a positive, helpful, and dedicated manner, whereas he will continue to serve the san francisco public utilities commission as its archivist and historian, therefore be it resolved for these reasons and good humor and dedication to service, the city and county of san francisco this commission sincerely expresses our consideration to michael. it is my pleasure. [applause] >> congratulations. >> [unintelligible] [laughter] >> we have a picture. >> where is that? [laughter] [unintelligible] >> see, without you organizing this? >> all right, ok. >> thank you. >> it is my great honor and privilege to be a little part of the hard work that all of you do. because you do the real work. >> as you can see, mike has also helped out with putting together this meeting, this one item, and there will be continuing deference to donna and she takes over the ropes. thank you, mike. any other commission business? ok. moving on, the report of the general manager. >> good afternoon. i only have one item to report on. you have asked about what is happening to the redevelopment agencies in california. we have a bit more clarity

item a, spauthorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to apply to the united states bureau of reclamation watersmart grant program for funding of up to $100,000 for the sf regional filter loading study, to be matched by sfpuc funding and in- kind contributions of $100,000. the total cost of the proposed study is $200,000 and it would be conducted over a duration of fifteen months, to be completed in august of 2013. b, approve the selection of edelstein, gilbert, robson, and smith for legislative affairs funded agreement no. cs-231, state legislative representation and advocacy services, to provide state legislative representation and advocacy services to the san francisco public utilities commission and authorize the general manager of the sfpuc to negotiate and execute a professional services agreement with edelstein, gilbert, robson, and smith for an amount not-to-exceed $1,000,000 and with a duration of five years. c, approve amendment no. 1 to wastewater enterprise operations budget funded agreement no. cs- 989, biofuel technical assistance serv

san francisco/peninsula/ east bay/hetch hetchy, with yerba buena engineering and construction, inc., to accomplish general engineering construction work for all san francisco public utilities commission enterprise operations and bureaus, increasing the contract by $2,500,000 for a total contract amount of $7,500,000, and with a time extension of two years for a total contract duration of five years, as allowed for joc contracts under the sf administrative code. e, accept work performed by ascent elevator services for wastewater enterprise renewal and replacement program-funded contract no. ww-472, wastewater enterprise elevator maintenance, for a total contract amount of $458,668 and a total contract duration of 1,195 consecutive calendar days; and authorize final payment to the contractor. f, accept work performed by a. ruiz construction for wastewater enterprise, renewal and replacement program and department of public works (dpw) pavement renovation program- funded contract no. ww-495, bush street sewer replacement/ rehabilitation and pavement renovation, for a total contract amount of $2,217,760 (of which $1,833,934 is funded by wwe and $383,826 is funded by dpw) and with a total

the san francisco public utilities commission and would install utility-grade meter to measure the actual act. electricity use so we can pass around that force and charge. working met elaine, we estimate that the capital outlay for the project would be approximately six planform million dollars. that covers the capital cost, and debt service reserve, and a p the long-term debt solution is some months off. mayor lee and supervisor: have introduced a supplemental appropriation ordinance that the board of supervisors that would reappropriate some money from the back land project, part of the 2010 revenue bonds project. it has been designed. it is ready to go to construction this summer. the proposal here would be to borrow funds on a temporary basis from that project until the long-term debt proceeds are available. elaine has been working with

the san francisco public utilities commission contributed 1.3 million, and usap and the port. we got it up and running, and we're turning around and shutting it down. the reason is construction of phase one of the cruise terminal, which is starting now. one of the first up in the project is decommissioning the shore power facilities so they can undertake demolition of the pier 27 shed it. as a result of the construction activity and the america's cup village concept, shoreside power will be out of commission from basically this month, february 2012-october 2013 when phase two of the cruise terminal construction project can start, along with reconnecting shore power at that location. that obviously creates a lot of air quality impacts and sequa process quantified those. they found impacts to be significant. we had significant public comment from our environmental partners and regulatory agencies to look at these issues. as a result, the planning department through the environmental review officer impose a mitigation measure requirement to install shore power at pier 70. i reall

san francisco today. i am the deputy general manager for the san francisco public utilities commission and i am joined todayyor ed lee, fiona maw, mila nutter and barbara hale. this has been sort of a team effort, it has taken quite a while to get here. we are thankful for her help on 631 that paved the way for putting in these stations. as we go through this presentation today, i hope you take a chance to look at some of the electric vehicles today. i would like to thank several people that are here today, especially barbara hale's staff. our colleagues at the metropolitan transportation authority as well as the colleagues had reckoned harper installing these. at the department of public works colleagues. with that, i will turn it over to the mayor lee for a few comments. >> thank you, michael, and a thank-you for your stewardship. you and barbara, ed harrington, you have done a great job. when i was city administrator, asked mayor newsom if i could do the ev's. i liked working with our department of environment, with melanie, with bob and others. they sat down and spend some good time talking about innova

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

jennifer from the office of economic and workforce development, ed harrington from the san francisco public utilities commission, regina from the small business office, bevon from sf hope, and revitalizing our commercial corridors has been near and dear to mayor lee's heart since his days as director of dpw and as city administrator and down as mayor. whether it did the dpw community corridor program, ambassador program, or the challenge grant, the mayor is always asking us how can we strategically deploy our resources to revitalize these aboard commercial corridors in areas that need it the most? with that, i would like to introduce mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you, city administrator. good morning. welcome to the portola neighborhood. that is the pronunciation that i learned many years ago when we were picking up garbage in these little pockets all over this san bruno avenue. and we learned that very quickly, because the neighborhoods fell that we were not door to make investments in our neighborhood, and if we did not, it would go downhill very quickly. so we started with a number of debra agencies t

. >> a discussion to authorize the san francisco public utilities commission and an understanding with the california medical center to perform sewer improvements related to the cesar chavez improvement project, authorize the general manager to except and expand it funds, increasing the contingency and authorize staff to provide support subject to supplemental appropriations, the cesar chavez improvement project. decreasing the contract and a time extension 4 total contract duration of 598 consecutive calendar days subject to board approval of a supplemental appropriation and adopt environmental findings under the california environmental quality act. >> i think you may be aware we are doing a lot of work on cesar chavez. st. luke's hospital wants to rearrange its campus and this would allow us to get money from them and move our sewer lines and out of the way so we could do our work. >> thank you. any questions for the general manager? any public comment? >> i need to abstain? -- >> all those in favor? the motion carries. >> all those in favor? of the motion carries. >> the next item

dire economic time, some of us have presented some projects to the manager of the san francisco public utilities commission, and i guess it is would then his purview to filter that down -- would then his party to filter that down so that our community can at least towards the tail end of this project benefit from what has been accomplished up till now. so again and again, this is a very large project. if i am not mistaken, $4.2 million, and $2.4 million was contributed by the city and county of san francisco. and when we have such large projects, whether it is the water system member but project or the source system improvement projects that is coming, we have to pay attention to our constituents. thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker. ♪ >> it's gotta be a budget morning if we can hold out through the water night why don't we crossed this bridge together? and we will escaped the budget we will not be searching for money anymore it is not too late and not while we are water living let's put our hands out and take a dive it is not too late we should be water thriving alleged take a wat

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