i'm francesca vitov, i'm a member of the san francisco public utilities commission. it's my understanding there was a settlement that was reached on this case and that juliet ellis paid her fineses and this matter was put to rest and that was the position of our commission, was accepting the fines, accepting the contract that was signed between this commission and juliet ellis. so, i urge you to reject this resolution. i also want to speak on behalf of juliet ellis as a colleague. we served on the commission together before she was appointed as assistant general manager. she spearheaded the effort to draft and adopt the environmental justice resolution that the san francisco public utilities commission passed as well as the community and benefits resolution. these two resolutions are pioneering, groundbreaking resolutions in the country. and then she stepped down to be able to implement those two resolutions and to develop them into programs. the community benefits program, everybody in the country is looking at the implementation. it's creating jobs. it's creating o

january 24, 014 regular meeting and march 3, 2014 special joint meeting with the san francisco public utilities commission. >> colleagues my comments or questions of the minutes? okay. seeing none, we can open this item up for the many people who are in our audience -- wait, there is no one there. welcome. and we'll close public comment. colleagues do we have a motion to approve the minutet minutes? motion from commissioner breed and seconded by commissioner schmeltzer, without objection. next item, please. >> the community choice aggregation activities report. a, status update on the cleanpowersf. b, status upare date on the proceeding at the california public utilities commission and c, status update for the request for proposal to provide build-out strategy and plan for cleanpowersf energy-efficient, facilities and local jobs policy. >> we have a presentation from barbara hale. >> thank you, commissioners, assistant general manager for power. as you know, assembly member amaino introduced a bill that would allow the city to join a joint power authority and also allow certain over-the fence-transaction

the san francisco public utilities commission, we've said this to them in public comment, they seem to be not recognizing it and they are continuing to not do any work on clean power sf, even though the lafco is proceeding because the lafco gets it. we know that you get it and we also know your staff get it, i'm not up here to demonize staff. staff has been very clear that clean power sf is necessary to the city meeting its action goals, necessary to the clean action strategy and had it not been from signals from the mayor's office to kill this program when it shouldn't be and when you can get more funds from it, staff wouldn't have felt like they had to leave it out of the climate action strategy. with that said, we and others spoke at the policy committee meeting a while back to make clear that the climate action strategy needs to have clean power sf put back in it. the staff is great but the staff made a mistake in responding to the mayor's pressure by removing the program that's the most important program in the city for clean energy for the city to reach its goals and for your dep

so, with that, i'd like to invite up from the san francisco public utilities commission -- i thought harlan kelly was coming, but todd, are you ready to present to give us a little bit of a sense of the budget picture within the sfpuc and some perspective around the go solar program, and then we will hear from others. >> thank you very much. my name is todd reid strom and i am the [speaker not understood], i've been there for almost six years now. and i wanted to express mr. kelly's regret that i couldn't personally attend. he had another meeting, but he did you send his regard and wish he could be here because it is an important program to him and one he is supportive of. with that's correct good morning and thank you for having us in this discussion today. the [speaker not understood] provide context is important because we are running the water and power system of hetch hetchy which has been a system that has provided greenhouse gas-free, very low cost power for about 100 years to san francisco. so, today in the context of go solar s.f. and important part of power provision, i hav

item 12 public hearing to adopt the schedule of rates fees and charges of the sfpuc for san francisco and suburban areas. >> item 13 the san francisco public utilities commission in san francisco and suburban areas . item 15 public hearing to consider and adopt connection fees and miscellaneous fees of water service within and outside the city and county of san francisco. item 16 is presentation by the state fairness board. board. >> this is for you to deliberate over the next couple of weeks and consider action by the 16th of may. >> good afternoon for the public today this is the full hearing for our rates and charges for retail operations as mentioned earlier today by commissioner moran our costs are rising with the cost of inflation about 3 percent a year and in fact you hold us to to a high budget standard to keep costs affordable and what's also included so the rates that you are going to hear from 4 speakers today who have approximately 3 to 8-minute presentations for you will go through what the charter requires and reviewed by an independent rate consultant and and patricia magove r.n. did the independent rate study and next up will be charles pearl w

my name is har long kelly and i'm the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. this is my first two year budget and i am posing as a general manager so supervisor farrell asked for me to give a brief high level presentation today and then on may 21 we will go a deeper presentation on our two year budget proposal. today's presentation is organized in the following ing manner. first i'd like to give a p bird's eye view of our bud jed and a year ago at this committee and also give you updates on our capital programs, rate sending process, the ring fire and the draught response. finally i will close with the big picture of key updates and challenges that are in our bud get. so the p and c is guided by three core principles and priorities. one, to provide high quality services of water power and sewer, maybe tan critical enfra structure to ensure our assets are in a state of good repair. we are constantly working to balance these priorities. so how are we moving forward on these core priorities. as far as water enterprise, we are over 80 percent complete with our wa

