i just wanted to thank you for the work that the puc is doing and you know, the climate action strategy presented to the public and has really geared our programs around that strategy echos all of our thoughts, which were that claenl power sf was the number one way that we could achieve the city's climate goals. so i want to make sure that we're always echoing that and supporting that, and hopefully, they move forward quickly, and i can't wait until april 2019. >> me either. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. do you -- >> so i know i have another component. i did have a few slides. do we have time for that? >> supervisor fewer: sure. >> so if no other questions, it's my pleasure to introduce tyler gamble. he's been at the puc for six months? eight months. i knew it's been around there. mr. gamble's been with the puc for eight months, came to us from the great city of new orleans. he's going to present some slides on our communications plan. >> hey, good morning, commissioners. how are you? i will run through our communications strategy that we have so you guys kind of know

what the puc is hearing is that some of the resources are being diverted to north bay work, which is not necessarily an acceptable excuse to us. they should be increasing their capacity. in any event, the delays continue, but there's a path forward. >> thank you. does that conclude your presentation. >> i was saying staff recommends amending the construction contract to increase the limit from $7,130,000 to an amount not to exceed $9,900,000. >> thank you very much. >> is there any public comment? okay. being none, public comment is closed. commissioners. >> entertain a motion. >> commissioner bonilla. >> question. this is -- >> can i get to you speak into the microphone. >> yeah. so it's actually an increase. i mean, all throw -- it's more than 10%. it's almost like 30%. that's huge. yeah. do we have any idea before we started the project that this might be a potential -- i mean, we would be realizing this significant of an increase in this project, or did this come out of nowhere. >> i would say we didn't anticipate this huge a shift. >> you didn't? >> i think we had two things. pg

as you know, this mou between lafco and the puc has been extended through june of 2019. re are your expenditures to date -- i'm sorry. this next slide is the lafco general fund balance. this slide shows the general fund appropriation expenditures and year-end balance for lafco from 2007 onward, and we have set aside a reserve of about $45,000 or 15% of the annual budget, and again, these expenditures and balance are updated as of may 15, 2018. the current available balance is around $82,000. here is your ex-pentures to date. on this side, lafco spent about $130,000 to date this year. that includes the separation payout for the executive officer -- executive director salary and benefits. legal services cost approximately $43,000. service costs by other department such as sfgovtv, and others around 13,000. th and then, on the cca work order side, the cost charge as of may 15, 2018, is about $2300 for the executive director's salary and benefits that occurred prior to his separation. a refund from nce for an incomplete portion of the study, and then -- mce for an incomplete

this year's prop j certifications include contracts at the airport, at mta, the port, and the puc. is there anymore detail that you could give us? >> there's no change in the services as approved by this committee in prior years. it's the same on going services and contracts. there are six different kinds of services for the sfmta, four for the airport, two for the port, and one for the puc. >> i'm sorry. just let me interject here. can you talk about the cost savings? >> sure. >> thank you. >> so the analysis shows -- compares the services that are provided through the contract with what it would cost to have similar city staff provide the same service, do the same work. in all of these prop js you'll see there's a certification letter from the controller showing the savings to perform these as contracted services in each of these cases. >> all right. thank you very much. i just want to also -- the record to reflect that we haven't heard from anyone of our labor partners or labor leaders that would be against or speaking against this certification. so colleagues, i think i just wan

the community for several years where they agreed on a plan and a facility for this site owned by the puc, so last night i went to the community to explain my regrets not having discussed it with them and we were pursuing the project as proposed tabi community and puc. i was graciously received and left the meeting feeling quite positive about the relationship and the community was greatful for my attending and explaining my point of view. we are doing the sequel work on it. the hope is that the project can be, can start construction by the middle of next year. it includes a community center, an education facility and a fairly large park area that the community would use in that area at the corner of third and evans street. you will see a zoning site that will likely come to you either late this year or early next year. >> item 11 for review of past event. the historic preservation commission did not meet yesterday. >> good afternoon. the committee considered the ordinance introduced by commissioner peskin. commissionerrers you heard this item specifying the $2 increase within the central

of course at the puc we recommend that you store our wonderful delicious tap water. it's free. it comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean plastic container for up to 6 months. so find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. i use it to water my garden. >> of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. >> yes. it's an easy way to pick up bottles to store it. just make sure you check the label. this one says june 2013. so convenient you have an end date on it. >> and there are other places where people have water stored in their houses. >> sure. if you have a water heater or access to the water heater to your house, you can drink that water and you can also drink the water that the in the tank of your toilet. ; not the bowl but in your tank. in any case if you are not totally sure about the age of your water or if you are not sure about it being totally clean, you can treat your water at home. there is two ways that you can treat your water at home and one is t

