>> meeting this afternoon at 1:30 pm., tuesday, november 14, 2023.) (gavel) okay. so we'll call the roll. public utilities commission commission at the order i want to note that the clock is 15 minutes off and at 2 o'clock it is automatically changed to the correct time i'm told in case

you are wondering what went on or fell asleep roll call, please. >> president paulson here. >> commissioner campbell here. >> commissioner ajami. >> commissioner maxwell. >> commissioner stacy we have quorum. >> okay. >> okay. i'd like >> okay. i'd like are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush (rah-my-toosh) ohlone (o-lon-ee) who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory.

elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> first item please. >> 3. approval of the minutes of october 24, 2023. >> any corrections to those minutes any public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. >> can i entertain a motion to approve the minutes of october 24th. >> moved and seconded roll

call, please. >> president paulson, aye. >> commissioner campbell, aye. >> commissioner ajami, aye. >> commissioner stacy, 5 i's okay. next item is general public members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. seeing none, no members of the public item 4 is closed a he can have the report of the general manager. >> discussion. >> thank you, mr. president. item 5 a. >> 5a. report of the general manager (discussion only): annual policy and government affairs update. emily lamp will be presenting.

>> i'm the general manager for general affairs providing you the annual affairs update the team worked with the staff across the agency to advance the elective agenda i want to recognize my team who are here jenny, rebecca and scott and others. they thank you for your dedication and hard work. tried to be responsible to the folks and proud of them and happy to be here today and also the elective alliances from each enterprise and power and making we are grateful appreciate the partnership and finally thank you are state lobbyists in

sacramento and federal folks. um, commissioners in our meeting materials have a written memo summarizing did you activists i want to highlight a few things at the local level secured 27 hours and handled offer several requests one of the top priorities for the financing with the water and wasting package. dj helped that with the left lane leaders and we can address their questions and proud of the work to help get the rates approved and continue to have the revenue to function and stat level dj led and coalition and for an extension of the state for the payment program that released an

additional $600 million for low income customers in the program. we believe this money about directly help tens of thousands of customers to avoid shut off i'm proud of that because it is concrete and god time is a right and work together the conferring to make sure the rate payers get the maximum amount puc is expecting to receive $22 million in addition to about $16 million very impactful money overall we - we skriend for thousands of bills for their impact to the agency and with the enterprise narrowed down and dpaemd with the highest impact agencies self

would have sitly water rights in particular were 4 water right bills worked on. trying to work towards the goals of bill and mitigating negative consequences on our operations and two of the bills were removed by the office and the other two passed after we worked with the amendments. given the continued interest in the water rights dvrj will working closely with the water enterprise in good faith to educate and advise on the water rights. at the federal level we focus on the opportunities for infrastructure mandates the stay resolving funds relies on the

historic funding from the bipartisan on the clean waterside not seen the water dollars and the increased decreased if we are vigorously opposing those cuts to improve the program. as we look forward towards next year the parties will be funding the programs like s r f for the bipartisan infrastructure law and infrastructure act we have worked with the office in expanding the low income water assistance program. and helped to start the program and with low income consumers we are looking forward to working with with them to establish and permanent program and thank you

and i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you for all that one big request for i hear people talk about this a lot a member of a lot of applications have an standing on different issues happens often that dr is never nor - line up with the values in san francisco. and i know as a commissioner, i would love to be - our team to feel comfortable to say no we don't want to fellow in opposition liken the program you just mentioned the low income program i mean, was a lot of opposition from the associations on that

and you and i had this conversation and i don't think are interested in oh, my god it by in group opposition anyway we're going in the same - i totally think should be comfortable enough to not put our names in the opposition letter or other organizations; right? they are very different. and i definitely understand and agree with you think we truly try to invest as may 25th - june 15, 2018, many times to have our voices heard we are one of many but not shy being active and continue to do so i hear you. >> thank you. >> if you ever need our help to, you know. i know need of

that but need our help putting force into the opposition. i think i would speak unon my on behalf of happy to help- >> (multiple voices). >> you thank you for that. >> (laughter.) >> or blame me i prefer that thank you for the offer. >> any other comments on the good work you are doing and the application to be able to get behind so many different pieces of legislation and policy positions are needed. and i will say, you know. with the infrastructure law and with the inflation and reduction act are pretty clear san francisco value types of obviously legislation we're so happy that passed. that is something we move on my other

questions or comments on this presentation? >> so, thank you. >> thank you for that summary open up for public comment please. for item 5 a. >> to invite comments on 5 a this is a members of the public? >> public comment is closed. >> okay. >> next item b. >> b) results of the 2023 power revenue bond sale. >> thank you. >> thank you. will present it. >> good afternoon commissioners. pleasure to see you again. you may recall at the september 20th meeting i approved power revenue bonds we're here to provide you the results of this and.

