puc to order. can we have a roll call >> commissioner paulson >> here >> rivera. >> here >> commissioner ajami >> here. >> commissioner maxwell. >> here >> stacy >> aye. >> we have quorum >> members may make 2 millions of comment by dialing 415-655-0001, access code: 2660 908 7338 ## owns and stewards of

unkeyed lands within the historic territory of the tribe and other familiar descendants of the historic federal mission san jose band of alameda count and he recognizes that every

citizen in the greater bay area has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the tribes abridge nal lands before and after the san francisco public utilities commission found nothing 1932. it is important we not only recognize the history of the tribal lands but also we acknowledge and honest o the fact that the oshg loney people have established a partnership with the puc and productive members within the many greater san francisco bay area communities. today. approval of the minutes of october 10 of twe. why any corrections to the minutes. notes. okay. public comment. member when is wish to make comment on item 3 press star 3. for members.it prosecute void

comment on item 3? do we have callers with hands raised. >> there are no callers. public comment is closed. >> is there i motion to approve the minutes. move. seconded >> a motion. the roll call >> president paulson >> aye >> rivera. >> aye >> maxwell >> aye >> ajami. >> aye >> commissioner stacy. >> aye >> you have 5 aye avenue. >> the upon minutes are passed now we will have general public comment. member his wish to make 2 minutes of remote comment on matters in the commission's jurisdiction not on today's agenda press star 3 to raise your hand and silence computers. you will hear i chime had there are 30 seconds and. do we have anyone present for general public comment? caller are hands raised?

there are 2 callers that wish to be recognized. >> thank you. i un muted your listen you have 2 minutes. >> good afternoon i'm mary birtworth a resident of san francisco. several meetings members of public including myself have asked the dmoigz revisit the 8.5 years design drought the tool for managing flow release the design drought has a return period of 25,000 year. i don't believe that this is reasonable prop for managing flow release on the tuolumne. the policy is damaging to the environment during dry period when is life adequate slows the most. the indicator the damage is the low number of [inaudible] in the

river. 186. ef 466 in recent years. i urge the commission to direct your staff to analyze flows using a 7.5 year design drought and demand projections the finance bureau water sales rejection. and present the results to the public. this hopeful low will facilitate a dialogue from the instream flows needed maintain a sustainable population of salmon in the tuolumne. again. i urge the commission to drop the lawsuit against the state water board. and work with the state to ensure flows in the tuolumne are consistent with the instream flow stoornlsd adopted by the state in 2018. and residents care about the environment. we look to the commission to be responsible stewards of the

river. by increasing flows in the tuolumne. you have 2 minutes. thank you this is peter drubbingmy are for the tuolumne river trust. i thank you for moving general public comment to the beginning of the meetings. yesterday i sent you an e mail encouraging to you request an update on the state of the tuolumne river environment and salmon. this year is getting off to a poor start again. and also i wanted point out that in your water supply condition update 93.4% and the end of the last water year and beginning of new water year when tell rain again. puc has 6 years of water and

storage. don pedro is full of allowed to be now. and despite the water and expecting a wet year, we had pretty low load this is year. and puc might argue that is up to irrigation districts. you did in the past encourage them to partner with higher flows during the summer not to kill steel head. well is a precedence for working with them on that. 8d in communications is the multienterprise climate update reference the long-term vulnerability assessment at this meeting dave warner asked the puc staff if they look at the intervals for design draught that is how likely would be to occur. and said, can we ask the design draught. i can think about doing this.

he knew it was locked at before and the consultants found. >> thank you. your time is expired. if there are no more callers that wish to be recognized. general public ment is closed. jot general manager report. read those items. a report. general manager the san francisco puc commission activities, events and announce ams. >> commissioners, 2 items both are not the most pleasant but there were 2 passings in the course of the left several weeks of individuals that did i tremendous amount of work and were of beg your pardon to not just the puc but the city.

the first was don fermachine you may know or may not he was a long time deputy city attorney that was the foremost water experts. in the state. and balanced love of water law is the love of the out sdpoors a fish aremachine and conversationist. and i had the pleasure of working with him for a great many years as city attorney and i know many in the room had the opportunity to work with don. both when he was a deputy and brought him become as a prop f retiree and did work on behalf of the puc. the second individual was tony irons. who passed the end of september. and was truly a renaissance man the city architect in charge of building of city hall even though tony never spent a day in college. he learned on the job back in

