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bay area communities today. >> could you call the next item please? item three approval of the minutes of february 11th 2025. >> commissioners any comments or corrections to the minutes? no. no thank you. >> public comment please. remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on number three. >> are there any members of the public present who wish to provide comment? >> seeing none. moderator are there any college who have their hand raised? >> ms. linear there are no callers who wish to be recognized. >> thank you. >> commissioners, could i have a motion in a second to approve the minutes of february 11th? >> motion to approve. seconded. thank you. president stacy i. commissioner jammed our i. >> commissioner pepperoni. i. item passes general public

comment. item four. members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda and the commission values civic engagement and encourages respectful communication at the public meeting. we ask that all public comment be made in a civil and courteous manner and that you refrain from the use of profanity. thank you. >> remote callers please raise yourand if you wish to provide comment on item four. are there anybe o the public present who wish to comment on this item seeingone. moderator are there any college who have their hand raised? >> ms. linear there is one caller with the hands raised. >> thank you. caller your line has been unmuted. you have two minutes. >> thank you. this is peter direct buyer policy director for the wyoming river trust. the chaos in washington d.c. should remind us how important checks and balances are.

republicans in congress are afraid to stand up to trump even when the policies hurt their constituents and i'm sure many will eventually pay a price. for a long time the lack of checks and balances at the u.s. has harmed both the environment and rate payers. information is controlled d tedy staff leading to poor decision making. commissioner requests have been ignored but there are no consequences. our simple public records act requests get denied based on attorney client communications even though they have nothing to do with legal issues. en offial commission resolutions get ignored by staff. i've mentioned in the past two resolutions in 2019 and 2020 directing staff to work with the irrigation districts to incorporate biological growth and adaptive management into the twomey river voluntary agreement. no discussions have ever taken place and staff appears to be getting away with ignoring directives from the commission. from my research it appears that the commission has never

officially adopted the assigned route. you've simply been told it's policy you don't know how likely the desired drought is to occur because you haven't asked. how can you make a risk assessment without this key information? how can you justify the alternate water supply plan? you don't know how lower than projected water will impact rates because staff won't tell you. jamie asked but never got a response. she was then replaced. the national marine fisheries service commissioned a peer review of the tommy river volunteer agreement but panned the science behind the fish models. but the spc never responded. it appears that science doesn't matter. yes, you see. please step up as leaders and serve as a check and balance against staff. >> thank you very much. thank you for your comment. the scenario there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. item five report of the general manager.

thank you, madam secretary. item five is local community workers and small business report ben poole and wendy macey will be presenting if i can please have the slides. so good afternoon commissioner casey and commissioners. my name is ben poole and i'm the director of workforce and program services there. >> backwards right. okay. good morning. give us some key facts that are you guys that you are if i go forward. okay. again, i'm going to start over. my name is ben poole. i'm the director of workforce

and economic program services here at the puc. and today i have the privilege of presenting with the chief people officer wendy massey. but before she presents i want i'm here to talk a little bit about some of the worker and small business outcomes that have been achieved on other pjects and the ws in ich these things are accomplished. before i dive into data which will be on the slides, i want to briefly contextualize that data and the work that the agency does in the contractors do to achieve it. >> first let me say that the work of the group that i manage is focused on workers. so small individuals jobs, right? which is the workforce in that title and then economic which is means small businesses or contractors and contracts, right? those are the sort of like two pieces of the title or the name of our group. and so that's really where we focus, right? we focus on the on workers that can be on our construction projects or professional

services contracts and on and on small businesses that can be on those projects as well. >> we do that through affirmative programing so we have a project labor agreement which means that on our capital construction projects all of the workers are unionized. we have a contractors assistance center which is focused on helping small businesses access our contracting opportunities. and we have project pull program which is focused on youth opportunities and the sort of next opportunity for civil service staff which is actually on the commission on the agenda later if it comes up . and then we focus really those impacts on the agency's capital plan, right? we focus on our capital projects and and our capital work and we have achieved some outcomes that i will show you briefly. but i think the other thing out our work within the agency and on our capital plan and on these programs is that while we are going to tell a good story, i think there is always opportunity to do more and to do a little bit better

alys the folks that we are impacting with our services to have those outcomes. >> the final thing that we do with our work is that we liaise with other city departments that are really the ones responsible for performing compliance of their various laws on our projects. so the office of economic workforce development has a local hiring requirement. the contract mine division has the local business enterprise r o b requirements and we it is with their help and the thes ofy and with the workforce traing prog services division that we're able to achieve. i think some of the outcomes that we're going to show you today. so before i get into the data, let me just say that all of this data is from the end of the calendar year 2024. so it's through december 31st, 2024 and we're going to start by focusing on the sewer system improvement program overall and not because it's anything special but it is the single largest part of the agency's overall capital plan and it is we have the best historical

data on it. >> so the fst sde that we're focused on we're focused on workers and individuals, right? and this aligns to the the city's local hiring requirements and the project labor agreement that we administer. so what you'll see is that the history of the of the sewer system improvement program goes back to time when local hiring actually applied at a 20% rate. so depending on the time of the contract was advertised there was different contractor requirements and over time it has risen to 30 percent even though even against that requirement the agency has overall at a 34% requirement. so even when we were at 20% we're still able able to achieve a number closer to 30, 30 or 40% and also on the entry level sort of newest workers apprentices there's a requirement for a 50% utilization of local local resident apprentices and the agency is at 57% and this is overall on the the program as a

whole and what that means is that $110 million in wages and benefits have been earned by san francisco residents and that money has gone back into the local economy and been spent and recycled in san francisco. and i think those are outcomes that the agency is trying to achieve striving to ensure that there's economic participation from local residents and also that that money keeps going through the city's economy. i'm going to switch over to liz and this is again now we're transitioning away from individuals and workers and we're focusing on small businesses. what you'll see on this slide is that over the term of the program set up we have awarded 312 different hlb ees over 950 contracts worth more than $862 million. so the on the sis of program overall we've gotten close to $1 billion in awards to local businesses right which is again a significant impact of dollars

saying in the san francisco economy and being recycled here this slide is just a quick kind of overview of some of that similar data but on individual projects and on projects that are the largest projects at the agency. the things i want to draw your attention to on this slide are first around the mountain tunnel project which is at the bottom the local hire numbers are going to jump off the page at you a little bit there. they're higher than everything else that's on the page mostly that's a reflection of the fact that this is a project that's in the region and shows the agency's regional impact and the fact that residents of the areas where that project is happening are also able to participate in the project. right, which is i think the again that effort at economic opportunity and inclusion. i secondly would like to call your attention to just the scale of the achievement. so on biosolids you're seeing that roughly 100 and i'm sorry 1.8 million hours worked which

means that at a 33% local hiring participation roughly 600,000 hours of work by san francisco residents which is a lot of people and a lot of hours. and then finally i would call your attention to sort of a thing that's on the slide that i wasn't i don't want to love but it's on there which is that under head works the apprentice participation requirement is currently below the the requirement and i want to acknowledge that and say also that our data is raw. it is not including the pipeline and compliance mechanisms that has to do offsets and off ramps around local workers. and so over time what we what we what we have learned is that that number will go up based on all of these final calculations of the local hiring requirement. and in fact there's a meeting next week to begin those efforts to address the local hiring requirements around apprentices on on metrics

and then i will shift over to the small business side of this slide. and again i think i would mostly just want to call out the scale of the impacts right ? biosolids alone is roughly $400 million in awards to ease and then head works has another 105 million. right. so you're talking about half $1 billion in awards. lba is in those two projects alone and i think the agency has done a lot of work in holding contractors accountable to achieve those outcomes and has made sure that the work of the agency in these projects really results in these outcomes. and i think one example of the way that we've done that is that we have added an additional layer to our contractor requirements. so i said that there are legal requirements, there's laws right that the contract division and and i would apply we added a contracting requirement that we call local participation and that is basically a requirement that the contractor on the project the prime contractor assess the work of the project whether that's the the the work that a contractor would perform or an

individual would perform figure out the schedule and the sort of scale of that work and then figure out the market for local businesses and workers and then align those two things. right? so what is what's the work of it? when will it happen? how big is it and then who can perform it and then when they align those things to the extent that there is not alignment to the things that there's gaps the contractors then obligated to develop a plan and implement a plan to to either train up or support the contractors and the workers so that they are able to maximize utilization on the projects. and one of the first of that we did this on was the southeast community facility project which is at 1550. evans and what you see here on the slide is that the results were a success. we exceeded the local and hiring requirement by about a third at 39% we exceeded the apprentice requirements by about a fifth at 62%. importantly within those numbers is actually numbers for residents of district ten so about 35% of the overall san

francisco resident hours were worked by residents of district ten which means that the workers that were working on the project are from the place the work has happened right? most importantly it's just right down the block. additionally the final lbb participation on the project was 31% against a requirement of 20% so again exceeding the requirement by about a third and resulting in about $26.5 million being awarded to lp during the term of the contract . >> and i think what the real opportunities though with local participation and this sort of additional layer that we've added is that this works best on alternative delivery or collaborative delivery model contracts. >> those for the commission are projects that you would have heard as a construction manager and general contractor contracts sometimes they're called cmg sees design build contracts and the truth is the agency as a whole is moving towards that delivery model and so there will be opportunities to apply the same contracting requirement on

additional projects going forward. >> and then i would like to transition over from data to kind of a human story and this is a story about deja wilson who is a san francisco native native of the bayview and when she was ready to start a career she had godparent that were in the trades and they introduced her to the idea of working in construction and it was through her godparents and the trades in that work with the unions that she was introduced to programs and products and opportunities that the puc runs to reduce barriers for local workers to get on puc projects to try to help them land on and find work on policy projects. and it was through that work that she was able to land on a piece see project appeal covered project and over time she actually became an employee of the san francisco public utilities commission so she transitioned from being a worker on our projects as an outside employee and actually now she works for the puc

and she also was so inspired by her opportunities on puc projects in safety roles that she went back and got a bachelor's degree in occupational health and safety as a way of sort of you know, really chasing her her interest. and so i think not that everybody results in this outcome but i think these are the possibilities when you put resources into local workers and local businesses and i hope that my story about an individual person transitions well to wendy story about human resources, thank you very much . thank you so much ben. i'm wendy mason, the chief people officer and with me i've got some members of our talent team melissa white, janina villanueva, older fighter who you'll hear from in a moment and david perez actually out there recruiting in the field but he will join us soon as he's done so recently. in the past year hrc has really made a concerted effort to

increase our engagement in the san francisco community and reaching out in particular to local universities and community colleges to enhance our pipelines. >> we also are announcing a community strong career fair in april which is going to be held at our southeast community center facilities in the bayview to further reach out to our community members. we've attended over 15 career fairs to engage a wide variety of candidates from local colleges and universities and in addition to our in-person engagement outreach we've been using data driven recruitment strategies to improve our outreach effectiveness, particularly on platforms like linkedin, sfr careers. we've launched the smart recruiters talent community to build stronger relationships with our prospective job seekers through personalized engagement campaigns. that is a picture of an in-person event we had where we engage with candidates to let them know about our opportunities. >> as i mentioned, we're really excited about our career fair

it's a wonderful opportunity to utilize our southeast community center and we're also trying to do some innovative hiring such as trying to experiment with some same day hiring techniques on a pilot basis. so we know that there's you know, some issues going on right now in the city with hiring, but this is exactly the right time for us to be experimental and to try new strategies to increase our talent pipeline. we've really learned that our talent pipeline is most robust when we actually personally go out and engage with our academic institutions and community based organizations to work with us to identify prospective candidates. so with that i'd like to invite allude to come up because he's one of the people who's actually out in the field quite a bit to talk a little bit about some of the engagements that we've done. thank you wendy.

