when in 1913 to the regular act we went and dates, times, and places a dates, times, and places the hetch hetchy dame to bring clear water to san francisco what is happening is as the years go but we supply more and more water to the region. you all need to do your homework and understand that. right now even though we spent $206 billion and the region spent $2 billion to revamp the water system improvement project right by the house/senate dame they used a tunnel which will adversely effect the project your director and others in the know know about it. so this is a big problem. it's a big problem for clean water delivery and if you have a any questions i didn't mouse system that we think we can go and at that point into the watershed with all the adverse impacts without a reliable system we're foovl ourselves there are two things you commissioners have to pay attention to. first, as due diligence been done on the water system project and that delivery and then if we tap into the system and have the region how will that be done without impacting the taxpayer. thank you very much >> is th

over 100 youngster were able to tour hetch hetchy. as you remember we had the class from the high school that we are supporting open up the season of camp this year and first time we invested in that way of having a high school class exposed to that and all of those young people as well as others were able to tour the hech tch hetchy facility this summer and we that had clean up and the young people helped facilitate that event. demand closing lifting up the engagement of the work of the young people did. we did a much better job this summer of creating opportunities for the young people to talk about their final work product. so we did an event of the san francisco public library where the young people showed these documentaries that they made over the summer that we had a great turnout that we made over the summer and this advisory committee toond show case their good work. the truth is when you hear them talking around our content whether it's biogas and the system and talk about what civil engineers do, i give some of these exampl

>> good afternoon, vonsky, again and i want to remind you all, that hetch hetchy we had a member of active employees, and retirees up in those areas, and a lot of them have been families and urgent care is what they really need. not the emergency care because most of the kids have cuts or whatever, and they might need something urgent, but not emergency. so, could i request that we add that to in the area, to the list of the samples that people bring back so that we know what those care facilities are up there, and it saves those families lots of money, and it also gives them an opportunity to get the kind of good care that they need. because they have to travel long distances often to get any type of care up in those areas and it is very remote and we also have a lot of retirries, in more remote areas who can also benefit and even though they are in the out lying areas of the bay area when you see the map that was provided in here, that if they are a urgent care facility, that are within, 100 miles of san francisco that covers a great deal of the retiree membership as well and so i would

so for the hetch hetchy regional water system, we have a couple of drought relief projects that we're working on, primarily revolving around use of water for cherry re or. ~ [speaker not understood] cherry lake not normally used for drinking water supply. they're only there as a stand by supply. we can take water from cherry through a conveyance called the lower cherry aqueduct and bring it into our supply system. that water then has to be filtered at the sunol valley treatment plant unlike hetch hetchy which does not have to be filtered. lower cherry was built in 1914. here is a photo portion of that. it is largely an open channel and what damaged in the rim fire. so, we're engaged in a project to actually rehabilitate the lower cherry acwe edit so we can bring water of a good quality down to the system and deliver it to the bay area ~. that back up supply could become valuable a the drought continues on into the future. so, we have one contract with flat iron, west for the rehabilitation project on the lower cherry aqueduct. once we get the water to the bay area we have to do some m

over 100 youngster were able to tour hetch hetchy. as you remember we had the class from the high school that we are supporting open up the season of camp this year and first time we invested in that way of having a high school class exposed to that and all of those

first the water levels, as you can see hetch hetchy is down to 85 percent as has been coming down this summer as we are relying on supply. the water bank is low but has come up about 20,000 acre feet. we've seen water in to it and hopefully it can do next year for this year in terms of supplying water in our hetch hetchy. our storage is about 60 percent of maximum value. as normally happens during the summer, the levels come down as demand increases and there is no in flow in particular to note. precipitation, the charts have really stabilized now as we get into summer, we are about 2007 in terms of what that water year produced. just for information, we had on this slide one of the biggest year which is 1983 which is blue on the top which shows how variable it can be at the time and we don't know what we can expect going into it and it can be really dry years or wet years. on total delivers, this is actually a really good slide now because for the last 13 weeks demand has been down and starting to drop a little bit more. we are about 224 million gallons per day where typically this ti