new england where he grew up in hymn ham. am he was a renaissance man who lived on a and the last years spit his time in new mexico and ham hymn and in his retirement i spent time with him in mexico and a wonderful machine who when i decided that i was going to exactly here the first people i called to ask for add voice and was the deputy general manager under suzanne who is the general manager after he left the city architect. there were great individuals and people and be wonderful public servients did a great job on behalf of the puc and the city. i think we all owe them a dent of gratitude for service and i know that many people i know

many here are going to miss each of them. any comments from commissioners? commissioner stacy? i just want to chime in and honor the memories of both don and tony. i think don probably taught me everything i know about california water law and i started working on the water system improvement program. he was a great teach and he did in the suffer he was kind and wise and i think he was also really important in the negotiations with modesto andtur look. he understood everybody's point and made him a better negotiator. and going on a hike with don he accident name every flour, tree and bird. it was a learning experience.

and his start on the rivers. dpon and tony contributed so much to the puc and the city at large and i realliment to honor their memories. so. thank you. that concludes my report.

thank you. unless anybody else is open to public comment. members wish to make public comment on 5a press star 3 to speak and silence computers. speakers hear a chime had there are 30 techeds.

>> that will extend their schedule and view of completion. the 2 projects challenging throughout implementation and critical to meet the level of service. adopt the change the status of the grounds water and recovery and the alameda recapture

project our second finding the anticipated project cost increases for those 2 projects will result in over all increase program dj budget and require funding approval. the annual report details the potential need for increase to commolest the croak recapture project and roej nal groundwater storage and recovery project. in mate of the increased budget and funding necessary is provided in the report. this information has not been shared at this time. >> so our second recommendation as the commission directs staff to provide updated billions and the associated plan to secure approval of the funding so this it has sufficient fund to be complete. our third finds willing is a po need for additional project it ensurety puc adopted service

goals are met. given the potential change to the groundwater recovery project and the croak recapture product the supply yields lower than planned and therefore you may be impact on meet the water supply level service goal. the third recommendation is the commission direct staff to identify the rust changes to the 2 projects on the regional water system yield. water supply and puv ability to meet the service goals. puting together, i wanted make sure i ended on a positive note and i think -- interestingingly enough the mention of tone emirons important in the early days this report identified that this fore.8 billion dollars

program is almost 99% complete that is greatism don't want the res to take away from this. i think irrelevant i'm looking forward to the day had it is complete and can stand together it say we have done everything we needed to do. and in accordance with law to ensure the reliability of the system. in the just for the residents of san francisco butt within. 8 million resident and 40,000 buildings and i look forward to this day. that concludes my remarks. >> thank you. in is there this is discussion only to the commission is there discussion with the commissioners would like to weigh in on this? or anybody else. >> thank you. seeing none. thank you. thank you for that -- so let's open to public comment, please. >> members who wish to make 2 minutes of public comment on

item 6 press star 3 to speak and silence device. you will hear a chime had there are 30 seconds plastic. do we have anyone to provide comment on item 6? do we have callers with hands raised. >> if there are no callers that wish to be recognized. public comment on item 6 is closes. regularical dar. next item. prove the revised water supply assessment for 20th avenue stones town project the state of california water code section 10910. california environmental act section 2. 115. 1.9 and section within 5155. >> good afternoon will commissioners general manager for water i will say i agree. don did not suffer fools

lightly. that was true he was a great fwie and will miss him. i'm before the looking for an approved revised water supply assessment for stones counsel a 2780 are project surrounding the stones town mall in the southwest area of san francisco. it is here before you today for a couple of reasons. one is that -- the project has had a change changing the project variance, variance where they look at not just one alternative but a second that can branch off of that. this project variance changed the project changed smalt. that assessment was adopt in the october of 2022. not long ago. the second change is that the

updates to the projected retail water demands associated with adopted housing element 2022 update. this was manage that was done earlier this year. and it was based on the ceqa document completed in late 2022 and adopted at this time. that had an increase in housing within the city. and what was in the eir was increase over the next 20 yers of about 100,000 units which lines up with the major's 5,000 per year. changes . so, staff analyzed that. and saw that there was a relatively small increase in the demands. but real increase in demands this is would occur over time in multifamily residential use. based on those 2 issues the planning department asked you to revisit the assessment.

and the water supply assessments are legally required to do identify if there is available water for i project. and -- it is a document to be used in the environmental review process this is not an approval of project this . is just approving the water supply assessment to allow the eir project to move forward. we did conclude there is sufficient supply for this project. begin there is uncertainties out there. this project not tip the balance on this. our recommendation to approve the water supply assessment and pass it on to planning. and happy to answer questions. any questions about that assessment? seeing none. open to public comment. members of public had wish it make remote comment on item 7 press star 3 to speak.

speakers will hear a chime had well is 30 seconds remaining. do membersment to provide comment on this item? callers with hands raised? there are no callers this wish to be recognized. public meant on item 7 is closed. no public comment, no discussion from the commission. can i request i motion and second for item 7. move to approve the water supply assessment. i will second. >> can we have a roll call yoochl president paulson. >> aye >> rivera. >> aye >> maxwell. >> aye >> stacy >> aye >> ajackie >> aye >> you have 5 aye's. >> okay. communications that is information only. so there is -- no need to discuss that. let's read the next item.

