>> chair: good afternoon. i would like to call the march 8th meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission to order. madam, secretary, would you call the roll. [ roll call ]. >> clerk: this meeting is being held in person at san francisco city hall room 400 as authorized by the california section roll and the mayor's emergency proclamation. i would like to remind all individuals present and attending the meeting in person today that all health and safety protocols and building protocols must be adhered to at all times. this includes wearing a mask and no eating or drinking in this

room. failure to adhere to these requirements may result in your removal from this room. please note that hand sanitizer stations are available around the building and masks are available on request. we welcome the public's participation during public comment periods. for each, the commission will take two minutes of public comment, first from people attending the meeting in person and then from people attending remotely. members of the public may provide remote public comment by dialling 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2499 088 6579 #, #, and pressing 3 to raise your hand to speak. you will hear a chime at the 30-second warning and another chime when your two minutes have expired. please note you must limit yourself to the agenda item being discussed.

i remind you do not stay -- if you do not stay on your topic, you will be interrupted. you must remain civil and respectful and address your remarks to the commission as a whole. i would like to thanks our thanks to sfgov tv staff and appreciate your patience as we try to work with our first hybrid meeting. i would also like to ask the speakers and the commission to please speak into the mic and speak loudly so everybody can here. >> chair: thank you, donna. before calling the first item, i would like to announce that the san francisco public utility acknowledges that we are on the unceded lands of the historic territory of the descendants of the county.

every citizen residing in this greater bay area has and continues to benefit from the historical land here. it is not only important that we recognize the history of the tribal lands on which we reside, but that we acknowledge that the ramaytush ohlone people have established a relationship with us. before we get going, i want to exercise the privilege of the chair for a couple of comments. one is it is awfully good to be back in person. some of us have never met others of us and it's kind of nice to be able to do that and actually

get to see people eye to eye at least, if not face-to-face. so that's a powerfully good start i think. one thing i would appreciate as we go through this meeting is that -- please do speak up and into the microphone. some of us don't hear all that well and, frankly, reading lips helps, so i can't do that either. please do speak up so i can have the benefit of whatever it is you have to say. donna mentioned the two-minute time limit. we have had the luxury as we have been on zoom to let our meetings take as long as they needed to take and one thing i would appreciate in this new format if we can be as concise as possible. we do have a time limit today of

5:30. there will be times in the future when we have other people using the room and we have to get used to staying in that time frame. one last item and this is a public safety announcement. earlier today i had a co2 alarm go off in my home and it turns out -- and the fire department came out and found that i had a faulty heater and it was generating co2 in the house. that alarm may well have saved my life. the public safety announcement is if you don't have one, get one. if you have one, make sure you've installed it and know how to use it. if it goes off, open the doors and windows and go outside and call 911. let's get to the first item. >> clerk: the first item is item

3, adopt renewed findings under the state urgency legislation to allow hybrid in-person meetings during the covid-19 emergency and direct commission secretary to jeanedize a similar resolution at a commission meeting within the next 30 days. members of the public who wish to make public comment remotely dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2499 088 6579 and # # and press

3 to speak. you'll hear a chime at 30 seconds and when your time is up. mr. moderator, do we have any callers for item 3? >> operator: secretary, there is one caller in the queue. >> clerk: caller, this is for item 3, state urgency legislation. >> operator: caller, i've opened your line. >> can you hear me now? >> operator: loud and clear. >> this is david philpot. i probably sound like the voice of god, but that is not my intention. i have no objection to

restarting with the hybrid option. hopefully they will work out okay. any late handouts from staff that used to be put on the table and may well be on the table can be posted online so those of us participating remotely have access to the same material, but other than that i support the resolution before you. thanks for listening. >> operator: thank you for your comment. secretary and commissioners, we've had one caller join the queue. caller, i've opened your line. you have two minutes. >> thank you again, chair. [indiscernible] -- i hope you're hearing me okay. i am supportive of this hybrid approach going forward hopefully and indefinitely. i am excited about the possibility of being with able to meet you in person and listen

and speak in person. i just can't really get my staff questions answered on zoom. excuse me, i'm eating my lunch. so this is a good thing. i ask as we go forward that we work very hard on our accessibility. obviously we have to wear masks and that's fine. we need to make sure that masks are available for those who need them just in case somebody doesn't have one so we can all be on the same sheet of music. i ask your approval on this and i hope that i will get to see you soon and i will also be able to communicate over the phone. thank you. >> operator: thank you for your comment. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment on item 3 is closed.

>> chair: thank you. any further discussion? seeing none, are we still obligated to do a roll call vote? >> clerk: yes, i would prefer that we do that. >> chair: okay, please call the roll. [ roll call ]. >> clerk: mr. president, given the masks, i think it's best that we do roll call. >> chair: next item, please. >> clerk: the next item is item 4, approval of the minutes of february 22, 2022. >> chair: i'm not sure if there's any additions or corrections to the minutes or comments. seeing none, public comment from the audience. please open public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public remote comment dial

415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2499 088 6579, #, #, press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. your line will be unmuted when it is your turn to speak. please speak loudly when providing your public comment so we can make sure we hear you in the hearing room. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there is one caller in the queue. >> clerk: thank you. >> operator: caller, i've opened your line. you have two minutes. >> david philpot again. i don't have any substantive changes. i'm supportive of adopting the

minutes. i have many non-substantive types of spelling issues. i can communicated that to the commission secretary afterwards. i believe, for example, on page 8, alex lantsberg is misspelled, i believe it is l-a-n-t-s-b-e-r-g. i am supportive. thanks for listening. >> operator: thank you for your comment. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: thank you. public comment on item 4 is closed. >> chair: thank you. any further comment from the commissioners? i have a motion and a second, please. moved and seconded. roll call, please. [ roll call ]. >> operator: for item 3, did we have a first and a seconder on that item. i don't believe we did.

can we. thank you. that was approved 4-0. thank you. next order of business is item 5, general public comment. members of the public present in the hearing room that wish to make comment please form a line and approach the penal code combrum when called. members of the public may call 415-655-0001 and meeting i.d. mooieds and press #, #, then

star 3 to speak. >> chair: please open the telephone lines. >> clerk: mr. moderator, do we have any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, there are four callers in the queue. >> clerk: thank you. >> operator: hello, caller, i've opened your line. you have two minutes to comment. >> thank you. good afternoon, president and commissioners. this is a director from the [indiscernible] -- recently i've been reviewing the pfscu meetings about the water quality control plan released in the fall of 2016. i was struck by how little things have changed. at the time before months in the commission got engaged [indiscernible] and in that time the staff entrenched themselves

in the narrative that hasn't changed very little or very much over the past five and a half years. only one of you was on the commission at the time, but many of you may not be aware of an op-ed written [indiscernible] that was published in 2016. in that op-ed there was old economic projests cited that were 2.5 times greater than the recent projections from 2014 and those 2014 projections were finalized in 2018. for years now we've asked the commission to step up and revisit the design draft. finally in 2020 there were workshops with an understanding you would revisit the design draft on conclusion. the four months since the final workshop and there has not been final movement. not even staff to answer questions [indiscernible] --

directly. we've submitted several requests for information that have been met with silence. we also submitted our own analysis of this and convinced that [indiscernible] without risking running out of water. all you need to do is direct staff to respond to our n.g.o. letter of january 19 and february 4 and you should have the information you need to make informed decisions. please make this a priority. i hope you had a chance to review the n.g.o. letter we submitted. thank you. >> operator: next caller, your line is open. you have two minutes. >> [indiscernible] the goal of the west side pump station reliability improvements project is to provide redundancy,

however, what about [indiscernible] -- are these choke points in the system? harry tracy is located near the san andreas fault [indiscernible] it's my understanding that the original [indiscernible] even areas at risk of collapse. what if mountain tunnels had a significant failure? what is the alternative route to bring water [indiscernible] thank you. >> operator: next caller, your line is open. you have two minutes. >> thank you again.

i speak in general terms as simply [indiscernible] user of electricity wherever i go. as i said before, clean power s.f. is very, very important to me. i think we have to look for all the incentive we can to help to provide the cleanest, most affordable and equitable electricity that we can. i went to the website of the california independent [indiscernible] operator -- and i see about 415,000 -- sorry, 415 million kilowatt hours of solar energy has been curtailed since the 1th of this year. that's a lot of energy that could have been produced that we could have here in san francisco and increase the renewable content of our clean power s.f. product.

how do we get it there? this [indiscernible] such as building our own train station stations that work that will bring this energy directly into san francisco. so through the idea of storage within [indiscernible] city and county of san francisco in a very safe manner because then we could have the resilience that keeps our grid going. i would like that in my home that runs entirely on solar power. i believe what i do can be scaled up to benefit the city and county of san francisco. thank you.

