hope you enjoyed the rainfall. can't complain. i'm not complaining. madam secretary or this meeting we are going to bring this meeting to order. can we have the roll call. >> president ajami >> here. >> vice president maxwell. why here. >> commissioner paulson. absent. commissioner riverasm >> here >> commissioner stacy. >> here. >> due to the healing emergency and the public health recommendation by public healing any emergency orders of the govern and mayor concerning social distance thanksgiving

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>> excellent. thank you. i would like to announce that the san sfpuc it stursd of the land located in the historic territory of the troib and other descendant of the federal recognized mission san jose [inaudible]. the sfpuc recognizes every citizen in the greater bay area has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the tribes. since before and after the sfpuc commission found nothing 1932 it is person we recognize the history land on which we reside but also acknowledge and humanor the fact that the people have

established a working partnership with the sfpuc and productive and members went many greater san francisco bay area communities today. with that, could read the first itemful >> item 3. approval of the minutes of february 14, 2023. >> clothes any edits or comments you would like to be considered? can we have a public comment, please. do we need public comment in yes. why member who is wish to make 2 minutes of comment on item 3 press terror 3 to speak. do we have members present to provide comments on the minutes. do we have callers with hands raised. why there are in callers at this time. >> public comment on item low is closed. >> thank you. colleagues can i have a motion

and second in on this for the minutes of february 14? move to approve. >> second. >> thank you. madam second, take a roll call. >> president ajami >> aye >> vice president maxwell y. aye >> rivera. >> aye >> commissioner stacy. >> aye. >> thank you. item passes. could you call the next item. >> item 4 report of the general manager. >> thank you. item 4a is a draft condition update from steve ritchie. >> steve ritchie upon assistant general manager for water.

i will give the draught condition's update and there is certainly a lot of information to share. >> you see that this is our storage as of february 21. and we were riding high already and we do expect to fill this year. you see cher sedown a bit but on full expectations there will be run off to come to fill that up. and again around the state, things are looking pretty good in a lot of residence virus should havea i find in orville is above average this time and shasta is 84% of average this time. and don pedro is above average as well. things are looking better. and the draught monitor. this is the areas of darker colors shrinking down. we will see how far they go over time.

but this is certainly, this is from february upon 16th it changed a bit from the last storm and there are more storms ahead. >> precipitation of hetch hetchy you see it flattened out at about 38 inches. and i looked at the results from yesterday. and they just bumped up to 4 inches. another 2 inches at hetch hetchy for this time of year. >> and this is the precipitation as of february 20, up country row. february was looking to be a little low 1.42 inches. yesterday's reading for the month was up to 4.95 inches. large increase from this storm. >> similar store net bay area. gone from 1.75 double to 3.5 in the bay your with gwen that does

in the count for today. for examplel or yesterday. so. again there has been significant can bump. and -- may be more important low, the snow pack bumped up as well. it bumped up in the amount similar to the riffle. of where it was riding 150% of excuse me april first and it is now up to 170% of april first, again we'll get to it but there are more storms on the way. >> the water available to the city is in the changing the reason is because it is cold. so well is in the a lot of run off, coming off the mountains at this point. we are sitting at 517,00080 are feet of water that is available already but as no melt miss the number will increase dramatically. and on the national

precipitation forecast bright colors of interest. this shows that the period ending tomorrow shows a lot of activity throughout the state. if anybody touched boy southern california cal they had a lot of precipitation there as well. for next week, it looks like for more is on the way. i saw this morning for the week after that, and looks like it has more bright colors then and there these. there could be more out there. those are more speck welltive. should not counts on it but things are helping. lastly. from the data, i'm told deliveries we are below 2015 and twenty 13 and 2020. i looked at the member and it bumped up i bit. a bit to about 152 gallons per day it is below all of these

previous years. that's what is help nothing our system. and with our customers. we are dog a good job on saving water. now i will turn to a more wordos it that i would like but on february 13 the governor issued a new executive order regarding draught. which continued the state emergency draught declaration. i have been commenting, there is a possibility the state will extend it and chose to. for verse reasons. a lot has to do with groundwater conditions in california but still concern about what might happen through the rest of the year. and there are 2 prosecute visions of this declaration of interest to us the first the one this is long this is only part of that provision, is to ensure that supplies are available from the central valley project and state water project. and gives

a lot of things to take into account but as you read the comments, governor has suspended verse conscience and relied on the state water board to take action and take into account a let of things but emphasizing making sure they have supplies and storage. the reason why that it is significance you to, is this they mireelectric conditions for the out flow from the reservoirs there. and that show up some place else in curtailments this might aplay to other people who have additional water that is manage we will watch as we go forward. second the out of state agencies recommendations for what further actions might be necessary for on going emergency draught response and the reviews on whether existing provisions might not be needed any long and

stopped. we will be in contact with the state to discuss thing in place now. for example, we asked our customers to move to stage 2 level of water insurage plan. gifrn our supply conditions that does not team appropriate, so we might get comments to the affect that -- for agencies that make findings about the status of water supply they are allowed back down a bit on dramatic plan. we will see how this plays out. again i commented before and showing up here, the state is continuing the draught and something we need to may attention to which i'm happy to answer any questions. why excellent. any questions for mr. ritchie? >> we are happy to see all the precipitation. that's go. hope it stays put and ends up in reservoirs. there is more in the forecast.

>> yes. thank you. >> can we have public comment on this item. >> members of public when wish to make public comment on 4a drought condition update press star 3 to speak. do we are callers with hundreds raised. >> there is one caller in the queue. hello i opened your line you have 2 minutes to comment on 4a. >> thank you this is peter policy director for tuolumne river trust. could have done this a month ago. there my guess is not only will the system fill butt sfpuc will have enough entitlements from the snow melt this year to fill all reservoirs a second time you

can't dom this we have a lot of water up there. and. the reports are human centric in november of 21 commissioner herrington requested regular updates on the state of the environment in the tuolumne with a focus on salmon. we have yet to see that. this is another bad salmon season and looks like the commercial season could get cancelled this year. people be out of work at the wharf there is more woeful could do about it. the i think you should have a slide showing in stream flows below hemp hemp and he lower tuolumne. what you see is the lower tuolumne filled 35 huh human cfs now. and all that is required is 300. irrigation districts are making tlour there is xapt to capture

snow melt. 1 forty-four mgd demand. if we did have an 8 and a half year drought we would have this 144 in the last few years of the drought. thank you. public comment is closed. >> 4b is a quarter low audit and performance rerureport from blackwood.

he were is the quarter low audit and performance review report. >> as of december therein, 2022, search audits or 24% of the year's plan portfolio have been come pleaed. 12 in progress. 10adits or 35% commenced. here other details of the 3 audit in the second quarter. office of controller issued a network for information technology and prescriptional technology. on october 12, 2022. the california inspect system operator released scheduling coordinator self audit00 december 1722 the controller's released gas and electric franchise fee for 2019 and 2020

on november 16 of 22. focusing on the franchise fee audit. this audit is conducted every 2 years to ensure the payments for gas and electric to san francisco are correct. pg and e pays the city of sudden front franchise fee to use infrastructure to transmit, distribute and supply electric and gas with the applicable prosecute visions of the interconnection green light with the city of san francisco and pg and e. filed with the energy commission and chapter 11 of the code. yet audit teams tested ref now components of 1.seven billion gross ropes that impacted the frfrnize fees payable to the city. pg and e properly paid de feos and surcharge fees of 15 million

dollars, 585, 120 dollars for theical dar years of 2019 and 2020. monitors open audit regulation lagzs throughout the agency to ensure they are addressd and implemented according to the respective dead lines. as of december thereinst had 4 recommendations that remained open 2 audits. would like to know as of last month in january the remaining recommendations were deemed fully implement exclude completed by the office of controller city service auditor. moving forward from the second quarter. we participate this the completion of the total 8 audits during the quarter will be

completed. those audits include the audit financial statements for fiscal 21-22. energy center san francisco franchise fee audit. the wholesale revenue requirements. statement of changes special balancing, counts for fiscal 21 and 20. the annium financial report for fiscal 21, 22. the preponder lawyer financial report for fiscal 21-22. the sue are system improve am program contract con65 program management. condition transact audit and the crystal springs golf per in ref you in leasadit and phase 2 of the sfpuc ref now bond program audit. we anticipate the kick autopsy of a toast 8 additional audits this quarter. mainly the 2022 green verification audit for super green and super green favor.

