>> january 25 of 2022. regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. madame secretary, please call the roll. [roll call] and you have a quorum. due to thon going covid-19 health emergency and given the public health recommendations issued by the san francisco department of public health, and the emergency orders of the governor and the mayor concerning social distancing and restrictions on a teleconference, this meeting is being held via teleconference and is being televised by sfgov tv. for those watching on live stream, please be aware that there is a time lapse. on behalf of the commission i

would like to extend our thanks to sfgov tv staff and i.t. staff for their assistance during this meeting. public comment must be made in a civil and respectful manner and refrain from the use of profanity. address remarks to the commission as a whole and not individual commissioners or staff. mr. president? >> thank you. and before i call on the first item, i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledged that it's on the unceded lands of the historic territory of the

tribe and familial descendants of the historic federally mission san jose of alameda county. the sfpuc also recognizes that every citizen residing within the greater bay area has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the aboriginal land since before and after the san francisco public utility commission's founding in 1932. it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the tribal lands on which we reside, but also we acknowledge and honor the

fact that the people have establish add working partnership with the sfpuc and are our production is flourishing members within the greater bay area communities today. madame secretary, please call the first item. >> first item, item number 3, adopt renewed findings under state urgency throwsing continue to allow remote meetings during the covid-19 emergency, continue remote meetings for the next 30 days and direct the commission secretary to agdize a similar resolution at a commission meeting within the next 30 days. >> commissioners, is there any discussion on this item? if not, may i have a motion and a second? >> we need public comment. >> all right. could you please call for public comment? >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on item number three, dial 5-415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 24869074577 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3.

mr. moderator, do we have any calls? >> operator: there are no callers wishing to be recognize at this time. >> thank you. public comment on item number three is closed. >> ok. thank you. and now motion on the second. >> make a motion to adopt renewed findings. >> i'll second. >> and motion is seconded and received. please call the roll. [roll call] >> you have four ayes. >> the item passes. next item, please. >> next item is item number 4, approval of the meetings of the jans 7, 2022 special budget meeting number one and the january 11, 2022 regular meeting and i would like to make an announcement regarding the minutes for january 11 and offer a couple

of amendments to those minutes. first during -- to amend the role call to remove a duplicate recording of attendance and add the attendance of commissioner harrington which was admitted and secondly to admit a record of the commission votes on all the motions for the meeting to remove a duplicate recording of an ivote by commissioner-- an aye vote by commissioner ajami. >> thank you. and madame secretary, open for public comment and these comments should be for both sets of minutes. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on item four, the minutes of january 7 special meeting and january 11 regular meeting, dial 1-415-655-001, meeting i.d. 24869075477 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3.

mr. moderator, are there any callers? >> operator: there are no callers wishing to be recognized at this time. >> thank you. public comment on approval of the minutes is closed. >> thank you. commissioners, any additions or corrections to either set of the minutes? seeing none, can i have a motion to second on the minutes of january 7? >> move to approve. >> i'll second that. >> move to second it. roll call, please. [roll call] >> you have four ayes. >> the minutes are adopted. and for the minutes of january 11, a motion and second, please. >> move to approve.

>> i'll second that. >> moved and seconded. roll call, please. [roll call] >> you are four ayes. -- you have four ayes. >> thank you. and those minutes are approved. >> and for clarification, mr. president, i'm sorry, both item 4 and includes the corrections to the minutes, yes? >> yes. >> thank you. >> and next item, please. >> next item is item number 5, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on stood's agenda by dialing 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 24869075477 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3.

mr. moderator, do we have callers? >> operator: madame secretary, there are two callers in the queue. i'm sorry. just one. no, two again. first caller, your line is open. you have two minutes. >> caller: thank you. and good afternoon, president moran and commissioner. this is policy director for the river trust. i hope you had a chance to review the short letter we sent to dr. casey brown and alexie dufour regarding the webinar on thursday, dealing with long-term former ability assessment. we think that the study was very well done. but failed to directly answer the most important question for today, which is can sfpuc manage the requirements without running out of water.

so, we requested several things for the meeting. we asked them to use 200m.g.d. demand, slightly higher than current demand. the baseline in the study is 227 and demand goes up to 334. so, 16% of 71% higher than current demand. we asked them to produce scenarios that include the bay delta plan flow requirements so we can actually see how they might impact water supply. there is table 319 that shows predictive return periods for known droughts and we asked that they do the same for the design drought and the design drought minus one year. and the study also suggests that [inaudible] will come earlier and we asked them to look at the actual run-off in the design drought year and what would happen if it came 10 or 20 days earlier. our own analysis suggests 237,000-acre [inaudible] would shift over to the sfpuc. so, didn't get a response.

we're still hopeful but perhaps there is that interest in having -- to express interest in having our questions answered and included in the webinar. we might get that very valuable information. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. next caller, your line is open. you have two minutes. >> caller: can you hear me ok? >> operator: loud and klaoefrment >> caller: good afternoon. david pillpal. just very briefly on general public comment. i hope my budget letter was received. i decided to memorialize the comments that i made on the various issues related to the budget at the last three meetings and provided that to the commission secretary. i hope that has been transmitted to you commissioners and staff. not sure if that's valuable, useful or anything.

in any event, i hope the letter was received. i may have comments later on john roddy and the other other items under 8a and my careful scrutiny on items 6f and 9c, they both refer to the date as being 2021 and not 2022. let's please be careful on dates. not just for now, but in case anyone looks at this stuff in the future. thank you for listening. >> operator: thank you for your comments. madame secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. public comment -- general public comment is closed. >> thank you. next item, please. >> next item is item 6, communications. >> commissioners, any discussions on items included

under "communications"? ok. seeing none, madame secretary, please open it for public comment. >> members of the public comment who wish to make public comments specifically on item 6, communications,dial 1-415-655-001, meeting i.d. 24869075477 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> operator: there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you, public comment on item 6 is closed. >> thank you. commissioner ajami? >> i just wanted to say that i really appreciated the update on the project coming

up in the conversation. thank you. >> thank you. next item, please. >> your next item is item number 7, the bay area water supply and conservation agency update provided by nicole sandkulla. >> good afternoon, president moran and members of the commission. nicole sandkulla. basca is pleased that its p.u.c. and newly appointed manager are directly and fully involved to ensure that greater protection for the fish in the river and adjacent environment is provided and that the present essential water supply for water usage in the three counties assured. we believe this leadership should participate promptly in negotiations for voluntary agreements for the river. the support from governor

gavin newsome and secretaries of environmental protection and natural resources. also, basca will continue to provide leadership with support in the three counties launched by pro tem kevin mullens. the river provides 85% of the water supply delivered by the san francisco regional system that is relied upon to meet the water supply needs of basca constituents in the three counties. failure to address this challenge could result in a reduction of supply by 90 million gallons per day during drought year, requiring rationing by up to 50% by water users. that would be unacceptable. the state of california was forced to rebuild its earthquake-vulnerable system before it collapsed. with a nearly $5 billion construction program paid for by the water users that effort protected the health, safety and economic well-being of resident, businesses and communitis that rely on the system.

several legislators in the three counties led by kevin mullen, are stepping up again to avoid a catastrophic water shortage. and mr. mullen and basca has organize add three-county support team, including the mayors of the three of the bay area's largest cities, leaders of high-technology and other vital businesses in silicon valley and the region, bay area council to ensure continuing delivery of a reliable supply of high-quality water at a fair fries the system to water users. as the owner and operator of the system, the sfpuc and its commissioners, including president moran, new general manager herrera and its experienced operational staff, can create and support a way forward. needed are resolute actions and creativity at the highest level. and proper deployment protects fish and the environment as well as the water users to relie on the system.

general manager herrera's january 14, 2022 letter to secretaries blumenthal and crowfoot make it clear that the sfpuc is firmly commited to participate in negotiations that should begin without further delay. now that the state water resources control board has indicated that it is moving forward with implementation of the delta plant phase one the window for a creative solution is getting smaller. success now requires action responsibility at the highest level of the commission, the state and other suppliers who have water rights on the river. there have been discussions that the opportunity to produce results with high-level leadership at the commission and general manager, now is encouraging and the state board has welcomed voluntary agreements to resolve this and other water use issues. and that completes my planned remarks but i would be willing to answer any

questions that you might have. >> thank you, nicole. i do detect in there a challenge. commissioner, any comments and questions for nicole? thank you. and seeing none, any public comment? >> members of the public comment specifically on item 7, the basca update, dial 1-415-655-001, meeting i.d. 24869075477 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> operator: there is one caller in the queue. caller, your line is open. you have two minutes.

>> caller: good afternoon. no one wants to face 50% rationing. and that's what people are hearing. that's what the basca line is. and it's really -- it's based on a designed is route with 8.5 years, 265 million gallons per day demand and assuming no alternative water supplies are developed. we've had six fabulous workshops over the past years plus and we would agree that that is not a reasonable scenario anymore. the long-term vulnerability assessment has return periods for known droughts. it's expected that a drought as severe as the '76 '77 drought is likely to occur one in 98 years.

the design drought might be multiplying those two together. we asked for that information and haven't received it. it's a very simple thing for consultants to do and help you make a decision about taking a year off. demand projections 265, i don't think anyone expects that. your demand projections don't even project that in the next 25 years. and we've had great conversations. i think most of us feel that the demand is probably going to remain about flat. the financial divisions leave that. we're looking forward to the graph that was recommended, the january 7 meeting, to compare projections. so, please, agendaize a discussion of these topics soon because when people realize that this 50% rationing is just ridiculous, they won'ts in line behind basca. thank you very much.

