[speaker not understood] i serve on the puc citizen advisory committee. i did want to speak in support of an extension. i'm not sure if this is the right amount of time, if it should be more or less. i'm happy to work with supervisor farrell and others to look at things that we could tweak about the composition or the reporting, so that it is more effective. i have heard a number of concerns over time about whether it's being too -- no effective enough -- no enough -- we certainly have a general obligation bond oversight committee and we have bond oversight at the city college. so we have a more tradition of bond oversight than in the past. if this is not extended my understanding is that there would be effectively no oversight of the literally billions of dollars of [pwo-pbts/]s bonds that the puc has. so i would just offer those comments. on the legislation itself, sorry i did read it online 9-10, there there is no reference to section 1. there are section 2 and 3. unless you have any questions, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> through the chair to

a pretty good working relationship between lafco and the puc. he work though is not done. the reality is to make this program come to full fruition. we have to continue to work together, and so with that before i turn it over to staff i wanted to know if any of my my colleagues wanted to make any comments? commissioner avalos. >> i beat you to it commissioner olague. sorry about that. i just want to echo your comments about all the work that was involved over the years to help pass clean power sf, and nancy miller and janson fried and the staff and michael campbell, and barbara hale and ed harrington and all last week 7k7kbqwas gr timing for the clean power and he timed his departure for that and i was happy to see it join together, and just to see that clean power sf would be just another one of the major achievements that ed harrington had over the course of his many -- several decades here in san francisco was very significant. that but also want to make sure you get the recognition that you greatly deserve for shepherding this through the la

how revenue bond were managed by the puc and city? how were they going to do this? obviously they had to employ outside agency for outside audits and what happens is that the mayor at that time, mr. gavin newsom, along with the controller, mr. ed harrington who later became the general manager of the puc undermined the revenue bond oversight committee so they would have complete control over the monies and eliminating public oversight. the proof of the pudding the deck was stacked with staff members from the puc to contract with the city services auditing division of the controller's office. so what happened, the result was the fox was guarding the hen. >> supervisor, if i could ask you a question, so you are able to finish your comments. >> i appreciate it. >> i would like you to explain a little bit more what if you can go through your remarks in terms of what you were trying to say there? >> i don't want to take away from the other people here and i certainly -- you know exactly what i'm saying. this was a political move to get complete control of those monies wit

i would like to thank the puc specifically. ntioned 15 projects, it did seem like maybe it was 30. but we got through them all and you were tremendous to the residents of the district. and you worked fantastickly with the neighborhoods in the district. anybody that i communicated with were responsive and much more importantly the residents who were right nearby any of the projects could always work with the staff on site and were always cooperative and you you really worked seamlessly with everybody here and we appreciate it and are very grateful. thank you. >> thank you very much, sean. >> we have the pleasure of having three of our five commissioners here today, also. we have our commission president ram and we have our commissioner cain and speaking next is franceska detor. >> thank you. ed and you have heard a lot about what a major milestone this project is, the 35th project in the we sub program and it is the last and final city of san francisco project here in san francisco. so we are so excited to be celebrating that. bu

i first worked with him when he was at the california puc before he went to the san francisco puc back during the energy crisis where he tirelessly worked on renewable energy and energy efficiency and all of the other things that the state was trying to do to deal with the energy crisis, and i couldn't have been more pleased when he came to the san francisco puc and added his expertise and i am noticing what i hope is not a trend of people that we are honoring that just left the city, so i would like to see no more key people involved in this leave because i think we're at such an important stage and everybody is doing such a great job, but might be we're sorry to see you go. you have done wonderful work here. the california puc is lucky to get you back, and thank you very much for your hard work here. >> well said commissioner. commissioner avalos. >> just to add a little bit to what's already been said and i just want to thank you for your tremendous patience through the years and the process. i know there were a lot of false starts we had over the recent years i have been involved a