post audit forical dar years 22. the wholesale revenue requirements statement of changes and balancing accounts for fiscal 21-22. the risk management cyber security assessment. mission valley rock lease audit phase 3 and the sfpuc bond program audit and the chapter 6 audit. >> thank you for your time and i'm available for questions. thank you. any questions? i appreciate your comment on pg and e's connection to our franchise, franchise fee audit. because -- obviously not related this conversation we are having

but we have the other sifted issue this raising the rates on how we are you know you are trying to use their assets or put being requirements on it. so i'm wondering how -- that's franchise -- um -- fees, how long are they like an annual -- process or like a long-term contract? how does this work >> a long-term contract that was expire in the 2015. we did present a new city contract that went forward. our attorneys and their's could in the agree but we presented it to the federal energy commission and it was accepted as filed there is an agreement there and sends remittances to us. and so this is the nature of our agreement with them. >> thank you. i would love to look a bit dope and see how -- the 2 can be compare exclude potentially if

there is any leverage to be taken in this process to better approximate handle the asset usage or management. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> appreciate it. >> thank you what is the preponder lar annual financial report? >> this is a standard financial report this every stele and county has to under go. follows the standards issued by government. financial reporting standards. and we have our chief financial officer nancy available to discuss it further. so -- this is manage we do regularly. nance emhong, business service the popular financial report is a more simple report for nonfinancial reader. based off audited financial statements issue third degree january. we will issue the popular annual

financial report graphics intensive. has more detail about our past year's activity, i'm looking forward to issue thanksgiving in about a week you will get this can the comprehensive financial report. >> it is more of i layman's. why yes. we will high level revenues, expenditures for each the enter prices with basic metric, how much staff. what are debt service. credit ratings, et cetera . >> thank you. >> thank you. why would be great if we as you put that together we can think about some material that can be shared with the public it is valuable knowledge to have what it takes to bring water. why definitely >> i'm looking for new ways to present information e approximately on the annual financial report. i welcome this in the future.

>> thank you. >> other comments. i have another request. of you. i are bruthis up multiple times and want to mentioning temperature if there are things you think are lessons learned we have to pay attention to or guard rithis is we are to put in accomplice to make sure everything is functioning as it should. we are always open to hear them. please in your report back to us consider those because -- obviously we are working together and want the system that is running smooth and in the right way and all the right set of program terse. >> thank you for this. >> thank you. >> can we have public comment on this. thank you. members had wish to make 2 minutes of remote comment on item 4b press star 3 to speak.

do we have callers with hands raised? there are in callers. >> thank you public comment on item 4b is closed. >> 4c a quarter low budget status report from nancy hung. chief financial officer. good afternoon i'm nancy hong chief financial officer for business service i'm here on behalf of laura bush who was unable to make it.

over all, for our second quarter for face cal 22-23 we project a positive operating result for water, wastewater, power and clone clean. for water and waste kaurt u ref nows projected to exceed budget due to higher expected retail and wholesale, sales. power and cleanpowersf, we anticipate higher power purchase and transmission and distribution costs leading to significant short fall in the budgets. these are off set boy general reserve contribution and wholesale ref nows for hetch hetchy power. our results are projected toy meet our target. first for water, as a q2 they will end with a net operating result of 161 million dollars. and a positive variance of 34.9

million dollars. this it is a combination of hire than participated ref nows and lower projected expend tours on sources side we are projected to end with a 25 opinion 4 million dollars positive variance. this is driven by better than expected wholesale and retail revenue customer serves less than budgeted. our used more. uses are projected to end the year lower by 9 penalty sick million dollars due to 2.9 million dollars in salaries and benefits. spending is lower 6.6 in dent service cost that is upon drench by state revolving fund lone repayments for the west side recycle to updated construction schedule.

higher ref dmous lower expense against our budget sources on the sources side ref nowed better by 6.2 mission driven by better expected demand. in water which leads to increase in wastewater ref nows. use on the use side is five.1 million in savings from saul rows and benefits due to vacancies in the enterprise we anticipate 11 million dollars in savings due to bond issuance related market conditions. we will make a draw from our upon low cost interest loan at

1.45% for the biosolids program that it is 122 million dollars draw we'll did there. and again another delayed repayment time 39 revolving fund loan due to project scheduling. >> for the hetch hetchy water and power, the net operating results there are 62.seven million dollars and 39 opinion 9 million variance. between sources and use. source up by 38 opinion 9 million dollars. you may see a variance for retail that was due to not do to under performance that is do you to our budget set too high in the prior year. it was due to timing to the rate study and does in the affect ouring operations.

do you to higher power price the sales up by 46.7 million dollars. 255% to put context to that. at the current power price are very high and the power enterprise benefitted. pritting oozes a million dollars less do you to 2 factors. that is the power spending 17 million dollars more then and there anticipated on power. and gas and steam cost due to increased process on the market that is off set by 18 million dollars contribution to the general reserve we participate to make due to not spending on the areas. later on in q3 we anticipate to work with the controller's office to make budget adjustments for power purchase and transmission costs. cleanpowersf are projected end the year with a net operating result of 11.8 million.

this it is a positive variance of 8 opinion 9 to the budget. higher revenues and lower expend tours and 7.1 million dollars positive vicious in utility and interest incomes and the usage side we expect over spend of 33.2 million related power purwhich is do you to the power market. we'll work with the clone clean team and in finance and also to do a budget adjustment again in q3.

shoes the rit i don'ts on the left side there are metric and targets where we want to be from the middle of the right side is performance of each departments we are on target to meet our policies here. the one exception you might see is cleanpowersf again mentioned they have an allowance time line it meet their cash on hand. by april of 25 and the fund balance reserve would be 50%. with that, this concludes my presentation and happy to answer questions. >> commissioner stacy. i have a question explanation on slide 5 and 6. at the bottom of those slides have you a general reserve plan to go unupon spent. could you explain that. wham does that mean? >> a general reserve is basically money you might put

become to fund balance funds you have in excess within your ref nows. in government and accounting we don't have net income we take the difference or put this in fund balance this . is a contribution to the general reserve. unspent funds. is there a reason why they are unspent. i 99ing this case for power it is unspent funds related to -- better then and there anticipated ref nows from the sales of utilities. steak the fund and put them to the fund balance. why thank you. >> that explained it. >> i have a question. on -- what i noticed was was --

we are anticipating on the 13% increase on power purchase. under cleanpowersf if i recall the you know the cost of power has increased by 4 folds. i wonder and you see that on the sales side when you look at the slide 5. how there is increase 4 times more and the cost of purchasing power is 13% more?

