madame clerk, will you read the roll call, please. [roll call] you have four commissioners president. you have a quorum. >> thank you. due to the covid-19 health emergency, given public health recommendation issued by the san francisco department of public health, this meeting is being held via teleconference and it is being televised by sfgov-tv. for those watching on live stream, please be aware that there is a brief time lag between what is happening and what is being viewed on sfgov tv. i'd like to extend our thanks to staff and i.t. staff for their assistance during this meeting. if you'd wish to make public

comment on an item, dial 415-252-3100. the chair can interrupt and ask you to limit your comment to the agenda item. we ask that public comment be made in a civil and representful manner and refrain from the use of profanity. please address your remarks to the commission as a whole, not to individual commissioners or staff. madame president? >> thank you. before calling the first item, i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that it owns and are stewards of the unseated lands located within the territory of the tribes and desen danlzes of the historic federally recognized mission san jose band of alameda

county. the san francisco [inaudible]. that every citizen residing within the greater bay area has and continues to benefit from the use and the occupation of the tribes land. since before and after the san francisco public utilities commission's founding in 1932. it is vitally important that we do not only recognize the history of the tribal lands of which we reside, but also we acknowledge and honor the fact that the people have established a working partnership with the san francisco p.u.c. and are productive and flourishing members within the many greater bay-area san francisco communities today. madame clerk? >> thank you. [echoing] >> i'm sorry. you know what to do. >> yes. thank you. sorry about that. your next item is item number three, approval of the minutes of august 24, 2021.

>> any corrections or discussions on the august 24 meeting? minutes. seeing none, public comment, please. >> members of the public which who* wish to make two minutes of comment specifically on the minutes of august 24, dial the number on your screen. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. >> moderator, do we have any callers? operator: there are no callers wishing to be recognized at this time. >> any further discussion? seeing none, may i have a motion and a second to approve the minutes of august 24? >> commissioner, i'm back.

i'll make a motion. >> all right. may i have a second? >> second. >> it's been moved and seconded. roll call, please. [roll call] >> and you have five ayes. >> thank you. next item, please. >> next item is item number 4, general public comment. members of the pub who wish to make two minutes of general public comment on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction may do so by dialing the number on your screen, meeting i.d. 1462870622 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. >> do we have any callers?

operator: there are currently three callers in the queue. hello, caller. your line has been open. you have two minutes. >> caller: my name is francisco. and i have been participating in this types of deliberations with the san francisco public utilities commission for the last 30 years. maybe 35 years. and what i see today, lots of ploys, machinations and shenanigans. this pandemic has had -- has

the san francisco public utilities commission to hide many things under the rug. the time is coming. i was looking at the agenda today, and i'm going to address certain thing on their agenda. and i see how convoluted you all are. [inaudible] over a long period of time and you know me. i'm not into getting any favors and i'm not into getting not a single cent, let alone a dollar, but i feel ashamed that y'all are not representing the people.

and i'm [inaudible] as item go by and pinpoint to y'all how deceiving you all are because there are still walking with some very corrupt individuals. thank you very much. operator: thank you for your comments. next caller, your line is open. you have two minutes. >> caller: eileen, calling for san francisco neighborhoods. regarding this friday's workshop on alternative water supply planning, i am urging the p.u.c. to request the san diego presenters include information on the resale facility in carlsbad and that the presentations answer the following questions -- what is the footprint of the facility structure? what are the decibel levels inside these structures?

could a similar structure be placed undergrounded cities like san francisco? new subject. for sale by new owners, peter coyote wrote, and i quote, the san francisco i knew and loved has been facelifted. chromed, polished, colonized, homogenized and marginalized as a cultural, innovative force. the transition was accomplished in a smooth, seamless manner by money and the addiction to power. san francisco is too expensive, too monoculturally wealthy. tech wealth and privilege have transformed it into a cushy enclave for the heartless, end quote. thank you. operator: thank you for your comment.

next caller, your line is open. you have two minutes to comment. >> caller: can you hear me ok? operator: loud and clear. >> caller: great. good afternoon. just two items for general public comments. this friday, sfgov tv has a 1:00 p.m. meeting in at least two meetings at 2:00 p.m., including the board of supervisors' government audit and oversight committee which has one of its closed session items, the regional water quality control board settlement proposal. that is board file 281109 that this commission recommended some months back but there is no real explanation about that. nor has this commission disclosed publicly the contents of the settlement or the context of it. in any event, i hope that the

special p.u.c. meeting this friday is covered live by sfgov tv either on tv or online, depending on priorities and capacity. and my second comment, it's sort of in the form of a question. although i realize this is not "jeopardy!", i'm wondering what is the status of the general manager search and appointment process. i don't see anything on today's agenda addressing that. and i note that we continue to have a very capable acting general manager nine months later and aom woinlering if the commission might address in some fashion where we are on the general manager appointment process. thanks very much on this item. operator: thank you for your comments. madame secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> general public comment is closed. madame president, you're muted.

>> next item, please. >> next item is item 5, communications. any comments or questions on communications? >> i have one and that is on item g. and i would just like to thank the san francisco public utilities citizens advisory committee for their hard work and their commitment to this agency and to our city and to their well-thought-out and helpful resolutions. much appreciated and thank you all for all that you do and have been doing all the time. thank you. anyone else? any further comments? seeing none, then public comment, please. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on item 5 communications,

dial the number on your screen. meeting i.d. 1462870622 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. operator, do we have any callers? operator: there are three callers in the queue. hello, caller. i've opened your line. >> thank you. good afternoon, president maxwell, members of the commission. this is nicole sancoula. i'm speaking today not my position at bosca, but a member of the citizens advisory committee can. actually speaking at the request of the water subcommittee of that committee and the chair, jennifer flaherty, who was not able to participate in today's meeting right now. in the pocket, as commissioner president

maxwell mentioned, you have four resolutions from the c.a.c. and each of these resolutions represents the commitment of your c.a.c. members to engage in the important matters under the p.u.c. perview and to provide the recommendations to the this body. i want to call your attention at this time to the second resolution in that list, the resolution in support of a resilient water supply. the committee felt very strongly and wanted to call this to your attention, using your upcoming workshop this friday on alternative water supply work. it seems timely that this resolution, including the four recommendations that it includes, be addressed by staff and enable the opportunity for the choice ining discuss it at your workshop and we would appreciate that -- appreciate also the comments from commissioner maxwell. it is my pleasure to serve on

this for you. thank you very much. operator: next caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: as you know, agenda number 5 has many things on the agenda. and actually there is no discussion but this is how you deceive the people. and i'll explain. so if you take 5-f, declaration of emergency tree removal, slope repair and

debris removal at stern grove, very general statement. but i want to ask y'all if y'all have a plan, an emergency plan, and i can give an example of something that happened in los angeles where over 17 million gallons of sewage was spilled in the ocean. i want to know, did y'all have an emergency plan, and if i can have it. now, on h, i would speak of the suer inspection and replacement program update. i want to ask you a question.

do y'all know anything about a permit, which is called nine minimum controls? and if you do know about it, i want to know when were the large drainage -- [bell ringing] transport facilities inspected last. operator: thank you for your comments. unfortunately your time has expired. next caller. your line is open. you have two minutes to comment. >> caller: can you hear me now? operator: loud and clear. >> caller: great. so, on communications, on item 5-f, the stern grove declaration of emergency, thank you very much to whoever is appropriate for

adding the concurrents and approval date on the second page. i may be the only one who cares, by care very much and appreciate having the concurrents and approval date on there. on item 5-g, the pucac resolutions, one of them dates back to may. i'm of the view it should be included on the next regular p.u.c. meeting agenda and i don't know why it was delayed almost four months. on the sb-612 resolution, i am fairly concerned that the puccac should not have communicated their position with the state legislature. the city has a very formal process to take positions on state legislation, the state legislation committee that does that. john skarpola can explain that to anyone who's interested.

be we don't have citizens advisory committees in the city communicating positions through the state legislature. they don't have the authority to do so. they can urge you to urge the s.l.c. to say take those positions or the board of supervisors or the mayor. but that is just not done and somebody should have flagged that and told the c.a.c. that now they don't take positions on state legislation and communicate to the legislature in that way. and finally, on item 5h, pursuant to inspection and replacement program update, interesting information there. but it's not in the form of a memo. so in the future if that can be put in the form of a memo so the public can see who it's coming from ultimately, i assume it's greg norby's shop. but whoever's the point person on that -- [bell ringing] and those things should be in the form of a memo. thank you. operator: thank you for your comments.

there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. item communications is closed. next item, please. >> any further discussion, excuse me, on the -- on anything in 5? seeing none, next item, please. >> item 6, is report of the general manager. >> thank you, madame secretary. commissioners. first item on my report today is on the curtailment orders that came up. and steve richie will present. >> good afternoon. steve richie, assistant general manager for water. i'm going to report on the tuolumne river diversion curtailment orders. next slide, please. as a little setting for this, this is the latest report on

our reservoir storage levels. we are looking at 71% in hetch hetchy and about 68.5% storage overall, less than normal. but some next slides, please. there are some reservoirs that are in much worse shape in california. certainly the ones up on the sacramento river. the sacramento river system, lake shasta t orville and fullsome lake all quiet low as is st. louis reservoir, which is normally low at this time of year. don pedro reservoir, by comparison, is about 52% full. so, we're in better conditions on the 12 new river than we are on the north state rivers. next slide, please. and the california drought monitor, again, shows continued drought throughout the state and much of the west looks like this as well with a lot of dark brown and red colors throughout the states.

next slide, please. ok. to get down to business, on june 15, the state water board issued notices of water unavailability to all water ride holders in the delta water shed. on july 23leder they released draft curtailment and reporting regulations and also on july 23rd they issued notices of water on availability for all pre-14 water right claims in the san joaquin water shed and most pre-14 water right claims in the sacramento river watershed. next slide? san francisco received the july 23rd notices of water unavailability for our points of diversion in the 12 new watershed. the board adopted the emergency regulations on august 3 and the state office of o.a.l.s approved the regulations and filed them with the secretary of state on august 19 which made them effective and it was immediately followed on august 20 by curtailment

orders from the state for these points of diversions. for eleanor, cherry, the lower cherry act we duction, or hetch hetchy for early intake and two diversion points that serve camp mather. next slide, please. so we were releasing water above natural flow to meet in-street flow requirements and generating hydro power. water released above the natural flow had been credited to water bank and we do not expect this to change under curtailment order because it does not affect previously stored water, which is what's in cherry. with the closure of stanislaus national forest on september 1 due to the fires, rafting season effectively ended. now during the first part of september, we did make available generation at home power house on five-minute notice which resulted in our need to keep flow going for the generators right about 60-acre feet per day and then beginning to september 12, we

reduced those relices to the in stream flow requirements or full natural flow, whichever is greater to preserve our water storage. next slide, please. curtailment order certificates of compliance needed to be filed by september 3. and the curtailment requirements are stored water and we actually discussed this with state waterboard staff and they said just reported out, just the way you're doing it. so that is what we'll do. exceptions can be requested for nonconsumptive uses for human health and safety and for water called alternative water sharing agreements. exceptions needed to be requested by september 3 with support and information submitted by september 17. we expect to make requests under specific categories for different situations. for nonconsumptive use, for

fish hatchery and small systems of country in early 2022 if it's still dry. and also for the camp mather diversions. that is something that we've been digging into the details of and making sure it's what we need to do to qualify for those exceptions. we filed our certificate of compliance on september 2 and will begin filing reports. the first one is due this friday accounting for new releases from cherry and eleanor and hetch hetchy demonstrated in our compliance by basically adding and subtracting volumes of water to make it clear that we're releasing the full natural flow that is required. if conditions persist, we'll take additional actions regarding reduction in available water supply january potentially declaring a water supply emergency. next slide. i wanted to report on where with reright now in terms of reductions. from 2020, which was the

governor's last declaration that called for a 15% reduction from 2020 demands. so, for the period july 1 to september 12, san francisco customers and our wholesale customers have all averaged roughly 8% reduction since the governor's executive order came out. so, we're doing reasonably well, but not the 15% voluntary that the government had requested yet. the next two slides show that the outlook would be if water year 2022 is like 1977. basically a repeat of 1977. the first one is demand is at 200 million gallons for dear on average and curtailments last through the entire year as we anticipate if it stays dry. so, what this table shows is three cases. one is the base case of there

are no curtailments and curtailment seems to be an issue. the amount of water in storage on september 1, 2022 is projected in the rest of that column there, the base case column. so, hetch hetchy would have 166,000-acre feed. cherry and eleanor would have 169,000 acre and water bank would have about 252,000 acre-feet. and don pedro would have about 820,000 acre-feet. column b shows what would happen if we perceive as we're on track to now with the full natural flow requirements being provided out of cherry and eleanor so you can see the hetch hetchy stays with the same amount of storage as it would under the base case snare yoefm and it would drop dramatically down to about 58,000-acre feeds.

water bank would increase to 363,000 acre-feet and don pedro would be about 262,000 acre-feet. in column c, we have a scenario showing the curtailments if hetch hetchy had to droiblt the curtailments as well. and that is the case certainly we definitely want to avoid because that would bring hetch hetchy down to about 32,000 acre-feet by about september 1 of next year. cherry and el know wour about 102,000 acre-feet and water bank would be about 353,000 acre-feet. the don pedro storage would be a 655,000 acre-feet. we have to acknowledge and

accept this possibility and hope for the best and plan for the worst. the next slide shows the same scenarios but is demand would be cut by 10% and down an average of 180 million gallons per day. if we were to cut demand by 10%, you see the changes are in cold couple b and 30,000 in hetch hetchy to action 129,000 acre-feets. cherry and el know would only drop to 50,000 acre-feet and 363,000 acre-feet would be in water bank. if we ended up being forced to curtail diversions into hetch hetchy, again we would be at 50,000 acre feet, a very low number. so, that start to show the impact of calling far 10% level of reduction over the next year, basically. so that is the kind of thing that i think we're going to build into considerations going forward. one other thing to note about these tables is that you end

up with a fair amount of water in water bank. the unfortunate part is water bank is out of our reach so that is water that is now in don pedro and can't be brought back into the hetch hetchy system. so, that is a challenge that we will have to face if we end up with these scenarios. i covered a lot of material and i would be happy to answer any questions. >> i have a question on that last slide. can you refresh my memory on why we can't tap into the water bank? >> the way the water bank is set up, we release water downstream into the water bank and is there for the districts to use where they use to, you know, provide the supply to them. that they would take and it is water then that would allow us to store water

upstream. if they don't, that system doesn't work. so water bank is a good thing. if you have in flow and you have inflow that you can divert. if you don't have those things, it's not the tool that it is in normal times. >> ok. if we have curtailment regardless of how we do it, you are not going to be able to draw from the water bank, even if the situation is dire. >> this draws from the water bank, then we can offset that. but if they don't take waters from the water bank, then -- there is nothing that can be curtailed.

>> the whole spoinls to make it past our intake. >>en we physically can't take the water. it can only be exchanged. we can't pick up the water. >> the question is do we need to rethink how we use the water bank or how we do this whole credit rating since it is considering we may end up in the situation as well. >> i would think if next year is dry and we get into the position starting to declare an emergency, i think we would be in conversation with the irrigation distributions about this. >> and i have another question for you. why 10%? what if governor declares a state of emergency and says 25%. what happens under that scenario?