as part of this program eir approval the sf puc limited to water deliveries to the current level of 265 million-gallons a day and for the city of san francisco this meant developing 10,000-gallons a day of alternate water supplies here in the city. to meet this goal we're pursuing additional water conservation measures to reduce demands on drinking water and developing new sources of supply including groundwater which would be used to augment the drinking water supply and recycled water used for non drinking uses and irrigation and toilet flushing. in san francisco we're moving forward with the implementation of our program. we have three projects here in the city. we have the harding park project and the reservoir and pump station that is used to pump water produced by daly city and we have the next water project and produce 1.6 million-gallons of recycled water for golden gate park and presidio park and the golf course and we have a project to deliver 2 million-gallons a day of recycled water. so again just to circle back as to why we're doing recycled water. recycled water lets us de

this is extremely important given the significant amount of work that the puc will be doing and undertaking to rebuild the southeast wastewater treatment plant. the purchase of the site represents the consolidation of 34 collection system division staff provides improved storage for equipment, vehicles and materials and is substantially cheaper than other alternatives and wisely invests in the puc rate-payer funds. also i'm hopeful this consolidation will also continue to stimulate 3rd street merchant corridor. additionally i have an inmemoriam for eunice holmses, a community member. she moved to california in 1967 and gave birth to two children and made san francisco her home. she was a beautiful person inside and out and will be sorely missed. thank you, the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor cohen. >> supervisor chu. >> i am requesting a hearing request to better understand the use and management of city property. the hearing would include information from the real estate department and potentially from other departments like the part, the mta and other departments given some of the

could we call i think it is puc items, all related. at the same time. >> item four, hearing to receive update from puc on water system improvement to include information on projects completed to date, corresponding cost of upcoming projects and scheduling corresponding for upcoming projects. five, release or reserve funds in amount of $62,253,692 to fund the following water system improvement projects. the project management, cuw395 program reserve, san joaquin pipeline system, new irvington tunnel. vegetation restoration of wsip construction sites and program management. item six, resolution adopting finding under the california environmental quality act including adoption of mitigated monitoring and reporting program and statement of overriding considerations related to the san antonio backup pipeline project and directing clerk of the board and supervisors to notify controller of this action. >> thank you, mr. clerk. we have with us julie lavante from puc. >> good morning, supervisor and mr. clerk. if you wouldn't mind connecting computer.

then the attachment on page five of our report provided by the puc details the puc six project budgets and the expenditure requests. further table one on page three of our report summarizes the requested release of the reserve funds totalling 34.9 million. that is for the program management services cost. in both instances we believe based on our analysis the puc has provided sufficient details and documentation to justify this request which combined totals 62,253,692. that money, by the way, is, as you know, funded through water revenue bonds, which are paid off through puc's water rate payers. we recommend you do approve requested release of reserve funds and reallocation. that would be file 121013 and approve proposed resolution regarding ceqa, file 120985. >> thank you, mr. rose. just a housekeeping question be about how we make a reallocation. by releasing reserve on the 27 million gives the authorization for puc to just in their budget make reallocation? >> yes, there's two actions. a reserve reserved by the full board of supervisors, a budget and finance reserve. if you released

to address the question on water quality, the puc does test annually for chemicals of concern. we can report back on those findings, but to date the water quality out on treasure island has been tested to show no human health safety concerns. having said that, because of some of the recent comments we have received, the puc is currently going to be conducting water coming -- conducting testings from water coming out of the actual tap. so, we're working on getting that scheduled for the end of october. >> thank you, mr. timoff, i appreciate that. supervisor campos. >> thank you. if i could ask that -- her to come back. >> ms. brownell? >> yes. sorry. and, again, i want to thank everyone who has been working on this. i appreciate that. a lot of work has gone into this and i want to appreciate the work from the treasure island staff for their responsiveness. i guess one question that i have, and i appreciate everything that you have said is i understand all the things that have been done, and i understand, you know, that many tests have been, you know, done in the last few months.

