>> president moran: good afternoon. i like to call to order the junn francisco public utilities commission. please call the roll. [ roll call ] >> clerk: vice president ajami is attending the meeting remotely.

you have a quorum. this meeting is being held in person as san francisco city hall room 400 authorized by the california government code and mayor breed's 45th supplement to february 25, 2020 emergency proclamation. i like to remind all individuals attending today, all health and safety protocols must be adhered to all times. hand sanitizer stations are available throughout the building and masks are available. we welcome the public's participation during public comment periods. for each item the commission will take two minutes of public comment. first from those attending in person and then those attending remotely. members of the public may provide remote public comment by dialing (415)655-0001. meeting i.d. 2481 759 6071 # #. pressing star 3 to raise your hand to speak.

please note you must limit your comment to the topic of the agenda item being discussed. if you do not stay on topic the chair can ask you to limit your comment to the agenda item. we ask you address your remarks to the commission as a whole and not to the individual commission or staff. i like to stand our thanks to sfgov tv staff for their assistance during this meeting. >> president moran: before calling the first item, i like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that it owns and stewards of the unceded lands located within the territory of the ramaytush ohlone tribe and other of the historic federally recognized mission of the alameda county. sfpuc recognizes that every citizen residing within the

greater bay area continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the tribes of general land since its founding in 1932. it is important that we not only recognize the history of the tribal lands on which we reside but we honor the fact they have established working partnership with the sfpuc. please call the first item. >> clerk: item 3, adopt new findings to allow hybrid inperson meetings during the covid-19 emergency. direct the secretary to agendize similar resolution at a commission meeting within next 30 days. >> president moran: please open public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make remote public

comment on item 3, please press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. any members of the public present who wish to provide public comment? seeing none. are there speakers with their hands raised? >> there are no speakers in the queue now. >> clerk: thank you. public comment on item 3 is closed. >> president moran: thank you. any discussion by the commission? seeing none. a motion and a second. moved and seconded. roll call please. [roll call vote] you have four ayes. >> president moran: thank you. next item. >> clerk: item 4. approval of the minutes of may 24, 2022. >> president moran: any addition or corrections to the minutes as distributed? seeing none. open for public comment. >> clerk: members of the public

who wish to make remote public comment on approval of the minutes, press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. do we have any members of the public wishing to speak? >> there are no callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment on item 4 is closed. >> president moran: any further discussion? seeing none, may i have a motion and a second? >> moved in >> second. >> president moran: moved and seconded. roll call please. [roll call vote] >> clerk: you have four ayes. >> president moran: thank you. next item. >> clerk: item 5, general public comment. if you wish to make general public comment within the jurisdiction and not on the agenda, please press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. do we have members of the public

present who wish to provide general public comment? seeing none, do we have callers with their hands raised? >> there are seven callers in the queue. you have two minutes. >> caller: commissioners, i would like from time to time that we give some sort of report on our treatment plans. also, if you really following the rules and mandates of the

protection agency. we, the people, need to know this. secondly, we see that many of the vacancies linked to the management, they are filled by whites. i don't discriminate against whites, but of all the positions are filled by whites, i have something to say. i want to ask for the freedom of information act and get all the information. let's not talk about racial equity and you do the opposite.

i have a concern about the community benefit. we now want to know -- [ indiscernible ] what is being done? i see that it's about $250 for the 1550 evans project. >> thank you for your comments. your time has expired. next caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: in a june 12th article in the modesto bee, one way to help heal central valley while correcting political

favorite, the paper editorial board stated that in the past, $10 has been spent on sacramento river floodplain planning for every one dollars on the san joaquin river. it appears that is now budgeted demand of $110 million to flood management in the budget for the department of water resources, d.w.r. i would urge the p.u.c. to contact the city sacramento lobbyist to confirm the $110 million amount for 2022-2023. if it's not in the budget line item, then advocate that $110 million be included in a budget trailer bill, designations for the san joaquin

river and tributaries including the tuolumne. new subject, -- [ indiscernible ] >> thank you for your comments. next caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: my name is alex. i'm a recreational -- [ indiscernible ] on the tuolumne river. i will voice my support for recreational on the tuolumne. tuolumne has a very long storied history, being one of the more prominent recreational rivers in

california, dating back over at least 50 years. it is a fantastic opportunity for people to raft and kayak at a variety of difficulty levels and adventure levels. i appreciate moving forward the tuolumne to continue to be an option for everyone to enjoy. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next caller you have two minutes. >> caller: mr. chairman and members of the commission. i'm a president and executive director from california outdoors where an outfit trigger association for california. i wanted to, actually, -- we are

appreciative of your staff and your organization's continuing work with the stakeholders who utilized that resource. it's incredibly important, not just recreation but also for the economy in the local area. i wanted to voice our continued support for the work that you folks do. thank you for your time and your service. >> thank you for your comment. next caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: i'm going to speak about governance. i was shaken from results of mrc record act request. in the p.r.a. provided an analysis on the frequency of the design drought, something that's been requested many times. to my understanding, not even commission president moran has

seen this analysis. staff hadn't shared the analysis because the data quality issues. event the memo to file had a wealth of information. it's bad news when a p.r.a. provides significant information that hadn't been disclosed. this brings me to governance. we have an outstanding set of commissioners. you bring valuable expertise and views to the commission. you also work well together. not to put words in your mouth, i think you say public agency such as p.u.c. should be transparent. this is the problem, you have no ability to oversee and influence staff. the p.r.a. is an example of a transparency problem. you as commissioners should have had prior knowledge what was provided and shouldn't have been a surprise to you or the public. when i served board of

directors, the expectation is that board requests revolved quickly. not measured in months and quarters. my question is recognition. does staff reflect the values you think are important for public institution and have you been able to influence sfpuc's behavior. i have high hopes for the new sheriff in down. town. if you agree with the problem, direct discussions need to be had. thank you, i will provide a copy of my comments for the record. >> thank you for your comments. next caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: can you hear me now? >> loud and clear. >> caller: this is david pilpel.

i appreciate michael carlin for their work and upcoming well reserved retirements. i wanted to share condolences about kencray meyer, you might have read about him in the chronicle. he's the former director at a jewish summer camp up in the tuolumne that shares some resources with the p.u.c. he was very active as is the camp in the route 120 association and concerned about our water resources. i already spoke at the revenue bond oversight committee meeting this morning. i wanted to balance that out.

to the sfgov tv staff who i hope are listening, please review and update the screen graphics which still refer to agenda information at sfwater.org. that should read sfpuc.org. staff need to check those. that will be great. finally, i hope you all had a good weekend wherever you were this past weekend. that's all for me today. >> thank you for your comments. there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: general public comment is closed. >> president moran: thank you. commissioners, any questions or

comments on the communications that were provided to us? >> clerk: that's for item 6? >> president moran: i do have one question. item 6c is quarterly report on the alternative water supply program. for the past couple of meetings, bawsca requested information similar to this. mr. general manager, can you help us put this report in context with what outstanding request is? >> i think that, mr. president, as you're aware, bawsca represents our biggest set of customers. i know they have an intense interest not just understanding where we are at, our

conversations with the state with hetch hetchy water, but also, they take an interest in just ensuring the long-term security and viability of the water supply for the bay area. so, we are in active constant communications with bawsca and ms. sandkulla. what you see should provide some comfort on one aspect of our work ensuring long-term security for our water supply. this is something that we're actively sharing with bawsca about what our effort are. it is by no means, the only avenue that we're communicating

with ms. sandkulla on. outcomely-- obviously, there's been intense discussions going on around the bay-delta plan. we are actively engaged. i'm trying to provide a level of detail with the effort that we're undertaking. which i know that this commission has intense interest in as well. we're intensifying our discussions and our advisements to bawsca and ms. sandkulla. commissioner maxwell? [ indiscernible ] i don't have any further questions on c. [ indiscernible ]

>> i got the gist what you're asking about. >> president moran: i'm done with that item. if you like to move on to the next one whatever it's labeled. >> commissioner maxwell: it's recycled water and purified water opportunities in san francisco. i found the report to be very helpful. i appreciated the fact that we're looking -- that we looked outside to see where we can put a purified water. we came to the conclusion that will be better may be using our plant, the southeast and looking at other places near that. i really appreciated that. because the real estate, 35 to $65 million -- thank you.

>> real estate is probably the single biggest issue in trying to locate a plant site in san francisco where real estate is so valuable and hard to come by. >> commissioner maxwell: do you think that even the real estate were the same that it's better where it is? using the southeast plant and using and going on near the plant. >> yes, newcombe. the plan will be better if we can fit it in there. that opens up seven acres of property. that's a lot of land. it's in a good place. >> commissioner maxwell: i meant on newcombe? >> yes. >> commissioner maxwell: well, thank you. >> president moran: i understand the commissioner ajami has a

question. >> vice president ajami: i wanted to ask and share my appreciation for both reports. i appreciate the the alternative water supply report and the fact that they have highlighted each part has been updated. i appreciate the staff putting that together. >> president moran: thank you. any other comments or questions on communications? seeing none, can we open this to public comment? >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make remote public comment on item 6, please star 3 to raise your hand to speak. do we have members of the public present to provide public comment on item 6? seeing none. do we have any callers with

their hands raised? >> there are two callers in the queue. caller, are you there? i opened your line. i will try -- next caller. you have two minutes. hello, caller, are you there? madam clerk, i think those were eroanously in the queue. >> clerk: thank you. public comment on item 6 is closed. >> president moran: okay, thank

you. next item. >> clerk: item 7 is report of the general manager. >> thank you madam secretary. 7a is a drought condition update from steve richie. >> good afternoon, general manager for water. i should have mentioned when i was up here last time, one other comment on the communication the bawsca, there's a monthly detailed e-mail that send to them. i wanted to throw that one more piece in there. now we're talking about the drought update. you can see from the reservoir report, hetch hetchy is full. cherry is full. eleanor is basically full. water bank is down about 240,00. it has been exercised and making

sure we fill our reservoirs up country. then the reservoirs in the bay area have been topped off with excess water. it's been a decent runoff year for us. next slide, the statewide picture on reservoirs. pedro is doing much better than both of those. again, the tuolumne river is doing well. the statewide drought picture from the california drought monitor shows large area of exceptional drought, extreme drought and severe drought. our reservoirs tend to be in the area that's severe drought. that's still not great condition to be in.

