as i said, city college and sfpuc are instwineed on the rez ver. the history is entwined and now the state of city college is grim and to base your development on the word of public officials that are not necessarily a part of the college community is messy. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other comments from general public? seeing none, the next item is other commission business. >> other commission business. adoption of resolution and supportf nominationf kathleen tiegs as president of association of california water agency for the 2016, 17 term >> acwa is the industry association for public water agencies in california. in the last couple decades it started out as a aggregate district agency over the last several decades it has done a good job i think och representing the state more evenly. it has also done a good job of trying to address californias major issues in a thoughtful and methodical and balanced way. it is the tradition to have the president of the board alter nailt between northern and southern california. the current term th

as i said, city college and sfpuc are instwineed on the rez ver. the history is entwined and now the state of city college is grim and to base your development on the word of public officials that are not necessarily a part of the college community is messy. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other comments from general public? seeing none, the next item is other commission business. >> other commission business. adoption of resolution and supportf nominationf kathleen tiegs as president of association of california water agency for the 2016, 17 term >> acwa is the industry association for public water agencies in california. in the last couple decades it started out as a aggregate district agency over the last several decades it has done a good job i think och representing the state more evenly. it has also done a good job of trying to address californias major issues in a thoughtful and methodical and balanced way. it is the tradition to have the president of the board alter nailt between northern and southern california. the current term th

auxiliary supply system and the sfpuc is putting in green infrastructure at select locations along the corridor and at the very end of this with dpw we will be repaving the van ness corridor that is in part fund bid caltrans right-of-way so bus rapid transit for those who are not family the obese feature of the system the dictated right-of-way lanes less obvious but equally important to the service improvements that are envisioned by this project are the improved traffic lights to provide the traffic light priority for vehicles and which will be rewanted to maximize the north south traffic vehicles that will speed up the

pard of the urban watershed program at sfpuc. as karen mentioned we're going talk about program and policis before we talk about capital projects. our presentation will start with a defensive of what "green infrastructure" is and our approach and a little bit of what we have learned so far and how to do better in future? just is to quickly set the context for green infrastructure. "green infrastructure" is engineered systems that take advantage of natural processes of soil and plants to slow down and clean stormwater. examples are biretention, rain gardens, rainwater harvesting and permable payment. we do draw an important distinction between just good "greening" versus performance-based infrastructure

it is claimed on one end by the sfpuc and on the onet end city college is in deed still one parcel. the u.s. and history has been intertwined between ccsf and the water department for decades rchlt i document written by joans and stokes entitled common sequa mistakes [inaudible] to declare a parking lot full of car suhr plus is to [inaudible] with the common sequa mistake. when trying to assess the needs of the nearest neighbor, ccsf, you're dealing now with the changing state imposed administration that sspuc is resting on the word of public officials who guven the school when no public input was allowed. the current board of trustee meet rgz not video taped or broadcats to the community. how can you know

it is claimed on one end by the sfpuc and on the onet end city college is in deed still one parcel. the u.s. and history has been intertwined between ccsf and the water department for decades rchlt i document written by joans and stokes entitled common sequa mistakes [inaudible] to declare a parking lot full of car suhr plus is to [inaudible] with the common sequa mistake. when trying to assess the needs of the nearest neighbor, ccsf, you're dealing now with the changing state imposed administration that sspuc is resting on the word of public officials who guven the school when no public input was allowed. the current board of trustee meet rgz not video taped or broadcats to the community. how can you know

since we last met, on july 14th, the sfpuc adopted an update to our community choice aggregation implementation plan. this is a plan that is required under state statute for filing to the california public utilities commission. the city already has a plan that is on file and has been certified by the cpuc, but because of some of the program design changes, and slightly new direction that we have taken with the program, we have made some updates to that plan. and that has been submitted to the cpuc submitted this week. and we'll be concurrently submitting that to the board for review as well. also, earlier this week, we announced the results of our request for proposals for c cca back office and customer care services and we'll bring

as i said, city college and sfpuc are instwineed on the rez ver. the history is entwined and now the state of city college is grim and to base your development on the word of public officials that are not necessarily a part of the college community is messy. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other comments from general public? seeing none, the next item is other commission business. >> other commission business. adoption of resolution and supportf nominationf kathleen tiegs as president of association of california water agency for the 2016, 17 term >> acwa is the industry association for public water agencies in california. in the last couple decades it started out as a aggregate district agency over the last several decades it has done a good job i think och representing the state more evenly. it has also done a good job of trying to address californias major issues in a thoughtful and methodical and balanced way. it is the tradition to have the president of the board alter nailt between northern and southern california. the current term th