>> public comment is closed. any comments or questions? next item, please. >> next item is item number 8. recognition of retirements. general manager? >> thank you, madame secretary. thank you, commissioners. this is a happy day when we get to celebrate great contributions to the p.u.c. as our strongest asset and that is our people that work here and other folks of the city family that help the p.u.c. do its job. and this is -- why this is a happy day is when the pandemic began in march 2020, the commission paused its recognition program of sfpuc

employees who reported after -- more than 25 years of service due to the inability to meet in person. well, i think we all learned that we can do a lot remotely and it was really -- i have to give the commissioner a lot of credit for wanting to reinstitute our recognition ceremonies, even though we were not meeting in person yet. so had to commission will reinstate these important recognition efforts and i'm honored to introduce a few of our most recent retirees. the first one is someone who was not a [inaudible] provided a valuable service to his 41 years of service to the city and county of san francisco. and my prior office at the city attorney's office john

roddy who was, i think when i left, the longest serving or second longest serving deputy city attorney that still remained and still had just as much energy as when i came on the scene 20 years ago. and i had seen few people as passionate about the work that they do and so willing to engage you in a conversation or conversations about the importance of the work and he always had nothing but the utmost enthusiasm for anything that he was working on. and he's continued doing that since i became general manager. i think he -- i probably had more meetings since i became general manager one-on-one than i did as city attorney and that is a measure of not just his passion and his enthusiasm, but his incredible base of knowledge. and his ability to sort of get to the meat of the issue

and have a deep understanding about not just the legal importance of the issue, but its historic [inaudible] and we will miss them, but we will be a resource for us and always doing it with a smile on his face and great enthusiasm for the message that he is delivering. so, john, thank you so much, not just what you did for the p.u.c., but what you have done in terms of the camaraderie at the city attorney's office as well. thank you so much. with that, i want to read a resolution for john. whereas john s. roddy served as a attorney for 41 years from 1980 through 2021 and whereas mr. roddy is an expert on urban waste water systems and federal and state safe drinking water law, he

has negotiated permits for san francisco's waste water system and the operation of hetch hetchy water transmission and treatment systems and whereas mr. roddy has played an integral role in defending the waste water enterprise and claims associated with street flooding in san francisco. and he is an expert on water and sewer rates, having advised the water and waste water enterprises and whereas gregarious, atentive all describe mr. roddy over the past 41 years and whereas mr. roddy is retiring, after having served the public, the city and county of san francisco and the san francisco public utilities commission tirelessly and with great dedication and early respect and admiration of those whom he has worked now therefore be it resolved that this commission and its

general manager offer their heart d felt thanks and appreciation to mr. roddy for all that he has done for the city and his public utilities commission and wish him a long, happy, held th*is and very fulfilling retirement. congratulations, john. we're incredibly grateful to you. and with that, i'd like to introduce our general counsel, cheryl bregman, to say a few words. >> thank you, dennis. i can only add my thanks, appreciation for john's commitment over the years and all of the dedicated work he's done for the p.u.c. and when dennis said -- used the word passionate, that is a word i would say also. it's been an absolute pleasure. i've known john for 26 years and it was absolutely wonderful to overlap with him a little bit on the team since i came over to the p.u.c. and it's really just been an absolute pleasure and to have him as a colleague and friend.

>> with that, john, let's hear a few words from you. >> thank you for all the kind words. commissioners, thank you for all the glorious work we've done together. i am -- i've had a blessed career. i feel quite fulfilled and content with the work that we've done together. a lot of it i can't remember. but then again maybe a lot of it yo*r i don't want to remember. -- a lot of it i don't want to remember. but most of it is great. i truly believe the p.u.c. is the most fascinating part of city government and perhaps the most fundamental part as well. and it has [inaudible] my interest and passion over the years. and i'm going to miss all of those bril -- brilliant and

creative people that i've been working with. i'm sure they'll do just fine, but i'll miss them. seems to me that these are very exciting times. there is a lot to work on, a lot to look forward to. robust asset management. exciting stuff. rational regulatory compliance approach is one of my favorites. and effective citiwide flood plane management. there's just stuff that's undone, yet to do. my favourite, of course, is the sort of creative alternative water supply initiative that my colleagues are thinking of. add to that, you know, the excitement of new management. dennis and ron and cheryl, you know, i gotta say that i felt a little bit of regret

with my timing. a little bit. but this is really great times for you guys. and i'm excited for you and very thankful for all of my time and thankful for knowing you and wish you all the best. dennis knows where i live so i won't get lonely probably. >> thank you. thank you, john. very much appreciate it. >> and if i could have a personal privilege here. i don't -- i doubt that there is any set of city departments that is entwined with a legal process with the city attorney's office on the p.u.c. we have, you know, one of our major reservoirs in the history side is named for a former city attorney. we have dennis here at the helm at the moment.

but historically and in very real ways from waterways to federal permits to permits for operating the sewer system, we lived hand in glove with a regulatory scheme and the political bodies and through that with the city attorneys. even though they don't work for us directly. there has to be a strong, you know, cooperative relationship. clean water was not part of the p.u.c. when i first joined it. i came over and one of the -- that made sense for oh so many reasons. one of the benefits of that was that we got a group of very talented and dead indicate people who came into the p.u.c. fold. and they are scattered throughout the clean water program and john certainly embodies that.

you are a long-tenured member of the city attorney's office and a little shorter tenured member of the public utilities commission family. but very valuable member and made significant contributions. so thank you and don't be a stranger. >> thank you, andy. >> thank you, president moran. very kind words for john. our next individual is lisa diep. in recognition of her 37 years of service to the public utilities commission. i'd like to recognize lisa, who retired in december as a manager for the customer service field. lisa retired after over 33 years at the sfpuc and while

she preferred to not appear publicly, we want to thank lisa and show our gratitude for her service to the p.u.c. and i think that i'm going to have marge say a few words in a minute. but i think lisa's dedication effort in our frontlines really demonstrates the continuing commitment and is emblematic of what we get out of all of our employees, trying to do their best job on behalf of the residents of the city and county of san francisco. and our rate payers so congratulations. i'm going to read this resolution. whereas ms. lisa diep provided 34 years of exemplary service to the city and county of san francisco, began her career with the city community college as an account clerk in 1987 and joined the san francisco water departments commercial division now known as san

francisco public utilities commission customer service bureau as a water services clerk in 1988. from there, extended the ranks to senior water services clerk from 1990, senior accounting machine operator in 1995, commercial division assistance supervisor in 1999 and as a customer service billing and collection manager in 2008. and whereas, as customer service and collections manager, ms. diep was responsible for customer service of retail electric services, land lease and permit as well as the customer care for clean power s.f. and she led two successful electric billing system implementations of most the most recent one of an oracle customer information systeming that launched in april 2021 and, whereas in her capacity as manager, she was an exceptional leader. she performed her duties and responsibilities with exceptional efficiency and a

strong work ethic, positive attitude and was well-respected by her staff and peers. she consistently produced high-quality work with admirable dedication. and whereas on december 11, 2021, she retired from sfpuc after 34 years of exemplary services and we express our sincere appreciation and gratitude to ms. diep on her contributions to the sfpuc and be it further resolved that this commission wishes ms. diep a long and prosperous retirement. thank you so very much, lisa. we really, really appreciate all of your work and now i'd like to ask the manager of the customer service bureau to say a few words. >> thank you, general manager herrera. good afternoon, commissioners. on behalf of the lisa, thank

you for this special recognition. lisa and i both started with the p.u.c. customer services back in 1988. and over the years, we have remained friends. she is a valuable member of the customer services and contributed significant accomplishments to the bureau and to the organization. her loyalty, dedication and commitment to the organization is highly [inaudible] and appreciated. it was an honor and a pleasure working with lisa. though we missed her dearly, we congratulate her on her well-deserved retirement and wish her a long and happy retirement. again, on her behalf, thank you commissioners for this very special recognition. it is well-deserved.

>> thank you, marge. appreciate it. finally we want to take additional recognition of a number of other sfpuc employees. you know, while john and lisa are among our most recent retirees, we have a number of people who retired during the pandemic that were not -- that we were not able to invite in person to be recognized. but we believe that it's important to thank them for their tremendous service and prepared a short video to lift and recognize these individuals who have all worked for the p.u.c. for more than 25 years. in addition, we have prepared certificates of honor that are signed by me and the commission president that will send to these individuals. can you please start the video?

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>> mr. president, that concludes our recognition. >> thank you for that. late last week, donna sent over the certificates to be signed for the people that were included and i was my honor to sign those. it's also pretty humbling. there were -- i forget what

the count was. it was in the order of 30-plus or minus and the average terms of service was somewhere in there around 30 years each. i hope people paid attention to the job titles that you saw as wellful these are the people that make the place work. people who fix it and make it right and provide service to our customers 24/7. it is a tremendous amount of service and value that they have created for the city and their time with us and we are thankful for that. we also, you know, we and the city as a whole owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude for their service. and, you know, certainly we compensate people well and all of that.

but that is not -- that is not the full extent of it. you know, it takes a degree of commitment and loyalty to get out there every day and do jobs and in some cases aren't all together pleasant. so, it's -- i think, you know, we can celebrate their contribution and we mourn their loss. we look forward to, you know, people who are continuing in that tradition with the organization today and new people that will come and join us. but civil service is a noble career. and we lose sight of that from time to time. i think it is important not to. so, dennis, thank you for putting that together and thank all of those people who retired from the service and had given [inaudible]. >> our pleasure. >> madame secretary, let's see. do we -- is that a comment? >> yes. >> ok.

