norby for inspiring us to look at what life would look like. he challenged us to think what would you chart look like. >> and that was helpful and it showed. >> any other comments? >> chairman: perfect. thank you so much, steven. and we are going to go to public comment. >> secretary: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on item number six, the waste water enterprise budget and capital plan, dial (415) 655-0001. to raise your hand to speak, press star three. do we have any callers? >> madam secretary, we have one caller in the queue. caller, go ahead. >> caller: david pillpell. last time today. so very quickly, the reference to debt service for some reason reminded me of former h.t.m. score cards. maybe we can put one of those back and see if that's worth doing again. i would reduce vacant positions and salary savings to make the budget more accurate for all audiences. i'm just wondering how much of the asset management and i.t. support work should be in the enterprises and how much should be in business services

norby for inspiring us to look at what life would look like. he challenged us to think what would you chart look like. >> and that was helpful and it showed. >> any other comments? >> chairman: perfect. thank you so much, steven. and we are going to go to public comment. >> secretary: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on item number six, the waste water enterprise budget and capital plan, dial (415) 655-0001. to raise your hand to speak, press star three. do we have any callers? >> madam secretary, we have one caller in the queue. caller, go ahead. >> caller: david pillpell. last time today. so very quickly, the reference to debt service for some reason reminded me of former h.t.m. score cards. maybe we can put one of those back and see if that's worth doing again. i would reduce vacant positions and salary savings to make the budget more accurate for all audiences. i'm just wondering how much of the asset management and i.t. support work should be in the enterprises and how much should be in business services

norby said projects are above line, we don't have that in our document.ould there be things that aren't the highest priority. i love to see that. go ahead. >> vice president ajami: i think he meant it in the wastewater. [ indiscernible ] >> greg, can you make sure that information is provided to the commissioners? >> yes. >> okay. let's make sure they get that information and to sort of wrap up the discussion, i think that commissioner moran, i think you sort of hit. on the issue that the issue deliverability and the issue of asset management once something comes online really goes to a broader issue that we have. it's not just about money. it's about p.u.c. capability from a resource perspective mostly in terms of us having the abilities that we talked about before the personnel and what not to manage these projects and to deliver them and operate them. which i know that greg has been very clear in discussing with me since i came on board. when charles and laura came to me and they gave us -- to continue on this path, i fully supported this approach. i t

creed professed by the jewish church, by the roman church, the turkish church, the protestant church, norby any church that i know of. my own mind is my own church. this, folks, is almost the dictionary definition of deism, a variety of spiritual belief that was very common in highly educated circles in both britain and america in the 1790s. and it's a type of faith that we now call maybe intelligent design or something like that. edward gibbon, david human and thomas jefferson were also self-declared deists like tom paine. though those other dudes had the good sense to keep quiet about that in public and only announced that fact in private to their highfaluting philosophical friends. but that's not tom paine's style. paine used the pages of "the age of reason" to shout his deism from the rooftops of paris, using his gift for plain-spoken language and poll limb cal turn of phrase to take that gospel to the masses. and he had all too much success. in britain, sales of "the age of reason" part one surpassed all records, in fact, breaking records set by "the rights of man" two years earlier. c

. >> this is greg norby. the item before you is a memorandum of understanding between san francisco public utilities commission and the rec and park department that outlines the two departments obligations and roles and responsibilities for the design and construction and operation and maintenance of a new multibenefit storm water management in the mclaren park setting. the staff report that you have spells out the various details of that agreement. i won't try to go through those. i want to start by anchoring the significance of this project. how green infrastructure fits in that. we know that over time, green infrastructure will play an increasing role for the effective storm water management for the city and that strategy relyings on partnership with large parcels. because we need those types of things to achieve the infrastructure that we're striving for. in the case of rec and park, we have over approximately 4000 acres of land under management across the city. they are one of our most important partners