the value of the power has gone up. but you are looking at slide 6. under useders it say there is is 13%. increase in power purchase. which is impacting president budget am i read thanksgiving correctly. no? >> yes, you are. erin, financial planning director. so there are 2 things with the power sales. the prices and the market are high so we are able to sell and did gent rit more power than expecting. so that number is by the 2. clen clean side the costs over budget driven by prices. our volume forecast were

accurate. >> that's what the point i was trying to make. we are anticipated to purchase a lot of power on spot market. and looking at the data i wonder item it is 13% increase here. a lot of our power purchases are contracted out. and the purchases on the spot market a hedging strategy this dictates the total sales at a period in advanced should be locked down at current price versus when we leave open. the last meeting we had an item on our fwnd this focussed on the need to increase our cleanpowersf budget for power

purchase. significantly. so where does this fall compared to the numbers. is this part of the spot market purchases or long-term strategy. . but i can say that the increases in our future budgets are driven about this by higher spot market and contracts we are seeing increases in the price that supplier give us. we are look nothing more contracts but more expensive then and there they used to be. >> thank you. i think it would be great if we can have someone from

cleanpowersf provide additional information. ir would like to know that the ratio between long-term versus. >> that was authority it spends up it a certain amount. >> of right. okay. we will get you that presentation. >> thank you very much y. okay. >> thank you. can we have other comments? >> public comment, please. do we have callers with hands raised? there are no callers.

public ment on 4c is closed. >> item 4d is a sfpuc process review presented by wendy macy. >> i'm windsy macy, may i have the slides. last mnth we came forward with an over vow we talked about collaboration with department of human resource. this is going to be different. tell focus on what we control as part of the hiring process. will tell a compellingster and he show dash boards this we created as we improved the analytics. we will spotlight our north star is come is what our goal is in

terms of hiring. and we are committed to doing the best we can to roach that goal. first i the go to the 800 pound grill at vacancies. we have a very high vacancy rate. some of the enterprises have over a 25% vacancy rate. water has the highest number of vacancies they were the largest group. power has the highest vacancy rate. not all of them are funded but we thought it was important in the interest of transparency to provide you with where we are at this moment. in light of this challenge on demand.

hiring is done by all of our enterprises in collaboration we worked closely with hiring manager and department personnel liaisons. you see a lot of work has been going of and this current year since july first, we hired 191 new staff. we have all moved 190 staff internal low this could be transfers, prosecute motions. there were men recruitments that have gone on f. it helps to yoeld prosecute motion this is wonderful news. fill the person who just occupied that spot. bad 92 says the same time 162 staff left. them shoes not only we need focus on our hiring priorities

but we need to focus on agencies retention on retention. this next slide shows what happened in the pandemic. orange is in the optimal the blue shows progress. when that show system in the last couple of fitsical years our exits out paced hirings. even though we you know doubled our number of hire in 21-22 to 313 people, we lost more then and there we hired. and this fiscal year we managed keep pace and hired more than left but need to condition this trends it make it any measurable impact on the vacancy rates. understanding that atrician, turn over or what you call it is a major factor contributing to

the vacancy rates you hear about. we look to see where our turn over is the greatest. we see in our smaller burroughs which are my colleague at external adespairs hrs we have the highest turn over rate. and because we are so small. you know we have critical functions this can't do without staff. that is know area of improve am we need to focus on. with all that said having an understanding of where we lie, where do we need to be. this is where we come up with a vision in terms of our north star our optimal state where we like hrs to be built upon data the highest technology. all the resources that we need to if be able to trek and retain

the best employees. how real analyze data to make smarting decisions. keep will not 3 our hand in the air that is in the the sfpuc spirit. we have done a deep dive in

terms of research. i have spoken to other than hiring managers. many roached out with suggestions on the hiring process. i reached out to labor partners and had conversations with them. what best bunkhams they might have we ewize at our agency. so -- we than we do amazing world class work. we love our commission and leadership team and thousands of hard working colleagues. and -- when we need to do is again, make sure that some of the -- bureaucratic hurdles this we control are e eliminated and

we hell the best story so we can attract the best correspondidates. this slide that looks like the ball or jackson pol you can this is not a fake this it is a real diagram our staff put together had they were in the hiring process. so -- and it looks as horrifying as it looks. and all of those things the back and forth of the touch points are thing this is we can strive to improve. one thing i know that we are blessed we have many liaceons. these are people hor embedded in the different divisions had assist us in the hiring process. but we need to do a better job

of trin and meching sure they have the to thes they need. we need to make sure we don't burden them with 7 forms when one will do. each touch point system an opportunity for error and an opportunity for delay. that is why we have embarked upon the lean process of initiatives where the staff literally the analyst level many staff i think may be hamp of the staff have been with the puc less then and there 2 years they are fresh in the field but this is great. they have great, wonderful, fresh ideas than i are not stuck with this ask the way we do things. we get suggestions from them. we roached on the to hiring managers. this does not seem like this is will a value sdpad we are working through them. . everyone helps us in the hiring

process and more important low it helps us reduce the barriers this might impede our work in racial equity and he opening door and broader opportunities for people. our inn engagement with candidates. i will tell you my staff said than i machine torour discussions on job boards and when than i talk about jobs they say things like, what is a cat 18. so when our adds say cat 18 or 16, tex oh , pc s, 1841, it is the jargon is off put to candidates and so one thing this we are strive toing do is to have our out reach and discuss thanksgiving with communication

team. will being residentially appealing. the jobs and finance they have the same photograph nothing to do with the financial working and trying to come up with ways we can make our career opportunity less jargon and he more appeal to candidates. these other images we have available to us. which we have not utilized in the past. and it shows us again what a rich net w we have of many diverse employees doing many sdi diverse paths in the sfpuc. we are as i mentioned 100% committed to purke with our

classifications one might be restricting our pool. lookinga the ways to reach group hos might have been under served in the past. we are collaborating with our colleague in infrastructure and external affairs to look at the pipe lines which have been used vehicleful low with our contracting part sdmers seeing whether those might be applied in city rowels to provide opportunity for city jobs, a lot of that networking and communities based organizatios we hope this adds to our availability of candidates. the final piece of the puzzle a true pandemic project was our

ability to slois and dice the data which had not been done before. you will see things which have never been seen or guy executive teams we'll get to them in a couple weeks. use the data analytics to drill down into our work. in our work and hiring priorities. so the agency can see where our priorities are where recruitments are in the process. how we are doing in terms ofriccanceies. so this tells us you know hum recruit ams. how many of them are silv service. how much of our stuff is civil everybodies we can electronicure work any time. this i know it it is -- hard to

read but this is an example of a one of our dash boards. here we look at job classification. this worn we sorted it by looking at the class ivengdzs have the largest number of vacancies and highest percentage of them. obviously if we can const. trion the recruitments we make a dent in our challenges. but we have other ways to slice and dice we talkd and determined manage is an emergency. or times dependant and move it up as a prior chart. this shows us by job classification and -- we can -- sort it in a number of ways the next provides more insight where we can see by enterprise which

would be addressed first. yellow is high priority. again if you want to ator this priority we can sort it. so, for stationary engineer sewage plant we see this there is an eligibility list we can work with wastewater to see to move forward on interviews. if we look at senior power generation tech. there is no list. we see that we need to assign that to be recruited. so again these dash boards are different from anything this ever been shared. again provides us with insights we need to tackle this

challenge. i did get -- i did in the mention it but they have been collaborative with respect to a new serious of dash boards developing motor recruiters. these dash boards will be insightful. they near deputy am now but on the racial equity competence diversity hiring when they will allow us to to analyze recruit am candidate pools and understand which of the out reach manageds we talked about being creative and using advertise and out roaches. understanding then and there which of the correspondidates gone through the process and where we are getting the greatest number of offerings based on people joining the

agency. i want to give kudos out to his team they work clantive with us i want to thank my colleagues here buzz they understand, living to be hiring 10 and 9 leave and looks like we did one and people are saying why are you slow. we received encouragement from many people and very constructive feed become from people who have been at the agency for a long time who understand our challenges. so -- apologize for going long. melissa white and i are help it take questions you might have. commissioner paulson. thank you for the presentation today get in nut and bolts. i'd like to say i'm proud as a commissioner you come on board

to work and your team putting together you called dash boards butt data we are seeing one would expect to see when quiets are requested. this is the whim i have worked in the public and private sector. and many ecstasy most not as large as san francisco and whether dhs or the big department to have. their hiring department is important. most of us know the raft of government hen witness you have a government and taxes then people expect to you do something, fix road and bus and

you know -- water in people's hozs, et cetera. the old days it was my mother taught sunday school. approximate that isow government got filled until it turned in the cesspool. the tests and the amount of -- diligence that has to go in making sure people are hired is the most difficult in government there is and to see this department is take thanksgiving effort to show this -- commissioner i guess this is i way of me saying thank you and i'm going to tell you i'm not sitting and nit pick. approximate that is in the my job. exactly.