so, if you would open it up for public comment, please. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment, specifically on item number 8, the retiree recognitions, dial 1-415-655-001, meeting i.d. 24869075477 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. mr. moderator, do we have callers? >> there is one caller in the queue. you have two minutes to comment. >> caller: i can assume that you can hear me. it's david pillpal, again. i think i previewed this a couple of meetings back with regards to john roddy having

served 10 years on the waste water subcommittee of the citizens advisory committee. i have occasion to spend much time and many hours with john roddy on waste water sewer issues and i appreciate very much his thoughts and wise council and great work for the city over many, many years as the, you know, retiring, i believe, snow showerer deputy in the city attorney's office. he certainly spoke well for the team and for his good work and i wish him the best and i told him so privately and now i'm saying the same publicly. i agrees that p.u.c. is both fascinating and fundamental to the city and it's long been one of my great interests as many people listening know. i think it's great that now former commissioner

harrington is still listed on the retirement resolutions. i hope that he had a chance to sign them and i really appreciate that this tradition of recognizing retiring employees has been brought back and i hope that the commissioner will continue doing this. i should also say that marge and her entire customer service bureau team is topnotch along with all the other p.u.c. employees who work 24/7 for all of us as i also said. and i agree strongly with the remarks of president moran. thank you again for listening. thank you for everyone for doing the work for all of us. and i wish the employees well who have retired. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. madame secretary and commissioners, there are no more callers in the queue. >> commissioner maxwell? >> thank you. hundreds of years just of

knowledge just went out the door. and so i'm hoping and keeping my fingers crossed that they left some of that and in some way we were able to capture it. on the job training is good, but we need people who know what they're doing. anybody listening, there are jobs available. and obviously we need you in the city. so, thank those people who have dedicated their lives to our city. they probably spent more time here than they did at home sometimes. so, again, thank them for everything that they did. >> thank you, commissioner. any other comments. thank you. >> i'll make a quick comment.

i know it's often -- people forget what it takes to bring these services to them. it's very easy to forget. and i think it demonstrates how many -- this is just a handful of people who work in this institution and organization and it's just so important to always remember the value of public service in any form or shape and how it enables our lives and successes and growth and just always be mindful of that. it's always very easy to be glorified by all the, you know, shiny things that are out there. but these are real jobs and they are bringing a lot of value to the society and i'm personally grateful for every single one of those hours they spent on the job and all the work and energy and resources that they put into it. just really thankful. >> thank you. commissioner paulson? >> i don't want to be the only commissioner that doesn't say a few words no that we're initiating these

wonderful recognitions again but i just know that, you know, despite the wonderful experience and the training and the -- you know, all the dedication that these retires have demonstrated and lived their -- you know, their working careers with in the city. that i just know that, you know, during much of what i do for a living when i'm not sitting on the commission is making sure that folks that actually work in departments and work in both the public and private sector have a voice that works so they are part of the infrastructure and, in particular here, the departments that they worked in and that they did have representation and that is what makes for the success that this wonderful agency has is that, you know, there's engagement. this isn't done with people having their heads buried in the sand.

but workers have always in ways that some people don't even know, do have their own input and their own -- their voice at work. in very many ways so i want to thank you as a commissioner for all the work that you've done and know that it has been not just getting up in the morning or at night or at midnight calling, you know, to fix a break in a water supply or, youb, the many different jobs that we do, but also that it's a complicated career of which there is lots of engagement. congratulations on well-deserved retirement to everybody that was acknowledged today. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. and if there is no further comment, next item, please. >> next item is item 9, report of the general manager. >> thank you, madame secretary. item a is a draft update.

>> i'm acting first as the general manager, steve richie, who's out. next slide, please. so looksing at reservoir storages again to note that these are storms from last week as we prepare this presentation on the monday before -- the monday the week before the commission meeting so it's a little bit of old news. but the story hasn't changed that much. you'll just note that hetchy is relatively high and we expect to see inflows increase storage volume as mountain tunnel is shut down. don't be surprised if you see hetchy nearing the 300,000 acre foot mark in the next coming weeks. all in all, considering where we've been, these storages look very good. next slide, please. looking at reservoir storages across the state, the picture

has improved for many of the reservoirs across the state. due to the wetter period in december. you'll note that that 79% of historic capacity, which is also matching lake oroville now. so we are looking at how the state and federal projects are doing and their storages are improvinging. next slide, please. drought conditions across the state. so, for almost the whole state, we've moved into severe drought with the moderate drought which is a much better picture than we've seen earlier in the year. so it's quite encouraging to see. next slide. here is hetchy precipitation. as everybody knows, we really haven't seen any precipitation to speak of in january. and so if we were to continue to not see precipitation through the end of the month, we'd be at the median for hetch hetchy and that does seem to be the case.

but we'll talk about the forecast a little bit later. next slide. same situation with the snow pack. i would like to report that our staff are out doing snow surveys this week and next week and that means that they actually go out into the high country, back country and look at the high elevation snow and take measurements. we're seeing snow pillows which tend to measure the snow pack in the lower elevations. so we'll get a much better picture when they come back from the snow sur vase on what the snow is looking like in the i hooer elevations. next slide, please. looking at water available to the city, we've had a fair amount of water available to the city for this time of year. next slide shows that we are at 127,000-acre feet and you will note that that is quite a bit of water available to the city for this time of year.

our goal is 598,000 acre feet which would allow us to fill the entire system by july 1. next slide. just looking at where we are on precipitation as i mentioned. january has been pretty dry and indicates what we've receive ed at country. not much. january has been relatively dry. next slide. so now looking at the precipitation forecast, this picture has been updated this week and i'm just happy to say that the forecast for the 26th through february 3 has actually continued to look wet. and so it does look like we will get a little bit of precipitation starting in the beginning of february and hoping that that storm door opens up again. the next slide.

now looking at deliveries, this is a time of year where there isn't a lot of story to tell because we only have one data point here. but you will start to sigh, seeing that we're in the winter period, we'll don't see demands being relatively low. this gives you a picture of where we are in comparison to the five-year average and calendar year 2021. next slide, please. and this gives us a comparison of the calendar year 2015, which was the last drought when the state was asked to conserve 25% and you will note that we're still well below that. and calendar year 2021 is also shown on the slide. next slide. here we're just looking at the comparison of calendar year 2019 and now we're showing calendar year 2020 as we've all talked about, the goal for the san francisco p.u.c.'s regional water system is to achieve no --

excuse me. achieve at least 10% reduction in the service area. and that is compared to fiscal year 1920. and so here, as you look at the calendar year 2020, that's a portion of the fiscal year 1920 that we're in now and so we want to look at how we're doing compared to that purple line. and just to note that, again, sort of the peak that you're seeing in february there in the purple line is indicative of dry conditions when we saw demands go up so we hope not to follow a similar pattern there. next slide, please. this shows you where we are on the water reduction tracker. for the entire service area, at 9.2% reduction compared to fiscal year 19-20 and happy to take any questions. >> any questions, commissioners? ok.

thank you. >> sure. >> better picture than we've had in the past. >> i'm sorry, we have public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make comments for two minutes on item 9, dial 1-415-655-001, meeting i.d. 24869075477 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> madame secretary, we have one caller in the queue. hello, caller. >> caller: thank you. you know, it's interesting that even though november and

january were really dry, this has been an average year so far. an average year from between october 1 and the end of january would be 18.68 inches of precipitation. this year we have had 18.67. and the annual cycle is expected to be similar that we're going to have some very wet years and some dry years, but on average, the san francisco's entitled to 750,000 acre feet per year. current demand is 195m.g.d. 15% of the water comes from the bay area. so, in an average year, the sfpuc is entitled to enough water to last three or four years so it's really not surprising that although we had dry years the past two, it looks like it is likely that it will fill up this year.

and this bodes well for the san francisco we know that climate change isn't likely to change annual precipitation much. if it does, we might get more precipitation. so, we're in a great position to make these decisions that would enable us to leave more water in the river and not risk running out of water. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. madame secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> ok. public comment is closed. >> item 9b is a power customer program update presented by daniel young. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. my name is daniel young of s.f. power enterprise. our group develops and manages energy programs for hetch hetchy power customers and supports power s.f. in

its development and implementation of their programs as well. today i'll be providing a quick update on our energy program offerings and i'll be going over an overview of our program development process. and finally highlighting a couple of new programs that have launched over the last couple of months. next slide, please. so this slide provides an overview of our current and planned customer program offerings grouped by how they help to better sefrk our customers. so, just going down our list here on the left, we have different programs for addressing affordability, e-mobility, energy efficiency and decarbonization so thing like fuel switching and electrification, load shifting and renewable energy so we don't have time go over the programs listed here. but you can find more information in the memo attached to today's agenda as

well as online on our customer programs [inaudible]. the next slide, please. this slide provides a high level overview for our customers. step one, a needs assessment and vision exercise. so that can include customer surveys as well as analyses of our various policy objectives and to that end, we're utilizing tools that help us better quanitify us as how our portfolio programs can help to address those issues. the next step is market technology and industry research. so, this includes a deep dive into the technology or the behavior that we're trying to incentivize.

we look at the incrementtal cost and benefits and finally we can learn from some of the best practices in our industry. so step three is to finalize the program design so usually that means we're creating some sort of incentive mechanism. that looks to overcome market or institutional barriers in some way. step four is implementation and marketing so this is developing a plan for program operations as well as marketing and outreach to reach [inaudible] for customers. finally, we are ready for launch and the program is made available to customers and the last page on the box, monitoring improvement, this is just to make clear that even after we lunched a program, the job is not, in fact, done. all of our programs require ongoing maintenance once they're live so we can

continue to improve the program's effectiveness, customer needs and watch the conditions change over time. next slide, please. so yeah, next quickly highlight our two newest programs. so, to start, this is the low-income solar inverter replacement program. so we launched in november and this serves s.f. power customers and specifically talking about care and fair rate customers who previously received incentives. it helps customers with costly inverter repairs to make sure that they can maintain their rooftop systems and continue to benefit from their solar. we figure that they could be left with systems to repair and maintain.

we'll don't work with the mayor's office. hiring workforce development program since this is basically an extension of what we were doing. a final note on this program, this is something unique that we haven't seen elsewhere. but we do think that this is really -- it's just a critical piece for helping us follow through on our long time support of in city solar while also continuing to help load communities. next slide, please. our newest program is evchargesf and we have infrastructure new and newly constructed buildings. so, with almost half of san francisco's carbon emissions coming from transportation, we feel that electric mobility is essential for the city to meet its emissions reduction goal.

