the s.f. p.u.c. was in meetings in which many of these -- this took place. i am hopeful that whatever comes out of resolving the language for the resolution that as we go forward, we will have a better way of doing business with the city and recreational and environmental groups. please move the resolution forward as written. thank you. >> i am speaking today for the sierra club. i want to thank supervisor peskin and the other three supervisors that i haven't -- that have introduced this resolution. we strongly support the resolution. i want to say very briefly that i have heard amongst my friends and colleagues, but also in the press that s.f. p.u.c. and san francisco, they are siding with trump. they are doing trump hostess bidding here. is that hyperbole equally yes. of course, it is hyperbole. but when we make decisions instead of stepping up with what has to be done to preserve this river that we are so dependent on and say, know, that would be inconvenient, that would cause some money, then we a

the san francisco p.u.c. is now taking a position that is contrary to science and is opposed by our recreational fishing and conservation members who believe that it will damage the eco systems of affected rivers, streams, and the san francisco bay and delta. the state water resources controls board's proposal for increases flows on the tuolomne and other rivers that flow into the san joaquin is already a compromise, let than what the scientific report does prepared for the proceeding, other agencies, major academic institutions, and conservation groups have stated is needed to restore healin restore healthy salmon runs. people in san francisco are world leaders of innovation in every sector, and we should be leaders for this sector, as well. we hope that the san francisco board of supervisors will reject the san francisco p.u.c.'s efforts to defeat the state water board proposals to maintain 40% of the river's flows. instead, follow the science and direct the san francisco p.u.c. to work with all stakeholders

the p.u.c. has really played an active participate in the summit. we sponsored the green film festival screening of point of no return. we programs. we had quite a bit of media coverage. you know, abc 7, the chronicle. coit, sf fund cheap, and others. we had quite a bit of social media opportunities on twitter and facebook, which we're continuing, and we'll be conducting a follow up campaign showing our success and encouraging cleanpowersf sign ups in the next few weeks, so you'll be seeing more of us celebrating that. and with that, i'm going to turn to our regulatory update. >> supervisor fewer: miss hale, i have one question. when you're doing your outreach, do you have any idea about the demographics of the people that are signing up for clean energy and supergreen. for example, are we also looking at people who speak different language, socioeconomic diversity, and also ethnic data? >> yeah. so we do have some information that we'll be able to present at our next gathering with you, when we

i'll go over the p.u.c.'s qualification program, and report on the sfpuc's safety program results from our recent water system improvement program, and then, i'll conclude by summarizing our path forward for our current and -- current and future construction contracts and collaboration with the other city departments. so as part of the sfpuc's prequalification process, contractors are required to complete a candidate control information form which requests information regarding a firm's organization, financial capacity, professional responsibility, as well as questions regarding a firm's history of safety practices and our current specs include a question of osha violations, and this is to gauge a firm's experience in a specific category of expertise and experience references. our prequalification program was originally developed in support of our water system improvement program, and we currently have 15 prequalification categories for four times of projects involving waste water projects, local water projec

instead, i think the p.u.c. has found itself in the unfortunate position of not being in a position to advocate for the highest standards for bay protection. and, frankly, this has put san francisco behind much of the rest of the state in investing in water supply alternatives, though i believe the p.u.c. and the san francisco chronicle for that matter recognize the need to innovate in this regard. but as it stands, while we dither, other cities have recognized the need for stronger environmental protections. east bay mud has built their freeport project, giving them a new water supply if a disastrous drought hits. orange county is now the world leader in water recycling. contra costa built an offstream reservoir for water during droughts. now they are planning to expand that reservoir in a way that can help the environment and cities. santa monica's cleaning up the groundwater and storm water and is planning to be completely independent, eliminating their use of water from the bay-delta. san francisco, i think,

the california p.u.c. has a rulemaking underway where they are reconsiderating -- reconsidering the methodology for how these rates are set. they've issued two proposed decisions in that rulemaking, one by the assigned administrative law judge, one was issued by the assigned commissioner. that's referred to as an alternate. broadly speaking, the judge's proposal is much better for c.c.a.'s. it includes incentives for the utilities to prudently manage their supply portfolios in order to minimize costs that are passed onto all rate pairs, and it creates a more stable and predictable charge. that predictability helps our customers, and it allows programs like ours to continue to invest long-term in renewable resources and in developing innovate tiff local customer programs. the other does the opposite, creates risks for c.c.a. programs, and we feel it compromises cleanpowersf's sustainability and greenhouse gas reduction goals. it looks like it's going to undermine all the progress that c.c.a.'s programs have

i didn't realize after several phone calls that the p.u.c. or the health department were asking for what is called a reduced pressure device. the cost to do that and to install those is astronomical. if you have a vending machine on each one of those floors and added up to five or $600 on the initial valve, not to mention the installation costs in the annual fees, there is no justification for something like that. if we look back in the plumbing code, you clearly has stated that this device is approved. when i asked the health department and the p.u.c. for their criteria for making this, they had one example. but they couldn't prove what had really gone wrong. there was no evidence to say that this is what failed. they didn't know if they had a device to begin with that veiled that is what got my attention. i said, look, at this point in time, we want to step back. we reviewed this for months and months through title 17 and title 24 and the plumbing code. we found a determination that we would like to retract from the code if, in fact, the p.u