we took over 100 youth to hetch hetchy this summer. so with that little announcement, again, today i'm excited to give you information on the work for summer employment opportunities for young people. i will try to do it fairly quickly and provide an overview of the strategy that we've undertook building off the success from last year and we did have goals that we were trying to achieve invested in youth this summer and the public and you commissioners attend that's going to highlight the work the young people did. so as many of you know the mayor last summer and again this summer as part of his summer jobs plus initiative put forward the goal of this summer of the city employing 7,000 young people during summer months. again it really reflects the city's acknowledgment that it's a good thing for young people to have paid positive work experience during the months that they are off school. so this sfpuc was glad to help the mayor reach that goal that he articulated but also i think clearly recognize and understand that we have as an ag

to request that we take a look at a broader scope and that we don't also forget our folks up in the hetch hetchy and the people down in the area that are out of the range of the hmos but do need urgent care, thank you. >> thank you. >> any other public comment? >> all right, seeing none, next item please? >> item 11, discussion item, report on vendors on medical loss ratio refunds, if any, hss vendors. >> good afternoon, heather united healthcare, we did go through this with the team on the plan and we did check against it, there is no rebate from united healthcare that is relative to this. and we provieed them with the number that they can call and also, william, from your team found a great tool where you can check the website to indicate, so we did confirm that there was no refund from united healthcare. >> all right. >> all right. >> good afternoon. cindy, from kaiser. so, on our june first, medical loss ratio calculation it was above the established thresholds for both the large group which is 85 percent, and the small group, and most of the individuals, so the small and individuals

hetch is 90 percent low, and it has been coming down as the summer progressed and there is no inflow and that will decrease until the following and into the next wet season that we get. we expect to be around october first at about 250,000 acres in the reservoir, on that standard operating procedure for this kind of year, again the water bank number is low, 37 percent and it is low but that number has been coming up and it is actually come up about 13,000 acre feet as we have steadily put the water into that from the cherry reservoir side and because we want to replenish the water, so that it can come in this year, the total system storage is 61 and a half percent right now. and so, these numbers are you know going to be steadily changing as we get into the fall and as we look forward to what kind of precipitation that we are going to be getting in september, we will come to the commission with an out look for the future of how we expect to operate the system. through the next year, and potentially the years after that if it continues to be dry. and on the precipitation front, the st

just because we have hetch, hetchy water does not mean that we can waste it, we are wasting it. but we can put into gear some checklists, so that the people who work with the infrastructure are very cautious and pay respect to it. >> thank you very much. >> and so we will go ahead as discussed we will suspend public comment on item 8 until we return to it and madam secretary, next item please? >> communication? s >> five communications. >> commissioners? >> is there any public comment on communications? seeing none, public comment is close $. next item. >> item 6, other commission business? >> commissioners? >> seeing no other business commission, i will go ahead and call for public comment, if there is none i will close it. madam secretary, next item. >> 7, a staff presentation and discussion on sewer system improvement program, communications 2013 annual report. >> hello. ellis assistant general manager for the external affairs and we are really excited to have the opportunity today to discuss the puc's efforts around the out reach and engagement tied to the sewer system impro

airport, at city hall in san francisco, electricity and all the public schools in san francisco is hetchhetchy electricity which was a great, progressive idea which was part of the act in 1913 that allowed san francisco to build the dam at hetch hetchy. san francisco was also supposed to get electricity out of that from electric power plants which are owned by the city of san francisco, three electoral power plants owned by the city of san francisco in the hetch hetchy area, but we never got the power because pg&e blocked it every time it was on the ballot. had lots ag&e political ads telling people to vote against it. the progressives had no money to promote people to vote in favor of it. pg&e had endless money to tell people to vote against it so it always lost. except one time in the 1920's, it had a majority vote but needed 2/3 to pass. that is why we are still playing -- paying our electric bills to pg&e instead of the city of san francisco, which would be cheaper because it is hydroelectric. >> thanks, that is great. i heard that story tangentially about the power issue but did not