good afternoon commissioners. my name is vincent ohlmeyer, coo phat and hippo global olu for short and i'm actually a san francisco native. i grew up in the western addition and also the bayview and it's a complete honor to be here today as a 1250 recruiter for the sfp. see we focus on essentially revitalizing the way that we go about recruiting, right? i think that the status quo with the city and especially p c is that we're a little bit behind when it comes to getting hired or my application wasn't viewed etc. right. but there's a piece missing where we are trying to communicate with the individuals that are applying that there's a successful way and there is a journey along the process where you can build skills and also match what we call the minimum qualifications when we're moving forward in the pipeline. so we've engaged with local community colleges like city

college skyline and then the universities as far as s.f. state along with uc berkeley where we just did a information session for students that are you know, coming out into the job force and seeking employment especially with the city and county because we still do have a great reputation and it's it's very it's a very good experience to be in front of those individuals when we talk about being employed by the sfp you see and being a native here because i know the gap for me and my community if i can just be honest with you is the resources and the information and a lot of people also fall in that gap as well in addition to that we have something that's really important to me. i mean leaning back in to my i guess general experience growing up in the west in addition and the bayview my parents were immigrants from nigeria okay so resources were

slim. even information being passed down was slim. so the way that i found out about the hbcu and just improving myself taking myself from aspects of the community that helped me back was through community work, right? so as a recruiter, as a p.s. my heart is to align with individuals and meet them where they are, right? i think that's very important. >> so through the ymca i found out and went on a college tour that was completely paid by the ymca to go to howard university. >> right. and this aspect of partnering with deepa on i guess an initiative to to bring forward a certain level of diversity, right? especially in the climate that we are now was awesome. >> so essentially we hosted two interns for the entire summer marlo along with caitlin

and essentially we gave them a rubric on how to crash course or become professional after your senior year of college, right? this was something that was near and dear to my heart. as you can see the picture there i'm actually wearing my letterman jacket well along with marlo there at the table there at the p c at the spiro. but it's a complete honor and it is absolutely a mission of ours to make sure that the next level of recruiting when we're tying it into the community aspect of things is at the level where individuals can move forward and you know, have a successful matriculation and through our process and our pipelines appreciate it. thank you so much and we like ben wanted to to end it on a personal story. so at this point mr. poole and mr. nepo and i are available to answer any questions you might have.

>> thank you so much for that presentation. boy, there's a lot going on. commissioner's questions comments commissioner levy roni thank you very much. it was very enlightening and great work that the you see and congratulations on being at howard great university when we say local is it local san francisco or san mateo or like you mentioned up in the mountain tunnel that yes you referring to my my position yeah okay sorry so so that we try to how far it is local i guess just defining it so it's defined differently on different projects so broadly on up it is defined as just residents of san francisco but on any project that exists outside of san francisco then we start to incorporate additional regional boundaries. but in mountain tunnel it basically incorporates the

entire service territory. so there's a series of zip codes that apply throughout our service territory where we have operations pipelines, whatever and folks that live in those areas and then eligible to be considered local for a project. so that's why mountain tunnels numbers are kind of skewed. >> yeah. and then and then as you define for the commissioner hyper local. sure. and then there's a term that gets used and that's hyper local largely those are folks that are expressly from the bayview and really what i think that they would even say they mean by that is folks that are that are from the bayview and have been in the baby for a long time not that are newcomers or different users and i think the definition of hyper local comes from the local hiring ordinance that refers to disadvantage workers as a sub percentage of the local hiring requirements. >> and do we know is this throughout the city contracts or is it just specific to the

sfp you see this program so i don't want to wing that answer and i would i'm happy to get back to you control over i'm going to be fine but i would if i can answer like very quickly high level knowing recent annual reports that we've gotten from the office of economic workforce of amount around our outcomes as a general rule we are achieving at the highest or right about the highest percentage in the city and even if we're not the highest we're usually at scale way more than anybody else is doing. so i think the last report we were in the we were north of 45% and at like 1.6 million hours i want to say and like the only agency that was higher than us had like a third of those hours and i can document those numbers but i feel pretty pretty good about i can i can certainly forward you that report if that would be helpful . >> very good. thank you very much, commissioner janda thank you president stacey and my questions also for mr. bloom so i'm really impressed to see the

numbers for the mountain top. >> i think you define local kind of explains that really really great to see all these numbers and very interested in this. i have a very big question which is you say when you say resident apprentices so does that only mean apprentices who are in an apprenticeship program or does that include pre apprentices who are also in the pipeline to be coming up? >> so the answer to your question is this is only apprentices that are registered apprentices indentured to the unions and mostly because the way that we're tracking the data commissioner gender is from the ltv tracker system which is the system the city's software system that tracks prevailing wage payments to individuals. and so that's where we're getting the data and then it's so it's tracking against actual hours worked by folks on the projects and you would you know you're an indentured also that data is tracking against the city's law the local hiring law which again is focusing on apprentices actual indentured apprentices the that to say if

you're sort of paying it for pre apprenticeship there are right other opportunities but it's not going to it's not going to show in the that's got it and also when you said in the local participation effort you said you improved on a lot of these statistics because of contractors training up folks. what kind of training took place? >> could you give us a little bit of a flavor of sure. so on the 15 for the evans project and i want to say that what we have tried to do with each project is really ensure that the contractor understands their obligation to sort of like align those opportunities and address any gaps and that each one of their contracts for each one of the 100 would really have the opportunity to sort of deploy the solutions as they see fit right in the case of the 5050 evans project, what they found the most useful was to identify individual contractors in the case of small businesses that were aligned to components of the work. so painters or plumbers or electricians and then work with their trade partners so the contract prime contractor is

mostly going to sub out to like you know large but the specialty contractors and ensuring that those contractors are working with a subset of folks that they've identified and trained up really sort of taught and shown the effort of bidding some of the effort that they would need around paperwork and tracking in order to successfully deliver the project. and what they did in that case was they sort of identified specific scopes of work that they could separate out that would really allow contractors to sort of like be on their own two feet. but they also did it within the context of a like a trade contractor relationship and then the workers was really just about working with all of the different partners within the bayview and in the city, right? there's office economic workforce development, there's city build, there's the unions, there's the puc, there's the cbos that help and identify folks that are available and then ensuring that those folks in coordination with the unions are being then dispatched to the project

commissioner rc thanks president stacey and and thanks ben when the hello and to the general manager for for bringing this presentation thanks especially because i came in about five minutes late and for your willingness potentially even to hold for for for just a little bit for for me to join because this is of particular interest to myself and i think because it's really impressive to see what you and the team have done with with these policies over the last ten years at this point and in change for folks that may not be aware and in fact jim robinson and i were having this conversation during our tour of mountain town the last week that a lot of the the origin of these policies ben ben knows and folks like jim or to carney because he was there this was really having these

policies was part of a conversation i mean going back decades but really when the work of the agency was beginning to shift from the kind of home stretch to the water system improvement project and looking into the city around the sewer system improvement project really trying to align the opportunities that these important investments were going to make in terms of not just addressing the needs around the digesters in the wastewater treatment plan and the city beneath the city and in the upgrades around the sewer system. but the concentration of a lot of these jobs in contract know opportunities in the southeast you're really seeing a lot of deliberate work by the staff of this agency working with community partners, working with building trade unions, working with contractors both large and small other government agencies. i mean it's really a success story. i'm hoping that we are really able to to tell. i imagine your your your your

kind of expertise and that of the agency is set by other water agencies. how you've been able to do more than just make these important investments we create these economic opportunities the multiplier effect the over $100 million of additional wages into the hands of local workers has a multiplier effect especially at a time like this that helps the local businesses, helps families. the fact is having been one of the advocates that was there back in the day, we found that without a mandatory local hiring policy you you don't see the outcomes like what we saw there with respect to 30 to 40% local participation the ranging of apprentices from 50 to 60% plus there what you actually saw without a local hiring policy before the city adopted a mandatory local hiring framework at the end of 2010 to

get things going in 2011 was more like 20% on average and as much as no more than 3,536% local apprentices. so you really see what the difference means in terms of delivering those opportunities to local workers and again the fact that we have a project labor agreement is really, really important because that brings everyone to the table. we've got our building trade partners the puc, the the community partners, all the contractors. i did want to just say to commissioner leave aroney one thing that ben's absolutely right and again in a past life are working with city bill director ken nym i was the city's director workforce development for five and a half years and the last most recent report of the six different agencies that put out contract subject to the city is local hire ordinance. it also now includes affordable housing developments and even private sector developments

that are on city land and those as well as those who opt into this framework as a way to deliver guaranteed job opportunities that communities out of 4.2 million hours covered in the most recent report issued in 2024 which covered calendar year 2020 34. 2,000,000 hours total 1.5 were puc projects and while the city averaged 33 local 33% local participation across all those projects the puc averaged 41% on our projects and out of 49% local apprentices citywide the puc averaged 60%. so the agency really continues to lead the way in that regard and i think what we're seeing too is the same holds true with respect to local business enterprise the fact that you're working with wendy in the in the in the h.r. team to also create opportunities for our permanent positions at the agency is even more special and thoughtful. >> i just am really excited to

hear all this and see all the great progress. the only thing i would maybe ask is as the age as a commissions ratepayer advocate just want to say something i've said before which is i feel that this success in investing our resources the puc fun fact the puc is the largest investor in the city build program over at the office of economic and workforce development apart from all the other great programs that you help administer, i think these are ratepayer advocacy tools i think these are things to point back when we talk about rates. these are ways to talk about additive benefits of entrusting your rates and your services with us because we're creating these opportunities that have positive impact for the rate payers and particularly business owners who are looking for opportunities with us. the only question i have is just if if any of us should hear from folks looking for work or local business enterprises looking to contract

out with the agency or looking to participate in our different programs that we have to support. how how are those services marketed that we could point to either job seekers or local contractors? >> where would they point them to for these opportunities? sure that's an excellent question. >> thank you for asking that question. so there's a couple of different resources that we have like printed or online always though for small businesses and i'll be is there's the contract marketing division obviously it's the agency that runs that program and i would always encourage people to do that. we also have the contractors assistance center right which is expressly called out in our presentation and i would encourage people to go down and meet with the staff there for small business for offsite ,for workers generally we refer folks to the city build one stops as a way of finding and sort of clearing them into and making sure that they get like their sort of assessed for the resources that they need and then potentially either submitted to like city build to be a pre apprentice or an entry

into the unions and i can if if you allow me i will follow up with like the printed material we have that have those phone numbers and websites and i'll share that for the whole commission. so if you get questions you have those resources. great, thanks. thank you commissioners and thank you to all staff. this is really important work and it's not easy work all the time either. should we take public comment on these topics? >> remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on item five a are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? >> seeing none. moderator are there any callers who have their hand raised? >> millionaire there are no callers who wish to be recognized. thank you. >> thank you general manager. item five b is fiscal year 2024 2025 second quarter budget status report and adjoining

will be presenting. >> all right and if you could bring this slides up. good afternoon commissioners. it's good to see you again. we met two weeks ago. this is i'm now into my second month here at the sfa so i am taking over the quarterly budget status reports and so this is looking back at q2. this is based on actuals from december. so these numbers will continue to shift throughout the year. >> all right. so there's going to be a lot of ups and downs and numbers in these slides ahead. the main takeaway here is that despite these ups and downs they largely balance out. >> we are on track and importantly we're continuing to meet our financial targets i should say our financial policy targets so so first what's happening in the water division overall on the revenue side, this represents an improvement from q1 but we are still seeing that retail volumes are down

compared to budget and that is the primary cause of the revenue shortfall here. >> this is offset on the usage side by lower non personnel and debt service costs and based on the dry ish january we had some of that sales volume retail sales may improve in the next month. one other note i'll make is that the water enterprise is running over budget specifically in the overtime line and that requires board of supervisors approval to overspend and over time we have a way to address that by moving other funds around. but we may be back to you in the next month or so to talk about that. moving on to wastewater, it's similar picture to water overall revenues are down compared to budget just due to lower volumes. some certain stormwater only parcels are still not collecting because they have no service agreements yet and this is offset by a handful of things including lower labor and debt service costs.

