madam clerk: approve the extension of the mou with the san francisco public utilities commission for the c.c.a. program. chairperson campos: thank you and before we turn it over to ms. miller, mr. fried, congratulations i think are in order. ms. miller. >> this is similar to the previous item which is once again the mou. we thought the program would be launched by this time so the mou had a term date which we're beyond now so we want to extend it until june 2013. chairperson campos: great. thank you. another one-year extension. any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. motion by commissioner avalos, seconded by commissioner olague. if we can take that without objection? item 8. madam clerk: item no. 8 is public comment. chairperson campos: any member of the public who would like to speak on any item within the jurisdiction of lafco not otherwise on the agenda. seeing none, public comment is done. item 9. madam clerk: item no. 9 is future agenda items. chairperson campos: colleagues, any future agenda items? any member of the public would like to speak? s

programs to an amount not to exceed $300 million to be issued from time to time by the san francisco public utilities commission to finance various capt. projects benefiting the waste water enterprise. item number three, resolution approving the issuance of water revenue bonds to be issued by the public utilities commission of the city and county of san francisco not to exceed $675 million to finance various projects under the water system improvement program pursuant to amendments to the charter of the city and county of san francisco enacted by voters on a member 5, 2002. >> good morning. todd greece fr reastrom. these are financing authorizations that support things you have already given his authorization to move forward with. the waste water commercial program is an opportunity for us to further save it ratepayer money is to borrowing short cost. that is averaging a% per year. that compares to bar when long- term money that is about 4 percent signed right now. that can save ratepayers a good deal of money. right now we have $150 million program in place that was approved back in 2006. this would

>> assistant general manager for the san francisco public utilities. one of the things that as part of our community benefits that we wanted to look at that we have all these consultants and contractors doing work for the puc. what we wanted to do was ask every consultant that worked with us what they can do to help the community that is no cost to the project or to the puc. we are finding a lot of consultants will donate time and donate proceeds because they typically give money away for different causes, and they will get it and participate with the puc. this is the second time we have included it into our contract theory the first time was on the store system improvement program, program management contract, which was $150 million, and they came up with a three-prong approach. they said they would hire 15 students the day -- i mean, a summer, for the summer, and work on various parts of their consulting contracts. the second thing they will say -- they were willing to do is teach hours in our contract assistance center on the cost of putting the pro

>> hearing with the san francisco public utilities commission public services agency, the department of public works, planning department, san francisco municipal planning transportation, to participate and provide an update on the street light plan and review the city's policies and practices relating to the public right of way including streetlight maintenance and reliability, the system of responding to and addressing street light outages, ways to improve the system, and best practices for lighting. "thank you, madam clerk. -- >> thank you, madam clerk. due to the large turnout on item one, we will continue this item. >> this hearing had been called for quite some time on the state of the street lights and the challenges that we have and what the puc, pg&e, are doing to resolve the situation. none of us anticipated that we would have hundreds of folks come out for the first item, so i cannot ask everyone to wait. i would request that the item be continued to monday, june 4th, at 10:00 a.m. and request that it be placed first on the agenda. >> that would be a special meeting but we

i like to turn it over to robert, the assistant general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. good afternoon. >> thank you, commissioner. i just wanted to give a brief update on, first of all, the program itself as we have conceived it. what is going on at the california public utilities commission. and i really do not have anything to add today on state legislation. with respect, first of all, to our activities, we are anticipating consideration of our proposed contract and supplemental appropriations request that the board some time in may. that is our expectation. meanwhile, we have been busy determining, with the help of our market research -- our polling firm, the phasing and notification process approach we would like to take. you know, we have had many questions from policy makers and advocates about what sort of additional research we are performing to determine the level of opt-out we anticipate throughout the city. our data is still very new, but it will help us as far as the program during our initial rollout phase, and it helps to minimize the opt-outs

in 2003, i was asked to come to san francisco public utilities commission to take the meat on the program. i'm responsible for all the large capital projects for water, waste water, and power. it's about $12 billion of capital projects. we have a lot of projects. our water system improvement program, 80 products that span seven counties. we have a staff of about 400 city employees and about 500 consultants. puc is really embracing technology. we wanted to make sure we really had a system that would elevate all issues so we could address them in a timely manner. as you know, time is money. we have a construction management information system. it is a great tool to help us address construction and make it successful, as it is today. cmis is one of the first major tools we put in place. the next one is the san francisco online invoicing, where we are now working with the contractor and consultant to have them submit their invoices online. we are also working on electronic bidding systems. another way we can reduce the paperwork and all the other issues tied with the procurements. i live in s