next slide, please. hopefully each of you have seen the e-mails have been sent citywide providing updates on what we've mroshtd with the bond sales a much abbreviated presentation of the bond sale but, of course, for members of the commission and public full information about the bonds is available on the website shown on the slide. so after your approval of the bonds on september 20th we immediately issued the offering document and our underwriters market bonds to investors on september 27th and placed the bonds and closed those bones then in october 12th. we had a simple

indicate approved and, of course, the strong and stable rating we obtained prior to the approval. showing you versions of this chart a number of tons come back with each bond sale i think what maybe notable here is the changes from what you saw for the water bonds. specifically again, just to remind you when we issue a thirty year bond especially we're issuing up to thirty different utilities with their own interest rate and in a normal environment one year bond has a lower rate than a 2 and three year bonds and so forth if you look at the yellow dash line that's the average over the last 10 years. >> that dark um, line in the

middle of page is where rain water were in just prior to the bond sale in september. and those blue bars is showing the view for the rates has been is range of rates over the past year as you can see the rates have been going up and reached the top of that 10 year period. historic you'll see the rates are well below over the thirty year period that range is pardon by the red and green bonds as you can see that the bonds have been higher this fall than in during the summer we took advantage of issuing the water bonds. still we had very strong participation with those bonds

you know what the power enterprise first issued bonds in 2015 and again in 2021 this is the third issuance of power revenue bones so this was a scareist factor with the prescription was 3 times the number of bonds available and that's - level of subscription houses us to have lower rights it during the pricing process the final results were that blend of rates on the curve provides the interest costs of 4.56 percent for the bond. and by comparison they're many factors go into the pricing of bonds we don't expect power and water bonds to be comparison the

water bonds which were even more favorable market were 4, and 10 percent the bonds are marketing in the current market for 5 percent coupons but someday within the yield of the marketplace. for example, in a one year bond has a one percent yield but the coupon a 5 percent the investors are paying a premium so that is bond we're able to produce one hundred and $31 million in other words, able to issue more bonds as a result of that premium and those bonds were used to pay commercial paper that had been used to fund

power projects that you previously approved in um, in the capital plan. as with all of our negotiated sales and gave me a pricing consultant in addition to the municipal bonds and the advisors but the pricing consultant was and they issued the independent report to indicate that the price we obtained was fair and reasonable given the may not be. >> so this chart simply gives us you what we accomplished with one hundred and 17.7 of commercial paper and as you can see the revenue bond program or

powers are relatively small compared to the million we're used to see power and water considerable increase in conceivable bonds? the depth structure where the rubber meets the road with the impact on rates what we do is we structure the bonds in the front end to create and gradual increase and layer those in over the thirty years because it's been two years since our last power bond in the final years a capacity to wrap the depth service that has the effect of allowing the evil debt service it has the effect in terms of measuring true interest costs for those the true interest cost is on the

bonds in terms of we deferred the repayment by wrapping around the debt service. finally and i think you've seen this chart before the final debt issuance of this calendar year are for but marks the end of largest issuance not puc- and 80 important to emphasize the reason bond take a number of refinancing as we discussed with the wasting and the water bonds and the darker colors are the green bonds and also see this has been is laboratory issuance of bond in the history and scheduled to at your request the

general managers request to come back on november 28th for a presentation on green bonds looking forward to returning for that and with that, i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> >> great. thank you for that summon commissioner ajami. >> a couple of questions on the last slide we need the issue some of the bonds i'm assuming some of those bars that you see on this area has been brought back into this the last column we see or the last bar; is that correct? >> that's correct. >> in in other words, previously issued bones and in terms of how much we issue in the marketplace it is

accumulative but the net impact (unintelligible). >> but the figure you have in those years, however, some of that has been reissued. >> those are the bonds we had to find investors for in that year. >> i got it was wondering on the power bar on the last bar the 2023 the power, you know. objective the powering section has a lot of opposition it is easier to fit it into green i'm wondering why those bonds are non-green. >> yes. commissioner at the last meeting no september we recommended to the commission that nothing about those bonds any less green than in prior years. um, the history of the pucs clean bond program i don't want to give the full 28

