this is harlin kelly, general manager. i want to thank you for calling this hearing today. today we'll talk about the history of our city-owned and operated power system and the financial and community benefits it provided our residents for over the past 100 years. we'll also detail the challenges we have experienced in delivering our clean energy to our customers and the steps we're taking to overcome these challenges. before we start, i would like to thank the board and the mayor's office in theireffor to facility better partnership between pg&e and the puc to help ensure that city power -- i mean the city projects receive city power. recently the mayor facilitated a meeting with myself and ms. williams to help put a short-term plan together to energize city construction projects with the city power more quickly. and so therefore there's hope that we can work together to resolve a lot of the short-termed and work on the long-time. i'm definitely honored to meet ms. williams. she seems very committed. i'm very opt -- optimistic. we have discussed a shared interest in negot

again, i'm harlin kelly, general manager of the public utilities commission. i will provide the budget and brief high level overview of agency priorities and key projects and programs that drives our budget. additionally, i would like to talk about some external pressures our agency is facing and after providing this overview i will pass it onto our c.f.o. eric sandler to do a deeper dive. so first i would like to start with the agency mission. as you know we provide water, sewer an power services san francisco residents and businesses. we also provide water customers located through the bay area, total approximately of 2.8 million people depend on our ability to deliver drinking water everyday. one of the most impressive things we really focused on was the strategic plan, our 2020 strategic plan and implementing it has been a priority and this is our first budget that is really aligned with our 2020 strategic plan goals and so they are identified here and you will see this throughout as budget how it's reflected. execute our strategic plan in a complex enviro

i wanted to give the opportunity to general manager harlin kelly to make any closing remarks that you would like to. >> i know that we had a lot of challenges. it's actually very complex. i think we're the only utilities that is embedded throughout the pg&e region. i mean, we have city hall one block. we have a police station on another block. the treatment of treating us like another utility is hard because we're not taking the power and distributing to whole areas. we're embedded in their service territory. so that's why we feel grandfathering is really applying to us. we have a difference of opinion. you know, although i don't agree, i respect their opinion. we're going to furk and all this. the way they operationalize their opinion is costing our city family money and time. we're fighting to have secondary service, but that being said, i think what i really want to focus on is a path forward and really try to work together around work with all the city family where we can actually meet these timelines and budgets. i just really am very encouraged that pg&e is here today. they are