>> item 9 items neighborhood by commissioners. i have one. which -- which came up recently and -- i have been informed that the board of supervisors has taken a position to limit remote public comment. and because of the circumstances, there is a direction by the mayor to all boards and commissions to limit the public comment. and the i know this this information was sent out by our general council to all of you i will not go through it all. public comment is -- according to the direction limited to all except for those limited remote comment of which people with disabilities and others will able to call in. so. and unless there is any

objections this would be the base on the board of supervisors and the direction of the mayor this would be i would say we should get the secretary to put that in the instructions for public participation. for the next meeting unless there are objections or comments? commissioner maxwell. unless there are people this have disabilities? >> could we read that specifically. >> and how will they know? who has one and who does not. this will be in listed in the public notice this guess out to the committee meetings you remote public access will not be visible unless you have a commissions. i don't know if we have -- city attorney to clarify the specific language. part of the notice. commissioner, the board of

supervisors adopted a procedure. and other boards and commissions in the city are adopting a similar procedure the secretaries will be provided with that procedure and published as part of your agenda package. okay. so howl they know if i say i have i disability how will than i know whether i do or not? i mean you can put it in the. i understand there is a process. >> request made to the commission secretary. she will skw somebody when is your disability and how -- how does this going to work? this is a case of which. a case by case. >> but -- the equal need to be made to the secretary. >> >> can i say something. if it i think had you are getting at is if i'm

understanding this correctly, this is in terms whether you have a disability or not is the honor system there is not going to be than i will not ask people personal medical information. tell be based simple low on somebody representation they have a disability. is that accurate. >> yes. there is a formal process. when you like the answer i answered the question. why well is a press and than i have to give advance notice of that they need the accommendation. and i'm guessing would apply to the chair who does the recognizing that is how will i know. so when in doubt >> tell be noted on the agenda if someonement its make that how they do it. commissioner stays. >> yes.

i'm sorry. commissioner stacy and after. commissioner ajami. >> thank you i think all my questions have been answered i had the same questions as commissioner maxwell. if00 autocommission would be set up for remote public comment. and then someone who wished to comment remotely would let the secretary know ahead of time that they need to use that remote system. >> is this right? >> yes. we would set it up with advanced notice if we get no notice by the time the dead line for noticing us then the web ex would not be set up. >> okay >> and is our plan to begin what -- the next hearing? the commission has? or is there a phase in process. >> through the chair. what we're recommending the secretary to do now. unless there is other we have more discussions but that is the recommendation that is sort of

unofficial low on the floor. >> it is a big change. tell be heard for our public commenters. to adjust. public comment i'm concern body people getting notice and understanding how to set that up ahead of time. we will do the best we can. >> we will >> commissioner ajami. i think the same exact same question on the web ex thing. if the city is going to stop the process then every time up can be a challenge. because it is in the just like i turn on the wareroom and member call in. it is like a multilayer process. right. i think that is the first thingism do appreciate the same my concern was the same. i'm not sure how fast people can

address to the citizen. this came up last year and the honor system. and -- but you know we as a commission at least i know -- many of our commissioners would like to be ail to hear from the public in whatever setting. so. it it is are tort of not discourage the public. that is my take on this. >> i have a comment. also. commissionering maxwell. >> was there an issue did manage happen. and i know that thinking about it but did something help that brought you to this point? yes. commissioner. there is a number of instances that occurred in the bay area and at the board as well where there was profanity exit think there was 18 cometic commentary

made and there was prosecute fanity and other things that brought things to the floor and the board of supervisors and ended the remote public comment. that's my understand when motivated it. >> okay. we have been going through profanity for a language time. okay. thank you. another comment. and i will taking the lead baudz it is upon us all quickly we have not had time to think about it. the lead is now i am the president i will take the lead of had the general manager says we will not be our intent not to be stopping anything from happening and if somebody come in and indicated manage that appears like i can't make it in there is in way i as chair will challenge that. i think that i think that is if there is noock i will say again.

don't have any secretary put this in the announcements going forward. >> okay. so that said. we are on item 9 are there other initiation matters to be brought up by anything initiated by the commissioners. discussion only. i have my hand raised. commissioner ajami. >> so. there was a communication item on san francisco's sorry. multiclimate program update submitted. in the communication >> i'm sorry i was not >> there was an am on the communication multienterprise claimant program update.