>> good afternoon, commissioners, i'm on joint council 7 representing more than 100,000 people in northern california and nevada. today i'm here on behalf of thousands of our members working on san francisco's public and private parking garages, as well as 4,000 [indiscernible] who work at u.p.s. we were shocked to learn of a lease of a property to tower parking, a non-union parking company, which in turn is subleasing the property to amazon, a company that the entire board of supervisors and the mayor put on notice that their anti-union practices are not going to fly in san francisco. it doesn't matter how he got here, but i'm here today to urge

you to cancel this lease with these non-union bad actors and begin work on the new office building slated for this site. thank you. >> operator: next caller, your line is open. you have two minutes. >> commissioners, i want to talk on two topics. the first one is a part of many workshops we have [indiscernible] -- and we need another workshop. secondly, we cannot be silent on the community benefits. even the ethics commission, which is working on this and i participated in the hearings, is

waiting for y'all to take some action. $300 million that could have served the community and san francisco given to crooks and is even now we have a big group doling out the money. when are you going to do the right thing? it seems like you love to hear what you love to say and have this game of public comment, giving us a measly two minutes. thank you very much. >> operator: thank you for your comment. madam secretary, there are no more callers wishing to be recognized. >> clerk: thank you. general public comment is closed. >> chair: and the next item is communications. commissioners, any questions or

comments on the communications that you've received? commissioner ajami. >> can someone -- >> clerk: sorry, can you please speak right into the mic. >> is this one working or this one? >> clerk: either one. >> can someone speak the [indiscernible] -- i know this was quite a stir last year and we've been dealing with it, but it would be good to have some information on the cost, timing. i know some of that is detailed in the letter, but it would be useful to have some conversation about that. >> clerk: i'm sorry, that was on item -- >> i'm sorry, item -- >> clerk: stern grove.

mr. joe johannson. >> good afternoon. alan johannson, acting general manager. i believe the question was on stern grove and the cost increases. the initial estimate was based on a cleanup which we probably would have covered, but once we got into the project there was additional scope added doing additional repairs to the buildings involving restoration and a lot of mold abatement and restoration. and at the same time when we got into the slope stabilization on that steep hillside, there were issues with supporting unknown

sewer pipes that were there, basic designs. i think there is also a tennis court up there that needed support. and finally getting to the planting and the restoration at the end of the site. it was more than initially we looked at when we came up with a first estimate. >> just so you know, in the outset, that $4 million figure was something that there hadn't been any investigations done at the time. it was just to get the projects going at the time. and what i think mr. johannson is explaining, we got into that project and have a better sense of what it will take to restore it to what it was. it is being restored to what it was and nothing beyond that. >> how do we know what it was? was there mold before? was there not? i'm just trying to understand if we are fixing it --

>> to the degree that it was, correct. that's what the investigation is. >> correct. and there is -- the plans that are used to design the original structures are still available. we're referring to them. >> we don't have baseline information on -- are we klting for how old this infrastructure was, for example, the stage and all that. i'm not trying to penny and dime things. >> i'm sorry, i'm having trouble hearing. >> i'm not trying to say count money and make sure that you're not spending any extra money on this project. i'm just trying to understand if you had a good understanding of the conditions of the building, the tennis court and all that. did we have some information on that or is it mostly -- >> it it wasn't -- it's not

total demolition of the structures. there are parts of the structures standing and they are in their current conditions. we're just bringing them back to match. >> it was my understanding that these were historic buildings. >> i don't think they meet -- they're not 50 years old yet. >> all right. thank you. >> chair: the secretary is reminding me of all people to speak up. i will. this item was processed as an emergency when it came to me for signatures. i asked those same questions of mr. hererra. an older emergency is still an emergency. there was a question what was the reason for the increase in

cost. and i don't say that to try to shortcut the questions. i think they're excellent questions. i just wanted you to know that part of the emergency procedure is an appropriate degree of due diligence and asking those questions before we proceed on an emergency basis. >> to answer just to elucidate before what happened. just because it happened -- the emergency was created, but it's continuing because the item needs to be fixed and brought back to something that was clearly not the fault of what had occurred. so we're trying to get the work done to meet the stern grove schedule which begins in june. >> thank you very much. anything else on the correspondence? i do have just one comment and

that is the last meeting i asked that we put together a schedule for dealing with the question about the design draft and we'll be working to get that schedule put together. hopefully we'll have that at our next meeting. if there is -- that's the schedule for the next meeting, not the actual hearing. anything else on correspondence? seeing none, then any public comment from the audience? seeing none, please open the phone lines. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of remote public comment on item 6, communications, dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2499 088 6579, #, #, and press star 3 to raise your hand to speak.

mr. moderator, do we have anticipate callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there is one caller in the queue. i've opened your line, you have two minutes. >> david phil pot here. 6(c), the correspondence log, i'm wondering if there were cover letters or e-mails from ilene boken. if so, i would include them or if not, i can follow up and find out. on 6(d), the stern grove, it is fuzzy to read, looks like a scan of a scan and has no approval. the original item had an

approval date and i would ask in the future there be an approval date along with the commission president's signature as well as a view of the process that is used to asked to declare an emergency would be in order. there is also an unfortunate typo on the third paragraph, the declaration of emergency paragraph, it refers to then-commission president maxell, not maxwell. maxell were tape and cartridges and tapes in the 1980s. maxwell is our former president and commissioner. i assume this would require approval under admin code 6160. i can follow with staff and i'm still confused about how much of the work was done by hernandez

versus alboz builders because there were two contractors involved here. those are my comments on 6 (c) and 6 (d). thank you for listening. >> operator: thank you for your comment. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: thank you. public comment on item 6 is closed. >> chair: thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: next item is annual audited financial statements. >> i am the deputy financial officer. my colleague will shortly deliver the second portion of this presentation and will provide more details argued the external financial statement

audits for fiscal year 2020-21. i'm pleased to report to the commission that kpmg issued the fiscal year of 2020-21 financial statements in january 2022 for the water enterprise, wastewater enterprise. the sfpuc is the only department that issues these reports. those reports are available on our website. our financial audit this year noted an unqualified opinion. what that means is we had a clean audit. there were no material misstatements in the financial statements and there were no internal control deficiencies observed. at this time, thank you, i would like to introduce ms. lisa avis

managing director at kpmg who will deliver the audit results. >> my name is lisa avis and i am a managing director with kpmg. i appreciate the opportunity to be here in person to present the audit results. i believe you've had a chance to receive the slides in advance. i won't be going through each slide, but i will focus on some points i want to highlight. i will start by tug sfpuc for their cooperation. we conducted the audit almost completely remotely. we received documents and files on a timely basis so we met the deadlines imposed. coming up to the next audit, we will work closely with sfpuc as we work with a hybrid approach. we will be doing some on-site

and remote testing as we go to our next wave of field work here. we did issue opinions on three stand-alone set of financials. we perform audit procedures on those financials. those is financials were prepared for management. as she said, they received a clean or unmodified opinion, meaning those balances fairly present the financial activity for the sfpuc activities as stated. a couple of weeks ago, sfpuc also issued their annual comprehensive financial report that consolidates all the entities into one big 300-page

report. so you see that as a whole and that also received an unmodified opinion. also on this slide here, you'll see a lot of no's listed here in the responses here and that is a good thing. as she said, there were no audit statements or unusual transactions or no overall significant matters to report for this fiscal year audit. the same goes for the next slide. we did not report any control deficiencies for this last fiscal year audit. now, i did say our opinion is unmodified, but if you compare our opinion to any other out there, you might see one additional paragraph in our opinion. the sfpuc financials make reference to the city from time to time and we have to make a statement out there that our opinion and the financials, they clarify that these relate to puc

and puc alone and not the city. the next few slides highlight the key audit areas we focused on. evaluation of certain investments and the estimates that are used in determining what pension and opeb liabilities are. they're not add r as straightforward as vouching invoices. the next slide here, revenue. each revenue has its own unique way in how they charge and prioritize revenue as a significant portion of the balance sheet. so we have to perform tests of details over those amounts. and then this slide here just sums up the audit results. so we did not note any management bias in determining

and auditing those estimates and the policies and procedures that puc uses for their financial statement balances are consistent with the policy set by the city and those within the industry and within the county guidance. i'm going to go ahead and jump to the slide that discusses mdna. the financial statements, there is a lot of pages and the format of the financial statements and the notes, that format is dictated by accounting guidance, but the mdna is a chance for management to provide an overview of this fiscal year. so we do not opine on mdna, but we apply certain procedures to mdna for readers to go through and read that for each of those entities. then i'm going to jump to slide

17 and this discusses the new accounting standards. there are some critical ones coming up, but we will be working with the management and the controllers offices to get that managed. this includes my prepared presentation over the audit. i just wanted to open it up to any questions that you have for me as the auditor. >> chair: thank you very much. commissioners, any questions? >> did you used to do this often or is this as a result of the experience we had before just recently? >> so this audit is required each and every year for the june 30 fiscal year-end.