>> it's just another bigger number. we were able to generate these numbers finally yesterday so they are quick numbers generated. the lowest we got to in the last route system-wide in 2013 was 175 million gallons per day so that was everybody pulling pretty hard. we could end up below that. but i think also that is a matter for the commission to decide. we could, you know, we can run numbers for any reduction we want. we can save 20%, we can save 30% depending on what we think is the best thing to do for the system to stretch its supply and at the same time make sure that we know what we're asking of people. i would prefer that we not be in the position of putting a number out there that's really big and not have a good idea of how we expect

people to meet it. >> and then one last question on the water use reductions that you showed the percentages, i think 8% and 7%. i know this is a difficult thing to know and but i was wondering if we know how is that related to covid and water use reduction. have we seen any increase and commercial water use with these reductions, sort of like reflects conservation or is it still sort of like a lingering effects of covid and [inaudible] at the same time? >> it's hard to actually separate those things out. we are trying to do some work on that. it's interesting to note that the average demand in 2019, the average demand in 2020 were roughly about the same.

that was partly driven by 2020 having a very dry february and there was a big spike in water usage throughout the system. so that when there was covid effects later, they were kind of masked by that. so we're looking at this year and trying again to understand, you know, what is really happening throughout the system. and trying to make some good estimates of it. but it does take a little bit of work to do that. >> thank you. commissioner moran? >> just a couple of comments. one is i think this shows the impact of what it first sounds like, pretty innocuous change. it sounds like if you curtail diversions in the middle of a drought, what's the big deal? you're in a drought. but it has a huge impact and

a lot of the planning is based on the idea na you can have moments of resale in the middle of the draft. and an issue with water policy being set, state level on one-size-fits-all. i would guess that the impact of their order on their ability to draw water from the water bank is an unintended consequence. i doubt that they thought about that when they were making the order. but the fact is if you don't have a release obligation, the irrigation districts because of that order, you can exchange it uphill which is the way the water bank works. there are other water banks in the state and my guess there are other circumstance where is this works to that disadvantage as well. so the state board is not only getting into unusual territory legally, but also an area where their information and understanding

probably doesn't match the task. >> thank you. commissioner harrington. >> two things. one, i think that we assume everybody know what is curtailment means. it's a technical term. do you mind explaining it so everyone understands what that actually is? and the second part is how does any of this relate to various lawsuits that we've been engaged in? >> yeah. actually, we went over that question last time we talk about this and i would be happy to do it again. basically it's a state board declaring there is not enough water for people with certain seniority of water rights. they can, quote, curtail their diversions, which means cut off your diversions so that you can't divert anymore water. they did provide exceptions for human health and safety and that is one we're exploring very thoroughly to find out can we minimize the amount we curtail and

actually diverse more water back into the system because we need it to survive, in effect, as an urban area. but, yeah. curtailment means cutting off a diversion from a water body. >> and the second part. >> i think i would defer to legal council on that. i know we have a couple of items on closed session today relating to litigation on things related to the state. in this case t suit we filed relative to curtailment is on the underlying regular leighs. it is not on the orders themselves. so, we're, you know, fully compliant with the orders because, you know, they are not -- they took inaction. for example, in the case of the state water bore's water quality control plan, they never took an implementation action. just a planning action. so, those -- there was nothing that happened that

said you have to comply with this now. s in this case, they took action saying you have to comply with this now. >> thank you. >> when do we start preparing for an emergency? you said that we would talk to the irrigation districts in an emergency. but sommes that we would maybe need to talk to them or have a conversation before an emergency since we're hearing from climate change that this may be the new norm. so what do we start -- >> we talked -- i don't want to mislead you. we talked to the irrigation district virtually every day of the year and about all of this array of issues. what i was talking about relative to that was maybe having a focused discuss about how we may or may not want to see if there is something we can do about the water bank situation.

going forward. that's a very particular topic. but they spend every day of the year talking to the irrigation district about this and this topic has come up. >> i was just concerned because i know we do talk to them. but you mentioned that we would have, as you just mentioned, we would have a focused and seems to me that maybe that focus needs to be -- need to be preparing for that kind of a discussion. maybe differently because things are difference and we hear that it is going to be the new normal. and when we do talk to the state, we have a robust conversation for people in that situation. >> any further comments or questions? all right. thank you.

all right. why don't we open this one up to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment, specifically on 6a dial 1-514- -- 415-554- any callers? operator: there are two callers in the queue. hello, caller. i opened your line. you have two minutes. >> caller: the first thing i want to bring to your attention is we have about 60,000 salmon swim under the

bridge. and most of them, when they reach their location where they spawn, have died. 500 were found alive. i want to ask -- i wanted to reflect, who was here before some of these people came and started taking water, building the dams and thinking that they're playing god. i want to know do you care about the depletion that this -- the salmon dying and extension -- they are part of our [inaudible].

instead of talk about some bank and your agreement, you should feel ashamed of yourselves. and the other agenda items, i see a conflict of interest with doreen jones and a guy called robinson. i want you all to look into it before i conduct an investigation with the federal bureau of investigation. thank you very much. operator: thank you for your comments. hello, caller. your line is open. you have two minutes. >> caller: thank you. good afternoon. this is the tuoloume river trust. i found that last presentation to be misleading. i think it's extremely unlikely that ncaaser yo would play out. -- scenario would play out. it seems the argument that the state would require any

water coming into hetch hetchy to be released below the dam and the state water board curtailments are not aimed at improving flows and that middle section of the tuoluome. there's the spring flow management plan, which is decades behind schedule. but the purpose of the curtailment is to make sure that there's water available downstream for other uses, be they mental or higher [inaudible] uses. and i would encourage staff to simply call the state water board and say, hey, you know, we have this water bank and works a certain way and allows us to have water in the bay area and extented trouts. -- droughts. the pointed of the curtailment is to make sure that any water -- naturally flowing into don pedro leads into the lower tuoloume river. of course. that's what they want. they're just not trying to

mess with the sfpuc or create better flows between hetch hetchy and don pedro. so, this is more gloom and doom. it's trying to justify yet another lawsuit. the sfpuc has more than one million [inaudible] neat storage. much better shape than others. at the water bank, you look back at history, hetch hetchy is almost always close to full by july 1. and this new fear that the curtailments are going to punish san francisco with no benefit to the state doesn't make any sense to me. we used to have the bay area water stewards and meet with sfpuc and others replaced by the stakeholder supply group. we need more forums like that. but to discuss these issues, just to mawser that we're all on the same page and understand the issues would be really important. thank you.

thank you thank you thank you for your comments. there are no more callers in the queue. >> ok. public comment on item 6a is closed. >> my next item for presentation is on the hetch hetchy capital program and i'm asking program manager catie miller to present this to the commission. katie. >> hi, thank you. i'm catie miller, the director of the infrastructure division and today i'll cover highlights of the hetch hetchy capital improvement program for the fiscal year of 2021 from april 1 to june 30 of this year. so this slide compares the program status from the end of the third quarter to the end of the fourth quarter. expenditures a close of the reporting period were 196 million total. the program spent eight million last quarter compared to $9 million spent in the third quarter. significant progress was made during the fourth quarter

with one project moving into the design phase, one to construction, two to close out and three projects to completion. next slide. this table shows a summary of the project costs forecast compared to their 2018 approved budget. the projects were grouped into categories by funding sources of water, power, or joint water and power. note that even though there are several cost variants within the categories, these forecasted project costs are in alignment with the fiscal year '21 to '30, 10-year c.i.p. approved budgets. for some project highlights, for the drainage improvements, we advertised and received bids for this in the second quarter. but they were twice the engineer's estimate. during the third quarter, the project team reduced the scope to stay within the

existing budgets and prioritize critical safety improvements and repairs such as fall protection on this steep stairway. the contract was readvertised in march and bids were open in april. the low bid was below the engineer's estimate. the contract was awarded in may and the notice to proceed is anticipated this month or next month. next slide. >> can you do me one favor? can you just go back two more slides? i want to see that overall thing. just very quickly again. if you could, thank you. >> absolutely. so, this shows in the left column, expenditures to date. >> i get it. i just wanted to suck it in for a second here. >> ok. you can see overall we're $33 million above the 2018 approved budget. but, again, this is right on track with 2021 approved budget. just that we're still tracking back to the original

budgets 20618. >> ok. i got it. i just wanted to grab some numbers. ok. thank you. >> ok. we're making some significant progress with mountain tunnel. the contractor mobilized the large crane from always -- austria that you see in this picture and began excavation of the new tunnel portal. the access added and flow control facility at the priest reservoir sites. in addition to a lot of work around the presite, safety improvements to the access roadways continue in construction. this is pretty exciting up there. if you get a chance to go see it, i would love to take you up there. next slide. >> quick question on that one, too.

i'm not going to -- just a quick question on that. why the crane comes from austria versus here versus, you know, what's the specs on that? where you had to get that beast from across the ocean. >> i can follow-up. i don't know the toons that. i was surprised to learn that myself. but i think it is the micro tunneling. the equipment that they use and it is an exceptionally large crane that can lift a very large amount from a very small base. but i can get more information on that and get it back to you. >> we do a lot of that here, as you probably know.

this is the town that was known as having more cranes than anybody else in the entire country. >> good point. yes. >> just while i'm raising that, i'd like to get out a quicky update on why the liebherr. >> i will. next slide? for the moccasin [inaudible], the results from the internal inspections completed in the thing thater of this year were analyzed and were done in a evaluation report. while there is need for some repairs and replacement, overall the penstocks were found to be in relatively good condition. a nice surprise when you get those kind of reviews. next slide. for the moccasin powerhouse and generator step-up unit rehabilitation project, as you recall, there are three subprojects. for the first subpromise to install the generator step-up unit, the insulation contract was awarded to big valley electric in april t.s toys proceed was on june 7 and delivery of the first g.s.u. unit is anticipated in october. for the second subpromise,

rewinding the generators, which i'm sure you remember, negotiations preceded with the two qualified contractors and, in play, you all approved awarding the contract to general electric l.l.c.s, pending approval by the board of supervisors for changes to the indemnification language in the contract. the board of supervise source approved these changes to the language that had been negotiationed under review by the city attorney office and the city's risk manager t. notice to proceed for design was issued on june 21 and that project is in design now. really great moving forward. for the third subproject to upgrade the remaining equipment in the facility, the planning workshops were conducted during the quarter. next sloid. s the san joaquin valve and safe entry project will comprehensively replace valves along the four san joaquin pipelines to improve

safe access inside the pipelines for maintenance. for this promise, the construction was resequenced by a location to align with mountain tunnel shutdowns resulting in four future construction contracts. and now these are on track to get out for construction. the phase 1a contract reached 65% design and that will go out to bid and will be advertised this winter. so, 1b project design commenced and the planning continued for phases two and three. next slide. this is the first contract of the san joaquin valve replacement. construction of valve replacement will take place this winter during the first mountain tunnel shutdown in order to expedite this promise, we're purchasing the large valve in house and using a j.o.c. contract to install the valve. the 66-inch valve that was purchased in march is

currently being manufactured and the j.o.c. contract was awarded during the quarter. we're on track to install the valve this winter. next slide? and this project, the four bridge replacement will replace and improve four bridges. out of the 14 bridges that hetch hetchy water and power is responsible to maintain. the current 10-year budget includes funding for the two most critical bridges. owe shaughnessy access bridge near the dam and the lake eleanor dam bridge, and that is what's shown in this slide. in this quarter, the planning phase work continued for the o'shaughnessy dam bridge and started for lake eleanor dam bridge and m.o.u. for work with department of public works was approved for the planning and design work for the lake eleanor bridge, kicking off that project. and this -- oh. sorry. the substation

rehabilitation, last project. this project as you recall was the design-build contract in 2019 was terminated due to a lot of problems with the contract. and so this project is back on track for a design bid build contract. and we are still waiting for the consultant contract for the design phase. i believe that's going to come to you for approval in the next few commission meetings. in the meantime, because this is a very high-risk facility for failure, we complete add

contingency plan and that is a 65% design. and what this will do is if there is an internruption service or a failure, this contingency plan allow us to quickly, under emergency, will replace the breakers with backup breakers. in the meantime, we have establish add phase two project and we're refining the scope and, again, procuring the consultant contract for that and then once we have that contract, we'll fast track that for design and get that one out to construction. and i believe next -- yeah. that s a it. so, that concludes my presentation for this quarter. i'm very happy to share that we're having good progress with the hetchy projects and i'll be happy to take any of your questions. >> i have one and that is on the o'shaughnessy dam. is that the dam that we all go across when we're going the other side when we're up there? where is that dam exactly? >> that is it. that's thement da. yes. and -- >> and that is the bridge. that's the bridge. is that the bridge you're talking-i didn't mean the dam, i meant the bridge. >> yes. the bridge is to access the [inaudible]. so it's not provide across the main dam.

it's a smaller bridge on the way to the dam. >> oh, i see. >> yes. and -- but the safety improvements' work is at the dam. and the added bridge is critical for the future construction projects up at o'shaughnessy dam so they can support the weight of the construction vehicles. so, it is an important project. >> and the eleanor bridge is -- i mean, what's being done to that one exactly? >> we don't know yet. there was a condition assessment report that was done, oh, five years ago. and it recommended improvements. but now there's going to be full, due to technical, structural evaluation to determine, as you know that structure is 50, 80 years old probably. you saw it's beautiful. beautiful architecture.

so, you know, it's part of the dam -- we also have an eleanor dam promise in the upcoming budget and those will be looked at together because, you know, we could just repair the bridge, but we'll be looking at the dam as well. it could be those two projects will come together in the future. >> ok. thank you. >> very early. >> yeah. but i'm glad we're taking care of it. >> me, too. yeah. ongoing. commissioner ajami. >> thank you. that was a -- i really appreciated that presentation. i have a question for you. first of all, i noticed that increase in budget was mostly on the power side. is that -- was that the correct -- sorry, you had the slide and then you brought it back and -- >> yeah. >> and i was taking notes. is that related to some of the issues you're having at pg&e or just because the cost of work has gone up?

and maybe as a follow-up to that, do you anticipate, just out of curiosity, what do you anticipate the increase to be at the end when you're done with spending money and does that mean that we have to forego some of those projects that we had in the list to meet the budget? or are we sort of looking into bringing in more resources to the table? >> i'll answers that the best i can. what's really misleading about that slide is that the budgets are compared against the 2018 budget. but since 2018, we updated the capital improvement plan. and in the capital improvement plan, we added more power projects and so the entire budgets for the

power program is higher than the 2018 approved budget. if that makes sense. so -- and in addition, some of the projects did increase in cost but there is funding there to do those. between 2018 and 2020, some of the projects did go up in cost. but funding was added in the c.i.p. to accommodate that. why did project costs go up? i believe at this point, it was just the very early planning phase when you don't know what it will take to complete a promise. [please stand by] [please stand by]

>> power revenue side is not my job to answer. the needs will continue to go up. there will continue to be more facilities that need attention. >> is there a particular reason we continue using the 2018 as a

base budget? yes, you will hear more about this in the future. we have been having internal discussions about how we report to you. we are really taking to heart your concern about tracing back to the original budget, but also trying to balance with the fact that we need to use what is the most recent approved budget by the commission. you are going to hear more from us in the next few meetings about improvements back to the original budget with the two year cip approved budget. we decided to not rebaseline this program. we didn't come to you with rebaseline like others. we decided to wait, analyze this, come to the commission to address both needs of seeing the historical values and also baselining to the recently

approved budget. you are hearing a lot more about that in the weeks and months ahead. >> good. >> thank you. any further comments or questions? seeing none. why don't we up this up to public comment. >> members who wish to make two minutes of public comment on 6b dial 415-655-0001. id 1462870622.-pound. to speak press star 3. do we have any callers? there are no callers wishing to comment at this time. >> thank you. public comment on 6b is closed. >> great. my next item is quarterly budget

status report. i will ask laura, budget director to present. >> hello, commissioners. i am budget director in the fourth quarter of fy 2021 budget variance report here. overall negative operating ways water and clean power s.f. being driven by the ongoing pandemic causing delay. this is leading to reduced revenues in water and wastewater. we retold the fy 2021 budget based on economic recovery. due to slow opening of the economy due to covid-19 the actual reports fell short of our

economic assumptions. clean power s.f. rate decrease and change in rate decrease to commercial customers. one-time savings carried forward. revenues are also down. across the agency lower interest rates. however, water that refinancing in the fall of 2020 produced savings for that enterprise. december 2020 salary increases into effect which had not been budgeted. they were delayed six months due to the m.o.u. and economic impact of covid. those impacted salaries we were able to use savings to fund these and didn't increase the budget for these. while these revenues and results are concerning, our financial

concerns are projected to meet targets for coverage and research. we were able to cover the shortfalls through reserves. finance team is closely monitoring water sales for the current year to determine impact of continued economic weakness and will provide update to the commission in november. according to the fy22-23 and 23-24 biannual budget cycle we recognize fiscal constraint is likely to be a major theme given uncertainty of economic recovery, potential for continued drought and refinement of clean power s.f. rates in framework. we will be at the next meeting to provide introduction to the upcoming budget process for you.

just as we saw at q1, 2, 3 we see significant one-time benefit from the closeout of capital projects that we do to replenish fund balance. this is fy19-20 rebalancing when covid first hit. the de appropriation did not take place until begins of fy20-21 so that is when we see the results. these savings offset the operating deficit for 20-21. it is important to remember they are one-time savings. diving into each of the enterprises in more detail. the overall net operating results negative $.4 million. we do have the project closeout from the 1920 rebound of $9 million. these results are being driven

by sources of $11.1 million. this is driven by weakness in retail revenues offset by stronger revenues. $10.8 million in cost savings offsetting shortfall in revenues largely driven by debt service from refinancing as well as savings in nonpersonnel cost and savings in salaries and benefits. in wastewater, the net operating result is negative $16.3 million. in addition project closeouts from the 19-20 rebalancing $10.8 million. on the sources side driven by lower than expected volumes due to the impact of covid-19

pandemic on the economy. we have been able to offset that negative revenue number with cost savings. largely driven by salary and benefit savings as well as savings in nonlabor costs as detailed in the slide. in water and power met result is positive $11 million. unfortunately revenues are down. it is a bit misleading. this is driven by good news on the uses side. these are one-time savings due to carry forward. project closeout to support 19-20 rebudget balances 27.3 ms.

reduced pro-domestic projects by $.9 million for the support rebalancing effort and general reserve $1.5 million. overall net impact of fund balance 2021 is positive $40.7 million. on the operating result positive $11 million. total sources down $2.9 million largely driven by lower generation. on the uses side we have total of $13.9 million in cost savings largely driven by closeout prior year unspent funds.

