public utility. the san francisco public utilities commission, which has been providing safe, reliable energy for our city facilities for more than 100 years, as well as delivering fresh and clear drinking water throughout the city. san francisco public utilities commission has had a high bar for a partnerships and a real commitment to community education, arts, environmental justice and workforce about me. taking full ownership of our power system, opens exciting opportunities for san francisco to invest in green jobs and infrastructure, to make our grid smaller and saved her and and make environmentally sound decisions about energy sources. it is time, beyond time really, to break the tie to pg&e and create a green, renewable, publicly owned system ". i agree with what chair peskin's head. i'm excited about this hearing and appreciate the work that has i believe there is not just a broad majority that shares the perspective that chair peskin just articulated. a full consensus on this approach. i appreciate the work, and i'm looking forward to doing whatever we can to support it. >> ms. hale, the fl

being the general manager, i don't know if it was under the water department or the san francisco public utilities commission was formed in 1996. so when you say san francisco public utilities commission, people think it's a hundred years old. no, it was formed in 1996. the reason why i say that -- am i wrong? >> the commission's been around for a long time. it has had some changes in structure. >> okay. the structure. >> but it's -- >> i made a mistake -- >> it goes back at least -- >> the structure in 1996 when things were changed. i'm saying this because originally we have to come to an understanding why did we damn the hachachee dam and reservoir and whose needs did we have in mind? that's what i'm focused on. some years ago i was doing some investigative reporting and i found out that ibm and some of the companies in the south were using inordinate millions and millions of gallons of water. and we agreed to those contracts because we get some money. now, i've attended a few of the meetings and they do a good job, but again i want to come to this place when the raker act was established, whose needs did

i think we have jim hendray before us from the san francisco public utilities commission. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am james hendray from the san francisco public utilities commission. we are here to talk about an ordinance introduced by mayor london breed. the goal is to ensure that san francisco receives maximum value and timeliness to benefit from the energy program. this builds off of a number of resolutions and ordinances that the board of supervisors have task today significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from a variety of sources. these activities compliment activities going on by the state and the california air resources board as part of ab-32, california's global warming solutions act. one of the main programs operated by the california air resources board is the lcfs, and the goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity and emissions by 20% by 2030, and it's progressively stricter standards to reduce emissions over time and creates an incentive program that those that exceeds the standards can receive credits which they can then sell. as usual, san francisco

item. >> item 26 is an ordinance to retroactively approve an agreement between the san francisco public utilities commission and the california independent system operator for reliability coordinator services , for an initial 18 month term through july 6th, 2020, to suspend the administrative code section 21.9 , subsection b., to authorize automatic renewal of contract term in excess of ten years without returning to the board for authorization, and a maximum cost not to exceed $3 million. >> okay. supervisor peskin? >> thank you. i just would like to note that i have been briefed as to the retroactivity by the department of the public utilities commission and understand and support the retroactivity in this item. >> okay. then colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madame clerk, hall the next item >> twenty-seven is a resolution to retroactively approve the six amendment to the revenue agreement between public works and jc to co- for an automatic public toilet and public service program to extend the contact -- contract

to the san francisco public utilities commission, in the last 10 years you have removed 475 trees and planted 39. and to the san francisco rec and park, we say that your rules, and the law that governs how you are in the city has no accountability for your tree removal and planting. furthermore, rec park doesn't keep any records of tree plantings and removal. and to buildings and planning, i would point out that we don't have the luxury anymore of taking out trees when they don't fit our aesthetic design. building and planning needs to be doing everything they can to preserve the trees that we already have. trees eat this polluting carbon that we're struggling with and they clean our air from the wildfires and they support the ecology that we need so desperately to -- in our circle of life. we don't need fancy tech to solve this problem when mother nature has gifted us the perfect climate change ally and warrior which is our urban forests, thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, next speaker. >> i am miel weatherall and i represent generational climate, a youth organization who

i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission.s day is tuesday, july 23, 2019. roll call, please. [ roll call ]

clean power sf is san francisco's key way of fighting climate change by renewable energy and offering it to san francisco customers. i'm from the san francisco public utilities commissionthe program came about with state wide legislation in 2002 to enable people to take more control over supplies. i first heard of the program when the organization was advocating to launch clean power sf. what i'm most excited about, it's going to bring 100% renewable energy to my home and reinvest into renewable energy infrastructure and jobs. i had gone to a lot of street fairs and heard from the staff at the san francisco public utilities commission to sign up for clean power sf even before it launched. >> we learned about clean power sf because our sustainability team is always looking for clean operations. linkedin is the largest online network. there are about 530 million members using our site. in this san francisco office there's about 1400 employees working in roughly 400,000 square feet. >> after signing up for the program we heard about the san francisco program and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. i'm the co-owner of the new wheel electric bike shop.