we're basically getting the precipitation season. we do expect to see more here and there. hetch hetchy is pretty much flattened out. we did have about tenth an inch of precipitation from the last storm up there. snow pack is pretty much gone, runoff is pretty much ended in terms of high volumes. water available to the city has pretty much topped out at about 200,000-acre feet, which does not mean we does not fill our reservoirs, what it does mean, we had three years of water bank drawing down dramatically. this year, we're getting little bit of reprieve there. there's enough water. i think peter drekmeier pointed out, that's about the same amount of water we're delivering

to people. water bank has not been drowned down much. it's been good for our long-term storage situation this year. you can see, again, 200,000-acre feet opposed toics hundred thousand. that would have filled full storage for us. just to be clear, full storage means full storage in all of the reservoir that can receive hetch hetchy water. which have the upcountry reservoirs plus crystal springs. for the precipitation, again, three really wet months and other months that weren't so wet has resulted in us getting to 2r upcountry. in the bay area, we are above average for the entire year. there has been a fair amount of precipitation here in the bay

area. but there are no storms on the horizon. we don't see anything coming. i don't think we'll see much before the new water year in october. again, something we're paying close to attention to, total deliveries. you can see here that delivery, last week 207 million gallons a day. that's getting us back down closer to the 200 million-gallon a day mark that i'm looking forward to. one last comment, we were in the news this last week because the

state reinstituted a number of the curtailments in the system. the only large urban agency that was affected was the san francisco public utilities commission. we were part of the headline in all those cases. they have been suspended since last october. they suspended them when we started to get real runoff. that extended until last wednesday. people asked what are we doing? we are currently making no changes in our operations while the irrigation districts are diverting through diversion rights of theirs that are not curtailed. basically, water we're putting down in the system and water from water bank, they are able to divert into their irrigation canals. water bank is part of that process. this is all part of our physical solution on the tuolumne river in the fourth agreement. we're operating under that to take care of the tuolumne river. final note, the districts are

continuing to make releases in compliance with the ferc license plus an additional 50 cubic feet per second that we're releasing the summer flow, which have been doing for most of the 2000s. i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> president moran: thank you. commissioner maxwell? >> commissioner maxwell: thank you for that. are the districts making any changes in the way they do business in their water usage? are they making any system changes? >> well, what the districts generally do in times of drought, i don't know exactly, this is more generic answer, they -- as the year progresses, they talk about how much water they deliver to their farmers. they are aiming for about 48 inches of irrigation water over the year.

i don't know what they are doing now. in times of drought, they generally cut that back depending on water conditions. their farmers follow crop or shift to ground water. >> commissioner maxwell: my guess my question is, we're seeing -- i think there was a an article that grape growers saying, we were over watering long time. our grapes doing better now. is anybody looking at how they are growing? is there an ongoing -- we have all these institutions of higher learning that can be helpful. >> i can't speak for the industries. i do know that there are very active programs looking at different types of research. there are people doing creative things on their own here and

there. they are working on the macro scale in terms of water supply. in terms of actual on the ground, relative to their crops, i don't know if they actually do that or they leave that to their individual farmers. ag extension is very active throughout the san joaquin valley there. milwaukee we're wholesalers but we have programs for individuals. we have things that we are doing changing toilets and faucets. >> i know that various irrigation districts do different things in different days. they invest in their system. very interesting one is oakdale irrigation district, which has

transferred lot of water where they are paid for their water. that money does get plowed back into efficiencies in their system. that's one of the things that we have talked with the irrigation districts about over time. although, we've never been able to effectuate a water transfer. that's one of the things we think should be of interest to them. >> commissioner maxwell: thank >> president moran: commissioner , what i do know about irrigation practices, it's all anecdotal. wouldn't really give you a correct overall picture, i'm sure that the irrigation creates have that information in a public form. that will be good to distribute to this commission. >> we can do that. good example is, there's lots of drip irrigation going in. on the other hand, the flood irrigation that they do, anything used by the plants, generally is recharging the ground water basin.

they are active water managers. we can get that information and provide it to the commission. >> commissioner maxwell: i would appreciate that. thank you. >> president moran: thank you. any other questions for mr. richie? seeing none, mr. general manager? public comment please. >> clerk: public comment on 7a the drought condition update. if you wish to make public comment on the drought condition update, please raise your hand to speak. any members in the room wish to provide public comment? seeing none, do we have any callers with their hands raised? >> there is one caller in the queue.

>> caller: this is peter drekmeier policy director from the tuolumne river trust. i appreciate mr. richie's presentation. lot of good news here. i i'm looking at a slide, it's tuolumne river water available to the city. as i mentioned before, i think that looking at the deficit reaching full storage makes people more nervous than they should be. the sfpuc has a lot of storage. the system was built for the time when demand was projected to be twice what it is today. we got lot of wiggle room there. in this slide, it shows that water available to the city this year is 201,000-acre feet. that's just water from it tuolumne. i understand that we've got about 44,000-acre feet from the bay area watershed. bringing the total 245.

current demand is about 220. san francisco picked up more water than it needs. that's very positive. there's concern about the bay-delta plan. it's 20% of unimpured flow from february to june. if you look at that annually, it's 14% of annual flow. san francisco might be responsible for half of that, about 7% of unimpaired flows. which is not much. if you ask staff to model what will the situation look like had the bay-delta plan flows would have gone into effect a year ago. we would have never got that flow on water. i hope we can work together to understand how good the sfpuc system is. it came up partnering with the

irrigation districts, i think that's a great idea. we talked about that a lot during water sustainability. >> thank you for your comment. your time as expired. there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment is closed. >> 7b is hetch hetchy capital improvement program quarterly report by kay miller. >> good afternoon. i'm katie miller, director of water capital programs. the hetchy capital improvement program project made great progress in the third quarter. during the shutdown, a new generator step up transformer was installed at the moccasin power house. this transformer is now in successful operation. also during the quarter, the first of many future new valves

was installed along the san joaquin pipeline as part of the san joaquin pipeline valve and safe entry projects. i hope you will join me in extending congratulations to the operation staff from water enterprise, who operated the bay area water treatment plants to supply water to the entire regional system during this time. for the very effective shutdown planning and communications that went into sustaining the shutdown for over two months. this was a critical test that will allow shutdowns of the system over the next five years to complete construction of these hetch hetchy projects. today, i have a treat for you. instead of my usual summary of the quarterly report, i will share a video that was made by the mountain tunnel improvements project team.

together, with our communications staff and the sfgov tv production crews. this film was made to share highlights of the recent mountain tunnel construction shutdown. especially since we were not able to offer tours this year. this video is about four minutes long and presents an overview of the project. we hope you'll enjoy it. [video] >> this system delivers drinking water to 2.7 million people in four bay area counties. the majority of the water provided to customers comeses from fill milk collected from hetch hetchy. this water passes through a complex system of pipeline, tunnels and hydropower plants

before it leave the sierra nevada mountains across the central valley and bay area. mountain tunnel transmits drinking water from hetch hetchy reservoir and then kirkwood power house where it generates hydropower. the tunnel was constructed between 1917 and 1925. >> mountain tunnel brings sfpuc water system from the main fork of the tuolumne river to our facilities over at priest reservoir. >> the hetch hetchy supply is the largest water supply for san francisco and our regional customers. it consist of 85% of our water supply. all of that water flows through one conduit and that's the mountain tunnel. the tunnel is almost 100 years old. the lining of the tunnel has dedeer -- deteriorated. what they are doing is replacing

that deteriorated lining. >> although, it continues to serve our 2.7 million bay area customers well for more than 90 years, it's in need of rehabilitation. inspection showed that years of continuous service have resulted in deterioration of the mountain tunnel lining, among other problems. these deficiencies diminish the ability to provide drinking water to our customers. make it difficult to perform maintenance in the tunnel. the sfpuc and our regional partners launched the mountain tunnel improvements project, to repair deterioration inside the tunnel. crews will construct a new shaft to expand to improve water quality. and construct entirely new entry point.

>> i call it putting a heart beat in the system. we're going to be putting in flow control facility shaft, with gate control valves where we can control the pressure and give operation little flexibility to hetch hetchy water and power for long-term use. >> construction on the seven-year project began in 2021. construction inside the tunnel is only occur when the entire upcountry system is shut down. these will occur for a few months every winter when sfpuc customer demand is low and can be support the by a bay area reservoirs. crews must work quickly and safely in wet dark conditions inside the tunnel during the shutdowns. time is of the essence. the

project is part of a larger hetchy capital improvement program, hcip, a multiyear capital program to improve water convenience, water storage and power generation facilities in the sierra, nevada portion of the hetch hetchy regional water system. >> to be able to work on a project of this magnitude for the city and county of san francisco, for hetch hetchy, water and power, it's really a legacy project for myself, also. i'm happy to be on it. it's been very exciting. it's really fun work. if you like civil construction, this doesn't get any better than this. >> thank you very much for your

attention. >> president moran: thank you. any questions? public comment please. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make public comment comments on 7b, please press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. do we have members of the public present wishing to provide comment? seeing none, do we have callers with their hands raised? >> there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> clerk: public comment on item 7b is closed. >> president moran: thank you. >> item 7c a wastewater enterprise quarterly report including southeast area, major projects update. steve robinson will be presenting. >> good afternoon.

steven robinson, director of away weatherer capital improvement program. as usual, we include some additional more current updates. starting as usual with a few construction updates around the city, the first project is one of our large diameter projects around the new montgomery mission neighborhood. we did seek and obtain approval from the commission back in february this year to add four more blocks to this project. construction is commenced and progressing ahead of schedule. the project uses a method called

cured in place pipe, or cipp. which you can see in the photo here. the second project here in the middle is the westside pump station reliability and improvement project. the construction started april of last year, completion driving towards february 2024. the third image is the wawona area storm water improvement project. you can see here is a tunnel and jack and pit. it's approximately 1400 feet of 1800 feet already drilled. microtunneling from the 20th

street progressing towards the receiving pit. there's also home cut to this project. we're putting a new sewer in heading east uphill at a rate about 5 to 8 sticks. that's about segments of pipe. these are usual pie charts that show program status. representing the usual $3.655 billion. now just nudging forward 49% complete. the blue area at the top remains unchanged. in green, you see 17 projects now in construction with 46 in gray to the left. this table shows our financial budget update.

table three from the quarterly report, shows summary cost for ruling of phase one that we talked about and the other projects that have been added since then. these columns summarize the expenditures, the forecast and the variants. the variant shown in red totally $925 million is the same as last quarter. with only exception of that $7.1 million you see here, which is actually a decrease. that's good news. however, three projects were initiated this quarter. this decrease corrects an over forecast from the previous quarter. now the numbers you see here are aligned what's been approved in our capital budget. just like the previous slide, this table shows the facilities on infrastructure section and the program itself representing the current approved and forecasted cost and the variants. this variant shows $13.2 million over the current approved budget

with good news of $2 million from the last quarter. this was all adjustment that's been captured from one of the projects. few highlights from some other projects, this quarter we initiate nine other projects. they represent a variety of work all across the city from all three plants and within the collection system. the second bullet here draw attention to completing engineering work for two projects. that represents getting toward end of our planning phase project for conceptual engineering. third project is 95% of design in the chinatown.

it's the power feed on primary switch gear update project. providing power to the plant. you can see the two tower cranes in the background. with that, we'll segway into the update for the three major sites. we reported the significant cost increase back in january of this year. there's no change. we're all coming to the commissioning with amendments both construction and design contracts in the near future. we began with placement of the matt foundation. there's been four of the five

pours complete sod far. -- completed so far. these are around 2000 cubic yards each time. typically starting 2:00 a.m. over the weekend to minimize traffic in the community. those pores have 20 to 30 concrete trucks per hour. really significant. so far, they've all gone really smoothly. last bullet is just acknowledge bid procurement is continuing for the rest of the project. for the head works facility project, same forecast from last quarter. also captured in the budget process, the 10-year capital plan, no change. meanwhile, there's some ongoing relocation of the existing pump station of that facility, began

installation of duct work associate with new order control facility. i might remember those adjustments made in design for both existing station and order control facility. our last slide is for the southeast community center. at the last meeting there was an approval to increase the contract. we're going from $114 million to 115. construction is 98% complete. we're close. we have been reporting some potential delay with pg&e and energizing the permanent power. but the connection did go live in april. bullet here shows substantial completion anticipated for august 1st. with that, i'm happy to take any questions.