$9.6 million. in addition we have general reserve $15.5 million. net impact on fund balance positive $6 million. sources side. total down by $17.7 million. due to several factors including january rate reduction, rate structure changes, slower economic recovery and customer assistance. user side $8.1 million savings. this is largely driven by salary and benefit savings. and savings from power purchase. last slide. summarizes key financial ratios. operating results all ratios on target to meet sfpc policies.

>> one question. you said. this is commissioner paulson on the previous slide you referenced the salary and benefit savings. i missed that. what did that mean? >> in clean power s.f., we saw $3.3 million in salary and benefit savings throughout the year due to vacant positions. >> vacant positions. thank you. mostly vacant positions? >> yes. difficulty hiring, yes. >> question on that one, also. are you saying last year we spent $3 million on salaries this year $7 million and half won't be spent. was that intentional? you are not hiring people or it is happening because it is hard

to hire people? that means we didn't have half the staff we expected to have? that seems odd. >> no, i don't think it was intentional. it is incredibly difficult at this point last year we did think carefully how much to budget for salaries and budget and clean power and no hiring plan that showed a plan to spend that money. it is difficult to hire and turnover for various reasons. >> does that affect something we don't have half the staff we expected to have? we cut the positions and never filled them? >> i would love to answer, eric.

i mean commissioner harrington. it is a challenging year to hire. we definitely need to fill positions in power in the clean power s.f. program, the he t.c.h. y program. there are few candidates applying in the trades. i will say with covid challenges, retention is an issue. we lost key staff to the city's policies around remote work and workout of state. these are just tough transitional times, but we are definitely moving to fill positions. we have our utility analyst positions out on the street now. trying to fill 15 vacancies. we know we will not be able to fill 15 vacancies. we don't have 15 applicants.

we had to extend the filing period for applicants to get their applications in the hopes that we can get more applications coming in. it is a difficult time largely because of covid. people are kind of staying put. you know, the city's hiring process is nonconducive to getting people on board. it takes a very long time from requesting a position to having that position be filled. that is not -- some is not within the p.u.c.'s control. when you recruit, it is frustrating. you recruit people and say please apply. three months later they say whatever happened? we are still trying. don't give up on us. it is challenging. those issues are not unique to the numbers you are asking about

specifics for clean power s.f. these are challenges across the agency. >> the reason it is here half of the money to be spent. it is a bigger chung of it missing. >> some transition of temporary to permanent which allowed that bump in available positions, commissioner, that you are referring to. we have the happy circumstance to say that we are going to convert temporary to permanent positions. we didn't get to fill some of those. >> happy to hear the conversation how we can do things differently. it is under the jurisdiction to make it work. thank you. >> follow-up question. thank you for the clarification. i was wondering did we have issues hiring before covid and

covid basically exacerbated the situation? we didn't have any problem before and covid is the issue? i am wondering is there like a set of recommendations that we can have a smarterter conversation on hiring? another conversation i would like to have the whole utility business is having a hard time attracting good talent from top universities. it is not as attractive. people don't see it as the career path that past generations did. what are we doing to make it more attractive. i was in a meeting this morning related we were talking with a group of people representing the utilities on issues. they were talking how to get all

of this top talent from top universities wanting to work there because of how they have reenvisioned how they do business. maybe we should have that conversation. >> yes. i see our general manager on screen. i will be quiet. >> thank you. we can have that conversation. covid did slowdown the hiring process and created a number of different issues for us because of the testing that was suspended during it. i also say that we are having a hard time recruiting people into the utility business as well because we are trying to reimagine our jobs. it is a more mobile work force. if somebody has relocated can work for google or facebook or something like that we lose that engineering talent. we are also, you know, home growing our own trade people to

the future. that is something i have been talking to the unions about to partner doing that. there are a number of things per couldlating to address this issue. the biggest problem we need civil service reform. that is needed in san francisco. it is too hard to hire somebody in a timely manner. it takes six to eight months if you can get somebody on board. we would be glad to have a conversation about the ideas we were pursuing how to pursue through the city process. >> i think that is extremely important. we are one of the most unique parts of the country. we have stanford and some of the best and highest institutions of learning in the country and in the world.

there ought to be some way to tap into that and we have young people coming in high schools. we start them with internships. there are ways to do this. i know we have always talked about this. it is not that we haven't thought about it. we need a way to do it. commissioner paulson, did you have something to add? >> no, thank you, chair. i was going to say that there is a lot of loaded words on this teen the need to get somebody in and then what the political climate is in san francisco. there are times when it is like, my god, michael carlin found the exact person. he is the only person that can do this thing out of this dam or whatever else. now it takes eight months from beginning to end to get that person done. there is an eight month lapse. there is a hiring and firing

thing. this idea every time somebody gets a job, a contract, there is like some time there is arbitrary assumption of corruption that you are bucking the system or something. we also deal with good government issues in the mix of this, too. this is not just we have to ramp something else. we have to do it in a way to respect good government culture and history and all of the other stuff that has to happen. i just want to put that marker down. none of this is unfortunately a quick fix. even though everything we are talking about is quick fix. thank you, commissioner. >> thank you. i would also like to hear maybe at some point how the new trillion dollar infrastructure

from washington is going to impact and help or not help with some of the things we are doing. if any of that money can be used to deal with some of the issues that we are facing. thank you. any further comments or questions? >> we will open for public comment. >> members of the public who wish to comment on item 6c the quarterly budget status report. call 415-655-0001. (146)287-0622. to speak press star three. >> madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue at this

time. >> public comment on item 6c is closed. >> next item is wastewater enterprise quarterly report. i will call on steven robinson, program director to make a presentation. >> thank you. this is the quarterly report for the programs april through june of this year. i will share current updates for the three southeast area major projects. a few construction updates across the city. on the left the ocean beach climate change adaptation project part of the master plan containing three phases including work happening now. you may have seen media on this over the weekends. army corps of engineers working on the beach nourishment phase.

we are building a sand berm using 225,000 cubic yards of dredging material that will protect critical infrastructure and expand the beach. ribbon-cutting event last thursday september 9th. the image you can see the the bulldozers spreading material on the ocean beach itself. middle image is the force main rehabilitation at embarcadero and jackson street. theyen falled additional sections in collaboration with m.t.a. and public works we implemented a bicycle detour for a alternative route along the embarcadero. third on the right is oceanside plan digesture gas utilization project. the work is ongoing. this quarter the contractor

focused on erection of the new holder assembly which is in the image on the right. it is a tank 59 feet tall to hold the unused excess digesture gas. these are showing the data for the 70 projects in phase 1 now representing $3.655 billion. last quarter we closed at 44.7% complete. this quarter 5.7. -- 45.7. shown in blue text on the right piechart, the blue area shows 8 projects in pre-construction. last quarter 11. green area is 18 projects in construction. 17 last quarter. gray area to the left is 44 projects. two more of those this quarter

compared to last. this table is 3.1 and 3.2 from the quarterly reported showing the costs. on the left broken down to phase 1 we looked at. priority projects we found from phase 2 and 3. these were initiated in 2018 and then in 2020. summarize expenditures to date, forecast cost and variance between budget

. >> okay. well, maybe we could get -- i would like a little bit more. why i should feel that comfortable that the animals will not smell the gas. >> we can follow up with that. thank you. >> any other further questions or comments on this item? seeing none, public comment. >> members of the comment who wish to comment on item 6d. call 415-655-0001. (146)287-0622-pound pound. press star 3 to speak.

do we have any callers? >> madam secretary, no caller in the queue at this time. >> public comment on item 6d is closed. i just want to thank you, steve, on that report. it was well-done. thank you so much. >> that concludes my report for this meeting. >> any further comments? next item, please. >> 7. new commission business. >> any new business, colleagues? >> next item, please. >> 8 consent calendar. all matters listed will consent the consent calendar are routine by the san francisco public

utilities commission to abilitied upon by a single vote. no separate discussion until it is requested in which event it will be considered as a separate item and removed from the calendar. >> colleagues, any items to be removed or discussed? seeing none, public comment, please. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on the consent calendar dial 415-655-0001. id1462870622-pound pound. press star three to speak. >> there is one caller wishing to give comment.

your line is open. >> david pill plow. item 8a on the resolution page 1. second to the last whereas clause, there is an extra backslash at the end there you might want to remove that in adopting the resolution. thanks. >> thank you for your comment. there are no more callers in the queue. >> public comment on item 8 is closed. any comments, questions? seeing none. may i have a motion and second to approve consent calendar?

>> moved and seconded. roll call, please. >> president maxwell. >> aye. >> vice president moran. >> aye. >> commissioner paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> commissioner ajami. >> aye. >> five ayes. next item. >> item 9. approve the addition of scope and increase of $19,983,100 to the existing contract for db126 authorize the general manager to approve future modifications not to exceed 47550600 there with no change to the contract duration

$47,550,600. >> good afternoon, commission president maxwell and commissioners. i am maria crystal cruise. project manager for the distributed control system upgrades project. for a quick overview and background, the control system otherwise know as dcs is integrated platform for automated control supervision and operation of plant and various processes. these dcs upgrades that we are implementing under the sewer system improvement program is t replace wastewater enterprises existing dcs which was installed. this installation will support replacement and adddition of new processes that are being brought

on by other projects such as the new head works and biosolvents projects at the southeast plant. this project is currently delivered as progressive design-build delivery with emerson process management. it is a system-wide type of work which is dependent on the overall programs execution. the contract's initial work was primarily centered at the southeast plant booster pump station. the plan is to progressively add in or phase-in dcs services at our wastewater facilities such at north planes, oceanside and all of the other pump stations in our wastewater system. as per our previous approved modification in 2019, we were able to add and start dcs work

at the north point facilities. to date my project team has completed manning activities in southeast through booster and north point facilities. with us closely working with wastewater staff we updated the wastewater dcs standards and converted the pump station into the new dcs. my team and i are currently in design and coordinating with other ongoing projects on site. for this item that we have here before us today, my team and i are requesting the approval to increase the db-126, dcs contract cost contingency by $19.98 million to enable us to add dcs services at oceanside treatment plant and other pump stations into the contract scope

of work. with this i would be happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> commissioner harrington. >> thank you very much. i have concerned when contracts start at $20 million and now $47 million. when we went out to bid on this, did we announce this was the first phase, that we were going to have an ultimate contract of 50 to $60 million. people bid on $20 million and maybe others would have been attracted if it was a bigger contract. could you talk about that? >> at the r.f.p. project the document itself, there was language other verbiage that said that for this first phase of work of dcs, it would be primarily centered at these facilities which are southeast plant, booster and included

channel. then there is the statement that as additional work in the future once we secure budget we will be expanding the dcs scope to all of the other facilities such as north point and oceanside and the rest of the pump stations in the sewer system. >> that is great. what do you think that total is going to end up being? >> when we first began in 2015, our initial estimate was $50 million. the current budget itself that we have approved right now is at $63 million. i believe we have some budget also allocated in the future to expand this project system-wide. >> thanks very much.

>> commissioner ajami. >> i appreciate the question. i had a similar question. i was wondering if as you were expanding the project do we already have understanding of how much it would cost so we know at least the expanding under the same contract is getting us the best deal or is this something that you are sort of booked into and we are i can understand because of efficiency it might be interesting to continue on. making sure cost wise it is the same. another follow up that they have based on the comment you just made was the $60 million that you mentioned was not for the

system-wide? or it was for the system-wide? >> it is for stage one dcs. delivering from planning all the way to installation and commissioning at the southeast plant location. >> system-wide what is your expected cost of something like this? >> right now just the contract itself referencing back to our estimates in 2015. $50 million. i believe i might have to bring in my director steve robinson. we do have aloe indicated budget -- allocated budget in phase two, three, four in north point and oceanside area.

>> i can add on a little bit. overall in the entire cip $120 million for total project budget to interface with all aspects of the wastewater system. not something we want different projects because it all integrates together. it was the plan because of the progressive design and build nature of the contract we were able to control and release the work as we progress from one facility to the next. i hope that helps answer the question. >> thank you so much. >> did that answer the first question that you had, commissioner ajami? >> i can answer the first question. >> when we first went out to advertise and bid this contract it was through a competitive process so the cost structure or

framework within the contract was for the bidders to put in a base price up to the unit per unit of deliverables so then we basically take that fixed base price and from there negotiate the base price to negotiate when ever we have to add the scope in. >> basically we had a competitive process to put in there as part of this bidding? >> commissioner harrington. >> final point. i think it is helpful that we can say that in our summary so that people know this was not a coast over run or -- cost

overrun or surprise. this was planned. make sure people read this that it was planned to go higher so there are no surprises. they did a $20 million contract. make it look like we know what we are doing in the write up. >> valuable for new commissioners to come in to have the context. you don't have the context what is going on it is very difficult to add those numbers and not be surprised. >> i think it took awhile for us to get to $120 million overall. that was the question in the beginning. it took awhile to get to that. as commissioner ajami and commissioner harrington said it is best to put it all out in the beginning. thank you for all of your work. further questions or comments? thank you. then why don't we open this up

for public comment. >> members who wish to comment two minutes on item 9. dial 415-655-0001. id146-287-0622-pound pound. press star 3 to speak. any callers? >> there are two callers in the queue. your line is open. you have two minutes. >> good afternoon. my comments regarding this item is not on the technical part but more on the process. one of the commissioners mentioned put it out in the open from the beginning. that is never the case of the

p.u.c. this particular contract is a contract that someone really needs to look into it. start with $20 million. $47 million. $51 million. god knows where for the next 15 years. what is interesting. the report in front of you is admitting a fact undisputable. rdt is one of the subs on the original proposals. i am looking at copy of the proposal in 2016. they have four individuals listed. jones, colway, smith, robinson. four individuals milking the p.u.c. how many subs on the team? two, three? i see two. one of them copted out. i am not buying the conflict of

interest between what they do at p.u.c. with this project. that is one. another major flaw. montez, one of the subs committed steven mottler as quality control manager. that is such unfactual. i will tell you why. steven has never worked for montez. he worked for qei. now unless montez is owned by qei which is very possible, both are dbes and sharing employees between the two companies that is violation of federal guidelines, a crime for violating 49cfr146. this is what you get when you allow cmd to play the games. the contracts. now you have got the fraud and -- >> thank you for your comments.

your time is expired. next caller, your line is open. you have two minutes. >> can you hear me okay? >> loud and clear. >> david pill plow. item 9 the staff report is vague about scope changes for this fairly sizable increase in cost on the project. i appreciate comments and discussion. it was not obvious to me that this was intended to be a larger thing that ended up being smaller with add ons later. in the future if there is something like this, i think the staff report should reflect that in the discussion. i also was not clear reading the staff report if the board of supervisors approval is required for this more substantial change under charter section 9.118. i guess i also wasn't clear if the resolution as written

contemplates delegating authority to the general manager to negotiate future changes without returning to the commission up to the new proposed $47 million budget. those are my comments on item 9. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. there are no more callers in the queue. >> item 9 is closed. thank you. colleagues any further questions or comments on this item? seeing none may i have a motion and second to approve? >> i will move it. >> second. moved and seconded. roll call vote, please. >> president maxwell. >> aye. >> vice president moran. >> aye. >> commissioner paul zone.