>> yes. there are 2 item in there i would like to see if we can get n some presentations of one is the capitol alliance climate plan and the other is the there is a we had discussions around -- cbi the climate bond initiative and how they -- identify different bond measures. it would be have you been to have a presentation on that. ask before. that will be great. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> note taken by the general manager. why okay. >> thank you. >> commissioner. follow up on this? >> okay. >> are there other items -- commissioners would like to initiate? that being said, we need public

money this open this up to public comment on the 2 items >> members had wish to make remote comment on item 9 press star 3 to speak and turn off electronic devices around you. [speak fast]. do we have callers with hands raised. >> there is one caller. call are i unmuted your line you have 2 minutes. thank you. peter, tuolumne river trust the change to public comment. want it say for the referred this is a huge disappointment and a blow to the public. thank you. there are no callers. public comment on item 9 is closed. >> okay.

so item 10. is >> public comment on matter to address during closed session item 12 conference with labor negotiator in representatives commission sophie maxwell and employee general manager and, under negotiation. compensation. members of the public had wish to make remote public on item 12 press star 12. do we have callers with hands raised? there is one caller. i un muted your line have you 2 minutes. >> thank you. peter, tuolumne river trust. i want to reference 21-0170.

it starts, where as on november first issue 2021 i now pu c general manager took office and another where as, the expectation of the commission that the priorities will guide the new gm assumes new responsibilities. they will result in significant and measurable improve am in all prior yours and will guide the commission in evaluating his performance now therefore be it and the resolve system requiremental leadership to improve reps with nongovernmental organizations. and you might have noticed there are few other ngo comments the day and it is in the buzz they don't have occurrence and i think everything is fine. they don't comment because it is not worthy their time temperature is given up on the pu c vol tailor doing the right thing. thank you.

thank you. there are no callers in the queue. >> public ment is closed. >> so. item 11 -- i guess we will go to closed session. >> we have a motion to acert. >> can i get a motion to acert attorney/client privilege before we go to closed session. >> move to acert attorney/client privilege. joy will second. >> roll call >> president paulson. >> aye >> vice president rivera. >> yes. commissioner maxwell. >> aye >> commissioner ajami. >> aye >> commissioner stacy >> aye. why 5 aye's. >> we will go to closed session j. that passes. >> clear clear

well is know announce am there was in action taken during our closed session. i would like to see if we have a motion to not disclose the discussions. i move to not disclose. >> second. >> roll call. >> president paulson. >> aye >> vice president rivera. >> aye >> commissioner maxwell. >> commissioner ajami. >> aye. >> commissioner stacy. >> aye >> you have five aye's >> we have no further business this meeting is now adjourned. thank you. clear clear to

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>> you are watching san francisco rising. today's special guest is jeff tomlin. >> hi. you are watching san francisco rising. to show that is focused on restarting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. our guest today is the director transportation of the sfmta and he's with us to talk about the agency's 23-24 budget with the muni equity strategy and new projects across the city. welcome to the show. >> thank you it is good to be here. >> i see the sfmta's budget for 2023 and 2024 has been

approved. how will it help provide a strong recovery during the next few years for our riders, operators and staff? >> it has been a challenging couple of years. covid wiped out the basic finances. our agency is funded primarily from transit fares, parking fees and a fixed set aside for a general fund and covid has meant we have lost more than half of our parking and transit for revenue. we are not expected to recover them until 2027. this budget takes a one-time federal release funding and spreads that out between now and 2025. and our task is to rebuild trust with the voters that sfmta can actually deliver on their goals and that includes things like making muni faster, more frequent, and more reliable. includes making our streets safer and making everyone feel safe riding the bus. it means taking advantage of the

amount of change we're going to experience in order to advance equity so that we invents -- invest the most amount of money in communities that need our services the most. it also means supporting san francisco in its larger economic recovery. basically two years between now and 2024 in order to build trust with the voters and figure out how are we going to find muni moving forward because it is in 2024 and 2025 when the one-time federal release fund went out. >> are you planning on starting up? >> as a result of covid, we have 1,000 vacancies in the organization. that is why muni service is not fully recovered. this budget allows us to fully staff through 2024, which means we can restore muni service, invest in safety, and invest in

other programs in order to make the transportation system work better for everyone. >> can you talk about the mooney service equity strategies? as you move out of the pandemic, how has that plan been updated? i have heard there are elevator upgrades in progress. >> we have been working a lot on equity during muni's recovery. we have been basing our work on the muni equity strategy. this is the plan we update every two years that looks at the changing demographics of san francisco and helps us direct our transit resources where people need it the most. that means people with low income, people of color, seniors, people with disability, children, all the folks who have the fewest choices. during covid, when we had to strip back the transit system, 13 quarters of the workforce were in quarantine, we directed all of the agency's resources to the equity neighborhoods.