moving on to power the revenues here are lower than they were in q1 and that's also because of lower volumes in retail sales. this is offset by some higher wholesale sales. >> and then on the users side you'll see some very large savings and that's both because of lower power purchase costs also from higher generation and a few other changes in the budget. and then finally on clean power as jeff retail sales here are also lower than budget and that's largely because of the rates were set lower than budget and also there has been lower demand like we're seeing in some of the other enterprises. this is offset by slightly higher wholesale sales revenues and then savings from power purchase costs and then this is just a snapshot of our key financial policy targets and so we are meeting all those targets which just means that overall we're in good financial

health despite some of the ups and downs you see. and with that i can answer any questions. thank you commissioner our say just want to say thank you to ed durning for the report i had one quick question was out of curiosity with respect to the clean power srf general reserve plan to go ahead and spent what what then happens to that $40.5 million general reserve that we plan to go unspent? i believe that will just then carry over to the next year to save as a reserve. is that right, laura it just full stop savings account essentially we planned so we budgeted that as a deposit into our fund balance so it will go unspent and just deposit into our fund balance at year end and that as part of our long term plan to meet reserve policy targets in claim paris

for fund balance laura bush deputy cfo thank you. thank you commissioner leave aroney thank you. budgets are budgets we all try to start off and try to make them all match and make it work. >> do you see any trends coming on and going forward with lower retail sales and the lower energy that or wastewater that we see here? is that something that you might or do we think that's going to be corrected quarter two, 3 or 4? >> sure. so compared to budget there are a few assumptions that are made in budget planning. one is sales volume based on population growth and so our assumptions in the past few years and going forward is pretty conservative assumption in terms of population growth and the number of people buying

our water and then it's just usage based on a bunch of different factors including the weather whisar to predict. we have a very smart financial planning team that does their best but that's going to vary to budget throughout the year. >> we can probably give you a more sophisticated answer than that but that's what i've seen so far. >> thank you. that sophisticated answer would not be needed. >> thank you. thank you. i had a question about the water over time i. i assume that's because we are we're still quite short staffed in the water enterprise among other enterprises. >> is that correct? i think a number of different things. one, yes, some staffing challenges although i understand that water has been doing better on hiring than they have in years past so maybe less short staffed than they have been and then it's you know, work and maintenance

and what happens in weather events sometimes also i'm learning what happens in dry when there's periods of dry weather they get out and they do more maintenance upcountry because they have the ability to. so it's a number of different factors in addition to staffing . i see maybe mr. richie has something to yeah, he can probably add a lot more detail and clarity that steve ritchie assistant general manager for water one particular aspect this year is that we have a roughly 100 day shutdown of the hatch system so we are running excuse me we're running our water plant in the bay area here the two filtration plants to make up for the supply so they're running 24 seven all that time and so we're building up a lot of overtime as a result of that particular operational aspect. >> so it's kind of a one time

event because of that. >> yeah, that's that's one particular thing we're still looking into other possibilities but we know for sure that we're spending a lot of money on overtime right there. >> yeah. okay. thank you so much. >> should we take public comment remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on item five b are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? >> seeing none. moderator are there any college who have their hand raised? >> so then there are there are no callers with their hands raised. >> thank you. thank you. >> general manager the next item item five c is an introduction to capital finance in bonds presented by nicholai sklaroff good.

good afternoon commissioners nicholas sklaroff capital finance director one of the more awesome powers you have as a commission is your ability to enter into bonds both to create equity and to manage the impact of our capital costs on our rate payers. thank you. go to our slides please. over the coming weeks we have two transactions that we'll be bringing to you at your march 11th meeting. we'll be bringing a refinance hansing for our water enterprise and at your april 9th meeting we'll be bringing otl include new money and some more refinancing and we recognize that for several of you this will be your first time as commissioners approving bond transactions. and so today we want to provide you with a brief overview of

bonds. now when the state's commission of that helps to educate issuers provides education on the fundamentals of bonds, they do it over three days. so i can't possibly give you everything you need to know in ten minutes here but i do want to provide you with an overview . we have some resources in our deck. i particularly highlight the on the last page the california debt and investment advisory commission provides valuable tools for commissioners and elected officials to provide you with some of the tools that you need for understanding bonds and your obligations. but if i can turn to the next page please will discuss how our bonds are authorized. thank you.

>> we'll discuss. >> there we go. how our bonds are authorized, our debt program and then how we go about issuing bonds. so let me begin with talking about our debt program overall i think sometimes as we think about bonds we associate them with credit cards and i'd like to suggest that's not the correct frame for you. >> our bonds are an important tool that this commission uses both to create equity as well as to manage the impact on our rate payers first in terms of equity, the facilities that steve robinson and the infrastructure team are building today will be used by businesses by residents for the next 20, 30, 40 years. by using bonds we allow those

users some of which haven't moved to the city yet haven't even been formed yet as businesses over time will all have an opportunity to contribute to pg for those facilities. that's how we create intergenerational equity. we also use our bonds to manage the impact of these costs. some of our facilities are billion dollar projects and we wouldn't want to have rate payers today bear those full costs. even more importantly the tools that we use to borrow include advantaged financing. you as commissioners have the opportunity to approve tax exempt bonds, tax exempt bonds are bonds where the investors typically don't have to pay federal income tax on those and as a result they accept the lower interest costs for that

debt. so you get a much lower cost than for example, corporate borrowers. we also take advantage of low interest loans from the federal government including the with your loans that you've approved in the past and also our state revolving fund loans. so we are able to borrow at much lower costs. >> the third piece the second piece of this is that we are repaying over time most of our debt is repaid over 35 years an important concept in our world and for our capital finance team and the financial partners we work with is the time value of money. a dollar today is worth much more than a dollar tomorrow because of inflation and certainly much more than a dollar in 30 years. that is why we pay interest is

because we're paying back over time with dollars that have less purchasing power in an era where recently inflation has been seven 5% you can understand that are interest costs of 3 to 5% are actually quite low. finally an important concept is that by borrowing today we're able to allow steven and the infrastructure team to go ahead and build those projects and not wait for costs to go up especially here in the bay area where construction costs are going up more than 9% a year. so again our borrowing while we we know we've had lots of phone calls and speakers talking about our debt, it is a very important tool that you have

for managing our rates. our debt authority is provided by the board of supervisors. it really comes from proposition a and c that provide us with the opportunity to issue debt without voter approval based on first having that authorization from the board of supervisors as you saw at your last meeting on february 11th as part of the budget process we saw a increase in the authorization for the water enterprise for example. we have to provide certain certificates as part of that a an engineering certificate, a financial certificate and an environmental certificate. but that's the basis for our authorization and then we come back to you as a commission each time we do want to borrow.

>> it's an important distinction between the way we manage our debt program here at the s.f. p c and perhaps what you may have witnessed from other bodies where typically a project may be approved and finance at the same time by the time we are approving bonds you've you've been spending those funds based on your budget approvals and we're trying to issue our debt as late as possible to again mitigate the the need for interest costs. so that all comes from that comprehensive planning process that you heard about at your last meeting and and that's how we plan our debt. so today we have about $11 billion of debt outstanding as you can see on this chart, our debt is particularly

concentrated with our water enterprise where we just completed the with the program . our wastewater enterprise is catching up quickly with sister and we have a smaller amount of debt outstanding for our power enterprise. this chart provides you with the details of the different types of debt that we use. this one also includes the undrawn capacity we have from certain loans so we haven't yet drawn upon. so we have about $10 billion of debt that will be issuing over the next ten years. >> again, the debt the debt that will be coming to you with first will be for the water enterprise. it will be a refinancing which is not part of this new debt that is shown in this graph and then the new debt will be coming to you in in april.

one of the things that we will be presenting to each time we come to you with a debt transaction are our bond ratings under our city charter the sfp c has an obligation to set rate payer rates sufficiently high to maintain high ratings by maintaining high ratings we are able to borrow at low costs and so each time we do borrow we we go to the rating agencies. in fact our general manager or our cfo, our atms have all just completed presentations to both moody's investors service and s&p global ratings as part of the transaction that we will be presenting to you on march 11th that that will be an important step for us to as a p c enjoys high ratings today but

we there are pressures out there as you know, the city has recently lost its triple-a ratings and had downgrades. we are seeing concern about the water sector generally but we we have just completed very good presentations and will be coming back to you with that. >> the last thing i want to leave you with is that one of the most important documents that we'll be bringing to you is the official statement. there'll be a number of documents but the official statement will be the offering document that we present to investors. this will summarize the transaction will provide a lot of information about the sfp c and you as commissioners will have an obligation to ensure that staff and and you are comfortable that it doesn't

contain material misstatements or material omissions. and so again this is intended to be a brief introduction. again ten minutes is very very short for an introduction and to such a complex topic we will provide you more specific information about the bonds on march 11th. but with that i'm happy to answer any questions you have as you think about this topic. thank you so much. it's a it's a really important component of all that we do here and how we approach rates and keeping costs down. >> and i also really appreciate how much i've learned in the last two years of being on the commission with the matters that have come before us in the education that you and your team have provided and this is another very helpful piece of that. so thank you commissioners

questions, comments. >> commissioner levy aroney thank you very much very in the ten minutes very enlightening. >> going forward, you know bonds eventually have to be paid and you know usually early as you mentioned it's a lot is based on our future projections of businesses residents moving in are you confident thus far with the predict with the predictions that we're making going forward with those, you know, businesses moving into san francisco or residents and yes, for sure. i think one of the things that i would hope gives you comfort as a commissioner is that these bond transactions are the outcome of an intensive planning process. the ten year financial plan

that you proved at your last meeting lays the the map forward for how we would repay debt and not only that but how we would maintain debt service coverage. in other words, we don't simply set our rates in order to meet debt service but we maintain coverage of that debt service for the investors that coverage is then able to be used for for projects after that debt service is paid. >> thank you commissioners any other questions now i'll take public comment please. >> remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on item five see are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? seeing none. moderator are there any callers who have their hand raised this linear? >> there are no callers with their hands, right?

