, wages, hours, benefits, working conditions. item 13 authority at all and as

i noted at the beginning, item number 14 conferring. has been removed: members of the public who wish to make public comment specifically on the items to be heard in closed session dial 1 (415) 655-0001. meeting i.d. 1468644853 pound pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. >> there are two callers in the queue. hello, caller, your line is open, you have two minutes.

>> so what i want to say is what i've said before. you're going to closed session and ya'll do whatever ya'll want to. so we want to know what happened during closed session, we have to wait for an hour, an hour and a half and we don't know anything. the statement ya'll make is we've got nothing to disclose. this very congress so luted process illegal in many respects even though they had administrative code is a shame that in san francisco, we have

stripped solo to choose somebody who shouldn't be the general manager. to say it, so have a good time in closed session. i hope you have some refreshments. >> i'm representing the sierra club. my comments pertain to agenda item number 13 to be discussed in closed session. we are approached to the s.f.p.u.c.'s legal battles. this lawsuit is counter productive in many ways. commissioners should direct staff to withdraw from the

lawsuit. the sfpuc and its customers would be better served by negotiating with the board instead of litigating. i'll negotiate some key reviews. first, you're going to lose. you have no. failed to pass a peer review. you have no articles published to support your position. the state port on the other hand has hundreds of peer reviewed articles and research supporting the need for higher flows to protect the eco system. second, the state is bigger than you are. it has more resources and more power. third, you'll get a better deal by negotiating. the state board wants to setting this issue. finally, you're on the wrong side of history and opposed to

the environmental values of your own customers. there are plenty more reasons to drop this lawsuit. get moving once and for all. >> thank you for your comments. hello, caller, your line is open. you have two minutes. >> hello. i assumed that in item 13 you're likely to hear a proposal regarding the state agencies regarding the voluntary package. simply put, we urge you to reject that package for multiple reasons as a result,

we do not believe those talks we do not believe is for the p.u.c. to discuss the voluntary agreements in closed session. we believe they are the right to hear about the proposal and to hear your reaction to that proposal. number two, the what we know of the package and we have been briefed regarding the package suggesting it's completely unacceptable. providing that water has no foundation. setting enormous holes. it includes as a foundation the trump administration violence which brings enormous implications. we urge you to call a workshop that would allow us to work

with you to talk about the details of this package which has enormous implications which frankly none of your staff understands. finally a refill agreement which we think would make your water rights junior to those of the state bad deal for san francisco. we're going to reject it. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next caller, your line is open, you have two minutes. >> thank you, good afternoon, for the last time. this is peter directmeyer. i want to remind you that for more than a decade, there's been an agreement that it's in a state of psychological crisis. but phase one of the delta plan was adopted in december of two thousand eighteen, more than two and a half years ago and

nothing has happened. the delta is dying under our watch and this is just terrible and san francisco has been a much better place to contribute to any other water agency. your storage gives you so much flexibility. now, you might be discussing the v.a. in closed session which made me think that normally, you'd get a report on the delta plan in that there wasn't one today which makes me suspicious as well. and that would be inappropriate to discuss that in closed session. so if that is part of the agenda, i encourage you to pull that from closed session and address it in public at your next meeting. thank you very much. and see you next time. [please stand by]

>> that room is sitting in room 200 is a racist witch. under her rule, people of color has been dieing in hunters point and treasure island. p.u.c. employees of color have been rooted out from the p.u.c. because of her and her gang. that is a fact. bringing dennis herrera to be the general manager is the worst mistake. you had a process to gate new general manager. you published it. then all of a sudden s someone

-- someone from the machine need to be rewarded. come on. you got nothing to lose. no one is going to -- the worst thing that can happen to you if you go back to your real jobs. that's the worst part. >> clerk: thank you caller, your time has expired. there are no more callers in the queue. >> president maxwell: public comment is closed. next item please. >> clerk: item 11 with a motion on to assert any client privilege regarding matters listed below as conference with legal counsel. >> president maxwell: motion and second? >> second and moved. >> president maxwell: roll call vote please.

>> clerk: [roll call vote] you have five ayes. are we ready to move in closed session? >> president maxwell: i think we should take a 10 minute break. please stand by. >> next item please. >> clerk: item 16, motion regarding whether to disclose the discussion during the closed

session. >> president maxwell: seconded. roll call vote please. [roll call vote] you have four ayes. >> president maxwell: madam secretary, is there any further business before this commission? >> clerk: that concludes your business for this meeting. >> president maxwell: then, this meeting is adjourned. thank you all.

>> roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. the light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born.