november presentation but quickly, the history is that power enterprise was first issued in 2015 and at that time that was typical for ourers were self certified we determined they're green bonds we look forward to the water and water water we look forward to the certification is it fair to say the public utilities commission has been using the policeman standard for the green bars with the climate bars certification and verification by the works. the collapse has changed objective and notable yes. the office of securities has been talking about the green bonds he as you see generally talking about green issued and their

recommendation was this self certification represents more potential risks so to us and we are going forward with an rfp process to engage marketplace not because we're dissatisfied with the people but have one enterprise that is self certified today but many new players and rapidly involving in the marketplace and an opportunity to refresh and make sure we're at forefront of the best practices and any other questions. >> thank you for that open up for public comment thank you for the presentation and looking forward to seeing you in two weeks. >> thanks >> any members of

the public present to provide comment on item 5 b? >> public comment is closed. >> thank you madam secretary that concludes my report. >> . okay. >> are there so to no items for item c >> general engineering construction work on san francisco public utilities commission systems and operations around hetch hetchy. any items the commissioners want to remove from consent calendar. >> yes. a question. yeah. >> okay. item consideration pull for questions and item d, please and um, item d? >> and c.

>> right. >> not pulling just clarifying questions. >> can i have that two for c, d, and e just questions on so i think we can um, do we need to open public comment? >> continue to make a motion than to. >> i'm sorry, go ahead and have your conversation and- >> (multiple voices). >> let's have the conversation. >> let's talk about item c commissioner. >> are we going to hear. >> it is the consent calendar. >> i'm sorry can you speak into the microphone. >> my question is why now are we having this extension that's my question. >> um,

(rustling of papers.) >> i why are we um, doing this now. >> good afternoon, commissioners realtime services expending the contract to support existing work and we're doing it in, you know. in the increment we think will take to accomplish the existing work. >> okay. >> um, so we are extending it because we have more work than we thought because - >> this contract has speciality work to support the real estate and have economic consultants and we have surveyors from time to time an ongoing project the surveyors prayers oversees calculate rent eat surveyors

support the work that the dispute over a boundary we send this out and all sort of economic analysis right now in the middle of preparing a reappreciate of model internal for parcels first of all, the properties. >> any other questions on item c? >> okay. earning item d. >> you had questions on d? >> so, thank you. >> question for you so, you know. this is quite known i'm

trying to figuring out how this works can be done. >> contracting it out. >> uh-huh. and this sounds like skill sets can be variable and why not train people rather than paying something else to come in and do it? i'm wondering what is the job qualification and yeah. >> yeah. >> we realize this is we can do it in house we have been doing the training for project managers and the project is something like planning and (unintelligible) and also return back to normal so our resources optimize. the usage about how we have resources so don't want to

plan for - wellness that is peaked over that's not good so what we're been doing with the core team with the project management and have the skills by doing some peak time we have the resources to finish the work so we can use is consultant as a - to after he's done we return to normal with the project manager to and it would be good to also create.

>> error or mistake with those conducted in the contract we correct that and renegotiate and consider the puc ability to maintain like we need the well and make sure we can have the long term. >> thank you. >> i just - maybe a little bit off script i just came back from denmark and part of the policy delegation with a bunch of projects and i keep asking

about contracting projects and pricing and all that. and i'm, you know. one of the things that came up in this conversation was that this we have a very specific performance base. contracting which, you know, not that uncommon thing but if a project finishes on time, you know. a by that for both party if it goes over we share the cost half and half i realize the project has a little bit problem here and there but thinking about how we can contractors work with and an important part of this project. i think not just about this project but generally keeping this in mind to create and system for that that will be very useful for us.