>> because i remember hearing -- you gave a talk last year, but i'm just wondering, is this a historical practice or is this a new one that has been put in place? >> each and every year. we will present the audit plan and results every year. >> thank you. no further comments or questions? thank you very much. we always like clean audits. >> thank you. >> chair: any questions from the audience? seeing none, please open the phones for public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of remote public comment dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2499 088 6579 #, #. press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. do we have any in-room public

comment? mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> operator: there are no callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment on item 7 is closed. >> chair: thank you. madam secretary, the next item. >> clerk: the next item is item 8, report of the general manager. >> thank you, madam secretary. the first item is the alternative water supply planning quarterly report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, steve ritchie, assistant general manager for water. it is good to be back here. i would like to introduce the

alternative water supply manager for us who will make the presentation for us. if we could have the slides, please, that would be great. >> good afternoon, commissioners. mneisha kotari. it is nice to be with you. i would like to present briefly on the alternative water supply planning quarterly report just briefly today.

we prepared this to look forward to 2045 and what the needs will be projected to be. we laid out this road map. we are right now in the midpoint of the planning phase. it was a good time to reflect on where we are as well as to look ahead to where we're headed. we had committed to completing feasibility studies on a number of projects. those are ongoing right now and detailed in your report. we are also working out institutional agreements with various projects on the multiple projects underway. we are looking at costs and operational considerations for the various projects, including those in partnership with various utilities. we are preparing monthly and quarterly updates such as this to share with you on our progress. where we're headed as we look ahead is to deliver an

alternative water supply plan to you by next year. this is distinct from the quarterly reports, in that the quarterly reports are really meant to provide progress updates and checks on how we're doing and looking ahead with the alternative water supply plan, that is intended to be a tool for you to be supporting decisions on moving these projects and programs forward as we go beyond 2023, as that would require more investment, environmental review and analysis, so significant more commitment on the part of the puc. after that is when we intend to get into the ceqa stage and further project development. so the water supply needs. this line is intended to show the gap between where we are now, what we are projecting, and

where we need to be to meet our obligations and demands. so the column on the left shows you if we were to meet all of our obligations current and projected, all of the obligations to our wholesale customers, retail customers, as well as other customers, then the gap we can supply would be 122 million gallons per day. so certainly that is a big if the bay delta plan is implemented. we're preparing in the event it could be. this is what we're looking at. on the right-hand side you're seeing the gap in demands, that's 84 million gallons a day, that includes the demand of the wholesale customers, the retail customers in 2045. so the difference between supply

and demand projected in 2045 is 84 million gallons per day. as we talked about during the workshop last september, the way that the planning for alternative supplies is moving forward is we are planning for the obligations, but we intend to build just what's necessary to meet demands. of course this is dependant on what happens with the bay delta plan. it's dependant on how plans shift between now and then. so we intend to continue to revisit this. these are dynamic numbers. as inputs change, we will continue to update these numbers and keep an eye on them. so the current planning you can see includes a number of projects, large infrastructure projects, capital projects that are listed on the right and shown on this graph. these projects are well underway in feasibility analysis and are

detailed in your quarterly report. section 2 of the report deals with project updates. we have project managers assigned to these projects and we work continuously on updating information for these projects. in addition, you'll see the bottom portion, the gray portion, of this graph and that is really the remaining supply that would be needed or measures that would be needed to meet our demands or demand gap of 84 million gallons per day. that is something we are very focused on right now today and continue to be for the coming year. we do think there is a special for purified water and de-sal nation projects. a lot of of water we're looking at on the peninsula, including a study with san jose and santa

clara. as the numbers become clearer, we will be sharing those with you and we continue to be committed to finding ways to close this gap. this is the summary of our ongoing progress and i don't expect you -- >> chair: there is a question from commissioner ajami. >> can you go to a previous slide. in that gray area in the last part, it doesn't say what that is. there are three slices on the gray area, there is purified water, storage, recycled water, and what is the last one? >> we don't know what that could be yet. yes, that's an important focus area for the coming year. >> thank you. >> for ongoing progress, i want to highlight a few things on

this slide. first, the checkmarks between 2020 and now. with our planning phase of work which is what we're in now, a lot of work has been completed on various projects to determine the feasibility of these projects. what's circled represents the work that's ongoing right now and expected to be completed by next year. so a lot of work that's underway completed and underway to get through understanding the planning and feasibility of these various projects. as i said, we continue to look at opportunities to do more. moving on to the alternative water supply plan as we look ahead, there was direction from the commission in june of 2020. there was a resolution related to the bay delta plan that was passed that included this clause which committed us to developing an alternative water supply plan no later than july 1, 2023, and

this is again to support the decision-making before us. as i described, that is what we're working towards with the alternative water supply plan. just to describe to you what the elements of that plan will be, they included a description of the supply and demand drivers that form the basis of our water supply needs. we'll also include the description of projects and other actions we can implement consistent with our current levels of service goals. the report will summarize the technical, institutional and feasibility of the projects and finally most importantly describe the tradeoffs that the commission should consider as we move forward with this program and implementing this program. how we're progressing towards the alternative water supply plan, we have a number of feasibility studies underway. that will be one of the inputs in purple. those are the different inputs

in this plan. we are also undertaking a financial analysis of individual projects as well as the whole program. we will be doing some system modeling to look at what the regional water systems look like with these individual projects and groups of projects and we will also be doing conceptual design on a number of these projects so we can get to ceqa. we have ongoing communications through quarterly reports and updates that we do with this commission as well as meetings with bosqa.

and the other projects that we

are developing also helped. there is more space if we have more storage system-wide, to be able to manage where those supplies go. >> then my second question goes back to recycling. and i guess for us as leaders in the country with small-scale recycling, i think it's a great example of how recycling can fall under water supply and also under demand. i know not many cities and service areas and water utilities are looking at it that way, but i wonder if we need to help bosqa to better track what kind of recycling is happening there, which scale. i would actually put gray water systems under that category too, in order to sort of identify that unknown piece that we have

because i'm a big fine of the purified water supply that's being developed down south, but at the end of the day, the more we reduce what goes in the system or what's taken out of the system, the more we have to share, right. so kind of like -- and i guess nobody is better equipped than san francisco to help this process. so i'm putting it on you to figure that piece out. >> okay, noted. >> chair: thank you. commissioner maxwell. >> thank you. you mentioned other stakeholders other than bosqa. who are you talking about? >> we have not started talking about to a lot of other stakeholders. we've gone to the citizens water advisory committee and we intend to engage with them and during our workshop we have talked to the environmental groups, but we

intended as this plan is drafted to reach out to more stakeholders. >> can you give me an example of what you're looking at. >> really the environmental groups represented by boz and cac have been the traditional partners we engaged with and we intend to in the future. and actually, that's right, i was just reminded that the other agencies we are working with, we are working very closely with them. those are our stakeholders as well. >> chair: thank you. any other questions by the commission? thank you very much. mr. herrera. >> clerk: public comment. >> chair: thank you. any public comment from the audience? seeing none, please open the

phone lines. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of remote public comment on item # 8(a) please dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2499 088 6579 #, #, press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there are four callers in the queue. i've opened your line. you have two minutes. >> speaking on my own behalf, once again in strong opposition to making san jose and santa

clara permanent customers. there is a saying in politics that perception is reality. the puc has filed multiple lawsuits [indiscernible] stating that it's unable to meet the water resources board requirements. want puc stated the need for water rationing due to ongoing drought conditions. the puc has stated the need to develop alternative water supplies as the need arises. the rationale seems to be inconsistent with other puc actions. the pandemic has demonstrated that silicon valley can decentralize and some would say that it should decentralize

rather than placing increasing strain on the region's water resources and other resources. thank you. >> operator: thank you for your comment. next caller, i've opened your line. you have two minutes. caller, are you there? moving on to the next caller. caller, i've opened your line. you have two minutes. >> good afternoon, commission. i am a water resources manager. i just wanted to take this time to mention that we appreciate the alternative water supply program that sfpuc has been

working so hard on. we can see thanks to the engagement that we've been afforded, the hard work that ms. katari and her staff have been doing on the various projects and programs. [ please stand by ]

