g, a staff recommendation to advise the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commissionith a three-year renewal option for the san francisco headstart at the southeast community facility. h, a staff recommendation to accept work performed by ntk construction, increase in the contract value, for larger than expected quantities of soil filled for the solo cap, for a total contract amount of almost $1.50 million, with a total contract duration of 127 consecutive calendar days and author is a final payment in the amount of almost 89,000 $500 to the contractor. i, approve a transfer of funds form -- and from what to enterprise water system improvement program funded projectcu cuw384, tesla treatmet facility project to water enterprises' water system improvement program funded project cuw364, lawrence livermore water quality improvement projects to fund the proposed modification. president crowley: colleagues, anyone that you want to pull specifically? ok. moved and seconded. all of those in favor, please signify by saying aye. any public comment? moving on, michael. clerk: yo

over the last six months, there has been the commitment by both the san francisco public utilities commission and by staff and by lafco and members of the board of supervisors here in san francisco to do everything we can to implement in 2010 our design and application to become an energy aggregator. i have to say over the last six months, even compared to the previous 18 months, great progress has been made. we are excited about the prospect of what we're able to implement. i would will have to say that coming out of about a month ago from the copenhagen climate change conferences and a bit of disparity consequences people felt because of what was not accomplished in copenhagen. the fallback to then both national government to make up for that, which is unlikely, considering what debates are occurring in washington even falls back further to state governments and local governments. this is a time when cities and counties like san francisco and other counties like marchin who we'll hear from a little later in our meeting here today and other california counties and obviously in our midst who

item nine, discussion on possible action to authorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to support for adoption and urge the board of supervisors and the city and county of san francisco to pass and mayor gavin newsom to sign the proposed fats oils and grease controlled ordinance. >> good afternoon, commissioners. from -- i'm from the collection division program, the sewer group. i know you've had a long meeting and you have many items, so i'm going to quickly go through this. you have the whole presentation. if it's ok with you, i can get to the highlights, or i can through the whole presentation. >> highlights, please. [laughter] president crowley: we have this in our packet. >> i will hit the highlight. president crowley: all right, thank you. >> i'm here to talk about grease in the sewers. we will talk with one of the key slides. this is one of our store laterals. as you can see, it looks like water that is flowing, but it's really grease stuck in the sewer lateral. there's a trickle of water coming out. and this is what happened when that grease hits our sewers. in

the san francisco public utility commission should not authorize the commission. in the public utilities commission should insure that the water is constructed and the delivery contracts negotiated or require you to deliver this to other uses. it is important that the contracts include other uses for the water including when the future of the park is not yet determined. i have a letter from the alliance. "dear commissioners, this is a request that the commission delayed a decision about the project. we did not support wasting public money on water for a golf course. the golf course is illegal and in our mental problem. the coast is continually -- the golf course is illegal and has environmental problems. we urge you to delay the decision on this project until it can be redesigned for flexible use by other customers, not as it is now. you can contact the alliance and the information -- you can contact the alliance for further information. >> i am an undergraduate at the university of san francisco. i am not against recycled water use. i did not agree with giving th

çó+++r"= possible action authorizing the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commissione an employment contract with harlan kelly, assistant general manager for infrastructure, on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. documents have been and are on file. president crowley: item 19, we have no speaker cards. any questions from anybody before we go? properly moved and properly seconded. all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. the ayes have it. >> the next session is hour closed session item. if you would assert a motion to attorney-client privilege, i will read the items and then we can go into closed session. president crowley: any public comment on anything in closed session? hearing and seeing none, a motion is before us. it has been moved and seconded. the ayes have it. >> item 22 -- threat to public services and facilities pursuant to5ió the california government code. item 23 -- the conference with legal counsel with regard to a clai supervisor alioto-pier: captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor dufty: i would

. >> reporter: the san francisco public utiliti commission is finalizing seismic upgrades, scheduled to be completed in 2015. the new $250 million project includes a reservoir and emergency power generation plant, the budge of those new facilities will have to be located oat the site that puc has targeted skyline stables for decades. >> unfortunately, the site is so compacted and it's a really restricted site that we don't have room to maintain the stages on site with the improvements for the regional water system. >> reporter: the key is finding a new place for the horse. >> we have been in open discussions with them for the last few months andtine to work with them, pretty much on a weekly base. >> reporter: a dozen of skyline riders gathered for a bbq, saying goodbye to their stables. the new emergency water system broad of water to 2.5 million customers in the wake of a quake. something that they can understand, but they are hoping that the puc makes plans to relocate the stable. >> even if we signed papers for relocation, it's still until we actually have horses going into stall

