. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. hey 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 opportunities on

the terms of an employment contract, pursuant to san francisco charter section 8b.126 (a) and (c), between the san francisco public utilities commissionnd dennis herrera, general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission, and authorize the president of the commission to execute the contract amendment. >> thank you. to put this in context 2 years ago when the mayor nominated and the commission both interviewed, hired and negotiated a contract with the general manager herrera, there was a 4 year contract that was put in place and based on the way those contract negotiations went there was a reopener for two years, and so this was going to be revisited by the commission, which we have been revisiting and what you see here today is an action item. what happened is that there was again a very robust performance review and i want to thank if i could just say, dennis herrera for going very deeply into answering questions that all 5 of us as commissioners talked about what happened and what we expect over the next couple years, so thank you and there has been a-i feel mfortable that based on because this is contract negotiation

call the, uh, the item and get this meeting started, i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that it owns and are stewards of the unceded lands located within

and these were all put up by the san francisco public utilities commission just this morning. this is a low-lying area of the city that is prone to flooding, and of course, raj, you mentioned it. but this triggers bad memories, especially for folks in this area. you may remember the area got hit really hard. those new year's day storms last year. crews are out inspecting storm drains and clearing them all night across the city. so they're out and about. meantime, on the pg&e side, they say they're not expecting widespread impact from this storm. they're mostly looking at wind gusts and say they don't believe the wind gusts are going to be enough that they have to take any extra measures. but the spokesperson did say that they are ready should emergencies pop up. we did talk to a business down the road here that says they are a little concerned about this weekend after last year. they got sandbags out, and by the way, sf public works says that they will have sandbags out and ready for you to pick up from 8:00 to 2:00 p.m. tomorrow. raj, back to you. >> dry for now where gia van

. >> item 10, ordinance authorizing the san francisco public utilities commission (sfpuc) and the office of the city attorney to approve settlements of claims arising out of the september 10, 2023, break of the sfpuc's water transmission pipeline at the intersection of fillmore and green streets for amounts exceeding $25,000 per claim, notwithstanding administrative code, section 10.22, et. seq., but not to exceed $1,000,000 per claim, and delegating authority under charter, section 6.102(5) for the settlement of related litigation, if any, up to an aggregate total settlement amount not to exceed $7,000,000, subject to periodic reporting to the board of supervisors government audit and oversight committee. >> thank you madam clerk and vice chair stefani is the sponsor. thank you for bringing this forward and i believe that we have jeremy spits from sfpuc here today. i see you. come forward and please floor is yours to present on the item. welcome, mr. spits. sorry, vice chair stefani. >> thank you chair preston. this is a real simple matter in my opinion, but there was a huge major water

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 commissionprogram 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. we

. >> i like to announce thament that the san francisco public utilities commission owns and steward of--descendants of the federally recognized mission san hoe say band of alameda county. the sfpuc recognizes that every citizen residing within the greater bay area has and toibs to benefit from the use and occupation of the oholone tribes aboriginal lands before and after the san francisco public utility commission founding in 1933. it is vitally important we recognize the history of the tribal lands which we reside but acknowledge and honor establishing a working partnership with the sfpuc and productive and flourishing members within san francisco bay area today. okay, so first item, >> item 3, approval of minutes november 28, 2023. >> we will open to public comment? >> any members present to provide comment on the minutes? seeing none. >> seeing none, can i get a motion and second to approve the minutes of november 28? >> i'll second. >> we have roll call, please? >> paulson, aye. rivera, aye. maxwell, aye. ajami, aye. stacy, aye. you have 5 ayes. >> item 4 is general public comment

san francisco is bracing for the rain as well. this was last night near 17th and fulsome. the san francisco public utilities commissionrriers to line buildings. last year's new year's eve storm inundated this intersection flooding the street and parking lots. people in that area can find sandbags throughout the neighborhood. we spoke with a restaurant. the floor there is brand new, because of last year's flooding. >> it is no good here. so every time, we close, for the -- the sandbags outside, because we don't know what it is. >> public works says crews are on standby for cases like big trees coming down. pg&e has been pro active working to trim back branches and trees. they do not expect that much wind, which will cause outages during the storm. >>> as always, you can rely on nbc bay area to move you forward through these storms. this is a live look at our stormranger scanning atop from san bruno mountain. stormranger is "the" most accurate weather radar in the bay area. you can see realtime scans for yourself anytime on our free nbc bay area app. if you want to get that app just point your phone's camera at the qr c

