so is there a way that we can start a conversation with the puc to encumber additional money back in drawdownsimilar to the way this was done in 2005 ? and would you be open tohaving that conversation ? you can lead the conversation on behalf of the board or it seems to me as though since you have a history with the community choice aggregation, you have the relationship and oversight over lafco, i'm happy to work with you on that but it seems like we need to have a newconversation with the puc about if this is mandated and it has to be funded one way or the other , the puc can spare that agency. what is your thought on that? >> supervisor safai, is that directed towards me or the chair ? okay. very specifically for the oversight on the community trans aggregation, clean power sf, puc, conversation we can certainly area it's important for lafco to figure out what scope of interest securities they are interested in and that we can do with the lafco, certainly. that is all that those fundings would be able to cover so if lafco is working on other item , that's still going to be a quest

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originally we thought the puc owned central shops property. when the wastewater enterprise we thought it included the location it did not so we had to purchase that so that was and the system. >> that's helpful to remind us. thank you. >> so we have to purchase that spot and did we have to move anyone else and build other facilities? >> we also got the asphalt -- we had to get the asphalt plant site cell. so it isn't until after the new digester facility is up, we can look if we demolish shows and what do we do with that space? >> i have one other question president maxwell. so, i was wondering, i was surprised to see the energy recovery was eliminated from this project so the long-term saving of that was not covering capital costs or i'm just trying to better understand the logic. i know there was some explanation in the documents on sort of relying on natural gas and trying sort of switch to the way we want to do this. >> so i do have the project manager, caro line chiu who can speak on the energy recovery a little bit more and hopefully ans

the power generation issue that we're having will be looked at by the puc. in this sort of emergency situation, they're not even allowed to be in a room together unless they are having a public hearing. they can't work these problems out. having those separations just really is part of the problem. there's power and gas all under the same umbrella. there's a lot that's wrong with our system. there's a lot of trickery involved like trying to hide from people the name of the agency that regulates oil and gas in the state and it's really all due to republicans just basically playing games with voters because they just haven't been held accountable for the last couple of decades now. >> richard parker, you have president biden who is sending help to the state. he is doing the emergency declaration. he's doing what he can do. texas, as we talked about in the previous segment is kind of generous. it's self-contained. it's created itself as the republic of texas where they regulate themselves. this is a issue about climate change as much as anything else and the le

a puc vote is expected in april. if approved pge will have to submit progress reports every 90 days and will have 20 days to come up with a corrective action plan. in a statement they said the company has and will continue on its plan and will promptly prepare corrective action plan with clear time lines and commitments. that's not pge's only problem. sonoma prosecutors served the company with a search warrant as part of a criminal investigation into the kincaid fire. in an sec filing pge warned investors it could be on the hook for $625 million in property damage and other things. >>> let's look at your forecast if you are just waking up with us. >>> good morning. it's a chilly start, down to the 30s and 40s, much colder compared to yesterday morning. here is a live look with our sales force tower camera as we look east. you see temps down to the 30s and 40s. 42 concord, 47 oakland and san francisco, 37 livermore, 43 san jose, 38 for santa rosa with clear skies and light conditions out there. 24 hour temperature cha

. >> this is the meeting of the san francisco puc commission. i'm president maxwell. madame secretary, will you take the roll, please. >> president maxwell: here. >> vice president moran: here. commissioner paulson will be arriving later. >> commissioner harrington: here. >> commissioner ajami: here. >> we have a quorum. before we start, madame president, due to the covid-19 health emergency and given the public health recommendations issued by the san francisco department of public health, and given that governor newsome and mayor breed have lifted restrictions on teleconference, this is held via teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. please realize there is a brief delay between the meeting and what is viewed on sfgovtv. i would like to extend our thanks to sfgovtv and puc staff for their assistance during the meeting. if you would like to make public comment, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 146 350 2017 # #. raise your hand to speak, press star 3. please note you must limit to your comments to the topic of the agenda item, unless you're speaking under general

