it's not what we're giving the puc or anything. that's something if we didn't have the community benefits we wouldn't have gotten this piece of money. so i want to point out this is part of the community policy that we put in place and that's what the consultant is willing to give >> in addition to all the other benefits. >> there's going to be the actual puc sitting down with the community and one of the things we're not only doing it with this community but all contracts we ask the consultants what can you do to help serve the community. >> i want to follow up on that, too. and it took quite a bit of work. and it was really have you found as a landmark piece of policy from across the country looking at public utilities. i think that money is generous. i would like to commend, you know, and now we have a department set up to implement that policy. we're doing all we can to make sure the community is benefiting from not only the private firms that are contracting with the puc and by the puc. i want to reiterate the importance of tha

if the puc owned that building and we could make that the icon i can sustainable building puc representsuldn't be a dramatic idea? >> so, one of the major decisions we made was we wanted to make a statement with this building. we wanted this building to be a lead platinum building which is very few buildings in san francisco that achieved this mark. >> leadership and energy environmental design, it takes a look at the way we think about the places where we live and work. i like to think of it as designed for human and environmental health. lead addresses five categories that enhances environment. indoor air quality, energy, water, materials and resources, and sustainable sites are the five categories for the lead. you can go for several gold or platinum certifications. >> the city wanted to be silver lead status. . maybe gold was a stretch. and people said, if we're going to be a sustainable organization that the pucs this has got to be the top of the line. it's got to be a lead platinum building. what does that mean to us? we run water, power, and sewer. so, those are some of the bigges

the other projects had their lease with the o s and puc. one project is a construction of a cut off law that will help keep water flows in the creek that will best serve the habitat. and next the burial of a habitat burial line. another project involves the partial revenge of san antonio creek. and to encourage fish migration. now in addition to the response to the concerns of the folks o d s entered a contract to serve the interests of the folks. i want to point out that the puc is not a party to that agreement nor is the puc a party to the conservation contract i mentioned. and phase 2 the o d s has agreed to chances to expend the lease so it will be co- termed with the schedule for the preference of certainty improvements such as a utility on the premises. and it will have an expansion to the premises that will minimize the projects that are ongoing in the area. it will define the contribution and some issues around the concrete plant. now revisions f to s m p revisions are jury room review. the city retains very important rights to this

cares about the environment and the puc is going to show everyone else, you can do this, too. you can do it in a way that makes sense, that's affordable, and that is better for the environment. >> and this is the most energy efficient government building in the united states today, if not the world. and it is an example that the entire united states can look to and say, that's what we need to do to save our city hundreds of millions of dollars in energy consumption a year and set an example to everybody of how to save energy, to be green, to be sustainable, to be responsible. the city is leading the way. >> it will be immediately recognizable and iconic from various parts of the city or even if you see a picture. that's the sfpuc building. it's a wonderful building. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (clapping). this is we call ourself 0 october net and that's a play on words. they can play another song and they received a command performance and they received the highest rating and so it is so nice of you to be here for our presentation. thank you and this is

so that is something that we at the puc really plan to participate in a lot of youth activities this summer. the second item i would like to bring up is our sewer system improvement program. as you mentioned, that we were talking about the digesters and sort of what was the timeline of the digesters? so i wanted to bring up karen, do you want to do the intro? what is really great about this timeline is that we actually have documentation attached to each one of the events. the other thing that i want to point out, that this is a draft. we're going to work with the community, who may have some other history that we will do some research, but all the timelines we have actual hard documents with it. and we plan to put it on our web as you guys requested, the commission requested. so with that lehman. >> president torres and members of the commissioner, good evening, my name is lehman abrams and i work in the area of communications. and per your request we have responded by providing a history of the sewer system improvement program, as well as timeline of the digesters, which is now avai