>> working with kids in the ocean that aren't familiar with this space is really special because you're dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. >> when i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. >> we'll get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who don't like the beach. it's too cold out, and it's those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. >> over the last few years, i think we've had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. >> surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. >> we've start off with about two to four sessions in the

pool before actually going out and surfing. >> swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all -- not being anxious. >> so when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p.e. credits. just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. but now that we've been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids that's consistent, and the word has spread, that it's super fun, that you learn about the ocean. >> starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. >> we usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean

beach. we once did a special trip. we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close

camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, i'm going to be okay. >> it gives them resiliency skills and helps them build self-confidence. and with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. >> i went to bring my family to the beach and tell them what i did. >> i saw kids open up in the

ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. >> for some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a mentorship program like this, it's they want to surf, and then later, they'll find out that they've, like, made this community connection. >> i think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. >> for kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. >> we go on 150 surf outings a year. that's year-round programming. we've seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has

translated to growth in other facets of their lives. >> i just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that they're engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how they're doing, like, in general. >> what i like best is they really care about me, like, i'm not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. >> we're creating surfers, and we're changing the face of surfing. >> the feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. it's definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but it's definitely fun. >> it leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kid's going to go out and do. >> i think it's really magical almost. at least it was for me. >> it was really exciting when

i caught my first wave. >> i felt like i was, like -- it was, like, magical, really. >> when they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know -- their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. >> i was on top of the world. it's amazing. i felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. it was, like, the scariest thing i'd ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after

>> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your san francisco history used to be. >> we hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. >> even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. and they tell us that. >> you're going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something that's very, very good. ♪♪ >> the legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by san francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. it really provides for san

francisco's unique character. ♪♪ >> and that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. >> i'm michael cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. ♪♪ the bakery started in 191. my grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. it is a small operation. it's not big. so everything is kind of quality that way. so i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. >> i'm leslie cirocco-mitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. ♪♪

so we get up pretty early in the morning. i usually start baking around 5:00. and then you just start doing rounds of dough. loaves. >> my mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. after that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. ♪♪ you know, i don't really think about it. but then when i -- sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and we've been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. you know, that geez, we've been here a long time. [applause] ♪♪ >> a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important.

we all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved

meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy's joint. tommy's joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important.

♪♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and

that is unique to san francisco. >> it started in june of 1953. ♪♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. the business really boomed after that. >> i think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of san francisco. we were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. businesses come and go in the city.

pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and there's so much competition. so for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. >> we got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. she was our customer in 1953. and she still comes in. but she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that we're carrying on our father's legacy. and that we mean so much to so many people. ♪♪

>> it provides a perspective. and i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, you're missing the context. for me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. >> i just think it's part of san francisco. people like to see familiar stuff. at least i know i do. >> in the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommy's joint and looks exactly the same. we haven't change add thing. >> i remember one lady saying, you know, i've been eating this ice cream since before i was born. and i thought, wow! we have, too. ♪♪ >> when i look at an old neon sign that's working or not working, i feel the family business that was in there.

>> since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. >> you know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of san francisco. >> sf shines is such an amazing program, and i can't think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if they've got a neon sign, they've really got a great way to advertise their business. >> this is a continuation of the sf shines program. >> focusing other neon signs is

relatively new to us. of the seven neon signs, we've invested about $145,000. >> a good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. as opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. >> in san francisco, the majority of neon signs are for mom-and-pop businesses. in order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. >> part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. in the time that we've been here, we've seen a number of signs restored just on eddy

street. >> there are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. i have worked with randall and al, and we've mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. that information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. so if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, we're going to pick these five, and they're putting together clusters, so they build on top of what's already there. >> a cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. when you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. if you havy got two of three of them, you've created an atmosphere that's almost like a movie set. >> some of the hotel, we've already invested in to get

those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some we've done in chinatown, as well as the city's portal neighborhood. >> we got the fund to restore it. it took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. >> neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. >> you would go downtown and see the most recent humphrey bogart film filled with neon in

the background. and you'd see that on market street, and as market street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. >> the film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. >> one of my favorite scenes, orson welles is chasing rita hayworth with neon signs

in the background. >> i think what the office of economic and workforce development is very excited with is that we'll be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. the first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the western hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. >> neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. we want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in san francisco, and so do they. we bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done. >> people in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. as you're driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. >> knee an was created to make

the night more friendly and advertise businesses. it's a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. >> there's so many ways to improve public safety. the standard way is having more eyes on the street, but there's other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. but what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. >> when i see things coming back to life, it's like remembering how things were. it's remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just -- it just -- it just

>> this is the august 11, 2021, treasure island development board meeting. board members are participating in this meeting remotely via video conference participating in the same extent as if physically present. public comment is available for each item on the agenda. members who wish to comment the phone number is 415-655-0001. access code (146)448-1577. pound and pound again. when your item of interest is

called dial star 3 to speak. you may address the board once per agenda item up potwo minutes. item 1. call to order. director tsen. >> here. >> dunlop. >> here. >> richardson. >> here. >> kwon. >> present. >> prochnik. director beck. >> present. >> supervisor haney. we do have a quorum. >> thank you. good afternoon to the board and to the public who are joining us. it is a great afternoon in san francisco. there are no action items today except for the consent calendar, but there are some important informational items. i will ask the board and staff to move to decision through the

