john scarpula, sfpuc. it's great timing because sfpuc in collaboration with other agencies is working on drafting an ordinance to really memorialize community benefits on these types of contracts, not just for clean power contracts, but also sfpuc-wide. as we're drafting that, i'm hearing clearly that we should be making this for certain types of contracts mandatory. so we are drafting that. we can work with your offices. >> that would be great. because i also just feel that it is -- especially because of what you're asking us to do today is to waive our authority on these contracts that are above $10 million and longer than 10 years or 25 years, whatever it is. so you're actually asking us to waive some of our authority, so to have this assurance i think is really important. supervisor walton, sorry to interrupt you. >> thank you, chair fewer. as you know, we've had conversations about memorializing community benefits and making a contract so it happens across departments. i want to make that point as we

debra ludsky and john scarpula, the health department, dr. thomas aragon who have been revisiting a almost 10-year-old study that was undertaken by the planning department and marcel boudreau, the city administrator office, mr. bill barnes and of course the city attorney's office bill sanders who unfortunately cannot be here today which will lead me to ask that this item be continued to the call of the chair because i think he is important to this conversation and i want to thank you for meeting with my office and my staff, to further understand and get to the bottom of this regulatory arena. thank you in particular to public works for agreeing to hold off on adoption of your objective standards while we create this space for this hearing today and any follow-up that will come from it and thank you to that has indicated within the next quarter, they will present their updates to their 2010 recommend dumb which i just referenced and i also note the board of appeals in july of this year also requested that update from public-health. while much

john scarpula, sfpuc. it's great timing because sfpuc in collaboration with other agencies is working on drafting an ordinance to really memorialize community benefits on these types of contracts, not just for clean power contracts, but also sfpuc-wide. as we're drafting that, i'm hearing clearly that we should be making this for certain types of contracts mandatory. so we are drafting that. we can work with your offices. >> that would be great. because i also just feel that it is -- especially because of what you're asking us to do today is to waive our authority on these contracts that are above $10 million and longer than 10 years or 25 years, whatever it is. so you're actually asking us to waive some of our authority, so to have this assurance i think is really important. supervisor walton, sorry to interrupt you. >> thank you, chair fewer. as you know, we've had conversations about memorializing community benefits and making a contract so it happens across departments. i want to make that point as we

john scarpula. the floor is yours. department of building inspection and dr. june wine tropp and my colleague ken pain from the sfpuc water quality division. thank you for hearing this and for the patients as we all worked on this. >> it's about time. >> so, really quickly, before we get into legislation, what is a cross connection when drinking water wipes you conducted to water fixtures across correction is created. if it's improperly connected, contamination can result in a back blow event. a back flow event is when contaminants reverse flow from the fixture or equipment, actually into the plumbing pipes. back loads can jeopardize the water supply of a given property such as in the photo on top where you see a containment swimming pool going back into the water supply of a house but lead to larger issues where the water quality of a city can be put into jeopardy. this can happen a lot of times in large highrises with a lot of plumbing fixtures that are fed so a hospital example is one and you have water supply feeding to x-ray machines or bubblers or coolin

debra ludsky and john scarpula, the health department, dr. thomas aragon who have been revisiting a almost 10-year-old study that was undertaken by the planning department and marcel boudreau, the city administrator office, mr. bill barnes and of course the city attorney's office bill sanders who unfortunately cannot be here today which will lead me to ask that this item be continued to the call of the chair because i think he is important to this conversation and i want to thank you for meeting with my office and my staff, to further understand and get to the bottom of this regulatory arena. thank you in particular to public works for agreeing to hold off on adoption of your objective standards while we create this space for this hearing today and any follow-up that will come from it and thank you to that has indicated within the next quarter, they will present their updates to their 2010 recommend dumb which i just referenced and i also note the board of appeals in july of this year also requested that update from public-health. while much