as i said, city college and sfpuc are instwineed on the rez ver. the history is entwined and now the state of city college is grim and to base your development on the word of public officials that are not necessarily a part of the college community is messy. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other comments from general public? seeing none, the next item is other commission business. >> other commission business. adoption of resolution and supportf nominationf kathleen tiegs as president of association of california water agency for the 2016, 17 term >> acwa is the industry association for public water agencies in california. in the last couple decades it started out as a aggregate district agency over the last several decades it has done a good job i think och representing the state more evenly. it has also done a good job of trying to address californias major issues in a thoughtful and methodical and balanced way. it is the tradition to have the president of the board alter nailt between northern and southern california. the current term th

as i said, city college and sfpuc are instwineed on the rez ver. the history is entwined and now the state of city college is grim and to base your development on the word of public officials that are not necessarily a part of the college community is messy. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other comments from general public? seeing none, the next item is other commission business. >> other commission business. adoption of resolution and supportf nominationf kathleen tiegs as president of association of california water agency for the 2016, 17 term >> acwa is the industry association for public water agencies in california. in the last couple decades it started out as a aggregate district agency over the last several decades it has done a good job i think och representing the state more evenly. it has also done a good job of trying to address californias major issues in a thoughtful and methodical and balanced way. it is the tradition to have the president of the board alter nailt between northern and southern california. the current term th

as you are aware the performance [inaudible] sfpuc for the past fiscal year. provides a 12 month historical forward calendar of all praunlect squz highlights, the breath and depth of oversight [inaudible] takes into consideration our recommendation made by auditors and agencies. we fenshed 2014/15 with 65 individual assurance projects. 22 audits and projects completed by [inaudible] with 29 pregress and 17 scheduled. the majority are performance related [inaudible] compriced of 51 percent of the portfolio. the next largest audit type is financial related and conducted by external [inaudible] in 4th quarter 2 projects were completed, the first is phase one of south east [inaudible] framework. the first phase provided program project models data collection and reporting programs and internal and external audiences. the framework serves to support the program planning and management such as improvement, [inaudible] and also increased transparency, accountability, public awareness and funding support in the southeast community. the second project completed last qu

as i said, city college and sfpuc are instwineed on the rez ver. the history is entwined and now the state of city college is grim and to base your development on the word of public officials that are not necessarily a part of the college community is messy. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other comments from general public? seeing none, the next item is other commission business. >> other commission business. adoption of resolution and supportf nominationf kathleen tiegs as president of association of california water agency for the 2016, 17 term >> acwa is the industry association for public water agencies in california. in the last couple decades it started out as a aggregate district agency over the last several decades it has done a good job i think och representing the state more evenly. it has also done a good job of trying to address californias major issues in a thoughtful and methodical and balanced way. it is the tradition to have the president of the board alter nailt between northern and southern california. the current term th

as i said, city college and sfpuc are instwineed on the rez ver. the history is entwined and now the state of city college is grim and to base your development on the word of public officials that are not necessarily a part of the college community is messy. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other comments from general public? seeing none, the next item is other commission business. >> other commission business. adoption of resolution and supportf nominationf kathleen tiegs as president of association of california water agency for the 2016, 17 term >> acwa is the industry association for public water agencies in california. in the last couple decades it started out as a aggregate district agency over the last several decades it has done a good job i think och representing the state more evenly. it has also done a good job of trying to address californias major issues in a thoughtful and methodical and balanced way. it is the tradition to have the president of the board alter nailt between northern and southern california. the current term th

i don't believe that the sfpuc has come out with an official view.e general utilities side of their power generation to worry about as well. so it's going to take them a little longer than the other ccas to generate their position on it. so as of right now, i don't believe that they have a position that they have officially taken, but still working on that. what i would be recommending for us today to support the fellow ccas across average, and take an oppose unless amended on similar stances that they have in their letters, should and when the sfpuc come out if they have issues or concerns or changes that they would like to, very with incorporate that into our comments and finally, two things i would add in that aren't necessarily in the letters that you see in front of you, one is the discussion of the behind the meter generation and how we should be making sure that whoever is doing whether it's the cca or iou or public utility, whoever is doing gets credit for the generation as part of how they do the calculations, because i don't want to discred

