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where we can engage those robust discussion that aren't necessarily in this room >> commissioner vietor. >> as former president of the commission on the environment and i do think in light of what we're learned today especially the fact there moibtd some necessary cuts and some problematic shifts in the department that we welcome agenda that's focused and if it's appropriate common wise to be able to say these are so many of the issues we're facing and have a reality checkoff what's coming down the pike. i really encourage having a focused agenda on that so they can be prepared for what motive be coming. and on the other issue on the arts commission i welcome a joint meeting with the arts commission. it feels like i don't know about a rec and park department joint commission by all those things that come up. i don't know about efficiency and all that but seems like seemed like a fiscal impact or vice versa we should be scheduling that that way if it's a resource issue >> commissioner torres. >> i don't understand what the process is. in order we provide the money to the commission and t
where we can engage those robust discussion that aren't necessarily in this room >> commissioner vietor. >> as former president of the commission on the environment and i do think in light of what we're learned today especially the fact there moibtd some necessary cuts and some problematic shifts in the department that we welcome agenda that's focused and if it's appropriate common wise to be able to say these are so many of the issues we're facing and have a reality checkoff what's...
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as commissioner vietor said those projects were not concluded in the we're accept. and funding is not secured. well, you adapt our two year budget you don't have the fund for the c i p going out 10 years so water and power rates have not been raised to cover the projected costs. we are looking at the c i p proposal so we're going to continue our review we'll have more questions as we continue that. and how those questions are resolved some of the funding and who paid. might not effect the sub total of the overall cost of the total and how it impacts the rates for us. so i intend to work with our staff and have been talking with mr. rick i didn't and b will get you further comments >> thank you for being here north america coal. >> doctor jackson. good afternoon >> sorry that i'm late i was at another meeting and when i heard you talking about solar my case you wasn't talking about solar i want to say i've been chosen as your representative which they've taken pictures of me to put on hangers to talk about and to call about solar because, you know, that's my baby. so
as commissioner vietor said those projects were not concluded in the we're accept. and funding is not secured. well, you adapt our two year budget you don't have the fund for the c i p going out 10 years so water and power rates have not been raised to cover the projected costs. we are looking at the c i p proposal so we're going to continue our review we'll have more questions as we continue that. and how those questions are resolved some of the funding and who paid. might not effect the sub...
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so commissioner vietor and myself anyone else who's interested well work on that agenda it will be out for the deadline. without objection that will be the order. any other items on communication. is there any any public comment on communications. yes dr. jackson >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> i'm on the i thought i was maybe i'm not anymore where i get the agenda. and i didn't receive an agenda for this meeting. and when i called some friends of mine - let me finish baby the agenda was for 1:30 today and some people getting got here a utility. i want to make sure i'm still you know, i get the agenda and get a time where i can be on time. that's one the reason i didn't know you were going to be meeting at 11. i'm on time i'm also here. and then in your discussions of chairman i stated to you all some time ago you are the cash cow now. redevelopment tells you be the cash cow for all the funding that's going out and you really need to know why those funds are being given and it's not being given to my opinion. i watch everything i've been walsh this city for a long time how tho
so commissioner vietor and myself anyone else who's interested well work on that agenda it will be out for the deadline. without objection that will be the order. any other items on communication. is there any any public comment on communications. yes dr. jackson >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> i'm on the i thought i was maybe i'm not anymore where i get the agenda. and i didn't receive an agenda for this meeting. and when i called some friends of mine - let me finish...
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. >> commissioner vietor. i want to thank you for your work we've done many things for the community on behalf of my appreciation for being here today >> thank you both very much for being here and a thanks for all the good work you do. next speaker card i have is francisco >> good morning. >> good morning, commissioners i'm going to speak on a number of issues. right from the inception when the core was created i was at the presidio and the conservation goal does good work because it gives opportunity inform indulge work for the folks who want to get their jd but also good jobs but we need to focus on are career jobs not giving people jobs for two or three weeks and let them go. commissioners, i know we come here not because we have time to waste but because we're interested in the water system improvement project, interested in the sewer improvement project and interested in climate change and interested in what's happening now and what the measures are regarding the drought. we know that millions of gallons
. >> commissioner vietor. i want to thank you for your work we've done many things for the community on behalf of my appreciation for being here today >> thank you both very much for being here and a thanks for all the good work you do. next speaker card i have is francisco >> good morning. >> good morning, commissioners i'm going to speak on a number of issues. right from the inception when the core was created i was at the presidio and the conservation goal does good...