>> son aye. >> commissioner ajami. >> aye. >> five ayes. >> next item, please. >> item 10. authorize the general manager to execute a second amendment to the planning coordinator agreement between the city and county of san francisco public utilities commission and california independent system operator corporation. this extends from november 11, 20211 to november 10, 2031 for a total duration of 16 years not to exceed $500,000 subject to board of supervisors approval under charter section 9.118. mr. ritchie. >> this is extending the agreement with the independent system operator kaiso to provide planning coordinator services under federal regulations.

the water and power is registered as generation owner, transmission owner, operator and planner. we are required to have a planning coordinator for the bulk electric system. somebody who is looking at what all other utilities are planning in terms of work. this is a required thing we need to have. the caiso is the authorized services in the balancing authority area. that is why we are recommending a second amendment to make this long-term contract with the caiso. i am happy to answer any questions. >> questions? comments? seeing none public comment on in item, please. >> members of the public who wish to comment on item 10. dial 415-655-0001.

meeting id146-28703622-pound. press star 3 to speak. do we have any callers? >> there are no callers wishing to be recognized at this time. public comment is closed. >> motion and second to approve this item, please. >> i will move. >> second. >> moved seconded. roll call vote. president max women. >> aye. >> vice president more ran. >> aye. >> commissioner paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington. >> aye. >> commissioner ajami.

>> aye. >> five ayes. >> thank you. next item, please. >> 11. approve the program rules for and authorize the general manager to implement the rain barrel and rain cistern rebate program. >> this is steve ritchie. this is the first of three items for your approval. in this case it is verying us start to implement the rain barrel and rain sister rebate program within the tuc. it used to be administered by the urban farmers store when they were the only source of the materials. now there are more available we would like to take it in house and manage this way. our head of conservation is here to answer any questions if you have any. >> commissioner harrington.

>> i love the rebate programs. glad we are bringing them in house. we are talking about over the next year maybe spending $80,000 on three programs combined. that makes me think it is not catching on, not a big deal, amount not enough or something. if we do want to go into landscaping in san francisco we can't do 10 of these in the next year. how did we make this more meaningful? >> these programs work together in a suite. we have shared with you our 2020 conservation plan that talks about our many different measures. in the laundry to landscape gray

water programs, particularly, we tend to get smaller numbers of folks participate just because of some of the site conditions they have to meet. we also provide a lot of education and informational materials along with that. we see it as a valuable program. people go through the training and do learn about how to connect their water with their irrigation. it has that benefit. again, we look at them together as a suite of programs. we estimate conservatively how many people will participate. we do regular marketing. we are always looking at ways to get folks to apply. >> in that marketing do you know if it would be picked up twice as much if it was $200 or $500 or a thousand dollars or if the process to apply was easier or

harder? have we figured out? this is one of many programs. if they are useful and important, this doesn't seem like it is getting there. >> well, if we take the rain barrel and cisterns first we have quite a bit of participation over 1500 people participate in the last four years. that is a bit seasonal. when it rains people are more interested even though we market all of the time. i don't necessarily think that is low participation rates. for the laundry to landscape, again, it is a little bit more involved just in terms of people have to put in a valve with the washing machine, make adjustments with their gardens and we have looked at different mechanisms through the discount program we had on site technical

assistance. we looked at different ways to provide more holistic services. realistically to laundry to landscape gray water program it is not high participation. we see value in it. we get data and information. people get training, and we just have to look at it combined with other programs that are higher participation. the rain barrels are popular. >> they don't make any sense in san francisco. if people want them thanks is great. somewhere where it rains all year. specifically have we looked to see if we made the amount of money better or more would it may being a difference? have we tried to figure that out? >> we have looked at that

providing -- right now if you look at the rain barrel and cisterns. the amount of incentive is substantial percentage of the cost. the rain barrel averages between 80 to $150. with our rebate at $100 a.that is a fairly substantial amount. cisterns range from $500 be to $1,000. most people purchase the $500 level. i don't think it is an amount of incentive price. i do think there is just the fact that a lot of times people have a lot of interest. when it comes to seeing it through and buying the thing and putting it in and applying for a rebate, participation or interest will fall off. if we were looking to -- we have explored that we continue to look at ways to maybe improve

the ease and reduce the barriers. >> my request is could your communications group do a surveyor outreach to prove that? what would make a difference in terms of up take? cistern or rain barrel. the laundry to landscape and hot watery circulation. if we offered enough money might get more attraction. could you check in an official way without reach or questions to the community to see what might make a difference in terms of uptick would be helpful. >> we can look into that. the hot water pump program is new. we are estimating conservatively what might be participation. we will definitely do marketing and outreach. i would add we have explored

other approaches like direct solve approaches where we hire a contractor and they completely put the device or fixture in. it is fully paid for. there are pros and cons of that approach, too. with the rebate approach it is the least amount of money from our agency, the greatest ability for us to ensure something gets put in. there is more effort on the part of the participant. >> we definitely can do some surveying and outreach and get back to you with a sense. >> thank you. commissioner ajami. >> just, julie, thank you for

answering all of those questions. i had the same questions. my general question was on the last two items with hot watery circulating and also the gray water piece. how much is the cost of doing that? i don't think you touched on it but the second question i have for you. do we do advertisement or outreach when people are remodeling or doing major remodeling they have to get a permit from sfpuc, hey, since you are doing this there are a few other things to consider as part of your project. just because some of these projects are easier to be done than your, you know, in the midst of other activities and harder to kind of do without

thinking about the process. those are my questions. >> in terms of the cost for hot water pumps, the actual pump and associated parts range between about $100 to $500. again, rebate is set at $100. this is the first year we have done this program. when we see the cost of what people pay we may adjust that. that doesn't include if they decide not to put it in themselves and they hire a plumber. there could be installation costs. it doesn't require a plumber to do it necessarily. the laundry to landscape cost that rebate covers three essential components of the laundry to landscape system. three way divertter valve that

allows somebody to run the rinse water to the garden instead of the sewer. piping and component retails $175. it could be higher or lower. one hundred dollars rebate is relatively substantial portion. laundry to landscape if somebody chooses to hire an installer that could be more expensive. your point about doing outreach and add vertising to people remodeling. that is a great point. we don't specifically i am not aware of having targeted just those looking to remodel. it is hard to identify them. we do outreach to a number of different ways and try to be as

broad brush as we can, for sure we can look into whether there is some additional means to hone in on folks who are specifically looking to make landscape upgrades or home improvements. >> just to let you know, you probably know this. people want to do remodeling, pair permit process needs to be reviewed by sfpuc. i notice because we just went through the process. maybe that is a point that we can catch this. another idea is to reach out to landscapers who work in the homes and maybe this can be something they can offer as part of the process. i wouldn't underestimate installation costs. these are complicated. people are not that -- this is

not. maybe six years ago people could fix cars and do a lot of things. these days we know how to turn on and off things. we don't know how to open the hood of the car any more. it is very difficult for people to become this huge thing they don't want to deal with. i think some of those are quite valuable and can be of value. i think one thing i would say we talked about this for the toilets and some of the laundry. it would be good to create maps and follow-through and see where we are doing what. to track who is doing what. the numbers are not significant.

eventually good to know which neighborhoods are getting traction. this can be another complimentary information we can gather and potentially connect to water use that they have to see if it is really impacting water use or just, you know, more feel good measure. it would be good to reny how we get our data on this as well. >> those are great points. we do have the location information for all of the participants to date. we do look at that and try to do some analysis of how the changes in water use. as you know that can be a little challenging given that if other things are going in the household increase occupancy it

may mask the savings achieved from the laundry to landscape system, particularly based on the landscape served by these systems in san francisco. we see benefit. those who do participate are very passionate about it. as i said, many will take the first step and participate in our training and informational materials which have value beyond even if they don't go forward to install the laundry to landscape system. >> commissioner paulson. >> thank you. i didn't know we were going to talk about this this long. thanks for asking the question. i will be first one to volunteer, julie, for the outreach that you are going to be busy with. the reason i say that is because a couple weeks ago with the

screwed up garage i have and this is for residential point of view in san francisco. i have been telling myself let me go get me a cistern. i was in italy one-time on an island that is where the water came from. it came down there. i was fascinated by it. i went into the place. this is what i will say. i went into the store in san francisco. they didn't have other than small ones in line. i wanted a bigger one assuming it rains have all stuff come off the roof of my garage where the screwed up drainage system i can reconvert and put into something with hundreds of gallons in it. that is what i have been wanting to do. they gave me a piece of paper sfpuc on there. i don't think we were commissioners at the time.

call this number and get $100 or $300 depending on what size you wanted. i wasn't inspired by the money. if i bought one of those suckers for $200 they would give me back $100 back or $300. i don't know if that is an incentive. you nailed it on the head. i don't know. i am doing my one person poll for any answer. it is like somebody is motivated to take their water out of the drier or the water off their roof at least from a residential point of view to grab that kind of stuff. anyway. that was my feeling. i found out that there is not a lot of them floating around san francisco. you have to maybe go to a warehouse or from out of town the get them back here. if you want to hook it up, you can do that stuff. that being said i think it is

just a motivator item whether or not it is money or something else. are we going to add one more layer of conservation to deal with so we are not out watering tomatoes from the hose but from the water we saved out of the bathtub or shower or roof of our garage. that was just my one person kind of personal anecdote. thanks for indulging me. we are having too much fun right now. >> commissioner moran. >> one specific and one general. the general thing as we think about these issues and they sound like a good idea. anybody who tried to do this for a living would dumarket research

and test marketing to see how much it is going to go. part of what i hear from the comments is that the impulse is good, technology is attractive, but we also auto treat it as something we need to market and analyze. the market to pursue there are people with economic interest in cutting hot water use and hair salons is certainly one. to the degree that we can approach, identify and approach industries and groups that might help us expand the market as well. thank you. >> any further comment? you know i agree with everything everyone has said. i looked at the water, hot watery cycling.

i have the tall victorian. when the hot water comes up maybe i don't need a shower. i am thinking that it is more than just you have to decide whether the hot water heatters in the garage or put under every sink? you need somebody to tell you that. these programs get you thinking about it. when you look into it, it is another thing. and i also would like to know how much water could you save? if we did it and a certain kind of household, what is the savings? those things are important with the gray water, water to landscape. how much can you save? what happens with the soap? is there a special soap? does it hurt anything? these are things and questions that need answered. the programs are very

intriguing. i was thinking to myself if i go to one training do i have to go to training for each and every one of them. if i go to one and get two of these can one suffice? those are questions i have that i would like to know more about. the money is such that it is not that significant but the programs if indeed you think they are worth something could be advantageous to us. julie. >> i am happy to quickly address those questions and any that remain and follow up with. in terms of water savings. for the hot water pump program we are just launching that. that is something we want to look at. there have been a few national studies that estimate the

potential for about 10 gals of household savings per day. we want to see if we can see that same trend and if it holds true locally. we do model water safes for rain -- savings for rainberrels and sisters. since 2015 it is over 1500 products installed that is an estimated total savings of about 30-acre feet or 9.7 million gallons of lifetime savings of barrels and cisterns. it is not insignificant. with laundry to landscape we looked at water use at the home

level. that is a little trickier. given the small areas that are irrigated by the gray water and other changes that could have occurred with household use. we can't always identify but for those who did achieve savings we saw on average about 157 gallons per month. that is a very average. it varies from household to household. that is of great interest to us. we don't require training for all of these. we have originally did set up laundry to landscape program that did require people to comee to a workshop. we found over time we can make that easier by providing online training and resources to review on their own time. that is the direction we are moving in now.

we have a great manual on use of gray water and rainwater. that is what we get out when people express interest in the rebate programs. these are terrific resources with information we are sharing for free as well as part of the program. i don't know if that gets most of your questions. >> commissioner ajami, that was helpful. thank you. >> i have another question. totally irrelevant to these. sorry to drag this on. have you looked into showers to toilet programs? is that something that we need at state level ordinance or allow or can we do it local ordinance? i am curious because that is a

much, much more significant amount of water to reviews. water to to reduce.is that somed in discussions? >> you are talking about indoor gray water use. >> i understand we have the watery use system for large buildings. i am talking about everybody else. >> we haven't had an incentive program at the single family residential level because of the complexities there with treatment involved. i know that our routine has looked at it. they are looking at opportunities, large scale but in the course of that they have also considered it on the smaller scale. as part of the conservation team we haven't specifically looked

to launch that because, again, it can be challenging enough to get folks to do the laundry to landscape which is the simplest gray water system doesn't require a permit. >> the shower to toilet system is called a bucket. a lot of people actually do that. >> it is called a bucket. >> we give away buckets for free. [laughter] >> thank you. that was very good. all right. thank you. >> well, i want to add one time note. over the course of years of running the rain barrel and

sister and laundry to landscape we looked where you completely pay for everything and do it for the customer or rebait. the reason we are doing in this direction and maybe it caught the eye of the commissioners how little it costs. it is cost-effective as a rebate program and it's can be a lot more expensive when you pay for everything. the other thing we have seen the downside is to pay for everything is that the p.u.c. is then associated with that forever. if it doesn't work the customer follows up with us. we want people to come forward to do these efforts because they want to not because it was just so free that they figured without thinking through it i might as well do that. it is a balance. right now we want to run these as rebates to see how that works. definitely follow your thoughts

on the good discussions about the outreach and making sure we do as much as we can as well as regularly thinking about barriers we might be able to simplify. >> why don't we open up to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to comment on item 11. dial 415-655-0001. id146-287-0622-pound pound. press star 3 to speak. do we have any callers? >> there is one caller in the

queue. >> you have two minutes, caller. >> david pill plow. on this i appreciate julie and paula and the rest of the conservation and planning group. good work, team. i guess today's word is bucket. let's be clear, bucket. i would perhaps have a small information packet for customers on the various rebate programs and toilet fixture hardware and other ways to conserve when there are any inspection contacts. i don't know if we are still doing field inspections for a factor adjustment verification or turn on and turnoff or other things. i would use those limited

contacts with customers as opportunity to inform people what programs exist to promote participation there. i hope trust and believe there is cord face with the excellent waste water planning staff because clearly this could have some impact not just on reducing water use but minimizing wastewater flow and green infrastructure and conjunctive use. finally, on the resolution itself the last resolve clause has some odd formatting. maybe somebody can clean that up in the final. i was going to say on all three programs you might want to cap the total amount in the budget for all three. it sounds like you are unlikely to get participation with the

80,000 commissioner harrington referred to. with our good conversation that would be a good problem to have. that is 11. my comment applies to 12 and separate thought on 13. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. there are no more callers on the cue. >> public comment is closed. thank you. may i have motion and second to approve item 11, please. >> move. >> second. >> moved and seconded. >> roll call. >> president maxwell. >> aye. >> vice president moran. >> aye. >> commissioner paulson. >> aye. >> commissioner harrington.