and game share arrangements not just in san francisco but just now being creative and one example with the emergency work after the winter storms and had contracting to be successful so it maybe different and curious how we do that but, yes worth considering. >> without getting into any of the ideas and incentives or non-incentives ask the question has been a complarthd project he adding to it i saw with my fellow commissioner hopefully to get an update on some of the details what is happening with that that is important with that sometimes difficult project thank you for that any other kissing from the commissioners? >> okay. that being said, i think are there any other

questions at all and if not open up for public comment on the consent agenda. >> any members of the public to provide comments on the consent agenda? >> public comment is closed. >> okay. motion and second for the consent calendar motion and second came in an oxen to that passed roll call, please. >> president paulson eyes. >> vice president rivera, aye. >> commissioner maxwell, aye. >> commissioner ajami, aye. >> commissioner stacy, aye. >> 5 i's everything on the consent we has the next item, please. >> >> 8a. advance calendar. >> you skipped item

electric to provide the sfpuc secondary voltage service under pg&e's wholesale distribution tariff for some 30 megawatts of city load. >> thank you barbara hale assistant general manager for power i'm here to enter into the settle b&b by the commissioner secretary summarized first context i'll provide will address the services we purchased from pg&e with a number of disputes that arise and the litigation underway as well as the settlement we operate for electrical services for the housing development and get into the particulars 0 first of all, the services we purposed

from pg&e hefty averages about one million megawatt hours to serve you're about 6 house customer accounts most of our customers have connected to the pg&e owned distribution grid we pay pg&e $45 million a year for that service. the cost for that service are part of our hefty power costs recovered from hefty electricity and the rates you set and they're billed monthly but our puc customer service bureau the $35 million a year question paid pg&e is based on a transfer proposed by pg&e and approved by the federal regulatory commission the services form our rights to access the service. they are for pg&e the rules that other utilities like us have to our

consumers the pg&e terms of service that creates this dispute between pg&e and ourselves and frankly the customers we service from hefty hetch hetchy program and working with the city attorney we filed a complaint in early 2019 with the regulatory commission challenging pg&e in practice they refused to provide secondary voltage service to the customers with electricity load studying 75 kilowatts a small thresholds pg&e asked for primary service will be appropriate for customer like san francisco general hospital. they xhoetdz large electrical equipment costs and cause delays

and make hetch hetchy infeasible the complaint deemed no technical justification or any safety or liability need for primary voltage service that pg&e didn't apply those same requirements to on the customers and it alleged against the city. you, you know. we respect report to you and the board of supervisors on our static to context pg&e customers to the grid on a quarterly because the last report in august of 2023 and showed 42 active projects facing delays and increased costs because of pg&e for more than thirty projects other projects that we found was infeasible to meet the unreasonable requirement they

competed wouldn't be hetch hetchy customers the total impact for the 72 projects from the august report was approximately $13 million a those costs will continue this is because they will pay the higher pg&e charges as long as they're connected. on average our customers pay thirty percent lower than pg&e rates there is also the financial harm to the city from the fact that um, the higher costs that they're paying is eating into the operating costs for the department and taking away from their core services and our loss in revenue for the pg&e customers instead

of the hetch hetchy customers i'm talking about the impacts talking about affordable housing and campuses like the projects and i'm talking about individuals building libraries like the one hundred and 38 units under construction and talking about stormwater prejudicially stations and irrigation system line on sunset boulevards and the chinatown public health center and elementary schools like i believe heart and golden gate park and the neighborhood centers like friends and litigating issued related to the pg&e tariffs those are multiple service levels the form la requirements that are passed on to us for updates to the pg&e

and treatment of unmetered likely the street lights and traffic signals and non-possible services charges and holdings pg&e accountable to reasonable engineering and timelines that is important for projects getting connected and city services back underway we have an affordable housing agreement. so we have been successful in negotiating for reasonable connection terms with both pg&e for certain types of affordable housing and pg&e has agreed to context the housing with handicapped affordable to no mix the projects on city land and the puc condominiums to charge the hetch hetchy customer a low income rate. that agreement expires in 2011 so few the new

agreement before you this settlement will allow us to connect 20 megawatts of metered customers at secondary voltage when they're existing hetch hetchy customers that change their electrical services and city departments and rolled combaebts /* equity the private colleges and private entities but this will be 5 megawatts and the settlement that is before you will last for 5 years in exchange the city will permanently dismiss and wave any claims for monetary damages. we recommend this settlement because will resolve this complaint and provided certainty for us and some of our customers

on the rules for advisory committee to the pg&e grid for 5 years. and avoids continued pg&e disputes delays and costs for that set of customers. with that, i ask for your support of this settlement and the authorization to take to the board for approval and i'm available for questions. but if you require legal counsel we have noticed a closed session and can take that up at that time. >> thank you for summarizing those i know will be commissioners lining up to ask questions or comments before i do that i'd like to say contacts i think we have read and the presentation, you know. puts things in a pretty outrage position i think that pg&e putting us in this position really just disrespectful to