thank you. >> thank you commissioner ah say that you want to make a comment or ask a question. >> i just wanted to before we close the general managers report if we're on five c or d just wanted to find a way to make one more observation maybe a historical footnote just just for folks since i think we're still in the realm of five a, b, c, d we should probably call item five d the report on recent san francisco public utilities commission's activities events and announcements. >> yeah. okay. thank you, madam president. nothing really to report other than you may have seen recently in the news that a great community member and former puc commissioner ethics crowley passed away. he was a labor leader, a great

community member and a commissioner both here i think he was at the port and certainly the civil service commission and he was his funeral was last week and his wife nancy works for us. she was press secretary here at the puc and a wonderful woman and wonderful family and a wonderful man and he was taken much too soon. so i just like to point that out and hopefully we can adjourn today's meeting and in his honor i'd be pleased to do that. he was an amazing public servant commissioner r c yeah i just i just wanted to add one kind of if i can another kind of book an item around the general managers report and because in the beginning we were talking about the the webb's program and the impacts on communities of our work around local and hyper local hiring and contracting and we

we wouldn't have these laws 15 years after they went into effect if we hadn't got the legal green of green light to to pursue at that time which was low was a first in the nation strategy to have mandatory local hiring after years of constitution hall challenges and different approaches that that were ultimately unsuccessful but we we as a city and county got a green light to pursue a first in the nation policy to have these kind of outcomes 15 years later simply because our city attorney at that time said yes, let's do this and authorize the city to pursue that strategy and the city attorney at that time was none other than are current as a general manager he was pretty good. >> he was really good. so general manager dennis herrera, thank you for giving us that green light when you were a city attorney all those years ago. >> thank you. my pleasure. and city attorney's office as

president stacey knows did stellar legal work with a lot of incredibly talented people. so you know, i was just one of a bunch who do great work and they continue to do great work. >> thank you. thanks. thank you both. >> call the next item please. item six bay a water supply and conservation agency report . >> good afternoon president stacey and commissioners. i wanted to use my time today to compliment your staff. >> last thursday we held the annual wholesale customer meeting at the middlebury campus for the regional water system. we had about 30 representatives from both agencies there and while this is a required meeting under the water supply agreement i thought it was an excellent example of transparent, easy collaboration and good customer service for the wholesale customers who as you know provide about two

thirds of the water revenues 12 of the species staff members spoke about their areas of expertise including general manager herrera. thank you her manager, her many other many others on the staff were available before and after the meeting to answer individual questions of the wholesale agencies. i wanted to bring two topics to your attention because i think they were important and discussed at the meeting. the first was at our agency's request your staff spoke about the opportunities to work together on emergency preparedness and disaster planning, especially in light of the recent wildfires fire tragedies in southern california. i'm really excited about this reinvigorating this program. it's been going on for many years but after the pandemic it kind of went a little bit more virtual and we're hoping to get back to in-person exercises with the with the agencies and with sipc. second, in one of your representatives addressing the

current cfp, the staff presented on a significant project and that's the moccasin pen stocks. commissioners may be aware of the planning for this project. they may have recently seen them commissioner say it's a critical project both for the water customer regional water customers as well as for power production and it's part of the ten year cfp but i know we heard at the meeting that it's likely to be more expensive. it's likely to take longer to plan and decide what to do there. so i look forward to continuing our dialog on this project as it develops more certainty of design, timing and cost. once again thanks again to the staff for making that a great presentation last thursday and i appreciate the thoroughness of all the who were involved. and that ends my remarks. happy to take any questions. >> thank you and thank you so much for your work at buska and the continuing collaboration. could i ask a question about

that meeting? was it just an informational meeting with all of your sort of component agencies and q&a with a staff? >> is that do i understand? yes. this part is part of the water supply agreement. there's an annual meeting so all agencies were invited. i don't want to speak for you but we had i think representative from every agency there so all of the departments thareelant to the agency spoke i think we all agree that the most exciting part is when nancy gets gets up and says what the rates are going to be for next year. so but we're obviously concerned with a lot of other a lot of other interesting things that are going on both in capital and finance and emergency preparedness etc. . >> yes, it's an annual meeting that happens in february of each year and as tom says, we tell them what the rates are going to be but we go through a variety of subject matter to our meeting. i present as well as all of our

representative departments and we talk about you know what might be going on in washington legislatively, operationally and everybody presents it. thank you missioners any comments or questions should we take public comment? >> thank you michael. please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on item 66 are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? seeing none. moderator are there any callers who have their hand raised? >> ms.. lynn neary there are no callers with their hands raised. thank you. item seven consent calendar item seven b award contract number ww-727 will not be considered as part of the consent calendar today. >> okay. thank you. so on consent calendar item

seven a and seven see commissioners do you have any comments or questions? >> okay. could we have public comment on the consent calendar place? >> callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on item seven the consent calendar. are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? seeing none. >> moderator are there any calls to have their hand raised ? >> listener there are no callers with the answer. it's thank you. okay. thank you. could i have a motion in the second to approve the consent calendar just seven a and seven c motion to approve seven a and seven c second. >> thank you, stacy. a vice president r c high commissioner jammed r i commissioner level roni i. >> the item passes item eight

the regular calendar approve the form of a revolving credit agreement with wells fargo bank national association in the total principal amount of 200 million and the related fee agreement. >> good afternoon again commissioners nicholai sklaroff capital finance director if i could have the slides please. commissioner, as you'll recall at your last meeting we brought to you three credit facilities. these were credit facilities that backed our commercial paper program. this agenda item is for two more facilities one for water, one for power. these are slightly different facilities. these won't be for letters of credit tobacco, commercial paper. instead these will be for our revolving credit agreements where we could draw against these facilities.

again, our interim funding program allows us to manage our debt programs so that we are only borrowing when we absolutely need to. we use our interim funding program to obtain controllers releases very efficiently and then to borrow incrementally. this item is for a single credit agreement that includes two separate facilities one for the water enterprise, one for the power enterprise each for $100 million. there is no cross default. they are entirely separate obligations. just as a reminder for the water enterprise last meeting you approved the $100 million sumitomo renewal and the new agreement with pnc bank. we have $100 million of authorization and this will now

use that remaining authorization for the water enterprise. this is all part of the expansion of our interim funding program that the board of supervisors and the mayor approved effective christmas day for the power enterprise. same situation. you approved a facility last month our sumitomo bank that was a new facility and we will add another new facility using the remaining $100 million of authorization. this is the result of a solicitation conducted by our municipal advisors vincent mccauley of baxter mccarley is here with us today to answer any questions we have any. but again, we use the city's credit facility pool that is currently managed by the airport and rfp from there.

this facility will as i mentioned, not be based on commercial paper but instead is based on its own rate established under the agreement based on an index call. so for many of you have probably heard of the libor index, the london interbank offering rate that was eliminated so far is the replacement index that is used. the rates on these facilities is should we ever use them would be based on this index. it's important to bear in mind that as we've explained before, we obtain an advantage by simply having these facilities simply entering into the agreement gives us the capacity to release those those amounts that are on controllers reserves very efficiently without having to issue bonds and incur interest costs.

these are three year agreements. wells fargo bank has high short term ratings. we can borrow on both a tax exempt and taxable basis under these facilities. under sb 450 we're required to provide a good faith estimate. our municipal advisors at baxter mccarley have provided that estimate. this is that estimate. if we were to have borrowed on on the day this was submitted the rate would be 4.69%. currently our commercial paper rate as much more efficient. so we would use that if we were actually borrowing today. again, simply having this not only diversifies the tools at our disposal but also provides us with capacity for those

controller releases. these facilities as with the facilities at your last meeting can be extended up to nine years. we typically don't do that. we typically go out and see what pricing is available in the marketplace but we have that flexibility. should market conditions warrant that again? we would ask for your approval for this $200 million credit agreement includes two $100 million facilities one for each enterprise. and with that i'm happy to answer any questions. thank you. commissioner lavrov, any questions? >> comments. >> so i understand these are revolvers so only needed went to paid in in a not necessarily emergency situation but to draw down on and and use for our project that we need to fund

before we do this ever get turned these revolvers do they if drawn down do they get paid back within a short period of time or do we then take them out with either a bond or different type of paper? >> yes. so for all of our interim facilities to the extent that we borrow against them, whether it's the revolver or whether it's issuing commercial paper, we would accumulate those short term obligations and then take those out with a bond transaction given the cost differential between commercial paper and revolvers in the current marketplace. oh, we would this would not be our first choice to use this facility but we have that flexibility cause rates are constantly moving and these are particularly valuable should

anything ever happen in the commercial paper market that causes us not to have access to that market. >> and then this would be part of our when you look at our bonds, do you anticipate these being drawn down and used and then that's hence why we have the bond save facilities and going forward is it looking to take these out? i mean so there is contemplation of these whether that be the commercial paper or the revolver to be used. >> so i would put it in three buckets. first simply having the facility allows us to demonstrate to the comptroller's office that we have the resource against which to release the comptroller reserves. secondly, to the extent that we incur capital expenditures we borrow only what we need either from commercial paper or less frequently from from revolvers.

