is that the california puc? >> yes. >> president caen: ok. so i mean, what i'm seeing is they raised the rates and then we have to compensate to keep our rates lower. so this might be a wonderful ploy on their part to continue the squeeze. am i wrong in this assumption? >> well, they are bound by the rules that are in place. there is a proceeding that takes place at the california puc that develops facts to support a decision that the california puc will ultimately vote out and the city, along with other communities that have programs are active participants. the pcia calculation, as it is now, is fairly form you layic. you might recall last year in october are there was a big question that the puv issued we had a lot of discussion about its painful impacts to the cca model. that decision laid out revised method ole good eveninmethodoloe the -- they need to follow the guidelines. i think what the city is doing along with other ccas is advocate. they're considering additional reforms. one of the important areas is to make sure the energy that

and the head of the water enterprise of the puc. final presentation of study to the board on june 30th, 2021. as we do the annual reports that this resolution requires, we'll include updates on this study. also june 30, 2021, complete a more-day-old analysis of emergency firefighting water needs by neighborhood. so the firefighte puc will comps analysis and this was underway when the civil grand jury started talking to us which is why the civil grand jury noted to continue this work, to keep it going. so this will be updated on an updated ignition model is one of the things i talked about earlier is this model that we have that, basically, models where fires will break out after a 7.8 earthquake and that's based on building types, density types, street widths, amounts of fuel, basically, within each district. one of the things we needed to do, that was done in 2010. the city has changed a lot since 2010 and continuing to change as it goes forward, especially in the south and southeast parts of the city. in 2010, district ten looked

i'm with the puc. it looks like the computer turned off and there it is. got it. thanks, everybody. so john scarpula with puc and i'm joined by my colleague, sarah minnick, the manager and director of our green infrastructure program and she'll be talking, as well, today. so quickly, the puc properties within the city, where there's trees and lake merced area and it's managed via an mou by rec park but we work closely with them. the lumbar reservoir lands in district two and the oceanaci track making its way towards gullen park and sunset reservoir in d4 and twin digs reservoir and sutro reservoir. most know where the first four are located and for the next four, just want to orient everybody. laguna honda is along the l laga reservoir and that's 28 acres and that's one of the bigger areas. also, sutra reservoir, across from the claretin elementary. and on the hill there, very close to number four which is between peaks and i wanted to orient folks because not everyone knows where they are. so it's a much smaller number of trees, 131,000 from rec park and we have approximately 4,000

we must report our compliance to the california puc. our compliance report for the 2020-2022 timeframe is due to the puc on october 31. how do we go about our efforts to comply? we conducted conducted solicitations i would participated in solicitations that others held like utilities and other ccas. they put out multiple solicitations our self, since april, for resource adequacy products. we execute contracts with several suppliers as a result of those efforts. but still did not have enough supply under contract to meet our requirements for this time. we also participated in pg&e's 2019 multiyear solicitation that was issued in july 2019. pg&e holds at most, if not all come of the remaining market supply. they had most of the customers, so it made sense that they had most of the supply as customers moved over and enrolled in other programs like our cleanpowersf program. now we need to move those products over to. they submitted a bid on august 6, we were short lifted in that solicitation. this is a time sensitive transaction. the genera

of course at the puc we recommend that you store our wonderful delicious tap water. it's free. it comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean plastic container for up to 6 months. so find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. i use it to water my garden. >> of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. >> yes. it's an easy way to pick up bottles to store it. just make sure you check the label. this one says june 2013. so convenient you have an end date on it. >> and there are other places where people have water stored in their houses. >> sure. if you have a water heater or access to the water heater to your house, you can drink that water and you can also drink the water that the in the tank of your toilet. ; not the bowl but in your tank. in any case if you are not totally sure about the age of your water or if you are not sure about it being totally clean, you can treat your water at home. there is two ways that you can treat your water at home and one is

lastly, i hope you're having conversations with the california puc to talk about uber and lyft. when i see reduced car use, better transit equals less uber and lyft use and i think that if you can have some say with the california puc to let us regulate that in an urban city, that is dedicated billions of taxpayer dollars to a transportation infrastructure and that would be icing on the cake. thank you. >> before miss selby is given an opportunity to respond, i want to apologize to mr. cohen for calling him mr. allen, my apologizes. thea? >> thank you for that and i would be happy to have mr. cohen stewart talking about the one-cent sales tax. the voices for public transportation has no interest in that being the primary revenue source and i want to be clear about that. but i wanted to address the other things about the west side, un-equity, getting people in san francisco around san francisco. a lot of problems are stemming from 40% of our carbon emissions are from cars and trucks. muni says .1% which i have a hard time believing but let's say between 1% and 2%. were that means