what is happening in san francisco with mixed feelings we have this on the agenda to deliberate as commissioners in that context first commissioner stacy please. thank you. i really have a procedural question because in closed session on item 14 if we approve this matter now we won't have questions for legal counsel on the calendar is in the procedure by have questions any on about will be addressed in closed session and vote on that after the closed session. >> yeah. >> how does that work? >> i'm happy to take in the questions that is a matter of interest to the public so any questions? i can he answer in the public i recognize somehow maybe. >> a commissioner stacy is that

clear. >> thank you. i want to make sure i understood the process and i did read all of the agenda items and have some questions answered by um, staff ahead so i don't think i have any further questions but. thank you. >> okay. commissioner ajami. >> thank you so thanks for that clarification. can i have a little bit of a - i was precipitated by those bonds as a layperson that is not xhashlth and straightforward but i mean is that something you should be historically why refer it to a

federal body that is supposed to provide a fair assessment of situation? take a side should not be taking providing um, you know. fair statement. >> uh-huh. >> of the situation. >> certainly an ongoing situation with staff together with city attorney. you know. the only way to avoid those issues is to be the owners of grid we avoid having to do the mother may i when we have disagreements with pg&e. i'll point out one of the decisions we took on appeal and burke was remand back by the court we were told his got it wrong.

>> that is a lengthy process; right? and in the meantime, we have city departments and other customers who need to make improvements of facilities and we need to do our business not an ideal scenario to do the trip to washington and request for intervention. >> on that note is there a way - i mean i know we want to settle and move forward. >> given. >> sure. >> but only have 5 years; right? >> correct. >> my question it is this for strategic to think about the 5 years or should we think about putting it, you know. i don't know an amendment that says, you know. we will recoup the costs

the legal costs and the distribution? i mean a lot not beyond just they spent a lot of time and lots of legal costs associated even if come for free am wondering if we need and guarantee. >> well, i think the concern you're expressing about um, you know. how this can happen again and that for me that is part of the reason why we go with the shorter term. and it allows us to be more comfortable with the cap that pg&e is wanting to impose own us; right? so this dynamic we have a longer-term need and higher cap. >> sure. >> i can't imagine that is part of what pg&e and the city have

unarguing about as we come to a settlement like this the longer - helping us to mitigate that concern is the fact we have the affordable housing agreement so that's that category of load we can serve outside the cap we have until three 1 and over the 5 years to 10 years whether make progress on the acquisition another mitigating factor and helps us helping um, get a more responsive pg&e when issues come up. and you feel that the settlement that is in front of us is the best i could have gotten on the process or, you know. we could have asked for more a game; right?

>> (multiple voices). >> ask for more and yes, i'm standing before you you recommending it i think that the best we can get. >> uh-huh. >> thank you. >> vice president rivera. >> thank you president i wanted to make a comment and underscore something you said when i managed the capital improvement of sf fire we had massive delays with um, this process was - hopefully with the settlement will no longer be absolutely frustrating and impactful on knack budgets affordable housing replace of employment is frustrating reading we're having a settlement i'm so happy for

the city departments that don't have to go through that it was terrible. >> yeah. you're speaking to - the settlement provide and really does not only does unbutcher us with the associated cost you were mentioning but you're highlighting for the city and the budget and all that so, yeah. >> commissioner maxwell. >> thank you and congratulations i know that is rough but at least we got there to somehow degree can you give me an example and today with our customers where we are live have a right to secondary service. >> (multiple voices.) >> and i'm going to do this for the audience. >> secondary services yeah secondary services the ability to connect to the pg&e grid for

services referred to as a facility. so if you're um, for example, the beginning friend rec center and make these visit your property today without the settlement pg&e was requiring that gwen friends set aside a base for primaries voltage equipment that's about the size of parking space. and a little bit bigger but to give you you a frame that is carving out space this is is core function and assessable to the street have redesign what they thought they'll do with their facility and buy the equipment and have that reviewed by pg&e and um, there the cost of their construction. >> and the conditional use

permit is what that is tens of thousand dollars. >> 5 hundred thousand is standard for the equipment mind what we see now with the settlement is approved by ourselves and our board is connections at secondary service voltage. avoiding all of that equipment being able to connect like other customers on pg&e grids. you avoid that $500,000 and does not have to take away space for the core services and equipment the process is xoementd to go much more quickly save an time. >> you're welcome. >> thank you for that and illustration any more comments from the commissioners, if not i have a question that goes to what commissioner stacy brought if i is confused prior to this meeting if we're going to go

