the april 23rd, 2024 meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission.ll call of officers? roll call, please. president paulson here. vice president rivera. here. commissioner ajamie. here. mr. maxwell here. commissioner stacy here. we have a quorum. so i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that it owns and are stewards of the unseated lands located within the ethnohistoric territory of the ohlone tribe and other familiar descendants of the historic, federally recognized mission san jose verona band of alameda county. the sf puc also recognizes that every citizen si

today we have san francisco public utilities commission here. >> yes. good morning chair chan, supervisor mandelman and supervisor melgar. angela chung, the water supply treatment division manager for the sfpuc. the item today approves the second amendment to an agreement between the san francisco public utility commission and santa clara valley water dist rict. [indiscernible] serves as a connection of the two water supply systems. can supply up to 40 million gallon a day of water in any direction in a emergency or critical work when one system needs supplemental water. the original operation and maintenance approved by the board of supervisors in 2000, allowed either of us to operate a facility and put the maintenance of the facility on the puc. in practice the district has been the sole operator because the operation could impact the system unless the district is the one operating it. there was a 5 year period in the last 24 years from 2009 to 2013 the district serve as the o & m party in the thick of implementing the water system improvement program

i like to announce the san francisco public utility commission acknowledges if owns and stewards of the land located within the territory of the oholone tribe and other familiar desidants mission san jose band of alameda county. every citizen residing within the greater bay area, has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the oholone tribe aboriginal lands since before and after the san francisco public utilities commission founding in 1932. it is vitally important we not only recognize the history of the tribal lands on which we reside and acknowledge and honor the fact the oholone people established a working partnership with the sfpu c and are productive and flourishing members with the greater bay area communities today. madam secretary, can you call the first item, please? >> item number 3, approval of the minutes of march 12, 2024. >> commissioners, are there corrections or additions to the minutes of march 12? seeing none, donna, can we open this item to public comment? >> we have remote callers who want to speak to item 3, please raise your hand if you wish to s

sale agreement for the purchase of an easement between the city and county of san francisco through its public utilities commission and the san mateo county flood and sea level rise resiliency district, also known as one shoreline. the purpose of the easement is for a perpetual right to install and maintain pipe footings and an aerial pipeline crossing the easement would be comprised of approximately 1386ft!s of property, parallel and adjacent to chestnut avenue in south san francisco, and the purchase price for the easement would be $70,000, which is equal to the appraised value as determined by an independent third party appraiser. at this time, i'm happy to answer any questions you might have. thank you. commissioners maxwell, i was wondering, what goes into the decision to decide to have a pump? i know that, you know, we're having a lot of pump issues. a lot of fish are dying. i know this is not that particular situation, but i was just wondering what goes in to the decision to decide to pump, as in a groundwater? well, yes. to install the well, i will have to defer to somebody else. you're speaking about the

san francisco rising. >> can we have roll call, please? >> president paulson, here. rivera, here. ajami, here. maxwell, here. stacy, here. you have a quorum. >> thank you. i like to announce the san francisco public utility commission acknowledges if owns and stewards of the land located within the territory of the oholone tribe and other familiar desidants mission san jose band of alameda county. every citizen residing within the greater bay area, has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the oholone tribe aboriginal lands since before and after the san francisco public utilities commission founding in 1932.

the san francisco public utility commission, sfmta, the sheriff who you will hear from shortly and district attorney, we are all a team, and we are going to work as a team to address challenges to continue to drive crime down and now we have a very very powerful set of tools to help do just that. think about this, over 70 percent of crime involve vehicles. over 70 percent of crime involve vehicles. we have not had the ability starting today we have the ability to do which is track the vehicles, give officers advantage so we, we can catch people if they commit crimes in the city. we hope this will be a deterrent because san francisco a great city. we don't want people coming into our city committing crimes and people in our city commits crimes and if we do, we want to make sure we give our district attorney and her team the evidence they need to success fell prosecute these cases and we will be able to do that with this technology. crime has been dropping steadily this year and with this technology and our use of it, we think that tend will continue and think it will be expotential. i want t