>> aye. >> commissioner ajami. >> aye. >> five ayes. thank you. next will you call items 12 and 13 together, please. >> item 12. approve the program rules for and authorize the general manager to implement the laundry to landscape gray water program. 13. approve program rules and authorize general manager to implement a new hot watery circulating pump program. commissioner. any questions? >> i think we are good. if you think of something we can go back. let's open up to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to combine four minutes of public comment on items 12 and 13 dial 415-655-0001.

id146-287-0622-pound pound. press star 3 to speak. >> any callers, mr. moderator? >> there is one caller in the queue. >> hello, your line is open. you have four minutes. >> guess who. david pill plow. i need 10 seconds in addition to comments about capping amount on this item, the program rules are formatted differently and somebody might want a more consistent approach to program rules, guidelines and checklist so all three programs have the same rules if they differ slightly. that is all. good luck. thanks. >> comments?

>> there are no more callers in the queue. >> public items on 12 and 13 are closed. >> thank you. may i get a motion and second to approve items 12 and 13. >> i will move. >> second. >> it is moved seconded. roll call vote on items 12 and 13. [please stand by]

. >> the sfpuc previously used this parking lot for staging for the recycled water project under an agreement with the zoological society. that agreement terminated in february of this year, and they're now allowing use of this property for the west side pump station project, 32,000 feet of space within the overflow parking lot for a

total of five years, at a cost of $25,000 a month, with a total cost of 1.2 million. -- per car or 50 days per year. estimated lost revenue was calculated based on the direct cost of parking as well as the instrumental operating revenues from lost patronage due to the lost parking.

delays in approving this project would potentially delay the project while we look at other potential solutions. >> thank you so much for your presentation. i have a question regarding the loss of operational value just because i used to take my kids to the zoo, and sometimes the parking lot is full, and you have to park on sloat or other streets, so i'm wondering for sure if there's no for parking on this. i'm not trying to nickel and dime this, it just strikes me that we are calculating that part of the cost.

>> sure. this is a very unique space station. we anticipated this question, obviously, and we pushed back and questioned it ourselves. we pushed back on the original figure that had been presented by the zoo. they actually hired a consultant, and they're called rs&f consultants,, inc. -- consultants, inc. , so a thought of thought went into the analysis they provided, and it was something we did not agree with the bottom line figure, but we did agree with the analysis that we negotiated, and we worked with the zoo. the partner agency, we'll rely on their coordination and cooperation for future projects

that we have in the area, so like we said, we didn't necessarily want to nickel and dime them, but we were interested in looking at the bottom line and the interest of the rate fares. >> thank you. >> commissioner harrington. >> thanks so much, and i'm very impressed with the process that you went to come up with the price. i'm also hoping that the zoo will know that there will be a sustainable revenue stream because who knows with covid, that they would have people coming there, and if we can help folks with that, it's wonderful. thank you. >> of course. it's convenient for them. i don't think you can argue that fact. >> good. any further questions or comments? thank you for your presentation, and it was good seeing you. why don't we open this up for

public comment? >> clerk: members of the public who wish to provide public comment on item 14, call 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 146-287-0622, pound, pound. raise your hand, press star, three. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there is one caller in the queue. hello, caller. your line is unmuted. you have two minutes to comment. >> david pillpel. last time today, i promise. so the recreation department still owns the subject property. i was a little surprised that the agreement was with the zoological society, but if that's the approach that was used before, that's the license with the r.p.d. consent form that's in there, if that does the trick, then so be it. in this case, i guess i'm

slightly less concerned about the money. it could be more, it could be less. i guess it's reasonable. i agree with commissioner harrington's comments that having a predictable revenue stream for the zoo is worthwhile for everyone concerned, and at the end of the day, p.u.c. needs the land for staging for the west side pump station upgrade project, so there you go. those with my thoughts. thank you very much. i hope i can participate on friday. thanks. >> operator: thank you for your comments. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment on item 14 is closed. >> thank you. then may i have a motion and a second to approve item 14? >> so moved. >> all right. >> second. >> been moved and seconded. roll call. [roll call]

>> clerk: five ayes. >> thank you. madam clerk, will you read the next items to be heard in closed session and then call for public comment? >> clerk: the following items will be heard in closed session: item 17, conference with legal counsel, pursuant to california government code section 54965.1 d-d 1 and san francisco administrative code section 67.10-d-1, san joaquin tributaries authority versus california state water resources control board, conference with legal counsel, pursuant to california government code section

54965.9-d-1 and san francisco administrative code section 67.10-d-1, and existing litigation, san joaquin tributaries authority,et al, versus california state water resources control board. members of the public who wish to provide public comment, dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 146-287-0622, pound, pound. press star, three to enter the queue. mr. moderator, do we have any callers in the queue? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue. >> okay.

may we have a motion is it a second? >> so moved. >> second. >> may we have a roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: and you have five ayes. >> all right. thank you. then we will go into closed session, and we will -- we'll go into closed session, and then, when everybody's in there, we will have a break for ten from the meeting and excused at 4:53. the next item is item 20, motion regarding whether to

disclose the discussions during closed session pursuant to san francisco administrative code section 67.12-a. >> so moved. >> i have a motion. may i have a second? >> second. >> roll call vote. [roll call] >> clerk: you have four ayes. >> thank you. madam secretary, is there any further business before the commission? >> clerk: no, madam president. that concludes your business for today. >> thank you. then this meeting is adjourned. thank you. thank you, colleagues.

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here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160

acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling.

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>> i just don't know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. it is an experience that you can't have anywhere else in san francisco. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. we have four neighborhoods that i represent. st. mary's park has a completely unique architecture. very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in san francisco. the bernal heights district is unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views

in all of san francisco. there is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top. it is as if you are swinging over the entire city. there are two unique aspects. it is considered the fourth chinatown in san francisco. sixty% of the residents are of chinese ancestry. the second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. there is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. not only for san francisco but for the region. and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the city's second biggest park after golden gate. many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the

[speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down and you have sunrise café. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals. it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engagement park next to so much incredible art. it's another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [♪♪♪] >> it was formed in 2014. we had been an organization that had been around for over 20

years. we worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. so the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve the history and the culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of families and generations. >> in the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the mission district have been displaced from their community. we all know that the rising cost of living in san francisco has led to many people being displaced. lower and middle income all over the city. because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. >> it's a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture.

there is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. there are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesn't completely erase the communities. we try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more equitable development in the area. >> you need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. the people on the businesses that came before you. you need to dialogue and show respect. and then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [♪♪♪] >> i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. so we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and working-class. >> back in the day, we looked at

mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like mission street. this is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people. we created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. that is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. we have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [♪♪♪] >> candlestick park known also as the stick was an outdoor stadium for sports and entertainment. built between 1958 to 1960, it was located in the bayview hunters point where it was home

to the san francisco giants and 49ers. the last event held was a concert in late 2014. it was demolished in 2015. mlb team the san francisco giants played at candlestick from 1960-1999. fans came to see players such a willie mays and barry bonds, over 38 seasons in the open ballpark. an upper deck expansion was added in the 1970s. there are two world series played at the stick in 1962 and in 198 9. during the 1989 world series against the oakland as they were shook by an earthquake. candlestick's enclosure had minor damages from the quake but its design saved thousands of lives. nfl team the san francisco 49ers played at candlestick from feign

71-2013. it was home to five-time super bowl champion teams and hall of fame players by joe montana, jerry rice and steve jones. in 1982, the game-winning touchdown pass from joe montana to dwight clark was known as "the catch." leading the niners to their first super bowl. the 49ers hosted eight n.f.c. championship games including the 2001 season that ended with a loss to the new york giants. in 201, the last event held at candlestick park was a concert by paul mccartney who played with the beatles in 1966, the stadium's first concert. demolition of the stick began in late 2014 and it was completed in september 2015. the giants had moved to pacific rail park in 2000 while the 49ers moved to santa clara in 2014. with structural claims and

numerous name changes, many have passed through and will remember candlestick park as home to the legendary athletes and entertainment. these memorable moments will live on in a place called the stick. (♪♪♪) >> 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. cut. >> we are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. a place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and it's beautiful and it's been completely redone and been a gathering place for this

community. >> i have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. that is not a joke. i live in an apartment building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. >> let me tell you handout you -- how to build a community garden. you start with a really good idea and add community support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. this is great. it's about environment and stewardship. it's also for the -- we implemented several practices

in our successes of the site. that is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. i don't know how they do it. >> there is acres and acres of parkland throughout golden gate park, but not necessarily through golden community garden. we have it right in the middle of

. >> chairman: welcome. the meeting will come to order. this september 10th regularly scheduled meeting of the youth, young adults, and families committee. i am chair member supervisor melgar and clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, madam chair. the board recognizes that public access to city services

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best practices are to call from a quiet line and turn down your listening device. e-mail myself, brentjulipa@brentjulipa@sfgov. org. finally, items acted on today are expected to appear on the board of supervisor its agenda. that includes my announcement, madam chair. >> chairman: thank you so much and can you please read item number one. >> clerk: yes, madam chair. item number one is administrative code consultation regarding the filing of juvenile drink

wednesdayy cases on california child wellware under code section 651 and provide the davment the opportunity to commence proceedings in the juvenile drink wednesdayy court in the san francisco superior court. members of the public should call (415) 655-0001 and the meeting id is 24831119790. press pound and pound again. >> chairman: i am happy to state that all parties came together and we have come to an

agreement. and so i will be offering the following amendments that we all agree is the right system to developing san francisco and i'll just briefly read it. the police department that present to the san francisco district attorney all juvenile delinquency cases which occurred in san francisco where sfpd is the sole agency. commencing proceedings in juvenile placency court. the designee shall wave the protection of the public. the importance address victims and the interest of the minor. if the d.a. or d.a.'s designee

declines to file in san francisco superior court, sfpd may present the case in another jurisdiction consistent with welfare institution code section 651. i really want to thank everyone who's been involved in this effort and in coming to this very specific language to make extremely clear what primarily we already do in san francisco particularly i want to thank police chief william scott, his policy director, anna olivera roche. i want to thank our district attorney, jacob o'dean and from my office who have worked hard on this and thens, finally juvenile probation chief katie

miller. thank you everyone for working so hard to make sure we have the best policy here in san francisco. and, with that, i want to ask my colleagues if they have any comments before we open this item up for public comment. >> supervisor ronen, if i may say? >> i'm here. i don't have any comments. >> supervisor ronen: we have our staff attorney ann pierson. >> thank you, supervisor ronen. my office had a chance to review into the record last night and we made some small tweaks to approval as to reform. she circulated a very small draft to your aid this morning. i don't think the one you read into the record is the one she sent to him. again, the changes are very

minor. >> supervisor ronen: would you mind reading the changes? do you have them in front of you? >> i do. the sfpd shall first present. all juvenile delinquency cases where, one, all the allege criminal acts occurred within the city and county of san francisco. two, the san francisco police department is the lead or sole investigative agency and, three, california welfare institutions code section 651 current commence proceedings in the juvenile delinquency court in san francisco superior court or any other county. i believe that's. >> supervisor ronen: okay. fantastic. >> i'm happy to send it out as you hear public comment, but i wanted to make sure that if it's this version that the board is taking action on that. >> supervisor ronen: fantastic.

thank you so much for that. with that, can we please open this item up for public comment? >> clerk: yes, madam chair. we have aracelly frias. please press star 3 to be added to the queue and you will hear the system prompt for those of you in line to speak. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. ms. frias. >> there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. public comment is closed. first, i'd like to make a motion to amend the item as stated by myself and city

attorney anne pierson. can we take a roll call on that vote. >> clerk: yes. on the motion as the amendments moved by supervisor ronen and stated by deputy attorney anne pierson. [roll call] we have three ayes. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. and i'd like to make a motion to send the item to committee with positive recommendation. please do a roll call vote. >> clerk: on the motion with the full board with positive recommendation as amended, [roll call] >> supervisor ronen: thank you for being here.

mr. clerk, can you please read item number two. >> clerk: yes, item number two is to the extent permitted by state law when the member is not able to attend in person due to pregnancy, child birth or a related condition and may authorize members to participate by teleconferencing to the extent permitted by state law when the member is absent to tare for the member's child after the birth of a child or after placement of a child for adoption or parental care for other boards and city commissions to participate in public meetings by teleconferencing under the same conditions. members of the public should call (415) 655-0001. the meeting id is 24831119790 and pound twice if you have not already done so.

please dial star 3 to line up to speak. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. that is your queue to begin your comments. madam chair. >> chairman: thank you so much. thank you, again, supervisor melgar for bringing this forward. the floor is yours. >> supervisor melgar: thank you so much, chair ronen for hearing this item again and your cosponsorship along with supervisor chan, stefanie and safai. as a recap, this legislation will authorize the board of supervisors to set our own parental leave and it will establish a citywide parental lead policy for all city commissions and bodies. members will now be able to take formal parental leave for

16 weeks without fear of discrimination or fear of having to relinquish their seat. they will also be allowed an extension a total of 36 weeks if members are recovering from child pregnancy or another related health condition. to align with the state policy so they would be fully excused from the meetings and, if members want to attend some or all the meetings remotely, it also sets a policy for teleconferencing option. so it's a little bit ahead which is what the charter amendment allowed. however, it is still subject to the state brown act, and, as you know, we're working on that as well with our state legislators. we are taking an extraordinary opportunity to change the

culture practices in our city and our society in this legislation will push us in the right direction. and, i would be remiss if i didn't acknowledge that it has taken 14 years to pass this with former supervisor mckayla pierre having to navigate as a city legislator going through pregnancy. it was unprecedented and she had to go to the voters with the charter amendment to allow the ability in the event they had, you know, they were physically unable to do it because of pregnancy or child birth. so at that time, no border commission has ever formally adopted a parent lead policy. so i want to thank supervisor for having the courage and foresight to take that monumental step for us.

to allow for teleconferencing for members who are physically unable to attend during physical or mental leave when the brown act was written, there was none of these things that now make it easier for all of us to communicate. we remain hopeful that this update will pass next year. if the brown act is updated and our legislation is place this will allow a teleconference during the leave if they choose regardless of the state of emergency. so we are also working on a possible charter amendment next year to update the language to provide the most flexibility for people who need to take medical or parental lead and to address the need for teleconferencing in certain circumstances. as we experience in this pandemic and despite the difficulties of silver linings to having new tools of

communication. so i am want to thank all the parents and care givers who've had to stay home with kids and also participate in civic life and work and i want to thank the commission on the status of women and her former staff elizabeth newman for all her support and feedback on this. also, our city attorneys ann pierson, job gibner and tom owen. and, you know, mostly the unpaid volunteers who now sit on our board commissions and do the work of the city. and, lastly, i want to thank various individuals and parent am leave experts who've reached out to our office to weigh in on this and provide really good feedback. some of it we've incorporated is and some of it we can't because of the current charter. for instance, adoption and surrender ga sea wasn't a thing

it is today particularly for gay so that after we do that, we can come back and do more to this file. i hope we can send this out with a strong, positive recommendation. thank you. >> chairman: thank you so much. gosh, this is overdue and i can't thank you enough for prioritizing this and updating our laws to modern times. thank you so much. supervisor safai, is there anything you wanted to add?