places like the bayview, chinatown, the mission, the valley, and even through our recovery, we have continued to deliver the best muni service's so -- to the neighborhoods that need it the most. right now we are still operating more frequent service in core lines in equity neighborhoods than we did precovid. and the result of that is extraordinarily high ridership. we are finding, for example, by investing in the frequency and reliability on lines like the 22 fillmore, that we are getting 133% of precovid ridership, even when the overall system is only at about half of the ridership recovery. that is 133%. that is on weekends. we are at about 96% of precovid ridership on our main equity lines on weekdays. we're also investing a whole variety of infrastructure

projects aimed at making transit work better, particularly for people with disabilities. on the market street corridor, our elevators to the subway station date back to the 1970s and need significant renovation. right now we are busy working on renovating the elevators at the station. we have completed the elevator upgrade for the eastbound platform. we are now working on the westbound platform. that will modernize the elevators and make them a lot more reliable, and make sure that we can continue to prioritize people with the fewest mobility choices. >> that's great. changing topics slightly, i understand the improvement project is halfway completed. have shared spaces made the product -- project more complicated? >> yes. lots of things have made the terminal project more complicated, including things like covid and supply chain issues. we learned a lot on the first phase of the terra vale project, which rebuilt the street from

sunset boulevard to the zoo, including rebuilding all the infrastructure of the streets, the underground utilities, to modernize all that infrastructure and make it more resilient, and make sure that we do not have to rebuild the street, hopefully in any of our lifetimes. we also learned about the importance of collaborating, particularly with neighborhood businesses and residents. we want to make sure that we are constructing the city's infrastructure in a time that the city is suffering and we are not adding to suffering. we're doing things like partnering with the mayor's office of economic workforce development to support neighborhood businesses through programming during this time. we are also making sure that businesses that create shared spaces in the parking lane, some of those need to be moved out of the way while the utility work is done underneath them. we are making sure that we will either move those platforms and outdoor eating areas back as

they were, or help local merchants rebuild them so that we are not adding to the burden of local businesses and that we help everyone recover in this challenging time. >> quite right. finally, many of the sfmta vision zero quick build projects have been well received. can you talk about the evans street project? >> one of the things we did during covid was dramatically expand the rate of what we call quick build projects, which are fast-moving projects using simple and cheap materials in order to redesign streets and test out new ideas and see how they work, as well as get a lot of feedback from community before moving into a larger capital project that converts all of that plastic stuff into concrete and trees and, you know, curb extensions. what we have been finding is that our quick build safety projects are able to cut severe

injury and fatalities between 25 and 75%, depending upon the location on the techniques that we use. so we are targeting streets that have the highest rate of traffic crashes, particularly injury crashes and fatalities. we focused on evans, which is really important connector for all modes of transportation between the bayview and the central neighborhoods of san francisco. also a street with a terrible track record of severe crashes. on evans, what we are doing, again using paint and plastic posts for the time being, is taking the lanes that are out there right now, and converting them to one lane in each direction plus turn pockets. what we found on streets like valencia or south bend this, or -- south van nass, is a street

with one lane in each direction plus a term pocket can move just as much traffic as a street with two lanes in each direction. left turning vehicles mean the two lanes of traffic are never really available for through traffic. these road diets that we do have been tremendously effective for improving safety outcomes for all road users, without exacerbating traffic. they do make all cars slow down to the speed of the most prudent driver. this week we are getting started in partnership with the department of public works on work to restripe all of evans between third and cesar chavez, and as part of this work will be collecting a lot of data, talking to industrial users in the industrial district and talking to folks in the bayview commercial district and in the mission about how it is working. we will make some adjustments along the way and if it is

successful, then we will start another project that is more capital-intensive to make it permanent. if it is not successful, we will turn it back the way that it was, having spent very little money. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show. thank you for the time you have given us today. >> it has been great being here. thank you so much. >> that is it for this episode. we will be back shortly. you have been watching san francisco rising. thank you for watching. [♪♪♪]

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