powered by the sf puc. >> all we can do is prepare and try to repair this work as fast as possible. we sent crews out there, diagnose the problems. unfortunately, that is just the nature of what it is like out there. >> it is a reality that will hit the bottom line of business is like merce. >> it is a problem for the bottom line, we rely on electric and water. without the gas on the island it is really important we get the power issue sorted. >> reporter: we asked the sf puc if they planned to offer rebates to the customers for all of these outages that have been adding up here on the island over the years. not just this year alone. the spokesperson, the press secretary said they would look into it. ken, veronica? >> we appreciate it. >>> check out this dramatic crash on highway 101 in south san francisco, a car nearly hits a man on the shoulder, it all starts with the car hit the center median and flew across all of those lanes before slamming into another car. the man was there, fixing his car on the side of the road. he was obviously just inches from serious injury, maybe even d

betsy laupa communications at p puc. a number of other staff have contributed to this as well and we look to coordination with our agency partners around this map as we move forward. with that, that concludes our presentation. we're happy to take questions now or later, whichever is your preference. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you very much. directors, any questions for our presenters on the map or for director mcguire on the overall director's report. >> when is the map going to be live? >> so they are live today. you can find the link directly on a blog post that will be going out on moving sf this afternoon. additionally, we're putting out an faq that will refresh the resource as we get more common questions from people. >> i hope we do a more robust social media campaign because a lot of people would love to get this out there. if we can get it out there broadly, it will make people feel less frustrated and how they get around the city. >> we will be posting on facebook and twitter, so i encourage you t

it is truefor the last 15 years the puc has beenco-oped and not concerned about safety.ow we were and enwhat ha instead of trimming the trees and doing the right things, pg&e, 15 years ago, they chose bankruptcy to get out from under california's control. and now remember they chose >> and we are seeing san francisco has been flirting with municipal powers for a long time and mayor london breed was not one that signed that letter and they would set off. d how is it that those bears are proposing others than what san francisco is talking about? >> on the basis, the idea is taking away sort of the grid and the delivery system from pg&e. and making it either a co-op oro rnment entity, arguably similar things. i think the challenge for san francisco is that taking away the san francisco part of the grid doesn't realdress the underlining problems. but we are talking about our rural areas, where th transmission lines, they have been kept and where there are tree issues and they have t started in urban areas. so i will have a hard time believing that regulators are even going t

what are they going to purchase from the puc? to balance out that projection and how they are going to meet those water supplies in the future. and then reliability. and this is continuing to become even more critical, in my mind, at least, as we start to look at the service area, you know, that today has a residential use of 62 the billions per person per day, and that is going to go down on a per person basis as they continue to use less, reliability becomes more important, how much can they cut back in the future and how du that inform our ability and willingness to make decisions about investments? is it critical component. so this is a slide from former studies done in 2015 about what the reliability question was and our demand study as we look at those slides to come up with new numbers, and that will inform boast our interest in working with you on your reliability for your supply, so how much the puc is going to meet its 20 percent system-wide cutback limitations and do the agencies themselves want to invest separately. a

puc look into weather pg&e and other utilities followed regulations when it turned off power. utilities shut power to prevent electric lines from sparking a wildfire during extreme wind and extreme fire conditions. that move led to criticism about communication and how that shutoff was handled. >> i think the puc is doing the right thing to open up an investigation about these massive shutoffs because when the cpuc first approved them, they approved them as a last resort. >> pg&e says that the company has received feedback and is working to implement them in future shutoffs. >>> the search continues for armed robbers who shot a young man twice just to get a necklace. this is video of the robbery in progress earlier this month. we obtained the video just today. you can see several men with guns drawn in the middle of the street. it happened in the usually quiet neighborhood of east san jose.a very latest. robert, what do we know? >> well, as you can imagine, it can be quite jarring to see a group of men charging, brandishing guns. and even though they got away, people here say