>> supervisor safai: yeah, i just want to appreciate the experience and perspective that supervisor melgar is bringing to the table. having been a former commissioner herself and former legislative aide, i think she has brought that personal experience as a mother, as a care giver, as a daughter to the table and i think it's something that we should be proud of here in san francisco. she mentioned the other supervisors that came before her that were doing this type of work and how long it's taken, but this is something that's really monumental for our city and it's important and i think over the past year that we all have dealt with covid, we saw how we were negotiating and working with the city to ensure people have the appropriate time off even for that, even in a pandemic. it was a bit of a struggle at times and ultimately, i think we were able to land in the right place to give people the appropriate time off. so this is really monumental, i

want to thank supervisor melgar for mitting the ground running on this issue and getting it down and bringing it across the finish line. so many care givers and so many people, particularly the burden that falls on women in our society. this is so important. thank you for your amazing work. >> chairman: supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: i just would be remiss. i forgot to thank one person, and that is jenn lowe on my staff who is a mother to a young child and has really championed all issues around child care and parental leave. she put in so much work in this and i just wanted to mention her because she's amazing. thank you. >> chairman: mr. clerk, can we now open up this item to public comment. >> clerk: yes, madam chair. please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. for those who already called in

and wish to speak on this ordinance, please dial star 3 to be added to the queue. you will hear the system prompt to raise your hand and confirm you are in line to speak. for those already on hold please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and i will start your two minutes for comments. >> yes, we have one caller. i'll put them through. >> clerk: thank you. >> can you hear me now? >> chairman: yes. >> great. good morning. david pillpell. welcome back from recess and happy new year where appropriate. this does flow from a mckayla elliott o'pier charter many years ago that the board of supervisors have not implemented until now. i would ask if particularly since you just duplicated the file if the sunshine ordinance

taskforce has reviewed this and if not you could send a referral to them and they would take up some of theism indications. i'm particularly concerned about the implications for quorum and public access to meetings. i note that for noncovid teleconference meetings under the brown act that there are specific requirements for the locations where teleconference meetings can occur and what access the public has at those locations. i have no particular issue with the proposed leap policy. i think that's fine, that's entirely up to you. i am concerned about these other implications for quorum and for public access. when teleconferencing in my

view bodies, policy bodies should be required to post documents in real time such as presentations, written comments and amendments that may be circulated. the board of supervisors has legistar and the clerks are well versed in that. and the clerks are great by the way, but not all policy bodies operate in the same way and so certain boards and commissions will have presentations or discuss amendments, circulate them among the members, but the public has no access to them during the meeting. that's been a problem during covid and that would be a problem in my view with noncovid teleconference meetings authorized. >> clerk: that's your time. >> under this ordinance. >> clerk: thank you, mr. pillpell.

>> chairman: further public comments? >> there are no more public commentors in the queue. >> chairman: did you want to make a motion, supervisor melgar? >> supervisor melgar: i did want to make a motion, i also wanted to address if i could mr. pillpell's comment because nothing in this legislation creates new impediments to sharing information with the public. i think the difference is there was a time when the teleconferencing meant a land line and we didn't have the ability to share the power

point presentations online i would request that they also update the way we community today also to equitably provide access of representation and participation for women and care givers. and, also, we have expectations of communication and documents being shared. that has nothing to do with it. so i ask that we do that as well. so, thank you, and i'd like to make a motion that we, you know, send with the positive committee recommendation. >> chairman: great. and, then, for the duplicated file, did you want to continue that file to the call of the chair? >> supervisor melgar: yes, ma'am. thank you. >> chairman: i don't know, mr. clerk, if we can take a vote. if we need to take separately the votes. >> clerk: let's see. the duplicated file i don't

think needs a vote. let's see, the member does have the privilege to request for it to be duplicated and it will stay in committee. so just a motion to forward. >> chairman: great. >> clerk: on the motion by member melgar, [roll call] >> clerk: we have three ayes. >> chairman: thank you, mr. clerk. please read item number three. >> clerk: yes, item number three is the hearing preliminary recommendations of the sf rise working group to youth and families adversely

affected by covid-19 school closures and distancing plan programs. how members of the public who wish to pry public comment should call (415) 655-0001 i.d. number 24831119790. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and the system will indicate you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. madam chair. >> chairman: it's great to be here and started the day around such great news in helping safety in our schools in san francisco. pretty much all across the city, public, private, we're doing so safely according to the data and now the question

is how are we going to address learning loss that occurred last year and do everything we can to increase enrollment in our public schools and supervisor melgar and i created rides and the rides working group, sf rise working group in order to put a plan together and to do just that to make our public schools even better to provide any necessary wrap around services before or after school services, tutoring, really whatever our students and their families need in order to be successful in our public schools. and, today, after incredibly hard work by the sf rise

working group with the support of dcyf and i want to call out specifically [inaudible] who has been facilitating that group. it is a group made up of experts across the field in education, pediatric health, in community schools models. we have representatives from the teacher's union, educator's union. representatives from the school board. we have representatives from the district. we have parents represented and i have attended not to participate, but to learn and to watch many of the working group meetings and they are fascinating and interesting and i want to thank from the bottom of my heart all of the participants for giving so much of their time and energy to

this process and i want to thank all of the departments from city to school districts. the school board, the educator's union and the nonprofits who are there participating in this effort and i'm very excited to hear the preliminary recommendations today. and, before we turn this over to our presenters, i just wanted to give my co-conspirator in this effort,co-author in this work supervisor melgar to say anything she'd like. >> supervisor melgar: thank you so much, chair. i just want to second all the people you just thanked and also the kids for putting up with all of this, you know, with patience and, you know, humor in many ways. but, also, you know, i just wanted to acknowledge how tough it's been for them and that we are doing what we can to

collaborate with each other across bodies that don't plan jointly and i'm so grad this is happening and i'm incredibly grateful to the sf rise working group and their hard work and thoughtfulness of putting this together. i also wanted to remind us in 2014, we passed the charter amendment that was called, our children, our families counsel for all of the different departments to work together to support kids across our city and, you know, i just wanted to sort of remind us of that that we're supposed to doing this to begin with and it's taken an extraordinary event to get us to that level. thank you so much for your leadership, chair ronen because you have been steady in calling out the needs of kids and families and what we can do

despite this awful virus to support kids and actually get to a better place. so i'm looking forward to, you know, hearing from folks about their recommendations and doing the hard work to implement them. thank you. >> chairman: thank you so much. and, my staff, i wanted to turn it over to the director of the department of children, youth, and their families. >> thank you, chair ronen, supervisor melgar, supervisor safai. good afternoon. and, actually, i think supervisor ronen took all of my talking points around sf rise. i will say that it does take amazing leaders such as you all to take just swift action, recognize where we needed to come together and, you know, a nudge and when the nudging

didn't happen, forced it to happen. and, it does take that level of recognition. so thank you so much for creating the students and families recovery with inclusive and successful enrichment work group which once again that work group was established to come up with solutions to support our students and families as they go through this recovery process. and, what we want to make sure happen when they come through this, they're going to come out stronger and better and we as a community will be stronger and better. before we go into the areas of the preliminary report, i do want to ask to set the context for the report. and, with that, i'm going to invite our partners at d.p.h. to come and share with us the amazing data that they released

yesterday to show once again how resilient our communities are and how amazing our children and families are and finally, how amazing our teachers and schools are. so when we come together and work together, it's a win-win situation and that's what we have. and so i'm going to hand the mic over to the amazing [inaudible] who will drive the deck for this part and then we're also bring on dr. davino nova from d.p.h. >> i'll get the slides ready. dr. baba, the floor is yours. >> thank you so much for allowing us to present a little bit about covid and children in san francisco and i also really want to commend dr. sue for her

commitment to children and families over the last year and a half. we definitely would not be here today without dcyf's support. next slide, please, anna. all right. so i first wanted to explain this in terms of delta variant and what the city's experiencing. so you can see from the graph here that we did peak with our rate and this is overall. we have decreased as well as, you know, you can see that the winter peak was actually higher for us which is good news we're seeing a decline. some of the things that i just wanted to highlight about delta because what we're seeing locally is obviously we had our peak and our surge that there's a different national story happening and so i just wanted to make some distinctions. delta is now accounting for

over 90% of the sequencing that's happening through covid and so, it is the dominant strain here in the west. it is twice as transmiss able and that's why it has a competitive advantage compared to other strains. and the transmissbility has caused the concern we're seeing. the other thing you should know about delta is that vaccines do work. they work around preventing serious disease including hospitalizations, and deaths. and so that's really good that our vaccinations are able to hold up against them. there is also a decrease in cases in those that are vaccinated. so, people who are vaccinated can still get delta, but they are less likely to. additionally, we've gotten data

from other parts of the world and it does appear that because delta is so transmissible, what you're seeing is a lot more in-house transmission. so if delta gets into the house, it transmits very quickly to the rest of the household and that's relative to previous strains. i think we'll talk more about some of the difference we're seeing in the bay area compared to the rest of the world. so if we can go to the next slide. so, now i want to focus a little bit about more on children because this has made national headlines. just this week, the american academy of pediatrics put out the fact that children are making up almost a quarter of the cases nationwide and that's been much bigger than any previous time. what we're seeing in sf is it's slightly different. currently, those under 18, make about 11.5% of cases and at no

point in time have we had more than 20% of cases and that occurred during a relatively lower level of cases within san francisco. so, in general, delta and kids in san francisco is a slightly different story and i think there's a couple reasons for this. one of the reasons you're seeing surges in kids, where that's happening is vaccination rates are very low and mask mandates are not in place. and so you get a lot more transmission and kids are not immune to this transmission. where we do see mask mandates in place and where there's a high rate vaccination, that does have a protective effect. even though the majority of cases are in adults and you ask other parts of the country are seeing surges in children as well. most children have mild to no

symptoms and then most of the pediatric cases come from unvaccinated adults in the household who then spread it to the rest of the household. so this is our local data, and the orange part represents all cases above 18 and then the light include is 0 to 11 and the darker blue is 12 to 17. and, you can see just in general, the 0-11 and 12-17 have remained really low. so it's not the whole pandemic, but from the middle of the winter surge until now. and, there have been, you know, mild increases and decreases, but in general, a steady rate and one of the most important things to note on this is when school re-opened because there is always a concern if school re-opened and there was a lot more mixing, would we see increased case rate. based on the guidelines and the

science, there shouldn't be and school can be a low-risk environment. you can see this sfusd re-opened on the 15th and we have not seen a decrease in cases and children as a percentage. and, this is just another graphical representation. by far, adults are the ones affected by covid representing anywhere from 75% to 93% of cases. on the bottom graphs are both 0-11 and 12-17. we break those out because obviously the 12-17 are ehlingable for vaccines where as the 0-11-year-olds are not. you can see that most of the cases are in the adults and, you know, it's been pretty stable in terms of the children and their case rates. there are some blips here and there, but most of it has been fairly stable.

next slide. so, hospital aegises remain rare. this is in contrast to the national stories. but in san francisco, since march, there's only been 13 pediatric hospitalizations. currently, there are no san francisco children hospitalized for covid-19 and, in general, we can't really publicized hospitalization data to do that, you need a number greater than 5 and at any given time there's never more than five people in the hospital. i think again, this is the layered strategy we have in place and the city has really led to this. next slide. and then, i finally wanted to talk about vaccines. so one of the things that we know can prevent the spread of delta is vaccination. i specifically want to call out the fact that our

12-17-year-olds, i mean, it's incredible, they are 90% fully vaccinated and i think that's one of the highest rates probably in the nation and, for those who just got at least one dose it's over 95%. someone recently asked me are you going to mandate for that age group and i said we don't need a mandate, they're already doing amazingly and i'm just so proud of that cohort for really taking vaccinations seriously, wanting to protect themselves and their families, their peers, and their community. it's really a bright spot. and i think this is also why we're seeing such a low rate of hospitalizations and that's from covid in that age group, as well as they're protecting their younger peers. adults being vaccinated from covid, protect unvaccinated children. this is why it's critical that all of the adults that come into contact with children are vaccinated because they really do transmission. and then there's hope on the

horizon. we concur that pfizer is planning to submit its data for the 5-11-year-olds at the end of this month and we'll have to see what the fda thinks about the data and what they decide to do in terms of authorizing the vaccine for that age group. so i think that's my end. go ahead. turn it over to anna now. >> so i'm here to talk about the school's guidance and how that applies for this next school year. so as we know, all the schools have re-opened and we know that schools are a safe place for our children and our staff to learn, play, and make friends. as the data has shown and much of the research nationwide and internationally says that the risk of transmission is very low in schools, as long as we have layered measures in place and they're all used as much as possible by the school.

it's important to note that when the community case rates are high, we actually do expect to see cases in all settings and that includes schools. it includes all other settings, the purpose of the guidance is designed to stop the spread of covid at the school between individuals at the school site. and, we know that there are much more benefits of going back to school than staying home as we've all experienced in the past year including learning, mental health, physical health, and the social emotional development of our children. as dr. baba has highlighted, vaccines are our most powerful tool against covid and it is one of the most effective ways to decrease the risk of covid. there is more and more research that shows even with delta that it decreases the risk of hospitalization and death and

that i don't think we can say this enough. vaccinated adults and teenagers help provide a protected layer that protects the children that are not eligible to be vaccinated yet. and that it helps to prevent the severity of infections as well, so research has shown that vaccinated people are ten times less likely to be hospitalized. good news, in san francisco, we now have 81% of our entire population is fully vaccinated. the teenagers are doing better than the general population and then if anyone is interested in is still considering getting vaccinated, this is a way to contact us. either this phone number (628) 652-2700 and visit our website and we have many sites set up to get people quickly

vaccinated as possible. this is throughout the state. face coverings are required indoors. they are not required outdoors. it is required for all adults and students, they must wear their face masks indoors at school regardless if they are vaccinated or not and we know that wearing face masks indoors prevents the spread of the virus. it is not required outdoors because of the abundant natural ventilation. the state does require that persons who are exempt from wearing face coverings must wear a nonrestrictive alternative such as a face shield with a drape. this would apply to limited populations such as those students with some medical concerns where a face mask is not possible for them, but we want to see some kind of protective covering. and, that schools are

responsible for developing and implementing protocols to ensure that everyone is wearing their face mask. and, i think in san francisco, we happen to be fortunate where we have a population that is generally in compliant with wearing face masks indoors as opposed to other areas in the state or even in the nation. just to address ventilation because i know this has been a top concern especially with the headlines around wildfires in our state. we do ask schools to use outdoor spaces as much as possible and then when they are indoors, the schools can take one of three measures or all of the three measures where they can open their windows, they can improve the hvac systems and they can use portable air cleaners. and i'm not sure the general public understands, in the process of the school application review, sfdph has reviewed all of the ventilation

systems at all school buildings. we hired an independent consultant and all the schools are required to submit what the ventilation was at their school site and how they approved it and we reviewed that and approved that before we gave approval to re-open. this includes all of the buildings at the school districts and all of the other schools in our city. we have personally reviewed all the ventilation systems. again, we are seeing headlines about wildfire and poor air quality and we recognize that that is also another public health issue. schools should prioritize trying to keep healthy air indoors as much as possible. but, we are confident saying that schools can stay open. they do not need to close. they can temporarily close their windows, but in order to prevent the spread of covid, they should maximize other safety measures. that includes having portable

air cleaners, doubling down on wearing your face mask, increase hand washing, please stay home when you're sick, etc., but it is not necessary to close schools in the event of a wildfire. there are areas that we know that we can now go back to pre-covid protocols. we have learned a lot in the past year and a half about this particular virus and we know that this virus is spread from person to person. it is not spread through objects or services. so for the purposes of cleaning and disinfection, the routine janitorial cleaning once a day at a school site is sufficient because we know that covid is not spread through services and disinfection is only required in any area where there was a confirmed covid-19 case. and so it's important to note that vaccines are not widely available last school year. we only had it widely available

towards the tail end of the spring. so with the wide availability of vaccines now, with the indoor masking mandate, the state and also the health department in san francisco, we believe that physical distancing is no longer required as well as cohorting and that we can resume normal spacing in classrooms and normal academic calendars, especially for middle and high school where we have such a large vaccinated teenage population. some recommendations for meals and snacks recognizing that, of course, one cannot eat or drink with a mask on. so, again, we recommend that schools eat outdoors when the space and the weather allow. and, at this point in time, that's one of the areas that we suggest that you take

unvaccinated students out as much as possible when they are eating. cafeteria and food service may resume. this is where schools should frequently touch surfaces when it's related to meals and snacks and any surfaces that come in contact with food to be washed, recognized, and sanitized. meals do no longer have to be plated or bagged. and this is true before covid. we're asking everybody to wash their hands before and after they eat or drink and also considering wearing their masks which minimize the amounts of exposure that one would have in the event that they're, if you cover your mouth while you're eating, it's just less exposure time. this is another area where we are going to promote pre-covid protocols. we have always encouraged everyone to wash hands or use hand sanitizer. it's not just for covid-19, but

it's for all infectious diseases. so we really want everyone to be washing their hands as much as possible, especially before and after eating and after using the restroom and asking schools and our parents and care givers to reinforce that message with our young people about washing hands, covering their coughs and sneezes and not touching their eyes, nose, and mouth. we are strongly encouraging everyone to stay home when sick. point in time this is actually one of the most important measures that we can take. if students and staff have any of the following symptoms, please do not come to school and i want to highlight that article of the case in marin where there was a teacher who was unvaccinate and unmasked for a brief period of time, this made national headlines. but one of the things was that that teacher was symptomatic and came to school for a couple of days.

