but we have not identified the primary utility purpose for that. o' shaughnessy boulevard is a remnant from nearly 1900 of a property purchased, and we do not really have utility purpose. we do not have a pipeline going through there or anything else. there is nothing there. there are some water pipes going into some of those spaces, but it depends on what you mean. if it is active, there are some active lines right at the street. all our pipes are in the street. water service comes from the street and you -- adjacent properties. commissioner torres: laguna honda looked like my old district. that is the common does making. [laughter] i wanted to laugh about lake merced. i have received correspondence about people -- from people about lake merced. are there some controversies regarding lake merced from our perspective? >> we're working on a memorandum of understanding with the recreation and park department to decide the ultimate management at the lake merced track. we own the track. since 1950, the park department has been the primary management of

colleagues, these all deal with the public utilities commission.m #5 is one that i have co- sponsored with supervisor avalos. it is a huge project going forward, with many moving pieces. it is meant to give us an update on projects and how they are coming in terms of scheduling in the budget. 6 through 10 are amendments to existing contracts. item number 11 is an item that we intend to continue to the call of the chair. if i could ask julie to provide an overview on the program and join us through six through 10. >> because of the number of scheduling constraints, it has been six months since of the committee has been updated on the underwater improvement system program. we will focus on what we encountered in the field during the last six months or so. so, this is where we stand as of december 20. the number of projects in the program, and the dollar amount, is the full value of these. we only have seven of our 81 projects that are yet to reach construction. the last piece of the pie there is construction. 24 projects under construction. these are

their rates are competitive with their utility. i should say that their utility is not an iou in the sense that we have them here. the utility handle the distribution side of the equation. so it is not as competitive as it is currently here in california. in ohio, there were next to follow suit in 1999. they have got a couple aggregations. the best known as the northeast ohio public energy council. they have got, i think, 129 communities now. but a large percentage of ohio has done what illinois is now doing, which is in essence privatizing cca of tradition or the committee acts is essentially as an agent for the third party supplier to come in. that has real pros and cons, and we're working hard to make sure that the local communities are not giving away the store and are demanding higher and higher percentages of green energy. that is our work right now in the midwest. so i will say, there are no gangbusters, because ohio has at its two million customers, and illinois recently to ballot with 20 committees and are looking to go to

and what about properties with no primary utility purpose? do we hang on to them? do we look at them as a future needs, or what? we created some categories underneath each one of these questions, so when you look at keefe factors, its compatibility with utility needs, if there is a primary purpose, is it compatible? you do not want a gas station next to your reservoir. that is not something that would be compatible. the economic impact to the ratepayers. it should not be that the rate payers are subsidizing that use. it should be standing on its other. it should create a liability question for you. it should open it up to some sort of long-term. your priorities, whether or not it is for other things, and finally, is this a permanent use, or does it have an exit strategy? if you need to take this property for utility purpose sometime in the future, i am not talking five years from now, maybe 30 or 40 years from now, do you have an exit strategy that the second their use can be taken off of that? >> it may make sense to stop at this point. they are really questions.

none of the hours have been utilized. the price hasn't been utilized. it is a bid in your staff just threw it out the door. none of these were awarded except for one manhattan and. >> what is the nature of the contract? >> it is and on call cm contract. out of the five key staff that were asked for by name to qualify and be selective, eire worked roughly 48 hours a week. everyone else did not get a job. for the record, one of our senior staff who worked on the program. never got a single hour working on this contract. some got hired by other team members. even other staff got hired. we're talking about corruption. this is an article from the business journal in denver. federal charges, there are paying $1.5 million for the following. the false claims, a kickback by the justice department. l.a. times. the department of water and power. [chime] >> the artificially inflated the value of the work performed. this is another one of your distinguished companies. they had a settlement offered for $30 million in the commission rejected it for $120 million for th

verizon uses a network of utility poles in the sunset district. without a full discussion of why they cannot utilize this already existing network in the inner richmond, verizon cannot meet its burden of proof that this is the only alternative that will work for the neighborhood. please vote to deny a permit for this location. think you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. the proposed antennas are not necessary in the richmond necessary to provide service in the event of a natural disaster. the emergency response plan to medication and next which was established in 2008 and a copy which is included in your packet makes clear that cellular communications are disfavored in case of emergencies. the services are prone to system failures, times of disasters, are emergencies, and large special events and might not be reliable or dependable. the city report goes on to cite several more reliable communications systems for march is currently in place including the telecommunications system, the mayor emergency telephone system, the

utility's multibillion-dollar tab just keeps growing. experts on the government panel finished crunching the numbers. they tried to figure out if the company costs victims of the fukushima daiichi accidents would be able to get what they're owed. the panel submitted the report on its financial investigation to prime minister yoshihiko noda on monday. it says compensation payments up until march of next year will amount to about $47 billion. after that, tepco will likely have to make annual payments of nearly $12 billion. the experts say the utility should cut costs by more than $32 billion over the next ten years. they suggest eliminating 7,400 jobs. they also say tepco should sell about $9 billion in assets. that includes real estate and stocks. that's about $1.3 billion more than tepco had planned to sell. the financial report also calls on the government to promptly review the utility's pricing system. it says tepco may have overestimated costs and overcharged consumers. >> translator: the problems are longstanding. we have revealed t