>> commissioner maxwell: are we building the digesters? are they coming in, already built? >> they are being constructed from concrete. what i described was the mat foundation going down first and then the floor. now we're sealing that. >> commissioner maxwell: these are egg shaped? >> the digesters we have -- these ones are traditional. very effectively straight cylinder. >> commissioner maxwell: i thought we were getting some new kind of design but we're not? >> we like to think of this as state-of-the-art project.

you can think of those as your stomach, digesting it. but system that feeds the material into that digester is the modern technology. we're using water and technology. >> commissioner maxwell: the digesters are the same but it's the inside that's different. >> yes, getting the material to that digestion process is where the extra new technology comes in. >> commissioner maxwell: thank you. >> commissioner paulson: going back to the head works, i know we did a pause some sometimes back in terms of cost. i know we approved some moving it forward. i probably should know all this, since i'm here, are we on --

going to be in position to make some more cost approvals that are needed as this rolls out after the original pause? i don't remember if we've approved everything moving forward or if we have couple of more pieces that we have to approve. >> you mentioned headworks? headworks has been moving it ahead fairly well and on schedule. biosolid project is one we had to take a pause. we looked at the contract mechanism. we committed sticking with the cmgc, the construction management general contractor procurement model. a team is in place now.

>> vice president ajami: thank for your presentation. i have a question. not exactly related to your presentation, but, relevant enough. few months ago, we talked about an effort to accumulate some day how we've been contracting and working the various groups and how the contracts has been on time and delayed. i was wondering where we are with that? >> you may recall, we made some changes to our quarterly report

format few cycles ago. part of that process was to put a new format structure in place. between then and now, we are setting up a database. we trying to dag all of those -- to tag all those projects. >> vice president ajami: thank you. you want to look at all of them, not just the ones that had problems. but also the ones that were successful. we all focus on the problematic ones, but every day, there's also lot of projects.

you supposed to look at every single one of them and creates some information using that data. thank you. >> agreed. >> president moran: any other questions or comments? public comment please. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make remote public comment on item 7c, please press star three to speak. seeing none, do we have any callers with their hands raised? >> there are no callers wishing to be recognized. >> clerk: public comment on item 7c is closed. >> item 7d is cleanpowersf integrated resource plan. cheryl taylor will be presenting. >> good afternoon. my name is cheryl taylor,

cleanpowersf operations manager for the sfpuc's power enterprise. i'm here to present overview of cleanpowersf 2022 integrated resource plan. state law requires that we submit a resource plan to the california public utilities commission every two years. integrated resource plan is an energy planning tool or process used by energy service providers like cleanpowersf to support achieving policy goals and meeting regulatory requirements. essentially, the plan is a long-term projection of our energy supply and demand and identify energy resource options that can meet plan objectives and in conform with the goals. i like to define key terms.

a portfolio is a collection of the electric generation resources to meet customer's demand. the second term is a new one that i added since you received the packet it's conforming portfolio. it's a specific mix of electric generation resources that ultimately meets the requirements. scenarios examines variationings of a future state or objective that may influence the resources included in a portfolio. scenarios can include multiple policy objectives. tskup finally, sensitivity analysis on these scenarios in which we change an assumption to understand its influence on the portfolio. i like to recap our 2020 plan. in our last plan filing, we presented aggressive goals to achieve 100% renewable energy by

2025, which is in line with the goals and the city's climate action plan. this bar chart identifies our progress and the annual planning targets we used in the 2020 plan. the light and dark green bars reflect renewable energy under contract or which we plan to contract to meet the demand each year. you see that yellow dotted line shows california's renewable portfolio standard requirement. diving into the objectives of the i.r.p. we set five primary goals for achieving and maintaining 100% renewable energy in our 2022 plan. we want this plan to identify a realistic path for getting to 100% renewable energy. we're planning in the context of higher demand and worldwide supply change disruptions. in california, project

interconnections are backed up due an unprecedented number of applications. two, this plan will update information about our local power supply. in our 2020 plan, we identified 81-megawatt of local solar. three, the plan will reflect our city's commitment to electrification. our city's electrification targets affecting cleanpowersf total demand include electric vehicle adoption goals, building electrification targets and new construction policies. four, the plan must also enable us to deliver affordable service. we must ensure that our lower income customers are not disproportionately harmed by our energy transformation.

as you know the inflation rate is now the highest it's been in a generation. this means setting a realistic and opportunistic timeline that might capture projected cost declines. finally, the plan must support electric reliability. simply put, this means that our plan must demonstrate cleanpowersf's contribution to the cpuc's electric power reliability requirements. in developing the 2022 plan, we need to balance program goals to land at a portfolio that is at the intersection of all of these priorities. diving into our modeling portfolios, we will model a total of six portfolios, four of which will be conforming. by conforming these portfolios will use only the required cpuc input and across all of these portfolios, we'll model achieving hun% renewable energy

by 2025 and local resource prioritization. we'll also submit two alternative portfolios that deviate from the cpuc input by san francisco local electric vehicle. all portfolios will reflect the impact of recent global macroeconomic events. plans are great. as mike tyson said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. we have to plan for the unexpected, which is always an inevitable occurrence. we'll subject our models to three main sensitivities or what ifs. what if vehicle electrification happens even faster than current city goals? what if building electrification happen faster current city goal.

all of this gets us to the preferred portfolio. the preferred portfolio will tie together sensitivity analysis, updates to our local renewal analysis. after we greet our analysis, we'll return to the commission in september to present our summarized reports and informational report. in october, we'll come back to you to recommend a preferred portfolio for you to adopt. that's the portfolio we'll submit to the california p.u.c. what we submit to you will serve as a resource road map for cleanpowersf for the next two years of power-purchasing and energy resource development activities to meet program goals through 2032. it's very important to us in this process that we hear from community and interested parties and ultimately, selectly a portfolio we submit to the

california p.u.c. we created multiple venues for community members to participate and stay informed about the planned development. one is through an online survey that opened earlier this month and closes july 5th. we have dedicated site on our web page for people to get information and stay informed. in closing, our next steps will be to model the plan portfolios through august 2022, beginning august through september, we'll be seeking community feedback on the modeling results. after the analysis is completed, we'll present finding and information report in september. finally, we'll return to you in october to present our recommended preferred portfolio and seek your approval prior to submitting to the california p.u.c. by november 1st. that concludes my presentation.

i'm happy to answer any questions you might have. >> president moran: thank you very much. >> commissioner maxwell: thank you very much. i was glad to hear that you are going to come back with the community input. how much is that community input will you consider? >> that's a really good question. i might want to have our director come up and talk about the community input that we'll incorporate. >> commissioner maxwell: i was thinking, supposed the community said, in that program, we like to hear about green jobs. we like to hear about how all of of this is going to ache difference to our community. should we tell our kids, look, think about going -- this is where we're headed -- think about going into this field.

community input might include something like this. >> mike himes director of the cleanpowersf program. our first goal is to really listen to the community and hear that kind of interest. what is the community's interest in the planning process. i think, what we -- the action that we can take in response is going to be little dependent on whether it's within the frame of the i.r.p. questions like that about green job creation, things that can happen in the community, some of that may be slightly to the initiative. delivering an i.r.p. plan.

>> commissioner maxwell: what about outreach? do you have a plan for the outreach and is it something that we can see and send to us so we have an idea who in the community you're talking to? not everybody is interested. who in the community and are you trying to get people more interested in what you're doing and how is that happening? >> we can share more information with this commission. we're casting a very wide net. my understanding, i think, prior to workshops that are taking place next week. we've reached out to something like 600 organizations, p.u.c. frequently reaches out to. we can report specifically -- >> commissioner maxwell: have

you broadened that since you reaching out to people you normally reach out to. this is a big deal. it's a big deal because san francisco, as you mentioned, is talking more and more about electrification. >> yes, i understand that we have cast even broader net in the outreach this time around than last time around. listening to comments from community members from couple of years ago. we have reached out to some of the usual suspects, environmental climate organizations, also racial economic justice groups, political organizations as well, customers too. sort of really inform the plan. there may be some really good opportunities to incorporate some of that feedback into the plan that goes to the cpuc. that wouldn't stop us from

implementing some of what the community members have requested on the ground. on the other hand, we have this regulatory process, we also live here in the city and provide service. we can be probably responsive. >> commissioner maxwell: thank you very much. thank you for your enthusiasm. i appreciate that. we had some of that last commission meeting too. good stuff. thank you. >> president moran: thank you. >> commissioner paulson: thank you for the questions. i was thinking of asking similar outreach questions and only reason i'm asking this question, you did a backhand list of community and political whatever. i didn't hear the word labor. are you reaching out to labor organizations? you said 600 organizations, that's probably like 1/90 what we have in san francisco. there's an organization on every corner. is labor officially on that

list? >> my understanding, labor is on that list. we can return to you i believe in september, sort of with a full accounting or may be before of our approach. >> commissioner paulson: does in go to the san francisco labor council, which is the umbrella organization. i'm assuming that represents hundreds of thousands of workers. >> yes. >> commissioner paulson: i see nodding. >> president moran: i had a question. you distinguished between conforming and non-conforming portfolio. can you give some examples what will be non-conforming projects? >> what i would say is a non-conforming portfolio would capture local inputs.

the conforming portfolios, the state sets this process for statewide low serving entities including pg&e and etcetera. lot of the inputs, the low profiles, are delivered to all of us. the ones that we get may or may not be the closest reflection of what we know sort of the reality of what demand is or what it might be in the future. one of the things that may sort of not be as close to the reality as we think will be, is building an electrification. especially given some of the recent policy changes, sort of the san francisco's code.