if you are feeling sick, please stay home because thus then does not introduce the virus into the school community. excuse me. in the event that somebody does develop symptoms at school which can happen, for the staff, they should notify their supervisor and we work as much as possible. schools should sent sick students home as quickly as possible and they should all have a designated isolation area for students to wait so they are not with other students and staff and this was part of the approval process for schools to re-open and then contact your doctor and get tested as soon as possible. so just a word about testing. we now have greater access to testing through home health kits and health care providers and d.p.h. has strong recommendations for testing. of course, we want to focus on those individuals that have symptoms and who are considered

close contacts. even if you are vaccinated and you are having symptoms, we want you to get tested and if you're considered a close contact and vaccinated, we are actually asking everyone to get tested. we are not asking anyone who has had covid-19 in the last three months to get tested because there is viral shedding and there will still be remnants of the virus in your nose and mouth and it will create a false result from the test. the state and our local health department requires that there be screening, testing for all unvaccinated teachers and staff at school. and this is just for unvaccinated staff. they either need to get tested once weekly, p.c.r. or twice weekly antogen. in general, we do not recommend testing students that do not have symptoms or known exposures or anyone that has had covid in the last three

months. if you're waiting for your test results to also please stay home. we have had a number of cases where people have sent -- where they either have gone to school or sent their child to school while waiting for a test result and get a test result in that day and inadvertently expose a group of students and then they have to go unnecessarily into quarantine. this is highlighting the data that we released yesterday related to schools. we are in i believe our fourth week of school. so we now can talk a little bit about what has been happening so we can see that the measures that we have in place seem to be working. we have schools all remain a low risk environment. since the school district opened on august 16th, they have reported 246 cases to us out of 200,000 individuals when you add up the students and the

staff. for all the other schools, there was 61 cases out of nearly 27,500 students and staff. we have a team that worked on these cases and they have determined through exposure investigation, enhanced contact tracing and enhanced case investigation that the vast majority of these cases were contracted outside of the school but did not necessarily spread at a school site. there are no countried covid-19 school outbreaks and the suspected in-school transmission numbers are solo that we cannot talk about them because of our privacy concerns. and, this holds the same pattern since the beginning of the pandemic. last year, we did not see any verified outbreaks at the school district and we did not see any verified outbreaks at any of the camps or the

learning hubs that were established this summer even during the rise or the peak of the delta surge. and last year, throughout all of the individuals that were attending in person, there were only seven cases of in-school transmission among 48,000. so we take this as evidence that the measures that we have in place are working at schools. and, just lastly, we want to say d.p.h. remains involved. we are continuously monitoring the pandemic and as the general public has seen, we will react when things either get better or get worse. so we will make modifications if the data and science indicate a need to do so. we are working actively with the school district to set up vaccine sites at school districts, at select number of school district schools to launch in the fall especially to be prepared for the event that pediatric vaccines will

become available for ages 5-7 years old. we have dedicated trained staff to respond to all of the cases and exposures at schools. also doing case investigation and contact tracing. we rely on the schools to get us the names of the close contacts that are occurring on a school site because that is something that we cannot do, but once we get the names, contact information of all those people, we do a thorough case investigation and contact tracing at school sites. and, of course, we maintain our school guidance and make updates as necessary. that concludes our school presentation and we're very happy to answer any questions. >> chairman: thank you so much to both of you. i want to ask my colleagues if they have any questions before we move on to the preliminary recommendation of the sf rise

working group. nope. okay. i think that was very thorough and certainly very good news. so i really appreciate you all coming and giving us that update as background for the report from rise. the so thank you so much. appreciate it. now, if i can turn it back to director su. >> thank you. i do want to emphasize that d.p.h. and sfusd meet on a regular basis every single week to have these very focused health and wellness conversations. so just to know in the spirit of sf rise and in the spirit of us working together, we do spend a lot of time in conversations and trying to

bring problem solve and work towards, you know, making sure that all of our children and families are safe. with that, i'm going to hand this next part of the presentation over to jasmine dawson, our deputy director of city and community partnerships at dcyf. jasmine. >> great. thank you. thank you to supervisor ronen, supervisor melgar, supervisor safai for allowing us to present on the sf rise preliminary plan to youth, young adults, and families committee. we are excited to share highlights from the preliminary report and to share what we have planned for the next several months. i want to thank and acknowledge our hardworking and deeply committed work group members who began this journey with us and may be here today. leslie hue, rafael picasso, dr. joyce durado, emily gar

vie, marcus wong, maria su, commission bogess. i also want to acknowledge the attendees that came pretty regularly. jenny lamb, supervisor ronen and the other people who attended these meetings. thank you to our staff and other teams. and lastly, our amazing consultants. clarity social research group, penny wang, and heather imoden. the work was processed, recommendations, longer term considerations and next steps. and, during our first meeting, these dedicated work group members identified areas they hope to solve participation in the work group. there were a lot of things. all-important. this included fairness and

equity. super centering the work. racial l transformation. honoring strength and resilience, racial justice and thinking about what we want for all of our children. centering youth voices and families and harnessing the group's energy focusing on families and supporting families with seamless access to services. i want to give big props to the work group. they were committed and did the homework. we completed this preliminary plan in record time. and next, i would like for us to have heather help share the screen so that we can show the presentation. >> i will be sharing the screen. this is maria.

there you go. >> wonderful, thank you. this is an overview of the ordinance. the purpose of the working group is to advise the board of supervisors. i think we advanced too soon. advise the board of supervisors and the mayor and the san francisco unified school district on the coordination and expansion of academic supports and services. to enrich san francisco youth whose academic achievement and personal development have been negatively impacted by school closures and distanced learning. the primary goals of the work group were to increase student proficciency and create and expand full scale in school enrichment programs consistent with community schools models. next slide, please. and this is our process.

it's very robust. we had regular virtual meetings. the first and third thursdays of each month. the sub committees. they were the community school sub committee and they were set to gain a better understanding of gaps and then we are a community engagement of committee who focused on planning who and how to engage. the community engagement work that we did over the summer and just recently, we had ten focus groups with 100+ middle schoolers and high schoolers. parents and care givers in summer together participants. and participation action research survey of 60 youth and gained insights from small group discussions. the summer together survey of 1,100 parents and care givers as well. we also had guest speakers come in and those were charice,

dorothy smith from dcyf. we had medically lousman. the chief of student, family and community support division. research, planning, and assessment supervisor of analytics and city liaison. and also heather who is sharp and rachel estrella. and then we had a warrior. and we had the development of the delivery of this report here today. and we had an open invitation throughout our process. next slide, please. and, index, i will pass it over to heather to talk about our immediate recommendations. >> thank you so much, jasmine. i appreciate that.

thank you, supervisors. it's wonderful to be here to present to you and share the recommendations of the working group who have been working so hard and bringing these ideas to you. our report was broken into two major pieces. one was immediate recommendations largely based on the community engagement from this summer talking to young people and to parents and care givers when we asked them about their needs for going back to school. that is what informed these immediate recommendations and then the second part that i'll also be talking to you about is the longer term challenges and recommendations for how we might dig deeper into the work so that our final report to you in the spring has longer term recommendations. so first i want to speak to you about this immediate near term recommendations.

and, again, these are based really on what we heard directly from young people and parents and aligned really closely with things that the working group has been speaking about over the months that we've been meeting. and the major buckets are enhancing social emotional supports. and we'd love to recommend that d.p.h. lift that information up about the health of young people in san francisco and the measures that have been taken in the school district because i think that will alleviate a lot of the concerns that young people have had about going back to school and the delta variant in particular. young people also asked for ongoing access to support including counseling, coaching, and wellness checks including

informal check-ins from teachers and staff and a lot of empathy and patience from their adults as they get used to being back in the school environment. acknowledging that, you know, things like formal counseling can be really helpful, but even just acknowledging the challenges that young people may be facing and doing those check-ins or wellness checks can go a long way to helping them feel supported. enhancing their out-of-school academic support. the young people have this anxiety about their preparedness and shared that they were concerned about what they did not learn last year and were looking forward to being back in person so that they could have more access to one on one support, group support, you know, study groups and help outside of school which could be enhanced by providing some professional development for student tutors

or for out of school time staff providing coaching so that they can rebuild their study habits. so not just the sort of subject specific tutoring, but also, just let's get back to our routines of what it means to be a strong student and supporting them in that and supporting for varied learning styles and temperaments. the students really had different requests depending on how they learn best. so if we can find a way to support their out of school time academic supports and give them options, that would be best for them. other things that we heard especially from parents, but also from the young people was ensuring that they had access to a diversity of out-of-school activities like arts, like technology, like sports. the young people are so eager to be back in these activities with their peers, so making

sure that these are accessible for them and are low or no cost for their families was really important. we also asked them specifically about transportation and transit to and from school. and, they said they wanted more information about their transportation options and an understanding of how their transit options would be restored as people start going back to school this year because some services have been cut back during the pandemic in that students were worried that that would affect their access to school and their commutes. and, then, lastly, making sure that before school programming is available for young people. with the new staggered bell schedule for the school year some families were concerned about getting different members of their family to school at

different times. so if you've got a parent who's dropping off students to multiple schools and multiple grades, they may want to do one school run, but that means that someone is going to get to school early so that others can get to school on time. so they wanted to make sure their students would be welcomed and there would be space and support for them. so these are the immediate recommendations that they share. and then there were also, thank you. we can switch to the next slide. there were also slonger term considerations that the working group is going to be looking at as we move forward and these were identified as the working group was talking about the issues around providing support and particularly around the community schools model. these are the sort of big topics that came up for the working group in conjunction with the various experts who presented to us. so there are challenges at the

systems level. how do we strengthen a shared vision, understanding and commitment to community schools. how do we strengthen the partnerships between the district, the city departments, and the c.b.o.s the community based organizations that are supporting schools and how do we make sure that we're coming together in support of the district who are doing such strong work to make sure that community schools model is something that really works for them. ensuring alignment and coordination across the district. and then focusing on those structural solutions. like i said, the immediate recommendation's really focused on some immediate needs that we can implement quickly, and there are also structural issues that we need to look at more broadly. so that's our longer term focus. school site level challenges also include alignment between

school day and out of school time programming. and, understanding data sharing to inform the programming and i know that that's something that ocost has done and built upon. and student and family and engagement. identifying the barriers to engagement. we know there are specific populations. what are the barriers, how do we alleviate those barriers so that families can be engaged across the board. that includes addressing cultural linguistic needs and safety when necessary. so based on those systems level challenges, those structural things that we're seeing, we are going to be doing some things in the fall that will be informing the final report that you'll see in the spring.

so one thing we would like to do and plan to do is doing some case studies in partnership with san francisco unified, in partnership with social policy research partners who are doing some evaluations of the current community schools, the deacons, and working with the working group to understand and document some of the models that are working on the ground and some of the bright spots that we can highlight and learn from and scale. so that we're not reinventing the wheel, but are building on the model that is are working and really helping to build that out more for students and strengthen what we can from what we learn. we also -- so for the case studies we are hoping to look at not just the current beacons, but how the school

model to understand how that's working in nonbeacon schools. we are hoping to develop a dash board and work with the district on the dash board so we have some standard metrics across all schools. leveraging the data that exists and our case studies that we're developing so we can figure out what we want to track as far as what does it mean. what are the elements really working for families and how can we identify where we are or strengthen where they aren't in other schools. so we'll be working with research partners to determine how we measure that and the goal is to provide sfusd with a tool for their ongoing monitoring program attic officers and their impact. and then the last piece is to be leveraging and partnering with ocost, sf families project where they have an online service director piloting that

that functionalities. so we want to leverage this tool by the community based organizations that are working the schools and use that to identify resources that can fill gaps. and throughout all of this, we'll be continuing our community engagement. i want to appreciate automotive of the young people and their parents and care givers who've shared with us this summer. we learned so much from hearing directly from them. we will continue to do that this fall. we're doing focus groups and intercepts and surveys in collaboration with the community needs assessment that dcyf is doing. the youth participatory action group is continuing their work and they'll be working with high school students and middle school students this fall. and we hope to partner closely with them so that the question,

the research questions that they're studying can really help inform what we're learning and what we recommend. and, we just want to really keep listening because we heard in the summer about what the needs are expected to be, but now the students are back in school. the parents have their students back in school and they're experiencing what it's really like and they're going to find out, oh, that thing i was worried about, that's actually taken care of or here's a new worry that i didn't know to have, how can we fill this gap for families. we'll be continuing the engagement work throughout because those student and parent voices and care giver voices are so important to our work. and then the last thing i want to share with you, the next slide, it's just a quick time line or where we were and where we're going. so the working group started meeting in may of this year. we did our meeting every two weeks at least since then.

we did our engagement and a bunch of research over the summer and the preliminary report was completed last month in august. and that's the material that we're presenting to you now. this fall, we'll be continuing our research to dig into those larger questions that we identified. we'll be synthesizing in the spring and also coming up with some costing so that we'll have an understanding of what it really will take to implement some of these measures and we expect to have a final report to all of you in march of 2022. and that's all i have. thank you so much for your attention for bringing this this working group together. and, i also want to thank my colleague penny flan who was not able to join us today, but she has been a major driving force for our team in facile

facilitating our group and bringing this together. >> thank you so much, heather. and now we'll take questions. >> chairman: thank you so much. first of all, thank you for this work. as you said, jasmine, this is record time and what was important to supervisor melgar and myself was that we had -- we didn't wait until the spring to have any recommendations that we could start on this work immediately when school got back into session and i know that was a very heavy lift. so i want to thank all of you for really meeting extra often to make that happen and, you know, i'm very excited by this

preliminary report and preliminary recommendation. my main question because i love where you're going, i see where you're going, i see why you're going in the direction you're going and it all makes a ton of sense to me is do we have and this really is a question for you, jasmine, for heather, and sfusd. i believe she's still here is how are we going to work together and what is the plan to work together between now and the spring to implement some of these preliminary recommendations? >> yes. i'll definitely kick us off and diva is still free to happen if you want to here. we want to go deep. phase two for us looks like working closely with the

district. we are already strategize one of the things that we acknowledged early on is that we wanted to be very closely aligned in partnership with the district and so we're all committed to doing that and meeting regularly. we were talking almost daily and so i definitely want to just say that our plan is to continue working closely together especially as we go into phase two and especially as we break down each of the activities that we've outlined. >> chairman: does anyone else want to add? i get that, but there were some

very particular preliminary recommendations that [inaudible] i was wondering you know both from planning, from this board's supervisors from dcyf, from the district in order to not wait until the spring to implement those additions, but to start improving on all of this because i know all of the recommendations, i know some of it's already happening. i know from my personal experience with my daughter at elementary school. but i'm just wondering what we can be doing between now and spring to, you know, further enhance those preliminary recommendations while we're doing that. >> i'm going to jump in really quickly and viva, you can close. two of the main things that came out of the immediate next steps are the immediate recommendations from this plan.