the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today is is tuesday, march 25, 2014. roll call, please >> commissioner caen. commissioner vietor. commissioner torres and commissioner torres are xoud we have a quorum. item 3 is the approval of the minutes that you have in your binders. may i have a motion >> so moved arrest second. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. we now move into. those are items not on the agenda that can be discussed >> hello. >> hello. >> i'm david i'm here on behalf of the gun club. i know you're all aware of our concern of our future of lake merced i'm here today to ask for the commissions focused attention on two seers matters of impact like lake merced and this site. we are definitely in support of efforts to clean up the site we're definitely in support of the site of what's going on. but there are two mistakes being made with regard to the analysis this necessary out there. i've got a letter here for commission. two matters deal with first, the proposal that was sent by the city to the water board it is designed to clean u

see we have many of city and county san francisco agencies from the general agency, real estate, public works, water and power, san francisco public utilities commission, pg&e and comcast and caltrans, bart and other key partners such as fema and more. the objectives our life line council is to develop and improve collaboration in the city and across the region by regularly convening a group of executive officers and deputies of local and regional life line providers. understand intersystem dependencies of enhanced planning and reconstruction. sharing information about recovering plans and objectives and priorities and established ordination process for life line restoration and recovery following a major disaster. in the first nine meetings we made most progress on the third objective and sharing information about plans and priorities. in the first two years we discussed a series of operator case studies by the sfpuv on water and wastewater systems and pg&e on gas and electric systems and at&t and tell communications and learned about the city's priorities for roots and response planning for the emergency operation center and the capital program. we

so, in the investigation, there are over 30 cases of the san francisco public utilities commission [speaker not understood], their employees, infringe on ethics, morals and standards. this woman, juliet ellis, ~ chose and employed the wife of this director [speaker not understood]. you all failed to do the investigation. y'all failed miserably. you remember president bill clinton, i did not have sex with this woman? monica lewin ski, looking us all in the eye and not blinking, and what they found out, that he did. juliet ellis is a very, very elegant person. [speaker not understood] to me. and once in this hallway and a bunch over there, i warned her many, many months ago to change her ways, change her ways and be humble. she did not. commissioners, today is a very, very sad day in the history of this commission that was charged to do right, to discern and to adjudicate based on morals, ethics and standards. you failed miserably. thank you very much. >>> good evening again. dr. espinola jackson. i would like to say, after listening to your deliberations, i went to the commission, puc commis

. >>> a san francisco public utilities commission is calling a report about the city's drinking water misleading. officials say an article unnecessarily raised concerns about the planned addition of ground water to the water supply in 2016. they claim four wells would add contaminants to the drinking water but the p.u.c. said it would not make the water supply unsafe. >> there are wells that show higher levels of nitrate that could be cause for concern. the comparison numbers that were used in the article were apples and oranges. >> the city gets its drinking water from the hecht hetchy reservoir. ground water would contradict 5% of the daily water supply. >>> california ranks in the middle of the pack when it comes to the percentage of adults that have college degrees. california is number 23 among the 50 states. under 40% of california's adults have a two or four year degree. that compares with massachusetts where just over 50% have a degree. >>> she watched through a bus window as a sheaf made off -- thief made off with her bicycle. >> the guy said to me, nice bike. isn't it. i sai

san francisco. heretofore, i don't believe there's been an effort to actually access some of that 800 million. certainly cleanpowersf, it's possible wondering what the [speaker not understood] in the public utilities commission. >> i'm happy to share with you a memo that we prepared for our commission that addresses the options here. from memory, i can report that, you know, san francisco does take advantage of some of the funding that's available through our department of environment. the department of environment has a contract with pg&e to spend some of those energy efficiency dollars. they are part of the every three-year reassessment and reengagement with pg&e on those programs in doing research on the balance of the fund available, we are aware once you are cca, you can access those funds. you don't have to be -- you don't have to have cca customer to access though funds. but it did you the california administratored at the sfpuc do expect you to operate a community aretion ~ aggregate [speaker not understood]. i'd be happy to provide for you a copy of the memo that goes into more detail about these options because we did explore them, but we don't believe that we can pursue them at this time given the