. >> i'm the puc real estate director. thank you for your time this morning. john, could you please move to the map in the presentation? we're here to ask approval of the sale of a land locked agriculture property in alameda county. the puc acquired this 18 months ago when we purchased a very large ranch for watershed purposes. the wool family would not sell the ranch unless we also acquired this 20 odd acre parcel. we have no utility use for the property and indeed, it is a liability that it is difficult to get to to maintain for fire suppression purposes. the property is unapproved except for water, well and septic. it is worth $500,000 appraised on march 25th 2020. the city's director of property approved the appraisal. the east regional park district would like to purchase and incorporate it into the park system and agreed to purchase the property for $500,000. due to the locked nature of the parcel, we did not bid it. we chose to go under an exception stated in section 23.3 of the administrative code that allows the city to convey property if the board of

originally we thought the puc owned central shops property.en the wastewater enterprise we thought it included the location it did not so we had to purchase that so that was and the system. >> that's helpful to remind us. thank you. >> so we have to purchase that spot and did we have to move anyone else and build other facilities? >> we also got the asphalt -- we had to get the asphalt plant site cell. so it isn't until after the new digester facility is up, we can look if we demolish shows and what do we do with that space? >> i have one other question president maxwell. so, i was wondering, i was surprised to see the energy recovery was eliminated from this project so the long-term saving of that was not covering capital costs or i'm just trying to better understand the logic. i know there was some explanation in the documents on sort of relying on natural gas and trying sort of switch to the way we want to do this. >> so i do have the project manager, caro line chiu who can speak on the energy recovery a little bit more and hopefully answer

we recommend to the sf puc that you need to meet the 40% state board requirement on new flows. you are spending a great deal of time and expense trying to figure out how to contribute less water to the system but the state board spent years in study to determine the needed flows for the system to improve. sign said 55% so the 40% the state board came to agreement on is significantly less than what science says you need. now sfpuc and your study is trying to say that the trinity river only fields to contribute half of what the state board is demanding. we think the sfpuc needs to meet 40% unimpaired flow plan date and do habitat restoration you are talking about in the presentation. put those together and you would have a significantly improved delta watershed, improved trinity river watershed and you would make your customers, many of which the fly club which i represent very happy. thank you. >> that concludes comment for item 4. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. before i turn it back over to president maxwell, i want to thank all of the participants today. we don't think

at the same time, the utility is commenting on the recent step by the puc calling for more oversight and perhaps even assuming control of pg&e. an audit found shortfalls in wildfire prevention and recommends possible probation as soon as april. the utility says it's taking corrective action to address issues and they say enhancements are already in progress. >>> the latest person bitten by the same coyote in the east bay is talking about that experience. john stevenson says last week the coyote pounced as he smoked a cigarette near a lafayette convenience store. despite the pain and really the shock, he managed to capture video of the animal as it walked off and says he didn't immediately realize it was a coyote, let alone the one now responsible for five attacks in lafayette and moraga. that animal must be sick or something. >> i don't know. >> yes. >> wow. i'm glad he is okay. >> my gosh. >>> it's friday, y'all, and it's time to get ready for the weekend. something to smile about here. 5:11, meteorologist kari hall has been getting us through the week with the beautiful forecast an

we recommend to the sf puc that you need to meet the 40% state board requirement on new flows. spending a great deal of time and expense trying to figure out how to contribute less water to the system but the state board spent years in study to determine the needed flows for the system to improve. sign said 55% so the 40% the state board came to agreement on is significantly less than what science says you need. now sfpuc and your study is trying to say that the trinity river only fields to contribute half of what the state board is demanding. we think the sfpuc needs to meet 40% unimpaired flow plan date and do habitat restoration you are talking about in the presentation. put those together and you would have a significantly improved delta watershed, improved trinity river watershed and you would make your customers, many of which the fly club which i represent very happy. thank you. >> that concludes comment for item 4. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. before i turn it back over to president maxwell, i want to thank all of the participants today. we don't think in three

of conservative dems who care more about bipartisanship injustice to torch three qualified women for puc nominees why republicans keep a strict hands-off approach on his white male nominees their base voters will remember. quick comment from you both. >> we read is always doing this, using race as a supposition for qualification of people who should be confirmed. nero tandon should not be confirmed. i sent a letter against her. the reason is because at the center for american progress she made sure that her corporate donors were never talked about badly in the report. when she was a staffer in the middle of a sexual assault allegation she out of the staffer. she's never proven herself to be able to handle a management position. that's why she shouldn't be confirmed so was enjoy really saying is out of line and ridiculous. shannon: quick final word to you. >> i think certainly all of these individuals are running with records and being confirmed or not confirmed based on their records. not a single time his race been brought up but it is about their positions, their policies and what was