i am greg norby. assistant general manager of wastewater enterprise. we are responsible for the elements of stormwater management across the city. thank you, chair haney for scheduling the meeting on release of $865,000 on budget and finance committee reserve for the wastewater enterprise flood claims. back to the background on this briefly. in october 2015, at the p.u.c. request, the board of supervisors appropriated $5 million from the wastewater enterprise general reserve to take claims and settlements, legal expenses and related costs from extraordinary expenses incurred as a result of the september 2014 stormy events. in may of 2017, again at the p.u.c. request, the board appropriated another $5 million from the wastewater enterprise general fund reserve due to similar large volume of claims out of events from the 206--- 2016-17 storms. $2 million was of that $5 million was made immediately available. $3 million was placed on budget and finance committee reserve. that is the moneys we are speaking about today on this item. in june of 2020, the com

norby for inspiring us to look at what life would look like. he challenged us to think what would you chart look like. >> and that was helpful and it showed. >> any other comments? >> chairman: perfect. thank you so much, steven. and we are going to go to public comment. >> secretary: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on item number six, the waste water enterprise budget and capital plan, dial (415) 655-0001. to raise your hand to speak, press star three. do we have any callers? >> madam secretary, we have one caller in the queue. caller, go ahead. >> caller: david pillpell. last time today. so very quickly, the reference to debt service for some reason reminded me of former h.t.m. score cards. maybe we can put one of those back and see if that's worth doing again. i would reduce vacant positions and salary savings to make the budget more accurate for all audiences. i'm just wondering how much of the asset management and i.t. support work should be in the enterprises and how much should be in business services

i am greg norby. assistant general manager of wastewater enterprise. we are responsible for the elements of stormwater management across the city. thank you, chair haney for scheduling the meeting on release of $865,000 on budget and finance committee reserve for the wastewater enterprise flood claims. back to the background on this briefly. in october 2015, at the p.u.c. request, the board of supervisors appropriated $5 million from the wastewater enterprise general reserve to take claims and settlements, legal expenses and related costs from extraordinary expenses incurred as a result of the september 2014 stormy events. in may of 2017, again at the p.u.c. request, the board appropriated another $5 million from the wastewater enterprise general fund reserve due to similar large volume of claims out of events from the 206--- 2016-17 storms. $2 million was of that $5 million was made immediately available. $3 million was placed on budget and finance committee reserve. that is the moneys we are speaking about today on this item. in june of 2020, the com

steve ritchie for the water enterprise as well as the hetchy water budget and then wastewater by greg norbyhe 20th, the week after, we have all things power, including clean power. we do have a fourth meeting scheduled if we need it if any run long, on january 27, we have more than enough time to go through the details if needed. we won't hold that meeting if we take everything on the 20th, but it's there as an f.y.i. and approval on the 28th. so at this time i would like to, first of all, just please as a reminder please ask questions as we walk through this. we will of course try to answer your questions as quickly as we can. we plan to create a questions document that will be updated each meeting and we will provide that as an additional document to not only you but the public as well. we will include this q&a tracker as part of the budget approval in february as well. i'm happy to take any questions on context at this time, and if not i'm happy to pass the presentation back to laura to begin reviewing of our operating budget. i'll pause here. >> good morning, everybody. hello, commissio

steve ritchie for the water enterprise as well as the hetchy water budget and then wastewater by greg norby. on the 20th, the week after, we have all things power, including clean power. we do have a fourth meeting scheduled if we need it if any run long, on january 27, we have more than enough time to go through the details if needed. we won't hold that meeting if we take everything on the 20th, but it's there as an f.y.i. and approval on the 28th. so at this time i would like to, first of all, just please as a reminder please ask questions as we walk through this. we will of course try to answer your questions as quickly as we can. we plan to create a questions document that will be updated each meeting and we will provide that as an additional document to not only you but the public as well. we will include this q&a tracker as part of the budget approval in february as well. i'm happy to take any questions on context at this time, and if not i'm happy to pass the presentation back to laura to begin reviewing of our operating budget. i'll pause here. >> good morning, everybody. hello, com