those are my only comments i have a question for the puc to understand his point. mr. flynn is still there. i want to understand the desire for you grace period is because puc is about to issue bids and without the grace period they would not include the social s ip program? do i have that right. wants to issue a bid before the board of supervisors may enact this? i see supervisor peskin shaking his head. so that's fine i wanted to understand the purpose for the grace period was. thank you, everyone. >> commissioner romano. >> sure. i have 3 points or questions. one is technical and i will try to get through that as quickly as possible. i will direct you to the same sentence that we were talking about in on page 3 line 13 on my draft. so -- it said this is the definition of interested party. any party, participate, et cetera and then involved in one, this is what we were talking about with commissioner finlev and online 13 says, and any other gentlemanal decision regarding. i think that, account should be an, or. okay. i will move on quickly to a substantive question/c

puc employees are prohibited director where the money should go. it is voluntary provision and i'll talk about a new idea that came from director pellem and staff how to make that more probust. the commitments become part of the contract and it is up to the puc to enforce those. as you know, the controller office conducted a audit of this program. last year and in some time in december came up with the audit and had 7 recommendations. they really revolved around transparency and enforcement and so we have taken steps to address those . the first thing we did is general manager harrera directed staff to agree to every audit recommendation and to begin to enforce those. that began right away. we recently did the first 6 month update where we are either have completed or in the process of on all 7. let me talk about what those particular things are. on enforcement, it turned out of 8 contracts with a cip, there were 4 or 5 contracts that have gone through the life of the span and the firms had not done the things they committed to do. and there were n

we have margaret from the puc who is going to present on this item. >> good afternoon, can i proceed? >> yes, please do. >> thank you. good afternoon, chair ronen, supervisor safai and supervisor mar are. again, i'm margaret, division manager of hech hetchy water and power. thank you chair ronen for scheduling this hearing of the release of $12 million on budget and finance reserve for the transmission line 7/8 up grade project. as background in january 2013, the board of supervisors approved ordinance 4-13 that authorize spuc to enter into mitigation agreements for projects that impact as spuc power assets and require that any future funds in excess of $100,000 for a given mitigation agreement be placed on budget and finance committee reserve. just to be clear, these are not city general funds or rate payer funds. they are mitigation payments that we are receiving from developers for impacts on our system. the spuc has identified three project clusters, totaling 21 active generation projects that would affect the spuc's transmission line 7 and 8. these transmission lines extend appro

and park, mta, puc, the airport and the port.ve looked at what are those commissions approving and delegating down to the department and also how many contracts do they approve each month? you'll be surprised and public works has far more contracts, so based on that information, the working group developed delegation threshold recommendations, trying to balance competing priorities or goals of having your oversight be meaningful. we don't want you to be bogged down with contract approvals every meeting because it won't help you or department. the department is also worried about the new approval process and how it's going to gum up the works because in construction, time is money and the idea of contracts being approved in batches every two weeks, rather than ongoing on rolling basis is worrisome. all these recommendations for all of these but especially for the contract policy, you can modify the delegation policy at any time you like in the future if it seems like you're seeing too many or too few contracts so we tailored the r

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according to legal documents already made puc made public, federal agents are investigating potential violations of federal law including impeding an investigation, removal of classified national security records and violating parts of the espionage act. >> it seems unlikely that any judge would have issued a warrant for a former president's 's home if it had not been a vey a very strong case. >> reporter: on social media friday, trump insisted that the government had no right to search his residence. we should point out that this investigation began as a result of a national archives search back in 2020, thus resulting in what we ended up seeing a few weeks ago down in mar-a-lago. > >> now that this redacted affidt redacted affidavit is out in the the public, which is what everyone has been asking for, where does the investigation go from here? >> reporter: sure. the feds will will continue to do their work. we know that the trump team is responding as well. a federal court judge has given the presit the president's legal team until until the end of the day to expn to explain why the

and part, port, mta, and puc and the public health department. what are they approving? what are they delegating to the department? and how many contracts do they approve on average each month? so based on that information, the working group delegation threshold recommendation, trying to balance competing priorities. we want your oversight to be meaningful and not da luted by too many items competing for your attention and we want you to talk about things not contract related and from the department's perspective, they're worried about the approval process and the idea of contracts being approved in batches rather than a rolling on going basis is scary. a reminder about all recommendations but especially this one is that the delegation policy can be modified at any time you like in the future if it seems you're seeing too many or too few contracts. so, we tailored the recommendation based on average data but things change over time and the result may not end up matching our database simulation, so i think it's something, you know, you need to see how it goes and then rev