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i'm happy to answer questions >> commissioner vietor. >> i have a question about how the governors ratio on and on maintaining is it would direct and prioritize city accumulation over add accumulation statewide but how does that effect our utility. >> i've asked the attorneys to look at that what, if anything, implementation i talked to don. >> assistant deputy city attorney but it would use a declaration for the customers of the system. >> and our common customers in santa clara valley district is the receipt of the delivers as the county so if their allocation gets cut short they'll look to sophomore san francisco more, more. >> commissioners. >> commissioner moran. i think it's worth noting that there's a difference between there's with being a drought and water supply deficiency. it's 2340erg9 that some acids in california are in bad shape we're in good shape because we have a lot of storage and it's that storage capacity that provide a measure of relief and buffer for us during the dry years >> you're not sigg we're getting water from la or you (laughter). >> but i would add that we
i'm happy to answer questions >> commissioner vietor. >> i have a question about how the governors ratio on and on maintaining is it would direct and prioritize city accumulation over add accumulation statewide but how does that effect our utility. >> i've asked the attorneys to look at that what, if anything, implementation i talked to don. >> assistant deputy city attorney but it would use a declaration for the customers of the system. >> and our common customers...
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i'm hoping that commissioner vietor will consider commenting. i'm looking the memoranda in the passage for the public january 10th >> yes. >> you kind of summarize this in advance. i'm looking at page 6 it's the second paragraph. i'm concerned that we're not listing energy efficiency under challenges especially, since you highlight the build out options that's been identified. the puc budget for the renewable projects and efficiency promotions has fallen from 10 million to 3.3 million in favor of and we're in favor of the following; right? to support rate discounts for customers and for defender needs to keep the system returning. first of all, we have to address the challenge of energy and it's important because we represent a lot of the maintenance workers. i know there's also going to be the balancing act but it's appropriate certainly given our recent conversations to say that's one more challenge >> it is and when we presented in order to bring our budget into balance we presented the option of increasing the general fund rates and in order
i'm hoping that commissioner vietor will consider commenting. i'm looking the memoranda in the passage for the public january 10th >> yes. >> you kind of summarize this in advance. i'm looking at page 6 it's the second paragraph. i'm concerned that we're not listing energy efficiency under challenges especially, since you highlight the build out options that's been identified. the puc budget for the renewable projects and efficiency promotions has fallen from 10 million to 3.3...
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in terms of power i agree with commissioner vietor we need to investing invest nor in general if you happened if we can reduce the demand at the three or four kent to resell and the last time i went through the general fund department i found the libraries and museums suck up a lot of power and maybe we can do things with climate control. there maybe some investment there that could offset an increase. some of those with related with the budget and workshop. i'm not ready for the mountain tunnel cost. so i think we need to think about that and hear more about alternative. some of the reductions i'm fine with but those are costs for the new mountain tunnel are huge. the intersection agreement costs makes we think about our lack of transmission line from newark to san francisco. it would be nice to know from staff like what the back of the envelope would be to complete that line that was never completed in nourishing to the city and the trade offices if we were to bond finance that versus pay the additional cost for pg&e for transition of power from newark to the city. the cost of serv
in terms of power i agree with commissioner vietor we need to investing invest nor in general if you happened if we can reduce the demand at the three or four kent to resell and the last time i went through the general fund department i found the libraries and museums suck up a lot of power and maybe we can do things with climate control. there maybe some investment there that could offset an increase. some of those with related with the budget and workshop. i'm not ready for the mountain...
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with that, i'm happy to answer any questions. >> commissioner vietor? >> i have a question and sorry, i'm missing the gene when i was born about getting my head around this. i know some of the questions i seem to ask repeatedly. i don't know when it's going to appear, when the conversation happens where once we use our hechy power and what happens when the water to generate power, do these bonds help back fill? can we specify the kind of power that we are buying is the end question that i want to get to. we've talked a little bit about this and my trying to understand. i did have some concerns about the environmental policy perspective that what we had to do especially in line light of our power station going out in the rim fire and in the market having to buy the dirtiest cheapest power possible and what that says and means. i don't know where how if that fits into this conversation per say fanned there is a way to use these bonds to specify this power or if that's a different kind of conversation? >> on the latter part of the question, these bonds hav
with that, i'm happy to answer any questions. >> commissioner vietor? >> i have a question and sorry, i'm missing the gene when i was born about getting my head around this. i know some of the questions i seem to ask repeatedly. i don't know when it's going to appear, when the conversation happens where once we use our hechy power and what happens when the water to generate power, do these bonds help back fill? can we specify the kind of power that we are buying is the end question...