i am only aware of the puc flying drones to check out the waterway. i have done research from smaller departments to larger departments and seeing how they handle that internally, and that is as far as i have gotten on it. i know you mentioned before if it saves one life. i get that part of it and there are things we are happy to do internally and possibly get that grant funded down th the road. there is internal issue. i have researched and i have been looking into them. >> what is the process for us to be cleared to have drone in the department. >> a while ago i asked does that get extended and they told me it could be extended. >> okay does the chief of the department need to make a formal request for that? how do we move forward from the paper and the meeting stage to actually having the members of the department who are trained to be able to look after our interest as they relate to drones because common citizens have them and at the large fires they show up and ask the chief of the department if they can be of service, but they are not trained i

i did speak with barbara hale of the puc, and she did mention she would be at the energy choice summit. hopefully she can communicate to us in the next meeting that we have some best practices that she gleaned from that panel. she said that she would be attending, so hopefully, she can. and then, its advocates that are attending could till in the gaps for us, that would be great for us to understand as we sort of look forward. in terms of our strategic plan, i feel uncomfortable choosing an order without having staff create a work plan and just -- and to make -- to advise the commission on what our -- what our -- what's the possibility, how that we make sure that we're not duplicating work from other legislative bodies within the city, and then, just sort of put through a plan that goes through the fiscal year rather than a quick maybe we should work on this first quick look, and so i would just ask that we continue this item and, you know, not have it come up until -- maybe to the call of the chair when there is some work done on the item. but in the meantime, direct staff. >> supervi

in the old days the utility had the right to act on everything and then the puc decided whether they would recover the cost for that. in the future the right to act has to be distributed more evenly. consumers have a right to act, supplies have a right to act. second principle question is who bears the burden of proof? that gets very different now. so if a consumer has a right to act to put a solar panel on his roof, the consumer doesn't have to prove they've done the right thing, the utility has to prove they've done the wrong thing. if you go back to the digital revoluti revolution, the second most important decision was called carter in which the fcc said anybody can plug anything into the wall as long as it doesn't hurt the system and that gave us the cable modem it turns out. and of course at&t said, oh, my god, it's foreign exchange equipment, it will blow it up and the fcc said, bull. you have to put a jack in there that an ordinary consumer can plug in the wall so you don't have to roll a technician and if you think that blown is going to blow up your system you have to prove

a question was asked about the ability of the san francisco puc to pursue local permit or impact fees and the sudden proliferation of scooters on the goals. the main thrust of the conversation reinforced concerns about equities with regard to newer modes like bike share. there were only eight bike share docks in the entire excelsior for example. the district 10 monitoring bikes say there were only eight bikes available in the area of the city, even though the permit required 20% of the bicycles to be in communities of concern. he inquired about this issue and had not received a response. the cac looks forward to monitoring the outcomes and the recommendations in the report. that concludes my report, thank you. >> thank you, mr. larsson, any questions for him? seeing none, any public comment on this item? seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. next item. >> item 3, approve the minutes of the april 24, 2018 meeting, this is action item. >> supervisor peskin: any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. motion to approve the minutes. on that item

when yslais creek is no longer held up by the puc or whatever facility it is, does the 1.5 milli 1.5 million magically reappear? what happens to yslais creek park. >> >> we're hoping we can fund that with 2019 bonds, and we're hoping we've done further due diligence on the feasibility of the project as well. >> any other questions? >> thank you. i have one other question about park facilities for children who have handicaps or disabilities, there are some places around the country that do excellent work where kids have an opportunity to play and enjoy a park, whether they're -- have visual problems, vision problems or whether they're mobility problems. what is going on in san francisco in that regard? >> thank you for -- for that question. all of our projects do have to be evaluated by an ada coordinator to ensure that we are meeting the current codes and standards for accessibility, so all of our facilities that we are -- that we're working on meet those standards. >> that's sort of a minimal standard. i'm talking about a standard that actually gives kids an opportunity to explore a