>> we look over to what will be inplace next year . >> thank you for your comments. next caller, you have one minute. >> caller: thank you. i've submittedcomments to the committee yesterday and hope you had a chance to review our letter . first of all i'd like to say i think she does really good work and considering the direction she's given. my comments are not directed at her. theredirected at policy decisions which should be under your control . we believe a lot of time is lost byusing outdated demand projections from an outdated

planning area to produce documents that are not helpful in the real world . last year we had to fight to make sure the sft see use real demand projections instead of contractual obligations to determine potential rationing of your water management plan but given the demand projections were inflated . july 16, 2021 workshop focusing on water demand staff acknowledged the water plan demand projections were just a outside envelope. this came out two weeks after the plan was submitted to the state then long-term vulnerability assessments were released demonstrating that the design is more than extremely conservative . there's virtually no chance it would ever happen. before you give anymore supply plans make determinations on water plan and the length of the draft otherwise the qc will fall behind schedule. iappreciate the request the staff come back with a timeline of your next meeting . i hope you will allow the

direct staff to allow to respond to our request that is intended to help you out. we show the puc can make it through the design draft without developing a new alternative water supplies at eight years of the draft i developing just 4mg supplies. that's a huge difference compared to what you just heard . if we're wrong staff should explain why. we'reready for a dialogue . staff ignore this and you let them get away with it. one of you direct your staff to respond to our letter. you. >> thank you for your comments. next caller, your line is open, youhave 2 minutes . >>. >> caller: first and foremost we need to do a needs assessment on the millions and millions of gallons of water leeching into the ground. that's not mentioned at all. if you look at our act you need to revisit ourpartners ,

potentially those partners who are wasting millions and millions of gallons of water for their cooling systems. at no time do you commissioners mention that it is not okay to flush out toilets with clean drinking water. it is not okay. we have to come with some solutions to flush toiletswith graywater . you talk in generalities but you all need to have an understanding how to do a needs assessment. which you do not do. why is there leeching in the ground ofmillions of gallons of water ?

i want to know. >> thank you for your comments. next caller, your line is open, youhave two minutes . >> so on this issue there are many details in the staff report and presentation on projects and strategies. i would suggest a public outreach program with at least one public engagement workshop whether it be in person or hybrid or just virtual. i'm fine with just a virtual workshop even if it's only the few of us may care about this i think it would be good to engage in a format that not a commission meeting, that's not directly tied to either the urban water management program for the integrated water

resources program. just talking about alternatives water supply planning i think would be worthwhile to discuss a little bit about project benefits andchallenges . and whether it's cost per million gallons or cost peracre or whatever the appropriate metric is . and trade-offs on different approaches to supply diversification for all of us. anyway, those are my thoughts. hope that's helpful and as others have attested, great stopple here. >> thank you for your comment.

>> caller: making a decision on whether to change the design model would be prudent to help manage the cost of water thank you so muchfor planning to have a discussion on it and thank you for your time . >> thank you for your comments . caller,i opened your line.you have 2 minutes . caller, are you there? ... madam secretary, there are

no more callers in the queue. >> item 8 is closed. >> chairman: he is a draw conditionupdate . >> good afternoon commissioners,assistant genera manager for water .may i have the slides please . to see our updateon the drought as we have at every meeting . this chart here again is our reservoir storage .you see the city is about 300,000 acre-feet total storage with water bank is in excess of 1 million acre-feet. in particular a couple of things tonote about this . last year at this time she was about 180,000 acre-feet. so we actually have about 120,000 acre-feet more in storage this year than last

year. also we just recently completed the airborne snow observation, the snow survey done by plane. they actually figure out the amount of water equivalent in the snowpack that's up there and in the watershed estimate give or take 20,000 acre-feet is almost 100,000 acre-feet of snow water equivalent in the sierra right now. so we have a very strong supply there. and one of the things that we've been talking about his last year we got there was a lot of water their conditions were so dry downstream thata lot of it sank into the soil and evaporated but this year because of the october storm , the ground then he all the runoff area looks like it's still fairly highly saturated so we canexpect a lot of runoff

this year based on all the existing information . and actually at this point we are generating both home powerhouse and kirkwood in excess of water demand needs because we are a making room in our reservoir is without water to coming to . again,around the state . the upper left-hand corner there shows shasta storage. that is a big driver of the state thinking right now. that's the central valley project anchor reservoir and it is only about 37 percent of normal. so they are quite concerned about shasta and you read the reports that central valley project is projecting zerowater supply to the agricultural customers . on the right-hand side there, the very far right is don pedro whichis actually looking good relative to where it normally would be this time of year .

statedrought monitor again shows a lot of the state in severe drought . and it hasn't changed very much from before although the extreme drought, the red there onthe left-hand side seems to be creeping down into the russian river watershed . precipitation is now, this is the entity itself is below medium for this time of year. and snowpack is also a bit belowmedium for this time of year . and water available to the city. asyou can see from the hydrograph there in blue , stayed below the red line from the last two and half months or so so we're not seeing any water available to the city in right now. we expect when weget into snowmelt we will see quite a

bit more, more than the 127,000 acre-feet of water available to the city . we don't think we will reach amount to fill our system we expect itto be substantially more than the 127,000 acre-feet which is more than we had last year . you can see on the monthly charts here again october and december both for our country and the bay area we arevery wet . january and february we arevery dry . worry we had not quite half an inch of country. and in the bay area, in february we only had less than a quarter of an inch 2 wet months as well as for 4 rather dry months so far. last week there was a storm in the sierra. we got about sixinches of snow on top of snow in the high country as opposed to a dusting here and there that was a welcome change in the amount of

precipitation . again, the natural precipitation forecast. the brighter colors are more potent on the water supply side. you can see for the week of march 8 through today that was the storm at the bus snow last week. and we are hoping there might be a little bit more this week but not holding up too much hope on that. probably the most interesting slide here which the at least one screen, the captioning is covering up the interesting part of it. you can see in the green line it was starting to creep up because of dry weather and you see the purple line thereis 20/20. it was a very dry february . so in 2020 people did use a lot of water outdoors so you can be a big spike in demand. it was starting to climb up towards that purple spike and frankly i was getting concerned people were getting the message and sure enough two weeks ago a

man drops to 169 mpd so that it's not going back up there. last week it did not uphold a little bit but not very much so i think that was a good sign that people are not going to repeat their 20/20 behavior. and then last but not least, our overall reduction from july 1 of last year and again the city is in the double digits there, 14.5 percent.. customers at about five percent for a systemwide reduction of about eight percent over the fiscal year 1920 levels. since january 1 it's been a little bit less than that and wholesale customers had an increase but we're seeing that beingtempered now compared to what it was 1920. better news on that front.i'd be happy to answer any questions . >> commissioner maxwell.

>> you mentioned that we're going tobe making room formore water . how is that going to happen ? >> what we do with the sierra reservoirs particularly the cherry lake, we have target storages for this time of year. so what we're doing is we're releasing water in storage right now to make room for tha , more than what we've just delivered for water supply so for example we actually reduce the storage of volume between last week and this week by 5000 acre-feet trying to get down another five or 10,000 acre-feet to get to a target where we should be knowing how much snow is up on the hill. that's water we want to capture so we're making room for it right now and we're able to generate to do that. same on the cherry side. were in it for 220,000 acre-feet in storage. i think we got about 5000 more acre-feet than that so we're

generating hydropower so we can make room for water and the snow of help to come down and be captured. >> where is the water going after? >> it ultimately goes into don pedro and because of that curtailment's are suspended currently as they have been since october 19 where itwas a store that water in the water bank account there . >> any other questions for mister richie? seeing on, any public comments from the audience ?seeing on, please open the phone lines for public comment. >> members who wish to make two minutes of public comment on item 8 d dial 415-655-6001. meeting id 2499 088 6579 press start 3 to raise your

hand to speak . mister moderator, do we have any colors? >> there are 2colors in the queue. open your life, you've got 2 minutes . >> period. >> caller: >> i wonder whether the emergency declaration still makes sense, i'm sure there are legal and practical reasons to continue it but i'm kind of wondering when and how we would make an assessment that the job emergency no longer applies or presumably the same reasons it

was determined it did apply. plus, i am of course concerned about the budget impact which will be covered in the next item about the reduced water usage and fewer service charge as a result.so anyway, i'm just concerned about the emergency declaration asrelates to rainfall . thanks for listening. >> thank you for your comment. next color, your line is open, you have 2 minutes. >> caller: i think this is a section where the november night meeting former commissioner commissioner harrington asked for a chart similar to the total. perhaps in part to honor commissioner harrington service you would consider a chart on regular basis .