. >> clerk: resolution authorizing the san francisco public utilities commission to accept and expend a grant in an amount not to exceed $3,759,822 from the california state water resources control board for planning, design, and construction of the sewer system improvement program baker beach green street early implementation project for the period of november 4, 2017, through march 21, 2022. resolution authorizing the >> chair fewer: thank you very much. so i believe we have sarah bloom here. >> hello, supervisors. thank you for the opportunity to present today. i work in the wastewater enterprise of the san francisco public utilities commission, and here today i am here to speak to you about the baker beach green street projects and the grant we received from the control board. so the baker beach green street is one of our eight early implementation projects that we are delivering as part of phase one of our sewer system improvement program. we selected one project in each of our eight urban watersheds, and the baker beach green street project was selected for our richmond watershe

the water department >> good afternoon, i would like to call the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commissionn we please have the rollcall mdm. sec. [roll call] >> thank you very much. can we please have the next item. [reading items] >>

san francisco official band the gay and lesbian freedom band. please enjoy cocktails and have a great day. thank you. [applause.] ♪ ♪ >> good afternoon, i would like to call the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commissionan we please have the rollcall mdm. sec. [roll call] >> thank you very much. can we please have

tom birmingham, and i'm the director for the wastewater treatment plant for the san francisco public utilities commission. today, i'm going to give you a quick overview of the location and objectives. i'll talk about some of the technology decisions that have been made and some of the other things that we're going through right now. so as you're aware, treasure island is an island in the middle of the bay. there's a wastewater treatment plant out there, as well as other wastewater infrastructure which is ageing and well past its useful life. this is all old navy legacy infrastructure which is a challenge to maintain. however, the staff that works for the p.u.c. is doing an incredible job of maintaining it and moving forward. we currently have an m.o.u. with tida where s.f.u. has a contract on the wastewater, water, power, and gas. as i said, our staff is doing a great job going forward. we have problems, but we are quick to react and keep things going. in addition to the m.o.u. that i just mentioned for the current operations, we have another m.o.u. for the tida plant, supporting 300 new homes, and 200 a

i'd like to add that in addition to this $140 million investment, the san francisco public utilities commission has committed an additional $55 million towards the westside emergency fire-fighting water system bringing the total in new investments to nearly $200 million. our action today will protect the life and property of westside residents and secure our future generations from disaster. i am proud to be a sponsor of this bond and i really want to thank the staff at the puc, the fire department and capital planning for your work and supervisor fewer for her focused attention, particularly on the fire-fighting water system. thank you. >> president yee: colleagues, same house same call? without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madame clerk, call the next item. >> item 42 appropriate $12 million in the public utilities commission and deappropriate and reappropriate $2.1 million. >> president yee: same house same call? without objection, this is passed. please call item number 43. >> resolution to accept and expend state transportation development act article 3

i'm here today on behalf of the san francisco public utilities commission to share with you information from a public emissions standpoint. as a city, we've made significant progress in shifting the sources of our electricity to renewable energy. for context, i wanted it known from the outset that multiple agencies provide electricity supply through multiple agencies in san francisco. >> -- and you can see a mark -- a marked improvement. we're now we're ae now 70% renewable as per 2017. this slide is a projection looking out to 2025, and we're predicting that the city will be using # 5% renewable power at that time with average emissions that's almost 90% less than the 1990 levels for the city's power supply. i know my time's running out here -- >> supervisor mandelman: how many more slides do you have? >> this is the last slide, and this is the segue to -- i wanted to include this really to put in perspective how much more this is than burning gas or natural gas. electricity service from hetch hetchy power and our cleanpowersf power product is emission free, so transferring to these so

>> good afternoon, i would like to call the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission to order. can we please have the rollcall mdm. sec. [roll call] >> thank you very much. can we please have the next item. [reading items] >> is there a motion to approve the minutes of june 11? >> moved to approve. >> is there any public comment on the minutes of june 11? all of those in favor? opposed? motion carries. next item please. [reading items] >> i do have some speaker cards here. good afternoon. >> thank you. >> can we move the overhead please? >> thank you advice chair vietor and commissioners. i am executive director, welcome commissioner maxwell and commissioner paulson who is not here. it's an honor for you to be appointed commission and an important responsibility as you well know. the folks that sit on the commission and work for the sfpuc do important public work we should all expect - respect even if we disagree with some of the things they want to do. thank you. a few months ago, i came before this commission and talked about the history of the damning in yosemite n