>> commissioner maxwell: that's non-conforming? >> yes, that's the alternate post. >> president moran: any other questions or comments okay, public comment. >> clerk: members of the public

who wish to make remote public comment on 7d, please press star 3 to speak. do we have members of the public present who wish to provide public comment? seeing none, are there any peeks with -- speakers with their hands raised? >> there's one caller in the queue. >> caller: good afternoon, i want to talk about the i.r.p. i'm in favor. i'm finding on page 4 to be little bit confusing and unclear. i like to see a clarification and how it will decrease. while we're at this stage, we have only 2.5% unspecified

power. i would like to see the chart clarified further to be able to make the distinction in the upcoming year since how much the actual renewal percentage will increase. this clarification is important so we don't mistake renewable for 100% carbon free. 100% free is a good thing. we're almost there. the problem with large hydroelectric, it's highly drought dependent. i'm not against hydroelectric, we want to clarify our movement away from that toward the 100% renewable based on the eligible renewable categories of

generations. >> clerk: public comment on 7d is closed. >> this concludes my report. >> clerk: thank you. >> president moran: thank you. next item. >> clerk: item 8, new commission business. >> president moran: any new business? seeing none. next item. >> clerk: item 9, consent calendar. >> president moran: any request for item to be removed from the consent calendar? seeing none. public comment please. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make remote public comment on 9c, the consent calendar, press star three to raise your hand to speak.

>> there are no callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment on item 9 is closed. >> president moran: thank you. commissioners, may i have a motion and a second on the consent calendar? >> commissioner maxwell: move to approve. >> second. >> president moran: roll call. [roll call vote]. >> clerk: you have four ayes. >> president moran: the consent calendar is adopted. next item. >> clerk: item 10. adopt a resolution pledging commission support for lgbtq plus pride month, june 2022 in the city and county of san francisco.

>> president moran: mr. perl. >> good afternoon, happy lgbt pride month for 2022. charles perl, deputy c.f.o. june is lgbtq pride month in san francisco. i'm proud to present and represent sfpuc staff and the executive team today with this resolution that's before you requesting commission formally voice, it's approval and support of san francisco pride for this year. commissioners, pride month in june has been a time to both celebrate and recognize in a visible way the many accomplishments and continuing challenges facing the lgbtq plus community. earlier this year, sfpuc staff formed the first lgbtqia+ employee group with a focus on engaging employees beyond the day-to-day mission of the agency. this employee group worked with

support from the executive team to develop the resolution that's before you today. commissioners, your support for lgbtq pride month is important. it is a visible symbol of supporting not only sfpuc employees but also our agency's place within the broader san francisco community. i thank you for your consideration of the resolution. i'm happy to answer any questions and happy pride. >> president moran: thank you. any questions? >> commissioner maxwell: i've been talking a lot. thank you for doing this. i think it's important. it's an important step that we are recognizing. we are recognized as understanding the importance of being a part of the world. everybody is important. thank you.

>> president moran: thank you for bringing this forward. >> i was surprised. >> president moran: any other comments? public comment please. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make public comment on item 10, please star 3 to raise your hand to speak. seeing none. do we have callers with their hands raised? >> there's one caller in the queue. >> caller: thank you, again. this is important. i support. i hope you do too. [ indiscernible ] i hop it will be unanimous.

you will all be on one accord supporting this resolution. this is an important piece of resolution. i'm a person who's not particularly definition accepted by society, i'm a person just as much. i want to be treated like everybody else would. i don't know if other people will speak on this. i hope they will be in support. this is not an easy thing for people to support. it's a necessary thing. that's why i'm speaking on it. we the people, who under the

lgbt umbrella, we should never feel that we have to feed our identity. i asked that you acknowledge how present -- [ indiscernible ] i ask that you pass this. i hope that your vote be unanimous. thank you. >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment on item 10 is closed. >> president moran: thank you. any additional comments from the commission? motion and a second please. >> i'm proud to move this

resolution. >> president moran: roll call please. [roll call vote] >> clerk: you have four ayes. >> president moran: item passes. thank you for bringing that to us. next item. >> clerk: item 11. approve the use of certain form of contracts to purchase and sell electricity and related products delegate to the general manager authority to execute the contracts on behalf of the sfpuc and authorize the general manager to seek approval from the board of supervisors to execute power supply contracts. >> good afternoon, commissioners. general manager and counsel. i'm barbara hale. i'm here to present this resolution. it addresses the authority of the general manager to execute contracts for both the purchase and the sale of electricity and related products. the wholesale contracts support

our hetch hetchy and cleanpowersf program. the resolution would delegate to the general manager the use of specified form the contracts for the purchase and sale of electricity products under limited conditions for five years. these contracts include industry-standard form contracts which the commission and the board have approved for use previously by hetchy and cleanpowersf. these are the contracts used most to transact our electricity business and within the industry. in addition, p.u.c. staff have developed new and revised form contracts with the city attorney's office and with our partners at the joint power authority, california community power, to address powers ongoing power supply and regulatory requirements.

it will be like our guarantee maximum costs. those sort of terms we're interested in. we're asking you to approve the ongoing use of these 12 form agreements that are listed on the third page of the agenda item. three of these you have not approved before, nor has the board. they are variants to address address technology differences, for example of contracts that you have approved before. these are contracts as described in the agenda item that allow us to purchase renewable power or renewable power plus energy storage, or just energy storage, or smaller renewable power projects. where the terms are less onerous

given the small nature of the projects. then the different project participation share agreement that we executed with our partners the california community power association. the resolution would also delegate to the general manager the authority to enter into contracts for the sale of power and related projects. you'll recall that under chart section 9.118, $1 million or more to be approved by the board of supervisors. this delegation of authority would allow hetchy power and cleanpowersf to sell any excess electricity supplies and products for the benefit of our rate payers. the resolution will request approval from the board of

supervisors to terms greater than 10 years, for $150 million. with anticipated revenues in excess of a million or more, subject to annual revenue limit of $10 million per year. the annual expenditure and revenue caps that i described, we're proposing, will be able to increased by the board of supervisors through resolution rather than another ordinance. i just described the what. let talk about the why. why are we asking for this authority. frankly, it's really necessary for the success of our power supply requirements, for us to operate and act at a commercial pace. really now more than ever. the requirement that all contracts 10 million or more go

before the board of supervisors, it creates a real challenge for us at commercial pace. some of the products that we need to protect our rate payers from market price risks are only offered with very short pricing windows. we've historically entered into agreement for these products at term or in quantities that are less than 10 years or less than 10 million in contract costs. that means that we may be missing out on opportunities to procure lower price energy supply to our customers. we've obtained delegated authority from the gm and the commission and board of supervisors to enter into these types of contracts. over the past year we've seen an increase in volatility and power

supply market. that's another reason why we're here. that made it more difficult for us to successfully transact, given our approval timeline. the mark price volatility has reduced the ability of our supplier. when there's a market price volatility, it's when we most need to be nimble and responsive to protect our rate payers. it's really a competitive market that we're operating in.

ongoing new procurement is also required to meet our regulatory requirements. the cpuc orders that cheryl taylor talked about. failure to meet regulatory requirements has financial and reputational consequences. to sum up, delegating limited and conditional authority to the general manager will help us move quickly and acquire the most cost effective power supply resources to serve our customers and meet our regulatory requirements. it ensures that when we have products to sell, we act at a commercial pace and achieve the best price for our customers. thank you for considering this item today. i want to publicly recognize the collaboration between p.u.c. staff and city attorney to develop these agreements. i'm available to answer any questions you may have.

>> president moran: commissioner paulson? >> commissioner paulson: that's quite list of flexibility type of issues that you have listed on here. i'm sure you added that all up. i have couple of quick questions. when you say this is a limited list. i was thinking this is going to be a comprehensive list so that the flexibility, so you don't have to come back here of time somebody come up with new product or new idea and you have to wait to get it approved. what is limited about this? the idea of giving the general manager that authority to call up and say, look what i found. let do it. you can do it without waiting two weeks. what's limited about it? >> we're not attempting to limit the types of products. what we're trying to express is delegation of the authority under limited conditions. it's only for five years.

it's not continuous. it's only up to for the sale of power. it's only up to $10 million per year in revenue. for the purchase of power, it's only up to $150 million per year for each of those five years, $150 million cap of authority. it's not unrestrained delegation. we think it's a reasonable amount of delegation to allow us to act responsibly and in the rate payer's interest. >> commissioner paulson: again, this is for the flexibility that i originally started with to be able to do it. secondly, i take it -- you been working with the city attorney's office -- i assume this will include attorneys that will be associated with the board of supervisors also. so despite their authority, this isn't a surprise party to them either. we're going along these lines.

i run into supervisors say, boy, we approved lot of stuff at the sfpuc the other day for crying out allowed. it wasn't a complaint, it was an acknowledgement, there's a large budget that we're responsible for. i take it there's some outreach to the board of supervisors that this is moving forward. >> yes. we've been working together with the p.u.c.'s policy and government affairs team to have the item introduced at the board of supervisors. it's been before the board for some time during that initial 30-day period. it's been before them publicly but no action may be taken. we are doing outreach to have one-on-one briefings to make sure offices all understand what this request is. we're expecting --

>> commissioner paulson: you mean 11 supervisors? >> the members of the board of supervisors, yes, thank you for the clarification. it's scheduled for hearing i believe july 13th at this point. it's right around that time. >> commissioner paulson: similar resolution would simultaneously approved? >> assuming that you agree what we recommended here today, we are positioned to move forward with the board of supervisors. the hope is then, we will be able to get approval from the board of supervisors for this delegated authority prior to the summer recess, so that we can execute contracts and keep business going. >> commissioner paulson: thank you. >> president moran: commissioner maxwell. >> commissioner maxwell: my concern is the waivers.

can you tell me -- some of the things we're waiving, it says increased participation by small and micro local city businesses and contracts. the competitive bidding requirement, first source hiring requirements, public access to meeting and records of nonprofit organizations, administrative code. can you tell me -- there's one that says, here's -- section 7 community benefits. can you tell me how these things, why we are waiving them? i understand they are not in the regular contract. these are part of san francisco values. can you tell me -- if you done

some study and found out they are they've caused some delay or problems and how much of that? >> i think, the primary issue we're dealing with here, what we're purchasing for many of these contracts is a commodity. it's for many of these form contracts. we have a competitive request for offer process. we send out our need described as the mega watt hours over time. we get commodity price offers. it's very much a strike on that product, using a form contract. the standard industry practice across the nation.

we don't get the bids for that type of product, if we do not use these form contracts. some of the items that you listed for waiver are only waived in certain of these contracts. when we're looking on page 3 of the agenda item, the third page of the agenda item, you see the first four form contracts, western system power agreement, edison electric institute, you just buying megawatt hours. usually from a facility that's already built. perhaps through a broker. when we get into projects we're

making a long-term commitment for a project that will be built, that doesn't exist yet, that's where we have the most ability to incorporate san francisco's terms. you're not seeing as much of the waiver in those. >> commissioner maxwell: that's extremely helpful. thank you so much. on those contracts we're building something, the gm could say, i think we need to use san francisco values on this. we need to do local hiring, -- >> you'll see those terms for p.l.a. and all that kind of stuff are in those longer term contracts. >> commissioner maxwell: those are the ones we would use? >> yes. that's what you see in like the second set of contracts there.

the renewable power purchase agreement, the energy storage agreement, small renewable power purchase agreement. most of these projects, again, we send out a request for offer. we get bids from multiple parties. you seen us come here before in the past. we've come forward with r.f.o. results that had like 102 bids from 75 different providers. it's a lot of. it's a rich bidding pool in the past. that's where we have little more leverage to be able to incorporate san francisco's standard terms. i don't want to overstate. we do still have waivers included in some of those. for example, some of those developers do business in a state that is restricted. their headquarters are in a restricted state. we're asking for waiver of a term like that. >> commissioner maxwell: by

restricted you mean -- >> a state that city's admin code we not supposed to do business with companies headquartered in them. >> commissioner maxwell: for what reason? give me an example. >> because they don't recognize domestic partnerships, for example. >> commissioner maxwell: all right. thank you for that. when i read it, i thought, it says these efforts include procurement to purchase electricity from new renewable and energy storage projects including from small renewable projects located in disadvantaged communities under cleanpowersf. when i'm looking at this, i'm thinking, you're in disadvantaged communities but you don't have certain local agreements, that san francisco saying we need to do this because of disadvantaged. thank you so much for that. i appreciate the clarification.