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commissioner vietor? david? >> good afternoon. commissioner, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. this is a petition. all in support of our acquisition as my neighbors and colleagues have discussed. those are for you. i'm a resident. i live on gerard street and member of the greenhouse project. as you have heard before i have been here since 2008 and see the potential. i would like to give a bit of a history of that neighborhood and why it's relevant for us to preserve it and hopefully echo the potential that puc has for elaborating to create both strong water management and something wonderful that the city can appreciate it's history on. for you that don't know the portal is in the southeast.
commissioner vietor? david? >> good afternoon. commissioner, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. this is a petition. all in support of our acquisition as my neighbors and colleagues have discussed. those are for you. i'm a resident. i live on gerard street and member of the greenhouse project. as you have heard before i have been here since 2008 and see the potential. i would like to give a bit of a history of that neighborhood and why it's relevant for us to preserve it and...
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. >> commissioner vietor. >> so i was really pleased this increase in strategic engagement with the rate increases it's important to keep our eye on that. i'm already hearing the buzz of people's rate going up so it's important to get the engagement piece; right? of how we're going to talk to people and tell them why interest it's harder than the water improvement to talk about water under the ground and streets being torn up. i want to talk about that that engagement is going to be important moving forward >> thank you julia and a lowest for the sake of time i'm going to go through business services at a fairly good clip and then covering the go managers budget for the 10 year financial plan summary to be provided. okay so i have a if you slides to go through each of the departments todd with the staff. i have a team of amazing rock stars that are 3 hundred and thirty people and i have all my division chiefs here. the total budget is around $60 million and you see that in your packet on slide two. i have a couple of additional proposed budget changes for your declaration and they're rel
. >> commissioner vietor. >> so i was really pleased this increase in strategic engagement with the rate increases it's important to keep our eye on that. i'm already hearing the buzz of people's rate going up so it's important to get the engagement piece; right? of how we're going to talk to people and tell them why interest it's harder than the water improvement to talk about water under the ground and streets being torn up. i want to talk about that that engagement is going to be...
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. >> commissioner vietor? >> i wanted to respond. i don't know if we are getting an update on the 77 woolsey because i feel a little bit in a vacuum with a lot of information. what the time listen is. is there an opportunity for the part of the sip project. i thought it $77 woolsey because i feel a little bit in a vacuum with a lot of information. what the time listen is. is there an opportunity for the part of the sip project. i thought it was cueed up. i wonder if there is a time issue at state. i'm hoping in the update that we get in the general managers report and get a clear sense of what the property is and if there is an opportunity to acquire, i think it would be very exciting but i don't know quite enough about it. >> i want to thank all the community members who left. >> we'll make sure she addresses it. is there anymore public comment? if not. public comment is closed. next item, please. >> the clerk: item 17. communication. >> i have one speaker card. peter? how are you. >> nice to be here. peter. i'm pleased to share tha
. >> commissioner vietor? >> i wanted to respond. i don't know if we are getting an update on the 77 woolsey because i feel a little bit in a vacuum with a lot of information. what the time listen is. is there an opportunity for the part of the sip project. i thought it $77 woolsey because i feel a little bit in a vacuum with a lot of information. what the time listen is. is there an opportunity for the part of the sip project. i thought it was cueed up. i wonder if there is a time...