in particular in san francisco which has so much multifamily housing, especially when looking at new construction, so getting charges into these multifamily garages as well as commercial developments is going to be key. so, this program just had a soft launch at the end of last month and so we're offering rebates up to $3600 per charging space along with technical support to help participants the new and complicated world of e.v. charging. this program synergizes with the s.f. environment e.v. readiness ordinance and together we're really hoping to drive higher adoption of e.v.s throughout the city. and there's a way to make it available to s.f. power customers as well.

they will be launching the next [inaudible] and so we look forward to providing additional updates in the future. so, thanks again for your time. >> thank you. any questions for mr. young? commissioner ajami? >> are we -- thank you for your presentation. that was great. are we. taping into -- i i this i know the answer, but i just wanted to highlight it is all. are we. tapping into the new resources that are becoming available for the e.v. charger opportunities or those are -- or those don't apply to multifamily units? >> i'm sorry. can you be more specific on -- >> so, you know how as part of the infrastructure bill

and also some of the new california budget, there will be some money available for more distributed e.v. charging stations. and i wasn't sure if those need to be on the public settings so everybody can use them like the gas station and can that money also be tapped for these building scales. >> i see. great question. this program in particular for now, we are funding this out of our own dollars so we expect for this program to run on its own. we're absolutely looking at other ways to support e.v. infrastructure in the city and that does include, like you mentioned, as well as other programs such as the low carbon fuel standards program and there are many different ways that we can support electrification of

our transportation sector and this is just one of them. >> we have applied for grant funding in the past and then denied. it's pretty competitive out there. there are a lot of cities and counties trying to access those funds. but we will persist. we will keep trying and we're keeping an eye out on all the new offerings from the infrastructure bill as well. >> one quick comment i have, i know that when we're looking at the older buildings or multiunit buildings that have both received -- they have submetering for power but do not have submetering for water, it is very difficult to do outreach for both when it comes to these low-income incentives or low income bill assistance program. i know that, if i understand

correctly, in the new buildings, it is california law since 2018 that all the multifamily units need to have submetering for water as well. so it would be good to make sure that maybe in those buildings, we coordinate our efforts on these low-income programs because it would simplify the application process and can take -- we can help these customers to minimize their sort of administrative work so we'll be able to coordinate a cost difference and enterprises especially for the newer buildings. >> any other questions? thank you. we'll open this up for public comment. >> members of public who wish

to make two minutes of public comment specifically on item 9b, the power customer program update, dial 1-415-655-001, meeting i.d. 24869075477 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. mr. moderator, do you have any callers? >> mr. secretary, we have two callers in the queue. hello, caller. your line is open. you have two minutes. >> caller: hello. i didn't plan to speak on this item. i think my hand must have remained raised from before. >> operator: no worries. thank you. hello, caller. your line is open. you have two minutes. >> caller: great. david pillpal again. so on this issue on 9b, i'm

looking carefully at page 6, the update on power enterprise customer programs. the section in the middle on guiding principles. those bullets look like they would sit very fwhel a commission-adopted policy. so, perhaps the next time the commission takes a look at its adopted policies, like the rate payer assurance policy and the debt policy and all of those other fun policies, these guiding principles related to the power enterprise and customer programs look like they could be sort of pasted right into a new commission policy. i'm not sure whether this would work as a [inaudible] policy or could be a broader policy about energy and the p.u.c. but that is my thought. otherwise, i appreciate the

presentation and the work that staff is doing in this area. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. madame secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. public comment on 9b is closed. >> thank you, madame secretary. item 9c is water enterprise capital improvement program quarterly report presented by catie miller. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm catie miller, director of water capital programs. today i'll provide an update ton status of projects in the water enterprise interv.i.p. at the end of the first quarter in september of 2021. at the january 11 meeting, director steve robinson and i presented changes to you to the quarterly reports that were initiated in the first quarter, including the new table budgets and trend schedule summary. in addition to these changes, we have added an executive summary to this report that includes program status, cost

and schedule smaers and key project highlights. we hope these changes will help to increase accountability and transparency for our program reporting. >> this slide shows the status of the 36 projects in the program with a total budget of $2.7 billion. including 25 regional and 11 local projects. eke pent chures at the close of the recording period were $801 million or 31% expended with $42 million expended during the period. next slide. this shows the cost category for all active projects. note that regional had cost forecasts $33 million over the approved budgets and had a forecast of $45 million over the cost overruns were attributed to four regional projects and two local projects.

this is total budgets for each phase of the program. note that 12 out of 25 of the projects and more than half of the program budget are in the planning phase. next slide. the five regional projects with cost and scheduled variances at the end of [inaudible] and the hvac projects cost changes involved major scope changes that were identified during final design. the project teams have discussed how these changes might have been avoided or better prevented in the future. the long-term approvements forecast change is due to minor scope additions that were necessary during construction. the sa-1 service road are in the early planning phase. when scope assignment is more likely to result in cost and schedule changes.

note that in resfons your suggestions about collecting and analyzing forecast data, we are currently evaluating a process to categorize forecast changes so we can analyze the forecast data for general trends over time and develop mitigation. and now for a couple of project highlights. it is related to pg&e's change of decision to require all electrical connections to provide full-power transmission step-down facilities. this is estimated to have a cost impact of about $12 million increase to the phase three contract. the good news is that the schedule has been accelerated for the phase three contract, resulting in earlier

completion of the entire project. next slide. s the alameda the creek water shed center, part of the long-term improvements project is making great progress in construction. these photos show the new community room that will be available for public meetings and gatherings. the cost and schedule variances are due to longer procurement times for the blue stone pavers and exterior glass. these delays are related to the covid procurement issues. next slide. this slide shows the total current approved budget, so the 11 projects in each phase of the program, note that more than half of the budget is in three projects with multiple phases, including the main replacement program and the emergency fire fighting water system project. next slide. there were three local projects with cost and scheduled variances at the end of the quarter.

the reasons for these forecast changes again are varied. it is in design and had a major change in construction methodology. the new c.d.d. headquarters at 2000 marin is in planning but delays to contracting procurement have added $43 million in escalation costs to the project forecast. the college hill reservoir outlet project is in construction phase, but the reward phase took three months later than anticipated. we'll continue to analyze the causes to project delays and cost increases to look for trends and mitigations we might tyke prevent these changes in the future. the design services requests for proposals was readvertised. this was received for the construction management general contractor services contracts. however, we selected to rebid

based on only two qualified proposals. that contract is readvertised at this time. next slide. for the college hill reservoir outlet, the notice to proceed was issued to the construction contractor in september and construction is currently under way. this construction will continue until early 2023. next slide. and that is it for my presentation. but i'm happy to answer any questions. >> i'm just wondering what's the timeline on the forecast and information gathering on these projects. do you have any idea of when we can see -- i remember talking to the team about

putting together some form of spread sheet with all the information in them. do you have any idea what the timeline is on that? >> i don't. i think we were really focused on getting these out and working on the budget. so it's something that we want to take a little bit of time to consider. but we have worked on some categories of forecasts. a lot like construction change orders. we put those into categories and so we considered that. and how we might store those in our reporting database. but i'll get back to you with some kind of timeline for that. >> ok. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner paulson? >> i had a similar question. and i guess based on your comments about reporting database. what does that mean? reporting to us or just your own personal -- >> yes, i'm thinking p-6

internal database. we store all our financial and schedule data in that database so we're looking for ways that we can leverage that very powerful database to give us data on the forecast. >> i know that we have discussed at various times, you know, design cost overruns based on field conditions and all the other things that happened in the sake of stuff. so i just want to make sure that we as commissioners are ahead of that stuff and sometimes you get a bullet point that says cost overrun is 12.5% and that is going to, you know, i want to make sure that we're able to explain or not explain for whatever reasons what that is.

and rebuild and new projects that are in the pipeline. that was just my comment to follow up on commissioner's request. >> i agree entirely. at this time, you can find that information on issues and challenges for each individual project in the quarterly report. we do put the reasons. but right now we're not looking at it cumulatively over time and looking for trends and so that's what we're latching on to. could be a real key to see where are we repeating these same types of things. how can we better get ahead of that and predict it and mitigate it. >> thank you. it's pretty exciting, some of the -- at least it's intriguing what may come out of that kind of analysis. just looking at it very quickly. some kinds of jobs are pretty consistent.

main route replacement kind of jobs. we seem to have that down pretty well. other jobs take twists and turns as they go forward and understanding why. and also figuring out where in that process you want to start holding yourself accountable. you know, i don't know if you go from rough concept to a little bit better concept, variations in the scope or something that should concern us. if anything, you want to identify them and make sure that as you proceed you have the complete picture. at some point, the scope should lock and you start saying, ok, this is what it is and this is -- we've done our hockey and due diligence. we believe that we know it is going to cost at that point and start measuring. i think we tend to start measuring earlier than that. but that is the kind of thing that will come out of that. i would be interested as we get into public comments and

all, these reports have several audiences and, you know, they are useful within the organization to track your work and help you figure out where to allocate resources. they are useful to us as commissioners and terms of providing oversight and understanding what's going on. they are also something that members of the public will look at to understand what's going on. we've had, you know, comments in the past that things were too difficult to get to or too opaque. i'd be interested, as we have more experience with this to hear public comment about how this report format is addressing some of those issues. or not. as the case may be. any other comments? seeing none, then we'll please open this for public comment. >> members of the publics who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on item 9c, the water enterprise capital improvement quality report,

dial 1-415-655-001, meeting i.d. 24869075477 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. mr. moderator, do you have any callers? >> operator: madame secretary, there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> thank you. public comment on item 9c is closed. >> madame secretary, that concludes my report. >> thank you. >> thank you, dennis. next item, please. >> next item is item 10, new commission business. >> commissioners, any new business? seeing none, next item, please. >> the next item is item number 11, the consent calendar. >> ok.