why is it heard and -- the public sector to keep people. everything is in the matrix you are then in here. i will say thank you and i hope that you know not every meeting but once a year we kept this or this is at least without spending time at the microphone something we look at this . is important to us as commissioners how come we don't have enough plumbers. commissioner riverasm hello great presentation. thank you for showing the thfrjs we are facing bringing on new hires and filling approximate

suspicions. we had 162 staff this left. how many were retirees? do you know. i don't know but can get you this. >> i'm trying to astain if we are trending toward -- people leaving for other jobs or this is just you know natural path for our workers. dropping off. i'd like to know to see where we are going. i know from looking at another data set the 2 group this is have had the most turn over have been people with the agency for 15 years or more men people who reach retirement but people who have been for a short period of time. >> so it is both of those. approximate >> thank you.

>> excellent. i have a few questions. thank you. do you want. so i wonder and i'm sure the answer are yesses then you elaborate on what trends i'm assuming we do exit introduce when people leave. grit to have been what people why they are leaving. they are retiring. found a better job temperature is pay issues. culture issues. good for us to know that is coming out of those conversations. i assume we do exit interviews. >> our people, science and strategy group does them. it is optional for the employee to fill it out. but we do collect the data and have details data monthly by

numbers. we have upon the results of the surveys and the comments it depends on the employee volunteer to fill out. it is in the comparable. when you would like decided to leave you took another job and retired machine from hr would sit with you and wuk you through the exit interview. you were disconnected from your direct manager. but this way you felt comfortable to share yu are leaving. even that in a way optional. upon it is more people feel more comfortable to have the conversations. ef cold way of getting information out of people. just a kgz size hapercentageful

people fill out the exit surveys. >> do you isn't >> it is low but i think cam urg the spirit. we do surveys while people are still here. we have surveys the pulse surveys they are important to get the sense of the culture at the agency. people don't feel like they are going to be singled out that is upon important not the within who is left us it may be late. we have people that go and come back. it is important it continue employees who are still here. i would like are if you to look in doing something you have higher numbers for exit survey

or interview. that will be use ton why things are happening. that's you know would be grit to have this data like to be able to look. and -- when people retire i hope there is somebody trained so well is a concept of you know, approximate replace am training or some type of like a way of making sure that people we can -- grow from within. people feel encouraged because they can go up the ladders and do a good job. useful to understand which carriers the people are in. who go in and come out. and obviously fantastic to have

young people in the agency but you want to make sure you have machine in the middle when can connect the 2 to [inaudible]. and another question i have for you is how many people do we know on average how many apply and do we keep the name of some of the people who look really good. they don't make it through recruitment or -- they probably did not do a good job in filling out this form or that but résuée looks impressive sxvm do we go back to that pool to see if we can bring those people on board? i know we use lists others used. i believe a lot of the materials we get the identified i don't know this we can extract them.

we have not dhn in the past the new -- applicant tracking system. there is more and understand where interests are they are communities. and so people who express interest in the community. better data and information we have the more questions always rise up.

which is i valuable part of the process. shows we are learning and we are having positive discussion. commissioner, you were done? yes. >> commissioner mechanic wel. thank you very much, i think some of the information the communication, mapping and i could not read it very well but hiring process maps i thank you this was very g. because >> thank you. i thank you that was excellent because it really showed the process that you go through and i think there was hiring strategy. mapping? could you explain that buzz that -- am the strategy in mapping i was intrigued. >> yes, and this is a method

that is used for process improve am every where. but it is applicable to the hiring process because so many different people touch it. and every time someone different touches it, there is opportunities for error or stop sign or a redundancy or something not adding value. it is causing frustration to the candidate and the hiring manager. so, could that be what you were talking about the last time where blocks are. yes. i gave a picture of the because of yarn.

we cannot do our work without them. they other once who consolidated the work within them and help us with prior and provide the key information we need. so, i think what you are getting at is all of that complexity we controlled, we make it simple and easy to understand am. and people not have so many errors and will not take time. we are trying to do is simplify. sometimes the things are residual might have had a purpose many years ago we talked thus anldzs are banging dun your door and need to differentiate. now we learned more about learn and testing styles, the whole way we hire is irrelevant changing. we need to keep pace and make things simple and seamless this

issure immediateo going forward. >> i guess -- this i had at home i had my focus you know -- things that meek things larger. this is extreme low good. i thotd this was excellent. i would like to see a big are version of it buzz you can proernlt the work gone in. you have done, legality of the work you talked about. it is here. br we are in the processes? you know like and an example of taking somebody through. where we are this is well done and i proernlt the work your staff has doneful i think some of this helped before you got there. so thifrng your staff and the people who did the good work. i'm glad you are continuing.

good process. . i also really appreciated the information that is in the presentation and the care and concern you apply to a complicated set of circumstances. this may be a little not quite on topic today but i have been recruiting. i think the tech lives and sle down in the construction city could be a great opportunity. for the sfpuc and -- you know city government in general. i agree the sfpuc is i great place to work. i tell them look the the sfpuc website you will see the communities this weekend after i recruited machine from a

construction company i locked at the sfpuc website i was promising a lot. and for somebody not well verse in the government, the information does in the feel accessible. and will a couple people said is there somebody i can call. look at the website and i'm happy to help you if i can. but when you click on careers if you want something specific a list of careers it bots you over to i think the dhr site and there is only about 24 or 25 approximate suspicions there. i therein is more positions. and -- i mean looking at your statistics today and i know the w is interesting and just did in the come cross to me when i was trying to explore the website and i don't know if i'm missing

something. but there is grit general information about how great the puc is when our diversity goals are and for machine when is looking what opportunity might work for me. it does not seem like we perfected that. on the website. and it is not access believe for someone had does not know how city government works. i wonder if you are also -- working with communications people or website developtory try to make that more accessible or jump out to member had might be interested but does in the know this much about how government works.

may be your grouped may be good to talk to or -- i don't know had out reach you may be doing or other ways to access the opportunity that the sfpuc -- yes. you obvious hit on a point i e louded to in the driveway bureaucrat irk job adds. we are all recruiters and you are the best. the personal touch gets people excited about the puc. commends you all for you do there. and -- is this is something we bring on a new recruiter. in collaboration wing on making our content engaging. we are working on an initiative to improve ouron boarding

process. those are areas we need to work on. seems like there is opportunity out there and i think people do look at the website and see what information they can find on the website. great if it were more accessible and -- i guess the better sales pitch by p uc rather than dhr. mentioned are electric nothing this when is the time line you have? we discuss today with communication they have ideas for blasting out addos different social mode why met works. >> what is the time line in we

are in introduce now. we will have machine when will have the expertise. hopefully you will see something i will come up with a fancy a card with a qr code to direct people. the other agencies are using that. so this -- and blast that on social media. manage we carry around we will work with communication and external affairs to come up with manage catchy. next i guess this is quarter low. at the next quarter low meeting we should have idea where you are? >> we will prosecute void an update at this time. >> and a clearer picture of your mapping. >> commissioner stacy. >> i'm sorry i want to emphasize