come with the police and gatineau said they didn't have to follow public health laws because it was a pucemergency. so just to show you how serious they are about stopping covid, the gatineau police were willing to spread covid themselves. the so-called liberal party didn't have a problem with any of this and neither did the supposedly prime minister. and not just canada. the entire atmosphere towards authoritarianism. the free u.k. last week and a group of people and west midlands created a an authority leader described as and if you have kids you want one because this could be shouting "makeshift club with a bar vip area with a dance dj." he has, a dj so naturally the authorities spring into action with thermal imaging helicopter that kick down doors. it was a threat worse than isis and they acted like it. [screaming] >> freeze! >> police! it's not a joke, it's not a joke, it's not a joke! >> stand there! everybody get down! everybody stay calm and stay where you are! >> tucker: so we see what is happening in the anglosphere? no if only. a similar scene in medford this year. you see the

long-term you have to find out why the puc, public utility commission, a three-member commission appointedthe governor and ercot did not make the investment and the requirement of utilities to have reliability of power sources through this emergency. through this disaster. >> harris: look, you know, if democrats are looking across the aisle and figuring out what would make it worse maybe it's this. migrants are beginning to enter the united states through the state of texas today. today with all that's going on after president biden rolled back the trump administration's remain in mexico policy for those seeking asylum. the very first group of migrants already entered california on friday. congressman arrington, what does this do to your state at this point? >> well, it is insult to injury is what it is at this point. we pay $12 billion annually just in texas, one border state. it is not just the economic cost, it is the fact that our federal government's first and most important job is to protect and consider first the american people. our citizens. we have 25,000 people just in this cara

. >> i'm the puc real estate director. thank you for your time this morning. john, could you please move to the map in the presentation? we're here to ask approval of the sale of a land locked agriculture property in alameda county. the puc acquired this 18 months ago when we purchased a very large ranch for watershed purposes. the wool family would not sell the ranch unless we also acquired this 20 odd acre parcel. we have no utility use for the property and indeed, it is a liability that it is difficult to get to to maintain for fire suppression purposes. the property is unapproved except for water, well and septic. it is worth $500,000 appraised on march 25th 2020. the city's director of property approved the appraisal. the east regional park district would like to purchase and incorporate it into the park system and agreed to purchase the property for $500,000. due to the locked nature of the parcel, we did not bid it. we chose to go under an exception stated in section 23.3 of the administrative code that allows the city to convey property if the board of

in fact the puc not that many years ago simply got rid of their enforcement and regulatory division.itting in west texas right now we have literally volcanos of methane gas spewing from the oil patch out here and the state simply does not have the people and the staff to come out and regulate and control that. so this isn't just an accident. this is a product of our entire political culture that says we don't want regulations. and so as the governor is sitting here in his office offering billion-dollar tax breaks to rocket ship manufacturers and to chip makers to move their businesses down to texas, he's not spending a penny on all of the infrastructure that's needed for all of the people that are coming into this state. so this is only going to get worse unless we get a new form of political leadership that recognizes the realities of the fact that increasingly texas is becoming a failed state. >> ed, you just heard it, we don't want regulations, former governor, former energy secretary rick perry said it during this, texans would rather be cold for a few days than have regulation i

the puc regulates the companies. why were they not ready for record-breaking cold?> it's hard to say they were not ready. the fact of the matter is, you know, there are standards they have to maintain to be part of the electricity equation in texas. >> reporter: if the requirements were met but we're still having rolling blackouts do we need to change the requirements so this doesn't happen again? >> i think it's certainly worth looking into. >> reporter: the rolling blackouts are expected to continue until at least this afternoon and that is going to be a problem because the cities of dallas, fort worth, houston, austin and san antonio, all the major metropolitan areas, aren't expected to get above freezing today. >> omar, thank you for that. for more on what's happening in austin, texas, we're joined by the city's mayor. may mayor adler. i imagine it's all hands on deck for your crew today. what's the situation right now in your city? >> gayle, good morning, it is cold and icy in austin. we have a couple hundred thousand people without power right now. we have fol

similar role in terms of just facilitating not to the extend and clean power sf that's been housed in the puclaying that role. it's to hire a consult apartment consultant whowas an expert to e working group around what a public bank looks like and both the lending priorities and to have the working group run with those ideas, and the spirit of san francisco's values. >> all right. let me ask you another question, who is determining who is on the working group? how are the people selected? >> we are partnering with -- so we're partnering with supervisor walton's office and president walton as president, we're also going to be partnering with supervisor peskin and the chair of the rules committee and there's externally, checking the community working closely with public bank coalition and putting fourth experts if they have in the industry and then also just reaching out to -- there are other public bank coalitions across the state and communication with them around recommendations locally and yeah, really rely on public bank coalition and the expertise that they offer around recommendations to