commissioners, any items that you have questions about or would like to remove from consent calendar? seeing none, madame secretary, please open it up for public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment, specifically on item number 11, the consent calendar, dial 1-415-655-001, meeting i.d. 24869075477 ##. to raise your hand to speak, press star 3. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> operator: there is one caller wishing to be recognized. hello, caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: great. david pillpal again. so, this may seem like a

minor issue or incredibly technical, but on item 11d, the increase to construction costs for the new montgomery contract, very buried in the staff report is discussion of elements from the tenderloin and knob hill suer improvement project in there and there is no detail in the staff report and the only detail i was able to find was on the statutory exemption attachment with actual streets and linear feet and number of manholes. but no further description of the elements of work here. and so then i went back to compare to the agenda item description on page four of the calendar and i'm just wondering, as a legal matter, if the description of item 11d on the calendar is

sufficient in as much as it has no reference to the specific work that would be added here from that tenderloin and knob hill project and so it's pretty difficult to figure out what's happening and what the work here is. there's no map. there's no, you know, list of streets here and i'm just wondering if there's sufficient public notice. i'm not questioning whether the work needs to be done or the budgets. you know, $2.25 million. i assume it's appropriate amount for the skoem of work. but there's really not a whole lot of explanation for this. and if i could get some further clarification on that today, that would be great. if there is not a need to move on this immediately, then maybe this could be taken off, brought back and repackaged. those are my thought on 11d.

thank you for listening. >> thank you for your comments. madame secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. public comment on item 11, the consent calendar, is closed. >> thank you. would you like to comment about the legal sufficiency of the notice for this item? >> thank you. my reading was that the title matched the scope that was described by staff in the staff report. but i have to defer to staff here. this is a complicated set of streets that was involved in this project and so i don't think would be appropriate for me to speak to that. >> president moran, i can speak to the location of

where the work >> i guess before you do that, i was a little confused by your answer. because the question is not whether those streets need to be, you know, repaired or whatever. the question is whether the inclusion of those streets somehow was not sufficiently included in the notice that the item is now properly before us. >> sorry if i wasn't clear. so, my understanding is that the streets that are -- we're looking at 11b, correct? and there are a number of streets that are in the title of the -- of the agenda item. and it's my reading that the

-- those streets are the locations for this contract. and that is consistent in the description. but, again, if that is not the case -- if that is not the case, all of these streets are lifted and it's very specific where the intersections are. >> commissioner paulson? >> maybe it wasn't absolutely a one-answered question. but i heard her say the answer is yes. and it was written in the way that we were looking at item d. without having a long explanation of why i heard a "yes." so i think i was -- >> that is my understanding as well. again f there was some confusion about the locations, i'm going to have to defer to mr. hanson here.

>> i heard a "yes" even though it was a little bit oblique. and i think i'm hearing that reconfirmed. so i'm just making my observations as a commissioner, as we try to move on. >> if there are streets that are included in the work and not included in the title of the item, would that be a problem for notice? >> is it because the title is

so specific as to the streets and so not to be able to give a more specific answer here, but the -- i don't see the other reference that was raised. again, i'm going to have to defer to mr. johannson here. >> may we request that we sever the item? >> can i just jump in? cheryl, if i understand what you're saying it could make a difference if the title and the listing was from -- and it could affect things materially. there was a great difference and even a minor -- but even a minor difference would not be material.

it would have to be significant. so why -- so basically you're saying -- you're deferring to mr. johannson to say, ok, there r there a whole host of other streets that are not listed in the title that are -- that are not consistent and that's why [inaudible]. so mrs. johannson came in and said, look, the streets are the streets and maybe there is one missing. that would be something in your opinion would likely not be material. xrekt? >> correct. >> ok. so, mr. johannson could probably give us something whether there's consistency between what's in the title and what is the work that's listed to be done. so, mr. president, if i could just ask mr. johannson to say, ok, there's consistency between the two. i think this could be cleared up relative quickly. >> thank you, dennis. mr. johannson? >> ok. the question in the staff report, there is reference to the tenderloin knob hill sewer improvement project.

and that is the streets and work that you're wanting to add to this contract. that's the contract that they're originally in. or the scope of work is originally in. to give you a little background, what had happened, this work was initially planned to be part of the federal market streets project. and then in the summertime last year, it was pulled out and was good without that. it didn't give the p.u.c. much support so that's why we're requesting to add this work, which is similar work -- similar construction methods and along market street, but about a mile away from the previous -- the other contract. [please stand by] [please stand by]

>> clerk: would you like the caller to clarify? >> president moran: i thought it was david. >> clerk: mr. president would like to have the caller clarify?

mr. pilpel, please raise your hand. >> caller: thank you. sorry whatever confusion i caused. this is not about 11b, i got no issue with the diamond street project. i'm sure it's diamond certified. it's 11d. my concern is that the existing contract is for work around new montgomery ignition. this is proposing to add work from a different -- that was scoped in a different project, the tenderloin and not hill improvement project. the detail i only found in the statutory exemption that's the attachment referenced in the environmental review box under 11d. it's the statutory exemption that planning department signed

2021 -- my concern is whether those streets that are described in that two page statutory exemption request, whether those streets needed to be listed in the calendar item and if so, if failure to do so is fatal to approval today and whether it requires continuance. the calendar item doesn't sufficiently alert anyone that the contemplated action today is to do work that otherwise under the tenderloin and nobb hill project. i hope that clears that up. >> president moran: one last shot here. are you in position to say

whether the issue raised by mr. pilpel are material or not? >> i'm not able to. i don't know what document he's referring to from the planning department. it's not appropriate for me to make a comment. >> president moran: proceed with the rest of the consent calendar. is there any other public comment? mr. paulson? >> commissioner paulson: for the record you're severing 11b, i

mean 7d. you are severing it? >> president moran: i'm severing that. if we can have a motion and second on the consent calendar absent 11d. >> so moved. >> second. >> president moran: we have a motion and a second. please call the roll. [roll call vote] you have four ayes. >> president moran: with respect to 11d i expect we continue that to next agenda so staff with get that together. next item. >> clerk: next order of business is item 12.

approve modification for program for accounts complying with article 12c of the city and county san francisco health code to change the name of the program to water ordinance excess use charge program change the water usage data reporting requirements for the projects subject to the program, establish methodology for applying excess use charges on a project's bill and change the building schedule for excess use charges to a six-month cumulative basis, clarify eligibility requirements for project and to request a temporary suspension or prevision.

>> good afternoon. thank you so much for the opportunity to report on the non-potable water ordinance. this program is in relation to san francisco non-potable water ordinance known as article 12c of the health code. this ordinance was amended recently in october 2021 by the board of supervisors and those amendments lowered the threshold for compliance with the water ordinance to apply to new buildings development projects, 100,000 scare feet for greater. it changed the requirement for buildings that are 100% commercial to capture and bring all the buildings wastewater,

not just rain water on site to help meet non-potable water demand. it requires mixed use residential buildings to capture water in addition to toilet flushing and irrigation demand. as you may know, the commission approved this excess use charge program in 2017. there's a resolution number on the screen. at that time, the commission approved the excess use charge program so that each non-potable ordinance project is signed in

allocation of potable water. this is just the general high level proposed process for how this program would work. first off, projects would be assigned in allocation of make-up water based on their submitted approved sfpuc documentation. the project will report on the volume of potable make-up water use. sfpuc would use that self-reported and our billing system data to calculate any applicable excess use charges. those applicable excess use charges will appear on project bill two times a year. it will be on a august bill and

federal government bill. sfpuc would allow projects to apply for allocation revision, temporary suspension of the allocation or allowing customers to appeal their excess use charges. this is my last slide. summarizing that the proposed commission action is to approve technical modifications to the program including changing the name to non-potable water ordinance excess use charge program, modifying the process for determining the potable wakeup water allocation. changing the data reporting requirements, establishing a methodology for applying excess use charges on a project bill and changing the building schedule to six-month cumulative basis. clarifying eligibility requirements and process for projects to request the temporary suspension or allocation revision. lastly, authorizing the general manager in consultation with the

city attorney to approve future modifications to the program rule. thank you for your time. i can take any questions. >> president moran: thank you. commissioners any questions? >> vice president ajami: i have a question. i assumed this program based on -- i didn't know this already exist or if you're trying to establish it. if it already exist, do we know what percentage of time people go beyond their allocation? >> it's an existing program that the commission approved in 2017. it's an existing program. i'm asking commission to approve technical modifications to how we administer the program. second part of the request, we do not have any current projects

that are receiving excess use charges there were a few projects, commercial projects that were ready and in the queue to begin the start of the excess use charge program. then the pandemic broke out. there was no occupancy in the building, they weren't able to use the system. those projects are on hold at this point. we haven't had any projects received excess use charges to date. >> president moran: any other questions or comments? seeing none, please open this for public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wishes to make two minutes on dial (415)655-0001, meeting i.d., 2486 907 5477.

do we have any callers? >> caller: this is david pilpel. last time today. on item 12. i have to substantive concerns, i have technical and procedural concerns. on page 16 of the calendar item packet, the first page of the proposed rule. there's a typo after the date. also the rules don't have internal page numbers. it will be great to have the rules. i noticed and looking at them quickly on page 24, the last

page of the rules the last line is the general manager will issue a refund. i'm pretty sure the general manager is not actually issuing the refund. same thing with other instances where it prefers to the general manager. on the sixth element of this proposal, which would delegate authority to the general manager to make non-substantive changes. i disagree strongly with that under charter section 4.104a1. i would encourage the city attorney to check this.

it doesn't talk about delegation. i'm not of the opinion that approving rules and regulations is a power that this commission can delegate to the general manager. in the future on items like this that require public notice, i would include a section in the staff report documenting the public notice that was given. i hope my comments are clear. thank you for listening today. >> thank you for your comments. there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment on item 12 is closed. >> president moran: thank you. most of david's comments are things that can be cleaned up. shouldn't affect our ability to take a vote. one question is the delegation

of authority. >> i will say that the item is full i approved for your review and approval and consideration. it is consistent with the guidance. >> president moran: okay. i'll take that as a yes. commissioners, any other questions or comments? may i have a motion and a second. >> i move. >> second. >> president moran: move and seconded. roll call please. [roll call vote]

you have four ayes. >> president moran: item passes. next item please. >> clerk: next item, i will read the items to be heard during closed session and then call for public comment. the following item will be heard during closed session. item number 15, conference with legal counsel pursuant to california government code, regarding the following litigation which the city petitioner of pacific gas and electric company is an adverse party. city and county of san francisco federal and regulatory commission. members of the public who wish to make two minutes, dial (415)655-0001.

meeting i.d. 2486 907 5477. >> there are no callers wishing to be recognized at this time. >> clerk: thank you. public comment on item to be heard in closed session is closed. >> president moran: can i have a motion on whether to assert attorney-client privilege >> move to assert. >> second. >> president moran: moved and seconded to assert. roll call please. [roll call vote] you have four ayes. >> president moran: thank you. we will now go to closed

session. >> clerk: please standby. [closed session] >> president moran: can i have a motion and second on whether to disclose the discussions in closed session? >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> president moran: roll call please. [roll call vote] four ayes. >> president moran: thank you. that motion passes. no further business before the commission. this meeting is adjourned. thank you all.