and whereas, on april 23rd, 2024, after 16 years in central roles with the san francisco public utilities commission and 19 years of service with the city and county of san francisco, donna conducts her last commission meeting and will soon retire from the sfpuc to enjoy life with her husband and pets. now be it therefore, be it resolved, that this commission hereby expresses its deepest appreciation and profound gratitude to donna hood for her distinguished contributions to the sfpuc and warmly wishes her a long and rewarding retirement. thank you. now i have to ask your guidance on something. okay, so we can hold public comment till the end of the next thing i have to do it right for. okay? correct okay. so. well, but first i think it would be helpful actually if commissioners anything you'd like to say to donna i, we don't hold that. so okay then as chair, commissioner jaime so it certainly has been a pleasure to work with you. i actually had not had no idea you worked for 40 niners. i'm like, now i feel even more privileged. you figured that we are even better than the sports teams. i mean, how

all the san francisco public utilities commission to order. we have a roll call, please. president paulson here. vice president rivera here. commissioner maxwell, commissioner jaime and stacy are both excused from today's meeting. you have a quorum. okay. thank you, i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that it owns and are stewards of the unseated lands located within the ethnohistoric territory of the ohlone tribe and other f

companies, including genentech, laid off hundreds of workers also new at 11 tonight, san francisco's public utility commissioning a webinar tomorrow to discuss efforts to purchase the city's electrical grid from pg and e, the commission claims the transition would unlock affordable electric rates for residents. >> the webinar will cover what the commission calls the benefits of public power, as well as how locals can get involved in the movement. >> tonight, some bay area students had the opportunity to share their musical talents. how the program benefits these students directly and but first, here's a quick look at tonight's sunset. >> you can see the puffy clouds there and the light filtering through. so pretty. you're watching the 11:00 news right here on ktvu. we'll be right back ( ♪ ) you made a cow! actually it's a piggy bank. my inspiration to start saving. how about a more solid way to save? i'm listening. well, bmo helps get your savings habit into shape with a cash reward, every month you save. both: cash reward? and there's a cash bonus when you open a new checking account to get you started. wow.

the april 23rd, 2024 meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. can we have a roll call of officers? roll call, please. president paulson here. vice president rivera. here. commissioner ajamie. here. mr. maxwell here. commissioner stacy here. we have a quorum. so i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that it owns and are stewards of the unseated lands located within the ethnohistoric territory of the ohlone tribe and other familiar descendants of the historic, federally recognized mission san jose verona band of alameda county. the sf puc also recognizes that every ci

item 24 resolution approving the umbrella memorandum of understanding between the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco unified school district (sfusd), and establishing a partnership framework for sfpuc's installation and operation of various green infrastructure projects on sfusd properties, with a total term of 40 years from june 1, 2024, through june 30, 2064, pursuant to charter, section 9.118 >> same house, same call, the resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 25,resolution authorizing the city and county of san francisco, acting by and through the mayor's office of housing and community development (mohcd), to submit an application to and participate in the prohousing designation program administered by the california department of housing and community development. >> same house, same call, the resolution is adopted. could you read item 26 and 27 together? >> 26 and 27 are two resolutions pertaining to two liquor license. 26 determining issue a type 40 on sale beer liquor license to tyrone pang to do business as kim huong cafe and iletm 27 determines type 90 on sale gen

. >> 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 opportunities

san francisco unified school district welcome please. chair preston i'm a water shed participate with the san francisco public utilities commission and thank you for your time and i would like to start by thanking supervisor mandelman and supervisor melgar and start with ad litem the partnership between san francisco unified school district and that started over 15 years ago around the school yard by starting small with projects providing educational rich opportunity to building upon the scale and now scaling up that as we begin to work together on the capital and infrastructure projects. >> the amendment bra is our umbrella memorandum of understanding the framework including overall objectives and responsibilities and all phases of the planning from planning and under the mou will install the green infrastructure and after that the puc will be responsible for the maintenance and this 1345d doesn't commit you'll see site agreement those agreements will be a mechanism by which the projects are authorized on a school site and more details coming and those individual site agreements runs for thirty years with the life of our umbrella memorand

the april 23rd, 2024 meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission.e have a roll call of officers? roll call, please. president paulson here. vice president rivera. here. commissioner ajamie. here. mr. maxwell here. commissioner stacy here. we have a quorum. so i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that it owns and are stewards of the unseated lands located within the ethnohistoric territory of the ohlone tribe and other familiar descendants of the historic, federally recognized mission san jose verona band of alameda county. the sf puc also recognizes that every citizen residing within the greater bay area has and continues