as i said, city college and sfpuc are instwineed on the rez ver. the history is entwined and now the state of city college is grim and to base your development on the word of public officials that are not necessarily a part of the college community is messy. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other comments from general public? seeing none, the next item is other commission business. >> other commission business. adoption of resolution and supportf nominationf kathleen tiegs as president of association of california water agency for the 2016, 17 term >> acwa is the industry association for public water agencies in california. in the last couple decades it started out as a aggregate district agency over the last several decades it has done a good job i think och representing the state more evenly. it has also done a good job of trying to address californias major issues in a thoughtful and methodical and balanced way. it is the tradition to have the president of the board alter nailt between northern and southern california. the current term th

acquiring the easement is listed and funding was appropriated by the board of supervisors under the sfpuc water system improvement program. we recommend that you approve this resolution. >> okay. thank you mr. rose. colleagues any questions? we will move on to public comment. anyone wishing to comment on item 10? okay. seeing none. public comment is now closed. colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward. >> so moved. >> motion by supervisor tang. we can take it without objection. madam clerk call item 11. >> item 11 requisition of the real property at 490 south van ness, the purchase price of $18,500,000. >> okay. we have the mayor's office of housing here. >> hello. the res before you is approve the acquisition of real property at 490 south van ness from the south van ness limited partnership benicia lake llc and maurice casey collectively referred as the seller for the agreed amount of $18,500,000 and the resolution ask that you adopt ceqa findings and consistent with the general plan under the code. there will be a deduction of transfer tax credited to the city upon closing as

i don't believe that the sfpuc has come out with an official view.ilities side of their power generation to worry about as well. so it's going to take them a little longer than the other ccas to generate their position on it. so as of right now, i don't believe that they have a position that they have officially taken, but still working on that. what i would be recommending for us today to support the fellow ccas across average, and take an oppose unless amended on similar stances that they have in their letters, should and when the sfpuc come out if they have issues or concerns or changes that they would like to, very with incorporate that into our comments and finally, two things i would add in that aren't necessarily in the letters that you see in front of you, one is the discussion of the behind the meter generation and how we should be making sure that whoever is doing whether it's the cca or iou or public utility, whoever is doing gets credit for the generation as part of how they do the calculations, because i don't want to discredit the small

acquiring the easement is listed and funding was appropriated by the board of supervisors under the sfpuc water system improvement program. we recommend that you approve this resolution. >> okay. thank you mr. rose. colleagues any questions? we will move on to public comment. anyone wishing to comment on item 10? okay. seeing none. public comment is now closed. colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward. >> so moved. >> motion by supervisor tang. we can take it without objection. madam clerk call item 11. >> item 11 requisition of the real property at 490 south van ness, the purchase price of $18,500,000. >> okay. we have the mayor's office of housing here. >> hello. the res before you is approve the acquisition of real property at 490 south van ness from the south van ness limited partnership benicia lake llc and maurice casey collectively referred as the seller for the agreed amount of $18,500,000 and the resolution ask that you adopt ceqa findings and consistent with the general plan under the code. there will be a deduction of transfer tax credited to the city upon closing as

acquiring the easement is listed and funding was appropriated by the board of supervisors under the sfpuc water system improvement program. we recommend that you approve this resolution. >> okay. thank you mr. rose. colleagues any questions? we will move on to public comment. anyone wishing to comment on item 10? okay. seeing none. public comment is now closed. colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward. >> so moved. >> motion by supervisor tang. we can take it without objection. madam clerk call item 11. >> item 11 requisition of the real property at 490 south van ness, the purchase price of $18,500,000. >> okay. we have the mayor's office of housing here. >> hello. the res before you is approve the acquisition of real property at 490 south van ness from the south van ness limited partnership benicia lake llc and maurice casey collectively referred as the seller for the agreed amount of $18,500,000 and the resolution ask that you adopt ceqa findings and consistent with the general plan under the code. there will be a deduction of transfer tax credited to the city upon closing as

acquiring the easement is listed and funding was appropriated by the board of supervisors under the sfpuc water system improvement program. we recommend that you approve this resolution. >> okay. thank you mr. rose. colleagues any questions? we will move on to public comment. anyone wishing to comment on item 10? okay. seeing none. public comment is now closed. colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward. >> so moved. >> motion by supervisor tang. we can take it without objection. madam clerk call item 11. >> item 11 requisition of the real property at 490 south van ness, the purchase price of $18,500,000. >> okay. we have the mayor's office of housing here. >> hello. the res before you is approve the acquisition of real property at 490 south van ness from the south van ness limited partnership benicia lake llc and maurice casey collectively referred as the seller for the agreed amount of $18,500,000 and the resolution ask that you adopt ceqa findings and consistent with the general plan under the code. there will be a deduction of transfer tax credited to the city upon closing as

