president moran: ok. do you want to move the other amendments then? >> why don't we do that? >> other coveys of this, the ones that came into the meeting? president moran: the commission was given substitute language at the beginning of the meeting. the mover and seconder agreed that what is before the mission is the entire resolution, including the changed language -- and >> yes. sounds fine. >> commissioner, would it be useful for me to mention with those three small changes are in the amendments? president moran: yes, please. >> the first is the noble american contract said before that it had to be by the puc and board of supervisors. it does not have to go to the board. it has to go to the puc. the second is that we did not have ceqa language. we added ceqa language, adding that it would be covered. the third is to be even more clear. it says the puc will only authorize the general managers to launch the program as long as it is a per by the board of supervisors and the following conditions are met to

president moran: ok. so what is before the commission is the substitute resolution with the addition of the two whereas clauses that were just read earlier. ok. public comment on that item? >> good afternoon again, commissioners. san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization of our city. a few things on the amendments that you're going over. an important one is the ceqa issue. what we're seeing out here is that we need the final approval of the shell contract and the program that is being based on it to be contingent upon the build out work -- and by the way, not necessarily the full nine to 11 months, but enough of the build of work being completed in five or six months to inform of the economics of the contract will work. we're not saying that the contract needs to be changed so that it is adopting construction and installation. we are saying that once we flesh out that build-out information sufficiently and, like we said, get the horse before the cart sufficiently, what we learned abo

commissioner moran: ok, thank you. just a notice to staff, we have an awful lot of business to do today. we had talked about time limits on staff presentations. i will be enforcing those. julie, you get the first five minutes. >> ok. good afternoon. my update today -- i wanted to start with some good news. at the end of november, our contractor at sunol valley water treatment plant was able to complete the project, and i wanted to mention that because the timely completion was required to bring back the plan to its full capacity prior to the hetch hetchy shutdown that began on december 5. that required a lot of hard work from our contractor and operations staff, so they are to be commended. the other good news is that last friday, we reached substantial completion on bay division pipeline 5. considering the number of challenges that were associated with installing a pipeline in an urban area like that, we are very glad to have that project behind us and only have minor restoration work left to do. wanted to touch on on

president moran: ok, thank you. again, we're not on the rate item yet. >> i am from the san francisco green party. i wanted to reiterate what the fairness board said, which is that to the extent that we are strategic about how we do the rate increases, even though that is, you know, the next item, to the extent that we make sure that we are, as with the previous item that you discussed, really focusing our resources as we raise the rates on making sure that a good solid build-out under cca and under other programs happens in san francisco, especially city buildings, school buildings, hospitals buildings, making sure that energy efficiency installations go in. so that at the same time we're raising rates, we're also lowering costs so that we can work this out. and if we do not make this an across-the-board rate increase, that will be easier as well. we need to be very strategic about how we do this process. president moran: ok, thank you, and i trust that you'll be here when the rate item is before us. >> will hold m

. ♪ commissioner moran: good afternoon.ld like to call the december meeting of the public utilities commission to order. mr. secretary, could you call the roll? >> [roll call] i might note that commissioner courtney's arrival is delayed, but he is expected, and commissioner caen is excused from this afternoon's meeting. commissioner moran: thank you, and apologies to folks, we needed to meet early, but then we found out that we ran into difficulties getting us all at the getting us all here at the same time. i appreciate your patience and willingness of the commission to come in earlier than we normally do. we have before us the members -- the minutes of november 29 -- >> i believe it is november 8. commissioner moran: says here november 9. >> there was a typo on the earlier draft. it is the minutes of november 8. commissioner moran: ok, then on the minutes from the meeting of november 8. could i have a motion? thank you, without objection, that is passed. public comment. this is the time for, by any member of the public on