a side note, in the folks that p.u.c. was working with at that time, they were convinced that at least the staff we were working with, was convinced that a hatchery was what was needed. so they had a bias that direction, and i think that that clouded the conversations and the work that preceded. it would identify ten priority nonflow projects, with a minimum of two special run pool projects. special run pool projects where you take one of those big gravel pits that have been created by gravel mining and try to modify the habitat so it could be a useful part of the river again. other projects were to include gravel positions, flood plain restoration and riparian planting. and districts in san francisco were required to provide another $500,000, and one of the expects at that time because it was the end of the cal fed area is other funds coming from state and federal sources would be available, and a lot of that funding never materialized, which is part of the issue we were dealing with then. the settlement agreement also re

frankly, we think the p.u.c. needs to catch up. we think you need to do that any way to address the impacts of climate change, but it's clear that the state board standards are what are really bringing that into sharp focus. we think there's a hefty list there. i'll simply add one comment about those alternate tiff approaches. east bay mud initially said something similar to what mr. ritchie just said. east bay mud said the same thing, and what came out of that, those discussions, very extensive, long discussions with -- with the environmental communication and local government, what came out of that was a project that nobody was thinking of going on. that was the freeport project. that project is serving east bay mud today. it was working during the drought. they transferred water through that facility during the drought, so the point is with -- if folks sit down in good faith and try to collaborate in terms of water supply solutions, we may come up with ideas that aren't even on the table today. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >

we have a communications team at the p.u.c. dedicated to the power vertical specifically and to talk about public outreach for our clean energy programs. our team handles earned media, owned media, paid media, engaging with partners and then we also do a life direct customer engagement. as well as commercial dust commercially and residentially. so this past july,, we had our enrolment campaign, enrolling 25,000 commercial customers. our main message was that clean power s.f. gives you the power to choose cleaner energy options for your business at a competitive price. the word -- these are just commercial customers. our messages were focused around that type of customer. some of the strategies we took on, we took advantage of the required mailings. we leverage local and regional media outlets and use existing p.u.c. and city communication channels. greetings enlisted clean energy movement influencers targeted customers ahead of time. we engaged business organizations and we also put together a paid digital media campaign. going

is working for a number of years and as we know and the timeline showed and the p.u.c.'s operated in pedestrian and changed the for hire industry and changed the world and is a global market and phenomenon. and we have had ongoing regulatory review, reform, and streamlined the new driver onboarding and have gone through and looked at the requirements to match what we need today and not what we needed 10, 15, 20 years ago. and reduced and eliminated fees and taxi-related fees of approximately $9.5 million. and that's been over the last three or four years. and we supported the ramp taxi program and t.n.c. rule making proceedings and committed about 36 sets of comments about the t.n.c. rule making. as part of thisover all effort to level the playing field, we engaged p.h. shawler to review the health of the taxi industry. the report was released in may of this year. we vetted the recommendations. they had three main recommendations. we vetted the recommendations with the taxi industry through taxi town hall, taxi tax force, through email and worked hard to gather extensive

this is reasons to improve the awss and take the administration of the p.u.c. and give it back to the fire department who is the expert on this issue. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. mr. kim? >> so it's clear that it's not just our emergency infrastructure that's outdated. we have a lot of public service infrastructure that needs replacing. we have storm drains that go straight out to the bay or to the ocean, and we have our drinking water hooked up to irrelevaigation systems. it's clear that the entire infrastructure needs an overhaul, and that becomes more dire at the risk of a major geological event threatens us. that might happen at any moment, so i agree with mr. tom that we need an overhaul of that system. [please stand by] . >> thank you very much. and mr. mcneil? >> i definitely would favor the community approach. i'm a nert, you can look that up, and i think the system does need repairing. the west side of town is not prepared for a major emergency, and we need to do something about that. generally, i think this has to do with how we treat

we did have september 24 letter from the n.g.o.s, which basically made three requests of the p.u.c. work with them to arrange for peer review modeled by independent sciences and this was talking about the model used by the districts. that was one request. the second was work to explore and develop alternative supplies, one of the things that we've been talking about. and, thirdly, publiclily pose the trump administration's 1 tear -- interference. we've got a follow up meeting scheduled for 2:00 this friday to work through these about how we might approach them. the first one, and i may have set this in the last commission meeting, the model they're talking about was actually produced under contract to the irrigation districts and at the request of the federal regulatory commission. the owner of the model is really that commission. so we think a peer review would be fine and we'll promote that, but we'll have to rope in -- it's not san francisco's model to do with what it will. it's their model. so we need it have them as part of that package. and supplies, we'll talk and we will disc

