san francisco public utilities commission. and as general manager kelly mentioned, this is quickly evolving situation. we are the -- the puc is specifically in heavy coordination with the department of human resources, the city department of human resources as well as the department of emergency management and the department of public health. all is coming together with a lot of guidance and cord nation that is changing -- coordination that is changing rapidly. the puc launched a cross functional team in the end of february within our department comprised of emergency planning and security, health and safety, h.r., specifically employee and labor relations, information technology and finance. so we started meeting regularly to basically tackle preparations, answer questions as the situation evolves. some of the things i'm going to highlight today that we've been tackling, i'm not going over everything but these are the highlights. we launched a renewed analysis for continuity of operations plan. this is analysis that comes out

san francisco public utilities commission. and as general manager kelly mentioned, this is quickly evolving situation. we are the -- the puc is specifically in heavy coordination with the department of human resources, the city department of human resources as well as the department of emergency management and the department of public health. all is coming together with a lot of guidance and cord nation that is changing -- coordination that is changing rapidly. the puc launched a cross functional team in the end of february within our department comprised of emergency planning and security, health and safety, h.r., specifically employee and labor relations, information technology and finance. so we started meeting regularly to basically tackle preparations, answer questions as the situation evolves. some of the things i'm going to highlight today that we've been tackling, i'm not going over everything but these are the highlights. we launched a renewed analysis for continuity of operations plan. this is analysis that comes out

san francisco public utilities commission. and as general manager kelly mentioned, this is quickly evolving situation. we are the -- the puc is specifically in heavy coordination with the department of human resources, the city department of human resources as well as the department of emergency management and the department of public health. all is coming together with a lot of guidance and cord nation that is changing -- coordination that is changing rapidly. the puc launched a cross functional team in the end of february within our department comprised of emergency planning and security, health and safety, h.r., specifically employee and labor relations, information technology and finance. so we started meeting regularly to basically tackle preparations, answer questions as the situation evolves. some of the things i'm going to highlight today that we've been tackling, i'm not going over everything but these are the highlights. we launched a renewed analysis for continuity of operations plan. this is analysis that comes out

. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunitie

san francisco public utilities commission. and as general manager kelly mentioned, this is quickly evolving situation. we are the -- the puc is specifically in heavy coordination with the department of human resources, the city department of human resources as well as the department of emergency management and the department of public health. all is coming together with a lot of guidance and cord nation that is changing -- coordination that is changing rapidly. the puc launched a cross functional team in the end of february within our department comprised of emergency planning and security, health and safety, h.r., specifically employee and labor relations, information technology and finance. so we started meeting regularly to basically tackle preparations, answer questions as the situation evolves. some of the things i'm going to highlight today that we've been tackling, i'm not going over everything but these are the highlights. we launched a renewed analysis for continuity of operations plan. this is analysis that comes out

san francisco public utilities commission.and as general manager kelly mentioned, this is quickly evolving situation. we are the -- the puc is specifically in heavy coordination with the department of human resources, the city department of human resources as well as the department of emergency management and the department of public health. all is coming together with a lot of guidance and cord nation that is changing -- coordination that is changing rapidly. the puc launched a cross functional team in the end of february within our department comprised of emergency planning and security, health and safety, h.r., specifically employee and labor relations, information technology and finance. so we started meeting regularly to basically tackle preparations, answer questions as the situation evolves. some of the things i'm going to highlight today that we've been tackling, i'm not going over everything but these are the highlights. we launched a renewed analysis for continuity of operations plan. this is analysis that comes out

. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunitie

public school system here in san francisco as a result of legislation that had passed from the state requiring all of the public schools to do lead testing. and so as a result, the public utilities commission and the water quality team in particular was asked to meet with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a full service environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality enterprise, we have to also have drinking water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. and lead in schools, we're playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to know, and it's up to these individuals and th

into one or more memoranda of understands with various city agencies, including the san francisco public utilities commission, the san francisco public works department and the department of public work inspection relating to each agency's role and responsibility perform and four, adoption of environmental findings, including a mitigation, monitoring and reporting program and a statement of overriding consideration pursuant to the california environmental quality act. >> good afternoon, commissioners. david with real estate and development. i'm joined here today by the potrero power station team enrique, aaron and tina. and also joined by city staff and port staff, including john from economic and workforce development, mike martin. and i just want to show my appreciation for eileen, carol and sam who have been extremely helpful in pulling this together. i was in front of the commission at the last commission meeting two weeks ago. i'm going to try to keep the meeting -- the presentation brief. but just wanted to give you an introduction to the project. the port's role in the project, the location and the pl

. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing.doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the w

or maybe good evening and welcome to the marcl meeting between the san francisco board of supervisors and the public utilities commission. welcome, commissioners and welcome president caen. so madame clerk, will you please call the role for the board of supervisors? >> thank you, mr. president. [roll call] >> thank you, madame clerk. i will now hand this over to president caen of the public utilities commission. >> madame secretary, could you please -- i'm sorry what? >> nothing >> could you call roll call? >> [roll call] we have a quorum. >> good of my i yield the floor back to you. >> thank you. madame clerk, thank you madame president. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sf gov tv who record the meetings and make the transcripts available online. thank you for joining us today on this very important topic. before we proceed, president caen, would you like to make any opening remarks? >> i will defer any opening remarks because i would like to get to the basics of why we're here. and i know that we are moving in concert together. and let's proceed. >> okay. madame clerk, are there any comm

or maybe good evening and welcome to the marcl meeting between the san francisco board of supervisors and the public utilities commission. welcome, commissioners and welcome president caen. so madame clerk, will you please call the role for the board of supervisors? >> thank you, mr. president. [roll call] >> thank you, madame clerk. i will now hand this over to president caen of the public utilities commission. >> madame secretary, could you please -- i'm sorry what? >> nothing >> could you call roll call? >> [roll call] we have a quorum. >> good of my i yield the floor back to you. >> thank you. madame clerk, thank you madame president. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sf gov tv who record the meetings and make the transcripts available online. thank you for joining us today on this very important topic. before we proceed, president caen, would you like to make any opening remarks? >> i will defer any opening remarks because i would like to get to the basics of why we're here. and i know that we are moving in concert together. and let's proceed. >> okay. madame clerk, are there any comm

or maybe good evening and welcome to the marcl meeting between the san francisco board of supervisors and the public utilities commission. welcome, commissioners and welcome president caen. so madame clerk, will you please call the role for the board of supervisors? >> thank you, mr. president. [roll call] >> thank you, madame clerk. i will now hand this over to president caen of the public utilities commission. >> madame secretary, could you please -- i'm sorry what? >> nothing >> could you call roll call? >> [roll call] we have a quorum. >> good of my i yield the floor back to you. >> thank you. madame clerk, thank you madame president. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sf gov tv who record the meetings and make the transcripts available online. thank you for joining us today on this very important topic. before we proceed, president caen, would you like to make any opening remarks? >> i will defer any opening remarks because i would like to get to the basics of why we're here. and i know that we are moving in concert together. and let's proceed. >> okay. madame clerk, are there any comm

into one or more memoranda of understands with various city agencies, including the san francisco public utilities commissionfrancisco public works department and the department of public work inspection relating to each agency's role and responsibility perform and four, adoption of environmental findings, including a mitigation, monitoring and reporting program and a statement of overriding consideration pursuant to the california environmental quality act. >> good afternoon, commissioners. david with real estate and development. i'm joined here today by the potrero power station team enrique, aaron and tina. and also joined by city staff and port staff, including john from economic and workforce development, mike martin. and i just want to show my appreciation for eileen, carol and sam who have been extremely helpful in pulling this together. i was in front of the commission at the last commission meeting two weeks ago. i'm going to try to keep the meeting -- the presentation brief. but just wanted to give you an introduction to the project. the port's role in the project, the location and the plan. and th