his first commission was the board of permit appeals. he was a puc commissioner twice, police commissioner, and was very recently serving on the retirement board, which is a $23 billion fund. mr. makras also has 30 years of experience in real estate. he served as the president of 4,000 member association of realtors. since 1990, he has led makras real estate which specializes in all types of real estate properties. welcome, mr. makras. we're very excited to work with our reappointed and new commissioners. we appreciate your wisdom and insight. they have experience on a broad range of topics. we know we have a big job ahead for our port. we are bringing and serving many diverse communities here in san francisco, and we need to prepare our waterfront for the next generation so it continues to be a place for everyone. thank you for your service to the residents and visitors of san francisco, and welcome back, and welcome aboard. thank you. >> i would just like to again, welcome, commissioner adams and commissioner woo ho back. it's been a pleasure servi

ryan a prlth letting project manager with the sfpuc working at the sfpuc is a fast-paced environment the pucican people eye person so breath and depth allows us to work on allows me to move across my career path. >> fill the roadway. >> our unique projects is the heritage puc water treatment long-term improvement plant it's one of the largest projects i've managed and supervised to be successful as a project manager you have to be hard working and self-motivated and being adaptable is important because the construction it is very fabulous that get me up in the morning you're going to be project solving and seeing the project go to me that's fun, i like coming to

facilitates our park and the temporary flower mart site, and eventually an additional 6.8 acres of land for the puc. as you know our public benefits package is very aggressive, but also responds to the feasibility of projects. currently there's legislation to raise the tsf by $5 persquare foot. while we are all for transit money and honestly increasing fees in downtown where the fee burden is lower, i'm fully supportive of but we're concerned that the increase in central soma would make increase of fees infae [inaudible] >> we think this'll afford better oversight and provides opportunities with the soma stablization c.a.c. the second recommendation is to create a commission policy regarding good jobs. for background in the last few months, organized labor has become very involved in the plan and has raised issues of job quality. in recognition we amended the proposed central soma plan as i previously mentioned. the proposal before you would be one way that the commission could bring this issue to the floor. it states that all nonresidential development over 20,000 square feet shall provide a commu

started as a intern guided through the process eventually one day a a deputy director or staying with the puc is where i love it in this san francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. and they're working in roughly 400,000 square feet. we were especially pleased that cleanpowersf offers the super green 100% clean energy, not only for commercial entities like ours, but also for residents of the city of san francisco. we were pleased with the package of services they offered and we're now encouraging our employees who have residence in san francisco to sign on as well. we didn't have any interruption of service or any problems with the switch over to cleanpowersf. this clean power opportunity reflects that. i would encourage any large business in san francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. it's good for the environment, it's good for business and it's good for the community. >> welcome to our land use committee meeting of may 21, 2018. i'm katy tang, to my right, jane kim, to my left supervisor safai and we're joined by supervisor peskin. mad

in addition to those two contracts, the puc entered into a 4.5 year agreement with cal pine to purchase energy from the facilities geothermal facility in alpine, california. that actually started delivering energy to the cleanpowersf program earlier this month. the energy portfolio work for 2018 is largely done, but a lot of additional work still needs to be done to round out our portfolio for 2019 and 20 and we'll be conducting additional solicitations and keeping the commission informed of all of our actions as we do that. this slide, number four, summarizes our projected 2018 power content, so as gm hale indicated in her comments, before you is your 2017 power source disclosure report which under lies the power content label for the cleanpowersf. this is what we think the program will look like this year, given the contracting work we've done. of course this will get settled this time next year when we have all the actual deliveries for the program over the next seven, eight months yet to come, but given the contracting work, these bar charts summarize what we're expecting. on the le

with the puc. so for highlights, public works has completed 48 street resurfacing contracts with four currently in construction, paved 1355 of the planned 1423 blocks at this stage. or 95% of the total. so as these four contracts are closed out, we will hit the goal and exceed it. the wiggle street scape and pedestrian improvement project reached completion this year and work on the irving street project as well as columbus, stockton and valeto was also completed. in june of this year, we'll complete the chinatown living alley. in september, the polk complete street project. and also in september, gary park pedestrian improvements and then the california laurel village street scape is expected to be. pa lieu, i believe the last of the street scape should advertise in june. this is a bit more detail on the street resurfacing. 48 projects have been substantially completed and four are currently under construction. one other thing to see on this slide, is the chart on the bottom right which again indic