what we've found that's a barrier to us is because the san francisco public utilities commission is an enterprise energy they are pretty much mandated to be conservative and protect the rate payers, they are not going to take on a project with that boldness. it needs to be done by the board of supervisors. help lafco and help all of us as advocates to get this thing going. thanks. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> thanks for having me. my name's yvonne. i teach at u.c. berkeley and volunteer at compassionate bay? we need to prioritize animal agriculture into the plan? every year, animal agriculture contributes 9% of co dl2 emissions? but that's nothing because methane emissions are 20 times more terrible than co2 emissions, and 30% of methane emissions are caused by animal ag. and 65% of no2 emissions are caused from animal ag. first steps that we can take are eliminating dairy, eggs, and meat from government, schools, and hospitals, as new york city has started to go towards that direction. you know, san francisco can, too, and we can be the kpamping for the world.

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this also does not show the san francisco public utilities commission contribution to the project. we are working with them right now to determine their share of the project and we will add that into our next update as well. we have talked about these before and our other potential funding sources, both federal and state, as well as regional and local funding sources that we are looking to to fund the full implementation of better market street between stuart and octavia. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner fewer? >> thank you very much. my question just is about this funding and where is the second phase in line with the funding for better market street? because i think we made a commitment to the second phase way before we made a commitment to better market street. so is this interfering with any of the funding that could be geared -- projected towards a second phase of the gary b.r.t.? why are we starting two huge projects that funding one of them that was actually voted on even before i came into office? >> thank you. commissioner fewer, that is a great question. both project

item 42, 190766, resoln authorizing the san francisco public utilities commission to accept and expend grant in an amount not to exceed $3,759,822 from the california state water resources control board for planning, design, and construction of the sewer system improvement program baker beach green street early implementation project for the period of november 4, 2017, through march 21, 2022. >> supervisor yee: can we take this item same house same call? without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously. madame clerk, please call the next item . item 43, 190764, resoln approving and authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute documents relating to loans for the acquisition, rehabilitation, or permanent financing of four project sites pursuant to the small sites program, preservation and seismic safety program, and downtown neighborhoods preservation fund, for a total loan amount not to exceed $37,493,000; confirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act; and finding that the proje

items are constituted as a consent calendar and are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by single vote.." be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the public or the commission requests, and then it would be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. >> would any commissioners like to remove any of the items? >> yes, i would like to remove item be. >> we will remove item 11 b. and here that separately. if you could go ahead and please read the other items. >> i would also like -- i have a question about item c. >> okay. >> would you like it removed? >> yes, please. >> item b. and c., and then if you could read the other items. >> i generally just read the summary you want each item? >> just a summary. >> okay. i have read that. >> okay. so before you, we have a consent calendar and consists of 11 a., d., e., f., g., and h. is there a motion to approve those items. >> move. >> i will second that. >> any public comment on the consent calendar. all those in favor? >> aye. >> "host? the consent calendar passes. now w

abc7 news was in san francisco as the california public utilities commission held its first forum onhe issue on vanness avenue. in december, they requested the increase so this can make il provements when it comes to wildfire prepresentation. the typical bill could go up to $10.57 a month starting in 2020. lyanne melendez will have more for you on abc "news at 5:00." >> days after two massive earthquakes hit southern california, people there are still trying to clean up the damage. there's stilt uncertainty that it could happen again, of course. >> that's right. that's the fear. abc7 news reporter mag tev be russian is live with the latest on this. >> reporter: the number of aftershocks has gone down significantly. still prepared. >>. >> for the first time since friday's 7.1 quake, shopping centers like this are seeing life again. >> it's slowly getting back to normal. >> reporter: long time residents susan and jeff mcknight say the worst daniel cuts close to the heart. >> it's a good community. you still break into tears. i'm scared of death. i ran in the store and look up and the r

people to come to the downtown san francisco civic center headquarters of the cpuc to express their opinions, but some really did. the california public utilities commission held the first in the series of public dissipation meetings to get feedback on pg&e's request to build to build 16 million of the customer side dish an additional $2 billion for the next 3 years. this is to help pay for wild fire safety improvements another mostly safety costs. the most common theme from the 14 public speakers was no rate increase at all, some saying in effect that the cpuc is a handmaiden for pg&e. >> the audacity of the organization that puts profit over people to come and ask for management who did not maintain the power lines, new they should've been shut off that day and did not do it. >> a second major th >> there's no living excuse for not having our wires on the ground. >> the third prominent theme, make pg&e a publicly owned power provider. >> calls for the nationalization of pg&e and running it under workers control. >> if granted in december, pg&e will get another $1 billion above current rates in 2020. 454 million more in 2021. 486 more in 2022. next year