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shut off utilities if it's safe to do it. you report it. we can cordon off the area just to make sure nobody else goes in the area. definitely tell the fire chief or whoever and we can go in there and try to do it safely. when we talk about search and rescue, i really want to make a distinction between searching and rescuing. searching is really basically looking for people; right? once we find a person we switch modes and go into this rescue mode. when we talk about search and rescue, try not to get it too mixed up because you think dfrpbtly based on what you are doing. if you are searching, you think about certain things and if you are rescuing somebody, you think about other things. the first rule, of course, would be do not become a victim yourself. whenever you do a search, you have to preplan. you have to understand who is doing what. we suggest that you work in two teams of at least two people, so that's at least four people doing a search at the very, very, very least. you want a team on the outside and a team on the inside. proper

the meeting is adjourned, thank you to members of lafco, and members of the san francisco public utilities commission. >> congratulations, i am very pleased. i want to thank the staff a lafco and the puc. it has been a long road, the activists and the stakeholders to get us to this point. i encourage you and urge you to stay involved with the board of supervisors and the conversation there because i think there is work to be done on figuring out and finalizing this issue. >> thank you to the rest of staff and advocates, meeting adjourned. >> good afternoon. i would like to call the meeting of the commission of the environment to order. >> [laughter] >> wow, that popped up. >> back to the future. >> san francisco public utilities commission. >> to order at 1:46, october 11, 2011. next item, please. >> roll call. president vietor. commissioner moran. commissioner caen. commissioner torres. i believe commissioner courtney is here and will be joining us momentarily. the next item as the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of september 27. if there are any additions, corrections, sub

as we move on, we are moving to the public utilities commission. there were five audits that have follow-ups this courted. we had our franchise fee audit, which is mandated by admen code, and we conducted on behalf of the board of supervisors every two years -- which is mandated by admin code, and we conduct it on behalf of the board of supervisors every two years. as a reminder, as i stated earlier, puc did not provide us with their response for wastewater enterprise, hanson, and crystal springs. they are here and will speak to it, and i will speak to what we have currently. for the utilities commission for the audit of sunol valley recreation company, we have six open recommendations, one contested, and four close. of the six open, three are related to unpaid rent and fees. the matter is being handled by the city attorney. we believe that the risk is low. while some of the recommendations related to the 11,000 identified as past and and late fees, puc is working with the city attorney, and this is why we believe it is low, because they are in the

when we uncover existing utilities, we realize that some of the hour improvements might not be as good of a shape as they are. we should fix what needs to be fixed right away and the challenge is if you try to bring a different contractor, it might not be possible. there is times wynn additional work is minimal. those issues are coming up now more and more and we have a good management reserve and we still fall well within the original estimates. we need to stay on our toes in the larger projects which are starting to roll in and we will definitely see more of those types of challenges. some of the more challenging projects are now well on their way. with that said, the dam will not be an easy project. to counterbalance that, there is a lot of great achievements. after a year of field work, as i mentioned last time, i started excavation of the bay tunnel. i attended a meeting which show the progress which had been performing as planned. we made the crossing under the pipeline which was a sensitive type of operation. i felt good about that. some workers safety issues regarding two of ou

all matters listed are considered routine by the san francisco public utilities commission will be act on base single vote of the commission. terms and conditions offers the general manager to access on behalf of the city and county to extend the term for two years under the current lease at rawlings work and at burning game. -- burlingame. improve the election and water improvement program funded agreement, engineering service, fish passage facility within the alameda creek watershed and authorize san francisco public utilities to execute a public service agreement with the u.s. corporation in an amount not to exceed $2,000,000.300000 -- $2,300,000. the contract and pipe installation on new mcgovern, stevenson, to the lowest qualified responsive better to replace renewed aging water pipes. -- the waste-water facility alighting efficiency at no. friends the oceanside to replace aging high intensity lighting features with high efficiency light a meeting diode fixtures for a contract of $500,093. -- 500900 -- 5000 -- >> so moved. >> we have no speaker cards. >> all those in favor? >> opp

