decosta >> thank you >> thank you. yes, sir. commissioners, today i want to briefly speak about. >> you wanted to wait until item 5, is that correct? >> no. i have two cards. >> got it. >> i think item 5 i will respond when that time comes. >> okay. >> so thank you for giving me three minutes. so i wanted to speak a little bit about community benefits. so in the past, we have had a lot of experience -- just one of you all knows a lot about the water system improvement project when it comes to the community benefits. and having said that i won't go into the details of how those community benefits filtered down to san franciscans, because one of the reasons given, it went here, there and everywhere because it was region-wide. but when we talk about the sewer system improvement project, it's in your backyard. meaning, it's meant for san franciscans. so right now some of us in the community have taken the lead to work with sfpuc management, giving all the detailed information, expressing the pulse of the community to the general man

decosta. if there is no objection, a moment of personal privilege. i often times talk about the community workforce that we represent. we talk about jobs and the workers who benefit from what happens here at the public utilities commission >> i want to echo the comments made. i think san francisco was lucky to have president art torres to serve on this commission and when i learned that i would serve on this commission by then mayor newsom, i was floored by the caliber of these public servants and it was a pleasure to serve alongside you, president torres. i am a union man, not a company man, but it's impressive in terms of the caliber who work here from general manager harlan kelly, on down and i have enjoyed getting to know each one of you. i think we have a most talented group of upper managers and talented workforce. it's an honor for me to work here. i will call the next item, the general manager's report. >> thank you. so the next item -- i'm sorry. yes, okay, i thought you wanted me to say something else. okay, congratulations. i just wanted t

decosta? >> i would like the experts to listen to me on this very carefully. first of all, we need an analysis of our own roads. we have too many hills in san francisco. i'm not saying this is a sidebar conversation that is to the public. that's the least you can do. it's interfering with my deliberation. absolutely, so we have this issue of the hills in san francisco. and while we talk about bicycling which i favor, we need to do an analysis of certain routes where the majority of the routes is level. now, i was in bleen not along ago and they do a really good job there. not only having bicycle hubs, but bicycle lanes over long stances -- distances. just like the gentleman was saying, if you are allowed a bicycle is it just to go around the park or are you going to use it in a very sustain able way. now, i also want an analysis of the foot print. if you are using a bicycle to reduce the carbon foot print and go on building and pollute san francisco, we need to do animals -- analysis about that. we need to go deep into these issues rather than having a sidebar

decosta said, it's not an ideal location for a dam, but that is the only location available. obviously, the original dam was built in the ideal best location. downstream of where we're building this new dam, there is a known, very significant landslide. there was no question that we could site our new dam over there. so in order to be able to keep these water rights that we have at calaveras, there was one place where we could really locate that dam, and that is where it is. and you are 500' way from the calaveras dam. obviously the dam is designed to withstand the ground shaking from that fault, but nonetheless, we need to build in some very complex geological conditions. >> commissioner torres. >> if the dam god forbid would collapse. >> the existing one? >> the existing one or new one, would the city of fremont be flooded? we were talking about that earlier. >> do you know the answer to that? it depends i guess how you define "flooding." to what extent? >> good afternoon commissioners, dan wade, senior project manager for the projects that includes calaveras dam. in answer