also harlan kelly, assistant general manager san francisco public utilities commission, junior partnerour keynote speaker today. [applause] dr. veronica honey cut with the san francisco community college. a member of the board of education. dr. moses is with us. commissioner linda richardson is with us also. one of the things that is significant -- i mentioned that reverend dyson is the first woman ordained in the baptist church in san francisco, in 1982. it is also very significant that this year -- we should also be aware this is the 160th anniversary of three of the leading religious institutions in the african american community. the zion church, of bethel, and third baptist will all be celebrating their 160th anniversary this year. these churches were established two years after san francisco was established. thank you for joining us. [applause] the other thing i would like to speak briefly on is the fact that we celebrate black history month annually. black history month was started under the auspices of the association for the study of african american life and history. it was d

critics today slammed the management of san francisco saying the wreck and parts department should be in essence fired. is managed by the san francisco public utilities commission. in 1950 the let the parks department manage the land and facilities surrounding the lake. >> a number of us who have been involved for 20 years or more on the lake do not feel they've been good stuarts of the area. >> port ton said mismanaged the lease given to the pacific rod and gun club on the west shore of the lake may have cost the city some $10 million. he says the park failed to adequately hold the gun club responsible for led shop that has contaminated the lake. >> they would have renegotiated the lease from month and to month and they would have gotten what is standard now in contact. >> they will not take over management of that lease. the park will continue to manage recreation for now. >> they have indicated lots of good things, as we all know the proof is in the pudding that they want to hear more before deciding if and when to let them take permanent control of the fa i is around the lake. in san francisco, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a yahoo director will help

public utilities commission? >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for having us here today. ed harrington of the san francisco public utilities commission. the items before you today are 1310 of the items on your calendar relating to the -- are items one through 10 of the items on your calendar relating to the sfpuc. the big story at the puc is that we have put forward a five-year rate package three years ago. we have two years left. we have not had as much water falling from the sky and as much water sales in the last year or two, so our revenues are down, but we wanted to stay true to our great package, so we have left those rates in place. in general, you will see a total budget that is lower the first year and somewhat higher the second year, but its capital and operating. the real story is infrastructure. the other story is that we will be spending a lot of money, even if it is somewhat less than the current year. you can do it right or you can do it wrong. we have been trying to do it right with things like global jobs, benefits, language access and those kinds of things. i also wanted to start off by saying that we are in agreemen

are moving further with project development, we have been coordinating closely with the san francisco public utilities commission and the department of public works. we're just about finished with a sewer televising for the length of van ness avenue to get an understanding of what type of utilities would need to be moved or reinforced, particularly the sewer which is significant for the center-running alternative. that will be part of the coordination process. obviously, with the tunnel underneath vanessa to, there will be further coordination with the utility work. it is accounted for in the construction plan. as be become more solidified, we can sequence it more appropriately to do the necessary utility improvements in coordination with the van ness construction. >> are you presuming you'll be able to sequence a portion in conjunction with cpmc? in other words, you're going to do a one to four-block section at a time, i would presume, which is a normal way of doing it. there is the tunnel going in as well. what would you presume there is as to any additional thoughts in handling this type of sequenc

all matters constitute a consent calendar are considered routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or the public so requests, in which event the matter will be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item. a, job order contra-22 with gold spring construction company to accomplish general building construction work, increasing the contract by $500,000 and with a time extension of three years. b, approve modicum of -- modification never wanted job order contract-28 wed california straight -- cal state constrictors to accomplish general engineering construction work. a time extension of two years. c, accept work performed by shaw pipelines incorporated for wd- 2583, install protection for 60-inch steel water main on 20th avenue and kirkum street, decreasing the contract by $39,737 and authorizing final payment to the contractor. d, approve the plans and specifications in contract wd- 2673r as needed for 2012

. >> item 5, resolution authorizing the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to negotiate and execute wastewater enterprise sewer system improvement program funded agreement no. cs-169 central bayside improvements to provide planning and engineering services for an amount not to exceed $30 million with the duration of 108 months. >> thank you very supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have a representative from the puc on this item. >> good afternoon. thank you for hearing this item today. i am the pc project manager. the resolution before you for approval is an agreement between the city and the joint venture as a team to provide engineering and planning services for the source system improvement project in an amount not to exceed $30 million. it is a nine-year contract. this project is of critical importance and must move forward quickly because currently the pop station and maine are the only convey its infrastructure to transport almost 2/3 of our waste water flow from the northeast and central bayside system to the southeast plant for treatment. if we c