with all these emails, will anything happen to the puc directors, the commissioners involved? >> reporter: well, after you say that, they want to see punishment for pge. now these people say they want to see punishment for these puc directors they say aren't doing their j. they are asking. they have an online petition asking the governor to change heeder ship. we have not heard back -- leadership. >> thank you very much. >>> the bay area is bracing for commute chaos. b.a.r.t workers could walk off the job as soon as monday stranding hundreds of thousands of commuters. that's not all. kpix 5's ryan takeo has more. >> the district is fully ignoring us. >> came the realization we are closer to a transportation nightmare, but there are three transit agencies that could strike as soon as monday. >> b.a.r.t, ac transit, west cap >> b.a.r.t is the best. 400,000 ride the rails daily union leaders think the approval will happen. >> by what we hear from the members, we hear a strike. >> that will not change our approach at the table. >> b.a.r.t officials were cautiously optimistic, but u

. >> thank you, this is the general manager for the water of the puc. it was mentioned already that unfortunately we had a water main break on february 27th of this year that affected 23 homes. since the initial clean up we have been working diligently to repair the infrastructure of the neighborhood water and suer mains and are getting close to the completing of that work. you have been provided a confidential memo describing the activity to date and the out look going forward and we request the approval of the proposed ordinance aloeg it to move forward to sell the claims to the effected neighborhood. and i would like to express the puc's appreciation for the support provided by mayor lee and supervisor ye e and all of the other city departments, particularly the city departments they have been work to great with. >> colleagues ne questions for mr. richie? >> thank you very much. >> to our budget analyst report, mr. rose? >> mr. chairman, members of the committee on page 12 of our report, we note that as of the writing of this report the puc could not

the sfpuc. a okay, thank you very much. we have puc here to speak on thev item. >> my neighborv is emilio cusp, infrastructure for the public utilities commission. i'm also here with our chief financial officer, todd [speaker not understood]. we had originally not intended on making a presentation, but we thought maybe a status of the program would help give perspective to the item before you today. under the leadership of our general manager, mr. harlan kelly and the implementation of staff led by program detector julie la bon tee, the program today is 72% complete with 61 of 82 specific projects completed with construction. we are six months past our overall peak anticipated person hours of 206,000 per year, and we only have three projects left in pre-construction. so, we are definitely at the tail end of the project, having made major progress on our system wide plan. we have had major scope changes on two projects, the calaveras dam replacement project and the alameda creek recapture project. our revised program completion as a res

we also have the puc here to present on this item. hold on one second. >> good afternoon, chair farrell, supervisors. my name is greg limon. i work for tim ramirez in the natural resources and land management division of the water enterprise. i have been working with our contracts administration bureau to manage the selection of the consultants to supplement city staff and provide specialized and technical services to monitor and manage our watersheds. the natural resource he and land management division is responsible for monitoring water quality in our reservoirs, monitoring the ecological health of our water sheds and monitoring the habitat mitigation for the wisip of our water system improvement programs like the calaveras dam. the scope of the requested services is not new to the water enterprise. what's new is the magnitude of the work that needs to be done. in large part due to the commitments we have made to state and federal environmental compliance permits in the duration of these commitments. under these per conmitt conditio

and a few years ago we brought this to the attention of the puc and we reached an agreement there would be a study in adaptive management plan that is now called "the upper tuolumne ecosystem program or project." and the idea it would be completed by the end of 2009 and here we are in 2013, and we don't have that report and we don't have the adaptive management plan. so these projects are moving forward that would reduce water below o'shaughnessey, when we don't have adequate baseline data, because that study is not completed yet and it might be there is no change and just a shift of some water from summertime to the springtime. so i just wanted to make you aware of that. i will try to forward to you our comments on the regional groundwater storage project because it addresses that. secondly, mr. ritchie mentioned the use for this year is 224 mgd and wouldn't it be great if we could keep it at that level? but you are facing reality and it's a population growth. the bay area is required to create more jobs and more housing and just something to think about, the global population, expecte