>> happy to talk about this. it's a lot of important work that our staff is doing. it's an important topic. >> commissioner maxwell: it is. it's important that we're equitable in the amount of money that we are going to be spending. thank you. >> president moran: commissioner ajami? >> vice president ajami: thank you so much. i have a question regarding oversight process. i totally understand since we are dealing with a very dynamic market. we need to have some flexibility in the process. i wonder if there needs to be some form of quarterly report,

some form of capacity for us to see what has been done and being able to have a since of these transactions, to make sure if something happens later, you know how thing have been spent what decisions need to to be made. obviously play the rules that we have here, which is sort of making sure we have proper policy and financial oversight. >> thank you for that question. i neglected no mention that the resolution includes that general manager will report on a quarterly basis. you will receive a standing

report. each quarter that describes the exercise of the delegated authority we just talked about. >> vice president ajami: i appreciate that. i'm glad that i think it's important for the public to know. >> commissioner maxwell: thank you for that. also, we can ask for them to report on what was waived or waivers or may be, what we had to waive and then what we didn't waive. if we're going to building -- if we're going to a contract that's

building something, so we have an idea. >> yes. we'll look at how to incorporate that information. may be in a narrative on the report. >> commissioner maxwell: great, thank you. >> president moran: any other questions? >> vice president ajami: can i ask one more question? i wonder if we have a tracking system in place to make sure we collect this data information? >> yes. we do. we have a tracking system for all of our power purchases and sales. this will be making transparent some of the business we've been doing and recording over time. >> vice president ajami: thank you. >> president moran: any

additional questions or comments? public comment please. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make two minutes remote public comment on item 11. please press star 3 to speak. do we have any callers with their handers -- hands raised? >> there's one caller in the queue. >> caller: this is very important matter. i think it's reasonable and worthy of passage. electricity is expensive in california. i speak to you from the perspective of somebody who is simply an ordinary user of electricity wherever i may be. my opinions are my own.

in a world where the price of energy varied at a very fast pace and opportunities open and close very quickly. this is a chance for government to be nimble and to be able to seek out what is best for the people of san francisco. the technology and purchasing and procurement often move faster in policy and procedure. i don't want us to lose our chances to get inexpensive renewable energy to achieve our goals of a cleaner and greener san francisco. i don't have expertise in contract and legal matters. your general manager does.

and has decades of experience in this type of work in a government environment. i ask that you pass this so we can get to 100% renewable energy and keep electric rates. hopefully some day drive electric rates down. electricity is essential. we have to move quickly. there's much to do. i think this is worthy of being passed. thank you. >> thank you for your comment. there are no more callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment on tim 11 is closed. >> president moran: any other ecomment or questions from the commission? seeing none. may i have a motion and second. moved and seconded. roll call please.

[roll call vote] >> clerk: you have four ayes. >> president moran: item passes. >> clerk: next item 12. retroactively accept and expend federal funds sourced by the american rescue plan act of 2021. >> good afternoon, my name is isabel, i'm on the financial planning team. in november 2021 this commission passed and accept an expand water resolution for water and power debt relief on behalf of san francisco repairs. i'm bringing to this commission

a proposal to approve a retroactive resolution in the amount of $9.3 million for wastewater customer debt relief. before i begin, i like to acknowledge that this work has been agency wide. with external affair staff lobbying at the state level, customer service and i.t. staff helping with the program implementation, finance staff reporting -- working on the reporting staff and many more who dedicated lot of time and effort to make sure we bring this money to our customers. throughout this presentation, i'll refer to unpaid customer bills that are overdue as arrears. little background in july 2021, the state of california allocated $985 million in federal funding through the american rescue plan act of 2021

to the state of california water resources control board for payments to community water and wastewater systems to cover utility debt relief, accumulated between march 2020 and june 2021. the water program was rolled out first in the fall of 2021 with any leftover funding to be appropriated to wastewater agency. the sfpuc has received total $20.2 million in federal funding utility debt relief. $7.3 million for water a arrears $1.2 million for hetch hetchy and 2.4 for of cleanpowersf. all funds for water and power were distributed in early 2022. here's a breakdown of the wastewater funds we applied for and received. the sfpuc applied to the

wastewater program in april 2022, approved for the full amount of $9.3 million. funds went towards paying off residential and commercial wastewater unpaid bills, that accrued between march 4, 2020 and june 15, 2021. because fewer wastewater agencies applied for this funding than expect the, funds went towards reimbursing the sfpuc for any discount they provided during the same time period and to cover the administrative cost of implementing this program. sfpuc staff distributed sundays to rate payers immediately for two reasons. firstly, because of the timely creditingful customer accounts is a priority as the agency works to reduce arrears. second, the sfpuc had 60 days to distribute funds after we received the check, per state guidelines. both of these reasons were the sfpuc to prioritize distributing funding as quickly as possible,

which is why this resolution is now coming to you retroactively. we already distributed the full $9.3 million we received. i like to provide a brief update on the current state of arrears per request of this commission when we brought a proposal to extend moratorium on shutoff in february 2022 from march to july. the graph here displays all active single family residential customers with a balance more than 90 days past due. you can see that since january 2020, the blue line, which represents the number of accounts, has more than doubled. the green line representing their total balance owed, has grown by over 500%. it's important to note that the dollar amount showed here is everything that's owed by these delinquent customers, including their up to date bills, which are not yet overdue. this is to give a sense what

dollar amount the agency is at risk of losing if these customers continue to be behind on their bills and not pay. there's a drop around january and february that you can see on the green line. that is due to the water payments from the state that we received and distributed. the may and june date was not yet available in time for this presentation. similar drop can be expected to appear in june to show when we applied the wastewater amounts to customer accounts. there's serious racial and social economic environmental of these growing arrears. they have not accumulated evenly across the city. they are concentrated in low income and environmental justice areas. to the left is amount showing where the arrears are concentrated. you can see, they're in a southeast and western parts of the city. this map is a bit outdated as it was produced by an outside affordability consultant in the

winter of 2021. we have reason to believe that it's still accurate as number of accounts is not changing as much as dollar amounts in arrears. to the right is a map of the sfpuc's low income and environmental justice areas. clearly, there's a lot of overlap. we will continue to collect this meaningful data and to ensure our next steps are formed by our findings here. finally, i've outlined the next steps. the sfpuc staff are taking to assist customer who are behind on their bills. we will conduct outreach to wastewater debt relief recipients, continue to advocate for more funding at the state level and encourage customers to enroll in the low income household water assistance program to cover any remaining arrears they might have. with that, thank you for your

consideration of this resolution. i'll take any questions. >> president moran: i have one question. when we make a payment on behalf of -- do we make a payment on behalf of the customer, do we send money to the customer themselves? >> we automatically apply the credits to any customers who are eligible. which was any residential or commercial customer who had an unpaid bill between march 2020 and june 2021. was automatically applied to reduce the amount they owed up. >> president moran: so the money never leaves our office? >> exactly. >> president moran: thank you. any other questions or comments? commissioner ajami? >> vice president ajami: thank you. thanks for that presentation. i'm really glad to see that we were able to receive that money and be able to help the

customers. do we know on the percentage, percentage of people who are not able to pay their bills. [ please stand by ]

>> this is an issue that somehow as a broader utility

should look into how we can build a coalition to push for this. thank you. >> i have another question. is this the last of this kind of relief money that we're receiving or is there more in the pipeline? >> that's a good question. we were told that the program was oversubscribed, so the utilities didn't receive the amount of money they had applied for. the program should be available sometime in the fall for utilities to apply to, too, but we haven't heard about wastewater funding, but we'll likely bring more for additional power funds. >> one of the things that i was wondering, if you had been

collecting amounts payable, if you know that there's going to be funding coming, one would think that internal funding wouldn't be high on the list. >> we have a pretty comprehensive communications plan right now to make sure that customers are aware that this will not be -- it might not cover their entire bill, but we're doing a lot of -- we had to notify every customer that received this funding of how much they received and where it was coming from, so as part of that outreach campaign,

we're also telling them to enroll in payment plans. >> i had a related question to what you just asked on. i'm sure you're tracking it at your end, but i think it would be good for us to also know that, you know, aa more regular

basis -- -- you know, on a more regular basis, it doesn't need to be a commission item, but to get more information on a quarterly business. i'll be really curious to see how this affects you all. >> thank you. we'll be happy to update you on this. >> okay. we'll take public comment on this. >> members of the public who wish to make public comment should lineup or press star, three to speak. do we have any members of the public who wish to make public comment. seeing none, operator, do we have any callers wishing to make public comment? >> operator: madam clerk, there are no callers in the queue.

>> seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: you have three ayes. >> and the item passes. next item, please. >> clerk: next item is 13, adopt a resolution accepting the 2022 sfpuc wildfire mitigation plan and authorize the general manager to submit the w.m.p. to the california office of energy infrastructure safety wildfire safety advisory board on or before july 1, 2022. >> i'm here to present a summary of our wildfire

mitigation plan and request that the committee approve our plan. by state law, we're required to construct, maintain, and operate these electrical lines and equipment in a manner that will minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire posed by our electrical lines and equipment. in summary, the state law requirements include preparing a wildfire mitigation plan annually, submitting our plan to the california wildfire safety board annually, and then also having a comprehensive update of our plan reviewed by an independent evaluator once every three years. so the california public utilities commission has created a high fire threat

district map, designating portions of california that are in high fire threat districts. you see a portion, an exception of that map up here. you can clearly see san francisco and the bay area on the left and on the right, includes o'shaughnessy. easiest to see is the extreme risk, which is color pink, orange, which is a mid risk, and then low risk, which is color purple. now we've overlaid our electrical lines on this, so on this, over on the right.

we are in a high fire risk district down from o'shaughnessy down to oakdale, and once we get near tracy all the way down near calaveras, you'll see we are in a high fire threat district. so first off, we set principles in our wildfire mitigation plan, and the first is to reset minimizing risk of a fire and

striving we move towards continual improvement. so how do we do that? we do that by developing prevention, mitigation, and response strategies. that includes situational awareness of our teams, understanding where issues are an issue that could start a fire. transmission line inspections. those could be aerial or ground inspections or both. distribution line inspections, substation inspection, vegetation management, deenergization or recloser protocols. restoration of service, and most important of this is employee and public communications of our wildfire and mitigation plan. so with that said, let's talk

about some of our accomplishments this last year that are in our report. so originally, we had a -- an inspection scheduled. it was pretty -- that was well founded for our two 30-kilovolt lines. we have really stepped up our one 15 kilo-volt lines. we have established tree removal contracts, and we've also approved a settlement sale in the stanislaus national forest to remove almost 200 hazard trees along the 230 kilovolt transmission right-of-ways. we also continue to make progress on hardening our

system. we have equipment on the system that can cause a fire. we're replacing some of that equipment to mitigate that risk. another thing we did this year was integrate our rhis to track dedication and inspection progress, quantitate tree removal and provide progress to sfpuc management. another thing that we did is we initialled a purchase of fire risk software to promote awareness of real-time fire crews for employees or management based on

deenergization. we are looking at how we are doing. there are metrics that we've established. it is a self-auditing process. it includes -- the process includes comprehensive data acquisition, comprehensive data analysis, and a quality

assurance and quality control component. now, this includes metrics for a three-year period. i'm going to say that you've -- you will see that one of the numbers has increased. it's been mostly for our distribution lines. what we are doing is going out and inspecting trees, and if we feel we have an area of concern, we've actually decreased the wind speed at which we will trigger deenergization of those lines. it's showing you that it's a little bit more frequent, but as we remove those trees, that number will probably become less. so we continue to invest in this effort and grow. as i said originally, there's independent realtiuationor review of this document.

we will start that? june because it's required this next year. we are moving more trees, about 400 trees, on private property on our 230 kilovote transmission corridor. i didn't say this, but this runs right next -- from kirkwood all the way down to the powerhouse. another thing that we are looking at is can we reduce our distribution line footprint. we have lines -- the distribution lines, for example, running from o'shaughnessy running from intake, where kirkwood is, all the way up to o'shaughnessy,

and there's a good chance that we might be able to reduce that footprint, the number of lines that we have in, and that's because we might put in a small hydroelectric facility at o'shaughnessy, so what we're trying to do in this case is reduce our risk. that is it. do you have any questions for me? >> thanks. commissioner maxwell? >> thank you, and thank you for that report. much appreciated. could you give me an example of the equipment that is hazardous? >> okay. so on the -- we have what are called 4292 poles on our distribution lines, and they contain special equipments for us to perform certain actions, and when those actions take

place, it can create a spark, spark falls on the ground. those are distribution poles for us, and there are areas on that that we clear those, we clear that area, but we should just remove the equipment if there's something out there, so we're in the process of replacing some of those items, like switches, to reduce that risk. >> and then, when you do tree removal, do you -- do you replace the trees with something or is it -- is it just bare or barren, and i've heard that there are certain kinds of green trees or bushes that are fire retardant. >> okay. so what we are doing is we talked to a little bit at a later date about our integrated

resources plan on what type of vegetation that we do want to have underneath those trees. in some areas, we're looking at something that might support the monarch butterflies, looking at replacing some of that. we're also just looking at low growth low risk. the likelihood is we're not just replacing the trees, we're doing some other kind of vegetation under neath the lines. >> but you would do some other kind of vegetation under the lines? >> yes, but we would make it a little less maintenance intensive under the lines. >> are you making it all fire retardant? >> that is something that we

are looking at. >> i'll send what i have to you. >> i know there's things that i have to have permission around certain of those lines regardless. >> thank you. commissioner ajami? >> just want to say how much i appreciate your presentation and looking at the slides, as i was reading the package, it is such an important issue. you know, every fire season, ever since i joined the p.u.c., that is a concern, that is top of mind for me, so i'm glad to see we have it structured. i appreciate all the technology that's being used in this process. the tracking system, the g.i.s. system, all of that is really useful, and i'm glad to see it. >> thank you.

>> thank you. any further questions? >> oh, excuse me. commissioner? >> i was wondering, does p.u.c. use the same kind of strategy? >> we are also the under the same management, but there's different items of the plan that apply to us differently. if you compare us to all the different kind of small municipally utilities -- muni utilities, we look much the same. >> okay. public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make three minutes of public comment, please lineup to speak. do we have any members of the public who wish to make public comment on this item?

seeing none, moderator, do we any callers in the queue? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you. public comment is closed. could i have a motion and a second, please? >> move to approve. >> second. >> motion and second. roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: you have four ayes. >> next item, please. >> clerk: approve the proposed water enterprise security mitigation plan and designate the executive director of the san francisco department of emergency management as the qualified authority to review the security mitigation plan and authorize the water enterprise to implement the

security mitigation plan. >> on january 25, 2019, the california public utilities commission had developed decision 1801-018 to address physical security and distribution systems that serve critical facilities. we own facilities that fall under this decision, so under this decision, we are required to assess potential risk of attack and develop a risk mitigation plan. there are nine elements to this mitigation. we performed the evaluation, and our evaluation identified several areas of concern. we have have produced a summary

that listed these items, including modifying our ingress-egress policies. second, we're going to be looking at this -- the risk a little bit more frequently. we will continue to do a continuous monitoring program of our potential risk of these locations and identify possible mitigations. this isn't the end of this, and i will be back again, or someone will be back again in five years to share an updated physical security plan with you. thank you for having me here today, and i'm available to

respond to questions. >> okay. thank you again. commissioners? seeing no questions or comments from the commission, public comment, please. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make public comment, please press star, three or lineup to speak. seeing no members of the public wishing to make public comment, mr. moderator, do we have any callers lined up to speak? >> operator: there are no callers lined up to speak. >> thank you. public comment is closed. >> so moved. >> second. >> roll call, please. [roll call] >> clerk: you have four ayes. >> next item, please. >> clerk: item 15, authorize the general manager to execute on behalf of the city and

county of san francisco an agreement with the county of tuolomne, for an amount not to exceed $2,497,197 and with a operation of six years which will provide funding for enhanced essential services, such as fire expression and protection, sheriff protection and patrol, road mand nance, ambulance services, as well as the -- maintenance, ambulance services, as well as mutual aid services, tosh the hetch hetchy water -- for the hetch hetchy water and power project. >> the loss of this tax for the county of tuolomne is significant and affects essential services, including fire protection and prevention,

sheriff protection and patrol, and road maintenance. this agreement will provide funding for these services. we've had a similar agreement like this since 1995, and i'm hoping that you will approve this today. that's the end of my presentation. >> thank you. commissioners, any questions? seeing none, public comment, please. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of remote public comment on item 15, please raise your hands to speak. do we have any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, mr. motion denied -- moderator, are there any public commenters in the queue? >> operator: there are no public commenters lined up to

speak. >> thank you. public comment is closed. >> so moved. >> second. [roll call] >> and item 15 passes. we're on a roll. next item, please. >> clerk: item 16 is authorize the general manager to execute, on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, a collection agreement with the united states forest service, stanislaus national forest, for an amount not to exceed 2,330,087 and with a duration of five years, to provide watershed protection for the san francisco public utilities commission's approved water sources and surrounding lands within the stanislaus national forest. >> per this agreement, the stanislaus national forest will provide protection services for our water resources and surrounding lands that are located in the stanislaus national forest. we're talking about cherry

reservoir watershed, cherry reservoir, and cherry diversion and cherry aqueduct area. it ensures central services within the stanislaus national forest remain secure. examples of activities include patrolling, public education, stock management, public maintenance, camp restoration out at cherry, garbage removal, and law enforcement. we have had a similar agreement since 2008, and today, we're asking you to approve this new agreement. thank you. >> thank you. questions or comments? commissioner maxwell? >> yeah, what did we do before the agreement in 2008? >> they provided services, but it -- i couldn't point to it, so we actually, within our

agreement -- within our documents that we describe on our stewardship of the facilities, i could not really point to the forest service, that they were providing that services, and the services that they were providing were not really described in detail. [please stand by]

>> good afternoon, i'm here to seek approval for the award four as needed contracts for highly specialized and technical skills for use in our water enterprise. these contracts will be as needed up to $5 million and up to five years. they would provide services in one or more 11 technical areas. water supply, water quality services, water treatment and so forth. the reason i'm here today to talk to you about it, i want to make clear what happened during the selection process. what was part of the technical scores and what other aspects of

the evaluation were at play. when we received seven proposals for these as-needed contracts and propose up to four, a panel was put together and it was asked to evaluate the 11 technical areas of water expertise. that is what was put before them and that's all they were asked to do. they were ranked and scored those. three different things were added to those technical scores. the first there's a d.e.i. score, that's a program starting with this contract which was published november 2021, through now in our professional services program. the p.u.c. asked proposers to include the voluntary information about whether or not they had their own diversity, equity and inclusion program and protocols in place.

if they did and they gave us those proposals, they would receive five points, if they didn't, they would not.

these will be reflected in new proposals. we're looking at how much should the measure be. it's five points, is it 10%. what the range of point that are going to cause people to sit up and pay attention and take this seriously. that's one thing that we're looking at. the next thing we're looking at, what are the other things and what should we be asking our vendor partners to do. colonelly-- currently is inclusion of the d.e.i platform. one is overhead and profit

score. that is a determination of how much that is the effective overhead rate that they will be charged that we can ensure that the p.u.c. and our rate payers are getting value for dollars. today, i'm asking for approval of these four contracts. i'm happy to take questions about the contracts or the scoring process. >> president moran: thank you. commissioner maxwell? >> commissioner maxwell: thank you for that clarification. my question is, when you

mentioned that they're asked if they have a program, diversity inclusion program, they say yes or no. >> they upload what their diversity, equity and inclusion plan is. it's uploaded as part of their proposal. they do not have to upload that component for it to be responsive and accepted under this plan. they don't just check yes or no. they give us the plan. >> commissioner maxwell: if they give you the plan, then because they have a plan, it's not evaluated. it's just that, oh, we have a plan. >> that's correct. one of the things we're looking at. that's a further evaluation what's in the plan. it's what we can drill down on what are we measuring. you are correct.