. >> the state puc is set to vote on the pilot program that would allow passengers in the driverless cars on may 31st. kpix 5. >> the university of california regions are expected to vote this week on a proposed 876 million-dollar budget for the upcoming school year. they're meeting at uc san francisco toned tomorrow to talk about a variety of topics. last year, a state audit revealed an unreported 175 million that are budget reserve. that's why this year the board chairman tells the l.a. times that the regions will have more oversite of the office and budget. >> in the south bay, a grand opening for a new plan. a ribbon cutting ceremony that features new state of the art water treatment technology that's expected to require safe high quality water to 300,000 customers in the winter months and 100,000 in the summer months. >> this is a source that's been in the company for years. we wanted to provide the best. >> it's to make it efficient and cost effective. >> california senator will call on ice to stop separating families when they're taken into custody in the boarder. he also conf

i am happy to prorid provide wit decision of the puc. >> tell me what is your name? >>speaker: witteman. >> maybe before you leave city hall you could stop by my office anand leave your card. >> thank you for holding this hearing to have more transparency to the public. my name is jolie and i'm with the chinatown community. i am sure chinatown community and pe merchants would appreciae this but before we make this a potentially costly and risky decision perhaps we would reconsider the visibility of cost and the impacts that we will have to face when the project the launched. small businesses always want to bear the burden of their construction projects from water and sewer it improvements the street and sewer repairs and the subway sen tral project going on, the small businesses have been suffering. we are afraid this project would tear up streets all over the city and hurt our small businesses. we ask the supervisors to proceed slowly with input from the community before moving forward on such a large undertaking. >> supervisor cohen, i am going to tell you what you

in the old days, the utility had the right to act on everything, then the puc would decide whether they would recover the cost for that. in the future, the right to act has to be distributed more evenly, consumers have a right to act, suppliers have a right to act. the second question is, who bears the burden of proof? that gets extremely different. if a consumer has a right to act , to put a solar panel on his roof, the consumer does not have to prove that they have done the right thing. the utility has to prove that they have done the wrong thing. if you go back to the digital revolution, the second most important decision where the fcc said that anyone can plug anything into the wall as long as it does not hurt the system. that gave us the cable modem, it turns out. of course, at&t said, it is foreign-exchange equipment, it will blow it up. the fcc said, bowl, put a jack in there that an ordinary consumer can plug into the wall. if you think that that phone is going to blow up your system, you have to prove it is hurting it, he does not have to prove it is beneficial. that was part o

. >> reporter: well, both the state puc and cal fire are investigating the north bay fires to find out what caused them. most of the lawsuits, by the way, claim the utility failed to maintain and repair its power lines and that pg&e did a poor job of clearing vegetation from around their lines. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> mike, i want to ask how is our fire season looking right now? >> right now it's okay. you notice every day things get browner and browner. that means it's going to get worse and worse. we were watching friday night into saturday for gusty winds. still need to see if those materialize. right now things are still too green. wait until we get keeper into the summer and then you know things are going to be pretty bad. let's show you what's going on. you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. there's that area of low pressure, still spinning to the north, still bringing rain to the pacific northwest, but not us. a little mist out there. i doubt anything is going to hit the bucket and become measurable. just kind of damp for the morning commute. we'

this the puc allocated water east palo alto wasn't incorporated yet and received a much lower daily a lotment. >>> if you love boating on the bay, you may want to pay close attention to a hearing happening today in san francisco. supervisors will vote on keeping clipper cove open to everyone. the coast sits between treasure island and also where the city's only community sailing center operates. developers want to build a private luxury marina there. the board committee last week unanimously approved those new protections. >>> right now at 5:09. as you wake up at head out the door, the out the door temperatures are now in the mid-50s fomuch of the bay area for especially the inner bay as you step out ifairfiel it 54 and 54 in oakland and palo alto. cooler in morgan hill and santa troes is a. if you're thinking of something to do today and maybe you have the day off, you'll be able to enjoy free admission at the san francisco woubow botanical gard. it's going to be cool in the morning. 50s and low 60s for the early part of the day as we head towards 62 degrees there and low 80s for inl

he knows how to spetease the puc and put these things out there and get people excited doesn't matter rockets, tunnels under ground or tesla cars he knows how to tap that sense of imagination the use of social media to get us all excited. >>> rather than sticking to a galaxy far, far away, the newest "star wars" film stopped traffic on earth hollywood boulevard was blocked by a massive replica of the millennium falcon. what's the occasion? the world premiere of "solo: a "star wars" story" which opens nationwide on may 25th it's all about han solo as a younger fellow back in the day >> it will be an exciting film will you camp outside? >> i'm never the first mover on these things, unless it's a marvel movie. >>> if you skipped the gym this week, this story will make you feel guiltier. boston dynamics releasing new video of its humanoid robot atlas going for a jog. this is its latest function. it can also open doors and do flips. what's next? >> i don't know. they had the dog before or the mule, whatever they wanted to call it. so many different variations it freaks me out a bit it's so