closed session i no problem personally and, yes talking about this is a transparent as we can this an outrage commission to make difficult decisions but if the general counsel is there a need to go to closed session any more missing anything in terms of the questions we have not asked for right now? >> the answer is no. okay. that being said. thank you. >> and thank you, commissioners for asking those very constructive questions for a difficult situations with that vendor. so is there entertainment to make a motion for to accept the settlement? >> after public comment. >> yes. i'm sorry public comment, of course. >> members of the public

present to provide comment on item no. 7? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> okay. >> opinions i will repeat we're sort questions or comments that being said, a motion it a second to approve this settlement. >> i'll move. >> hear a motion and second roll call. >> president paulson, aye. >> vice president rivera, aye. >> commissioner maxwell, aye. >> commissioner ajami, aye. >> commissioner stacy, aye. >> 5 i's. >> okay. >> this difficult settlements passes and do some actually do some business here in san francisco so, thank you. >> okay. so. could you um, talk about the next item, please. >> >> 8a. advance calendar.

information only on the communications any communication items any commissioners want to discuss? >> okay. >> next item, please. >> tim 9. >> 9. items initiated by commissioners (discussion only) >> commissioners is there anything i wanted to put on the agenda or discuss? >> seeing none, um, commissioner maxwell. >> yeah. i don't really know how to say that. so hopefully, we'll figure it out but i'm wondering a way to look at our contracting out and how many people we or down and what departments? like down over 6 hundred people and some departments have quite a few people how does that relate to

having to contract out our work? >> do we know. >> i understand your question putting together a correlation of - so maybe somebody in the department can ask that you're comparing the fact trying to hire many people as departments are and also contracting out is that what you're referring. >> yeah. 6 hundred and 60 i think some departments over 50 and 60 people down how three residential hotels to contracting out and if it does at all? something i wonder about everything we look at our budget and say cost savings and salary saving are we really saving

thousand? but we're spending money in other ways that is kind of my question. >> i don't know if there is someone- >> (multiple voices). >> not now but i don't expect an answer now i don't want an answer now but a question does that relate than let me know and absolutely. we had a number of conversations as commissioner ajami knows in briefing on contract issues we've happy to stand by that and you'll find not as much of a correlation but make sure we have all the information. >> that's good. >> yep, absolutely we can we'll put them together for you. >> thank you. >> thank you. above you anything else? >> i'll just add. >> commissioner ajami.

>> so you heard me saying that yesterday i'm happy if trip i was in denmark and i was the able to see who they have masked all their infrastructure and excite how to move things, however, and i was like blown away like they basic decided to do this and did that and assuming they're not a brand new country and the city of copenhagen was not created yesterday they're older than us and able to do this. i asked them how do i do it the cost is difficult we use a lot of technologies but trying to figure out how to piecemeal but at the end. i don't know how to ask this who to ask how to

figure that out but we need to do this in the city. and it is kind of like we live and in the middle of all sort of technology; right? we're a land of technology everybody comes to here to learn i couldn't tell them we have a map of san francisco. i, you know. somehow we need to do this i'm happy to help if you want to bring people in to have that that conversation and mayor's office to have a conversation it is beneficial to us as a utility but we should do this it is important for us and can be very useful to us. thank you. >> any other ideas or initiations of discusses by any

more commissioners? >> okay. if not, i guess we will what the next item. >> public comment on this item and so i guess we need public comment on the two items have been brought up by do commissioner. >> members of the public to provide comments on item number 9? >> seeing none, public school public comment is closed. >> read the next item please madam secretary the motivators for heard prior to closed session public comment on item 12 conference for legal counselor proposed settlement on the damages for property from a rip it is your duty water main in the city and county of san francisco to $36,000 plus in

exchange for final review and approval by the board of supervisors and item 13 determined complainants by the city and county of san francisco in to delegate to the commissions and the city attorney the authority to set on the 9/11 water main break and commissioner discussion 14 will not be heard in the closed session so- >> members of the public present to provide comment on item 12. >> seeing none, closed session and 13 is closed. >> so we'll go into closed session make a motion to assert the attorney-client privilege