the california department of fish and wildlife produced a remarkable slide comparing a statement among the southern sierra rivers from 2012 to 2021. it was a sad slide. we have a fish hatchery so i don't think it was a fair comparison but the merced was all for. i will send you a slide prior to the next meeting. there are two points to the slide. first looking at the slide if you ask result in which regular are the same and most likely to go extinct you can see it's the twalmy. which do i want to be associated with taking less from? this chart doesn't show the threeerrors but the stanislaw was the best fish numbers after 40 percent . the merced averaging 26 percent. and the twalmy averages 21 percent so 40 percent chance

for almost 10, 26 percent for the next best and 21 percent for the quality. this correlation the counties, this correlation doesn't mean causal but the era is a risky strategy to where we want them. again i'll send this chart before your next meeting. >> madam secretary, there are no more colors in the queue. >> thank you mister herrera. ec is a quarterly budget statute before presented by laura bush. >> is great to be here in person. the last time i was here was the second quarter of 1920 approximately february 24 and a lot has happened since then and the budget looks a lotdifferent so it's great to be back in person . can i get the presentation

please? i'm here to present the second quarter of the budget here.we have positive results projected for power and clean power sf at operating shortfalls predicted for the third quarter. water and wastewater revenues are down from budget due to the impacts of water conservation efforts due to drought. this is obviously offset by the fact a chart that will be effective april 2022. in addition the economic recovery from covid-19 negatively impacting volumes. we set this budget about a year ago and recovery is not taking place asquickly as we hope . our year end results from the last year were also driven by this issue as well. lastly the revenue projections included impacts of covid-19 emergency customer assistance

programs . in our higher wholesale revenues from increased energy prices, higher retail revenues due to increased volumes, this is offset by increased distribution and purchase cost. in clean power sf the biggest change for this budget is that the budget was recently amended by about $55 million to incorporate the rate increase and offsetting higher cost of powerpurchase . the savings leading to the public result driven by salary and benefit statements. so while these weak revenues and water and wastewater are concerning, our financial results are projected to meet our targetsfor coverage and reserves by year end and we will be able to cover these deficits . i wanted to jump into a little bit more detail on the revenue shortfall in water and wastewater. these revenues are worse than

theywere q1 and deserve attention . water fails at $8.3 million lower since our q1 reports. this is driven by water conservation trends and agm ritchie previously highlighted. retail water volume projects to be six percent below but 3.7 percent in q1. wholesale volumes are projected 8.9 percent but 6.6 percent in q 1. on the good news side offsetting lower projected water sales volumes in q2 is a $9 million increase from the grant in q1. wastewater was $5 million lower than in q1 driven by conservation trends. wastewater bill volumes are projected to be 3.7percent below budget , that's 2.4

percent and again incorporated into the queue 2 and q 1 report is the five percent retail draft surcharge commencing april 1, not changed since q 1. the value is $3.4 million in water and the value of the surcharge is 4.3 million in wastewater for the current year . despite these injections we are able to cut the shortfalls of our reserves. for the upcoming budget years, the budget you know very well now given all the presentations over the last few months we've taken this actual base into account in building up our sales volume projection assuming lower pandemic economic recoveryand draft cultivation offset by the surcharges .so now going into each enterprise and overview of what's driving theoperating results .in water the net operating results rejected is -32.6 million. this is largely driven by

negative variance of 38.7 million driven by a slower economic recovery than expected as well as drought conservation and cleared the draft surcharge of five percent in the beginning of april. the value which is $3.4 million. on the used side we have $6 million in cost savingslargely driven by salary and benefit savings . in wastewater, thenet operating results is -25 million . something else i wanted to call out in wastewater is there's an additional $4.9 million reduction in fund balance, due to a legal testament relating to 2014 donors which her the annualappropriation ordinance

we were able to appropriate directly from fund balance . on the total side of the senses are down by 30.7 million. as i previously mentioned this is largely driven by drought conservation and a slower economic recovery and they'll incorporate the five percent drop surcharge $4.3 million in the current year beginning in aprilon the use side for $5.8 million in cost savings largely from salary and benefits . in had sheet, a positive net operation result is projected of 12.6 million . the sources are projected to be up by 4.2 million. retail revenue to increase sales volumes accredited to the airport. wholesale revenues are also projected to exceed the budget due to higher prices aswell as higher water sales .

the surplus in wholesale revenues has decreased since the projection of q1 due to the dryerweather leading to lower generation . higher revenues are partially offset by increased cost of power purchases driven by higher prices as well as higher transmission anddistribution costs . which brings us to the use side. we got the $.4 million in cost savings. this is mainly driven by carveouts my unspent funds offsetting theincreased cost of power purchase . and something to note, curtailment could lead to lower generation in wholesale sales which may lead toincreased need orpower purchases to meet demand . this change in the current projection . lastly, clean power sf, a positive net operating results

projected at 3.3 million . it's important to note that since the last quarterly report the budget was revised $35 million to include the group rate increases and increased cost of power purchase driven by the higher energy costs. using that revised budget forces are slightly down by .4 million and use are down by 3.7 million largely due to the savings insalary and benefits which is driving the net operating results . last slide. all ratios are on target to meet the puc policies. >> thank you very much commissioners , commissioner maslow. >> are the current fuel prices going to have any result? >> you mean like gas? that's notsomething i've been

hearing about . get a something to keep a check on particularly onmaterials and supplies and input costs. i will follow up . >> thank you, commissioner ajami. >> thank you for your presentation. i guess just anobservation . just an observation that while these demands are down there is no either going to bounce to where they were anytime soon. you did mention that we might need to have a more strategic approach to how we do ratesetting and how we do all these things. because otherwise we're going to find ourselves in this situation over and over again. and we can't just rely on emergency declarations every

time . we talk about a drought, now we're back at it again. we just keep back. it's just something to keep in mind. >> thank you. that's an excellent point actually it's something we've seen in previous traps and it is a phenomenon that wetake into account when we're doing these projections .we don't assume volumes were bounced back toprior levels . the financial planning is the team that gets into the details of all these projections ask them to follow up with you on whatassumptions they include in financial plans on that point . >> also to make a point that view, that would be great and the state is now ... there's a bill going through the legislature on the concept of decoupling water.

which i know i've brought up here a few times now they're considering it at the state level so that might be something that the organization wouldlike to keep an eye on . it might be a very valuable guideline for us. as we arelooking ahead . >> chairman: any other comments or questions? >> i'd like to get that information, maybe you could send it to us. >> chairman: i would add one comment and this has to do with the prior presentation as well. the commissioner had raised the question about the race increases we had scheduled for april. and wondering if that would change as the trial proceeded and before that was supplemented even though it

would besupplemented automatically . the information is we would get everything i prior to that being involved. basically assessing current situations reestablishing the need for that calling off . i guess the time is running ou . >> i'm sure that's something we can talk about the next commission meeting. >> also the budget director is worried about it and keeping track on it as well. >> commissioner ajami. >> during our budget hearings i did ask you for a graph that would show our demand projections from the financial team versus the water supply team and i know we have mentioned this a few times are, these need two different purposes so they are not

necessarily formatching . but it would be good to kind of see which ones have been accurate partly also because we're looking at this alternative water supply plan and you want tomake sure what are we building for exact ? if we had a few other demands, a few other droughts in the next decade, we might be much lower than we are now. it would be good to see, to have astrategy . >> chairman: thank you. any other questions by the commission any other public comments from the people in the audience ? seeingnone , we call upon the line for public comment. >> members wishing to make public comment on item 8c, dial 415-655-6001.

meeting id 2499 0886579 . press start 3 toraise your hand to see . mister moderator,do we have any colors ? >> there is 1: q. i've opened yourline, you have 2 minutes . >> david pilpel. thank you to charles and the rest of the staff for managing well within budget despite the lower revenues due to drought andother issues . the power resultsare fantastic . power is doing well on the

clean power sf side. also as a brief comment, members of the commission that youall manage, your commission secretary, anyone who speaks at the public william , that's not coming through well on the phone so i have to then go to sfgov tv on the computer which comes through clearly but for some reason not coming through well on the phone just for the publicpodium there. anyway, thanks for listening . >> thank you for your comment. i'm secretary, there are no more colors in a few. >> public comment on 8c isover . >> item 8d is capital improvement want water program presented by katie miller. >> good afternoon

commissioners, i'm katie miller, director of water capital program and it's nice to be here in person withyou today . today i will present an update on the status of the projects in water enterprise capital improvement program as of the end of the second quarter december 2021 . this slide shows the status of the 36 projects of the program with a total budget of$2.7 billion including 25 regional 11 local projects . expenditures at the close of the recording period or 903 million extended with 102 million extended during the quarter.the program has achieved 31 percent completion is a six percent increase over last quarter .this table shows a summary of project program cost forecasts by category for all active projects. you'll notice there are several more variances this quarter than last with 78 million more in cost increases for the regional program as last quarter and 471 million more in

cost increases for local. this quarter variances all aligned with the revised project budget that you approved in february for future this goal year 23to 32 10 year cip .many of the projects forecast with cost and schedule variances for many reasons. for some rolling projects the addition of two years of budget at the end of the cup caused an increase in the schedule and cost forecast i'll provide more detail on these variances in a minute . for the regional system this eyechart shows thetotal current approved budget for the 25 regional projects in each phase of the program as of december . the number of projects currently active in each phase is shownin parentheses.