1 thing this you mentioned birch think rather then and there relying on written surveys a personal interview would go far in getting de feoed back from people. and looking for ways to imfrouf is great you do surveys but i think you will get more from people and better focus if you can really put the time into it. a personal interview rather nan a written survey. i know you have hands full. i think that you can start with your own agency.

employee of the city and county of san francisco which this unit has the highest level turn over with anything in sfpuc. employee of the sfpuc and employee of the city and county of know fran?

are we part of the staff of sfpuc technically? in the big grid j. in the slide with the circles. if you see there was a very light big circle showed the one that has the in's and out's. on that scribble. well is a very light big circumstantial they'll includes commissioners. i saw that i did not know. because of the nun clarity of it. and hopeful low not in the general manager category this was low you include us we are 90%. i think i am the most seniority of this group. that said -- excellent. thank you, irrelevant appreciate

it look forward to the next update. i'm sure we will see more progress. can we have public comment. member when is wish to comment on 4d press terror 3 to raise your hundred to speak. are there members to provide comment on this item? mr. moderator did we have any callers? there are 2 callers in the queue. this is item 4d. hello i opened your line you have 2 minutes. >> commissioners, i have been listen to y'all carefully. and i typeset ask y'all one question. do y'all ever care the [inaudible] look at the treatment plant, and we look at the treatment pleasant in the bay vow hunter's point, do y'all

have any statistics, how many of the live in 1 for 1 [inaudible]. [no audio] 24. and 07. [no audio]. do y'all care to know how much of -- the people who suffer so much from the pollution are begin an upon opportunity for career jobs you are recommendbling about h rushgs person. never seen her before the second time i've seen her.

rambling about hr. one of y'all stated of the 2,000 employees at sfpuc had, over 40% left y'all. thank you peter, tuolumne river

trust. imagine mag you are a sfpuc employee and go to a cocktail party you meet someone know and ask you what you do. they then ask, why is the sfpuc allowing the tuolumne [inaudible] the ecosystem to collapse or why are hi not recycling more water. or why does the sfpuc fwre to facility lead of irrigation districts on matters related fish loads and give up ability to represent my environmental values or with hold public information and force people to file complaints to get basic public documents or why does the sfpuc host 7 work hops to get an understanding of issues related to the environment, water demand and climate change come not make change tos policies that needless low harm the

environment. does not seem like a fun party it would be noise to have environmental accomplish ams to brag b. i'd like to compliment staff on a good presentation. thank you. thank you. >> i -- go. do we have additional callers? no. public comment on item 4d is closed. >> i want to make i quick comment i appreciated the comment. i want to say sfpuc does a lot of great thing i go to cocktail parties people do ask questions but a lot are related to men other thing this is which are not what you listed. everybody is trying to do their best we can obviously we can do better. no organization no individual -- is perfect. and but i think people who work

here they provide a service and i do want to acknowledge that the time and energy people spent to provide services to the people of san francisco. and i want to make sure they are appreciated and acknowledged. with that, that concludes my report. >> can we have the next item. >> next is item 5 the water supply and agency update. last number you with your per ins on the tuolumne river andtur look irrigation district signed for development of aville taer

agreement for the sacramento state water resource delta plan. that mou includes a commitment by the tuolumne for new fles at this time river to protect native fish on top of concern requirement and commits to you spending 64 million dollars in habitat improvements projects over the term of the mou to provide improved and increased had been at that times. boska urges the parties to move forward now early implementation of the mou commitments for fles the tell mow and implementation of the habitat improvementsil not peek to the rest it is consistent what you heard of mow before but support for early implementation. we always finds ourselves newscast negotiations approximate suspicions. and we have to do important things. but you made the commitments. i think it statute time to do

what you can. to implement them sooner rather than later and you have the support of the board. the agency. behind that so appreciate this opportunity to peek to you copy of my statement is in your communication package i want to respect your time today and i appreciate this. i will answer questions you might have. >> thank you. any comments or questions from -- i want to say, you and i had i conversation about the [inaudible] and we talked about this. we are committed to be a leader to set up stronger environmental mcgonigle and make sure we protect the environment as who i we provide water security. we had a few ideas we discussed i would like for us to ton in the conversations e may be sooner. to make sure we can provide you

know a better and bright are path forward as you deal with the different issues related tuolumne river. thank you. thank you very much. i look forward to those discussions. can we have public comment, please. members of the public when wish to make 2 minutes of remote comment on item 5. press star 3 to speak. do we have members to provide comment on item 5. do we have callers with hands raised? there are 2 callers in the queue. >> hello your line is open you have to minutes. >> thank you. peter, tell me river trust. i want to thank you for the comments and also for to president agentlemeny for her response. i did want it draw your

attention in the new v. a. that could be embarrassing potential low. and mentioned there were 64 million dollars per habitat restoration projects. 12 million of this is for infitation gallery. the way -- [inaudible] the way that works is water would flow oust damn for 25 mile and be picked up there and piped under the gravel. treed and used inturloc k it was conreceived 25 years ago and pipes were put in 20 years ago. and the project is going to be completed this summer and delivering water. at this time be done before the [inaudible] is considered. friends get credit for that. this is in the tuolumne

voluntary agreement. it will be embarrassing i encourage staff to make sure that gets renewed. and the -- early will implementation of unimpairedfully this is year would have been great to do that they happen anyway and you could get credit. you gotta plan ahead. so may be nextier you can have a policy you will voluntarily contribute your share of the 40% unimpaired flow for at least 2 years. thank you very much. thank you for sharing your comments. next caller, you have to minutes. had it come to [inaudible]. the bay area water supply and conversation agency, i want you to refer to the [inaudible] act.

and today, i read your agenda. and you are busy distributing minutes of gallonons of water to areas besides san francisco and those partners for per of the [inaudible] act. and then, you know, we have site -- [inaudible] with [inaudible]. and making some promises while -- directly and indirectly [inaudible] the citizens of san francisco. as if you know we don't [inaudible] conserve water. we had a lot of rain.

and y'all got all confused. got confounded and perplexed. because, mother nature ever the advocates. peter said, the salmon got a lot of water this year. not baufdz you, commissioners. or your policy or your thinking outside the box. because of your price. how y'all switch public permits at the beginning to the end. . and they are gimmicks. we will monitor y'all. you know. but -- thank you for sharing your comments. there are no more callers in the queue. public ment on item five is

closed. >> thank you. could you call the next item. >> next is item 6 consent. comments, questions on consent? no. >> i had some comments let me open up my notes. looking at item 6c and 6d. may be i miss today but -- who are we giving this contract to? is there a company name it this?

in 6c and e. i want 6c. it is good i was trig to see if there is over limited partner with 6c and d. 6d is replacing the sewer -- pipe -- replacement and the c was about focusing on doing the monitoring. it is i think it over limited partners. make sour that is noted in the documents provided. and then sorry going become to

6a. there was an ask to increase the contract by 2-1/2 -- million dollars. and i was not sure. i ksdz not figure out what is happening here that we need to increase the contract boy that amount. activelies not clear in the documents that were provided. sthp item is to increase the amount from 5 million to 7. 5 million. it is as needed. so this is basically hugo back.

it did not come across as such. did not see we have already maxed out. as needed prop to more nothing condition transact exclusive the work is going well and the agenda item the type of w we do not a specific change or reason to increase the capacity other than to do more.

we will continue but this was not clear. again great to make sure it is clear. while i have you here on the item 6d, and i don't know if i asked you this question or -- miss carol can make that comment. but -- it seemed you are trying to provide and put the money aside for the spot. i was not sure what happened if for example, replace half of those -- pipes that we anticipated. the money allocated regardless or is there like a process in to which the sort of spend had we need and repurpose the rest. >> yes.