san francisco's public utilities commission says it's moving ahead with its goal of buying the electrice, the commission says pg and e rejected its offer of $2.5 billion to buy its power grid. so now the city has asked the state public utilities commission for an independent valuation of the grid. hearings are scheduled to begin later this year. >> san francisco would see the benefits of public power without impacting tax dollars used for critical city priorities like affordable housing and public safety. >> now, the city says it would pay for the grid with bonds covered by income from customers bills. san francisco says the rates would be lower because the city's utility would not be going for profits or paying bonuses to executives. all right, our time is 439. rosemary oroczo is worth every dime she gets. she knows about your friday forecast. rosemary. >> dave, thanks so much. good morning to you. we are looking at a nice weekend. we do have a system that is working through the bay area today, and that will bring us some interesting weather, a little bit of wet weather to start the mo

the april 23rd, 2024 meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. can we have a roll call of officers? roll call, please. president paulson here. vice president rivera. here. commissioner ajamie. here. mr. maxwell here. commissioner stacy here. we have a quorum. so i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that it owns and are stewards of the unseated lands located within the ethnohistoric territory of the ohlone tribe and other familiar descendants of the historic, federally recognized mission san

san francisco, set to start at 1230 this afternoon, reporting live in san francisco. i'm bailey o'carroll, ktvu, fox two news. >> all right bailey thank you. time now. 703. well, today, san francisco's public utility commission will host a webinar about the efforts to buy the city's power grid from pga. the commission claims that transition would mean affordable electric rates for residents. now, this webinar will cover what the commission calls the benefits of public power, as well as how locals can get involved in the movement. >> hamas released video of a man born in the bay area who is now being held in gaza. hirsh goldberg, poland, is an american citizen born in berkeley before moving to virginia, then israel. the proof of life video was about three minutes long. he identifies himself as the son of jonathan and rachel. he was attending a music festival in southern israel when hamas attacked on october 7th. this video is the first time his parents have seen video of him since that day. >> we're relieved to see him alive, but we are also concerned about his health and well-being, as well as that of all of the other hostages and all of those suffering in this region. and we're here with a plea to all of th

the san francisco public utilities commission says it's moving ahead with its goal of buying the electricom pg and e. the commission says that pg and e has rejected its offer of $2.5 billion to purchase the power grid. the city now has asked the state public utilities commission for an independent valuation of the grid. hearings are set to start later this year. >> san francisco would see the benefits of public power without impacting tax dollars used for critical city priorities like affordable housing and public safety. >> the city says it would pay for the grid, with bonds covered by income from customer bills. san francisco says rates would be lower because the city's utility wouldn't seek profits or pay bonuses to executives. >> all right, gasia time. 737 right back to sal castaneda. you've been busy on a friday. >> yeah, it's a little surprising, isn't it, to see the bay bridge on a friday backed up like it were wednesday. and that's exactly what we're seeing. part of it was because of an earlier stalled vehicle that's gone. things are improving. the volume isn't there. i think it w

. >> officials with san francisco's public utilities commission say they are pushing ahead with plans to buy the electric grid from pg and e and run it as a public utility. the city gave an update on those efforts in a webinar this morning. officials say that clean power sf already provides more than 70% of the electricity used in san francisco. they say that pg and e has rejected their offer of $2.5 billion to purchase the power grid, so it is now asked the state public utilities commission for an independent valuation of the grid. >> pg has failure to propose what it thinks is a fair price, is a roadblock, and is causing delays. the valuation proceeding gets both parties to the table and allows for public input. it will help to resolve the what is a fair price issue. >> the cpuc hearings on valuing the city's electric grid are set to start later this year. a decision is expected in 2025. >> california has surpassed a major clean energy milestone. governor newsom today announced that for more than a month now, the state has been running on 100% clean energy. newsom says the achieveme

san francisco's public utility commission, hosting a webinar today. the city's power grid from pg and e, the commission claims the transition would mean affordable electric rates for residents. this webinar will cover what the commission calls the benefits of public power, as well as how locals can get involved in that movement. well, the san francisco chamber of commerce just signed a new lease for a multi-use office space, becoming the first to take advantage of downtown san francisco's bounce back legislation. and the offices at bush and montgomery. it will house ucsf and red bay coffee shop. it's a partnership between the chamber of commerce and several of the bigger local businesses, showing the potential of running a business in san francisco. so it's the result of relaxed zoning laws that were passed last year that allowed downtown office spaces to be on the ground floor this week, vta workers started on site preparations for the second phase of the bart expansion into the south bay. >> crews are working on an expansion of the newhall maintenan