agenda. i want the board members to be present for the informational items. a few have to leave at a certain time. thank you for joining us today. next item, please. >> 2. general public comment. there is no public comment. >> next item. >> 3. report by treasure island director. >> go ahead, bob. >> members of the board, i wanted to start my comments today by addressing police reports that some of our audience may have heard or board members may have heard this morning of police activity on treasure island. the sfpd did respond to a call within the job core campus. the latest reports we have from pd and the department of emergency management is that there is no continuing threat,

but the police department sfpd does continue the investigation. there were interruptions to muni treasure island route 25 service during the incident, but we expect that service to resume shortly, although there may be ongoing delays. with that i would like to turn it over to sherry williams to comment on the activities of one treasure island. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you, bob. you all have a written report that was compiled by our deputy director. i will briefly highlight the treasure island program that we rolled out in june. we are making tweaks of it whenever any new program there are new things to learn. it is providing food five days

per week through food truck or with island restaurants as well as the food pantry and feel kits. it -- meal kits. it is wonderful to work with the island residents who have involved with helping with registration and making sure things go well and people are picking up food. it is an awesome job and career builder kind of thing for youth on the island. multiple touch points this program has and so we are excited. we are thankful for the support we have gotten. there was a highlight on nbc this week on the program. people can google and find out about the nearest treasure island program featured.

other than that we have a report in your packet and in the public availability. i will conclude my remarks. >> thank you. bob. >> on july 21st, the city sold its second issuance of bonds under the community facilities district. these bonds are secured by the special taxes leveed on improvement area 1 on yerba buena island where the bristol is the project currently under development paying the special taxes. the sale attracted more than $500 million in total orders

from 22 unique institutional and individual investors. the strong demand allowed the city to lock in a true interest rate of only 3.18%, which was half a percent lower than what we had estimated prior to the sale. we expect to close the transaction on august 12th. this should result in almost $40 million proceeds for reimbursement of tidc of eligible expenses. on the housing front. they are anticipating the continued delivery of additional modular units this week and expects the stacking of the modular units completed by the end of the month. mercy catholic charities is pursuing funding through hcd's

multi-family development acsellerration fund program or in depth as an alternative to tax credit financing. the objective is to close financing in february and begin construction in early march. we work with mohcd on procedures for ranking the order in which the tdda households will be offered replacement units. we will do outreach to residents later this year or late this year and bringing updates to the board on that as we move forward. the right-of-way services treasure island advisers will update the regular agenda regarding the bristol free marketing and outreach to encourage residents to pursue these below market rate for sale units.

we have had no electrical outages, unplanned, since collecting the residential neighborhoods on july 1st. last week they identified across arm on a poll on hutchins court and performed an emergency replacement overnight. another on-island program, dph's health network nurse clinic at the gymnasium is continuing to offer. [ inaudible ] from may through july. more than 80% of the clinic visits for public vaccinations. others included educational and information and medical general medical needs. on island covid testing is

continuing through the end of august. as with all covid-related programs, potentially subject to extension and continuation as it appears the city is well into a second surge at this point. you may have also seen reports of a hit-and-run fatality on the island on july 29th. we are awaiting the final police department investigative report to assess fully that situation. on august 3rd, we held our annual national night out event on the island. sponsors include one treasure island, housing providers, residents, community, police department, fire department, treasure island advisers and job

core was in attendance. backs were given to residents going back to school. roughly 200 residents participated. there is a music festival planned for fields on saturday september 15th. on the second week in october the navy will host events in san francisco. staff is planning activities in expectation the blue angels show will draw visitors to the island. we had an intern through the mayor's opportunities for all program this summer. she was a remote internship. our intern was a graphic design

student at vassar college. she focused on studying our arts master plan and history of on-island art programs and provided updated content that we will put on our website regarding the arts master plan and the art in action program from the golden gate international exposition. we are working with the city department of technology on planning for revising our website over the next several months. the landscape and subcontractor habitat potential continue to work on ybi natural areas management. the august work was focused primarily on invasive removals

and reduction of potential fire fuel loads on ybi. dead branches and brush that could not be up slope for removal will be barged to treasure island for chipping. we have new swings that have been delivered to replace those on the play structures at 13 and e. we are working to schedule replace or repair of the playground later this month. for tida offers, the staff continue to participate in the city-wide weekly covid-19 inter agency coordination calls. we are working with the city administrator's office on remote work policies. the expectation is that our

office and most city offices will return to what will be new normal september 13th. we anticipate that in person board and committee meetings may resume in october, although as i mentioned with the delta surge, some of these schedules are subject to extension. we are working on an moa with the transportation authority to perform some work on the torpedo building as part of the south gate project that the ta is currently under construction. they were required to demolish coast guard orders 8. they committed to ship out to replace the roof and windows of

thetor be do building -- torpedo building. we are working on that. update on our lawsuit. the city attorney's office and other dependents submitted motions to dismiss third amended complaint on july 12th. plaintiff responses to the motions to dismiss were filed on july 27th and the city attorney filed response to the plaintiff response on july 30th. the hearing on the motions to dismiss the third amended complaint is scheduled for september 30th. that concludes my report. >> thank you, bob. i see that director julieia prochnik joined us. could you tell us the covid