it's important that the p.u.c. is able to remain as part of the these negotiations and you would what is best for the city as well as all the people and our animals as well. and so, i'm glad there's change to the resolution to reflect on this complicated of this situation. colleagues, is there a motion on the amendments. >> i'll make a motion to adopt the amendments as articulated by supervisor peskin. >> we'll do that without objec objection. a committee report? >> so moved. >> ok. we will do that without objection. >> thank you, very much. >> all right colleagues. items 11-15 together, please. >> or ordinance with the general plan by adding central south of market area plan making conforming amendments and appropriate findings. item number 12 the zoning map of the planning code to create the central south of market special use district and making appropriate findings. item number 13, is an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations and planning codes to create the central south of market housing sustainab

just friday, they issued this revision to the alternate. california p.u.c. is scheduled to vote on thursday, october 11. we're monitoring the activities and prepared to model the impacts in our proforma to our -- whichever decision is adopted, if that happens on the 11th we expect to have more information soon, so stay tuned. thank you. >> commissioner courtney: thank you. next item. any public comment on the report? hearing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> clerk: the next item is bay delta water quality control plan update. >> good afternoon, steve ritchie, assistant general manager for water. if we could have the slides, please. this is part of our ongoing updates on the bay delta water quality control plan update. how can we make up the water supply shortfall, both in terms of projects and potential costs and timeline and how are we following up on the nongovernmental organizations letter of september 24 to the commission where they made three specific requests. just as a reminder, to achieve our level of service objective, it would re

all the streets have lighting for p.u.c. standards. >> director lai: is the lighting going to be standard, whatever we use in san francisco or are we designing specialized lighting for treasure island? >> we're using p.u.c.-approved mix -- fixtures for the streets. there are other areas that are a little more special with retail. in the park spaces, they're primarily more pedestrian-scaled as well. so those are unique. that's another layer of added character between them. >> i'm not sure how this works, but i would think that the lighting is a good opportunity to celebrate the unique environment of treasure island. if cost is not an issue, i would think we should explore the specialty lights around the promenade or something. i notice there are allocated space for swings. are there any play structures? >> there will be in future phases of eastside commons. >> director lai: and you mentioned sports fields. are there any other sport courts, tennis courts, basketball courts? >> it's a possibility in the sports area. that's a fut

the customer owns solar generation. there'll be two different forms. one for our customer to sign, form 79988, and then, a form that p.u.c. would sign, the customer generation agreement, 79992. and in addition to that, we're asking for authority to sign the whole sale distribution tariff agreements for our own solar generation, and we have several upcoming projects that would fall underneath that with a high school and opera house. let me see... so that's basically it. let me know if you have any questions. >> supervisor tang: thank you. and i know that the other piece of legislation -- i think we might have -- i don't know if you just touched upon it or if it was skipped over very quickly, but just the delegation of authority to the other departments, do you want to explain that? >> yes. so in addition -- so additional departments we expect installing their own solar over the next few years, so rec and park, police department, airport, various other departments, we expect to install their own solar, so they would need to sign the same agreements. so the first test case would be sfmta, where they have a system coming on-

because we're a small division out here, and we're separated from the rest of the p.u.c., a lot of people wear a lot of different hats. everyone is really adept not just at their own job assigned to them, but really understanding how their job relates to the other functions, and then, how they can work together with other functions in the organization to solve those problems and meet our core mission. >> we procure, track, and store materials and supplies for the project here. our real goal is to provide the best materials, services and supplies to the 250 people that work here at hetch hetchy, and turn, that supports everyone here in the city. i have a very small, but very efficient and effective team. we really focus hard on doing things right, and then focus on doing the right thing, that benefits everyone. >> the accounting team has several different functions. what happens is because we're so remote out here, we have small groups of people that have to do what the equivalent are of many people in the city. out here, our accounting team handles everything. they love it, they know it i

we have public works, m.t.a., the p.u.c. and the fire department. as you can see, this multiple sub entity within these organizations. we will talk a little bit about what that is and talk about -- give you a sense of the achievements we have done in the past few years and then show you a few actual projects. our primary goals are to enhance the public role -- public realm and improve the process by which these things are entitled. as you can see by the document john has handed to you, is a complicated process. and to augment organizational coordination and create a culture of shared responsibility to steward the city's public realm between city agencies. our primary bucket of work comes from 138.1. this part of the planning code that allows the city to acquire developments that meet a certain scale threshold to make public right-of-way improvements, widening sidewalks and building off shoots and so forth. we also work on public open spaces that are in the right-of-way. the general planner and curb line adjustments and projects that require transpor

remarks today by urge you to compare the negative air quality impacts of this project with those of the p.u.c. sewer project in the same area. their impacts are 1,000 times greater to put in perspective. one of the mitigations in the project was to require all delivery vehicles to be alternative fuel vehicles. i joined with the planning department staff to reject the idea. no company will buy a special vehicle just to deliver to one neighborhood. rather, they will simply choose not to do business with that neighborhood. this would mean no stores to operate there. and there would be no stores all 3600 residents in the development would need to make a trip each day to buy their daily necessities. it's 1.3 miles to the nearest store of any sort. if half the residents drove to the store each day, that would be 7200 miles of unnecessary trips. compare that. they deserve the same sort of walking neighborhood that everybody -- >> thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm jeff well being. >> we want to enrich the community and our grandkids to have a better life, being