>> commissioner maxwell: is that what they are calling pass-fail? >> yes. do you have a plan. your plan might be better, but we're not evaluating those things. there's no panel doing that. at this point, it's pass-fail. >> commissioner maxwell: if you are setting up a criteria for what that plan would look like, if i'm jake and i give you a plan and i'm don or let me say, i'm emil and i give all plan, you will look at -- we will have certain criteria that we're looking for in that plan? is that what you're thinking about doing? >> yes, we're examining what criteria, what we're requesting. how deep it would go. that portion of the what is what we want to come back and have a more robust discussion of how are we furthering racial and social justice through our

contracting. which is the commission policy that all of this. >> commissioner maxwell: if it's whatever percentage, you're looking for something that will make a difference, no matter in it's 1% or 2%, it will make a difference to whether or not that person is awarded a contract. >> that's correct. that's our goal. >> commissioner maxwell: this pass-fail or whatever you want to call it, how many contracts has that gone out on? how many contracts has that gone out on and when are we going to have the other criteria? when is that going to happen? we have lot of contracts coming up. >> we always do. in answer to that first question, it has gone in every

contract, that good evening out to advertise for professional services, beginning of the year. that currently is around 20, i believe. i can get you that exact number. i don't have a date but it is a priority for us to get both of those things, not just what is being measured but how it's being measured. just to be frank, we may come back with two iterations. in other words, let's change how much we are measuring. then, change the what, we might get the what first. those are two different things. they may go together. we're prioritizing and seeing what we can do. i don't have the date here. >> commissioner maxwell: i don't understand how they are not together. the what and how much. >> this one has five points. you can imagine a situation where it's exact same question and it was 5% instead of .5%. the scale of it is one issue. we're going to be looking at

that. what's important and effective. we are also looking at what are are the things that we can do. frankly it's not just do you have a plan. it could be entirely separate and entire separate issue. that's what's being examined. we want the ideas there. we want to make sure we are pushing forward the policy in a way that is legally defensible and make sense. >> commissioner maxwell: well, i'm going to push you on when and how soon. >> i don't have the answer. >> commissioner maxwell: i understand. i'm going to push you -- pushing these sooner rather than later. >> i understand what you are saying. i hear you. if i had a date for you, i will give it to you. >> commissioner maxwell: not asking for a date. i'm asking you, since you don't have one, i will not ask you for it. what i am asking that you said

it's priority. if it's heightened priority, we're going to do it sooner rather than later. >> that is correct. >> we understand the importance of this. you have both of our commitment that this highest priority is going to mean that we -- you see meaningful progress sooner rather than later. i know that mr. flynn is going to do it. he doesn't play around with this kind of thing. he's going to make sure it happens. i have confidence, i'm still going to say it. i'm confident you will do what you said you will do. i appreciate that. >> commissioner paulson: i'm going to give you little more nuts and bolts, easier question. as i just look at this, there's a company get up to $5 million a

year to do a litany of things with water and security and environmental stuff, whatever that is. specialty stuff. i'm thinking out loud. this isn't just maintenance. this is not big enough for major infrastructure and stuff. it's specialty work. can you give me may be five or six bullets of what exactly is the specialty work in terms of environmental stuff. just an example. if i got the contract, what am i telling you i will give you because things happen. was it as needed. suspect it preplanned and is it new technology. just five examples of what these contracts do. >> absolutely. first thing i want to make clear, it's up to $5 million over five years. you're correct it's not

$5 million a year. it will be $5 million over five years. >> commissioner paulson: oh, okay. that's even smaller. >> it's much smaller. i think steve richie is going to give you some stuff. it is water analysis. we're looking at analysis. it's sort of a quick specialty still that we need quickly or we need expertise on. it is not replacing our workers doing the nuts and bolts of our business. >> commissioner paulson: again, my question is couple of bullets what that actually means to somebody who knows somebody about building. >> this is steve richie assistant general manager for water. planning studies of various sorts, we don't go do engineering. those are more than different specialty type of contracts. planning studies to begin just quick assessment should you go

down this path or this path in terms of solving a problem. data analysis is another good example where we have to tray to solve a problem. it takes lot of work to analyze data to get to the basis for planning study. do we have a regulatory requirement we need to respond to quickly whereas somebody can help give us a plan on what are the steps that we need to take to actually respond to that regulatory requirement. those are some quick easy examples there. i'm trying to think for another type of thing. it really is in the planning world of things that we really look at this kind of stuff. do an audit of how we're doing in the program. are we accomplishing what we intended to do and do they have recommendations for us on how we can improve, which include actually, changing our staffing levels. that will be something that we

would put in this kind of work. these contracts, this is -- since i been here, we been through four iterations of these contracts. these are our bread and butter operations. folks have aspect -- integrated in our work. >> commissioner paulson: do some of the contracts integrate with current staff that are working for the p.u.c. also? >> yes. it's a little of both. sometimes there are places where we have just an excessive number of vacancies and we can't get some of the bread and butter work done. we intend to add staff there that will help us accomplish what we need to do.

it's more in the engineering area and service area. >> commissioner paulson: thank you. >> president moran: commissioner ajami? >> vice president ajami: i'm going to ask mr. richie there, i will ask him a question. i think one clear comment here, we had this conversation earlier. i would really like for us to own some of this than just being the consumer that comes out of these model analysis that you're paying for. i wonder if there is a way for us to institute some form of -- i don't know how we can do that. i think i would like to see more of -- i would like for us to own

it. i think it's okay for our staff to not only to take that data information and be able to change it, play with it, test it. >> i do have an answer to that part. we should spend some time with you and talk about all the analytical work we do. we have a tremendous modeling capability in our staff. i don't want there to be any misconception that we're just buying somebody to come in and do a model for us, we don't look at it or understand it and spit out a number. that doesn't happen. >> vice president ajami: i do actually and value the internal

expertise and knowledge that you have within the sfpuc. i've been a admirer of that. did not mean to say that. i want to make sure -- if we're paying for something, i want to make sure we end up owning the products at some point. >> absolutely. >> vice president ajami: going back to the discussion. i want to put a few scenarios in front of you. one is, all of these companies that had applied -- this is an example. this is not exactly -- [ indiscernible ] the major companies, lot of them have programs in place. it's very rare they would not have a plan, they have not done

something. they all have sort of a part of the process moving forwards that direction. however, you can also have smaller companies that are not necessarily part of the mainstream pipelines. how are we going to accommodate the ladder, rather than enabling more and more of these -- i want to make sure we don't create --

[ indiscernible ] >> that is a great question. that's in the category of what are we measuring and what are we asking our companies for. you're correct, it may be, this is where i say we need to work closely with the city attorney, it may be that we have a set of companies who we know are extremely diverse. how do we measure that and how do we allow that to fit in that world. that is the what that we are digging into, that we can implement this as robustly as possible. while still protecting the agency and the rate payers from illegal risk. where we fit along that. it is because this doesn't include it, it does not mean we are not looking at that issue. that's a great example of the things that we have to look at and figure out how to measure.

>> vice president ajami: can you hear me now? >> yes. >> vice president ajami: i did hear what you said. i appreciate that. beyond the fact that we want to make sure we are not legally liable. i want to make sure we are actually picking the right players in the process and making sure we are creating a more event field for everybody to participate, regardless of their size and capacity and all that. you have a huge task ahead of you because just having plan, obviously, as we all know, is not only thing that will

diversify our workforce. >> that's correct. that's one of the reasons i said it's an iterative process. it is -- we're not going to be changing it every day. we need to come and come up with a plan and see how it works and see what the results are. we need to be willing to go back and look at that and see if we're getting results and go back again. it's an iterative process. >> vice president ajami: one quick comment there, i know this have come up a few times with bigger contracts that you have for construction. even for these kind of contract, it will be good for us to have some sort of data tracking, database that we can track all different criterias that we are using. that way we can test different hypothesis and improve that

process. >> thank you. >> president moran: commissioner maxwell. >> commissioner maxwell: when we talk about risk, we're talking about there's high risk, low risk, medium risk. we're considering all the risk. i know you're lawyer. you're an attorney it seems like there's different kinds of risks. i hope that we are considering that as well. >> we are. that is part of the analysis. i am a lawyer. i was a lawyer by trade. but now, i'm working here. i have my utility management hat on, not my lawyer hat. and my policy. , yes. >> commissioner maxwell: thank you. >> president moran: thank you, any other questions or comments? seeing none. public comment please.

>> clerk: members of the public who wish to make remote public comment on item 17, please press star 3 to raise your hand so speak. do we have callers with their hands raised? >> there are no callers in the queue. >> clerk: public comment on item 17 is closed. >> president moran: any additional comments or questions? seeing none. motion and second please. >> commissioner maxwell: move to approve. >> commissioner paulson: second. [roll call vote] >> clerk: you have four ayes. >> president moran: item passes. is there any other matter before this commission? >> clerk: that concludes your business for today. >> president moran: this meeting is adjourned. earlier this

month we were all shocked to read a draft of a supreme court opinion. i decision that would overturn roe versus wade and set our country back by 50 years. this is a very dark momentfor the highest court in our land and our country's rule of law . the potentialconsequences of this opinion cannot be underestimated .we're not just talking about the arrests, the prosecutions, the criminal convictions ofwomen seeking reproductive health care or medical professionals providing that care. we know from history that women will die because of this decision . now, over the years that bay area has had a proud tradition of lawyers taking up the cause of justice during the turmoil of the 1960s , bay area lawyers formed the lawyers committee for civil rights leveraging the efforts of thousands of pro bono

attorneys. after a mass shooting at a downtown san francisco law firm their area lawyers started the community againstviolence which has led the nationalfight for gun safety . and when no one bought it possible , bay area lawyers in our san francisco city attorney's office teamed up to leavethe fight for marriage equality .today we are here to announce that the san francisco city attorney's office, the bar association of san francisco and at this time over 20 law firms are joining forces to launch the legal alliance for reproductive rights. this alliance will seek to provide pro bono services to address the myriad of legal needs of pregnant women and health providers who will be facing civil suits and criminal charges for seeking or providing reproductive health

care. our city attorney's office will be looking for litigation opportunities to protect rights, advising our policymakers on how we protect that access to care and will be teaming up with these law firms and the lawyers standingwith us today and hundreds of their colleagues as well as other public law offices . reverend martin luther king taught us that the ultimate measure of a person is not where we stand in moments of comfort and convenience but where we stand at times of challenge and controversy. as lawyers, as officers of the court we cannot standidly by during this most precarious moment for constitutional rights in our lifetime . i am very grateful to the bay area legal community for stepping up today during this moment to stand up for justice and the rule of law. and today we invite and challenge legal communities around our states and our

country to join us . together, we can dispel the darkness. i am honored to be joined today by significant leaders in our legal community and beyond. we're going to hear from our first speaker, presidentof the bar association of san francisco mary mcnamara . [applause] >> thank you david. esteemed members ofthe san francisco legal community , just over a month ago mayor reed declared april 27 the bar association of san francisco day. the mayor was honoring 150 years of work that this bar association has done since its founding in 1872. we have advocated for every major civil rights cause in the country. we've been leaders of the world

in this regard and for thepast 50 years we have advocated for reproductive justice . in 1970 four roe v wade we call for the removal of restrictions from abortion in this state. in the 1970s and 80s we advocatedfor reproductive justice causes. we signed on to every major brief beforethe supreme court . today as david said we are joining together to form a new coalition , the legal alliance forreproductive rights . we know that the finest law firms in the city , everybody here has not only joined but rushed to join this effort to protect the newly vulnerable cause of pregnant people in this country. they're doing so to uphold the basic rights of legalpersonhood for all pregnant people . the basic right or sisters,

supporters, the brothers, sisters, mothers andfathers, the grandparents . everybody who helpsa woman obtain an abortion . these people will now be the subject of civil and criminal prosecutions and hospice country. all these firms recognize that a woman has a basic right to control her ownhealth care . all of them recognized that women are now going to be forced to give birth, even women have been raped. women who have beenabused . women too young to carry achild , too poor to have another child. women who have precarious pregnancies. allof them are going to be in danger through the fall of rome . in a post-real-world as david had said it's not just that women will be arrested or fully prosecuted for doing what any other person can do with his or her body. women will indeed die.