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so i hope you'll enjoy that video and looking forward to working with you >> commissioner vietor. >> tracing you didn'tcy we're happy to have you we're aware about traci's experience and i would love to thank you for the opportunity and we know that lansbury has been around for years and spear heated the puc and tried to make things right for a lot of people in the city. i don't know if there's a way to express our appreciation either to the chair horrify >> we can definitely do that. >> thank you tracy any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam secretary next item >> item 5 is the fiscal year 2014 - >> you know oh, changing chairs. >> changing chairs. >> i'll follow your lead. >> general manager please proceed. thank you for your introduction. as you know, we've a series of 3 hearings to talk about our budget. in the first hearing we reviewed the power enterprise and we were able to present a budget in balance we identified a new fiscal cliff. the following after year 2 that will require is to work with the commission core lead to address that issu
so i hope you'll enjoy that video and looking forward to working with you >> commissioner vietor. >> tracing you didn'tcy we're happy to have you we're aware about traci's experience and i would love to thank you for the opportunity and we know that lansbury has been around for years and spear heated the puc and tried to make things right for a lot of people in the city. i don't know if there's a way to express our appreciation either to the chair horrify >> we can definitely...
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years so we want our city staff to get the experience that concludes my presentation >> commissioner vietor. >> i have a question about mountain town hall and how that fits into the equation. it's a power and it's going to take a big hit maybe this is a question for todd as well >> it appears in our overall aa i p kind of in the wisconsin up program cal versus went over the budget and we had to adjust what was going to happen in the puc. so some programs 123r years out maybe pushed to 9 or 10 years out. the overall hetch hetchy is the same speaker the overall inspection of the tunnel they're maybe a failure in the tunnel if not and the so how much money to reprogram to hiss up to the tunnel and if we wiped up we're taking critical things off the table maybe adding money to the hiss up program. we pled an analyst report looking 14 alternatives and the report comes to one conclusion recommended to the staff level for approval but it comps to you but it involves building a new section of the tunnel and it would be, you know, in the $500 million price range so it's an impact that we're going to
years so we want our city staff to get the experience that concludes my presentation >> commissioner vietor. >> i have a question about mountain town hall and how that fits into the equation. it's a power and it's going to take a big hit maybe this is a question for todd as well >> it appears in our overall aa i p kind of in the wisconsin up program cal versus went over the budget and we had to adjust what was going to happen in the puc. so some programs 123r years out maybe...
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. >> commissioner vietor. i like that online water usage transition it's great. i'm wondering with our drought that on us about those water audits maybe you didn't mention that but it seems like there are maybe be a need to ramp that up and put out there whether in the bills or something a that's an available service i don't think people know that you can have your water system audits and you can have reduced costs to conceive water and i know that richie will talk about the water supply but his budget included $8 million for the conservation and the local showerheads >> it seems like that would be concessions in water to get your word out there and get your water system audited everyone can do that in 70 san francisco. i want to give a call it out a couple of my staffers. driver's license already updating those are and retraining to handle the volumes of calls >> rig >> right. >> so with that, i have a couple of slides the capital plan i'll be very, very short and what this means for affordability. we'll cover water first. this is behind tab 5 for water. on the
. >> commissioner vietor. i like that online water usage transition it's great. i'm wondering with our drought that on us about those water audits maybe you didn't mention that but it seems like there are maybe be a need to ramp that up and put out there whether in the bills or something a that's an available service i don't think people know that you can have your water system audits and you can have reduced costs to conceive water and i know that richie will talk about the water supply...
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we're getting started and i look forward to get together and chat >> commissioner vietor. >> you know thank you for that. and i do feel recycle at some point i don't know when it fauldz falls we need to have a conversation about diversification and the drought and to prioritize those new projects and what makes sense how to pay for it from con jufb to recycle water and how to make decisions found decisions on you know what should go and what shouldn't. there's been not a moment too soon we've got to bring those projects on line. i don't know if there's a time you could come back, you know, as part of the budget if need be in not pretty shortly after those hearings to understand your options here >> yeah, we can do that i'm not sure the budget place is a place for it but we can come back and describe the short term and long-term and how we get to the decisions that's doable but keep in mind those are are not easy decisions the low hanging fruit left a long time ago. >> it's consistent with the plan we talked about where we answered the questions that we have in the presentation that's
we're getting started and i look forward to get together and chat >> commissioner vietor. >> you know thank you for that. and i do feel recycle at some point i don't know when it fauldz falls we need to have a conversation about diversification and the drought and to prioritize those new projects and what makes sense how to pay for it from con jufb to recycle water and how to make decisions found decisions on you know what should go and what shouldn't. there's been not a moment too...