regarding those matters just read. >> so moved. >> roll call. >> motion sent. >> president paulson, aye. >> vice president rivera, aye. >> commissioner maxwell, aye. >> commissioner ajami, aye. >> commissioner stacy, aye. >> 5 i's. >> okay. (in closed session). >> . okay. um, we're back in session. commission is not - recommending this is the board recommend the settle in items 12 and 13 and 14 as the motion was not discussed so motion. >> just to clarify item 14 was

pulled from the calendar. >> was not discussed okay. thank you for the clarification is motion regarding whether or not to disclose the discussion. >> roll call, please. >> president paulson, aye. >> vice president rivera, aye. >> commissioner ajami, aye. >> commissioner maxwell. >> commissioner stacy, 5 i's. >> we have no other scheduled business so the meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> thank you,

when completed in 1923, o'shaugnessy dam was the largest of the time built with over 660,000 cubic feet of concrete and 700,000 pounds of steel. what ask most impressive the purity of the water in hetch hetchy reservoir. >> quality of the water coming

down the tuolumne river is snow melt rung off of grantite. it does not pick up pollute annuals the most pristine water source wrochl getting it from the dam to san francisco was a challenge. the construction of mountain tunnel through 19 miles of grantite brought the water to the reservoir and then to the moccasin power plant the pipe lines called pen stalkers. for moccasin it flowed across the san wa queen valley where michael o'shaugnessy failed a daunting challenge. >> most feat was tunnelling throughout coast ranges. which was the tunnel was 28 miles long. it was an under taking but we persevered he wanted to drill through so it would be gravity

flow from beginning to end. there were 85 miles of tunnels some through grantite and 71 miles of aqueducts to carry hetch hetchy water to the crystal springs reservoir >> o'shaugnessy delivered to bring water and generate power from the tuolumne river 167 miles across california by gravity flow to the san francisco bay area. >> this o'shaugnessy dam centennial moment is >> >> (indiscernible) faces transformed san francisco street and sidewalks. local business communities are more resilient and our neighborhood centers on more vibrant ask lively. sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating,

dining, merchandising and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are accessible for all and safe. hello, san francisco. i love it when i can cross the street in our beauty city and not worry whether car can see me and i want me and my grandma to be safe when we do. we all want to be safe. that's why our city is making sure curb areas near street corners are clear of parked cars and any other structures, so that people driving vehicles, people walking, and people biking can all see each other at the intersection. if cars are parked which are too close to the crosswalk, drivers can't see who is about to cross the street. it's a proven way to prevent traffic crashes. which have way too much crashes and fatalities in our city. these updates to

the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone so we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf dot gov slash

>> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the

bayview-hunters point community. >> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the

grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility

to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this

including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and

passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people.

>> after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the below-market rate program. i got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [♪♪♪] >> the current lottery program began in 2016. but there have been lot rows that have happened for affordable housing in the city for much longer than that. it was -- there was no standard practice. for non-profit organizations

that were providing affordable housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city we've been monitoring for some time since 1992. we did it with something like this. where people were given circus tickets. we game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. at the same time, we started electronic applications systems. called dalia. the lottery is completely free. you can apply two ways. you can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. if you apply online, it will take five minutes. you can make it easier creating an account. to get to dalia, you log on to

housing.sfgov.org. >> i have lived in san francisco for almost 42 years. i was born here in the hayes valley. >> i applied for the san francisco affordable housing lottery three times. >> since 2016, we've had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. if you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. >> for some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. there is a digital divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. so we began providing digital

assistance for folks to go in and get help. >> along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and there's also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a first-time home buyer workshop and a one-on-one counseling session with the housing councilor. >> sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldn't be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. they still might get a value for an available, affordable housing unit. >> we have a variety of lottery programs. the four that you will most often see are what we call c.o.p., the certificate of preference program, the dthp

which is the displaced penance housing preference program. the neighborhood resident housing program and the live worth preference. >> i moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. the neighborhood preference program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in san francisco. >> the next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. you have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. all city sponsored affordable

housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. every week there's a listing on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has happened. several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. and how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the

weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. we will start construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. >> we also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. and life happens to people. people move. so we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. >> best thing about working for the affordable housing program is that we know that we're making a difference and we actually see that difference on a day-to-day basis. >> being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, it's a wonderful experience. >> it's a long process to get through.

well worth it when you get to the other side. i could not be happier. [♪♪♪]