or if the properties are no longer needed for utility purposes, what is this commission's disposition of those properties? finally, we are hoping this discussion leads to a point where we can actually go away and start to frame a the land policy that can be brought back to the commission hopefully before the close of 2011, but also updating a lot of our policy of our procedures, our manual for real-estate inside sfpuc and how it's implemented within the puc. just to remind you, we do have some existing plans and policies in place and/or memorandums of understanding did you have the environmental stewardship policy which you adopted in 2006. we have a watershed agreement, production agreement, with the national parks service, which was first approved by you in 2005. and redone again in 2010. there is the reverse management plan with the u.s. forest service in 1988 and the national parks service is working on their portion did you have the

the utility's multibillion dollar tab just keeps growing. experts on a government panel finished crunching the numbers. they tried to figure out if the company could cut costs so victims of the fukushima daiichi accident would be able to get what they're owed. the panel submitted the report on its financial investigation to prime minister yoshihiko noda on monday. it says compensation payments up until march of next year will amount to about $47 billion. after that, tepco will likely have to make annual payments of nearly $12 billion. the experts say the utility should cut costs by more than $32 billion over the next ten years. they suggest eliminating 7,400 jobs. they also say tepco should sell about $9 billion in assets. that includes real estate and stocks. that's about $1.3 billion more than tepco had planned to sell. the financial report also calls on the government to promptly reveal the utility's pricing system. it says tepco may have overestimated costs and overcharged consumers. >> translator: the problems are longstanding. we have

commission to request approval from the board of supervisors to except and extend the public utilities commission share of the telephone department of public health grants funds. >> this is a pretty straightforward action to request the board of supervisors to except grant funds for a project already completed. >> moved and seconded. is any public comment? >> we have no speaker cards. >> thank you. >> item 11, discussion and possible action to approve the terms and conditions to authorize the general manager to consent the existing right of way from sac, transferred a portion of san antonio centers leasehold rights to mgp ix properties. >> i am here to answer any questions you have. >> are there any questions? do we have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> moved and seconded. any public comment? >> we have no speaker cards. >> did we have a discussion about the open space? this is the shopping area downtown. >> this is in the peninsula. >> is there a green space that is part of the development? >> this is a very narrow strip of land that will be used for access and landscaping? >> my

the meeting is adjourned, thank you to members of lafco, and members of the san francisco public utilities commission. >> congratulations, i am very pleased. i want to thank the staff a lafco and the puc. it has been a long road, the activists and the stakeholders to get us to this point. i encourage you and urge you to stay involved with the board of supervisors and the conversation there because i think there is work to be done on figuring out and finalizing this issue. >> thank you to the rest of staff and advocates, meeting adjourned. commissioner moran: thank you. we're back from close session. the commission met in closed session and no action was taken. can i hear a motion on whether to disclose what was discussed in closed session? >> motion not to disclose. them a second. >> -- >> second. commissioner moran: the item carries. >> is there any additional new business that any commissioner wishes to propose at this time? >> something i noticed right now -- we should change the logo that is on the television. [laughter] >> thank you, commissioner caen. i noticed that, but coming from

some are fully utilized. others are not. we would like to maximize utilization to see if we can help neighboring agencies implement this project. this project has been recognized by the state and federal government. we have received $1.20 million through the state through crop 50 funds. in the last two phases we did, feasibility and pilot test, the state-funded 50% of the work. the rest was shared by the four agencies. what this shows is that for each agency, just by contributing 12.5% of the total project cost, are at the table for studying desalination. this cooperative project allows this cooperative project allows us to leverage our dollar

our first contract has been completed and that have relocated the utilities for the portal and mosconi stations. our second contract is currently under way in union square. that contract is approximately 60% complete, on time, within budget. it will relocate all the utilities underneath the asphalt area on stockton street between ellis and geary to accommodate for the future market street station, and it will be completed in may 2012. the hour tunnel contract, $233 million, $13.25 million under budget. the contractor has initially mobilized in the launchbox area. finally, the four major contracts that will deliver the program. these contracts encompass the actual construction of the three underground subway stations, and assistance contract that will install all of the track and guide way work, communications work, for the operation of the central subway. all of these contracts will go out to bid in the first three quarters of 2012. the fta has been very supportive of the program because of its intense user benefit and transportation benefits for the citizens of san francisco. we have

as mentioned in an earlier part of the presentation, we are nearing the end of our utility relocation for the first phase of the project. relocation of the of solar water supply system on mission and howard is the last package, and it is slated to start in january 2012 and finished around may. this amendment to the agreement with the puc covers the puc's procurement and installation of the valves. this is the scope of the agreement, and that number to a wheel. happy to answer any questions. >> i just have one question on this. when we see on the agenda that the "not to exceed" price goes up when there is added scope, does that mean that the prior "not to exceed" for each of the two or three parts, each of the three things -- that those can utilities commission no overrun on one and make it up and under run on another? >> in a sense, and the initial agreement and second amendment should be approved. once it gets approved, we issued a task order or a series of task orders to the puc for specific items. the puc then is obligated to provide those services within the task order budget amou