businesses that do business in san francisco and are conducting themselves in san francisco, we'd like to see immediate action. it looks like our public utilities commission are already taking those steps. we need to ensure the lives of our businesses and residents, although they're being disrupte disrupted -- we need to take immediate steps to protect our communities, that they're not having financial crises, as well. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor stefani? >> supervis supervisor ronen, you wanted to speak? >> supervisor ronen: yes. i'm just a horrible human and did not thank my wonderful staff for all of this work. santiago, paul, and jennifer have been working nonstop on all of the items that i introduced, so thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you. thank you, supervisor stefani, for all of your patience. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, madam clerk. just want to thank my colleagues and the public for coming together against protecting us against covid-19. politicizing this in any way is not something we should be doing. it is my understanding that the school district, the san francisco school district has voted not to c

businesses that do business in san francisco and are conducting themselves in san francisco, we'd like to see immediate action. it looks like our public utilities commission are already taking those steps. we need to ensure the lives of our businesses and residents, although they're being disrupte disrupted -- we need to take immediate steps to protect our communities, that they're not having financial crises, as well. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor stefani? >> supervis supervisor ronen, you wanted to speak? >> supervisor ronen: yes. i'm just a horrible human and did not thank my wonderful staff for all of this work. santiago, paul, and jennifer have been working nonstop on all of the items that i introduced, so thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you. thank you, supervisor stefani,. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, madam clerk. just want to thank my colleagues and the public for coming together against protecting us against covid-19. politicizing this in any way is not something we should be doing. it is my understanding that the school district, the san francisco school district has voted not to close schools, and jo i do

san francisco. probably mayor london breed for those efforts, mayor liccardo. san jose and others have advanced local efforts. we also made the point that the public utilities commission it relates to oversight and management of our utilities to make sure people are not facing their gas being turned off, their internet being submit down, their water being shut down. because they can't pay a utility bill or the like. >> we're having a little bit of technical difficulty getting that news conference from good afternoon newsom. it is available on twitter there at the officer of the governor of california. earlier today, we did meet with hospital leaders to talk about the state's response to covid-19. that's what he's going to be discussing today. as soon as we learn more about the news conference, we will bring you that information a little later ♪ blow a kiss into the sun ♪ we need someone to lean on ♪ blow a kiss into the sun ♪ all we needed somebody to lean on ♪ ♪ ♪ lease the volvo xc40 for $329 per month. at your local volvo retailer. it's only human to find inspiration in nature. and also find answers. our search to transform... ...farm waste into renewable natural g

or maybe good evening and welcome to the marcl meeting between the san francisco board of supervisors and the public utilities commissionwelcome, commissioners and welcome president caen. so madame clerk, will you please call the role for the board of supervisors? >> thank you, mr. president. [roll call] >> thank you, madame clerk. i will now hand this over to president caen of the public utilities commission. >> madame secretary, could you please -- i'm sorry what? >> nothing >> could you call roll call? >> [roll call] we have a quorum. >> good of my i yield the floor back to you. >> thank you. madame clerk, thank you madame president. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sf gov tv who record the meetings and make the transcripts available online. thank you for joining us today on this very important topic. before we proceed, president caen, would you like to make any opening remarks? >> i will defer any opening remarks because i would like to get to the basics of why we're here. and i know that we are moving in concert together. and let's proceed. >> okay. madame clerk, are there any commun

public transportation system? >> so a bunch of questions embedded there. so in san francisco, we don't have the authority to regulate uber or lyft. we are currently engaged with the california public utilities commission which does have that authority to see are there some carve-outs that we can have in san francisco in order to be able to welcome private providers that provide a tremendous amount of convenience for the people who can afford them but to allow that to the extent that it upholds the public good, that whereby we have the tools to manage the public right of way for the greatest public good. so that is some work that we're doing. at the same time, we're also working in order to minimize the congestion impact on the highest capacity most efficient modes of transportation, which are basically the highest ridership muni lines. so as you can see, we have done a tremendous amount of work recently on market street that's paying huge dividends in terms of improved speed and reliability. as we shorten the muni trip, we can also reinvest the travel time savings in improved frequency of service, which also results then in improved capacity of service. so we are doing the same thing on third and four