>> if we gotten do what we need we retest and use this money i different way >> this is basically getting the credit to do this work but if we don't spends our credits it will get moved >>. use it the next time priority. like that. >> yes that is correct. >> okay. >> thank you. >> commissioner paulson. >> what supervisor what -- commissioner ajami mentioned about the condition transacts that are continued or referred to -- on a continuation or add-on or whatever else. very much instead ofum be diligent when you make the

agenda to name the contransactedor that has help exclude i understand huit helped here add thanksgiving to that and the number and getting it right. you put down the name that is a good check history it is. in the case. we can cross reference. it is important had it does not help. which is rare. it expedites. >> noted t. is rare we will. >> thank you. >> next, commissioner paulson. other comments. can we have public comment on this thank you. members who wish to make remote comment on item 6 press star 3 to speak. do we have members present to speak on consent calendar. do we have callers with hands raised? >> there are no callers.

>> public comment on item 6 is closed. >> excellent. clothe fist there are no more comments or questions can i have a motion on this item? >> move. >> move to approve. >> second. >> move to approve consent. >> second. >> thank you. can i have a roll call. >> president ajami >> aye >> vice president maxwell y. aye >> commissioner paulson y. aye >> commissioner rivera. >> aye >> commissioner stacy. >> aye. >> you have 5 aye's. >> thank you. item in consent passed. being you please call the next item. >> item 7 approve modifications to the sfpuc in regard water management grant assistance program and terms to increase the sfpuc cost share to 100%

incorporate clean up edits and authorize the general manager of the sfpuc or the general manager to execute grant agreements under the modified grant program. >> good afternoon. sarah. waste water enterprise i'm here to address item 7 our flood water grant assist analysis program. weave have modification that we are proposing. this program has been active since 20 then and currently offers up to 100 thousand dollars to eligible properties. to increase flood at the parcel scale. individual applicants. our proposal today is simple. we would like to e eliminate the cost share percentages that are currently required of our grantees. and instead have the guarantee program cover 100% of the

eligible costs for properties. and our goal in making this change is to increase participation. in this grant program. we had low participation over the life of the grant program. and we like to help more san franciscans implement flood measures so this we can gradually increase flood resilience at percentel scale. out roach efforts include door to door conversations, webinars, neighborhood open houses, web blast and more; we have only distributed approximately 59,000 dollars per year for this grant program. and we all saw this winter the impacts of the atmospheric rivers on san francisco. which really further underscored that making our existing building stock more flood

resilient can be helpful peeflts strategy. since january first our staff received 88 forms in the grant program the learningest spacecraft in interest we have seen to date oast life of the program. we are hopeful that with this increased public awareness of xroem precipitation evans plus out reach plus the increased incentive this we are prosecute posing, we could better leverage this grant from assist more rate payors to be more flood resilient. i'm patchy to take questions you modify. any comments or questions. commissioner mechanic wel. why thank you. how du, ratify at -- figuring out that may be it was needed do

more as far as your grants? what was that process? yes. currently, the match is from 80 to 100% depending on the property typeful currently our grant program will provide 90% for a homeowner and provide 10% for properties that are nonresidential or rentals it is 80%. and when we are seeing is that even though that does seem like a generous percentage if you imagine yourself san francisco homeowner and think about your to do list. you men you have been saving up to repair your roof. and may be you have been saving up to buy new wind oi coverings. when wha we were seeing people were knighted about the flood water grant program say costs were going to be 25 thousand

dollars to implement the flood resilient measures. this would money they need to criminality 2, 500 dollars not insignificant. we saw that was a barrier to entry. we did come to you all last year, i believe. to implement a harvardship option. for the folks who show hardship weaver already covering 100% for those folk hos can't show hardship than i have many expenses than i need to cover. if we want folks to implement this we understand that -- we see from the analysis that the incentive needs to be compelling. so this would was when we came to. we looked at other things, could we0052 increase techical assist analysis. we did that. we really increased our staff on

the grounds explaining had options were and how to implement it. worked with colleagues and city attorneys and elsewhere to look how we make our process better. even with the efforts we saw this we were in the getting as much participation. we went through stepwise and looked at bear scombrers this seems like the most substantive the way we can increase participation. >> can you give mow an example of residential project? absolutely. yes. so -- each applicant is very site specific and so we have lots of measures an example could be perhaps somebody has a down sloping driveway. and men no back flow prevention and may be an unsealed grand jury or -- entrance or egress. with that individual we might work to recommend to them back

flow prevention. a barrier in front of their driveway this would prevent water and they could driveway over temperature different sealants. flood walls. rain gardens. we have a tool kit that we make available to folk and then dependsoth property. we our techical assistant staff helps them look, it it is their decision about when they like to select and then their j.w. to enengage with the set of bid and figure out how they want to implement it. we offer that assist analysis on the tool kit. >> great. thank you. >> this ask great. thank you. it is always good to do more will to reach a broader members of public. a quick and may be you mentiond and i missed it.

is there a way to also do out reach when one like we did the study number of years ago we saw people replace their lawns. and all the neighbors showed up and you are like who du hire? and everybody wants to do it now buzz it is easier. i wonder if you are looking at how the kinds of neighborhood norms are helping in this process or is there i way we can do more in doing out roach and specific neighborhoods we had one customer that is has dhn and might be able to help especially in san francisco. one street every house is designed the same and has the same problem. >> yea. an excellent point. we are now seeing different projects e merging that has that visual appeal that makes the neighbors say, i want one, too.

we are seeing in the your slnlts examples. upon where we can then take those photographs and share them across all webinars. walking toward it let others wuk boy and see. i see how this think be implemented. we are updating our guide book the companion to the grant program. when we see that. we impelement the photos and suggestions to try to get folks to see what it thinked look like to help them imagine. there is more bee can do with that with social media blast and neighborhood walking tours we are trying to come up with robust on the ground out reach in advance of the next. >> fantastic. >> go ahead. why do wee you have data who is taking advantage of the neighborhoods and where and who? >> yes. we have all of that.

on a gis map to electronic partially how the grant program is impacting the city. you might expect we see the highest concentration of uptake in our low lying flood upon prone iaries. grant [s. we see them in pockets outside of the yours. we see those dots city wide but concentrated in the low lying areas. that means you are getting to the people who really need it the low lying area. >> we are but there are more to do what you look at the spatial distribution, there are pockets this are missing and we did see during some out roach that especially along the alameda corridor language barriers and found this a lot were engaged in shift work they may not be able to come to a web near we

schedule at a peculiar time. we are trying to be more thoughtful about how we roach out to communities who may need times or languaging further out reach. >> do you have i way of knowing which communities they might be. which low lying dwlars have the problems? are in the taking advantage of it. well, i mean i'm open to your sgsz the way we do it now is looking at the spatial gaps. where we see the potential for flooding but folks are not taking us up on it this is our gap analysis and go and say we need more here. we need more here. excellent. thank you. >> yea. >> thank you. no more questions can we have public comment, please?