tests are continuing on the island. are they held at the nurses clinic or what is the site that the tests are being done? >> the testing is continuing on tuesdays at the ship shape in the parking lot outside the ship hip. also, on tuesday afternoon in the nurse clinic in the gymnasium there are covid vaccinations. testing at shipshape, i believe from 9:00. clinic 2:00 to 6:00 at the gymnasium. >> vaccinations are available for residents. i hope they take advantage of that. i understand city employees and

board members have to also provide the vaccination information and i hope everybody has done that to give that to kate if you haven't done so already. are there any questions by board members? >> yes, go ahead. >> thank you, mr. beck. glad there are no electrical outages. great to know. any update from cal trans and any interagency meeting? >> no updates from california f.

fcta filed application for grant program called rays. i am not sure what it stands for to try to close the funding gap on the west side bridges project. the notices of work for the rays applications are to come out in november. on the west side bridges, funding is in a holing pattern for the next three months. >> what is the engineral take on the lb -- general take on the lb general? >> we did have a presentation to the lb advisory committee this past month. we expect to -- they invited us to have a ongoing dialogue with them going forward on small

business and local business participation underneath the small business program. >> thank you. lastly, on the covid testing. that is ongoing, right? not testing, vaccination. >> yes, the dph anticipates being able to offer the covid vaccinations through the clinic at the gymnasium for the foreseeable future. when the covid vaccination is approved for children under the age of 12, we expect to do the -- from conversations with dph we expect to bring back the day long covid vaccination exercises to get the young people on the island vaccinated. >> thank you.

>> first, i would like to thank sherry for the great work they are doing. thank you, sherry and the the food program. i would like to do a shout out for barklay sanders very helpful today when there was the alleged perhaps done man on the island as has been mentioned. that does not seem to be an issue right now and the island was opened up. it was helpful to have a community member participating and sending out information. i just want to put that out there. what type of covid shots are they giving, do you know, bob? >> i believe it was moderna.

i will need to check. if someone has a question on that they can contact the offices or the nurses clinic to make sure you are getting the accurate information. i believe it was moderna. >> thank you. i know what they were giving out earlier but just wanted to make sure if there is anybody from the public that needs a second vaccination. about the bonds. it seems like you have done a great job on that. do we have bonds out there that are a lot higher and costing us more that you could actually refund?

>> this is only the second offering of debt. the last one was last october. it is not very different in time or different in interest rate on the current offering. we don't have anything to refinance at this point. >> thank you very much. bob, you are very helpful, also, on what seems potential crisis earlier. thank you. that is all. thanks. julia. i need to move to the agenda. we are going to lose board members. >> i want to thank you for sending out information earlier. two quick questions. one of the updates and thank you to kate and bob for the action items. it is great to see what we are

doing. thank you so much for that. there were comments by residents and others in the 301 calls about the barricade and dangerous safety issues. was that brought up or addressed at all? >> that was -- i would have to look at which one you are asking. i think there was one on the west side bridge where there was a accident last year that hasn't been addressed yet. that area is to be reconstructed as part of the west side bridges project. >> i also notice there were many, many comments about sewer and water issues. i know we will hear more about that. i want to flag that. there is a lot asked for and i hope in the presentation we will learn more and can follow up on that, too. i want to applaud one treasure

island for success of national outreach day. it is fun to see the pictures on instagram. i appreciate the work you are doing. thank you. >> next item, please. >> i want to comment. director is having issues with her microphone. >> what was that. >> if rapid covid testing is available? >> i don't know what the turnaround time is on the testing at the ship shape. i will try to get that answer before the meeting is over. i believe it is 24 hours or less, but i will confirm if it is shorter than that.

>> hello shanty. i know the y is re-opened and you have regular hours for the facility. i am glad to see that. okay. can we move on, please. >> item 4. communications from and received by tida? >> any questions about communications? >> next item, please. >> 5. ongoing business by board of directors. >> julia mentioned some and we have a standing list of items we would like to have reports on. >> 6. consent agenda. approving the minutes of the july 14, 2021 meeting.

b, resolution authorizing the 46th amendment to the treasure island and structures master lease between the authority and the united states navy to extend. >> i move to approve. >> i have a question. i can't vote on the minutes. >> how is it that you cannot vote on the minutes? >> i wasn't at the meeting. i read them and they were good. >> a technical issue. >> i don't know what the procedure is if you were not there whether you can approve the minutes. i don't know. i think that should be okay. if you want to abstain from that particular item. >> can i ask something?