>> the market is one of our vehicles for reaching out to public and showing them how to prepare delicious, simple food. people are amazed that the library does things like that. biblio bistro is a food

education program. it brings such joy to people. it teaches them life skills that they can apply anywhere, and it encourages them to take care of themselves. my name is leaf hillman, and i'm a librarian, and biblio bistro is my creation. i'm a former chef, and i have been incubating this idea for many years. we are challenged to come up with an idea that will move the library into the future. this inspired me to think, what can we do around cooking? what can i do around cooking? we were able to get a cart. the charlie cart is designed to bring cooking to students in elementary students that has enough gear on it to teach 30

students cooking. so when i saw that, i thought bingo, that's what we're missing. you can do cooking classes in the library, but without a kitchen, it's difficult. to have everything contained on wheels, that's it. i do cooking demonstrations out at the market every third wednesday. i feature a seafood, vegetable, and i show people how to cook the vegetable. >> a lot of our residents live in s.r.o.s, single resident occupancies, and they don't have access to full kitchens. you know, a lot of them just have a hot plate, a microwave, and the thing that biblio bistro does really well is cook food accessible in season and make it available that day. >> we handout brochures with the featured recipe on the back. this recipe features mushrooms,

and this brochure will bring our public back to the library. >> libraries are about a good time. >> i hired a former chef. she's the tickle queen at the ramen shop in rockwood. we get all ages. we get adults and grandparents and babies, and, you know, school-age kids, and it's just been super terrific. >> i was a bit reluctant because i train teachers and adults. i don't train children. i don't work with children, and i find it very interesting and a bit scary, but working here really taught me a lot, you know, how easily you can influence by just showing them

what we have, and it's not threatening, and it's tasty and fun. i make it really fun with kids because i don't look like a teacher. >> in the mix, which is our team center, we have programs for our kids who are age 13 to 18, and those are very hands on. the kids often design the menu. all of our programs are very interactive. >> today, we made pasta and garlic bread and some sauce. usually, i don't like bell pepper in my sauce, but i used bell pepper in my sauce, and it complemented the sauce really well. i also grated the garlic on my bread. i never thought about that technique before, but i did it,

and it was so delicious. >> we try to teach them techniques where they can go home and tell their families, i made this thing today, and it was so delicious. >> they're kind of addicted to these foods, these processed foods, like many people are. i feel like we have to do what we can to educate people about that. the reality is we have to live in a world that has a lot of choices that aren't necessarily good for you all the time. >> this is interesting, but it's a reaction to how children are brought up. it is fast-food, and the apple is a fast-food, and so that sort of changes the way they think about convenience, how eating apple is convenient. >> one of the things that i love about my program out at the market is the surprise and delight on people's faces when they finally taste the

vegetable. it's been transformative for some people. they had never eaten those vegetables before, but now, they eat them on a regular basis. >> all they require is a hot plate and a saute pan, and they realize that they're able to cook really healthy, and it's also tasty. >> they also understand the importance of the connection that we're making. these are our small business owners that are growing our food and bringing it fresh to the market for them to consume, and then, i'm helping them consume it by teaching them how to cook. >> it connects people to the food that they're buying. >> the magic of the classes in the children's center and the team center is that the participants are cooking the food themselves, and once they do that, they understand their connection to the food, to the tools, and it empowers them. >> we're brokering new

experiences for them, so that is very much what's happening in the biblio bistro program. >> we are introducing kids many times to new vocabulary. names of seasonings, names of vegetables, names of what you call procedures. >> i had my little cooking experience. all i cooked back then was grilled cheese and scrambled eggs. now, i can actually cook curry and a few different thing zblz . >> and the parents are amazed that what we're showing them to cook is simple and inexpensive. i didn't know this was so easy to make. i've only bought it in the market. those comments have been amazing, and yeah, it's been really wonderful.

>> we try to approach everything here with a well, just try it. just try it once, and then, before you know it, it's gone. >> a lot of people aren't sure how to cook cauliflower or kale or fennel or whatever it is, and leah is really helpful at doing that. >> i think having someone actually teaching you here is a great experience. and it's the art of making a meal for your family members and hope that they like it. >> i think they should come and have some good food, good produce that is healthy and actually very delicious. >> cooking is one of my biggest passions, to be able to share, like, my passion with others,

and skills, to h h h h h h h hh all right. hello everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i'm joined today with our police chief bill scott to talk about the crime statistics in san francisco. and i just want to back up and put things into perspective. first of all, it's been a challenging year. we say that over and over again, but we also understand the challenges everyone is living with whether it's people who've lost their jobs and homes. kids that who aren't in school.

those that struggle with mental health challenges and a number of other issues. sadly, in san francisco, we have seen certain crime statistics increase, but we've seen others decrease. and the chief will get into those more specifically. now, despite dealing with this pandemic and seeing a number of people especially with the omicron variant out sick, we've seen that happen not just with people in san francisco, but many of our city workers including those from our police and fire department. the public safety arm of san francisco. and i just want to take this opportunity to really thank our police officers, many of them have had to do overtime because we've had hundreds of officers out as a result of omicron and others have had to step up to take their place. we know that there are a number of challenges that we see and we know that people are anxious to see improvements in the tenderloin community with the

emergency declaration, but the fact is we have a number of employees that are out. others have stepped up to take their place and we want to ensure that not only are we doing what we need to do in the tenderloin community to keep that community safe, we also need to make sure that we're keeping everyone in the entire city safe. we know that that is such a priority for so many san franciscans. and as a leader of this city, it is a priority for me. nothing is more important than to make sure that people who live in this city, people who work in this city, people who visit san francisco feel safe as they walk down the streets. and the fact is that does require police officers. it does require folks who are part of our public safety network. it does require us working together. and to be clear, it does not mean that we ignore the reforms that we need to do here in san francisco with our police

department. it does not mean that we ignore all the work we're doing to provide an alternative response to policing. those things go hand in hand with also keeping people safe so that they don't become victims of violent crime. so i want at this time to really just talk about what has been our plan moving forward. our plan moving forward, of course, is definitely contingent upon us providing those various services with our street crisis response team, our ambassadors, our escorts for our seniors. so many great programs in san francisco with a lot of nonprofit agencies that are working hand in hand with us to deliver for san franciscos who are most impacted by crime. yesterday, i was in chinatown, we were talking about the statistics and the hate crimes that have increased by 567% in

the a.p.i. community specifically and our need to enhance our support is what we're doing because that is critically important to the safety of that community and to making sure that people understand that we don't tolerate this and we will do everything we can to make sure that justice is served for the victims of these violent attacks. and part of that is making sure that we have a robust police department. a department that has officers who can not only walk the beat, but those that can investigate crime. those that can deal with a number of the challenges and victim services and support all the things that we need in order to make sure that not only are people kept safe and we prevent those crimes from happening in the first place, but once they happen that there is a process to bring those who commit those violent acts to hold them accountable. and that's what this is all about. the department over the past couple of years since 2019 has

seen a reduction in the number of police officers by about 20%. and so where our operating with the staffing that we have and meeting the needs all over san francisco, but we clearly need more. just recently, we received a letter from the controller's office of san francisco that says if we don't move forward with the supplemental that i introduced for $22.5 million to help with the cost associated with the police and fire department, services will be impacted because they won't be able to allow us to spend above our means. so what does that mean? that means that the controller's office will come in and make certain decisions for us. that means that the police academy classes which are already struggling with recruitment for our police department won't happen. that means no more back filling of officers. no more getting police officers on the streets in the numbers

that we need in order to ensure safety. that's what it means. it means our fire department will be affected. $7.9 million for the police. $14.6 million i believe for the fire department to address what we know is again the overtime related to the additional services needed from people being out sick and also the shortage in staffing of people who have retired or left the department for various reasons. this is not asking for more. this is asking for the basics, what everyone expects in the city as it relates to public safety. that's what this is about and i'm hoping that the member officer the board of supervisors see it that way.