call the, uh, the item and get this meeting started, i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that it owns and are stewards of the unceded lands located within the ethnohistoric territory of the muwekma ohlone tribe and other familiar descendants of the historic, federally recognized mission san jose verona band of alameda county. the sfpuc also recognizes that every citizen residing within the greater bay area has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the muwekma ohlone tribe's aboriginal lands since before and after the san francisco public utilities commission's founding in 1932. it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the tribal lands on which we reside, but also we acknowledge and honor the fact that the ohlone people have established a working partnership with the sfpuc and are productive and flourishing members within the greater san francisco bay area community. today i also have another announcement at the end of the january 23rd regular meeting. there was an omission of reporting following the closed session, s

chan and let's call item funding and design on the westside of san francisco; and requesting the san francisco public utilities commission to report thank you supervisor chan for bringing this item to the committee something is highly important to me and other supervisor. thank you very much. so- >> thank you. i want to say, you know, to say that really i'm picking up the work that has been - i'm only building on the work by supervisor fewer with the and with the mayor and you colleagues here to make sure that we have an emergency firefighter emergency testimony system on the west side and, of course, we had one supervisor that was part of that advocacy work as well with that said, like supervisor melgar mentioned and priorities on the west side one of the government audit and oversight committee thanks to supervisor preston the compare of if we discovered the lack of funding to complete the design for the system on the west side. originally was planned to extend all the way to the richmond with the funding available that was roughly one hundred million dollars allocation is not enough to cover that at all. and so follow

the san francisco public utility commission which operate the water department arrived soon after and served as the lead response agency given the cause of the sink hole. after the leaking pipe was shut down, the crews made temporary repairs so the road could be reopened. we dispatched engineers to access whether the damage extended beyond the sink hole. at this point all looks good. the puc has not asked for aadditional assistance and will over see the water pipe and road repairs. and lastly, i wanted to note that this saturday we will be kicking off our 2024 season of love our city neighborhood beautification days. these are volunteer events with morning of greening and cleaning projects in the richmond. elementary at 18th avenue and cabrillo and head to project sites. last year volunteers contributed 3290 hours of their time planting trees, weeding medians, clearing off invasive ivy from hillside, removing gufreety, picking up litter, painting street furchture. the events bring people of all ages with lots of multigenerational families in the mix. one great thing about neighborhood

. >> item 17, ordinance authorizing the san francisco public utilities commission (sfpuc) and the office of the city attorney to approve settlements of claims arising out of the september 10, 2023, break of the sfpuc's water transmission pipeline at the intersection of fillmore and green streets for amounts exceeding $25,000 per claim, notwithstanding administrative code, section 10.22, et. seq., but not to exceed $1,000,000 per claim, and delegating authority under charter, section 6.102(5) for the settlement of related litigation, if any, up to an aggregate total settlement amount not to exceed $7,000,000, subject to periodic reporting to the board of supervisors government audit and oversight committee. >> see no names on the roster, same house same call the ordinance is finally passed. next item, please. >> item 18 was referred without recommendation from the land use and transportation committee. item 18, ordinance amending the planning code to designate the westwood park entrance gateways and pillars, located at the intersections of miramar avenue and monterey boulevard, miramar av

. >> item 17, ordinance authorizing the san francisco public utilities commission (sfpuc) and the office of the city attorney to approve settlements of claims arising out of the september 10, 2023, break of the sfpuc's water transmission pipeline at the intersection of fillmore and green streets for amounts exceeding $25,000 per claim, notwithstanding administrative code, section 10.22, et. seq., but not to exceed $1,000,000 per claim, and delegating authority under charter, section 6.102(5) for the settlement of related litigation, if any, up to an aggregate total settlement amount not to exceed $7,000,000, subject to periodic reporting to the board of supervisors government audit and oversight committee. >> see no names on the roster, same house same call the ordinance is finally passed. next item, please. >> item 18 was referred without recommendation from the land use and transportation committee. item 18, ordinance amending the planning code to designate the westwood park entrance gateways and pillars, located at the intersections of miramar avenue and monterey boulevard, miramar av

i had a project with the san francisco public utilities commission which i believe is the first time that a city actually funded research at a national laboratory. and this was, the city of san francisco is charged with rebuilding the wastewater management, sewers. they consider climate change with this. and they asked me about extreme participation -- precipitation. they told us to give us a dozen of storms and satellite area and we were able to analyze six of those. the atmospheric river storms have a bomb cycle associated with responding in a way that i was surprised about twice the expected rate. that was used by their consultants to modify their curves, the intensity duration. they are intensity duration frequency it is designed tool that engineers use. that is the extent of my knowledge. i will quote what susan liao said who was the former director of the public utilities commission and she said, i quote, "there ain't no pipe big enough. " and since that has been the engineers and do not -- designers going back to the drawing room saying how do we accommodate these storms in a