businesses that do business in san francisco and are conducting themselves in san francisco, we'd like to see immediate action. it looks like our public utilities commission are already taking those steps. we need to ensure the lives of our businesses and residents, although they're being disrupte disrupted -- we need to take immediate steps to protect our communities, that they're not having financial crises, as well. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor stefani? >> supervis supervisor ronen, you wanted to speak? >> supervisor ronen: yes. i'm just a horrible human and did not thank my wonderful staff for all of this work. santiago, paul, and jennifer have been working nonstop on all of the items that i introduced, so thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you. thank you, supervisor stefani, for all of your patience. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, madam clerk. just want to thank my colleagues and the public for coming together against protecting us against covid-19. politicizing this in any way is not something we should be doing. it is my understanding that the school district, the san francisco school district has voted not to c

. >>> san francisco is giving a break to people who can't pay their water and power bills. the city's public utilities commission won't shut off service to people who don't pay their bills and it won't impose late fees for people who can't pay on time. san francisco municipal transportation agency will also suspend penalties for citations and extend deadlines to appeal a citation. >>> concerns over covid-19 are changing life around the bay area. a look now at market street in san francisco shows tourism down. even the locals are not going out very much. bars, restaurants among the hardest hit. a taco bar near fillmore street usually busy on a saturday night had just three customers last night and the manager says they are seeing big changes. >> we have to start making adjustments now. staff and everything else like anybody else. unfortunately, it is not going too well. >> everyone is trying to be careful. that is important now especially in this environment. >> that includes a ban on all visitors at hospitals in san francisco >>> for all the latest information and in-depth coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, y

businesses that do business in san francisco and are conducting themselves in san francisco, we'd like to see immediate action. it looks like our public utilities commission are already taking those steps. we need to ensure the lives of our businesses and residents, although they're being disrupte disrupted -- we need to take immediate steps to protect our communities, that they're not having financial crises, as well. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor stefani? >> supervis supervisor ronen, you wanted to speak? >> supervisor ronen: yes. i'm just a horrible human and did not thank my wonderful staff for all of this work. santiago, paul, and jennifer have been working nonstop on all of the items that i introduced, so thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you. thank you, supervisor stefani, for all of your patience. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, madam clerk. just want to thank my colleagues and the public for coming together against protecting us against covid-19. politicizing this in any way is not something we should be doing. it is my understanding that the school district, the san francisco school district has voted not to c

, san francisco announced no one will have power or water shut off because they can't pay bills during the coronavirus pandemic. the late payments and penalties to muni a or public utilities commission waived, that order in effect for two months. as people practice social distancing and stay home because trying to limit the spread of the coronavirus, small businesses are feeling the impacts. today in oakland, the mayor and congressman barbara lee met with business leaders to address concerns and talk about what's being done. nbc bay area kristi smith joins us live from oakland to explain. >> terry, they talked about local, state and federal efforts to help small businesses. the mayor pointed out there are things people can do too like ordering food for delivery, maybe ordering a gift certificate online to a local shop and then using it later. the businesses we spoke with say their situation keeps getting worse. >> the business now is very low. >> reporter: manuel torres says the business fell 50% at his oakland straund. people are working from home and staying in to stot the spread of the coronavirus. >> maybe next week i maybe change. >> he uses delivery services and cleans more. t

businesses that do business in san francisco and are conducting themselves in san francisco, we'd like to see immediate action. it looks like our public utilities commission are already taking those steps. we need to ensure the lives of our businesses and residents, although they're being disrupte disrupted -- we need to take immediate steps to protect our communities, that they're not having financial crises, as well. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor stefani? >> supervis supervisor ronen, you wanted to speak? >> supervisor ronen: yes. i'm just a horrible human and did not thank my wonderful staff for all of this work. santiago, paul, and jennifer have been working nonstop on all of the items that i introduced, so thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you. thank you, supervisor stefani, for all of your patience. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, madam clerk. just want to thank my colleagues and the public for coming together against protecting us against covid-19. politicizing this in any way is not something we should be doing. it is my understanding that the school district, the san francisco school district has voted not to c