san francisco's power provider. pg&e provides services to many residents and businesses here in san francisco, but power enterprise is a public utilities commission is who provides power services to muni, to fire stations, to police stations, our libraries, our general hospital, you know, those essential city services receive their electricity bill from the san francisco public utilities commission. so, when our cfo was talking about the rates and the funding and the revenues, those are rates we are charging primarily to city services, city service providers. we're also charging rates to tenants and businesses located on city properties. so, you can see on this slide it's about 2,260 accounts. we have the wonderful benefit of the hetch hetchy hydroelectric system which provides greenhouse gas free electricity to our customer. we're also san francisco's energy efficiency services provider, san francisco's renewable -- rooftop renewable provider. that's where go solar s.f. factors in. and we provide service to san francisco's 40,000 street lights. so, for a part of the city's important public safety feature, street lights and pedestrian lighting, w

. >> commissioners, my name is harlan kelly and i am the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commissionank you for allowing me to come before you. i have a previously scheduled engagement, so, i'm going to have to dash off right after my comments. but i want to talk about an item that you have, item 5 on your agenda. ~ first of all, due to personal and confidential rules, i'm not here to talk about any specific as it relates to any disciplinary actions related to ms. ellis that were taken in august of 2013. however, i want the commission to know and understand that all actions were based on exhaustive and independent puc investigation where we carefully weighed the facts and the mitigating circumstances. recently, in january 2014 with your commission and the fppc, reached a joint settlement agreement with ms. ellis. your investigation did not present any new information or contradict any information related to the puc investigation. i cannot revisit disciplinary actions that i took nor i see any reason to do so. i believe appropriate actions were taken on all fronts and this matter is c

total of $48 million in additional projected revenue from new customers served by san francisco public utilities commission. the next question had to do with what the rationale was for the split of 55/45 overall? and how does it apply to the mountain tunnel asset in particular? we were also asked to provide a copy of the wholesale water agreement, which you will see that we have included a link to. the 55/45 split just to refresh your memory is associated with how we account for the costs of operating a joint system, a system that produces both water services and power services. it's one system, many times one in the same asset is serving two purposes. other times, assets are strictly dedicated to providing water service and districtly dedicated to providing power service, but those providing both components we split those costs between water and power rate-payers. 55 to power and 45 to water. that is an historic -- that is an historic method that has been applied to the hetch hetchy system for all upcountry facilities. we arrived at that method -- it's referred to as the separable cost methods where you l

and joining meeting with the san francisco public utilities commission. my name is john avalos, the chair of lafco, and we are joined by our public utilities commission members and the vice-chair is also here. she will be sharing the podium with me and we will be chairing together. on the lafco side, madam clerk, could you read the role, please? >> yes, commissioner avalos? >> present. >> commissioner avalos present. commissioner campos? commissioner campos abseptember. absent. commissioner breed? commissioner pimentel absent. commissioner mar. here. >> we have a quorum. >> our clerk is melissa miller and we are broadcast by sfgov-tv staff john ross and jonathan [speaker not understood]. and the public utilities commission clerk is donna hood. so, with that i welcome everyone to our joint meeting. this meeting is to get an update. okay, let's do that first. >> vice president caen? >> here. >> commissioner vietor? >> here. >> commissioner moran? >> here. >> president courtney and commissioner torres are excused from today's meeting and we have a quorum. >>

san francisco employment, that she would likely be fired. so, the next step, then, was that it was in the -- the ball was in the court of the san francisco public utilities commission. and i had heard that they had not terminated her. so, i was the one who introduced this resolution. i'm the one to blame for introducing this resolution. i sat here tonight and i've listened to all of you and i've listened to the message that you sent. it's not just the message that's a powerful message. it's a tsunami in terms of who this woman is and in terms of what you think of her and in terms of her importance, particularly in the minority community. and in the black community ~. and i agree, based upon everything that you've said, that to go ahead and terminate ms. ellis would be sending a terrible message to the city and county of san francisco, particularly to minority individuals who want to be part of public service in san francisco. it would be, it would be miss perceived and it would be underably misperceived. it would be misperceived in the way many of you said. so, in regard to there being some sort of hidden agenda or any sort of racism, van jones had it right. we ste

. >> reporter: ellen levin of san francisco's public utilities commission says the winter snow isn't offering much hope. >> i think what's even worse is the fact that our snowpack is only at 35%. usually in a normal year, we would be able to fill the reservoir three times over with the amount of snow melt. >> reporter: it doesn't just provide water. it also creates energy. the system includes three hydro electric plants producing electricity that powers everything from city buses to san francisco general hospital. >> when we're in drought, less water is transported from upcountry down to san francisco so we generate less electricity. >> reporter: the city sells its excess electricity on the open markets to support some city services. less water means less revenue. >> worst case scenarios would have us looking at raising rates. worst case scenarios would have us looking at laying off staff. are we doing those things now? no. >> reporter: hydro electric power stations across california are facing the same trouble. raying the possibility of increased electricity rates statewide. san fra