if there is a sink that happen it might be puc responsibility. if there is a tree that falls on federal lands during a big storm it might be our crews that help them because wehave people ready to go. i heard colleagues say before, we are a department that touches every neighborhood. i grew up in the itisy, city and still live here, raising my family here and love going down the street and going anywhere you go sidewalk, street tree, public works, (inaudible) heard about the new trash cans, public works. table and chairs. cleaning streeds. it is an amazing deerment pawhen you think who we are and what we do. it does touch every person in san francisco whether you work here, you visit here or live here. so, we have heard things we are doing. i want to get you through this. we did see with the city attorney presentation and you will hear bruce about the organizational chart. you will hear a lot more what is going on but public workwise the current structure is here. i will not go into big detail. we will have a new configuration when prop b happens

that the puc has a concern about that. vaccines are safe. they undergos clinical studies to ensure that the safety profile is okay. thay that they prevent the symptoms of the disease and that they actually work to reduce the symptoms and the debilitating effects of the disease. vaccines vaccines have undergone many sts many studies with a large number number of individuals and they are built on many years of research and immunology and saf. and safety. vaccines are safe, they do not cause diseases, thet they present diseases. >> i wonder if we are not a victim of our own success as people lose contact with some of of these really bad diseases that have been tamed or eradicated by vaccines. >> when we see these diseases we we think that they no longer exist. what we see, is that they they start to re-emerge becausey because they are not as protected. we really want for us us to get back to regular immunization schedule so that we we can get rid of those re-emerg those re-emerging infections. >> >> thank you so much for your time this morning.

. >> built bite developer not puc we will operating and maintaining witness we take over the utilities there. >> okay. >> and then do we have a storm water capture now? i know we are talking about the wastewater treatment but i wonder i can't remember the details of the design for the rest of the system. >> part of the project around the process area will be putting a [inaudible] arnold the project site. the developer [inaudible] own system of green [inaudible] to development open space capturing. our discharge has a wet land part of the project that will receive some storm water as well. >> okay that is why you have the wet weather capacity surs us dry weather. wet weather factor is typical to your dry weather [inaudible] and this could include infiltration. coming from the collection system in the from the on site that much. >> how would you manage the amount of storm water they may redirect for you guys to process? storm water is newscast directed this is no collection system for storm water for the island. we carry the sewage from the household and other facilities. >> you said the

that the mta, puc uses the consultant contract -- managed by pw. and this conanthem transact is about to expire. they are going through an award process now. the problem is the company this is going to be arc warreded is not the same company. when you get the -- newark ward we need to update all of the bid documents to have the new software and implementation. we cannot wait for these contract we need to now increase our concern contract by 2.5 million dollars allow to yous serve the needs until the new contract can be awarded. thank you. >> thank you. >> directors do you have questions? director heminger >> i will move the item. >> is there a second? >> second. >> no , i'm going to take public comment now. >> any members no one in the room. the dias. anyone on the line withhold like to comment on item 13 >> one speaker in the queue. >> hi. i'm notment to talk to item 13ip wanted talk on item 12. he cleared my hand before i can talk. can i now. >> that's fine. >> thank you. i'm trained in electric and working on the [inaudible] control project. i'm

and part, port, mta, and puc and the public health department. what are they approving? what are they delegating to the department? and how many contracts do they approve on average each month? so based on that information, the working group delegation threshold recommendation, trying to balance competing priorities. we want your oversight to be meaningful and not da luted by too many items competing for your attention and we want you to talk about things not contract related and from the department's perspective, they're worried about the approval process and the idea of contracts being approved in batches rather than a rolling on going basis is scary. a reminder about all recommendations but especially this one is that the delegation policy can be modified at any time you like in the future if it seems you're seeing too many or too few contracts. so, we tailored the recommendation based on average data but things change over time and the result may not end up matching our database simulation, so i think it's something, you know, you need to see how it goes and then rev

pacific core filed a report with the california puc six days after the fire began alerting regulatorswas in the area of the fire company did not report any problems so with its equipment to our state regulators have spokesperson for pacific course, says the company. does not comment on a lawsuit. a new report finds a growing number of people will become homeless this year in san francisco, data from the city's department of homelessness and supportive housing suggests 20,000 people will experience homelessness in 2022. it also finds that for everyone person, housed by a city program for more will become um, how's the report suggests the severe lack of affordable housing in the city and sharp increases in rent are the main reasons people end up on the streets. city officials say the numbers in the report are educated estimates and that's based on formulas used for many years by homeless advocates. time now, 6 17 governor gavin newsom office as a city of oakland is trying to shirk its responsibility to clear out a big and dangerous homeless in cabinet. the governor's office had a letter