the port commission if it involves a port property, and if not by our commission -- in either case the puc and want their endorsement of the alternative before we move forward with environmental review and conceptual engineering so that's the time frame. >> i guess i was getting at more opportunities for public outreach and have the public weigh in and even if you wouldn't mind investigating the issue whether it's been difficult for people to get access to the online survey. >> we only know of one person that had an issue and internet explorer -- i'm not technical but it was that issue and i thought it was resolved but we can try and address ms. wood's issues. >> in brief it's an old version of internet explorer and doesn't allow access to the site is my guess. >> we thought it was resolved. we emailed folks and the list was 1600. we have a email list of 1600 stakeholders and did that twice now. so we will have melissa come up and talk about the issues. >> thanks for taking the time and we have done emailing on the latest update on the five sites about 1600 people. we are doing another upd

that, and a lot more study work to help advise the rate setting process before this is taken up by the sf puc and then the joint lafco /sf puc, and a lot of that data has just a couple days ago come in from local power, but it will probably take throughout november to crunch that and longer to crunch that and apply it to the rate setting, so i would just ask the various bodies to be flexible in their time line now. we have gotten this thing passed. it's on the way and now we to make sure we have solid customer data and solid data in what we might be installing and inform the process of making the opt out better. possibly giving us better rates from the beginning or shortly therefore and making sure we're identifying customers the right way with regard to marketing this thing to them so we can way down below what is currently projected as 50% opt out and that is likely to go past the joint meeting next month, so just wanted to put that forward that we want to make sure that we're not rocketing too forward too quickly setting the rates until we have all the information we need from local power

just for a moment, i want the puc to raise their hand and give a shout. we have a lot of folks who really committed in making the systems wwork. again, we have billions of dollars that we are entrusted with delivering in a timely way, which needs to be within budget. systems like this will really elevate and make it really transparent that we are delivering these programs in a very conscious and deliberate way so we can save the ratepayers' money. with that, i just want to thank you guys for this award. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> if you are a consultant or you work for a company that does work for the puc, raise your hand. that's about half the room. thank you, harlan kelly. >> it does not matter just where you're going to go. it matters how you're going to get there. our team came together in 2008 and we started looking at procuring something to navigate us away from paper-based to on- line filing. >> we collect the majority of the city's revenue. all of those payments were made by piper until we undertook this project. we asked the team -- how d

we have a list of community organizations that the puc worked with his historically. >> we will assist however we can obviously. >> jason has made presentations -- i want to say -- >> lafco and puc staff over two years now gone to over a hundred community groups for presentations and street fairs. it's not as recent. we are kicking back up into that and why you have the fliers and that is temporary and it wasn't representing what was current and we want something out there now while we work on the permanent pieces in the future. >> how about the affordable housing and public housing, housing authority? >> some of those folks -- some of those don't pay their own utility bills. >> correct. >> so that's a little different of a customer base than we're looking at rolling out too. >> i am wondering have those conversations happened with henry alvarez or those folks? i am just curious. >> i know we went to some of groups but i can't help you off the top of my head the individuals that were at the meetings. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. colleague any other questions or comments about

at that time they did approach the puc about doing a project. as a consequence of that, and after a lot of discussion, development and work, we did actually proceed with a project at the alvarado school. it is a 50 kilo watt solar system. it is actually being completed. we did that in conjunction with dpw. the project is completed. it is not connected to the grid. the purpose of this resolution is enter into an agreement, which is a standard interconnection agreement with pg&e. that is pretty much a pro forma standard for solar projects. a standard agreement approve bid the california public utilities commission. actually non-negotiable. so we are asking for your support to be able to have the general manager implement this with pg&e. >> thank you. a quick question for this project. not so much the item before us, but how was it paid for? >> that is paid for out of the power enterprise, department of the p.u.c. we have a capital funding program for renewable and energy efficiency projects. there is an amount set aside for those. it is actually pa