a six inch line and eight inch line also broke in this area, although puc is telling us it's probably directly related to this break after this broke, it caused those lines also to be damaged and to open up. it sent a flood of water on to northbound lanes of highway 101 causing traffic to be routed to i-280 around withstanding water for a short period of time. we have the jackhammers fired up now doing a little more work. another water line opened up in chinatown, not a line break, that caused some damage to the roadway there stopping cable car service and causing a lot of damage to the street itself. we understand that repairs have been made there. i was there a short time ago and sounded like it sounds here. they had the jack hhammers out, heavy equipment in chinatown. they did repair that and we are being told that cable car service will not be affected later this morning. as far as what caused so many lines to open up, looked like it was just this one main line that broke, causing damage to two more lines in this area, and then the leak in chinatown, unrelated to this. the main po

a six inch line and an eight inch line were also affected by this, according to san francisco puc. we're not sure if the lines broke or backed up, but there was some minor flooding there as well as nearby streets. the water ran on to northbound lanes of highway 101 causing traffic to be routed around that standi ing water and up on highy 280, the highway is back open this morning. another water line the san francisco pu krurc is calling a opened up a sizeable fish uat mason and jackson streets in chinatown, shutting down cable car service for a while. repairs were completed there a short time ago, and it looks like the cable car service will be running in that part of chinatown back up again. no word yet what caused this break, but the focus right now is to make sure they get these repairs made, get the street fixed so they can return service and get the road back open again. it is closed at the bottom of the hill here. we're live in san francisco, thom jensen, "today in the bay." >> thom, thank you. >>> investigators are looking into yet another case of something being thrown or s

public works and public-health the puc mta the planning department the department of technology and we've all sort of reviewed what 5g might look like going forward. and it has a different form factor. >> you can't just flip a switch and converting it, is it administrative or is there a permit process involved? >> well, that's a complicated question. the answer to that question is complicated by the action the board of supervisors took recently where this type of facility would no longer require a permit regardless of whether it's 4g or 5g. >> the people involved should contact their legislators if they want a voice in this? >> agreed. >> last question, are you the only person that responds or is there a team and when you are out of town or on vacation, is there an out of town or vacation message? >> i wonder if i can table that. i did want to respond that if a carrier wanted to upgrade a site -- even if it's not a 4g to 5g or it's an upgrade or change in the way the site operates, we would have to have an additional review by public-health. even if no other permits are actually required.

powered by the sf puc. press secretary will richmond said the lights will continue to go out for another year and a half until construction is complete. pg&e is refunding the customers for the time that they lost power. you guys have plans to do the same? >> cost $250 to refill. understand that, have not heard any plans about that, we can check, that someday we can obviously check moving forward. now in the past two years the past few businesses have relocated here to treasure island seeking lower rent in the case of some restaurants, seeking to cash in it when rita veltman finally heads. we'll take a look at what all these power outages mean for their bottom line tonight on kpix 5 news and 7 live on treasure island, andria borba. >>> new at 6 a legal showdown between a napa grape grower and pg&e, this is over part of a vineyard that has been in his family for generations. john ramose on the farmer who is hoping for a miracle. >> reporter: this property is a part of the cook vineyards, but it's also a part

. >> reporter: just over my shoulder is the san francisco puc building it is very green. for years they have been taking their wastewater, all of their wastewater, and recycling it for things like flushing the toilet. today, i am going to drink that water. >> everything that is connected in this room to the transparent pipe is a part of our research project. >> reporter: down in the bowels of this building that houses some 900 employees will find a set some that treats all of their. it's all beginning a first watch wash through the buildings engineered wetland system, you can see that in the lobby, now, that water is getting carried over the threshold of drinkable. >> will we start with is the recycled water. that is the water that comes into the system. then we put it through ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis that is our second and major step. finally, we put it through our uv disinfection. >> reporter: resulting water isn't just tested for safety they record everything that comes out. and the water is so stripped- down by the time that they are done, it would need min

morning executives from at&t, time warner, comcast, t-mobile and verizon wireless will appear at a state puc hearing on how they handled operations at recent state shutoffs and fires. we will send out push alerts when pg&e decides when and where they will be shutting off power. >>> the city of orinda voted to change its short-term rental laws. the ordinance comes after five people were shot and killed at a halloween party hosted a the an airbnb. last night a 45 day emergency ordinance was passed. that bans non-hosted short-term rentals in orinda. it requires a two-day minimum stay with the owner of the property. people against this are calling the changes arbitrary and unfair. >> i have an objection that a host would stay in the same structure as their guests. i think that objectionable to most people. >> having the host on the property is beneficial because it's helping control what's going on with the rental. >> the ordinance takes effect immediately. it expires in 45 days but city leaders can extend it for two years. >>> this morning all eyes are on a critical witness in the impeachment i