do we are callers with hands raised. >> there are no callers at this time. public comment on item 7 is closed. >> >> excellents can we have a motion and second if there are no more comments. move to approve >> seconded. >> can we have i roll call >> president ajami. >> aye >> vice president maxwell. >> aye >> commissioner paulon. why aye >> commissioner rivera. >> aye >> commissioner stacy. >> thank you. item passes. can you read the next item. >> item 8 approve the water purchase transfer agreement may 24 of 22 with east palo alto and mountain view to allow a

retroactive transfer of 1 million gallons a day not use minimum purchase to quantity to east palo alto following the permanent transfer of 1.of musn't ain't view supply guarantee. and under the terpgs of the 2021 amend exclude restated agreement with the city of san francisco and wholesale customers in al modea, san ma te'o and santa clara and amend the water supply green light to reflect the reflects of the purchase quantity transfer. >> thank you. good afternoon. president ajami and commissioners i'm alison the renaling until liaison for water enterprise for sfpuc. this is a minimum purchase agreement with the 2 cities.

to give you background i will go dlu a number of items related this item for history. so this purchase transfer agreement enables the sfpuc strifs to make use of existing water supply ands make them the most fortunate. we maintain guaranteed ref now stroll fist purchase customers who have the ability to purchase from other source. this purchase transfer agreement support this is goal and has no impact on our 184mgd supply assurance. to give you terms so we are all clear the supply is from our 1994 settlement agreement. it is perpetual supply guarantee of 1 formillion gallons a day. with that supply guarantee, our

individual wholesale customer 23, negotiateded to divide and prosecute void themselves supply guarantees. the isg's are important for planning and water management plans and for planning for housing and other items this are coming before planning commission and bodies. >> the 4 customers it have a minimum purchase requirement are water district mountain view and sunny very well. that i have the ability to purchase prosecute a different source this ensures we get the ref now needed to support the system and they are not able to then source shift based on price. we get a guaranteed stream. this chart is an example of the 26 wholesale customers can various where they are current. with consumption and isg in green item is the city of hayward you should note does not

i have guarantee the contract is different when is shown here is their testimony is small out of the bottom is their the subinstruction of the 23 custody sxhers isg's the city of san jose are not permanent customers don't have a supply guarantee. you will see the red bars indicate the minimum purchase requirement. of which most of 3 of our those custody admirals are meeting that. city of mountain view had a gap and been rivered to pifor this water they did in the purchase. so this transfer is from the original 2017 mountain view transfer. they transferred one million gallons of individual supply guarantee to east palo alto. buzz they had already roached the top of isg and facing a

moratorium on development. mountain view was piing 2 to 3 million annually buzz they were not revving demands not reaching the requirement and required by condition transact to pay the system this additional cost of the minimum to reach it. for the transfer agreed it pimountain rowel 5 million dollars to cover requirement cost. this transfer is the one this highlight the contract to transfer that purchase requirement when you purchase supply guarantee. so. in january of 21 this commission approved the water supply green light that brought us to the 21 amend exclude restated agreement enabled the transfer of the min fullmum rirm with the individuals. those muched the 2 together.

and this agreement today is, luing a retroactive transfer of up to 1 million gallonons a day. to east approximatelyo alto urn the terms of the 2021 updated agreement. the agreement today has been approved by the city council in mountain view and customers in the two-year period. they were considering the 2021 mem to the contract and the item. it was in the visible to us when we took turned consideration in january of 21. and again mountain view will transfer.25mgd of existing minimum purchase quantity to east palo alto and they have the opportunity under this grem to do 3 additional transfers up to a quarter mgd. today's item will also if, proved authorize general manager it execute the amendments to the

water supply grem the, tamp am and the water sales agreements contracts with mountain rowel and east pamo alto that are required. i'm happy to answer questions. thank you. colleagues any comments or questions. >> i want to say thank you. i know east palo alto has been trying to have more permanent access to water. and they are a community that want it make sure supports and there is a lot of extra water in the system so we are not increasing the amount of water we provide we are repurposing it. one quick question i have is -- you can answer or steve.

is i see this projections to be like anticipate people to buy more and i would life to be i think it it is optimistic to thank you way and i'm trying to think those lines that were in that graph that said, amounted purchases boy 2040. like how are they categoried are they now after when we have seen now. the drop in water use? i then and there is not directly related but i would say -- for the 4 communities that have minimum purchase agreements you know this might be an issue they might have extra water they need to rethink about. and we are having the conversation about alternative water supplies and when we need to build to meet future demand.

here it it is this xr water. i'm trying to think how are we thinking about the collective of boska and you know retailers that are purchasing this water where we are in having purchase agreements for everybody. if not the ones we are where do we see them going in the years to come. a complex i know i have been up and down and around. i think you see where i'm getting at? nicole boska ceo. i had not seen that graph. you know we went through an update of demand projections and included a sensitivity analysis of changing conscience. your question is important with you an answer. now. unfortunately. that does in the money there is

in the a press to work through that. i thank you is the focus on it to continue to track how demand changes as we hopefully exit the draught. how the conscience change. and do we see those associated demand projections show up or not. and as we have been looking at it and i have been think burglar your alternative plan. you know we have some time before we make a commitment to an investment. between thou and then this is the question we noted to look at. where are the no regrets investments. because it is a draught supply it is different then and there an investment that may be we would not need if demand does in the show up. i had discussions with mr. ritchie internally. i would say, though, the dynamics you are see nothing san

francisco, are not different than the service your. we are not -- we have seen you know -- buildings down. we are not seeing the impact of the post covid world you are in the city. and we are seeing an extreme pressure for development, housing and that is also at play now. and all the communities have to deal with this. i don't know it is appropriate to say, hey, we'll stay at the low level. we have been in, you know 10 year draught. i say. and the question is when is going to happens we come out of the drought. how do we track and make the investment sns one last thing this amendment passed this is the left piece is one of the critical things to enable the 4 agency this is have minimums to move off of them and move them and that is really xoit to me.

my hope is this will help. that means they will not have a minimum purchase agreement. why they can somebody will want to buy it from them. they continue top have one. >> >> to exchange that the wait amendment works the minimum purchase amount does in the change it gets must have friday 4 agenciless to public low 5 or -- whatever. i think that has been the hope with this metropolitan that will now create remove a barrier that existed for having the transfers occur. >> because of what you are doing now this will give the town for future actions. >> this is the final piece what you did in 2021 was you kicked it off the first it act. the agencies have now acted. this is rather more the clone up dealing with this palo alto item.

all together is exactly that. >> right. >> thank you. i think that dhand mist row is such an important piece and i think lookinga the the did thea in the last 10 years we see that we have not seen rebounsdz. we don't know where we go but development is an important part. we had this conversation how we make sure the development happens. i appreciate you are looking at this. it is important. >> sloulg. i would not expected much rebound in the last 10 year. have been in a you drought and covid a question what is the

next couple of years show. >> thank you. thank you. i wanted make a couple of points. i think that this transfer is a great idea. the minimum purwhich is requirements ask sometimes put in wrong incentive fist than i pifor water they are not using. i don't think we will ever have extended periods of time we are not dealing with draught and uncertain splits in my minds as a policy matter recycling, conversation, reusing water as muchs we can is important. so, to the extent this we develop this in san francisco to the extent basica customers are developing that, i think we do want to provide more flexibility

so tha there is in the a cernel incentive to comfortabling and recycling so this transfer makes sense to me and to allow that flexibility for the approximate boska the wholesale customers to do this makes sense. i think we are really facing continued uncertainty. and i know we had water this year but i just think draught will be part of our lives forever. so -- i wanted endorse the policy idea. i'm not i think the minimum purchase requirements are sometimes counter productive. so to recycling and conversation, this is a good approach. thank you. for continuing to be creative about it. why thank you.