women die already in this country and getting childbirth. in fact, we have the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world and it's a race that has been climbing for two decades. the fall of rome isgoing to usher in a new appallingly high maternal mortality rate . people of color will suffer the most. the poor will get poorer. abortion is not just basic healthcare. it's an economic right and without that economic right women are going to suffer from morethe quality and the already . this city leads the state. the state leaves the country. i echo david call for our sister communities across the country, our fellow bar association to comeand do what are doing . form agroup of lawyers who will give of themselves freely in

this site . i want to thank everybody here for their civicmindedness , theirgenerosity, there will towards the constitution of this country . thank you. [applause] >> thank you marian and thank you to the leadership of the bar association . we know that as we move forward in the coming weeks, months and years there will be many strategies and tactics that will have to be determined to help leave those efforts is executive director and general counsel of the bar association, yolanda jackson . >> morning everyone. thank you to our family. thank you for being here. i cannot express how incredibly proud i am to be reading this organization on this day and during these dark and challenging times.

we always standwhen it's needed and when helps themost. in a 150 year history wewalked boldly into the fight for due process , criminal justice reform , women's equality and women's rights , raise the quality once again we are working boldly into the challenge to protect and supportthe rights of people to exercise their reproductive rights . people seeking abortions have a right to privacy and liberty. people seekingabortions have a right to privacy and liberty . roe versus wade is on the verge of being overturned. on january 2023 will be 50 yearssince the roe v wade decision was decided by the us report . none of us should be proud of this was we areabout to take incarnation and we all should be very machine . in san francisco we always have a lighthouse shiny. a symbol of hope and security.

over 20 law firms and counties have come together to be ready and prepared to assist people with legal issues arising out of there exercising their reproductiverights . these legal services will be provided for free. why? because these law firms are proud to walk the walk when it comes to upholding the rule of law and protecting constitutional rights . assisting people when they are most vulnerable is what makes mostlawyers proud to be part of our profession . the lawyers alliancefor reproductive rights is facing a crisis head-on . we had could not be more proud of the 20+ firms for their generosity . we are extremely honored to be collaborating with the san francisco city attorney david hsu and his office in this important endeavor. finally i want to invite and encourage my. executive directors from bar

association's from across the nation to replicate this effort in their cities to help people seeking and fighting fortheir reproductive rights . i want to thank all the firms who stand ready to bend the art of the moral universe towards justice. thank you to our president mary mcnamara for this amazing idea tobring these law firms together to protect the rights of those seeking the right to choose. doing whatlawyers do best . that is utilizing their unique skills and training tohelp other people .thank you all for being here this afternoon to support this effort . [applause] >> thank you yolanda. i'm going to say to the press corps we don't recognize the attorneys standing to our left or right, these are not only some of the best lawyers in san francisco and the bay and are state, these are some of the best lawyers in the country and i would not want to miss this group.

and speaking on behalf of this group is a woman who is representing one of the very first lawfirms to step up for this effort . partner and cochair of capital markets practice from arnold porter kate and scholer, teresa johnson. [applause] >> good morning everyone. my name is teresa johnson and i'm a partner with arthur and porter. i'm proud to represent the group of law firms coming together with the city attorney in the legal alliance for reproductive rights. there aremore than 20 firms who put their hands up and more joining every day. our mission is simple : to protect people exercising their reproductive rights and the medical providers providing care and support. as we allknow the supreme court appears to be poised to take

away a fundamental right that's been on the books for nearly 50 years . that calls for a public-private collaboration to pool our strength and resources and fight to ensure the personal and professional safety of pregnant people, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals. no one should have toput their personal freedom on the line to exercise a constitutional right . we have a dream team of law firms in the coalition as david noted comprising some of the finest alliance in the country. there has been an outpouring of support from national and local firms to what weall see as a tragedy about to unfold . it is my privilege tointroduce the firms are part of this effort . walt schuler, arguilas cassidy, bron katie andgordon , clarenc dyer , catch, duffy andbass ,

conrad kane, crowle and morgan. martel, glenn bergman and puentes. anson bridgett, lewis and llewellyn. hyman and bernstein. morrison and foerster. netheri and jung. ripken, ward and garrison. ramsey and erlich. joseph o'donnell. swanson and mcnamara and loki gallagher. special thanks to all the firms who are part of this effort. on behalf of all of us we look

forward to working with the other members to support reproductive rights. thank you . [applause] >> thank you teresa and i want to thank each and everyone of you for being here , for standing up when it really matters . our final speaker today i will introduce in the following way it's not everyday lawyers and doctors come together on an issue . but the san francisco marin medical society has been on the forefront of leading important progressive issues and i'm very grateful to the leadership of the medical society for stepping in immediately. we are looking forward to working with our healthcare professionals around the region, around the state and around the country to protect the important work they do every day. here representingthe medical society is president phd doctor

michael schrader . [applause] >> thank you david for that generous introduction. so my name is doctor michael schrader and i'm a primary care doctor in san francisco and also president of the san francisco medical society. we represent over 3000 positions living in san francisco and marin. we had a long history of advocating for theright to choose . a long history of advocating for access for patients to exercise this right and we feel that abortion is a medical decision tobe made by patient and her physician .i wanted to tell you a story. i was telling this trauma physician as i was coming here today and he told me the story resonated with me and has some real lessons. it was a trauma surgeon and the woman had a traumatic brain injury and she was brain-dead . as part of the evaluation for

trauma they checked for pregnancy turned up thiswoman was pregnant . she was stable and she was pregnant. it turns out they were working institution that shall we say is less than forward thinking about reproductive rights . and you know, normally this womanwould have been onlife support for 30 days . i'm sorry, 30 months . to carry this fetus to term. and the right thing to do in this situation is to withdraw care on this poor woman who met the legal definition of being dead . i want to tell you the right decision was made in this case but you can see how legislating these kinds of decisions takes away our power and gives power to legislatures who are not necessarily considering the individual rights of the person involved and the best medical care for the persons involved so san francisco marin medical society isproud to be included in this initiative . david has been long been a champion of medical freedom.

san franciscomarion medical assistance center defend a woman's right to choose . thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. thatconcludes today's event. i want to say to the press if you have questions for anyone today we can do interviews afterwards but i want to say to all of you who are here, thank you. thank you. we have a lot of work to do together but we are going to do it together and we will prevail. let me ask one final request . when we take a grouppicture everyone face this way and see if we can fill in the front will take a photo and then we can all say hello again . >>

>> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting

off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse. the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. >> in the early 90s, san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste

characterization study, and that showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees,

it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into the soil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a

new law in california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025. and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. -- forest, and so fors. we know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for

the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program

for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that

attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that

they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the

greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with the gold rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few

which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions. streets. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i wanted to wish you a best wishes and congratulations the community has shifted a lot of

when i was growing up in the 60s and 50's a good portion of chicano-american chinese-american lived in north beach a nob hill community. >> as part the immigrant family is some of the recreation centers are making people have the ability to get together and meet 0 other people if communities in the 60s a 70s and 80s and 90s saw a move to the richmond the sunset district and more recently out to the excelsior the avenue community as well as the ensuring u bayview so chinese family living all over the city and when he grape it was in this area. >> we're united. >> and growing up in the area that was a big part of the my leave you know playing

basketball and mycy took band lessons and grew up. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> allergies welcome to the community fair it kicks off three weeks of celebrations for the year and let's keep everybody safe and celebrate the biggest parade outside of china on february 11th go best wishes and congratulations and 3, 2, 1

happy enough is enough. >> i grew up volley ball education and in media professional contrary as an educator he work with all skids whether or not caucasian hispanic and i african-american cumber a lot of arrest binge kids my philosophy to work with all kids but being here and griping in the chinese community being a chinese-american is important going to american school during the day but went to chinese school that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to all culture it is important to me. >> it is a mask evening. >> i'd like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian

art museum. >> one time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i licks the immigration officer didn't understand it became no standard chinese marine or cantonese sproupgs it became so many different sounds this is convenient for the immigration officer this okay your family name so this tells the generations of immigrants where they come from and also many stories behind it too. >> and what a better way to celebrate the enough is enough nuru with the light nothing is more important at an the hope

the energy we. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> relative to the current administration it is, it is touching very worrisome for our immigrant frames you know and some of the stability in the country and i know how this new president is doing you know immigration as well as immigrants (fireworks) later than you think new year the largest holiday no asia and china those of us when my grandparents came over in the

19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuru is traditional with a lot of meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the

chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give >> everything we do in the tenderloin, we urban outfit. here, this gives us an opportunity to collaborate with other agencies and we become familiar with how other agencies operate and allow us to be more flexible and get better at what we depo in the line of work in this task. >> sometimes you go down and it's hard to get up. so we see ourselves as providing an opportunity for the unhoused to get up. and so i really believe that when they come here and they've

said it, this right here is absolutely needed. you can't ask for nothing better. >> the tenderloin is the stuff that ain't on the list of remedies, liked the spiritual connection to recovery and why would i? why would i recover? what have i got to live for? things like that. and sharing the stories. like i was homeless and just the team. and some people need that extra connection on why they can change their life or how they could. >> we have a lot of guests that will come in and say i would like -- you know, i need help with shelter, food, and primary care doctor. and so here, that's three rooms down the hall. so if you book them, they get all of their needs taken care of in one go. this is an opportunity for us here in the tenderloin to come together, try out these ideas to see if we can put -- get -- connect people to services in a

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