1245 projects and more than half of the program but it are in the planning phase . i apologize, this slide is a littleblurry . following up on your request to better review and categorize the reasons for project variances are working on coming up with categories that are similar to those that we currently use during the construction phase.this is a sample list of some of the various types we are considering . we're working out the program into our project control systems so we can track the variance as data andevaluate how to mitigate these in the future . these next two slides show all the quarters variances for the regional project added potential categories for the reasons for changes. many of the variances are due to soap refinement and as you can see the projects are in the planning phase. there are a few projects in the design phase as well with some changes occur during design .

this slide shows the remaining projects with the schedule and cost variances and as you can see there are only two projects in the construction phase the variances they have are very low and are within 10 percent costcontingency . this goes through out these variances happen during the planning phase so we can refine the scope, that the projects right sowhen we go to the construction where minimizing the changes . and i'll give you one object update. for the ozone projects we completed the conceptual engineering report readability testing continued. this slide is a good one to illustrate the cost variance of 28 million occur during planning . there's scope changes that happen that are appropriate to figure out during this time. for example the decision was made to go with 4 basins rather

than to it was discovered the wall where water pipeline needed tobe relocated to build the facility . now i'll cover the local water projects. this shows the current approved projects in each phase of the program . as of december. nomore than half of the budget is three projects with multiple faces . there are four local projects with cost variances six projects with federal variances. the reasons for these forecasted changes are very and we had tried to categorize them thesame way . note that several of these projects are due for the additional budget and schedule being added in the last two years of the future fiscal year 2023 232 cip. we will continue to analyze the causes to project delays and cost increases to lookfor trends and mitigation that we might take . one project update for our

recycledwater facility . our treatment facility is in the startup and testing phase. the setup at golden gate park is mostly complete. we had a minor setback from pg&e which is requiring us to build secondary power . this would delay our recycled water up to lincoln park golf course. the system at golden gate park we had a minor setback from trees we encountered during construction . and that includesmy presentation . >> you had sort of a new glossary you put together with still. >> commissionerpaulson, begins your mind ?

>> you are the beginning referring to the glossary you have in your program. i would like to know and it has to do with scope and punch lists and all the different flags. what is different about that little glossary than what you actually do in terms of the cost or the budgeting as it moves forward? is there anything different is this like the footnotes that would help somebody to understand what is going on anyway if you could elaborate very quickly on that. because those are the types of questions people have . it's just 2 million or 2 billion orwhatever . >> it's been a long-standing practice for us to categorize change orders during construction and we have about six categories weuse using design errors and omissions ,

unforeseen conditions, owner requests, things like that. the idea was at your request to take a harder look at where our variances arecoming from . what is the basis for them? and really look at it as data and he that there's a lot of design errors and omissions that are triggering in his room the design phase then maybe it's worth taking a closer look at our design practices and seeing if there's something we can change to figure that out during planning. ironed out and not have it variance occur during the design phase let alone the construction phase.we think it's an excellent idea and we are putting that as data into our project control system so we can mind it and look for an have lessons learned and talk about how we might better mitigate that in the future. >> besides tracking it , it

helps guide how you perform those processes. got it, thank you. >> absolutely. >> follow-up. commissioner ajami. >> i appreciate that. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of remote comment on item 8a, dial 415-655-6001, meeting id 2499 088 6579 press part 3to raise your hand to see .

mister moderator, do you have anycolors ? >> there are 2 colors in the queue. i've opened your life, you have 2 minutes. >> good afternoon again commissioners. >>. [please stand by]

>> i'd like to provide you with an updated summary of the program costs and forecasts as of the end of december. the current overall program cost forecasts is still $4.8 billion, which is the same as the approved. this approved budget covers remaining risk for active projects at 80% confidence level which is our normal standard. it also covers the two upcoming groundwater projects at the current contingency level.

the new schedule is scheduled to be completed by february 2027 which is more than three years later than the current completion date of may 2023. because of these forecasted cost and schedule changes, we plan to issue a 30-day notice of public hearing in accordance with state requirements by the end of march 2022 and to conduct a hearing for your approval of the changes for your approval. i would like to share with you some recent achievements of the program. the dam replacement project, the largest in the program, moved to the close-out phase. the final change-overs were negotiated for the fish project and the dam started to refill and reach the first of three

elevations for the dam elevations. in the peninsula region, the wsip project closed out and finally our regional water system project manager received the very esteemed opal award from american society of civil engineers. this is 2022 award for outstanding projects and leaders for her leadership role of the replacement project during construction. now i'll have a very quick update of the two projects still in construction. in alameda creek, there was some

erosion in the quarry banks where we're installing the barge and the banks. there was one year for additional start-up and training, since this is more complicated than originally thought. there is a cost variance of $8 million that we will absorb. i've been reporting on this and you will see that when we do the public hearings. for the regional groundwater recovery and storage, that is almost complete. the phase 2 a contract was advertised and received. the phase 2 b contract is the difficult one where we're negotiating easements and permits in san francisco. because of this construction project, this will delay the completion until 2027 and extend

the very fine tale of the wsip. i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> chair: i'd like to congratulate you. that is really great and wonderful. congratulations to her and thank you very much for all that you've done. >> i'll be very happy to pass that on. >> chair: seeing no more comments, let's go to public comment and if you could open the telephone lines. >> clerk: members of the comment who wish to make two minutes of public comment on 8(e), call 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2499 088 6579 #, #, and press star 3

to raise your hand to speak. moderator, do we have any callers? >> operator: there are no callers in the queue. >> clerk: thank you. public comment on 8(e) is closed. >> chair: commissioner paulson. >> just a quick comment. i was thinking about it when the commissioner -- when ms. howell was given the award. it happened to be -- i was appointed to this commission literally the day before the opening of the kalvarez dam. i was asked to go to the meeting. they said i have to come and i said i'm busy and i can't.

they said you have to, we've printed the program with the emcee. i went out there and i think you, commissioner, were with me and you and i and cathy were in the car when we went out to this thing. here we are years ago on this tremendous project which is really one of the crowns in the system just happened at right about the time i was coming on board. i just wanted to make a comment on and congratulate cathy like the rest of you did for the recognition of that very wild project. it really is part of the crowd and this tremendous system. i would be remiss if i didn't give my take on it. thanks. >> chair: thank you. any other comments? >> how do we normally respond to the public when they send

letters? peter has mentioned this any number of times as somebody we deal with. how do we normally respond and can we respond that way or in a different way to his inquiries? >> commissioner maxwell, oftentimes letters are sent that don't ask for a response. also, when we deem it appropriate, we obviously take our responsibility seriously to engage with the public. but at the same time, not every letter, number one, asking for a response or serves a response. i think that oftentimes there are -- we have to make that judgment about is this the best way to engage. we certainly engage. if we're not going to do it by virtue of a letter, sometimes a conference or a meeting is a

better way. we take our responsibility seriously to engage with the public in a constructive way on policy matters and it's something that i pay a great deal of attention to. but every time we get a letter, we don't get asked for a response and quite frankly, they're not appropriate. it wouldn't be appropriate for us to say something that was in your purview, for example. but it's something that we pay a great deal of attention to. >> yes, i appreciate that. and we certainly do. that's why i was wondering why we haven't. peter is someone we correspond with all the time. that was why i asked it in that way. how can we and is there a reason and so that's why my concern. >> just so you know,

commissioner. not every letter they sent demanded a response, but i have personally volunteered to meet with peter and his entire group that he on corollary basis and i reached out to them in december -- i met with them in december. i asked for a follow up on three separate occasions to have meetings with me in march and i gave them dates. unfortunately i didn't hear back and i reached out again last week to say why haven't we -- so those are in the process of being scheduled. even if it's not a letter, i am engaging with them personally to see where i can have that dialog, where i can share information with you, where we can get staff feedback to work in a collaborative way so we are engaging with peter and the entirety of the environmental community. you have my commitment on that. >> chair: commissioner ajami.