. >> reporter: officials say the puc will determine if customers can remain whole.r now, this is a half-million dollars as a way to address an ongoing crisis while laying a foundation for taxpayer owned utilities. >> this is abou need to make to be more resilient for the future and there are a lot of investments we need to make. this money would be very welcome. >> reporter: state senator jim bellis has a task force will take up the question of fire safety and pg&e reimbursement to customers starting november 18. here in san jose city staff will provide new information and cost structure to the mayor's bid to build micro grids in the city. that will take place next week. >>> today governor gavin newsom said a state takeover of pg&e is one possible ability as it looks toward the utility emergent from bankruptcy. >> we cannot wait until june 30 of next year. we need to get these cases settled, we need to address these concerns in real time and prepare for the next wildfire season, as we are concurrently addr ps ps protocols. >> the governor is calling all sides of the

to testify as well while calling it all the democrats either way it's getting the washington press puc fired up. president's own pentagon and his own security staff detailed a plot to extort forno to cheat in the reelection campaign the worst day with the most damning evidence for president trump in the impeachment inquiry that was driven by the president's personal political error and his interests. as the hearing heads to the next stage former u.s. congressman roll the poll thinks that what's happening right now is not proving positive for either the republicans or democrats i've always said that when you want to tell the truth in an amp hour it becomes treasonous and i think a lot of what we're doing our government is doing right now it's all fake as lot of the lying and innuendos trying to figure out what's going on but i don't think it's been very positive for republicans or democrats and i think so unnecessary i think it's actually what they're doing is they're distracting from some of the problems that i think they should be dealing with as most people now understand exactly wha

. >>> today the state puc voted unanimously to investigate pg&e's recent power outages. the investigation will look at pg&e and other utilities to determine whether they complied with requirements around the safety shutoff. pg&e, as you recalled, turned off power lines in high winds and extreme fire conditions to prevent fires from sparking. but there was a lot of criticism about the communication and how the plan was implemented. the executive director of the utility reform network agrees with this probe. >> when the cpuc first approved them, they approved them as a last resort. and when you shut off 2.5, 3 million people, that sure don't feel like a last resort to me. >> governor gavin newsom was also called for total reform here. dependenting on the outcome of the investigation, there could be an enforcement phase as well. >>> well, san francisco elected a new district attorney, but chesa boudin won't take office for several weeks. instead, suzy loftus will serve as interim d.a. through january 8. loftin conceded to boudin over the weekend following boudin's razor-thi

the department of city planning, the department of building inspection, puc, public works, infrastructure design and construction and traffic a public hearing for the project. order 201836 to consider approval of the tentative map. kept 27 we granted the map approval on october and it brings us here today and if the board as any questions about the map. >> seeing none. let's continue with the next person. >> good afternoon president yee. i'm here today with other planning department staff to address the e.i.r. certification appeal for the 3333 california street project. the planning commission searched by the final e.i.r. on septembe. finding that the e.i.r.'s adequate objective and complies with the california environmental quality act where ceqa, the ceqa guidelines and the chapter 31 of the san francisco administrative code to the extent that issues in appeals of the conditional use authorization tentative map decisions are environmental issues they're addressing in the department's ceqa appeal response. the ceqa appeal including the november 7th and november 12th supplemental letters

. >> reporter: sending a letter to gavin newsom and the puc signed by a dozen political leaders saying pg&e should be turned into a customer-owned utility. >> we need a utility that's going to emerge from this bankruptcy process, that is able to deliver safely and reliablely to our residents. >> power is too valuable and critical a resource for people to have it be influenced by investor decisions. >> reporter: they want to chaung pg&e into a cooperative, pooling their city's collective resources to take over the utility. but pg&e has been quick to dismiss the idea releasing a statement saying, quote, we study and analyze each proposal. however, pg&e's facilities are not for sale, and changing the structure of the company would not create a safer operation. >> now, mayor la car doe admitted tls cost billions of dollars and take a lot of work going forward but having the support others makes it possible. >> thank you, scott. >>> wild animals turning up dead. this deer was found on the walkway of a home last week. some people think rat poison is to blame. nbc bay area marianne favro join