. >> i like to announce thament that the san francisco public utilities commission owns and steward of federally recognized mission san hoe say band of alameda county. the sfpuc recognizes that every citizen residing within the greater bay area has and

you have a quorum. >> i like to announce thament that the san francisco public utilities commission owns and steward of--descendants of the federally recognized mission san hoe say band of alameda county. the sfpuc recognizes that every citizen residing within the greater bay area has

new list from the police commission is expected to be ready by march. 1st, demonstrators gathered outside the cpu see office today in san francisco, the california public utilities commission protesting another pg and e hike. >> a 12.8% increase was approved back in november. it went into effect this month and now a proposal is in the works so well. increased rates again this time by 7.8% in the summer pg e says the bulk of the money will go toward safety upgrades. but protesters are calling on the commission to roll back rates. >> with all the billions of dollars that pg e has in profits rise it on us to have to pay why are they not paying that? and that's what we're here to challenge them just cosa into the larger movement to make life livable here in affordable the fact of the ceo and one here be post hike would have the average customer pay an additional $14 a month to recover. >> almost 2 billion dollars already spent to reduce wildfire risks. watchdog agency called the utility reform network return is also demanding lower rates. it is working with lawmakers on ways to try to put limits on price hikes. a new ordinance making it illegal to be a spectator at

next item is san francisco begins wastewater analysis for fentanyl [indiscernible] and high risk substance s. the health department with assistance of the san francisco public utility commission begun wastewater testing for substances, including fentanyl to track trends and inform response activities. san francisco is one of 70 communities across the united states participate in the first of kind initiative by the national institute on drug abuse to gauge and measure the presence of substance associated with adverse health consequence including overdose through wastewater testing. earlier this month requested dph the public utility commission sent wastewater samples from two treatment plants to a company that received federal contract from nida, wastewater surveillance program testing the water. dph is expected to receive initial results january and every 2 weeks going forward. san francisco participation is no cost to the city. under the current contract program the program is scheduled to end late august 2024. moving to next item, happy to report to the commission that the dph primary care team hosted awards this week. all 500 members were invited. including eligibility wor

. >> i like to announce thament that the san francisco public utilities commission owns and steward of--descendants

. >> item 10, ordinance authorizing the san francisco public utilities commission (sfpuc) and the office approve settlements of claims arising out of the september 10, 2023, break of the sfpuc's water transmission pipeline at the intersection of fillmore and green streets for amounts exceeding $25,000 per claim, notwithstanding administrative code, section 10.22, et. seq., but not to exceed $1,000,000 per claim, and delegating authority under charter, section 6.102(5) for the settlement of related litigation, if any, up to an aggregate total settlement amount not to exceed $7,000,000, subject to periodic reporting to the board of supervisors government audit and oversight committee. >> thank you madam clerk and vice chair stefani is the sponsor. thank you for bringing this forward and i believe that we have jeremy spits from sfpuc here today. i see you. come forward and please floor is yours to present on the item. welcome, mr. spits. sorry, vice chair stefani. >> thank you chair preston. this is a real simple matter in there was a huge major water main break in my district at fillmore a

before the first item i like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges it owns and stewards of the lands within the

so before we call the first item, i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that its . excuse me, that its own owns and are stewards of the unseated lands located with the in the ethnohistoric territory of the ohlone tribe and other familiar descendants of the federally historic recognized mission san jose. verona band of alameda county. the sfpuc also recognizes that every citizen residing within the greater bay area has and continues to benefit from, from. excuse me, the use and occupation of the ohlone tribes aboriginal lands since before and after the san francisco public utility commission's founding in 1932. it is vitally important that we are not only recognize the history of the tribal landsicwee acknowledge and honor the fact that the ohlone people have established a working partnership with the sfp, auc and are productive and flourishing members within the greater san francisco bay area community today. so as i said, we are here for, um, the, uh, budget hearings. and so, um, can we have the first item item number three, public hearing a