san francisco unified school district welcome please. chair preston i'm a water shed participate with the san francisco public utilities commission and thank you for your time and i would like to start by thanking supervisor mandelman and supervisor melgar and start with ad litem the partnership between san francisco unified school district and that started over 15 years ago around the school yard by starting small with projects providing educational rich opportunity to building upon the scale and now scaling up that as we begin to work together on the capital and infrastructure projects. >> the amendment bra is our umbrella memorandum of understanding the framework including overall objectives and responsibilities and all phases of the planning from planning and under the mou will install the green infrastructure and after that the puc will be responsible for the maintenance and this 1345d doesn't commit you'll see site agreement those agreements will be a mechanism by which the projects are authorized on a school site and more details coming and those individual site agreements runs for thirty years with the life of our umbrella memorand

so -- it is nothing better then and there doing all the san francisco public utilities commission to order. we have a roll call, please. president paulson here. vice president rivera here. commissioner maxwell, commissioner jaime and stacy are both excused from today's meeting. you have a quorum. okay.

. >> officials with the san francisco public utilities commission say they are moving ahead now withoal of buying the electric grid from pg and e. officials say pg and e has rejected its offer of $2.5 billion to purchase. purchase its power grid. so now it has asked the state public utilities commission for an independent valuation of the grid. hearings are set to start later this year. the city says it would pay for the grid purchase with bonds covered by income from customer bills. they say rates would be lower because the city utility would not seek profits or pay executive bonuses. a community in disbelief after a family is killed in a crash in the east bay. what investigators know about the cause of this accident. >> also concerns over a parking ticket crackdown. why san francisco transit agency workers are pushing back we're in the middle of... livin' large! and having a big day! the meeting point of humanity and history. in the middle of being the fun uncle! in the middle of being a kid again! beep! beep! ♪ there's something for everyone in illinois. the middle of everything!

the san francisco public utility commission, sfmta, the sheriff who you will hear from shortly and district attorney, we are all a team, and we are going to work as a team to address challenges to continue to drive crime down and now we have a very very powerful set of tools to help do just that. think about this, over 70 percent of crime involve vehicles. over 70 percent of crime involve vehicles. we have not had the ability starting today we have the ability to do which is track the vehicles, give officers advantage so we, we can catch people if they commit crimes in the city. we hope this will be a deterrent because san francisco a great city. we don't want people coming into our city committing crimes and people in our city commits crimes and if we do, we want to make sure we give our district attorney and her team the evidence they need to success fell prosecute these cases and we will be able to do that with this technology. crime has been dropping steadily this year and with this technology and our use of it, we think that tend will continue and think it will be expotential. i want t

. >> officials with the san francisco public utilities commission say they are moving forward with planshase the electric grid from pg and e. the city gave an update on those efforts in a webinar today. officials say that clean power sf already provides more than 70% of the electricity used in san francisco. they say that pg and e has rejected its offer of $2.5 billion to purchase its power grid, so now it has asked the state public utilities commission for an independent valuation of the grid. the city says it would pay for the purchase with bonds covered by income from customer bills. >> we will keep our operating costs and rates low by eliminating profits, income taxes, exorbitant executive bonuses and other costs charged by pg and e. no general fund dollars are needed. >> the cpuc hearings on valuing the city's electric grid are set to start later this year, with a decision expected in 2025. >> california has surpassed a major clean energy milestone. governor newsom today announcing that for more than a month, the state has been running on 100% clean energy. newsom says the achieveme

ali rasmus, ktvu, fox two news, new at noon san francisco's public utilities commission says it is movingrd with plans to purchase the electric grid from pge and run it as a public utility. >> the city gave an update on those efforts in a webinar this morning. officials say that clean power sf already provides more than 70% of the electricity used in san francisco. they say pge has rejected its offer of $2.5 billion to purchase its power grid. so now it has asked the state public utilities commission for an independent valuation of the grid. the city says it would pay for it with low cost revenue bonds paid for by income from customer bills. >> we will keep our operating costs and rates low by eliminating profits, income taxes, exorbitant executive bonuses and other costs charged by pge. >> we know general fund dollars are needed. >> the cpuc hearing on valuing the grid is set to start later this year, with a decision expected sometime next year. >> it's another day of mostly cool weather here in the bay area, taking a live look outside. there's a decent amount of sun over the gorgeous oa