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this shied is just for you commissioner vietor (laughter) >> if you're getting there i can - >> that will be in the end as we talk about the two positions on the budget so support that work. we have some ordinances that have been implemented but we didn't have enough people for the project so it's caused a delay as the jthd has allowed two of those to move forward. we have an accomplishment slide for that piece. >> i can't remember who was commissioner was but it 134 should be in at an democrat we know the importance that that but to make sure we're responsive to the ordinance when we say we have the ordinance to the directive. >> i think one of the biggest challenges as does board of supervisors put some in front of the other board without funding and i think the challenge is how can we prioritize this and still be within our budget so what we've can you think is we've relined some positions to address that. i be that some of the issues we're facing has new development come on line the timeline of our staff being able to look at it was weeks. so we're working with tommy and staff tr
this shied is just for you commissioner vietor (laughter) >> if you're getting there i can - >> that will be in the end as we talk about the two positions on the budget so support that work. we have some ordinances that have been implemented but we didn't have enough people for the project so it's caused a delay as the jthd has allowed two of those to move forward. we have an accomplishment slide for that piece. >> i can't remember who was commissioner was but it 134 should be...
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mission and utilities and they don't want to have as direct as direct proportion alt and commissioner vietor suggested earlier. also in terms of positions, there wasn't any discussion yet about new positions for the next two years. i know that their various folks within the agency that would like more staff, some of that may make sense, but i think there are also vacant positions that could be traded and some other perhaps filled positions that could be down graded and in the past there has been an attempt to either keep the fte account instead or to trade off and possibly in accrues the ft while keeping the total salary levels steady. if there is some increase in there, i would like to see some tradeoffs and really encourage within the staff to try to keep it in total about where it is now. i would also like there to be sufficient time for the cac to weigh in on priorities. in the past it's worked better than others. this is important for the cycle as it feeds into the five year rate process. i'm handout epg the staff will come back. i know today is coming back and also there will be time i
mission and utilities and they don't want to have as direct as direct proportion alt and commissioner vietor suggested earlier. also in terms of positions, there wasn't any discussion yet about new positions for the next two years. i know that their various folks within the agency that would like more staff, some of that may make sense, but i think there are also vacant positions that could be traded and some other perhaps filled positions that could be down graded and in the past there has...
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commissioner torres and commissioner vietor is expected shortly >> thank you.o the first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes commissioners. mr. president, i had one change one item needed a statement of the action taken >> okay. >> so as amended i'll move the minutes. >> anything else commissioners that will be the order and it's been second. any public utilities on the minutes 2013. seeing none, public comment is closed. all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. ma'am, secretary next item please. >> item four is general pub any public comment? >> any any public comment? counselor >> good morning. i'm eddy with the defense project. as you know it's not a surprise that bite line is a supporter and mr. kelly. last we increased the revenue and this year we're going to get questions. what is the statue for the sf this year. we ask for clarification so we may know about this program and hopefully see it's fully funded in the future to create good local jobs and rereluctant energy >> any other comment? ? seeing none, public comment is closed. ma
commissioner torres and commissioner vietor is expected shortly >> thank you.o the first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes commissioners. mr. president, i had one change one item needed a statement of the action taken >> okay. >> so as amended i'll move the minutes. >> anything else commissioners that will be the order and it's been second. any public utilities on the minutes 2013. seeing none, public comment is closed. all in favor, say i. opposed? the...
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commissioner vietor? >> yeah, some of this is kind of embedded in here. i don't know how to elevate it. i think there is consensus and i know nationally among the scientist and in san francisco it's probably unanimous around the changing climate and the implications of that. i think particularly for the puc, there are issues related to risk management and to redundancy and we talked briefly about when we saw the rim fire. i think we are going to continue to see fire issues that are larger and more complicated to manage and contain. i think there is going to be issue with sea level rise that are going to affect our infrastructure, the drought piece, the wind piece, the colder temperatures, everything that is related to a change in climate. i know we have some modeling and the data is not firm. i don't know what the policy really looks like, but i just think that we need to be better prepared and think about some resource allocation to do internal coordination and the frame could be around disaster preparedness or risk management or redundancy of the system
commissioner vietor? >> yeah, some of this is kind of embedded in here. i don't know how to elevate it. i think there is consensus and i know nationally among the scientist and in san francisco it's probably unanimous around the changing climate and the implications of that. i think particularly for the puc, there are issues related to risk management and to redundancy and we talked briefly about when we saw the rim fire. i think we are going to continue to see fire issues that are larger...