and then once we've accumulated those short term borrowings we take it out with a bond and that allows us to defer entering into bonds and incurring those long term interest costs. >> thank you very much. thank you. >> thank you. let's take public comment. remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on item number eight. are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? >> seeing none. moderator are there any callers with their hand raised? ms. linear there are no callers with the answer. >> thank you. okay. commissioners, could i have a motion and a second on item eight? >> i move that we approve item eight. seconded. president stacey i. vice president rc high

commissioner jammed our high commissioner level running high. >> the item passes. item nine approve the expansion of the california water service bear gulch district service area and approve the fourth amendment to the individual water sales contract between the city and county of san francisco and cal water. good afternoon president stacie commissioners. i am allison customer. i'm the baskin wholesale customer liaison for the water enterprise with the sabc. >> the item before you is approval of an expansion of the service area for california water service company cal water. and approval of the fourth amendment to their individual water sales contract under the water supply agreement and the individual water sales contract . we have a service area map that is attached to the contract and this action updates that map for the one item which is a san mateo county park flood park. they did a renovation upgrade that required water service from cal water on the opposing

side of the park from their original menlo park water service. >> there's no adjustment to the menlo park individual water sales contract because the original contract service area map is appropriate and needs no change, said this is the one item change and i'm happy to answer any questions related to this. thank you. commissioners comments or questions? could i just make sure i understand sfp is limited by this map but boundaries can change within the map which is what's happening here and which we've also approved. a couple of other map adjustments for cal water in the last couple of years as well. >> correct. so this service area map basically attaches to the individual contracts so we know where cal water is authorized to provide the purchased water from the san francisco system under the contract without the

need to have prior written written consent from the sfp u c to serve anywhere outside that area and typically it requires an action before the commission to amend the map for a permanent change to that and that is that is those prior actions were similarly a transfer with redwood city for seven customers was the first amendment capturing their acquisition of skyline county water agency or water district which occurred actually in 2009 but had not been fixed in the service area map and a couple of other actions which were small mutual water companies they acquired because those individual systems were not able to maintain their water quality and adequately serve their customers. so that was skyland and kings mountain mutual water company. thank you. yeah. >> should we take public comment? remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to

provide comment on item nine. are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? >> seeing none. moderator are there any callers who have their hand raised? >> the sooner there are no callers with their hands raised. >> thank you. commissioners, could i have a motion in a second on item nine? >> i move that we approve. move item nine. my second. thank you. president stacy i. vice president r.c. high commissioner jammed our high commissioner level moroney i. >> the item passes. thank you. next item ten approve amendments number one to contract numbers pro .02 31a through d. specialized and technical as needed services with stantec jhc joint venture pro .0231. a mmd jv pro .02 31ba aecom w r e

g pro dot 0231. c and lee incorporated pro .02 >> 31d. good afternoon again commissioners steve ritchie assistant general manager for water. we're looking for approval on amending the four contracts for specialized and technical as needed services that are needed to support our work and all of the capital improvement project. capital improvement capital improvement projects up and the hetch hetchy area which includes technical studies of different kinds and support services there as well as how we fit these into our asset management system and environmental and regulatory requirements such as all of the work and work requirements that we need to comply with going forward. we actually have been expanding this is a higher rate frankly due to the increased rate of capital improvements up in

headsets. this is actually a very nice period of time up there where a lot of projects are happening at once through the commissioners and of course saw the mountain tunnel project and the moccasin generator projects. but there are also major projects going on throughout the san joaquin pipeline area and some other areas. so it's a very active time up in hejazi and these are necessary resources to help support those projects. i'll be happy to answer any questions and i'm also joined here by cheryl sperry from hetch hetchy in case you had any further questions that i'm unable to answer. >> thank you commissioners comments or questions commissioner say yes. >> thanks presentation. thanks jim richie the thing i wanted to say was thank you to to cheryl and the team for showing us the facility is

there at moccasin. i think later on i'll be able to speak to some of what i learned on that trip when we when we talk about some of the later items. but just i think what for you just to kind of hear the feedback just the expertise of of you obviously with all that you do but your team up there really helping all of us who had the chance to go visit mountain tunnel and moccasin facilities last week really helped us to put into context all the not just important work but the thorough and comprehensive and very, very high quality effective work but also complicated work. so i think it really helped put in perspective just the importance of us receiving the information and being able to defer to all that work that's happening. and so lucas is here as well and just everything that's happening up there really was

important important opportunity. i know present stacy's had the chance to to do so as well but just grateful to you and your team for all the information that was shared with us and i'll be in support of the item for sure that it was a pleasure and there's nothing like seeing it in the flesh to actually really get a good idea of what's happening. >> yeah well learn learn a lot of the history too from from allison castleman and katie miller was with us of course jim robinson it was just completely important educational experience for me personally and i and i know from my colleagues who went up last week too so thanks. >> okay. thank you. it is impressive and complicated work to be sure up there and the tour only teaches us just how big some of these projects are. i do i get concerned when i see big increases and this is a 70% increase for both of these contracts and while i recognize that these projects are very complicated and large, i wonder

was there something unexpected that you needed from this joint venture to result in in such a high percentage increase in the contracts? >> yeah, there's there's actually four separate contracts so i would not say there was any particular thing that popped up all of the projects as we're all well aware have things pop up but in addition i think the the routine aspect to these is that we have to fit all these new assets into our asset management system and that is a complicated process of making sure they're properly fitted in there along with our work and work regulatory requirements. so these are you know this is like i said this is a little unusual in that we're indeed in this increase sooner than we expected. normally we would have been, you know, just now starting you know, on a new contract.

but you know, we've got these available now and the work is there to do it right now say okay, thank you take public comment. >> remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to comment on item ten. >> are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item seeing then moderator are there any college with their hand raised ? listen there there are no callers with their hands raised. >> thank you. thank you commissioners. could i have a motion in a second on item ten motion to approve item ten second. >> thank you president stacy i vice president r c i commissioners yamaha i commissioner lebron i the item passes thank you item 11 adopt the refined mitigation

monitoring and reporting program pursuant to the california environmental quality act and award contract number 1-2909 so no valley water treatment plant short term improvements to western water constructors incorporated. >> good afternoon president stacy and commissioners felicia reinhart, project manager for the snow valley water treatment plant short term improvement improvements project the item before use request to adopt a refined mitigation monitoring and reporting program pursuant to the california environmental quality act and award the 2909 contract to the lowest responsible bidder western water constructors the snow valley water treatment plant is in alameda county which receives water from the san antonio and calaveras reservoirs and plays a key role in providing clean safe drinking water to sfp c's regional water system. >> i'm going to take a moment to provide some history on projects at the plant. >> in 2013 during the water

system improvement program the snow valley water treatment plant was upgraded to increase its capacity and added treated water reservoir storage tank following with the osage nation project was initiated in response to taste and odor issues and is currently under construction with completion expected in 2029. additionally the short term and long term improvement projects were launched to address deficiencies in parts of the plant that were not covered by previous projects. focusing on repairing and replacing aging portions of the plant to enhance reliability. these two projects follow a phased approach with the short term improvements project which is presented today addressing the most urgent needs first. the main objective of this project the short term improvements project is to repair and replace several treatment systems at the treatment plant. a key aspect of the work includes rehabilitating certain original elements of the plant which date back to the 1960s

and 70s. >> specifically the project will focus on repairing the deteriorating concrete at the sedimentation basins replacing critical equipment that has reached the end of its useful life such as sludge removal systems and pumps and addressing leaking valves to improve both efficiency and a reliable fee. additionally, a utility water pump station will be installed to support the new ozone ation treatment process facility. >> the contract bid documents were advertised on october 31st, 2024 and include requirements for the social impact partnership program. five bids were publicly opened on january 16th and after factoring the compensable delay and social impact partnership discounts western water constructors was ranked as the lowest bidder. the engineer's estimate was 47.4 million and the low bid was 44.9 million. this is within what was expected for a contract of the

size and amount of interest received based on the bid evaluation staff recommends accepting the low bid from western water constructors and awarding this contract. in addition to awarding this contract you are adopting the refined mitigation monitoring and reporting program that will be implemented for this project as part of the environmental review in july 2023 the planning department issued an addendum and a refined mitigation monitoring and reporting program to this and all valley water treatment plant. environmental impact report which analyzed the scope of this project the ozone ation project and a future polymer feed project. subsequently the planning department issued a minor project modification for the utility water pump station scope which is also included in this project. thank you for your time. >> i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you for the presentation and the sort of bigger analysis of everything

that's been going on in and around the senate the snow valley water treatment plan it was a question that came up for me when i was looking at the agenda. i try and remember all the pieces. we've had a number of items come before us recently but your summary was very helpful. thank you. commissioners, any comments or questions? no. take public comment. remote callers. >> sorry commissioner lebron last not knowing. >> not knowing the project you know totally and visualizing it is is when the contractors the five contractors bid on it was it pretty much the work that needed to be done was all unlike say the the mountain tunnel where a lot of things are buried and you couldn't see things and aging systems and all that. >> was this pretty much straightforward where they could see the what needed to be

done and where i'm going with this is obviously i get so nervous about cost overruns and change orders and everything with this one fit more into a pretty standard visual contract that they are not saying well you know come back in a month or two months and say oh we missed this or not missed it but we didn't realize this behind the scenes right? >> yeah. most of the work on this scope of this contract is you can see it in the field. so there's no there's not very much underground work so we don't anticipate many unforeseen conditions. it's also straightforward being repair and rehabilitation and type project replacing existing equipment that is there. >> great. >> thank you very much. thank you. now we'll take public comment. >> remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on item 11 and are there any members of

the public present who wish to comment on this item? seeing none. moderator are there any calls to have their hand raised? >> this one there there are no callers with their hands ringing. >> thank you. thank you. commissioners, could i have a motion in the second on item 11 motion to approve seconded. >> thank you, president stacy i. vice president r.c.. commissioner gender high commissioner level roni i the item passes. item 12 approve an increase of 365 calendar days to the duration contingency for contract number 2845. cathartic protection for transmission pipelines at various locations. phase two with zero technologies corporation. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is teresa keel, project manager for the sfp. you see i'm here to request your approval to increase 365

calendar days to the duration contingency. this is for contract wd2 an 845 cathartic protection for transmission pipelines at various locations phase two project with zero four revised duration limit of up to 1168 calendar days with no change to contract amount. the increase is to provide additional time to complete remaining contract work due to any delays in providing utility power service. i'm happy to answer any questions. thank you commissioners. any questions or comments? now let's take public comment. >> remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on item 12 are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? seeing none. moderator are there any callers who have their hand raised this

linear? >> there are no callers with their hands raised. >> thank you commissioners. could we have a motion in the second on item 12 motion to approve item 12 second thank you president stacy i rise president r c i. commissioner jammed our high commissioner level ronnie high the item passes item 13 approve an increase of $2 million to the cost contingency and an increase of 350 calendar days to the duration contingency for contract number ww723r channel force main enter tie with anvil builders incorporate it. >> good afternoon commissioners president stacy my name is carmen luke and i'm the project manager for this contract. i'm here to present this agenda item to increase the construction costs and duration contingency for this contract. number seven wwe is 723. our channel force main entity is located on cesar chavez. between indiana and pennsylvania street this

project is constructing an underground pipeline connection and control valves between two existing sewer facilities the channel force main and the is this creek transfer storage box i c t. we're asking for a commission to approve an increase of $2 million to the cost contingency and increase of 350 calendar days to the duration contingency to this contract for revise the contract limit of $19,375,899 and a total contract duration of 1131 consecutive calendar days which is approximately three years and one month for the time extension the contract issued notice of. put too late admit dry weather period of 2023 due to various insurance documents delays which left only one dry weather season available in 2024 for the dry weather restricted work hence an additional dry weather season in 2025 this year is needed to complete the remaining work in this year in addition. >> unforeseen conditions were encountered during construction which contributed to the

additional de-watering needs. there are unknowns during time of bid which includes the contractors dewatering system and the rates and allowable rates are dependent on the groundwater discharge permits which is obtained during construction. because of these two allowances for de-watering was under estimated on the contract and the additional cost contingency increase is needed to support the ongoing two water activity activities for the scope of work and to continue to remove groundwater for the duration extension. hence. thank you for your time and happy to answer any questions. >> thank you commissioners any questions or comments? commissioner leave aroney just just one question. i'm sorry i'm not familiar with deep water in the concept of what that really is. >> okay. the process of de-watering is to remove groundwater from the construction site using pumps and other methods. its purpose is mostly to prevent instability and to ensure a safe working

environment when we are excavating deep down underground. i also had a question about the dewatering what was unforeseen about it? was it because it was a very wet year or was it a higher water table in the area than anticipated or maybe both? >> so the unknowns. includes utilities because before we can confirm the shoring design system they need to confirm the location of the utilities and once they are able to confirm that the design the contractor designs assuring a system which works in parallel with the dewatering system and determines what's the actual dewatering needs it. so once the contractors are on board they're able to confirm that and come up with a design or de-watering system which is not anticipated at the time of bid. i see. so it was really influenced by the location of the utilities on site, correct? okay. thank you. >> public comment remote colleagues please raise your hand if you wish to provide

comment on item 13. are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? seeing none. moderator are there any callers who have their hand raised this one there are no callers with the hands raised. >> thank you. thank you, commissioners. >> could i have a motion and a second on item 13 please? >> i move that we approve item 13 second. thank you president stacy i. vice president r c i commissioner gender high commissioner leave aroney i the item passes item 14 approve amendments number one to agreement numbers pro .0275. >> a through c. hedgi capital improvement projects as needed construction management and staff augmentation services with accom and effective management services l l c joint venture pro .02 75aa villa and associates consulting engineers inc pro .02 75b.