the family is seeking unspecified damages. >>> well, a tunnel in the hetch hetchy water system couldn danger of a catastrophic collapse and that would cut off water to millions of people in the bay area. the san francisco chronicle reports city officials have known for more than 20 years that the 19-mile tunnel outside yosemite national park needs significant repairs. now, those repairs could cost $100 million, but completely replacing the tunnel would cost $630 million. officials with the san francisco public utility commission say the risk of a collapse is low, but a bay area water agency has raised concerns about the stability of the tunnel which helps supply drinking water to 2.6 million homes and businesses here in the bay area. >>> california voters will soon have their say on a new water bond. governor brown has reached a compromise with lawmakers from both parties on the $7 1/2 billion bond measure that would be on the november ballot. it will replace an $11 billion bond that lawmakers had already approved for the ballot but were worried would not pass. if voters do approve t

para tomar, no se encuentra afectada por este tipo de contaminantes ya que proviene de la reserva hetch estaremos pendientes del desarrollo de esta historia. yo soy alonso castillo. noticiero telemundo 48. blanca regreso contigo. blanca --se ha identificado a las 2 mujeres que fueron encontradas sin vida este fin de semana en el motel "ez 8" de san jose. vo --se trata de "juliecel aguja" de 26 aÑos de san jos y michelle williams de 18 de petaluma. --las mujeres habrian llegado el 4 de agosto al motel y puesto el letrero de "no molestar" en su cuarto hasta que una de las recamareras abrio la puerta el domingo y descubrio los cuerpos en descomposicion. -las causas de muerte estan bajo investigacion. vo-blanca --una recien nacida esta a salvo y en su casa despues que segun la policia... su padre tratara de llevarsela este sabado pasado del hospital "o'connor" de san jose, en contra de madre de la niÑa. --el hombre no llego lejos pues en cuanto la madre le notifico a una de las enfermeras del hospital, se envio una alerta "rosa" que inmediatamente se activo para bloquear escaleras y elevado

the currently, as you know, excess hydroelectric power, generated at hetch, hetchy gets sold on the wholesale market at one quarter of the price that would be charged to a retail customer. so if we give the agency the ability to have more retail customer and there will be more revenue from the power and that can be reenvested in the agency's infrastructure including street lights. we are continuing the discussion with the staff with the particular of the language in the legislation and we have an open dialogue, and we want to make sure that the legislation is passed in the right form. and i know that the staff has proposed a few amendments, some of which were open to and others were not quite there and i am sure that we will continue to talk and so with that, i am happy to answer any questions. and i appreciate the time. >> commissioners? >> yes, mr. torres? >> i just want to say thank you for your leadership and you are my supervisor, and i am your boss and so i vote for you. >> thank you. >> and you have been doing an incredible job and i think that this effort that you are trying to incorp

the threat to the hetch hetchy water system one that could leave millions of bay area people with noing water. >>> but first, five football players arrested after an armed robbery. why school officials think this is part of a bigger problem. >>> p:24. officials -- 7:24. officials at sal poly obispo are investigating drug abuse on the football team. police say they believe a robbery was drug related. they say it bears a striking resemblance to a shooting last year involving a former cal poly football player and drugs. the five players posted bail and are due in court later this month. >>> a bay area teenager now headed to tennis's u.s. open. she will be the youngest player there. 15-year-old cc is home schooled. mostly she practices in her back yard in atherton. that and her work ethic helped her win the girls 18 and under national title last week. it's a dream come true because it qualified her to play in the u.s. open in new york later this month. >> i'm still kind of in shock that i'm going this year. i've been wanting to play since is what 7 years old. it's crazy. >> you tell them