>> maybe a follow up on that. i wonder if there is a process to follow up on that. maybe this letter is not a good idea, not worth following up on. i'm just trying to see if we have a system for tracking good ideas and nodding on the ones you're already working on and pointing to the ones you're not working on a constructive path forward. >> i think that is something we could work on, whether through public comment. i understand public comment is not public dialog. however, public comment doesn't

mean you don't learn nuggets out of that. i would venture to say that's probably not something that's formalized, but it's something that i think everybody takes seriously and we can certainly look into is there a better way for us to track requests or inquiries or ideas to make sure they're always part of the dialog. >> chair: commissioner paulson. >> yeah, i would like to comment that i actually feel as a volunteer to work on this commission that i never felt there was a problem with correspondence. i think -- even in the ones i might get from the commission secretary the day before saying, hey, by the way, can you make sure the commissioners see this and we get addendum 58 to make sure that letter is in there. so i feel like as a commissioner

i get those letters and that is part of the way the structure is. you get a letter, put it on the agenda and move things forward. whether or not it's on our purview or the staff's purview and i feel comfortable with that move forward. frankly, i see some correspondence in there that is duplicitous that asks the question in one quarter and the same in the third quarter and it's like, we can spend all of our time answering this stuff just because it might be a squeaky wheel and i'm overexaggerating, but i feel very comfortable as a commissioner that we are -- that there is a transparency of the communications that i think we need to have and see. so i just want to throw that into the mix as a personal

experience as a commissioner. >> thanks. i think there are certainly cases where the best response is not necessarily a direct response. in the case of an employee who has done exemplary work and is recognized, i think the reward is enough without engaging with back and forth criticisms. any other comments? if there is a formal response or something -- but i feel uncomfortable with someone saying they haven't gotten back

to me. i don't expect them to go back and go over the same thing talked about for the last five years ago. that's not what i'm saying or necessary because that's exactly what we probably would be doing. >> if i might, commissioner. i think rest assured that the -- you brought up a specific group that earlier in the comments and i will -- they will not be not responded to, whether it be me responding orally or in a letter, i am setting up regular meetings with groups to make sure that everybody has the opportunity to be heard to put their input in, whether or not we agree with it or not, to make sure we have that full dialog and communication. and on serious policy issues like that, i have no problem reaching out which i'm doing. >> thank you so much and we can't ask for much more than that. thank you, commissioner.

>> i don't have anything. >> clerk: the next item is item 9, new commission business. >> chair: commissioners, any new commission business? seeing none, next item, please. >> clerk: item 10 is the consent calendar. >> chair: commissioners, any members wish to remove any items from the consent calendar? seeing none, please open the consent calendar for public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on the consent calendar, dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2499 088 6579, #, #, to speak press

star 3. mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there is one caller in the queue. i have opened your line. you have two minutes. >> david philpot again. i just wanted to say thank you for including maps for some of the calendar item projects, item 10(a) and 10(c) had maps in there. i think that's great. i think this is an example of making iterative improvements to the way things are described and packaged for the commission and the public. there is no need to get back to me on this. no phone calls, no letters. it's all good anyway. thank you to staff for their

work. >> operator: thank you for your comment. madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: item 10 is closed. >> chair: thank you. commissioners, any further discussion? seeing none, a motion and a second. >> move to approve. >> chair: moved and seconded. roll call, please. [ roll call ]. >> chair: the item passes. next item, please. >> clerk: the next item is item 11, authorize the general manager to designate a specific brand of distributed-process control system by emerson process management in the contract documents to match other products in use and ensure system-wide consistency for contract no. db-132. >> alan johannson.

i'm here to seek authorization to designate sole-source dcs process control supplier for contract no. db-132 treasure island wastewater treatment plant. i think you know the m.o.u. as the treasure island is operating as the existing utility system. due to the ongoing residential and commercial development there, new wastewater infrastructure is required. puc is required for planning and construction of the new facility. in december of last year, we advertised for db-132, the t.i.

wastewater treatment plant and to submit build proposals. one of the key components is d.c.s. which is an integrated platform for supervision and operation of the plant and its various processes which combines the human interfaces, logic solvers, and other databases into a unified system. the system allows the puc to maintain compliance with regulatory agency requirements and predicts health and safety of the citizens of san francisco. about five years ago we advertised for a contract. there were three proposals and at that time we selected emerson process management to provide the d.c.s. for wastewater enterprise. it was awarded on december 13, 2016.

at that time, we wanted to get the d.c.s. supplier first before we let out all the other contracts at southeast plant and all the other wastewater facilities. we developed a strategy with the city attorney's office where we would work with the contractors for head works and biosolids to incorporate the manufactured and designed software into those projects. we've successfully done that for head works. what we did observe during that or staff did observe was that was a lot of risk. it worked out successfully, but it took a lot of effort on puc staff. so as a process and improvement recently, they suggested it better if we set up a sole source arrangement on the contract. this allows for the coordination to take place with a design

builder and any innovations they're going to use, they can incorporate the d.c.s. supplier. that's the reason at this point we would like to get authority to sole source emerson in that db-132 contract. i'm available for any questions. >> chair: questions? >> so i know this is not related to what you are presenting here, but relevant to what's happening there, i was looking at 8,000 new homes and it made me wonder, are we working with them to have onsite systems there. i don't know if this is meeting the ordinance. i know it's not necessarily falls under the category of what we are requiring under the new ordinance that we have. if it has a new home, why can't

we just redo these homes and do better with water. sorry, the question is not related to what you're saying and the information that you provided. if you have something you can share, very interested to hear. >> i will have to talk to staff and work with the other department -- not departments, divisions and we'll get a response. >> just a quick note there is whatever we went up doing with that will impact the size of the treatment plants you will have eventually there. so that is another piece related to what you're doing. >> right. the way it is rolled out is in phase s depending on the development of the island so it

can respond to different needs. >> chair: any further discussion? seeing none, let's -- >> i wondered if that would be the developer working with the puc so that would be something else that you would have to -- someone else you would have to talk with probably the developers. >> the lines are open. let's open it for public comment. >> clerk: are there even members of the public in the room who wish to speak on this item? seeing none, any members of the

public on the line wishing to speak, dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2499 088 6579, #, #, to speak press star 3. mr. moderator, do you have any callers? >> operator: secretary, there are two callers. >> commissioners, i want you to pay attention to what i'm saying. this company [indiscernible] -- the biosolids and all, but given

a sole source bid, couldn't even get a document on it. i found out about this company and its long tenure of 15-year contracts which allowed [indiscernible] to have that set and do a lot of things that [indiscernible] -- now, my gripe is this company -- and i know feds have been looking into it and i know that the new general manager knows a lot about it. why should we have anything to do with amazon on treasure island? everything on treasure island

now that is going on is suspect. initially, some groups and others wanted to do something with it and they were barred or, may i say [indiscernible]. commissioners, we are still under the dust cloud and there must be real transparency and real accountability. emerson has to be asked more questions and you have to check on their performance on all their projects and -- >> operator: thank you for your comments. i'm sorry, your time has expired. next caller, your line is open. you have two minutes. >> david philpot. i don't see a dark cloud. it is bright and sunny.

if i understand this item, this will result in the same wastewater supplier at all the treatment plants, at least that's the idea that i read or understood, and i'm just wondering if this effort to standardize will eventually extend to include the airport and i believe there is a small wastewater treatment facility up at moccasin. i wonder if those facilities ultimately would have the same d.c.s. equipment so the city will eventually standardize on the same supplier. this effects d.c.s. and the larger control systems as i understand, all of which is important to facility process and security of the wastewater system. so i am supportive and would appreciate if you might put that

question or i can follow up with a.g.m. johannson. >> clerk: item 11 is closed. >> chair: any additional comments from the commission? seeing none, may i have a motion to second. >> so moved. >> seconded. [ roll call ]. >> chair: the item passes. next item, please. >> clerk: next item is item 12, approve modification of the san francisco puc's green infrastructure grant program guidelines to reflect compliance with the city administrative code chapter 21g; revise grant team experience and co-benefit eligibility criteria; increase cap on planning and design

costs; and revise other program requirements. >> i'm the assistant general manager for the wastewater enterprise. i wanted to add a quick couple of opening comments. sara bloom will speak to this. i want to touch on a few things for context. i think you're well aware of in the last few years of discussions, one of the key areas we're focused on in terms of the resiliency and climate change is improved management of our stormwater resources across the city. as you know, almost the majority of what we do and our system is built to do is built to manage the stormwater of the city and particularly in the context of our somewhat unique combined system. that is the grappling of the stormwater topic. the strategy that we've

developed that is currently looking ahead, depending on your planning horizon, but usually in the 20- to 30-year horizon, we've established a goal of 20 billion gallons a year across the city. we feel that's achievable. some of those elements have really taken off. they're very successful in terms of the stormwater managements and it is one of the foundations of our stormwater management. the scaling up as we refer to it, the large-scale infliction of green infrastructure where it's appropriate and effective across the city is one of the key elements of our long-term strategy. you can think of our green infrastructure efforts, one of the ways sara's team puts this, we are chasing impervious

surface. in order to chase that, you need to get it at its source which is the source at the city. that breaks down essentially conceptually and into the parcels across the city. we know that from all the analysis and land-use studies that we've done that the large parcels across the city represent the most cost-efficient and effective areas for us to focus on in terms of our efforts. the other thing we think is important about the large parcel partnerships is that they do provide the opportunity in all the cases so far for the stormwater investment to be matched with other public benefits, which we think is an important benefit delivering this going forward and we've seen this success in many cases with the school districts and other partners and i think