. >> hearing to consider release of reserved funds, san francisco public utilities commission (file no. 081453, ordinance no. 311-08), in the amount of $170,549,282, to fund the construction for the water system improvement program (wsip) project cuw37101 - crystal springs/san andreas transmission system upgrade. item 2. resolution adopting findings under the california environmental quality act, including the adoption of a mitigation monitoring and reporting program and a statement of overriding considerations related to the crystal springs/san andreas transmission upgrade project, part of the water system improvement program for the improvements to the regional water supply system, otherwise known as project no. cuw37101, including the mitigation habitat actions at two sites in san mateo county; and directing the clerk of the board of supervisors to notify the controller of this action. >> good morning. i am a project manager with the assets puc. i will give you a brief presentation on items one and of the vote. the project we are talking about is the san andreas transmission system

general manager to negotiate and execute a memorandum of understanding with the san francisco public utilities commission for a long- term parking agreement for 60 parking spaces at civic center garage. it is in the process of constructing a new administration building at 525 golden gate ave. there is no parking in the new building that they are constructing. we are interested in renting 60 spaces from the department. in order to help us with some of our general funds and budget issues that we were experiencing, they agreed to enter into a 75-year lease for the spaces. they also agreed to prepay half of the $6.5 million that we talked about a little bit during the budget process. the 3.2 $5 million that they are going to pay us is in revenue in the fiscal year 2010-2011 budget. this has benefited the department when there were reductions we had to make. the one downside is that if you take this payment up front, we will not see revenue over time. it is a trade-off decision that we felt was a reasonable one to make. there is still $3.125 sigmillion available, and that will be a conversation as we begin th

under the consent calendar can be redeemed by the public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote. it authorizes the san francisco public utilities commission to executed public services agreement for the amount not to exceed $3,000,750,000 for the duration of the time. b, approved modifications six to water enterprise water system improvement program project to mounting cascade increasingly contract for a total contract duration of war ended 26 consecutive calendar days. the increase in contract amount and time extension is to adjust piping and structural steel design. c, approved project manual and construction task catalog award general construction san francisco/peninsula/east bay to hetch hetchy for a not to exceed amount of $5 million to the lowest qualified responsible and responsive bidders, selfless construction and property management, to accomplish general building construction work to accomplish restoration and bureaus. d, approve the plans and specifications and a warm water enterprise program funded in main-installation on 20 of street in the amount of $1,283,000 to the lows, qualified, responsible,

president, item 12, a discussion and possible action to authorize the general manager of san francisco public utilities commission execute on behalf of the city and county of san francisco a memorandum of agreement with the united states department of the interior, national park service, in yosemite national park, for an amount not to exceed $30 million in with a duration of five years to provide for watershed protection, collaborative environment and stewardship studies, and security for the yosemite national park watersheds that supply water to the san francisco regional water system. >> there are a couple of things that are different about this agreement. this was reconstructed around the filtration. this time, there are actually more things that we do. it is still absolutely essential. there is also the environmental stewardship component, so it is threefold. when the original agreement was signed, that was about $2.75 million per year, which was about $3.50 billion over the last several years, plus special studies. the security agreement, there was the first one from 2007- 20008. and then we have come to vot

>> i'm from san francisco public utilities commission. building on the comments i think we need more knowledge and utilities can learn from each other not only how to adopt to global warming but what our alternatives are for minimizing our contribution to it. two examples is city of,cataloma, looking at their ecological, and fuel and chemical cost to treat that water and your valley in australia did extensive analysis and evaluation where they evaluated in terms of the possible greenhouse emissions effect associated with the actual creation of the building materials that they will later be putting in the ground. so i think ÷ >> i've been part of climate studies for ten or fifteen years now and, our understanding of what in the future regardless of all these outcomes that dan showed yesterday, we're going to see high flows much higher than before what we called the future dry pool, relatively cool scenarios and warmer wet scenario. these things going to occur much higher than now. as far as droughts go and less tear does not know this. we'r

one of the things to kick that off today i'd like to say the san francisco public utilities commission will be able to pledge one hundred thousand. my budget, well we have one vote but i think we can get unanimous support for that. but get a hundred thousand for our agency and what i'd like to do is see some west coast and east coast for too emily, california, or gone , colorado, each of us pledge a hundred thousand dollars to this public outreach to educate people about how climate change leafy fekt

one of the things to kick that off today i'd like to say the san francisco public utilities commission will be able to pledge one hundred thousand. my budget, well we have one vote but i think we can get unanimous support for that. but get a hundred thousand for our agency and what i'd like to do is see some west coast and east coast for