specific core, filed a report with the california puc six days after the fire started alerting regulators the company did not report any problems with its equipment to state regulators, spokesperson for pacific course at the lawsuit prevented the company from commenting. okay these are the highest from today cooler than yesterday, and many places 96 in fairfield, 93 anti och temperatures were more aggressively cooled along the bay where we saw more fog in hayward and fremont, where we saw temperatures dropped a good five or 10 degrees. we've got fog kind of draw it in here. it's kind of working its way. in here, so we've got a pretty good dose of fog. now um it's going to kind of fill in tonight, so we're going to see more fog inland to further, uh, later on tonight, and that will turn to cool us down a little bit at the coast. but in the inland spots, it's going to warm up tomorrow and then it cools down on the next day. here's the low pressure, which kept at school today and then the high kind of backs back into it. so what's going to happen? it's hard again tomorrow in the central vall

oregon based pacific course power lines sparked the fire pacific war filed a report with the california puc six days after the fire started alerting regulators that its equipment was in the area of a fire company did not report any problems with its equipment to state regulators. spokesperson for pacific courses the company does not comment on pending lawsuits are still ahead of algae bloom reported in san francisco bay, the potential harm it's creating and changes to the color of the water, plus i don't remember much. my actions. but that gun was taken like mine. stunning revelation from a man accused of killing his father and shooting his stepmother what he admitted about the incident in san francisco during a jailhouse francisco during a jailhouse interview. californians have a choice between two initiatives on sports betting. prop 27 generates hundreds of millions every year to permanently fund getting people off the streets a prop 26? not a dime to solve homelessness prop 27 has strong protections to prevent minors from betting. prop 26? no protections for minors. prop 27 helps every t

. >> built bite developer not puc we will operating and maintaining witness we take over the utilities there. >> okay. >> and then do we have a storm water capture now? i know we are talking about the wastewater treatment but i wonder i can't remember the details of the design for the rest of the system. >> part of the project around the process area will be putting a [inaudible] arnold the project site. the developer [inaudible] own system of green [inaudible] to development open space capturing. our discharge has a wet land part of the project that will receive some storm water as well. >> okay that is why you have the wet weather capacity surs us dry weather. wet weather factor is typical to your dry weather [inaudible] and this could include infiltration. coming from the collection system in the from the on site that much. >> how would you manage the amount of storm water they may redirect for you guys to process? storm water is newscast directed this is no collection system for storm water for the island. we carry the sewage from the household and other facilities. >> you said the

specific core filed a report but the california puc six days after the fire started alerting regulatorst its equipment was in the area of a fire. the company did not report any problems with its equipment to state regulators. spokesperson for pacific course says the company does not comment on pending lawsuits. a new report finds a growing number of people will become homeless this year in san francisco, data from the city's department of homelessness and supportive housing, says 20,000. people will experience homelessness in 2022 also finds that for every one person, housed by a city program for more will become a new housed, the report suggests a severe lack of affordable housing in san francisco and sharp red increases or the top reasons people will end up living on the streets. city leaders say the numbers in the report are educated estimates based on formulas used for years by advocates for the homeless. 7 17, the governor's office as a city of oakland is trying to ignore its responsibility to clear out a large and dangerous homeless and cabinet. the governor's office sent a letter

will emergency fire fighting water system we have representatives from the puc here. perhaps not. >> i think you all those commissioners have been with the commission for a time. familiar with the former auxiliary water supply system the original high pressure dedicated water system from 1913, we began to readdress. and there were a number of projects under taken to exist in reliable operation. the existing infrastructure was with the focus of 2010. the remaining project in 2010 this must be completed is the pumping station number two at aquatic park. for those of you familiar you may have the large building off to the side. it is the pumping station. there are 2. the other is at the police headquarters on second and townsend. the pumping stations draw water from the bay into and charged the point network in the city that -- able to provide the water at the high pressure hydrants located throughout a lot of the city. not off the city. that installation dates from 2013. a great number of projects we have accomplished in 2010 in order to strengthen the existing aws f ne

state of urgency to expand the efws to all protected neighborhood and release of ews planning study by puct the end of last year. and rofrt on trux on dwelling units and duplexes and quad plexes. as we continue the controversial quad plexes, in our low dense i neighborhood haods, it will be helpful to better understand the data and current status of a du status and construction since we ended single family zoning by allowing the construction of adus and expanded this new type of scale development further by allowing duplexes and triplexes through sb9ed beginning of this year. through this hearing i'm interested in streamlining of our adu program have been. and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor milgaard. >> thank you, madam clerk, thank you mr. president and colleagues. as you know laguna honda hospital is in great crisis. while they're working feverishly to regain information, we have been pressured aggressively by the medicaid services team for not moving vulnerable frail patients transferred quickly enough. after last week's meeting, we learned about another dea