john scarpula. the floor is yours. department of building inspection and dr. june wine tropp and my colleague ken pain from the sfpuc water quality division. thank you for hearing this and for the patients as we all worked on this. >> it's about time. >> so, really quickly, before we get into legislation, what is a cross connection when drinking water wipes you conducted to water fixtures across correction is created. if it's improperly connected, contamination can result in a back blow event. a back flow event is when contaminants reverse flow from the fixture or equipment, actually into the plumbing pipes. back loads can jeopardize the water supply of a given property such as in the photo on top where you see a containment swimming pool going back into the water supply of a house but lead to larger issues where the water quality of a city can be put into jeopardy. this can happen a lot of times in large highrises with a lot of plumbing fixtures that are fed so a hospital example is one and you have water supply feeding to x-ray machines or bubblers or coolin

john scarpula. the floor is yours. department of building inspection and dr. june wine tropp and my colleague ken pain from the sfpuc water quality division. thank you for hearing this and for the patients as we all worked on this. >> it's about time. >> so, really quickly, before we get into legislation, what is a cross connection when drinking water wipes you conducted to water fixtures across correction is created. if it's improperly connected, contamination can result in a back blow event. a back flow event is when contaminants reverse flow from the fixture or equipment, actually into the plumbing pipes. back loads can jeopardize the water supply of a given property such as in the photo on top where you see a containment swimming pool going back into the water supply of a house but lead to larger issues where the water quality of a city can be put into jeopardy. this can happen a lot of times in large highrises with a lot of plumbing fixtures that are fed so a hospital example is one and you have water supply feeding to x-ray machines or bubblers or coolin

john scarpula. the floor is yours. department of building inspection and dr. june wine tropp and my colleague ken pain from the sfpuc water quality division. thank you for hearing this and for the patients as we all worked on this. >> it's about time. >> so, really quickly, before we get into legislation, what is a cross connection when drinking water wipes you conducted to water fixtures across correction is created. if it's improperly connected, contamination can result in a back blow event. a back flow event is when contaminants reverse flow from the fixture or equipment, actually into the plumbing pipes. back loads can jeopardize the water supply of a given property such as in the photo on top where you see a containment swimming pool going back into the water supply of a house but lead to larger issues where the water quality of a city can be put into jeopardy. this can happen a lot of times in large highrises with a lot of plumbing fixtures that are fed so a hospital example is one and you have water supply feeding to x-ray machines or bubblers or coolin

debra ludsky and john scarpula, the health department, dr.en revisiting a almost 10-year-old study that was undertaken by the planning department and marcel boudreau, the city administrator office, mr. bill barnes and of course the city attorney's office bill sanders who unfortunately cannot be here today which will lead me to ask that this item be continued to the call of the chair because i think he is important to this conversation and i want to thank you for meeting with my office and my staff, to further understand and get to the bottom of this regulatory arena. thank you in particular to public works for agreeing to hold off on adoption of your objective standards while we create this space for this hearing today and any follow-up that will come from it and thank you to that has indicated within the next quarter, they will present their updates to their 2010 recommend dumb which i just referenced and i also note the board of appeals in july of this year also requested that update from public-health. while much of this boils down to a ve

john scarpula. the floor is yours. department of building inspection and dr. june wine tropp and my colleague ken pain from the sfpuc water quality division. thank you for hearing this and for the patients as we all worked on this. >> it's about time. >> so, really quickly, before we get into legislation, what is a cross connection when drinking water wipes you conducted to water fixtures across correction is created. if it's improperly connected, contamination can result in a back blow event. a back flow event is when contaminants reverse flow from the fixture or equipment, actually into the plumbing pipes. back loads can jeopardize the water supply of a given property such as in the photo on top where you see a containment swimming pool going back into the water supply of a house but lead to larger issues where the water quality of a city can be put into jeopardy. this can happen a lot of times in large highrises with a lot of plumbing fixtures that are fed so a hospital example is one and you have water supply feeding to x-ray machines or bubblers or coolin