one was expansion of mental health services and in partnership with sfusd, we actually are working very collectively to expand middle school wellness centers, expand high school wellness centers into middle schools and it's really leveraging the capacity of our beacon centers and the school districts established coordinated care team. so the school district during the pandemic created once again in a really record breaking time line the coordinated care teams that took on the role of those wellness checks and wellness calls for children. now they have a little more resources to be able to bring on social workers to provide the one on one support and maybe the group supports for some of our middle school students. that's one result and the other one is ensuring that we have

more before and after school slots for our children and families and this is something that we're working very closely with but also with our c.b.o.s so trying to figure out with our c.b.o.s how can we help them hire more staff. honestly right now, the biggest issue is that we don't have enough staff. you know, staffing is unfortunately a citywide issue right now and we're working with our c.b.o.s to try to figure out how to bring along more people so we can then open up more slots. we're also working with our c.b.o.s to look at other potential sites and facilities that they could use to host before school care and after school care. so those are two ready immediate things that we're working with our school district partners on and, you know, the other stuff around

just ensuring that the environment is welcoming and that young people feel safe in school sites. you know, i give it to sfusd, i know they've been working hard on making sure that all young people feel safe in school and we are working with sfusd and m.t.a. to try to figure out how to make sure that young people feel safe going to and from school and so we're having those deep conversations with m.t.a. to make sure that that is happening, but those are, you know, preliminary conversations. we don't have a set, concrete thing. viva, do you want to share anything else? >> yeah. i think it's been -- i think those are all the right points, you know, we as a district have been getting school going and having school starting and welcoming students back, we really do appreciate the cities kind of taking on part of the after school and before care.

before and after school programming and then also the transit component. i think that's been a huge topic and that those are real needs from students that are coming when we take surveys. just more availability with public transit and now that it is free, we do want students to be taking that and using that as their option of transit because we don't have the general funds to really be able to provide the yellow school buses for all of our students. those are real key things that we want to be working on and as we move forward asthmaryia said in long term by having common language and we have been spending a lot of time, establishing can common language with the city and the district it's going to be absolutely critical because i think we all have a vision how we approach. i think the long-term goal of having every student feel safe and welcomed and important is the same, but i think we've

always had a different approach from the city and the district. i do appreciate maria spending a lot of time with us, with our leadership as well what does partnership look like and what are shared values, those are all things we've been working on and i think that's our long-term goal. i will just point out that the mental health services, its expansion are absolutely critical and we want to remind the public that every school in the morning, they do spend time on kind of wellness and more of social emotional support whether it's journalling, whether it's meditating, we're dedicating time for our students that may not need large interventions, but just figuring out to be in school and in community again, it's highly anxiety driven and so i think that those kind of methods at our school sites are implementing day-to-day have been impactful for our students that it's not just academics, we are spending a good chunk of

the morning dedicated to support that need. i just want to share that piece that's coming from our school sites to know we do need large interventions and we also need day-to-day consistency with our students as well. >> chairman: great. you know, i'll turn it over to my colleague, supervisor melgar, but i do want to say that i'm definitely interested in taking all these preliminary recommendations and really sort of simultaneous and parallel, you know, direction as the deeper dive and as viva said, the development of shared understanding and shared language and you know, sort of what we mean by community schools and how that works which i'm excited about, but i

want to be moved forward on these recommendations in a way. so, you know, perhaps we can use this forum as a way to take some of these things and really dive deeply on separate recommendations. so have m.t.a. come here and really do an inventory for every single school, you know. what are the best routes for the student population. how many buses does it take to get there. are students arriving on the bus. do they feel safe? etc. so we can take each of those components, but before and dig deep on not only, you know, currently but what do we need to make it better and how can city and supervisor melgar and i be partnering with dcyf and with the district to, you

know, whatever it is from raising funds to, you know, improving systems that we need to do to enact those preliminary recommendations because no matter what the long-term analysis and costings will be, those preliminary recommendations will be part of it, i'm sure and why wait until the spring to do that, let's get started now. supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you so muches, chance of a shower ronen. so i want to start out by saying thank you for your leadership and thank you, jasmine, maria, and viva for all your hard work and for your thoughtfulness in the spirit of collaboration that has gotten us to this point. it's super exciting. i had the opportunity over the weekend to speak to commission

bogess and we had a long conversation about how great it is to have all of this collaboration to get us to where we need to be. thank you for the report. like chair ronen said, it is amazing, i do want to make some requests to the report specifically for like where we go next and the thing that i am am hoping we drill down on, you know, for more specificity is that i think all of us because we care about kids and, we are in this, you know, we tend to talk about programs because, you know, that's what, you know, moves our hearts. i think we have an expert team of folks on the sf rise

committee. and we will look at what has worked. do thanks, look at those things thoughtfully as we expand. what we don't often talk about and i think it's really crucial in the operationalizing is money. and so what we have for, you know, sort of the pass in reviewing is a business plan that is specific to tier three schools and as we expand to tier two and one schools, like i want to know what that looks like in terms of money for the c.b.o.s and for the schools, for the parents, and the p.t.a.s. so i would like us to, you know, cost out what it's going to take to do an expansion of hiring staff at the living wage which is, you know, what we should be paying back and we need is to be able to recruit

and what i saw this school year in getting up and running what was a disparity between east side and west side schools when it came to being able to staff up precisely because, you know, the department of children, youth, and families and the school district during the pandemic very rightly pivoted right away to address the sort of business plan of the c.b.o.s who provide the service as schools so that they could keep paying their staff and shift to online programming and wellness checks and all that. a lot of the c.b.o.s were able to keep their staff whereas on the west side, c.b.o.s didn't have contracts that, you know, could keep their staff on, laid off all their staff. some of the c.b.o.s even went under, those organizations and so we were faced with having to

rebuild programs from scratch and some of those schools. i hope that never happens again. i hope we never have a pandemic again, but it's a lesson for us about sort of the business side of, you know, this world and i want us to be thoughtful and so my ask to you is, you know, as we think about an expansion, can we please look at like sort of the business plan of what this requires at the role of fees and fundraising and, you know, private philanthropy and what level of subsidy and all of those things because i think it's really important in operationalizing it and it will give a frame work to our c.b.o.s, our principals and our p.t.a. communities and going forward with sort of this dream of community schools for all everywhere. >> yes.

that's great. and that came up quite often in our conversations with the work groups and we were closely focused on getting the preliminary plan done, but we need that we needed to come back to cost and that will also be integrated into phase two as well and thank you for calling that out. >> supervisor melgar: thank you. and it's a little bit more than just cost. right. because we kind of have what cost is. it's cash flow, it's, you know, like the capacity to take cash payments or fundraising capacity. not everyone, you know, has that on their staff. development. like it's all of those different things. so i'm hoping that we can tackle it and i also want to say, you know, in terms of the recruitment how important the collaboration with the sfusd is. i know when i worked at at c.b.o., we used the educator pathways program as an actual recruitment tool because we

knew a lot of the students of san francisco that were looking at careers in education wanted to be in a position where they could advance their professional development goals and that did it and we worked closely with jenny steiner and making sure that the work plans of our individual staff neared what we needed to get into the pathway program. you know, all of those things are really important in terms of the collaboration, but, you know, again, the money is really important. i want to be talking about it now so that, by the time we are time lined that's to those markers we're ready and able to do it. >> chairman: here here. i couldn't agree more. if there is no more comments or questions, i would love to open this item up for public comment and i'm kind of hoping some of the work group members are here

to give their perspectives on this work and their involvement with it. with that, mr. clerk, can we please open this item to public comment. >> clerk: yes, madam chair, we are checking to see if there are any public commentors in the queue. for those who have called in and wish to speak in this hearing please press star 3 to be added to the queue. you will hear the system prompt indicate you have raised your hand to confirm you are in line to speak. for those on hold, wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that's your signal to begin your comments on this hearing. ms. rios. >> we have two callers on the line. i'll put the first one through. >> hi, this is meredith gatson

from the san francisco parent coalition. thank you so much, supervisors and thank you d.p.h. for sharing the data and information today. i'm so glad that we can take a deep breath of relief that things are going well with our schools fully re-opened and our kids and educators are being kept safe. so thank you to everyone. and, i also want to thank the sf rise work group for this preliminary report. i think it sounds smart and sensible. thank you for listening to families and our youth and then also, i just wanted to suggest two things. one is that i think it's my understanding that we need to collect better updated data on sfusd and where kids are at currently coming back to school. so assessments through the district, finding out where kids are at academically and what kind of mental health supports they need immediately and i know this is just very urgent time sensitive critical to be happening now. it appears it's happening at some schools and not others. so it would be great to figure

out a systematic way to make this happen for our students. and then, for the final report, just a recommendation to make sure that we have substantive tactical recommendations for change, like what are we going to do differently? what are we trying to change and also based in the reality of where our district's at with regard to the budget outlook. you know, how are we going to do more with less over time unfortunately and just thinking about the reality of our budget situation in the district. that's all. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you, ms. dotson for your comments. do we have any further speakers? >> we have two more callers. >> hi. my name is honda kelly. i am a parent. i have a child who has an i.e.p. as well as in general

education. he has been struggling over this past year and a half and i'd like to second what meredith said. it's very important that as you're meeting and collaborating with district leaders, you're also collaborating with all school sites because they are doing different things. i can say that with certainty as well as parents are not quite clear on where their child is right now. i am getting a little bit of information as to where my son is. how he's struggling, but it's not enough for me as a parent to fully hold his hand as to what the next steps are. i am concerned. i'm concerned that my son is not getting clear information as they are doing their best,

but it's not quite what my son needs and what other marginalized students as well as other students that are just behind in my son's school currently needs as well as the information that parents are receiving from the district in particular with covid recovery and learning loss. at best, i've heard they are working on it and i believe that, but i have not heard beyond that. social emotional is very important, mental health is very important, but we need some data. parents need data. we need to know where our students stand, where all students stand right now so we can plan to move forward. i also want to add i second supervisor ronen. based on the little i know, i do know feel my son can wait until spring for this to move forward. he needs action now and i need support in that.

so, separate from that. i just want to thank you for doing this. this means the world to me. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. ms. rios, next speaker please. >> hi, my name is rafael picasso. i'm a school district chapter president and working with sf rise working group, it's been amazing getting to know all these really good professional people who really care about our students and our schools and to work together as a team and coming up with these great recommendations to build our students and, you know, programs and getting the help where they need it especially after the year and a half of the pandemic. i just want to thank everybody that's on the group for the continued hard work that we are going to continue to do to make sure we come up with a great

plan for the san francisco unified school district and our students and helping parents take care of themselves and taking care of our communities. so i want to thank you you board of supervisors, hillary, and maria. thank you for everybody. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. ms. rios, can you verify that that was the last caller. >> i will verify that that was the last caller. >> clerk: thank you much. madam chair. >> chairman: thank you so hutch. public comment is now closed and i want to thank all of the callers. we are -- i can speak for myself and i know this is true for supervisor melgar as well because i talk to her almost every day about it, but we are completely committed to working nonstop because we know that our kids and our educators have

had perhaps the hardest year ever in san francisco unified history. it's possible certainly in recent history. and, we know that it takes a village to rebuild and make sure that our students and our educators get the help and the assistance they need in a chronic alley underfunded educational system. and i think it's impossible to talk about this work without calling out a bigger problem in our state and in our city about the fact that we do not properly fund our public school system in california and so we are asking our school district and our educators to not only and we've learned this throughout covid to not only do

their core job of educating our students, but to really make up for everything else that's missing in our society from the mental health needs of off students to the food security needs of our students to the housing security needs of our students. it really is child care needs. our schools operate already as a center and we didn't realize we never got a better look at this than we did during covid when schools were in distanced learning both how important this institution is to our children and our families and our society at large and so while we are hell bent at bringing back our in-person learning in the state that's strongest and best ways that we possibly can for our students

and educators and our families, we are not ignoring the broader picture in california and in san francisco of our chronically underfunded schools and that's why supervisor melgar is and not just supervisor melgar but dcyf is so laser focused on what does it really cost to get our public schools, you know, at the best place that they could possibly be and, you know, to expand this community school. it's not just a title three school but as a system wide reality where both inside the classroom and out we are supporting our students and families with whatever they need to succeed fully and at school. and so we're working on it and

it's just been a pleasure. we need to constantly reinforce and we need to make sure we're pulling out the best that the city departments that we really are collaborating to the best and fullest of our cable to educate our we have all the urgency in the world to not wait to do this work but to continue to do it now. i do feel positive and optimistic and i feel urgency

to get proper funding to our school districts. with that, i wanted to see if supervisor safai and other parents in the sfusd school district have anything to add or share before we continue this hearing. >> supervisor safai: no. i just wanted to thank you both for all your hard work. at the end of the day, like you said, supervisor ronen, so much of what is necessary, but also so much of what is possible became magnified under covid and things that we might not have ever believed could be possible are on the table and so like you, like i was for transit day, i think we've had a year and a half of negativity. i think we can always focus on the negativity and part of the time, that's our job, right. i mean, we've all had to do

that in our position is to kind of laser in on areas that need for improvement. but i think this is an area that we can focus in on the positives and really highlight, you know, things that need to be improved upon, encouraged and supported, but really using statistics and analysis and all the people doing this on a daily basis and really listen and i think us as legislators, you know, a lot of time our job is about listening to the people that are on the ground doing the work on a daily basis. that might be the families. that might be the children themselves. that might be the providers. that might be the educators. that might be the administrators. all of those collectively and i think you have those represented in your working group and then we all have our own personal experiences, the hustle and bustle of being a parent in this city.

so very excited about the great work that you guys are both doing. i'm happy to support in any way that i can and ultimately believe that the model that is we're looking at in support and kind of extending the classroom into the community, into the summer, into the after school environment, into the before school environment is crucial and so i'm here to support in every way i can. thank you both for your hard work on this and we are going to continue to come up with more wonderful work and support for our san francisco. thanks. >> chairman: thanks again. so if it's okay with my colleagues, i think i will make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair just in case we want to go deeper on any recommendation. we can just let all the parties know and bring it back. and so, with that, i will make that motion and just really

want to thank everyone who came and presented today on this item. you're all amazing and we appreciate you very much. mr. clerk, can you please take a roll call vote. >> clerk: yes. on the motion by chair ronen to continue this hearing to the call of the chair, [roll call] we do have three ayes. >> chairman: thank you so much. and, mr. clerk, do we have any other items on the agenda today. >> clerk: no further items but just a little bit of clean up. i did check procedurally what should be done with that duplicated file. while the duplication itself required no vote. we should act on it appropriately. so a motion to continue to the call of the chair would be appropriate. >> chairman: okay. i will make that motion or supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: that's it. you've made it already.

it's fine. >> chairman: can we have a roll call vote. >> clerk: yes. on the motion offered by chair ronen to continue the duplicated file on item two to the call of the chair, [roll call] we do have three ayes. >> chairman: thanks so much. and, with that, mr. clerk, i think i can say that the meeting is adjourned, correct? >> clerk: yes. we can. thank you much. >> chairman: have a good weekend everyone. bye.

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