now, crews from pg and e, san francisco public works and the public utility commission were on scenethere told ktvu crews that based outs of buildings in the area had been flooded. in the newsroom. i'm bailey o'carroll, ktvu, fox two news. >> all right, bailey, thank you for that. >> a young boy and his father were pulled from the ocean right near pacifica. this happened just after noon today. west of sharp park golf course. the rescue included two fire companies, a rescue unit, a chp helicopter, state park personnel and coast guard air and water units. now, the father and son were taken to a hospital in san francisco. right now, no word from authorities about what the father and son were doing prior to being rescued or what their conditions are tonight. this weekend, san francisco firefighters rescued a surfer who got into some trouble. it happened yesterday out at point lobos. not far from the land's end lookout. two boats were dispatched to rescue swimmer with rescue swimmers who helped the surfer get out of the water and onto the boat. fire department officials have not released

called the coalition to stop pg&e rate hikes met this morning in front of the public utilities commission in san francisco. they are calling on regulators to rollback rates to 2023 levels and reject the proposed increase in may. they say it could lead to serious financial consequences for many bay area customers. >> this rate hike is an unmitigated attack on the working class californians. one fifth of bay area households already report having to forego the basic necessities to meet the rising utility costs. this attacks working class californians will lead to further eviction increases. >> with the most recent rate hike the average bill has gone up $34 a month, to nearly $295. but again, that is just the average and that could change. >>> the iowa caucus kicks off monday. republican candidates will be trying to sway undecided voters. it is expected to be a race for second place behind frontrunner donald trump. mr. trump, though, spent his day inside a new york courtroom while on the west coast, president biden's son hunter did the same thing. trace trace is tracking it from washington. >> reporter: as re

a group called the coalition to stop pg&e rate hikes met in front of the public utilities commission in san francisco. they are calling on those regulators to rollback rates to last year's levels. and reject the proposed may increase. they say it could lead to serious financial consequences for a lot of people. >> 20 million people in california already live paycheck to paycheck. every aspect of our cost of living has gone up since the economic crisis by the covid pandemic. we cannot and should not have to take on yet another financial burden like this. >> with the most recent rate hike implemented last week, the average residential pg&e bill per month has gone up about $35. >>> let's look downtown in san jose it's clear i believe and very chilly. vianey arana is here talking about the pg&e bills it's cold. >> yeah. i think some people wanted to turn on the heater but because of the cost. >> we talk about it. >> it's 58 degrees in my house. that is cold. >> once you are under the blankets you are fine it's waking up and getting out of the blankets that the is the problem. >> stay in bed. >> i wish we

the coalition to stop pg&e rate hikes met in front of the public utilities commission in san francisco. they are calling on regulators to rollback rates to 2023 levels and reject the proposed may increase. >> 20 million people in california already live paycheck to paycheck. every aspect of our cost of living has gone up since the economic crisis by the covid pandemic. we cannot and should not have to take on yet another financial burden like this. >> with the most recent rate hike the bill has gone up $34 a month to nearly $300. >>> pothole problems for drivers on a popular stretch of freeway in the bay area. the big one that opened up flattened tires for drivers and the plan to fix it. scott budman will join us with what is going on. >>> bracing for possible flooding, king tides are back in full force the reason call this a sign of things to come. >>> before we head to break we want to know what trending story you would like to see. i have a poll right now on my inasta graham stories. a mouse for your mouth. barbie actor to host people choice awards and that is a wrap for had fruit s

. >> crews with pg and e, the san francisco department of public works and the public utilities commission were on the scene to inspect their underground equipment, and workers told us the basements of buildings in the area have been flooded. car thefts still rising in the bay area just yesterday, police say a woman in san jose was found safe after being the victim of a carjacking and a kidnaping. >> officers say they believe the victim was inside a vehicle as it was being stolen. the woman was found safe several hours later. ktvu south bay reporter lamonica peters has more about the case and the rising vehicle thefts. >> 31 year old asela pineda silva is safe after police say a good samaritan took her to the police station around 3 p.m. saturday after seeing missing persons reports initially sounded like a vehicle was stolen and during the investigation where we determined that there was another victim inside of the vehicle, we did not leave willingly. >> and that's why we were treating this like a kidnaping. >> silva's ordeal began after the car she was sitting in early saturday morning