>> bob or charles, do you have a statement on that? can she vote on the minutes? >> typically she would abstain. we could have roll call vote and she could abstain. >> anything else? >> i think mark had something to ask. >> mark, are you seconding the motion? >> i second the motion. i would also like to point out that another commission was told we are not allowed to abstain. we are put here to vote, not to abstain. even if you didn't participate -- this was two years ago. there is no abstention for not

being there. you can't abstain. >> i think that we can research this issue. basically, it is a procedure issue. we can come back. if you feel more comfortable abstaining today, that is fine. i will have a roll call of the vote. >> director tsen. >> yes. >> dunlop. >> yes. >> richardson. >> yes. >> kwon. >> yes. >> prochnik. >> abstain because i wasn't there. >> director buckston. >> yes. >> there are five ayes. >> i see charles on the line. this is a matter to take up at a

later time? we will go on to the next item, please. >> item 7. bristol below market rate unit premarketing. >> karened el man will present this item. >> go ahead, karen. >> good afternoon. thank you for allowing me to be part of this today. [ inaudible ] >> your audio is fading out.

>> thank you very much for the time today. i will try to make it brief. i am happy to answer follow-up questions. i am karen edelman the manager of ti advisers. our group who you will hear about and see a lot. i don't know who is instrumental in working with the spanish speaking community. we also have a team doing great service to us helping us reach out to the community and with translation interpretation and our consulting helped us create what we have today. we wanted to give you a summary and all of the information is in your board report. we have 97 households and 81 mixed. that is 188 households total

much preda legacy households the terminology. 157 host invested households. the occupants in those households are confusing. 367 adults. 581. [ inaudible ] members. we begin a lot to reach out to the community. we wanted to be looking at how we reach out now even despite restrictions. great 6-foot banners to talk about below market rate housing what education courses are available. these are at island coffee market and community center -- community center in english and spanish. the partners have taken the home

buyer workshops virtual. that is great and efficient and helpful to our community so they can participate. we have worked as a team to create flyers to engage people so they understand the pathway to home ownership. one of the primary ways to reach people is through the information that we have. they know how to contact their adviser. we use these pieces of material to forward to them and walk them through things. we appreciate communicating with people and help them understand the complicated process. this flyer is in english, spanish and the korean. the door hanger we delivered at the end of june to just make sure everybody knows how to get hold of us. talk to your advisor.

this is the information. the dda legacy and invested households. we sent out this great letter. it was engagement. it was his way to communicate to say we are here, moving forward, we want to talk to you. talk to your advisor. we outlined what was coming up. this flier we delivered to each household eligible for assistance which is a good way to get it. we also have the same thing but in an e-mail format that is really clean and readable. we sent it electronically to all individuals. it is giving their e-mail information. that is great to have that flyer in english and spanish. we have a lot of people contacting us as a result. that is good.

these touch points are helpful this. is a close up of the letter in your board report. some of the things outlined of what is happening and we will go to the details. it was just our way to get to communicate with the communities about what is going on. we have in person activities. what has been happening we want people to be ready to purchase the below market rate housing on ybi. we have 12 households who have completed home buyer education. one additional household completed education and get certificate soon, that is a total of 13. 13 7:00 you pants who -- occupants who engaged their adviser. we delivered 335 letters.

we had a table at the celebration and that was on jun. the directors were there and our ti finder. i don't like to be in pictures. thank you for being part of that with us. we had a lot of participation. national night out august 3. we had 200 people from the community. you will recognize melody williams. we were able to pass out flyers we referenced earlier about home buyer education and just wanted to engage people to answer their questions. it was amazing about putting that together. they were great events. the below market rate on ybi. we are ready to launch and are

excited. the premarket is august 20 through september 19. it is sponsored on september 1st. application september 21 to november 10. our job is to help people get education done, understand what is happening, help apply to the lottery system. we want to get people into the 14 units. the lottery will be held on december 1st. one of the things that we have been working on behind-the-scenes is working with our team and the mayor's office of housing regarding the treasure island preference so that when the lottery is run we have everything in the background to make sure it runs smoothly. very short summary.

we have 367 community legacy members qualifying for tier 1. that is fantastic. we have 581 adults that are going to qualify for the second preference. we are excited. we believe that any of you interested in buying a house on ybi in the condo minimums will have an opportunity. this is exciting. that is where our energy has been the last few months. that is exciting. just wanted to make sure everybody understood the summary. the legacy households and eligibility. we can run through this quickly. if you have any questions i am happy to answer them.

they have an opportunity for a transition unit in the future or affordable unit. opportunity to purchase a unit on ybi. they are eligible for notices if they sign up, the down payment assistance which is a great opportunity. also, they can say it is time for the island. 86 residents applied for the in lieu of cash payment. if they are no longer being part of the community. tier 1 for the treasure island resident preference for both mental and housing. 367 that will be occupants. 581 post vested residents.

they have an opportunity to rent new affordable residents on ti as income qualify. they can rent or purchase the units as residents become qualifying. they are eligible for premarketing if they sign up. they can have the resident preference. we are excited to offer that to the community. lastly, i want to give you an understand of what is coming up and that we are working behind-the-scenes on. premarketing notice to all people on the premarketing notice list and everybody that we have an e-mail address for. premarket will be august 20 to september 19. information sessions for the bristol on september 1st. treasure island resident certificate number notices september 16th in time so people

will get those applications which is good times for that. the bristol application period september 21 to november 10. the information on outreach for transition unit ranking in october. moc will run the lottery for those that applied on december 1st. that concludes my report. i am happy to answer any questions. i want to note home ownership is not for everybody. there is the training that is mandatory to get into the lottery.