this is about what people expect. when there's a shooting in the bayview hunter's point community which has occurred on far too many occasions, the expectation is that the police will show up. when there's a stabbing or a shooting or assault in the tenderloin community, that community expects that the police will show up and they will get justice. when there is crime of any occurrence, whether it's a burglary when someone is breaking into someone's home while they're there. can you imagine experiencing that and not having the police show up right away when you call 911. that should never happen in a major city like san francisco. there should be an expectation if something happens and you're in need of medical treatment, the paramedics will come. when you're in need of support from law enforcement because you've been assaulted or robbed or anything has occurred, the police should be expected to show up. so this additional resource we

need is about maintaining that level of service and we know we need more, but in the meantime, as our city has really suffered during this pandemic, not just the challenges of mental illness and addiction and homelessness and all of the things that we continue to address, but crime. and crime has to be addressed in a number of ways. there is not a one-size-fits-all, but there is a real need to make sure that we don't completely deplete our police department and then still expect justice and service and support when sadly we become the victim. we can do better and my hope is that we will do better. my hope is that the board will approve this supplemental and the police department will be able to continue the great work that they have done for san francisco especially during this pandemic. so, with that, i'd like to

introduce our police chief bill scott to talk specifically about the statistics from last year. >> police chief scott: thank you, mayor breed. and good morning everybody. we're going to have graphics on the screen so you can follow along. and before i start with the statistics, let me start and put this into context. statistics are what's reported to us. and we all understand that sometimes what translates on the statistics may not be your experience. aside from homicide, i think traditionally in policing, crimes go unreported. homicide is probably the purest statistic we have because it's really hard not to have a homicide reported or murder reported. short of everything else, we know there are crimes that we don't get because they're not reported from shootings to

reports, to burglaries, you name it. some crimes don't get reported and i want to put that into some context because when we talk about our statistics, we're talking about what's reported to us and we understand that for some people, that may not be their experience. that might not be what they're seeing. the victim may not have reported it or things in particular from their world view might not be consistent with what we put up. this is merely what we report and i think it's important that we understand and put into context what statistics are. as mayor breed said, we know there's a lot of work that we need to do. we also know that there is a lot of good work that's been done. so we're going to talk about both. we're going to talk about the challenges and we're going to talk about the things where we've seen some progress and some improvement. and being that i led off talking about homicide are the purist statistic that we have. i'm going to start off with our homicide and each one of these graphs that you see are, you'll

see the last several years of statistics. so you can put into context what the trends are. violent crimes will start here and we'll put into context what the trends are over time because it paints a clearer picture when you look at crime statistics over a period of time. we have 56 homicide this past year in 2021. and when you look at this graph, this graphic, the last time we had homicides was 2017. we saw a decline for three years and then starting in 2019, we started to see an increase in homicides, and sadly, this is not just a san francisco trend, this is a national trend and this is something that is truly concerning to all of us. many of our investigations have led us to facts that indicate that many of our cases are connected with some of the surroundings cities in the bay area and so we've been doing a

lot of work with those jurisdictions and those police departments both on the law enforcement side and on the social services side to try to turn this trend around. 56 homicides for san francisco is a big deal and it's something we're committed to turning around and before i end my discussion, i'm going to talk a little bit about some of the strategies that we've put in place to do just that. i also want to say that in our effort to bring these cases to resolution, we solved our clearance rate for homicides this past year was 77%. so almost eight and ten of our cases we solved and that's been consistent over the last several years and that rate is really far above the state average and the national average and so that's something we're pleased with. not to say we can't do better. we want to solve every case, but sadly for the families and the victims, we don't solve

every case, but we'll definitely work as hard as we can to do just that. those cases can be solved and those investigators can't do the work if we don't have what's in place. we have to have the staffing to do that. we also have to have community support and there are too many people to thank in terms of many members in our community. but we'll keep pushing forward and we want to turn that 56 to a much lower number. a couple years ago, i think it was the mayor's first year in office or second year in office, we were at 41 homicides for the year. that is as low as we've been since the early 1960s. we want to do better than that. gun violence contributed to the majority of our homicides and the next graphic, you'll see our gun violence victims for 2021. there were a total of 222. that's the highest we've been

since 2016. and you look at the friends. it really follows the homicide trends where you see a dip. 2018 to 2019 and then it starts to do back up. now, we don't really know the role that the global pandemic plays in this. there's a lot of theories out there. there's a lot of anecdotal crime is high because of all reasons connected to covid and all that may be true, but we really don't have the evidence to point that out. this category of crime is going up and we need to turn it around. in terms of gun violence, we are working with several community groups and also with our mayor's office and her public safety folks in her office to bring strategies to the table. we've brought strategies to the table that don't only rely on us being able to solve the case, but also really addressing the people who are most at risk and i'm talking about the people who are at

most risk of either shooting somebody or being shot. and what we have done over the last two years is a lot of research to drill down on who those people are and reach out to them and their families to try to get them some help. in the cases where we can't get them help and they commit a crime, investigate those cases thoroughly and vigorously and bring them to justice. and that balance is how we will move forward in addressing gun violence. it's been successful so far. last year we started in a hole with gun violence. it's our intention to cause that to continue as much as we can and so far this year it's early, very early. so i'm not going to put too much weight in this but we're on a much better note than this time last year.

next category. rapes. as you can see in the graphic, we had 204 rapes reported last year which is a little bit below where we were in 2020. we saw a significant decrease between 2019 and 2020. so that's going in the right direction. sexual assaults are right up there with homicides as far as the seriousness, the impact on the victims and their families, something that we take very seriously and hopefully we can continue to see that number go in the right direction. next category of violent crime or robberies. so robberies, i want to put this into a little bit of context with the mayor's comments about how important staffing is. robberies are one of those crime categories where officers on the street really make a difference. we saw this in parts of the city such as the tenderloin mid year when we upped our deployment in the tenderloin.

we saw pretty significant double digit percentage wise dropping robberies. we ended the year with 2, 242 robberies which is a slight decrease this year about 200 robberies left. we still have a lot to do with robberies. but the reason it's so important to put officers in these areas where we know these robberies are occurring, the majority of these robberies are street crimes. people are going to and from whatever it is they're.co in the daily activities alike. when officers are present and this is proven time and time again, we tend to have less of those events when officers are present. that's why foot patrols and foot beats and bike officers and presence and engagement is so important in terms of reducing robberies. so that is our strategy moving forward. we know it works. we know it can work. we need the people to do it and we're committed to just that. part of our analysis when we identify where robberies are

occurring, usually, the drill is we identify the hot spot. and the best case scenario, the officers are there to begin with to prevent the robberies from happening, but if we can't do that, then we usually adjust our deployment and we put officers in those areas and we see crime go down and that happens time and time again. so officers matter. we need to have them out in the field and as we see, we've made some progress and robberies and we hope to continue that. next category is assaults, and aggravated assaults. now i want to explain to you all that shootings are included in this category. we break out shootings because shootings are so important and such a big issue for our city. we break that out. but these numbers that you see and aggravated assault and shootings are inclusive in these numbers. so we had an increase. as you see, it increased with a

couple hundred, 200 aggravated assaults. 81 is the number for 2021. this is another set of crimes where at least the public ones where deployment matters. it matters a lot. some aggravated assaults happen inside peoples' homes and businesses and we can't always get to those and try to prevent them. but the ones that happen in the public, it's really important to have officers present and deployed and visible in those communities where these are occurring. these assaults include as i said, gun related violence, but they also include bodily weapons. they include knives. they include other weapons, sticks, bottles. that's inclusive of all of our assaults. it went up from 2020 to 2021. it's something that we had to turn around. very serious crimes and policing matters in that. and on the investigative side, we have to do more in our investigations to solve more of these cases. so now we're going to go to

property crime. burglaries are the first category that i'll talk about. 2020 and this was the year of the global pandemic. we saw a significant jump in burglaries and as much as we try to figure out whether the pandemic was partially responsible, there are some of those statistics in 2020 that are pandemic related. we had a rash of burglaries and lootings during june, late may of 2020 relate today all the civil unrest across the country. so that contributed to it, but it went beyond that. many of our san franciscans had their houses and their garages broken into, businesses broken into, and we saw an uptick. the first half of this year, it was a significant uptick. so we adjusted our deployment. we put officers where these incidents were happening including putting our plain

clothed officers, deploying them at night. surveilling people who we believe to be involved in those burglaries. we made some key arrests. we were tracking the prolific burglars and we were able to make arrests on many of them. and we started to see about mid year, about may, we started to see those numbers decline and they declined throughout the year. so we ended the year on a positive note with burglaries. but we're not out of the woods on burglaries. as you can see, we're far higher than 2019 and the previous year. so we still have a lot of work to do and we still have a lot of people to hold accountable for what we're doing. what we find with the burglary suspects is many of them are repeat offenders and prolific. those are the ones we have concentrated on. those people, those individuals. we've had some success. some of our most prolific once we got them in custody, we saw drops in certain neighborhoods where we believe they were active and this goes beyond the

city and county of san francisco. so those are strategies that we'll continue to deploy with our burglaries and we believe if we do that, they will continue to go in the right direction. so we ended the year on a good note, but we still have a lot of work to do. next category is larceny. and this is the whole gamut. so this will include architect. and packaged thefts and all. so as you can see, when you compare 2021 to 2020, it was a significant increase in thefts. and it's pretty much across the board. but when you look at this over the last five years, we were on a steady decline. 2020 was an aberration. but then we go to 2021 and we get an increase in 2020. so we look at this over time. not as much out of whack as if you put an asteric by what we

believe was the impact of covid with our decrease in 2020, but we were able to make some headway on a lot of these categories. retail theft. we've had the mayor and i some announcements this summer about how we were addressing retail theft. we did see a difference and some of those locations that were getting hit the hardest when we made those adjustments and those included we doubled the size of our retail theft, our investigation unit. we added personnel to better coordinate our ten beat appointment which is our uniformed officers that get hired by retailers and the coordination between those off duty officers and on duty officers is as good as it's ever been so that has helped because that has led to better coordination and better coverage the other category that's been stubborn in our city is the car break-in

issues. mid year, the mayor made an announcement about our tourism deployment. in our city, we were talking about the areas in our city where people come here and they want to see it. they have to see those areas. and then they come here and get victimized. and we're finding discarded luggage all over the city. we started what we termed our tourism deployment and much of that was done in overtime. and the areas that we concentrated on, we saw significant decreases. so that deployment although we had to make some adjustments. that deployment is still happening we also want to make sure the people that live here day in and day out so there's a lot of work to be done there.