and techy c m partners joint venture 0.0 275c to provide as needed construction management services to augment city construction management staff as necessary may have the sites please. >> good afternoon commissioners jim herrera lucas hoffman i'm the regional construction manager for the capital improvement project. i'm here today to seek approval of amendment one for professional services contract pro 275. hedgi capital improvements project as unit construction management and staff augment augmentation services. i just real quickly the slide shows the basic general territory of the hetchy capital improvement project. this includes the hatch hatch such a regional water system that ranges all the way to the far east that hatch hatch reservoir and u 70 national park all the way to the far west to the tracy area. it's approximately a hundred miles. linear miles of distance that we cover from in this the central hub for the regional

system. it's an approximately 1.5 hour in either direction to reach the outer regions of the system that includes dams, tunnels, burn stocks, hydroelectric generators, high voltage transmission lines, large diameter pipelines and other critical water and electrical facilities. >> just quick background on pro the pro 275 contract originally awarded in september 2023 by the commission pro 275 is made up of three individual contracts each with the original not to exceed amount of $4 million and a contract duration of five years. chapter six of the administrative code allows for the sub pc to have a sole discretion to increase the not to exceed agreement amounts by a maximum of 150% of the original not to exceed amount the services covered under the housing and construction management contracts include construction and operation change management construction inspection as well as safety inspection project and document

controls testing start up commissioning services, environmental compliance monitoring supplier quality surveillance and especially laboratory testing as well. >> currently the statutory capital improvement project is thriving. we currently have out of the ten active projects that we have nine of those are covered are utilized to 75 to provide the construction managed services to oversee the project completion process. 75 is not only use for active constructions but it's also used for pre-construction activities for future projects as well as close out activities for completed completed projects beyond substantial and final completion. the slide also shows a list of the nine projects that are currently active and it kind of gives you representation of the type of projects but also the locations within the systems of a couple of more slides that have some photos that show you some of these. so the official requests of

amendment number one for projects in five is to increase each of the three pro to 75 contracts by $2 million for a not to exceed amount of $6 million per contract with no change to the contract duration in order to continue providing c m services on the outstanding basis for hhc ip projects are the reasoning for the contract modifications is that one because of the increase active construction projects requiring significant c m workforce beyond the available city c m staff compared to a few years ago we've more than doubled the active projects and so like i said we are thriving significantly and highly technical construction activities taking place during the hetch hetchy regional water system outages that occurs from december to march. these outages require construction work to operate typically on a six day workweek and up to 12 hours work shifts thus requiring a significant amount of personal overtime

and to maintain required project oversight. additionally, because of the technicality of some of these projects we need additional c m staff to serve as technical advisors and or construction specters during the projects to support the main project c and staff. an example of this would be a hydroelectric generator technical advisor electrical protection and controls engineer and underwater diving oversight inspector also existing task orders for individual c m staff augmentations need to be increased so that there is enough budget to extend their services through the end of the contracts and also some of the construction projects have up to four active individual work locations thus requiring additional staff to be present at each construction location for quality assurance but also for security as well as a security oversight. this is true for the san joaquin pipeline project that spans more than 40 miles and has the locations are well with over ten miles apart from each other.

>> just real quick, just some pictures everyone knows pictures. this is of db 121 or 2 marks and partition or a real rehabilitation so we have our rewinding the existing generators are moxon they are well beyond their service life too and this is some examples are some photos showing the far left or far far right photo shows the actual rotor being lifted in a place that's about 128 tons being lifted there. big big mass of metal and copper. you got the shaft you can see in the in the middle photo there with one of the bearings that helps keep this shaft aligned and the photo on the left is the actual rotor and the standard there with the top off so you can see it fully there and walk so another project all the way up to apache reservoir, o'shaughnessy dam. it kind of gives you an idea of another kind of hard difficult logistical working location is a 1011 o'shaughnessy dam and streamflow release for replacement. the photo on the left shows

kind of it's a one way road and you can see the crane there adjacent to a cliff next to the river. there's a little building there that basically provides very little access to what that building is sitting over a diversion tunnel with a shaft about 100ft deep we've gone through and you can see in the photo on the right all the blue piping we installed four new valves there. the replaced some existing valves that were over 100 years old and dilapidated and literally had holes in them . and so you could see the fault in the mill is there. we're actually dropping one of the valves in there to where the logistical item of this is. the crane would lift it outside, put on a cart, you push the cart inside the building. he then drop a crane the crane hook through the sealer, the hole in the ceiling, pick it up, move the cart out, drop it down and then there's even the gas ukraine down below to help move that around so very technical then another project gbx 135 o'shaughnessy dam new bulkhead system this was a progressive design build to

install or to design and fabricate new bulkheads that would provide single point isolation on the dam so that we can actually in the future go in and replace all the old aging valves that are 100 years old as well. so this involved diving and a lot of test things. you can see the bars there on the water body as well. very important project for the future. and then another one just on the san joaquin pipeline hh1 thousand nine this is the touch test the search tower. this is at the far end of the the region before it gets turned over and goes in the coast range tunnel we provided are currently active right now building a search tower that is going into that will be there to protect the san joaquin pipelines in case of a surge event and so it involved that photo on the left is a 12 foot diameter t that you can see about compared to the size that an excavator and the people walking around it and then a new six inch pipeline that went up to the tower you can kind of

see in the right hand phone of the existing tower that it's more for the coast range tunnel. this one like i said is for the actual pipelines that protect it and that photo on the bottom kind of shows the general there were partly fitting up the tower for last week but we're doing a little bit more work and then it will be completed by next week so at this time and take any questions that you may have. thank you and thank you for the photos. it's great to also have human beings in the photos so that you can see the vast scale of the work that's going on it it really being out there really brings that home but photos it it it's amazing the scale of some of these projects and as you mentioned the sort of technical expertise and work that's required for them. i also just wanted to appreciate your staff report. you were very thorough in explaining why we needed the increase and you provided a lot of detail. that's always the question i

have when we have an increase like what caused the need for the increase in your staff report was very clear about that as was your report today. so thank you commissioner leave aroney thank you very much for your report and it was very clear so i appreciate that. so technically just doing a simple math what we're doing 2 million per per so it's $6 million about yeah and then i missed the duration it's not changing but when it when do you think the end of it will be duration i believe was supposed to be in 2028 and we will likely max out on the budget before we get to that five years. okay. >> thank you commissioner ah say thanks presidency. >> thanks lucas for the presentation and for the time you spent with with me and all of us set up at the mountain tunnel and at marcus in last week i, i wanted to just say

that it really helped me too because i know that we have like president stacey we we're always keeping an eye on on budget and costs and and for all of us and particularly as a rate peer advocate with an eye toward rates but what i experienced in learning from you and from paco and emily on our tour and the time we spent with steve, katie, alice and everyone up there at that time was just there's so much expertise and so much cognitive sense of what we're thinking about here at the commission that's transmitted from the system that is really responsive to such complicated work that's up there, such changing dynamics whether it's everything from weathered unforeseen geological circumstances or anything at all. and so it gave me a whole lot of confidence in our staff and our team and our partners and the contractors up there that when we get a request

and say this is something we need i feel really good that it is something you need and it's something for us to offer our support and to help provide those resources to you to get the job done. >> so thanks. >> thank you. thank you commissioners public comment remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on item 14. are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? seeing none. moderator are there any callers who have their hand raised this one there there are no callers with their answering. >> thank you. thank you commissioners. could i have a motion in a second on item 14 please? >> i move that we approve the second. thank you president stacy i am vice president rc high commissioner jantar high commissioner lover hi the item passes. >> thank you. item 15 communications.

>> i'm sorry. go ahead. commissioners, do you have any comments or questions on any of the communications? no thank you. item 16 items initiated by commissioners. >> commissioners any items to initiate? >> commissioner gender thank you president stacy. i had a request. general manager herrero wanted to request a briefing for the commission on the san francisco climate action plan. i know it's being updated this year so a briefing and a public hearing on how the agency's goals align with the climate action plan. the bay area air district has passed zero nox rules that phase out appliances, gas appliances. how that kind of fits into the affordable housing strategy for the power enterprise and clean

power reserve. so i'm interested in having that conversation and it would be great if that can be calendared for. >> we will we will get that scheduled. >> thank you. thank you. really important issues. >> commissioner rc thanks president stacy my item is to share our well i had the chance to kind of report out on on the tour and seen the spend a lot of time in the in the mountain tunnel itself and in the area where the the new valves were created. i know you all did that that that tourism well 16 flights into the earth. and so just again appreciate everything that was learned on that on that visit and you all taken the time two days last week to take three different commissioners up there. but i also the week prior i visited citizens advisory committee of the public utilities commission and spent

probably about an hour in conversation with the hard working citizen advisor members of that body. a lot of the conversation was spent on the one item i kind of wanted to report out and which was around treasure island and power outages that have been experience here at treasure island. we did spend a lot of time as well talking about water policy as it relates to all me river and the salmon population and kind of different approaches around habitat restoration and i think there was obviously to be quite honest questions or opposed to me that i deferred until getting some some more understanding of the issue but related to kind of the ongoing conversations around design drought methodology and our the the amount of water that we do draw as i kind of as i said there and said when we talked about this at the commission, my thought is that anson moran kind of was very clear in terms

of there's no limit to how conservative we can and must be when we're thinking about our prep preparedness for droughts we can never run out of water period. and then the other side is the notion of take no more than we need and where we land in between those two considerations and is kind of what i said you know in the right spot with respect to obviously the fact that we can never run out of water impact on salmon, impact on the environment, all these other components but when it came to treasure island, what i learned in kind of preparing for the meeting and spending time with the commissioners including at least one commissioner who lives on treasure island is that we don't own the treasure island electrical grid. we contract with the treasure island development authority but we do have a contract to to maintain to provide and propose upgrades to address kind of the long term planning for the

island as kind of driven by the owner which is treasure island development authority and the work they plan out there long term to create as many as i want to say homes for 20,000 new residents over the years to come. but there's definitely there was a resolution passed that the citizens advisory committee a year ago questions were posed to me that i quite simply could not answer but did commit to seeking to try to work with the our our hardworking team to to understand and to answer for the citizen advisory committee. i appreciate that our team was immediately responsive to my questions and desire to learn more and also desire to provide information in in in the form of responses to what's what has come from the citizens advisory committee. i know we've we've tried to provide information. i think what folks would appreciate would be kind of one the fact is that they've had