bond projects, the people working on those projects doing the exact same work as the dpw engineer or puc civil engineer are people who work for acom and parsons and mr. ataliya, as construction managers, etc. they sign something that says yeah, i know all these rules, but they are not in the same category of having to certify that they read the good government code or what have you. anyway, just a thought. if we don't reach out to either the permit expediters, the lobbyists, private sector to get funding or the capital funds which are completely different source, not different in the sense it's all coming out of the people of the city and county of san francisco, ultimately, then i don't have high hopes for getting these additional funds that we need to do the work that we are required to do at best, i think we'll be fortunate if we can stop the blood-letting that is evident from the $734,000 required proposed budget. so anyway, those are my thoughts for the moment and i'm going to turn to any other commissioners who want to comment. i think i see commissioner lee looking for her hand. i

it's only increasing first it was in the building inspection and then it led to the puc on airport commissionand more and more. we have three more comptroller reportscoming out . and i think the federal investigation is ongoing and the other shoe is going to drop or acouple other shoes are going to drop .we need to exclusively say that i think that the wires of corruption have affected san francisco and if left unchecked it's going to spread and intensify like a cancer . on city government and that by refusing or requiring the ethics commission to cut staffing and be gutted i think that what the city is saying is that's okay. because when thechips are down , that's when and everything is online, you have to make the hard choices. what are the choices you're going to make and if the choices are the one organization in the entire city department, the entire city family is tasked with ensuring high standards andethical practices,ethical conduct , transparency and accountability , it's in a time when all that is under fire and multiple instances that has been uncovered byfederal government for wh

it's only increasing first it was in the building inspection and then it led to the puc on airport commissionnd more and more. we have three more comptroller reportscoming out . and i think the federal investigation is ongoing and the other shoe is going to drop or acouple other shoes are going to drop .we need to exclusively say that i think that the wires of corruption have affected san francisco and if left unchecked it's going to spread and intensify like a cancer . on city government and that by refusing or requiring the ethics commission to cut staffing and be gutted i think that what the city is saying is that's okay. because when thechips are down , that's when and everything is online, you have to make the hard choices. what are the choices you're going to make and if the choices are the one organization in the entire city department, the entire city family is tasked with ensuring high standards andethical practices,ethical conduct , transparency and accountability , it's in a time when all that is under fire and multiple instances that has been uncovered byfederal government for whi

it's only increasing first it was in the building inspection and then it led to the puc on airport commissionand more and more. we have three more comptroller reportscoming out . and i think the federal investigation is ongoing and the other shoe is going to drop or acouple other shoes are going to drop .we need to exclusively say that i think that the wires of corruption have affected san francisco and if left unchecked it's going to spread and intensify like a cancer . on city government and that by refusing or requiring the ethics commission to cut staffing and be gutted i think that what the city is saying is that's okay. because when thechips are down , that's when and everything is online, you have to make the hard choices. what are the choices you're going to make and if the choices are the one organization in the entire city department, the entire city family is tasked with ensuring high standards andethical practices,ethical conduct , transparency and accountability , it's in a time when all that is under fire and multiple instances that has been uncovered byfederal government for wh

then we are partnering with planning department, sfmta and the puc on the isthmus creek adaptation strategy. that is a cal tran funded effort, again with a different consultant team. then there are other resilient efforts being taken throughout the port with different leads like the real estate and development divisions effort for the historic pier rehabilitation program. planning and environment plan update. so we're prioritizing equity in the program. we're taking cues from the port commission's adoption of the race equity action plan, phase one of that plan. and trying to bring those values into the program both at the staff level and the consulting level. our focus initially is looking at the many economic opportunities that the program will generate over time as we gear up for proposition a projects in the next set of contract opportunities. we want to take advantage of the time between now and then to work with existing workforce development efforts within the city. some of which have been spearheaded by other departments to prepare san francisco residents, including residents in disa

. >> director heminger: what is the cost-share on this with the puc? >> it varies by item.ly speaking, i think it's between 23 and 25%. >> director heminger: all right. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. directors, any additional questions on these items? seeing none, this is public comment on the consent calendar, for all of those who are seeing the items 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4. please dial 1, 0, to get in the queue on the item. >> secretary: the number to call is 1-888-808-6929. the access code is 9961164. and as the chair stated, dial 1, 0 to be added to the speaker line. this is for items on the consent calendar. >> chair borden: great. are there callers on the line? >> you have four questions remaining. >> this is bob plant. i was in the queue for general public comment and somehow got cut off. again, your system doesn't tell people that they're in the queue. and so that needs to be adjusted. but i'm using general public comment to indicate that i am a representative of and spokesperson for the san francisco action team of the california alliance for retired americ