. >> have are you available the work order is 2817827 that's one of the great things of sfpuc they offer work shops to help you get ahead you have to care about the job and go above and beyond to find out as much as you can the three puc i so no glass ceiling the opportunities are end>> good afternoon. it's delightful to have new this space. all of the partners who have been working in this city and who have been for so long, and the residents today and government officials our mayor ed lee who has been so instrumental in build deep roots into this community. when family services and i first started discussing this space we envisioned it for a place for technology and where we can help provide technology deals with some technology training with the folks that encompass family services with residented in the community and as that has evolved it's how twitter understanding how complex some of the neighborhoods issues are and becoming much more understanding of the complexities of those issues. the programs had become much more rich and not just about technology and about volunteers from tw

also their was a 2013 task force with participation broadly from members of the community as well as sfpuc water enterprise and the planning department that was convenes by spur sew looking at the variety of rooftops so the combination of those ideas lead to recognize their multiple valid reasons to make sure that rooftops get used for the benefit of citizens and the environment so the ideas that there was suggested a better roofs policy recognizing that space is an underutilized resource can contributed to open space and the rebuttal energy proximate and valuable things for the stakeholders in the community that's what we're collaborating with other agencies is to make sure that their is we're able to contribute toe meeting the green house mitigation but recognizing the buildings are not purely built for their environmental building but for a number of uses and need to support those uses as well we do have a costs effectiveness analysis for green roofs participant by the green roof engineers to compliment the cost effecting analyze it is pro tem the department completed last year looking

. >> have are you available the work order is 2817827 that's one of the great things of sfpuc they offer work shops to help you get ahead you have to care about the job and go above and beyond to find out as much as you can the three puc i so no glass ceiling the opportunities are end >>> parks and places of communicated and thanks to the mayor and the department of technology and supervisor farrell and google. we had a very very unique partnership that was able to bring wifi to our most heavily used parks and squares. >> parks in particular are really important way of life and quality of life and so is connectivity. bringing those two things together in a project like this is right on target with what san francisco is and wants to be. >> it's all about breaking apart the divide. the people with expensive data plan can have access to information and economy. this is really breaking down the digital divide and giving people across the spectrum the opportunity to information and giving them mobility and freedom. >> particularly by investing in connectivity in park spaces we are also ensuri

replace the sewer lines and waterlines and continue to work on the auxiliary supply system and the sfpucs putting in green infrastructure at select locations along the corridor and at the very end of this with dpw we will be repaving the van ness corridor that is in part fund bid caltrans right-of-way so bus rapid transit for those who are not family the obese feature of the system the dictated right-of-way lanes less obvious but equally important to the service improvements that are envisioned by this project are the improved traffic lights to provide the traffic light priority for vehicles and which will be rewanted to maximize the north south traffic vehicles that will speed up the boarding and unboarding abducted boarding areas for a safe comfortable space for the pedestrians between buses and large number of pedestrian improvements in keeping with the city's vision zero policies because at some point in their trip all of the sfmta's passengers are pedestrians so as i mentioned we're putting in padded bulb outs and doing day lighting and pedestrians lights on the street and significa

. >> have are you available the work order is 2817827 that's one of the great things of sfpuc they offeryou get ahead you have to care about the job and go above and beyond to find out as much as you can the three puc i so no glass ceiling the opportunities are end good afternoon, i would tacall to order the regular meeting of san francisco public utilities commission. today is tuesday august 11, 2015. roll call, please >> president cane, here. commissioner courtney, here. commissioner

my name is sarah minnic and i'm pard of the urban watershed program at sfpuc. as karen mentioned we're going talk about program and policis before we talk about capital projects. our presentation will start with a defensive of what "green infrastructure" is and our approach and a little bit of what we have learned so far and how to do better in future? just is to quickly set the context for green infrastructure. "green infrastructure" is engineered systems that take advantage of natural processes of soil and plants to slow down and clean stormwater. examples are biretention, rain gardens, rainwater harvesting and permable payment. we do draw an important distinction between just good "greening" versus performance-based infrastructure ." it helps with flood control, which the supervisor was mentioning. it reduced heat island affects in our city and has the ancillary effect particularly on the west side of recharging groundwater. mitigates carbon pollution and with our current drought situation, it helps us to have more resiliency in the face of drought. so we ha