five power outages already at that treasure island. it was four when i was there but i checked and there was another one since i was there in that time. so it at five power outages at treasure island for this year that puts them on pace for 30 at the end of the year that would be a record four for power outages at treasure island last year was 23 so i did commit to trying to understand again with the acknowledgment that we don't own the asset we are a partner but what are our ideas that we can proffer to treasure island development authority who it appears to me does have resources to make some investments or short term and certainly for long term solutions i would like to under items initiated by commissioners i would like to initiate that conversation again with expressing both the limitations in terms of what we can do not owning the grid and also expressing appreciation all the work that our team has done over the years and then even in the week that i brought this to our

team's attention, the appreciation for the dialog i've gotten i committed to the cac that until such time as we do have a written response back to the resolution i'm going to go to the cac every month and just share what i know as a member of this commission as as the ratepayer advocate and hope so that can help us kind of move the conversation in terms of again short term solutions that we can offer up to those who have the ability to green light our team to do something about it as the non-owner but partner with the island and certainly to help understand what are the long term ideas here at the island. >> i just i feel like we don't want to be here at the end of the year and if we do see a record number of power outages at treasure island, i think we'll all be well served by what i'm trying to initiate today which is kind of how we can kind of get ahead of that for the residents of treasure island and the city. >> thanks. thank you, commissioners. madam secretary, i think we

should take public comment on these items. >> remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on this item. are there any members of the public present who wish to comment? seeing none. moderator this one there there are no callers with their heads raised. thank you. thank you. could you please read the next item? >> item 18 motion to on whether to assert the attorney client privilege regarding the matters listed below city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas and electric company motion to assert their attorney client privilege regarding the matters just discussed or just brought up seconded and i think we should take public comment on the whether to go into closed session and on the item i'm sorry did we do that already? >> okay.

>> thank you. okay. we have a motion and second commissioners president stacy i am vice president r c i commissioner exam da high commissioner level ernie all right the item passes. >> thank you ,we're ready and we are back in open session. and i would like to announce that the commission took an action action to recommend that the board approve the settlement referenced in item number 18. and now commissioners, we need to consider whether we should disclose our attorney client discussions during the closed

session. >> i move that we do not disclose second thank you. >> president stacy i. vice president r.c. i. commissioner jammed our high commissioner level roni i. the item passes. >> thank you. and now i'd like to adjourn the meeting. in honor of effects crowley and i know commissioner leave roni you wanted to make some remarks about that adjournment. >> i just like to make the motion to close meeting today and honoring a memory of francis xavier crowley all known in the city by x crowley former s f p u c and dedicated son of san francisco promoting san francisco through all his dealings with labor, with all the commissions that he sat on and served on and he always did so so selflessly and in the

best interest of his fellow residents and businesses of san francisco. >> thank you. we are so adjourned in honor of access effects. >> crowley thanks >> everyone loves a good sunset, but in san francisco we take to a new

level. i'm city supervisor engardio and i represent an entire part of the city called the sunset. it stretches 30 glorious avenues. welcome to district 4! the sunset is a collide scope of people culture and experiences for residents of all ages. we are a beach town, we are a chinatown, and not a town at all. the sunset is home to 80 thousand people and we love our dogs. we live in neat row houses, homes with yards, story book homes and every quirk in between. the sunset used to be sand dunes all the way to the ocean. when the city needed to grow, san francisco's future ran through the sunset. we built rows and rows of housing for a

great irish population and welcomed a great chinese population. today home to a gowing number of families from all backgrounds and the future starts here. >> we chose sunset knauz we love san francisco but during the pandemic we needed more space and more family focused, so that is where we found the sunset. how walkable it is. we live along iving street along where diana's school is our son's day care is. >> our kids and all the kids we knee in the neighborhood are really the future here and we are really excited to live in the neighborhood. we love it so much. >> nina and alex are expecting their first baby and it first leaders of the newly formed sunset community band which bring together musicians of all ages at special events.

>> we are about to have our first kid and met so many younger people and so many moving into the neighborhood. exciting to raising our family here because this community is awesome. >> bringing the community together and making it stronger i think a band can help with that. it is a matter of civic pride and coming together and doing something as a community that really makes like us from a collection of people into a neighborhood. >> sundays in the sunset are for worship, farmer's market and live music at the ocean. if the sunset had a town square, it would be this magical area that appears every sunday on 37 avenue. the sunset farmer market isn't just a place to get good food and produce, it is where community gathers live music

from local musicians and cultural celebrations and [indiscernible] share ideas to shape our city. it really is the place the community comes together to celebrate the best of the sunset. >> something about it had sunset chinese cultural district is there a lot of opportunities to uplift the chinese voice and chinese people. when you look at the sunset, a lot of think of trees and single family homets and the schools, but there isn't a lot of very iconic locations that people can look at and know they are in the sunset. one thing we are working on is to unveil a new mural in the park by community and as we do more work in the sunset and uplift the unique qualities of the community, we want to do more mural s and spaces that are iconic so the sunset gets a piece of being unique and identifiable.

>> a supermarket for everything you need for chinese home cooking and [indiscernible] the rice noodles are so good they are featured in catherine moss latest novel, [indiscernible] takes place in the sunset. there is a old school menu at the ond mandarin islamic restaurant and a item so spicy they have to warn customers. maybe bobo can neutralize the spice. the sunset has plenty options. try the bars at the beach. we also have the sunset reservoir brewing company and o'briens irish pub. cuisine in the sunset spans the world. [indiscernible] >> travel and work in [indiscernible] we have our own restaurant. and then, it was my turn to

follow her to her country, so that's why we opened in her neighborhood. >> we are looking for more a local gentleman gem. we traveled around the world and what we highly value, a place for the community to gather. a local hang-out spot. that is why this isn't a restaurant, it is cafe, you can order a coffee, you can have a fuel full meal but it is place to connect. whether parents kids friends is why we decide to go qulose close to the beach, a neighborhood i am familiar with. i run into people all the time. i live in a big city but why i chose district 4 outer sunset. it has a small town feel. i love our neighbors. >> the sunset has everything from footwear to hardware. here is great wall hardware, 3500 square feet of retail space.

we carry about 22 thousand items and counting. it never stops because i have a thing. when a customer says don't you have this and i don't have it, it bothers me. i want to have it,s so it is just of those things about owner a hardware store, people expect you to have everything and you to fulfill that need. i like to serve my neighborhood. most businesses you want to buy this or that or eat this or buy the widget. a hardware store is different. people come in and have a problem and need a solution and they are looking for you to navigate them through that problem and offer them products that help them get to where they need to go. people are great. i love this neighborhood. there is different ethnicities here, different cultures here. we all intermingle and mix together and we get along fine and i always like that about this neighborhood. it is just a nice place to be. it is near the beach, it is beautiful and near the zoo and near

golden gate park, stern grove. great schools, great parks. whats there not to like? we also love pizza from hole in the wall to [indiscernible] hottest restaurants in the sunset tunching vietnamese food [indiscernible] ice cream [indiscernible] this is great highway park. a great place to burn calories on the weekend. i'm here every sunday doing a long run and start with 5 miles and with this ocean view, if it motivates me i try for 10. the new york times named great highway park one of 52 places to change the world. it is that amazing and the gem of the sunset and people are finding new ways to activate the space. in halloween it turns into the

great haunt way. >> we imagine a future from the part time road close toor to a park to welcome people all ages and activities to our coast. >> since we had [indiscernible] always looking for ways to sort of improve what is already good around us. the neighborhood is great. it will be even better with a park here. >> sunset turn to put a new sign up on our coast. open for all. >> this is the treasure of san francisco and this hasn't been discovered yet. homes are still relatively affordable, there is decent schools and a place for kids to have a feeling they can run and play and take part in things. what i'm happy the great highway has become a park for the weekend. i'm glad we share what we have with the rest of the city and people come from outside the city.

i'm sure people come from the east bay, and i just feel like, seeing the people out here enjoying this represents the hope for the future. >> imagine the potential of an emerald necklace in the sunset for safe biking and recreation along the green belt of sunset boulevard which connects lake merced with golden gate park and great highway park. quality of life matters and we know how to take care of each other. sunset youth service helps teenagers find purpose and self-help for the elderly let's seniors shine. local artists capture the sunset experience and work is on display in cafes like java beach and black bird books. the art of conversation happens at this new barber shop called the avenue. the owner calls it a barber lounge because he wants to create a space for the community to gather beyond

hair cuts. this corner is a hent of the future. you see new housing built for new generations and it is over a community space that everyone loves. the sunset is a place full of potential. >> the possibility is here, more then anything. you can start something here and people will get behind and the community finds there is a need for it and people support it. >> i always look around the corner, the next thing we can do to crank it up more and make it safer, make it more enjoyable. bring in new business, support them. >> i really hope we bring just joy, because ultimately music helps bring joy to the community. >> this is where people are at. this is where people want to be, so it gives me a lot of positive energy. >> my office created the first sunset night market on iring street where i'm standing. more then 10 thousand people showed up. nobody has seen that many

on--[indiscernible] here it celebrate all the fun things in life, food music and art. our beautiful sunset always amazed. the sunset experience is pure joy. the sunset is where we will create our best san francisco. join us. dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and

disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to

the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see.

>> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow,

i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off.

and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other

providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this

program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and

there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post

mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this i grew

cuisine mixed with american cuisine, and grew up cooking with my grandmother. as i grew older, i really found a lot of joy and fulfillment in cooking and coming u my own recipes. once i got into the fire department, it was a really easy transition to cooking on a daily basis. my mom said, if you love to eat, you will know problem learning how to cook.

it's like cooking for your family especially since this is a blue collar job and regular people food. that is a lot of things that go on into preparing firehouse meals. we pay for our own meals. we go, we shop and we spend divided upon the amount of people in on the meal. in the morning, there is a sign up board and you can sign up for lunch and dinner.

my name is figueroa and at station 5 is pillar. when we go in typically, we sort of span out in our meals situation and whoever is cooking dictates to what we are going to eat. we are going to take care of the pasta, bread, heavy cream, eggs, a pound of butter. three polish killbasa and onion and garlic. >> you have a lot of people hustling.