>> excellent. thank you very much. if there are no more comments or questions we with move to public comment. members who wish to make remote comment on item 8 press star 3 to speak. do we have members present to provide comment on item 8? >> hello commissioners nicole. boska ceo i want to express significant passport for the action before you. we have negotiated this since 2017. that statute time it to being to do this. when we started this process i had upon agencies that said there is in way we will do this. and i think this irrelevant peek to the resourceful knowledge of agencies and desire to find a fix and also protected their constituents this is i great

action and presht your support. thank you very much. there are 2 callers in the queue. you have 2 minutes. i will go become at this time year 1913. and the [inaudible] act was passed. and since this time, am the [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] the other tribes have been adverse low impacted. what has the sfpuc done for them? and now you are will stoling the water that belongs to those troib and making millions of dollars and nowhere in your agreement you have mitigation

measures for the tribes were impacted. adverse low impacted and the [inaudible] that is per of this culture part of their rituals have been 10 away. here you are wheel and dealing. this and that agreement. the segment of the population that is wicked. wicked. and [inaudible] that we have a sign for us to mitigate meditate -- think about our evil deeds. and that's all i will say. thank you very much.

>> thank you for sharing your comments. next caller you have 2 minutes. petertuolumne river trust i have been a supporter of the transfer and around that time i brought together lected officials from palo alto and we facilitated half mgt transfer for fro it it is an issue i care b. i encourage to you think about is unintended consequences. the like low buyer of these isg's is [inaudible] the brisbane project. which is a lot of commercial development and little housing. put more pressure on the area to build more housing. i brought up before had water supply assessment for a commercial project, you have to take into consideration the housing needed house the employees. and work this in. i got transaction with the sfpuc

when i brought that up at first but nothing came of it. a better prop is to allow cities to give back their take or pay water. so no long are obligated to purchase water they might not need and subtract that from the 184mgd po boska and that is one mgd you may not have to build william alternative water supplies this makes more sense than sell it to machine who will facilitate a project that exacerbate the job housing imbudget. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. there are no more callers in the queue y. public comment on item 8 is closed. >> excellent. if there are no more comments a motion and second. move to approve. >> second. >> thank you. in dam secretary, call the roll

>> president ajami. >> aye. why vice president maxwell. aye >> commissioner paulson. why aye >> commissioner rivera. >> aye >> commissioner stacy. >> aye. >> excellent. item passes and could you read the next item. >> next item is item 10 general public comment. members of the public had wish it make remote comment on matters went commission's jurisdiction and not on today's agenda press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. do we have members present to provide general public comment? do we have callers with hands raised. there are 2 caller in the queue. >> thank you. you have 2 minutes.

when you move general public meant to the end of the agenda in december,cum of you commented seif it works. well the last 4 months of 2022, there is an average of 13 speakers at each meeting for general public comment. and now there are twof us in the queue. skw yourself has wed? dependses when intentions were. you ask yourself why is puerto rican so craby. i realize it is in the enjoyable to hear from me i assure you outside of the meetings i'm a pretty lovable guy. i enjoy spending time with friends and making jokes sing, playing sports being out doors. i much prefer collaboration but it has not worked with the sfpuc. so we are forced try to shame

you in doing the right thing that has not worked either but not burned bridges they did in the exist. encouraging to you get real about command everdemand projections to adjust the meads before the supply plan is completed in july. i don't get responsibleses which are aimed help you to, void makes. if you go in 2021, we tried to get to you focus on demand projections. you didn't. the management plan was approved the beginning of july. 2 weeks later a water demand management workshop a lot of good information was presented but you locked in a 5 year urban water management plan. was this a coins upon dense or the intent of staff? so, the sfpuc ignores us. the state water board doesn't.

with the bay delta plan we convinced them sfpuc has -- your time expired. your line is open you have 2 minutes. >> you know what i want to say about y'all, i have no standards. and so when people don't have no standards and attitude they are not educated on issues, you can't community with them. you irrelevant cannot community with them. so you know, at one time we had given 3 minutes for public comment and got a law, you know let's set aside helpful an hour for public comment. then came up with other gimmicks. you'll are the worse of all the

city departments. y'all other worse. okay. i don't mode to go into the data. you employees indicted by the federal bowero of investigation. and about 60 more on the list. i don't have to say more. public comment is important. if y'all want it play with us [inaudible] public comment, shame on y'all. shame on y'all. >> thank you for your comments. there are no more callers in the queue. why thank you, general public comment is closed. why excellent.

thank you. just want to next item. 11. want to make a comment we like to receive public comment. so -- does in the matter if the person is happy or sad or mad. public comment is a press that we all believe in and we appreciate it. and we have no hesitation to receiving it. wanted it clir foil that. go ahead. >> we love you very much you are xrem low important and -- it may not seem as if we have in the made changes we talk and think about the things will you say. thank you. don't give up. >> excellent. thank you. madam secretary i noticed that we did not go over item 9? it is for information only. >> we don't need to call it.

>> okay. >> yes. go ahead. call item 11 yet? >> call the next item? >> item upon 11. initiated boy commissioners. >> somebody mentioned the state of environment earlier on and i think i would like to have a state environment. we have been through draughts, we have been through rains. it would be interesting to have idea of where we are. and when we think about the environment i'm thinking about our river and lakes, in the just how high the water is but all the surrounding area what is going on and how it is fairing. sounds good. you believe am you guys are working on that? as i recall? so we give you what you are interested in talking about the

i will be precise in had we give you what you want. can you give me a bit of an idea about -- obviously in addition to residence virus hathings are you interested in. joy mentioned the rivers butt surrounding areas. like we are talking about water coming down the tuolumne. what is surrounding area like. you know the watershed. >> sure. i got it. >> watershed. >> that's the state of the environment within the dealing the watersheds go. >> i think just to add to that, we had this conversation during the workshops or last year at some point. i believe that there was some discussion around creating some ecosystem indicators that can be used as part of the general

manager's report on -- draught conditions. and i was under the impression this there were work being done to figure out what is right ecosystem to use and the best way to. why we get things and be -- we will get that presentation and see if this satisfies and if not there is something else we will work on that. yes. >> thank you. anymoring -- items. can we have do we need have a public comment. thank you. >> members who wish to make 2 minutes of remote comment on item 11 press star 3 to speak. do we have member present top provide commentom this item? do we have callers with hands raised. there are in callers. why public comment on item 11 is

closed. >> thank you. will call the next item. next is public comment on items to be heard during closed session the following will be heard. item 14 conference with legal council regarding litigation joseph goldmark versus san francisco. november 29 of 22 settle am of unlitigated claim for property damage. in exchange for full and final release subject to approval by the board of supervisors. 15, conference with council regarding litigation michael [inaudible] versus san francisco filed october 14 of 42. unlitigated claim for property gj damage the city to pay 38,

350 exchange for a release subject to approval by the board of supervisors. members of the public had wish to make remote comment on the closed session 14 and 15, press star 3 to speak. do we have members present to provide comment on this item >> do we have callerers with hands raised? >> there are no callers wishing to be recognized. >> public comment on close the session items is closed. >> thank you. colleagues can an a motion to acert attorney/client privilege regarding the closed session. >> moved. >> second. >> thank you. being you call the roll >> president ajami. aye >> vice president maxwell. >> aye >> commissioner paulson. >> aye >> commissioner rivera. >> aye. commissioner stacy.

>> thank you we will go in closed session. the board approved settlement under closed session items 14 and 15. can i have i motion to disclose. move not to disclose. do we need a roll call. >> thank you. why president agentlemeny. >> aye >> vice president mechanic wel. aye >> commissioner paulson. >> aye >> commissioner rivera. >> aye >> commissioner stacy. >> i think i don't think well is anymore items. with this, this condition clouds your business. >> we are adjourned. thank you. >> >>

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