day in the country, a group of protesters is using climate week to call out the san francisco public utilities commissionhe tuolumne river trust say the commission is doing a poor job of managing the san francisco bay delta's water supply, as well as its money. they held a protest before attending this afternoon's sfpuc meeting. the group is calling for accountability on several issues from alleged budget mismanagement to low water flows along the tuolumne river. >> it's an issue that's negatively impacting entire coastal towns and inland river communities that are not their fault because of poor policies that are governing our water, the protesters say. >> some of those water management decisions are devastate. several businesses, including the fishing industry, which is dealing with a shortened crab and salmon fishing season. now for the second year in a row. >> well, just ahead, taylor swift fans going to the extreme and the texting generation gap. the fourth floor is next but his vision dimmed with age. he had amd. i didn't know it then, but it can progress to ga, an advanced form of the disease. his

and we need to prepare as we are slowly boiling and san francisco actually has been at the forefront that in many ways at the public utilities commission, at our port from the great highway to the northern and southern waterfronts and the port of san francisco that is responsible for 7 miles that waterfront has been working for some time under the leadership of brad benson and the good news, but it is daunting is that we have gotten this far and it is a project i liken to the buildings of the pyramids of great cathedrals of europe that will happen under many generations of governmental leadership and this is a opportunity for us to get our heads around it. this is a very high level document. there is going to be a lot more planning. i think we need to see this not only in terms of the 2018 bond that the voters of san francisco passed by some 80 percent relative to the reinforcement and rebuilding of our sea wall, which is really a down payment on coastal defenses, but we should see this as an opportunity for unparalleled public participation and inclusion, knowing this is going to be highly disruptive for a very very long period of tim

item 24 resolution approving the umbrella memorandum of understanding between the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco unified school district (sfusd), and establishing a partnership framework for sfpuc's installation and operation of various green infrastructure projects on sfusd properties, with a total term of 40 years from june 1, 2024, through june 30, 2064, pursuant to charter, section 9.118 >> same house, same call, the resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 25,resolution authorizing the city and county of san francisco, acting by and through the mayor's office of housing and community development (mohcd), to submit an application to and participate in the prohousing designation program administered by the california department of housing and community development. >> same house, same call, the resolution is adopted. could you read item 26 and 27 together? >> 26 and 27 are two resolutions pertaining to two liquor license. 26 determining issue a type 40 on sale beer liquor license to tyrone pang to do business as kim huong cafe and iletm 27 determines type 90 on sale gen

rec and park and the san francisco public utilities commission were close behind in local hire hours, but all other departments lagged further behind in apprentice hours. the local hire policy applies to all contracts for public work or improvement projects in excess of 600,000. it mandates that at least 30% of all project hours within each trade be performed by local residents, and that at least 50% of the project work hours performed by apprentices within each trade be performed by local residents. we had a large variety of contracts that fed into our numbers among them roadway paving, sidewalk repairs, street tree planting, a branch library renovation, and general hospital projects. we take pride in giving local residents opportunities to work on the city projects we work on. and if you're interested, you can learn more about the policy and see the full report at sf gov sf.gov/information/local hire construction. all right. icu's creek bridge as you may know, we have three drawbridges in our portfolio, including the icu's creek bridge that serves as a segment of third street connec

$89,759,299 to overtime in the department of emergency management, fire department, san francisco public utilities commission, sheriff's department, and police department, in order to support the departments' projected increases in overtime as required per administrative code, section 3.17; this ordinance requires a two-thirds vote of all members of the board of supervisors for approval of the fire department's appropriation of $14,509,676 pursuant to charter, section 9.113(c) we'll take same house same call, the ordinance is finally passed. next item, please. >> item 21, ordinance amending the planning code to prohibit in the north of market special use district (sud) and lower polk street neighborhood commercial district (ncd) tobacco paraphernalia establishments where any tobacco paraphernalia is sold, delivered, distributed, furnished, or marketed, and to establish that after 180 days of non-use a legal non-conforming tobacco paraphernalia establishment in the sud or ncd will be deemed abandoned, preventing its restoration; and affirming the planning department's determination under the california enviro