public safety issues in the city. cameras are going to be installed in 100 intersections throughout san francisco. the mayor's office says that they're working with the mta and public utilities commission to - get the camera set up as quickly as possible. >> the bay area's getting 30 million dollars from the federal government to build ev charging stations. concha costa county and the bay area air quality management district are both getting 15 million dollars for projects focused on disadvantaged communities in all 9 bay area counties contra costa county's grant will specifically focus on putting charging stations at 15 local libraries in rural and low-income communities. take a look at new mural honoring the life and legacy of doctor martin luther king junior now on display at doctor martin martin luther king junior elementary school in oakland. the art display faces market street. the artist reef a sunday who goes by full one, wanted to show that 3 different dimensions of doctor king. the art is part of a community initiative aimed at connecting students to art. coming up at 6, a case that will tell cities what they can do and they can do about homeless encampments is now heading to

now, crews from pg and e san francisco public works and the public utility commission were on scene toct their underground equipment. workers there told ktvu crews that the basements of buildings in the area had been flooded in the newsroom. i'm bailey o'carroll, ktvu, fox two news. >> extreme winter weather gripping much of the country this weekend, affecting the campaign trail in iowa. even the start time of an nfl playoff game, storms and extreme cold now reaching as far south as texas, louisiana and bringing subzero temperatures across the midwest and northern plains and buffalo, new york. blizzard conditions prompted the nfl to postpone today's bills playoff game to tomorrow afternoon. >> as part of our critical efforts to keep new yorkers, motorists and fans safe from this wildly unpredictable storm lake effect snow coming off lake erie is creating whiteout conditions, reducing visibility to near zero, and more snow is in the forecast. >> the bills are bringing in multiple shifts of snow shovelers to get that stadium ready for kickoff tomorrow in the sierra, many roads remain cov

san francisco is suing the california public utilities commission for granting both cruise and waymo permits to expand service. the lawsuit is asking the cpuc to reconsider its decision and whether it was compliant with the law. this legal action will not impact cruise as the dmv already pulled the company's permits last year after one of its cars hit a pedestrian. however, it could have a major impact on waymo. which is still operating for profit in san francisco. even expanding its services to phoenix. city attorney david chiu says san francisco believes that autonomous vehicles will be a beneficial part of our city's future. but in the meantime, while allowing this technology to develop, we must act to protect the safety of our residents and visitors. waymo says their goal is to make roads safer for everyone and will continue to work in good faith with state regulators and city officials. g? >>> well, a live look right now at san jose's mineta airport this morning. there will be a new addition at the baggage terminal today. the airport is unveiling a new statue honoring the ground

san francisco is suing the california public utilities commission for granting bothcruise and waymo both permits to expand service. it's asking the cpuc to reconsider its decision and whether it was compliant with the law. this legal action will not impact cruise as the dmv already pulled the company's permits last year after one of its cars hit a pedestrian. however, it could have a major impact on waymo which is still operating for profit in san francisco. even expanding its services to phoenix. city attorney david chiu says san francisco believes that autonomous vehicles will be a big part of the city's future but in the meantime while allowing this technology to develop. we must act to protect the safety of our residents and visitors. waymo says they will continue to work in good faith with state regulators and city officials. g? >>> here's a live look at san jose airport this morning. there will be a new addition at @ baggage terminal today. the airport is unveiling a new statue honoring its ground-breaking namesake. norm norman mineta. the 6'0" tall bronze statue will stand in the

san francisco's installing 400 automated license plate readers throughout the city. >> the cameras are going to be installed in 100 intersections throughout san francisco. the mayor's office says that they are working with the mta and public utilities commission to get the camera set up as quickly as possible. we are learning new details about the bart train derailment that happened in renda on new year's day. 9 people were injured in that accident. investigation by bart found that the derailment happened when a train had to be manually switched to a new track and then ended up on the wrong track. the train operator was told to reverse course and re attempt the switch and that's when the derailment happened. then people were forced to evacuate. the incident is also being investigated by the california public utilities commission and the n t s b. starting today, several bart stations now have new reserve parking fees. 8 stations are rolling out their new pricing. >> some will see an increase while others will have lower fees. 11 part millbrae and west oakland stations are charging around a dollar more prices at bayfair coliseum. hayward, richmond and warm spring stations are decreasing by about $2. >> it's a really great deal. honestly, like w