we just got this book today about the native plants and hetch hetchy. i would love to see the commissioners an at least acquire that document and maybe a conversation. i believe we've offered incentives on the west side of the city to green. because people they cement over. i think we've offered incentives for people to undo the parking. it's a conversation that i think is appropriate to have. it's so on point. if commissioner moran has anything to add? >> the >>commissioner anson moran: the other thing that sunset blvd that comes to mind is that you don't need irrigation. those people that are operating her to systems know what their alternatives are and how to keep viable landscaping alive without a full measure of water. >>president vince courtney: thank you, commissioner. commissioner vietor? >>commissioner francesca vietor: there is all this data with --? >> the requirement is no more than 25 percent i am pefrs, you must replace with per views and that was a specific concern about that because we didn't want the hard scaped look. they do not rebate

and here is the standard slide on the reservoir storage levels and you can see that hetch, hetchy is 93 percent and the water bank is 35 percent full if you are keeping track of the numbers, that means that it is starting to come down slowly and the water bank is starting to come up as the readings from chili to refill the water banks and so that it can do the job fekt year that it has done for us this year. take a look and the precipitation slides and well the things keep happening on sunday, there was a thunderstorm in the sierra and so the water shed we got, almost a inch in a half of precipitation. and both of those took place in about an hour and a half. and for these were very severe thunderstorm s, in the room fire area near cherry, there was in effective of that and there was work that we had been doing in advance, paid off for us and so the system is working out fairly well. and it is an interesting year all the way around. >> that is the 207. >> we are at the level of the year, 2007. that is that blue line there, and that was, what was, a relatively dry year, but we have ca

the electricity at city hall in separate cisco and all of the electricity in the public chools is hetchhetchy electricity. it allowed san francisco to build the dam. and san francisco was also supposed to get electricity from that from electric power plants which are owned by the city. electric car plant owned by san francisco. but we never got the power because pg&e locked it 12 times. ads had lots of political telling people to vote against it. the progressives had no money to promote people to vote in favor. pg&e had endless money to tell people to vote against it. lost, except for one time back in the 1920's. that's why we are still paying our electric bills to pg&e instead of the city which would be cheaper because it is hydroelectric. >> thanks, david. i had heard that story tangentially, but i did not know that. that's kind of cool. adam? do we have another question or,? comment? yeah, come on down. also, david, university of nevada press might be interested . hi. >> i have more of a personal question. i was wonder what prompted you [inaudible[ >> you are volunteering here? what

the hetch hetchy tunnel is 19 miles long and sits outside yosemite national park. the chronicle reports city officials have known for 25 years the tunnel needed work, but it was left out of the water system improvement program which makes bay area water facilities earthquake safe. the tunnel is 9 years old and would cost more than $100 million to repair. >>> no word if any of of that money will come from a $7.5 billion water plan just signed into law by governor brown. lawmakers approved that plan last night. it is the biggest water investment in decades, it includes money for building new reservoirs, cleaning up ground water, and focussing on water treatment tech knowledge. only one lawmaker voted against it. >>> well let's check in with rob mayeda today, we've seen low clouds, foggy start to the day. >> north down, half mile ore less at times. something our own mike inn way is -- inn -- mike is tracking right now. and right now, little bit of mist possible too across san francisco for the morning. not so much in the way of low clouds around san jose. the north ba

. >>> a tunnel in the hetch hetchy water system may possibly suffer a catastrophic collapse.le it would cut off water to millions of people right here in the bay area. the san francisco chronicle reports city officials have known for more than two decades that this 19-mile tunnel outside of yosemite national park needs a lot of repairs that could cost more than $100 million. now, replacing the tunnel, however, would cost $630 million. officials with the san francisco public utilities commission says the risk of a collapse is low, however, a bay area water agency has raised concerns about the stability of that tunnel. it helps supply the drinking water to 2.6 million homes and businesses right here in the bay area. >>> california voters will soon have their say on a new water bond. governor brown reached a compromise with lawmakers from both parties while a $7 1/2 bond measure that will be on the november ballot. this would replace an $11 billion bond that lawmakers already approved for the ballot, but they were worried about whether it would pass. if voters do approve it, it