>> we are doing this technique on the chicken where we are going to cook it in high heat for about 15 minutes and turn it down. we started at 425, and dropped the temperature at 375. >> my name is oj leonardo, a firefighter first, always, for the city and county of san francisco. >> it's unique. one of the few houses where the officers cook. they are on the cooking detail. so cooking is a big part of our tradition here in the fire department. when you cook for your folks, you are showing how much you care for them. you don't have to be an excellent cook, just show that you care. when you are at home, you put whatever you want together and people will eat it. there are no rules.

in the firehouse, it's a different story. now, whoever is cooking, the first thing we ask is, no. 1, are there any diet restrictions because one of my firefighters is kosher and vegan. here at 12, we make sure that everyone eats. >> when i'm planning my meals, i tend to weigh it, i guess is the best way to describe it. i don't make a list, i don't typically go from recipes. i will sort of go into the rolodex in my mind and think of what possibilities i have depending on if it's cold outside, if it's hot, do you want to barbecue, do we want a soup, a salad, go light, heavy

and decadent. when i first came in, i had some experience in cooking. i think the big difference for me was knowing how to cook for many people and how to shop. that was a pretty big deal because i had no idea how many chickens to get to make roast chicken for 11 guys. luckily, i had some really cool people help me along the way. when goaledberg, who was a staple here at station 5 was we me the first day that i cooked and he said, look here kid, you are going to be all right. we are getting this many salad, chicken, pasta and you will be all right. don't worry about it. he was throwing things in the shopping cart and i could barely

keep up. i thought how is he going to turn all this for a meal for the guys. that's really where i had to wrap my behind around this is how we do it here. lloyd, and all the people here at 5, when i first came in were nothing but helpful when it came to that and everything and parting knowledge to the next person, the next generation is being part of being in this fire department. they for the most part know and every once in a while something new. >> when we get dispatched to a call, we'll put everything on hold and will do whatever duties we need to fulfill and then

we'll come back finish cooking and go on with the day. >> the biggest challenge for me is to make sure that i have a meal that everyone likes. that's the biggest scare. if they don't like it, one guy is on the phone calling for pizzas and the rest are scraping their meal. that has happened. it's really important to pass on traditions. station 5 is famous for setting up the linen, the cloth and tradition. once you have caesar in the firehouse, you won't have it again outside the firehouse. >> i'm filipino and had my grandmother in the kitchen. we learned how to cook because we were always helping my mom in

the kitchen. my mom never measured anything, neither my grandma and i had to always watch because when they turn their back, that is where they made their move. now with cooking, i use simple ingredients and let them speak for themselves. >> i think there is something to be said about coming together and sharing a meal. there is something that happens, some kind of magic that happens spinning across the table. you know, it's a moment where everybody has something in common. the next thing you know people are talking and engaging and there is a sense of community, and that's important whether it's in the firehouse or outside of the firehouse. that's why it's important in my family that we eat together. >> the biggest thing that the

food that i cook for them and we do together is to show how much you love your fellow firefighter. that's our bond. we do it through food. it's more than just the food. i remember we had two of our firefighters pass away in a fire that turned into something. we were together at that moment, and we were able to talk about them and think about them before we started our meal and during our meal. and we would just sit there and just be together and have a moment. in the end, being a firefighter, is all about people. if you love people, this is the job for you. if you see people in need and respond to people in need, and then you are sharing meals with your fellow firefighters, it's a

people business. so, that food just makes that bond even greater. if you are eating, you are paying. so all of you guys, i hope brought enough money to pony up. [ laughter ] oh, this is something. i told you, who needs to measure. [ laughter ] in the fire department, everyone is willing to help. you have to bring your a game.

>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of

operation. >> one of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for -- permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years. our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the

scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing

people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to.

it helps them workout which cue they neat to be in. if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer. >> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured

bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms.

they will have good conversations with our staff. >> our market street program started in 1992. the goal was to bring arts to an audience who may not be normally be exposed to contemporary art. for 2023, we chose comics as the median to highlight san

francisco. it could be fix al, science fiction. history. >> i'm fan, i'm illustrator and writer, i grew up all over the bay area. and is post history no history no south. i've been drawing since i was probably four or five. it's just a cool memory, i just remember painting my apron in kindergarten and i would suddenly start painting myself. it was cartoon, it got me excited. in my home life, it was not consistent but what was on tv is always consistent. there is always xy z- channel, cartoon, i would wait for the cartoons to freeze and chase really fast. i remember getting into anemai as a kid, as a young person because it was one of the

avenues of asian-american expression that i can relate to. my project is i'm highlighting 6 trailblazers who's family was tied to san francisco. they all have different forms of art expression. but i noticed through the research that there is a common that connects them all, which is this desire to live life authentically, organickly, speak of the love that they believe in. i made it art students and learning about art history and the place in art with the context of learning about their predecessors. >> sinsawa is synonymous of san francisco. there is a school named after her. >> wasn't she also in stamp? her art was in 2020. >> do you think she would become a artist?

>> hmm, i think she was like 100s of other in the city that love the art. when there is no audience or income, why do we still make art? >> well because we seek to know ourselves and one has to believe like alela, we make art for a lifetime not just a career. i think for some, artist like breathing, it's how we know we're alive. >> it's so incredible to do this project and do the experience that connects generation, the full experience of being artist. >> comics have a rich history in san francisco even from early 20th century. we also wanted to open up public art opportunities for artist that don't normally apply to public art. >> i hope it stays with them and lingers and they chew on it and think about it.

and it may not make a big impact but it's something that opens up the door or starts the conversation or the beginning of something. i would like for it to be a start, whether it's a start of research or start of pondering, yeah, what does it mean to be an artist? and how do i decolonize my mind? >> district 10 is the place to be. having a opportunity to represent the last real black community here in san francisco was very important to me. not only just the black community, but all the communities of the

color in district 10 from bayview hunter point to potrero hill to visitation valley to dog patch to little hollywood. [music] my family originally migrated from louisiana and they came in settled in san francisco. my grand father worked on the ship yard, i had great uncles and aunts who worked thin shipyard or did domestic work for families here in san francisco. most of my entire life it was my mother and i. i was raised by a single mom, single apparent. parent. we lived with imy grand futher and potrero hill and spent early time in san francisco and spnt time living in the haight. it was important to me to become the supervisor of district 10 for so many different reasons.

one is the place where i'm originally from, the place where i actually had my biggest opportunity after graduating from college coming and working as executive director of young community developer jz having the opportunity to run for the board of supervisors and be able to effect policy, effect change in the very community where my family is from. >> my name is kelly, the owner manager along with my husband ken. >> mission blue we are neighbors first and so when we first came to the neighborhood we entered the stories and got involved and learned there was a opportunity to get plugged into the merchant corridor and so we see mission blue as setting the table for the community to come together around good coffee, good pastries. >> when we move today the

neighborhood we were volunteers to the [indiscernible] i asked what is a butterfly of this area and says the mission blue and we said if we open anything we will call it mission blue. because the neighborhood was so beautiful and we wanted to be a part of becoming along with the neighborhood. we want td to add value. and, one of the great great heavy secrets of the valley, we are awhere the cross town trail starts. if you are not familiar with cross town trail, it is a 17 mile trail across san francisco and cuts through not only our commercial corridor, but the greenways, and there are six gardens built by the neighbors for the neighborhood and they have been here over three decades and they are a incredsable treasure. >> the rolling farmer market, arrives every saturday morning 10 a.m.

and there is fruits and vegetables and they take ebt and accessible to every of the neighbors so we have a whole neighborhood with fresh fruits and vegetables and we love to ask local musicians to come. it is really like a ecosystem saturday morning, which is one of our goals. what a neighborhood is all about. >> my name is lisa, and i'm coowner of sf dog parler. we have been here going on 9 years. it is in visitation valley i walk to work 6789 it is very diverse and everyone is friendly. rewarding we meet a lot of new people. a lot of different dogs. >> we have done a lot here since i have been in office. we opened another grocery outlet, we have a new lucky store right in

the bayview plaza, which is exciting. this facility we are in right now 1550 evans the brand new southeast community center is another amazing accomplishment for district 10. if you x had from visitation valley across bay shore and come into third street you see a nice bayview sign that demonstrates reflection of one you are coming into bayview hunters point, but also it is a art project to make it more visually appealing when you enter our community. >> i'm barbara, the wine maker and owner of [indiscernible] in bayview. we started wine making as a hobby actually in our garage here in the neighborhood in 2006 and 2015 we had the opportunity to open a tasting room when we have done in this space and here we are. we expanded to add in food options and

caf e experience. i opened the business in bayview and inspired by the community. done a lot of pop up aventsds events in the neighborhood, let's try to take this to the next level and that was really what drove us with the support we got from the bayview community. you can expect to get a local bayview hospitality and welcome. you will experience wine tasting without going to the wine country, because we are small producers and we have not only our wine but introduced italian varieties as well so you can stit and enjoy all that, plus comfort style food. >> my name is anthony, the owner of [indiscernible] ice cream in the bayview. me and my [indiscernible] my aunt used to take us out to

eat ice cream all the time and that was our bonding time. we would spend hours eating ice cream and talking and cratching up. one day my aunt came with a idea, why don't you bring ice cream shop back to the bayview. there hasn't been one here in some time so i thought it would be a good idea to bring something back to the community i grew up and something i haven't seen a new business come back to community. i want to create the environment, the sit down environment you can enjoy a banana split, a root beer float, milk shake, just creating the environment for people to enjoy. got the passion to do it being here in the community and from my family. >> we celebrated with the parade at the opera house. as we talk about beautification

and promoting the arts, we talk about the culture of bayview hunter point and the things we have been doing to make sure we preserve opportunities for communities to come together and it is also is a larger amount of people in community that have the opportunity to come out and see what is going on and we'll continue to do that every black history month to promote not only our corridor here and southeast sector, promote black people coming together during black history month and put on display the talent and great amazing residents we have here in san francisco that come out to support and promote black history during black history month. >> my name is lena mills and the owner of creative ideas. really inspired me to open my company because i was tired of working

for somebodyential. else. we have columbian and mexican food and diverse menus for any occasion. the menu is when i was a kid growing up with my family, we always want to cook all different things, so i learned how to do a lot of things we do here at the cafe. it amazing because we are in communication with supervisor shamann walton, especially when he does coffee and he talks with everybody in the neighborhood that wants to talk to him and ask about how things are going with our community, right? we get together with other businesses that organize singing and doing that in

our neighborhood on our street and people see that all the businesses get together and they know what we are doing in the neighborhood. we are open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. we do local events. with the churches. we did two at the park. >> my name is--the owner of christopher books in san francisco. independent book store. we have been here 33 years. the bookstore housed in a victorian [indiscernible] who runs the potrero hill archive. this space is used for number of different things. the pharmacy being one of them. what makes us unique is we maintained the original character of the space. if you look up here, you see the ancient retrofitting. these are the original fixtures

of what was here in the early 1920's or so. one of my favorite parts is sitting in that chair out front and saying hello to people when they come in and one of my favorite parts is when someone asks me oo recommend a book. you have home, you have work, well a third place is a place where you look for community and you build community, and i think of christopher's and other businesses like that as a third place. i had kids who come in that i knew when they were born and they come in and introduce to their kids. that is how long i is are been here. that feeling of history and connection and family and just being a sole proprietor in one of the most amazing cities in the world. i still enjoy coming to work every day.

>> we definitely have a lot of amazing places to go here in district 10 whether the bars around for decades. bottom of the hill. connecticut yankees and we have newer spots like gumbo social, [indiscernible] so excited about all the things we have been able to do, but i wanted to make sure as supervisor i really address the concerns and issues that community has and left with tangible assets on the way out, but also put policies in place that out live me as a supervisor. [music]

. i will start the count down from 55432, one. welcome to the small business commission meeting on february 24th 2025. the meeting is being called to order at 4:32 p.m.. >> this meeting is being held in person in city hall room 400 and broadcast live on s.f. gov tv. s