. >> reporter: san francisco's public utilities commission sold some burned timber from its lands toelp offset the damage to a pair of hydroelectric plants on the water system. >> we had our main distribution lines that basically transit power between facilities. most of those distribution lines -- well, all the distribution lines were damaged and downed by the fire activity. >> reporter: the fire forced the plants offline for about two weeks. immediately after the utility went about replacing hundreds of wooden power poles and transition lines. >> this is our suites over here. >> reporter: now, as the tourist season approaches, they wonder if the visitors will return. >> i think a lot of people want to come see where the fire took place. >> reporter: the family knows life will eventually return to these blackened acres, and the memory of the great fire will become another of the area's stories. >> we're ready to go on and, you know, we look for a bright summer and enjoying the people coming and just trying to put last year behind us a little bit. >> reporter: joe rosa that, jr., nbc

she is putting the san francisco public utilities commission on the map in a way that is setting policy across the country. i cannot understand why this issue has reemerged. i cannot understand why you all have decided to put it on the agenda tonight. it is outrageous and an outrage. and given that an agreement has been reached, this proposal should be rejected. you all should move quickly. there is no need for this to be reopened and it is time to put it to close. thank you. (applause) >>> hello there. my name is derika [speaker not understood] and i am the executive of a nonprofit in the south bay where sometimes i feel like we think the san jose city council and commission is a zoo. if we're a zoo, y'all are a circus. [laughter] >>> so, i've known juliet ellis over 10 years. i was a very young community organizer working in the east bay when juliet really took me under her wing and taught me what it meant to be honest, what it meant to have integrity and what it meant to lead with values. she is a person of strong values, strong convictions, and she understands her history. it's not

san francisco's tap water. in part because of the ongoing drought the san francisco public utilities commission has been planning to integrate groundwater. with water from sources such as hetch hetchy. the water blending is to ensure that they have enough water supple at all times. about 60% of the city will be using this water blend. and s-f-p-u-c says residents do not have to be afraid about contamination and assures this water blend will be completely safe. tonight, local water officials are trying to ease fears over san francisco's tap water. in part, because of the ongoing drought -- the city has been planning to integrate groundwater. with water from sources such as hetch hetchy. kron 4's dan kerman reports on this future blend of drinking water. the water blend will contain 10 percent groundwater and the rest from existing sources. just in to the kron four newsroom. investigators in south korea are now looking at the sunken ferry's 36- hundred tons of cargo to find out if weight contributed to the disaster. this comes as president obama spoke in south korea today. saying he can only imagine the victims' f

. >> san francisco's public utilities commission sold burned timber from its land to help offset theage to a pair of hydroelectric plants on the water system. >> we had our main distribution lines that basically transmit power between facilities. most of those distribution lines, well, all of the lines were damaged and downed by the fire activity. >> the fire forced the plant offline for about two weeks immediately after the utility went about replacing hundreds of wooden power poles and transmission lines. >> this is our suites over here. >> now, as the tourist season approaches, business owners wonder if the visitors will return. >> i think a lot of people want to come see where the fire took place. >> see what happened. >> errand has heard about the rim fire. >> the family knows life will eventually return to the blac n blackened acres and the memory of the fire will become another story. >> we're ready to go on. we look for a bright summer and enjoying the people coming, and just trying to put last year behind us a little bit. >> scary couple of weeks last year. that summer for s

. >> in san francisco, the public utilities commission is offering a number of household items for freelp you and your family conserve the ultimate commodity. >> they'll come out and do an evaluation, where they'll do a thorough indoor and outdoor assessment of your property. >> simple ways to conserve is reducing sprinkler usage, and limiting your time in the shower. >> taking a shorter shower, it can be difficult. but there's other things that you can do to conserve. you may not notice the difference. for instance, if you switch out your regular showerhead for a low flow version, you're saving up to a gallon of water per minute. and it's an easy switch. >> we're able to use the excuse of the drought to get our 2 and 4-year-old to take a bath together. they refused to take a bath together. now they need to take a bath together. we're doing it because of the drought. >> by cutting back on two loads of laundry per week, you'll save around 40 gallons of water. this can make a difference in your water bill and you'll simultaneously use less energy. cutting back now can alleviate some of th