public transportation system? >> so a bunch of questions embedded there. so in san francisco, we don't have the authority to regulate uber or lyft. we are currently engaged with the california public utilities commission which does have that authority to see are there some carve-outs that we can have in san francisco in order to be able to welcome private providers that provide a tremendous amount of convenience for the people who can afford them but to allow that to the extent that it upholds the public good, that whereby we have the tools to manage the public right of way for the greatest public good. so that is some work that we're doing. at the same time, we're also working in order to minimize the congestion impact on the highest capacity most efficient modes of transportation, which are basically the highest ridership muni lines. so as you can see, we have done a tremendous amount of work recently on market street that's paying huge dividends in terms of improved speed and reliability. as we shorten the muni trip, we can also reinvest the travel time savings in improved frequency of service, which also results then in improved capacity of service. so we are doing the same thing on third and four

or maybe good evening and welcome to the marcl meeting between the san francisco board of supervisors and the public utilities commission. welcome, commissioners and welcome president caen. so madame clerk, will you please call the role for the board of supervisors? >> thank you, mr. president. [roll call] >> thank you, madame clerk. i will now hand this over to president caen of the public utilities commission. >> madame secretary, could you please -- i'm sorry what? >> nothing >> could you call roll call? >> [roll call] we have a quorum. >> good of my i yield the floor back to you. >> thank you. madame clerk, thank you madame president. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sf gov tv who record the meetings and make the transcripts available online. thank you for joining us today on this very important topic. before we proceed, president caen, would you like to make any opening remarks? >> i will defer any opening remarks because i would like to get to the basics of why we're here. and i know that we are moving in concert together. and let's proceed. >> okay. madame clerk, are there any comm

public transportation system? >> so a bunch of questions embedded there. so in san francisco, we don't have the authority to regulate uber or lyft. we are currently engaged with the california public utilities commission which does have that authority to see are there some carve-outs that we can have in san francisco in order to be able to welcome private providers that provide a tremendous amount of convenience for the people who can afford them but to allow that to the extent that it upholds the public good, that whereby we have the tools to manage the public right of way for the greatest public good. so that is some work that we're doing. at the same time, we're also working in order to minimize the congestion impact on the highest capacity most efficient modes of transportation, which are basically the highest ridership muni lines. so as you can see, we have done a tremendous amount of work recently on market street that's paying huge dividends in terms of improved speed and reliability. as we shorten the muni trip, we can also reinvest the travel time savings in improved frequency of service, which also results then in improved capacity of service. so we are doing the same thing on third and four

san francisco. the utility file for bankruptcy protection last year as it faced billions of dollars in liabilities from deadly wildfires linked to its agreement. today, the hearing at the public utilities commission gets underway at 9:30 this morning. >>> straightahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, small group making some history in santa clara county, their big award that could change the future of transportation. >>> the market just opened working with mike bloomberg was one of the most empowering experiences that i've had. it's important to talk to the people who know him personally. i worked for him for 8 years in city hall. i've been working for bloomberg for 27 years. 25 years. almost 30 years. there's nobody that i respect more, and felt more respected by. mike believes excellence is not defined by gender. mike builds a culture that advances women. i was the first woman ever appointed to be council to the mayor. he expects excellence out of everyone, but he also provides the kind of support that allows you to be that person. mike called to tell me, you should be proud of what you've done and your name should be on that project. he has faith in you, he believes in you. it was ab

public transportation system? >> so a bunch of questions embedded there. so in san francisco, we don't have the authority to regulate uber or lyft. we are currently engaged with the california public utilities commission which does have that authority to see are there some carve-outs that we can have in san francisco in order to be able to welcome private providers that provide a tremendous amount of convenience for the people who can afford them but to allow that to the extent that it upholds the public good, that whereby we have the tools to manage the public right of way for the greatest public good. so that is some work that we're doing. at the same time, we're also working in order to minimize the congestion impact on the highest capacity most efficient modes of transportation, which are basically the highest ridership muni lines. so as you can see, we have done a tremendous amount of work recently on market street that's paying huge dividends in terms of improved speed and reliability. as we shorten the muni trip, we can also reinvest the travel time savings in improved frequency of service, which also results then in improved capacity of service. so we are doing the same thing on third and four