you'll hear stories of that. the other green team that i've walked into and am proud to work with, they take a very data-driven, rigorous approach to our work. one of the reasons we're back before you today is because over the past year, year and a half, the team has been working to review the successes and challenges of the current program. they've done an extensive review and coordination with the city's corner's office to reflect the changes in the city's malice aforethought code and we've come back today with a fairly complete package with the upgrades to the large parcel grant program. that is the large context for the changes we're going through. with that, i'm going to hand it over to sara bloom who leads the

effort under sar rminnik to walk you through the changes to the program. >> we've been really excited and encouraged by the participation we've seen to date, given the majority of the program's existence has been operating during the covid-19 pandemic. two of out of our three years, the world has been dealing with that. that's thanks to the amazing work our technical assistance team has done, the consultation of partners providing top-notch technical assistance to

contribute. to date we've awarded nine projects total, almost 8 million in grant projects distributed. two of those projects have completed construction and two more scheduled to go to construction this summer. we're looking for them to go to the grant commissions. the changes before you today are really a culmination of the lessons learned and the process and improvements that our team has been collecting over the last three years. the agenda item is long so i wanted to highlight for you three of the substantive changes we are proposing. the first one is revisions to the program to align with the new grants process, 21g. we will be able to expand our definition beyond grant owners. to expand to those that can

partner with community partners. we hope this will help access and participation in the program to support those grantees with limited resources. the second provision is to our eligibility criteria. we revised this list based on how we were seeing this list in the grant program being utilized or not utilized over the last three years. the final change is a proposed increase on the cap we allow for a grant use to allow for planning and design funding. that cap is currently at 20%, we're proposing to raise it to 30%. this is not a change to the maximum granted amount or the total amount we reward per project, it would allow grantees to access funding.

with that, i'll pause for questions. >> chair: commissioners, any questions? yes, commissioner ajamied. >> thank you so much to you. >> i need to find the language here. the groundwater recharge out of the benefits, is that because they do all fall under your area? >> the way that co-benefit was currently being utilized was based on whether or not a project was above the groundwater aquifer and whether

they utilized the groundwater practices. the aquifer was on the west side. they are checking that box. and it is most cost-effective for projects to do that technology. that project wasn't incentivizing any change in the design that these projects would be doing. this is the most effective way for them to implement the change already. the proposal was to take that out of the co-benefits and track that at a level. when we track how many gallons and acres are managed, we'll track how much water is managed there. tracking it as a critical co-benefit, but we want to track it to make sure our grantees are using infiltrative technology. >> on the other item that is changing on who would be

responsible for the project, do you think that's a limitation? first of all, i couldn't at the beginning figure out exactly what do you expect this would change. and then the second thing is does this also impact the way the systems are maintained and operated. is that one of the reasons you are making that change. >> first of all, to answer the maintenance question, it is not answering the question of how it will be maintained and operated. there will be a deed restriction against the property. that will not change. what we have seen over the past three years is some property owners are unwilling or unable to navigate the city process to sign up as a city vendor, to get the documentation and navigate that whole process.

what we think this will change is folks who will link with those organizations early, non-profits or other entities already registered to do busy with the city. they can have that internet do that business on their behalf. we think that will really support additional participation. we think a great example of this is one of our current grantees, greek orthodox church, it took them two and a half years to get documentation from the i.r.s. as a religious institution. [ please stand by ]

about the job training opportunities and remove some job and specifically put job, job training opportunities and i wondered if you could elaborate on that is what that might be?

>> yeah. yeah, that was one co benefit we didn't see any grantees to date be able to access and i think that was kind of a result of a lot of these institutional property owners not having an existing program that they could utilize to support job training and they often have one or two site managers in the case of our private property folks who are running the site and so, i think we decided to take that out since it hadn't been access to date and really focusing our job training opportunities and efforts around our capitol projects where we as an -- capital where we are as an agency are in charge of the maintenance. >> in this mix. >> o to add the job training back in. >> yes. >> if you would like us to, we can. >> it's important. everybody wonders who can train

and who cannot train and what is real training and what is not real training and we're all about jobs and if we're going into green infrastructure, which is the biggest nut to crack whether it's foreign policy or just energy or jobs in general in the united states. who is going to be doing that work is on the top of many people's lists so i'm asking that frankly, every program or every endeavor this agency does has job training and real job training and accountable job training for good career and good jobs attached to it no matter what the piece is so i need that marked. thank you. and i don't know if who you go to in this particular switch, to put that back in after you take it out or not, i would like to know where that ends up. thank you.

>> i would defer to you, how we would handle the addition of that change. bringing it back in. >> commissioner maxwell. i think if we don't have it, then no one will do it solve if you keep it in, maybe someone will say oh, well, here is something else i can add and this can give me a heads-up so, i think it's very important that we do that and thank you tim for douging it. suggesting it. >> thank you. >> does that require an amendment to the resolution or is that just direction to staff? >> i'm sorry? >> we're going to have to look into it. it would depend what the language is.

it might require further review. to change the language from what is before you today to something different to a different version. >> the point is the idea is to leave something -- >> to leave something in exactly as it was before. >> and right so it's more like being amended rather than -- >> so i think maybe in the way the guidelines document has that language in there currently revised out if we could just keep the language in there as is that would be the change. i don't know how that would be incorporated. >> ok. >> that change could be made if it's existing. >> i think the chair's question was can we pass it as is with that taken out or is this something that has to be redone? i don't want to, thank you,

commissioner maxwell, i don't want this just to disappear and then just suddenly we have to agenized it three months from now again because that we forgotten about this and so without belaboring it, i was hoping for a little bit more clarity on our moving forward through the city attorney. >> yeah. >> we can revise it with the red lining. >> we can only act. >> we would have to come back to the next meeting premier assume blee with the revision that you are requesting. >> does that mean the whole item

has to come back. >> the whole item should come back. >> the whole item should come back. ok. >> just a tactical question. so when i was in the regional board, you could give staff an hour and it would go to closed session and it would come back with an amendment. >> the calender as this item. >> right, right. >> we would have to recalender it give the public notice with the change. >> we were on the same public comment rules. >> can it be, kum, it can be calendered enough times for the next meeting to do this particular piece? >> i presume so from staff. >> senate president: it's up to them. whether that is an option? >> we can bring it again. and make the revision. >> ok. >> without objection that is the order then to continue the item until the next agenda with

whatever appropriate changes are deemed necessary. >> we'll do that. thank you. >> thank you. >> and we need public comment. >> we need public comment. >> even though we're not acting. >> we should take public comment and then -- yes. >> ok. >> sorry. >> yes. >> please call for public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make two minutes of remote public comment, on item 12, dial 1-415-655-0001. meeting i.d. on the screen and raise your hand to speak press star 3.

>> do we have any callers. >> there's one caller in the queue. >> tough minutes. >> great, david pillpal. last time today. i have no concerns or objections to either the grant program modifications or continuing. my only concern is a legal question i don't mean to pile on but my question is are program guidelines such as this deemed subject to charter section 4 had the 104 a one and the 10-day notice requirement although they are termed program guidelines they seem to me to read in the same way as rules and regulations of the commission so

i would air on the side of caution and consider them in the same way and subject to those that have a notice requirement and i note that notice was not given for today's meeting for this item. i would just encourage in the future that modifications to program guidelines yet and for whoever might be viewing those notices besides me. that's all. thank you for lining to all my comments. thank you, very much. >> thank you for your comment. >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you, public comment on this item is closed. >> item is continued to our next calender. and next item, please.

next item is public comment on matters to be heard during closed session. members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment specifically on item number 15, to be heard during closed session, which is existing litigation, city and county of san francisco versus specific -- no. sorry. apologies. conference with legal counsel and city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas and electric company. >> thank you, public comment, please. >> dial (415)655-0001 meeting i.d. is on the screen. press star 3.

do we have any callers? >> there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you, public comment on the item to be heard during closed session is closed. >> thank you. may i have a motion on whether to assert attorney-client privilege? >> move to assert. >> i'll second. >> moved and seconds. roll call, please. [roll call] >> you have four ayes. >> we will adjourn to

>> so we do have the ability to make speaking requests on the panel in front of us and let's give that a try and see if it makes things run smoother. for the next meeting. that is all. thank you all. the meeting is adjourned.

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>> mayor breed: i am san francisco mayor london breed. welcome to the state of the city address. [applause] >> mayor breed: i am happy to have all of you here today. it is really great to be outdoors in person. the mask mandates, vaccine mandates are all gone. if you take pictures answer post. make sure you put disclaimer we removed it in san francisco so i don't get beat up by folk on the internet. thank you and welcome. i want to start by thanking all workers who helped us navigate the latest surge. nurses, police