it is a 30-day training session. for anybody interested in britain opportunities, they need to do this -- bristol opportunities. they need to do this quickly. >> it takes about 30-days to take the orientation class and the class that we are asking them to take. we do want people engaged now so this don't miss this opportunity. you are right. >> there are 14 units available. it is a tremendous opportunity to be able to get these units at basically below construction cost. home ownership is not for everybody, only those willing to take on the home ownership responsibility. i just wanted to bring that up.

i will open it up to the board for questions. again, i want you to know we are limited in time. we need to get on with the ferry service report. i will open it to the board. linda, yes. go ahead. >> yes, karen. i saw the. [ inaudible ] i did make a note of that earlier commenting on the success of that event. i want to acknowledge that. just a quick question, also, is everyone on treasure island including the preand post tda

taking advantage of the island housing opportunities? i want to accentuate that. the residents know that they are part of san francisco. every opportunity, i don't care where they are, mission bay and all of the wonderful places that the city is developing, they are also they should know about that and be eligible. it is going to take a while for all units to treasure island to be completed. we want to be upfront on that education piece. some of them take 15 years or more. just to create opportunities for them. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other questions? hearing none. any public comment? >> did you want to say

something? >> no. >> i can't see everybody all at once. let me know and let kate know you want to speak. any public comment, kate? >> no public comment. >> thank you for that report. we look forward to the success of this process. i am glad the outreach efforts continue. next item, please. >> item 8. treasure island mobility agency ferry study update. >> hi everyone. transportation planner. let me share.

today i am here to give the treasure island ferry study update. overview of the transportation program and then we center m.o.u. i want to provide the highlights from the the m.o.u. and the ferry study, the scope, schedule and when you can expect to hear a final recommendation. the treasure island plan was adopted in 2011 to provide a comprehensive program to minimize and improve the transportation, mobility. the plan calls for new transporters such as the

treasure island ferry and east bay service. in the map we are showing the different transit modes that will access treasure island including 25 and bus service and the ferry service connecting treasure island to downtown san francisco. >> excuse me. i am wondering if you can change the display settings so we see the slide that you are talking about. so that we can see it. thank you. you need to unmute yourself. >> sorry about that.

keep going because we are limited on time. >> i will try this one more time. we have established framework. weta will have a framework for efforts to operate the ferry service, treasure island ferry service. the goal is to reserve the

funding for zero emission ferry by 2025. the board has adopted this board m.o.u. the ferry study scope has five tasks. it looks at the ferry service plan that would address such as operational timing and the cost as well as operating analysis which we understand are thereunder lying options, what are the operation cost difference between electrical and desell fuel. we have a stakeholder committee. we will prepare a final report and recommendation about the study. the key deliverable to be coming out of task one is updated demand and service plan which we

are including catering the demand to the ferry mode. that meaning that the demand we have for treasure island we are estimating more recreational use because that has specific to ferry as well as additional seasonal demand such as more ridership in summer versus winter. we are going to look at different frequencies of what the run time could be. currently it is looking between a round trip of 30 to 35 minutes. we will narrow that down. also, what should be the vessel size starting 2025 until full build out. the operating cost for different years with different ferry services and different vessel sizes. we are looking at pier service reviews the bay area initially

as well -- nationally as well as internationally to understand the electrical ferry services and what can we learn from that? the second operation analysis is to understand are there any options with existing routes such as a longer route or new routes that would becoming on into the bay area so we can have more ferry networks in the system and what are those benefits that would look like and will there be cost reduction due to that? the final deliverable will be a operating schedule for the ferry service plan starting in 2025. this study will also recommend a ferry fare structure. this study is looking at one way

fare that would be associated with treasure island route. we will be working with weta to understand how they have done it previously and look at operating cost and ridership to understand what fare would make sense for this route. it brings into our final recommendation. we will do stakeholder outreach with the transit operators that have ferry services to understand how they have done that operation and what we can learn from it as well as the port of san francisco. the final recommendation is to be made toward the end of this year around october which we will have that service plan, the operating costs and the fare recommendation.

apologies for screen sharing. >> are you finished? >> yes, i am done. >> thank you very much for that report. i would like to know whether you can send the draft report before the final report. i think the tida board would like to see it. secondly, i mentioned many times before about the ferry service. the importance of making sure that we include the analysis on bicycle loadings and unloadings. people will be coming with bikes. we just established the wonderful bike routes throughout treasure island. i am concerned that we take that into account. it was not taken into account for the sausalito ferry and they

had long lines and delays. we want to look at that carefully. >> we are very interested to make sure the san francisco treasure island connection is robust. that is something we are definitely aware of. >> thank you. i will open it up to the other board members. if you can close your window so we can see the other board members. go ahead. >> thank you so much. my questions have to do with your task. the operation analysis. i want to know precisely what inter-modal specific mode, dimension, regional wide. i want to make sure they are performance within san francisco