we did see some turn arounds with our car break-ins and we'll continue to turn this picture around. looking at the long term. you can see the trends over from 2017 to 2019 was a decrease and then 2020, that significant decrease and then arrives in 2021. so we want to turn that around and not be above where we were last year in terms of the overall larceny picture. and we think some of the strategies that i mentioned will help, but it also helps to hold people accountable and bring them to justice when they do those types of crimes. auto thefts is the next category. and we have a little bit of a longer view in amount of thefts and as you see, you see it will be up in a second. you see a decline from 2015 to 2019 basically then 2020, there was a significant increase. that was somewhat of a trend that we saw in other cities as well. we do track other cities to see if what we experience here is

something that's just in san francisco. this is something bigger. auto thefts, many cities experience increases. and we saw significant increase in 2020 and then it levelled off a little bit in 2021 and we saw actually just a very slight decrease. so auto thefts is a big issue. we recover a lot of the cars that get stolen. unfortunately, we don't solve as many of the cases as we would like to. so that's an area that we have to continue to work on and there are some technology trends that we're seeing that we have to delve in more in terms of the thieves who are still in cars or kind of a step ahead of the game with technology. so not anything they can go into detail now on, but it's something that as we had analyzed these problems and we really understand kind of why these increases are happening, we definitely will share that with the public. so statistically as the mayor

said and i will reiterate, there are ups and downs. there are areas where we've had some good progress and there are areas like homicides where we have to turn things around. it takes people to do it. we want to do the job the way the city expects us to do it. so while all this is happening, we're pushing forward with all of our that helps us. and as you all always hear me say, we're not a perfect police department. we have our issues and problems, but when we identify what those problems are, we're going to, work to fix them and make them better and as we move through 2022, we're going to do

everything we can from a public safety and policing perspective to give the residents of our city the safest city we can help them have. so, with that, we'll open it up for questions and if you all don't mind, we're going to take questions for the mayor first and then i can take any policing questions and then anything in detail we can talk about off line. we have our team here, we can talk about details off line. so thank you. >> christian. >> where have you seen successes from the tenderloin emergency plant. are you already starting to see some successes in that area? are they pushing the problem around? also are you still hoping to graduate more, we talked about more police recruits in the

future to increase the number of officers? >> what do you mean by successes? >> are you seeing fewer reported crimes in that area. maybe that's something more so for the chief. >> yeah. i'll just say that i've gotten information for a number of stories of people that we've been able to help even on day one with someone who wanted to go into treatment and needed a t.b. shot and we were able to do that and get them into a behavioral health bed before we were able to transition them into a location where they are getting help and turning their lives around. we have a number of stories like that. . i wouldn't say we have hundreds of stories like that. we'll probably be able to provide that as time goes on. this is not a problem in the tenderloin that was created

overnight. the tenderloin has had so many challenges for many years and we saw during this pandemic, things have gotten so much worse even though we've added a number of resources to help support with mental illness and substance use disorder with our street crisis response team, with our street wellness team, with our street overdose entities that were created to be an alternative response to policing so that when folks are experiencing crisis which does not in some cases require a police response, those have been extremely successful and i think we can get you the data later about the number of calls that they've responded to and how many people we've been able to help as a result of that and as this tenderloin deployment plan moves forward, we definitely need more time before we can provide statistics or specific information about the number of people that we've helped.

but we are hopeful. i was there yesterday, i'm probably obsessed with going to the tenderloin every day to see what's going on down there and it has its good days and bad days and i do appreciate the fact that it appears that this linkage center has been extremely helpful and what we're hoping after we finish hopefully with this surge of covid that we'll see more officers out on the streets in the tenderloin community to help support the various agencies and programs that we have to help people. >> mayor, on the tenderloin linkage center, the chronicle has been reporting the drug use. what is the policy on drug use there? >> well, we don't have a policy as it relates to this linkage center other than meeting people where they are. the goal is to allow people who suffer from addiction to come into this center, to no

questions asked to get food, to maybe get a shower. to get support, to get services, but we're not forcing anyone to do anything. and at the end of the day, you know, this is a place where there's no judgment where this isn't a one size fits all solution and i wouldn't suggest that something like drug use is allowed, but it's happening all over the city sadly. it's happening all over the tenderloin and regardless of this linkage center or any place else, we can't control who does or does not do or do not use drugs at any given location. our whole point of why we set up this linkage center is to meet people where they are and to try and get them the help and support they need. at this time, we are hopeful that they feel safe, they feel comfortable. they feel they can trust this

location so when they are ready to get help, they have a number of people who are part of this nonprofit 360 that will instantly, immediately help deliver them to treatment detox support or whatever it is that they need. >> is the street effort part of a larger effort to get people off the sidewalk. how far along we are and what has to happen next and staffing with police. what should people expect to see as far as what comes next? >> well, it's not just staffing with police. it's the department of public health. as i said, a number of city employees and nonprofit employees would typically be the people that we would rely on to work in these establishments, to work in the tenderloin, they've been out too in some cases with omicron and my hope is that people see

a difference and they feel a difference as you walk down market street, the sidewalks are clean. as you walk in parts of the neighborhood and the tenderloin, you can actually get past the sidewalk and not see feces or step in feces or anything of that nature. my goal is to make it a walkable, livable, safe, and clean city and that involves making sure that people who unfortunately have taken over in some cases, many of the sidewalks and areas of the tenderloin that that doesn't continue. and that those people who are suffering with addiction are -- we're able to make sure they're not overdosing out on the sidewalk somewhere or that we're discovering them weeks after they've passed away in their tent. like we're trying to avoid losing lives as well and so this kind of controlled

environment is a way to, again, no questions asked. come on in. we're not here to judge. we're here to help you and we want people to feel comfortable coming into this space. it's getting people off the sidewalks, it's cleaning up the tenderloin. it's addressing crime and the violence that occurs which unfortunately, i mean, you see the statistics and, you know, it's gotten increasingly violent in the tenderloin. the stabbings and the shootings on a regular basis. so we are trying to get a handle on that as well. and so we want people to see and feel a difference and we're hopeful in the coming months as we continue to try and address this, it will be a noticeable difference and people will not, you know, be so focused on, well, what's going on at the linkage center, we don't think it's right. well, you know what, i don't think it's right to see it out on the street and walk near

needles and feces either. this is a solution that we are hopeful will lead to real change and will really lead to less crime and also less overdose deaths in san francisco. >> one followup honor crime statistics in general. there's a lot of discussion about crime is up, crime is down. when you step back big picture, roughly crime is high in the city. do you think something is lost in the sort of discussion of crime? >> well, i'll just tell you this. i know we talk about statistics as a way to communicate what we know is actually happening based on the information because we know also there are a lot of people who won't report it. it's i'm sure in many cases, it's more than that. statistics really don't matter when you're a victim. and i think at the end of the day, i am hearing more stories

from more people about situations that they experienced that they are really blown away. and let's just take it back a little bit. people who i grew up with in public housing who were like, london, this is too much. this is just the situations people are dealing with in the city and i think at the end of the day, regardless of the statistics, when it happens to you and you used to feel comfortable and safe walking around san francisco and all of a sudden, you're randomly attacked and you're traumatized and you can't even walk your kids to school, that's a problem. so from my perspective, this city has to do more and when these crimes are committed, when that line is crossed, we have no choice but to make sure that we follow through with investigations, that we arrest the possible suspects. you know, when i was growing up, there were sometimes people who were arrested for crimes they never committed. but in san francisco and all

the work we've done over the years around police reform and changes, the likelihood when we make an arrest is likely the person that we arrest. so they need to be held accountable and justice for the victims of these crimes need to occur just like justice for people who might have challenges with the criminal justice system in order to deal with public safety. it's not either or, it's all of it. we look at the statistics, but when it happens to you, who cares about statistics. we need to make sure that the people of the city are safe. and that it does include amplifies and it is what it is. all right. thank you. >> police chief scott: okay. any other questions? great. yes, ma'am.

>> this question's regarding the sfo shooting last week. >> police chief scott: first of all, we're going to have a town hall. we'll announce today, probably today or tomorrow as we always do on these types events. let me just put the context of how these things work. this particular incident, the state attorney general's office is the lead investigative agency for the criminal investigation. so the officers whether they're legal or not. when we have a shooting no matter who investigates it, the scene is basically frozen. it's frozen this will the people who are responsible and have jurisdiction to recover that evidence, to examine it can get to it. that takes time. and in any situation whether

it's this one on friday or whether it's any other case that we've ever had, you don't have confirmation on what you have immediately because the scene is frozen. in other words, if there's a gun on the ground, nobody's going to touch it and examine it for usually hours. so the notion that what we knew when we knew it, all that comes out in the town hall, but it's -- i've seen some stories written that are questioning this department's integrity and it's transparency on this and it's really misplaced because anybody that's ever that understands this work knows that it's not even our investigation to begin with. we don't get to touch the evidence, we don't get to examine it. that didn't happen for hours by the time the state investigators showed up. san mateo had responsibility for awhile until the state made

the declaration they would take the investigation. so it's really kind of a -- it's really misplaced and it's sad to be honest with you. the way that narrative has been put out is really sad. any other questions? >> chief, there's been a focus on the police staffing and the need to beef up the numbers in the force. so when you look at the increase in certain categories and how crime has been up in certain areas, how much of it is done to a lack of officers? would you expect to see similar numbers if you weren't working against the 20% reduction in police officers? >> police chief scott: let me make sure i understand your question. >> i just wonder in the category where we have seen an increase was significant around theft or whatever it may be and the fact that you're down numbers both in the overall numbers of police officers and

also because of covid, how much of a link do you put there? do you think that you would see an improvement if you just had more officers to work with? >> police chief scott: in some categories, yeah, we believe definitely because as i stated, robberies and crimes that happen in public spaces, those are the ones where you can really impact with robust deployment. and some of those, like thefts and car break-ins and it really takes officers being out in the field and being visible in addition to the backside, the investigative side and all that's been impacted by both our staffing shortages and this latest surge of covid. so, yeah, i think and this is anecdotal at best, but i do think it makes a difference. okay. all right. thank you all.

>> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park.

there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪)

>> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite store. when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. (♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions

only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and

anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks.

>> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco.

>> i am so happy. african-americans in the military from the revolutionary war to the present, even though they have not had the basic civil rights in america. they don't know their history. in the military the most sacrifice as anyone in this country to be willing to lay down your blood and fight. i believe that all african-americans have served

because they love this country and the hope that the citizens.