president moran: we will now president moran: we took no action during closed session. all those in favor? it carries. any other new business? seeing none, this meeting is adjourned. >> good morning, everyone. i'm jennifer mats. i'm director of the mayor's office of economic and work force development. i'd like to welcome you here this morning to the grand opening of pearls and for announcement regarding our community ambassador program here on central market as well as some increased public safety measures. without further ado, i'm going to introduce mayor ed lee and then a few other speakers to talk about the initiatives and talk about pearl. so mayor lee? >> thank you. thanks, jennifer. >> good morning, everybody. can everybody hear me? all right. well thank you, everyone, for coming to the new pearls delux burger here at sixth and market. thank you. [applause] i want to thank silvia, the owner. jim is the manager here. thank you for managing this place. and also congratulate all 16 permanent employees who have just started here today. that's been a theme of ours. i

president moran: we are back in session. we have a draft and that the city attorney has been able to review. if i could have somebody read it. >> i will read it. whereas -- and i am not exactly sure, i guess it should be inserted after the fourth whereas on page 8. does that make sense? >> it is shirley page to, but it is really page 8. -- is really page two, but it is really page 8. >> after achieving this city because the goals -- city's goals. the puc reaffirms its commitment to pursue the local who billed out component of -- local buildout component of the cca. and whereas the puc anticipates the immediate commencement of the local buildout. once the have completed their scope of work, sufficient revenues are identified, the sfpuc considers the environmental analysis of any physical impact of the local bellout -- buildout program, and approves the budget and timeline for the local buildout. president moran: any questions from the commission on that language? >> second. president moran: procedurally, we don't have anythin

president moran: any other public comment? if not, we will take a five- minute break and reconvene at 20 after. president moran: we are back, the public utilities commission is back in session. >> discussion and possible action for the water enterprise water system improvement program habitat restoration to the lowest qualified and responsible bidder. >> thank you, commissioners. do you need a presentation? >> i would like to move item number 11. >> motion and the second. no speaker cards. any discussion? commissioner caen, we have called, moved, seconded item 11. >> without me? >> here is your chance if you have questions. commissioner caen: actually, i do. i am fascinated. this bid that came in at $448,000. president moran: they really wanted the business, didn't they. we have no public comment. all those infavor? opposed? the motion carries. next item, please. >> item 12. enforcement program for california renewable energy resources back to workshop at the discussion. it will be a discussion for sbx1-2, the california renew

congratulations, president moran. i am going to give you a brief 10-minute update on the sewer system improvement program, highlighting the program management activity. can you bring these lights up? the agenda for today is just to talk about the status the when i last saw you, we were bringing the program manager on. i want to talk about the activities we're moving forward with, highlight the tasks, talk about schedules and future times you're going to see us that the commission. we have been conducting a full immersion and process to get our consultants up to speed on all the waste water activities, taking them on taurus out to the plant, taking them through the technical information. we have been joined in our office by about 14 folks, combining up with our 11 program management step that we have at our city staff. we also bring out our watershed folks. shown in the picture, we have tommy and myself, taking some of our program managers and consultants out to see general tunnel and southeast plant. two the folks tha

commissioner moran: thank you. commissioners? -- >> thank you. commissioners? commissioner moran: thank you, steve. public comment on that report? thank you. that is the end of the general managers' report? thank you. the next item is the report from the area water supply conservation agency. >> brief comment on steve's report. your staff has kept me informed on the main break. we have received calls from interested officials. i'm pleased to report that we have told them you guys are doing a good job. julie mentioned the letter we sent to ed and the commission, and i wanted to go over briefly a report that i gave to our board of directors just a couple of weeks ago. so you will see the flavor of how we approach looking at the way you are managing the program and the concerns and questions we have. i will refer -- mike, if you could use the overhead projector. these are slides from that report. first, we look at a comparison of the projects and programs status relative to the budgets and schedules the commission adopted back in july of this year. we cite simple

commissioner moran: thank you. any additional commission questions or comments? we have a public comment. >> nothing like putting sewage on the agenda. i am from clean water action. as a very interested in this. i have been waiting for the watershed framework. i am very excited about the watershed characterization. i have about 20 community members who were very interested in seeing how this is going to proceed and how they can participate. so i look forward to working with staff. i have already had someone from the neighborhood e-mail in me about the bayside improvement project, a community benefit. i am not exactly sure what that is, but i promised i would get back to her. >> i would be happy to talk about that. as you know, the commission has developed a community benefits policy, and it says they should be involved in the community and all the things we do. we're now extended that to our contracts. professional services contracts on the entire sewer system to permit program had an item saying what you'll do in terms of community benefits. do you intend to use