on the waterfront all the way to the ship yard. there are ferry transportation planning. they need to be captured during the analysis. make sure in your report that those modes are well, i haded oakland or whatever, san francisco, those things are what i am looking for in those analyses. >> yes, definitely. we will specify where are those stops. what i was mentioning in terms of inner lining we look at two different options. one is the alameda. as well as longer routes such as

vallejo. they can be made on another stop to treasure island between the two long running routes. for a long term plan we will look at different waterfront developments such as mission bay, hunters point, along the new developments happening. due to covid all of that has different status. it is hard to capture what the ridership would be. treasure island is very today and in the next couple of years where the other developments are a little further out. we are definitely thinking about mission bay in our mind and hunters viewpoint and/or even go beyond up to south san francisco. we will be looking at those options as part of this effort.

>> absolutely. i want to say right now that treasure island or whatever is going to be extremely very important in the transportation overall plan for the bay area and to mitigate transportation to traffic on the bay bridge. that is one of the purpose of the ferry to treasure island. thank you again. with regards to documentation. i have not seen the m.o.u. signed by weta. i think tida board would like to see that. if you can make those documents available beforehand that would be great as well. >> i will get that to you,

linda. i have a copy be of it. we will get that to all board members. >> thank you, everyone. >> any public comment? >> yes, we have public comment. >> julie, i am sorry. >> thank you very much for your presentation. has it been addressed about equity and cost for using clipper? will clipper be available? are there subsidies? are there charging stations? >> your first question about the ferry fare we are planning to have it on clipper. the transit will about on clipper for one stop.

fare subsidy that is part of the study. the first point is to come up with one way fare and then follow what other transit operators have done to look at subsidies or user groups. charging the infrastructure is something that we are very interested in learning more about what that means to have the charging station on treasure island what is the cost, what do you need to have the boat charge? weta is doing system-wide analysis to look at all of their infrastructure to identify that. we are working with them to really understand the treasure island specific need and cost to have electric infrastructure. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. seeing no other questions. let's go to the next item.

>> item 9. potential interim ferry service. >> kevin griffiths will give an update. given the tima schedule for ferry service, what ticd plans are. >> good afternoon, directors. i am going to show my screen here. it looks like that is working. what i am going to talk about today dovetails nicely with the presentation you just heard. i am going to talk about the work ticd has undertaken to jump

start ferry service hopefully as early as january of 2022. something we have been working on for a while. i think the board members have heard about it in the director's report. the details are being looked at. we can give an update here to describe our intentions where things are headed. starting here on the slide with just basic context. transportation program was covered so i think folks are up to speed on what the overall program is including ferry service to the san francisco ferry building provided by weta. the key linchpin of the plan is auto tolling revenue to subsidize that service and the other transportation programs that will not be online for a couple of years. we are very interested in having some ferry option available for

the very first new residents moving to the bristol onier banena island next year. we are looking at interim ferry service that we would subsidize not just for residents of bristol. they want it available to the public and it is to establish water transportation from day one of the new development program back and forth to the city side. this will be in place until the tima program can be sustainable and support the service that will be permanent service going forward. we reached out to several potential operators over the last couple years. several works working in the space and ultimately settled on

a group called prop sf. it is best to fit the needs that we see. they have been around for a few years providing service on the bay and most widely known for shuttle service they have been providing down to south san francisco from the san francisco waterfront. we are looking to get into an agreement with prop sf to begin the service the beginning of the year. some of the features that we are looking at to make sure to incorporate in our program would be that the service would be provided through prop sf. they are a full shop. i know that is of interest to many folks. they do have an agreement with the labor unions for water transportation. we will again operate the

service for a couple year period until the full timma program is operational and transition then to the service under the timma program. we are looking to provide a robust service. we are looking at two ships of operation. 16 hour per day schedule running back and forth. we know the demand will probably be far less than that at the very beginning. we want to establish that the water transportation is available on a regular schedule and get people used to using water transportation back and forth. one feature we have been working out and we think it is solved is, as i think the directors know, our transportation program including mandatory purchase ofr transit pass for residents of

treasure island and yerba buena island. we are looking for the bristol to collect fees through homeowners association for the interim to use until the transit program is set up through timma. the new residents of bristol will pay for and receive a ferry pass to use on a monthly basis. we agree to extend to the public so that regular riders who have the need to come back and forth to the island on regular basis can purchase a monthly pass at the same rate as the bristol will purchase the passes. just a little bit more on the schedule. two shifts per day. we are looking to look at 30

minutes during the peak times for commutes morning and afternoon. one be to two hours in the afternoons. we want to extend to the evening so folks can stay longer on the city side and know they can use the ferry to come back to the island after dinner. that sort of thing. we want to have reagan we are -- regular on weekends as well. we think weekend will exceed weekday demand, especially at first. on timing and what is coming next. folks may have seen the boat coming back and forth in recent days and weeks. we have been doing test runs to ensure the new terminal we are putting the finishing touches on fits well with the boat. we have been doing marketing

tours. there was one yesterday. we are getting used to running the boat back and forth, and this board will, we believe, in october look at landing rights agreement that we have been working with bob and charles sullivan on negotiating to establish the landing rights for the vessels at the treasure island terminal. they have landing rights secured on the ferry building side. that is established. in the fall once all of the details we are talking about and service have been worked out we look to have a big announcement and event which would definitely be communicated to the board members. we would love to have participation when we are ready to rollout the announcement of the start of service.