. >> reporter: officials say the puc will determine if customers can be made whole.tility emerges from bankruptcy proceedings. right now the half $1 million is a way to address the ongoing crisis, while laying a foundation for a taxpayer owned utility. >> there are a lot of investments we need to make. >> reporter: one senator says a task force will take up the question of fire safety and pg&e reimbursement. it's customers starting on november 18. here in san jose city staff will provide new information and structure for the mayor's big to build micro grid in the city. that will take place next week. >>> governor gavin newsom said the state takeover pg&e is one possibility as the utility works to emerge from bankruptcy. >> we cannot wait until june 30 of next year. we need to get these cases settled. we need to address these concerns in real time and we need to prepare for the next wildfire season. as we are concurrently addressing the ps protocols. >>> the governor says he's calling on all sides in the bankruptcy case. to come to a meeting early next week. he wants

. >> reporter: officials say the puc will determine if customers can be made whole. for now, the half-million dollars is a way to address and ongoing crisis while laying a foundation for a taxpayer owned utility.>> this is about investments we make being more resilient for the future. this money will be very welcome. >> reporter: senator bell says a state task force will take up the question of fire safety and pg&e reimbursements to customers starting on november 18 and next week, here at city hall, more information and cost analysis of the mayor's goal of setting up a micro grid in the city. we are live outside city hall, jesse gary. back to you. >>> still to come here, the democratic presidential field is shrinking, beto o'rourke announces he is dropping out of the race. >>> tuesday is election day and san francisco people will be voting for a mayor. hear from some of the candidates about their priorities. >>> temperatures around the bay area this afternoon in the 70s after a very cold start to the day. i will have a look at what you can expect tomorrow morning and

that's going to be along with the puc. so lots of conversations happening, but cyndy is shepherding because ultimately in november we need our new climate action strategy to be adopted, and that's a city wide strategy that needs to have encompassed that feedback. and as i said earlier, we do that attempt that we find opportunities to take action as we go along, building code, let's lead by example in municipal. let's get to electric preferred and send signals that we are serious about going further. i would like to also say that we had a really wonderful hearing on urban forestry between -- two hearings in front of the board of supervisors. one on biodiversity and one on urban forestry. and what is so important about that is when we talk about our climate action strategy, 08100, this is a way to focus on roots explicitly and the board heard loud and clear if need for additional resources and the need for city agencies to work with them and the department was part of both -- central to those conversations. and finally, i wo

so today, we're here at this commission to hear a presentation by the puc and the fire department about how they'll address the issue by the year 2034. and it's really not enough. and if we talk about how we're going to fight it with water to raise the temperatures to bring the temperature employee tempere making about golden gate park being fuel. if we try to figure out where we're going to get the water from and if the water system for the efws is so much better than it needs to be extended sooner than 2034. and an in effort to do this, the source of water that is most apparent is the pacific ocean and the bay. that's limitless. we might lose a few fish trying to take care of this and we have to have fish experts to advice us but that's better than losing thousands of homes. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who want to speak on this item before i close public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor marr? >> thank you. actually, i wanted to thank all community members that spoke out today during public comment. (please stand by).

. >> and so the goal at this point, at least in terms of street trees, not including parks or puc or any of that but in terms of street trees, the idea would be and probably, you know, since we're losing ground, there might be 40,000 opportunity sites and something like that is what we were trying to find. >> the idea is we want to fully stock our streets and that's a number that we have to go ground truth, actually. when we did the survey, we didn't look at one part of the city where the potential planting sites were. so we had 40,000 without that part of the city and so, i've a little debate with public works and i think 40 is possible. but they know that we get disallowed with a lot of trees because of underground utilities. >> that's a maximum of what might be possible on the streets. >> yes. >> but there are other place. >> and that's a lot of money. >> because 40,000 trees -- >> times $2,000 per tree. >> which turns into something like $80 million. >> but we were doing that over 20 years. >> ok. so for our $5 million a year, more than that. >> yes. they'll come back with the nu