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president moran: any thoughts before we take additional public testimony? do we have public comment? hong >> i have no speaker cards although i am sure there are public speakers here. >> good afternoon, commissioners. and the confirmation program director for the sierra club. i what commissioner torres: to thank -- i want to thank commissioner torres for hitting the nail on the head. while we want to move quickly to ratepayers, i think that the long-term success of this program is contingent on the fact that we are able to produce our own local energy and guarantee rates. in order to do that, the scope of work could really inform the process here. if we are bent on moving forward with a contract, i think that as an amendment, it could capture this. something like the final approval is conditioned upon including rates that reflect the planned and the

president moran: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. eric brooks, representing san francisco green party and the grass-roots organization our city. i want to concur with all the speakers, and add a little more to that. i am involved with various grass-roots organizations in the city. everyone of them i know of, and every grassroots and neighborhood organization involved in parks that i know of, is utterly outraged with the behavior of rec and park right now. rec and park has spent many years privatizing, raising funds, bringing in restaurant chains, and turning -- aiming at turning our public spaces that are free and open to the public for general use without cost into a virtual -- into a proto disneyland. that is not what the people of san francisco want to happen to our public spaces. we want to reverse privatization and defend the public use of spices. because the sfpuc has a long history with had ceci -- hetch hetchy, you understand the importance of watersheds and habitats at a place like lake merced. these places are primarily wat

president moran: what would be your recommendation? i am not sure how this fits in with someone else's schedule and how destructive this is to other things going on and whether or not we need to resolve these issues before the budget is adopted next year. >> from a budget perspective, unless something dramatically different islam to be happening , and even then, if you had a discussion in february or march, we would have plenty of time to fix that, unless you're planning on spending in billions of dollars next year. practically speaking, from a staff point of view, we can talk about making it clearer. right now, it says the sfpuc has ultimate authority, however, we are authorizing rec and park to be responsible for some portions. if the question is, does the puc believe it should be in charge of the boat house and the activities out of there, that is a larger discussion that we can work on. but it is a policy decision that will not be done by staff. we can bring options and back to you in the morning and you can talk about it or you ca

president moran: we need to have public comment. and then i would entertain a break for about five minutes. mr. brooks. >> good afternoon. eric brooks, representing the sand for cisco green party. -- representing the san francisco green party. talking about the build out fo a clean power csf, -- for clean power sf, when we met with south, we said we would step up to the play to help fight for these increases in. not only because of some kind of cynical tit-for-tat, but because getting renewable energy in the city, getting cca to work properly, is dependent on making sure we are paying cost. conserving electricity is less dependent on getting people to pay real costs for electricity. we have done that on water for decades. we need to do it with electricity. the other key reason that we, as advocates, are ready to step up, and we want to make sure we can step up, is to make sure that the task order for the scoping for the build out of work is fully engaged within the next couple of days so that we are under way. fully fleshing out all

president moran: we are back in session. we have a draft and that the city attorney has been able to review. if i could have somebody read it. >> i will read it. whereas -- and i am not exactly sure, i guess it should be inserted after the fourth whereas on page 8. does that make sense? >> it is shirley page to, but it is really page 8. -- is really page two, but it is really page 8. >> after achieving this city because the goals --

president moran: and the roads? >> we would be working with dpw on that. we probably have some responsibility for the roadways in the park. it is a short stretch. >> the money for rec and park is generally for gardeners working in the natural area. >> gardeners, and then the overall area. they tend to stay away from the natural area. >> but the area around the lake. president moran: who is paying for that currently? commissioner vietor: 4 the road maintenance? >> we give that to rec and park. it is for trash pickup. commissioner vietor: and the road maintenance is currently were ordered to dpw? >> again, the primary road is harding road itself. i am not familiar with how anything has been done there. it may have been done as part of the golf course improvements. president moran: it would certainly be more comfortable if it was clearer who is responsible for funding what kind of activities. it bothers me somewhat that we are funding the boathouse improvements, but have no responsibility for it in general. if things were to get better, we would have no acces

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