closed >> i want to say that the way we've structured our projects there's no expiration date on the puc. >> there no expiration dates for any of the seats. how would we iceberg someone to step down so another rep could be included mr. fong and i suppose i could have a conversation with the c ac members >> can we all the time? i've never heard of a task force that doesn't have expiration dates. it's important to have - you know, have new participation and new leadership. i think it's important to put some terms on the seats >> occasionally. >> hi commissioners absolutely we can bring in a proposal. we certainly have that for the extent that members have a good attention record. however, as those projects continue on and continue on longer than we hoped for he can bring you some optioned next time. the committee does occasionally have issues and i apologize for the oversight with the applicant from district 5. we'll make sure that doesn't happen again. so it would be useful to try to make the appointment if we could but you can have more time >> it would be great for us to get even though

. >> thank you very much the puc is here we're going to continue this item; is that correct. >> well we would like to have this move forward today, we need to get started as soon as possible. i'm karen from the program director department. we're in the process of trying to get this started we've had several of the roofs failed already. >> i'll tell you you what thafrs about some miscommunication between the puc and my office we'll continues this. so some point in time we'll open it up to public comment. do we have to do that before continuing this item? >> sorry mr. city attorney. as long as you hold public comment and a close public comment before you act for a future meeting you're fine so you don't have to have public right now >> mr. clerk call item 2. we have $2.3 million no, in the grant funds from the 70 infrastructure protection program >> thank you very much supervisors. this is to request our approval to accept and expand the grant from the homeland security to improve the system. approximately 9 hundred thousand b will be used to deploy cameras assess inaccurately control a

of course at the puc we recommend that you store our wonderful delicious tap water. it's free. it comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean plastic container for up to 6 months. so find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. i use it to water my garden. >> of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. >> yes. it's an easy way to pick up bottles to store it. just make sure you check the label. this one says june 2013. so convenient you have an end date on it. >> and there are other places where people have water stored in their houses. >> sure. if you have a water heater or access to the water heater to your house, you can drink that water and you can also drink the water that the in the tank of your toilet. ; not the bowl but in your tank. in any case if you are not totally sure about the age of your water or if you are not sure about it being totally clean, you can treat your water at home. there is two ways that you can treat your water at home and one is t

instead of paying out, the puc is letting the utility deduct from the fine the billions already spent fixing the pipeline system and making it safe. and they get a tax credit for all that money spent. an apparent violation of state law that requires penalties go into the general fund. blast victims are angry. >> it looks like they are getting away scot-free. they are not going to have i in penalty. in fact, they are -- they are not going to have any penalty. in fact, they are making money off of the hell that they put us through. >> reporter: an online petition by neighborhood residents is demanding the governor appoint new leaders on the puc. state senator jerry hill agrees. the relationship between the regulator and the utility is too cozy. >> chief counsel of the puc before 2008 prior to 2008 was one of the chief counsels of pg&e. and the president of the public utilities commission, michael peevey, prior to his tenure on the puc was the ceo of a major utility in southern california. >> reporter: even the four lawyers who investigated the pipeline explosion for the cpuc refused to

. >> this is one of the applications we developed with communications team at the puc and it's called, and it's about water cycle, how the water comes down from the snow in yosemite, into the mouth of the reservoir, gets treated, produces power, comes all the way down to the city and gets charged and leaves the bay. we developed a motion tracking system taw four cameras on the ceiling here which detects people when they approach the wall and presents information pop ups. so, you can enjoy it from a distance as a landscape, but once again up close there is another level of information that's educational about this facility. >> fire fly by artist ned con is an art installation which rises straight from the golden gate avenue sidewalk to the top of the building. >> the fire fly wall will be 5 by 5 polley carbon plates that will move with the wind and show a wave effect in the daytime. when those also swing back and forth and they hit the fulcrum, it will also set up an led light that will cover the fire fly. so, at nighttime people in another part of san francisco can see the side of our