commissioner caen -- ratify then of emergency made by the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission august 19, 2010 for immediate replacement of the existing sewer on polk street from bush street to pine street for the amount of $421,071. commissioner caen: do you -- president crowley: do you want to pull any items on the consent calendar? do you have any questions? vice president vietor: i do not. president crowley: all those in favor of moving nine a through c, signify by saying aye. >> we have no speaker cards on this item. president crowley: now we are on to regular business. >> item 10, presentation and discussion of a power rate setting up date and rate setting criteria. >> i am todd rydstrom. you have been to the rate setting process for many times. given the projected growth of the redevelopment area, especially treasure island as well as hunters point shipyard, we have undertaken construction as part of the budget a revenue requirement review of the power enterprise as well as a rate review. the charter also requires a price tier to be considered them for us to hire an inde

we are now on item 7, which is a memorandum of understanding between the san francisco public utilities commission and the recreation and park department. >> good evening. i am here to reprise an item i brought to the meeting of august 5 regarding an ammo you -- an mou the department would like to negotiate with the public utilities commission for eight long-term parking agreement, at 60 spaces at civic center garage. you will recall at the meeting on the fifth members of the commission expressed some concern about the escalation clause that we were proposing with the puc. the original proposal was to escalate parking -- the revenue we received from the puc annually at a 3% rate. some commissioners will -- were concerned that might not take into account the true cost escalation over the long-term 75-year proposed agreement. i went back and had a couple of conversations with the public utilities commission staff. in order to address your concerns, the proposal that i am here to speak to you about this afternoon is the following. if actual increases to the parking rates that are approved by the mta

ellis on the san francisco public utilities commission. thanks. >> just briefly, it is really a pleasure to see a commission do wonderful work and great things, made up of a body of good people. i just want to thank you all for the work that you do. thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. continue that to the call of the chair. next item please. >> future agenda items. commissioner mirkarimi: colleagues, any future agenda items? commissioner schmeltzer: i do not know it is technically counts, but i'm wondering if we might be able to try and at least tentatively scheduled meetings more than one meeting out. there have been, i think, some scheduling conflicts recently, and possibly, we might be able to avoid those if we were able to try to set a meeting a little farther out. if the chair is amenable to that. commissioner mirkarimi: absolutely. just because a leading up to the twin challenges of what was on the june ballot and ask racing to deal racingcca required more -- t

san francisco deserves. my name is susan leya i am the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission and i am pleased to welcome you it our summit on climate change. as you know, throughout the country there is a number of meetings, discussions, probably even other summits on climate change. and you are probably wondering how this one is different, how this one might be more important or is important. and the reason it is different and it is essential because what we have gathered here today are the decision-makers for one of our most precious resources: water. represented here today are the heads of the largest water utilities in the united states. as decision-makers, we are responsible for providing water to tens of millions of americans. we are also pleased to bring together other government leaders and scientists that are experts on the environment, water and climate change. this gathering is also note worthy, in my perspective, in that we not only will exchange ideas, debate issues around water and waste water, but we are charged, we are charged, with coming up with action plans, acti

> item 10, discussion of possible action to authorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to request approval from the board of supervisors to accept and expand grant funds totalingedly 9 0,000 from the united states environmental protection agency for the civic center sustainable district project to manage water, wastewater, stormwater, and other elements sustainably and to execute all required agreements. >> i do have an overhead. maroney will you be offended if i move this item? without a presentation? president crowley: nice job. >> we have no speaker cards on this item. president crowley: do we have a speaker? on the question. it's been moved and seconded. go ahead, sir. >> it would be a good idea if you all had some idea what this is about more than what your staff report says. i'm the coordinator of the mayor civic center steak holders group. i want to give you a little background of what this is about. the current planning documents in the civic center area are 40 or more years old. there's been efforts to update them but there's never been any money. since the 198

now, just for fun, we mapped the san francisco public utility commission's waste water treatment commission. as you can see, a lot of it is along the shore line. so we've used some gis projections and we have had to use a two meter sea level rise because of the base maps we used, but you see a lot of that area would be inundated. even if it's only half as much, there's still a lot of expensive puc infrastructure that's going to be under water. under the heading of sharing the pain, i want to point out that bcdc's objectives will also be hard hit by sea level rise. over the past 40 years, we have required a lot of public access along the shore line of the bay, about a hundred miles of it. and a lot more access has been provided in public parks and through the bay trail. much of this could well be lost. now, after all this talk of doom and gloom, i have to put a caveat in here. bay waters won't rise slowly like -- and evenly like water filling a bathtub. the tide comes in, the tide goes out. so what we're talking about are trends in mean sea level. i prefer to use the term climate change to g