aiming for january of 2022. i was going to finish with a description of the permanent service program. i think that has been addressed already. just to restate. the permanent operator when the program is ready and sustainable the main operator will be weta. we are in the interim to plug the gap to establish the water transportation service from day one. i am glad this came up in the questions about alternative fuel vessels and electric charges. we are working with weta to investigate the issue and we are putting conduits in the ground and establishing places for transformers to support that are on treasure island side so we

don't have to tear anything up after it is built. we do anticipate that the ultimate service will be an alternative fuel, most likely electric vessel. we want to plan for that now. i guess the other point to make is that studies being conducted. we really like the idea that our interim service gives everybody real data on how people access the transit, what the demand is going to be, what travel patterns are going to be. that is added to the process that the study is supporting and really understanding how best to provide water transportation for the island going forward. i will conclude there. happy to take questions that board members have. >> thank you.

that was really helpful. if you would turnoff your screen. >> the start of the ferry service is something we have been waiting for for a long, long time. making that water connection from the island to the mainlands to san francisco is so important. i applaud you for stepping forward to provide the entire rum service until the weta and main service is established. the fact you are working with the ferries that are renewable with using the renewable resources is really quite wonderful. more questions. you talk about the headways.

only one every hour? >> right, yes. the trip on the water actually only takes 7 minutes per the test runs. it is a fast ride. we can turn the boat around loading and off-loading and what the crew needs to do to prepare the boat. it is 30 minutes by the tame you take all of -- time you take all of those steps. we are looking at going to 30 minute turnarounds during speak commute and one hour in the off-peak hours and weekends. >> how many people do the boats carry at one time? >> the vessel we are looking at is a 49 passenger vessel.

it is a smaller boat. the weta vessels to oakland are in the 300 or 400 range. >> with 49 passengers, i think you will have a lot of demand. you are right. it is a way to test the waters and the demand apwhat things to look for when we establish the current service. how will the public be able to buy tickets for the ferry service? >> that is a detail we are working out. most likely an app-based system. we haven't concluded that. we are still looking at options at this point. >> will this vessel be able to

take on board bicycles as well? >> they will. there is not a lot of room compared to the larger weta. we know there will be bicycles for sure. we are trying to accommodate that as much as possible and not have bicycles in the way of people moving about the boat and loading and unloading. >> it will be interesting from the operational standpoint to see what the results are and the legal take note and certainly hope the data will help us for the permanent ferry. i will open it up to board members. >> go ahead. >> thank you so much, kevin, for this presentation. i want to make a note that cstd should be commended and to

second the statement. what is going to be very essential. this is a huge event for treasure island. i am going to make sure that tida, the board of directors are involved. we need to look at pr for treasure island and take advantage of all of the implementation. the bristol housing to the ferry or tell the story, to let the public know we are reaching these critical milestones. it is extremely important that we work together. any major event, any small, medium on treasure island would

like to be partners. second question that i have is that everything that goes on on treasure island. we look at opportunities to create opportunities no matter how small. letting the passengers in and greeting. if there are those opportunities even at the interim, let us know and let our director know so that we can activate treasure island to see how we can make sure we get the residents to be trusted. where we get to the permanent. we will make sure everything we are excited about that and we are doing that. every activity on treasure island and we need to let people know. a lot of times the commissioner gets questions.

because we don't let people know enough out there. yes, if we look at every detail and provide opportunities, more opportunities for development and some of the mainlands projects in san francisco. i want to put that in there, kevin, thank you. >> anybody else have questions? hearing none. lets open to the public. any comments from the public? >> there is one public comment. >> thank you, kevin for the presentation. we are looking forward to when that service begins. next item, please. >> item 10. discussion and future agenda items by directors.

>> directors, any future agenda items not discussed? okay. hearing none. >> 11. meeting adjourned. >> thank you all for being here today. >> thank you. see you soon. >> thank you, directors.

san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is

approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down

as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only

flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at

cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regional asset that can be used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help people in any way we can.

as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪♪ our debts are not for sale.

>> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flowers, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where

being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. >> keeps us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and 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. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into

the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions 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 has responded so that call is interesting. the common

>> -- and the 12 supplement to the mayoral proclamation declaring the existence of a local emergency dated february 25, 2020, and before we proceed further, i'd like to ask the commission staff member, juana contreras, who is acting as the moderator today, to list some of the rules. >> clerk: thank you. the meeting room at city hall is closed. however, members of the commission will be participating in this meeting remotely. this is pursuant to the local,