Transcripts For SFGTV SF Public Utilities Commission 20240712

We have a quorum. Could you please read the announcement. Dont to you covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health regulars issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, they have lifted restrictions. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and held by s sfg tv. Please be aware theres a brief lag time between what is being viewed on sfgtv. I would like to extend our thanks to the staff for the assistance of this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item dial 888 2733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line and you will hear an automated voice that when tell you when its your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. These instructions will be repeated. If they havent done so, ill ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise. Your first order of business is approval of the minutes of may 26th, 2020. Commissioners, before you, you have the minutes of may 26th, 2020. Are there any corrections or discussion on the minutes . Hearing none, madam secretary, could you please open to Public Comment . Anyone in the public who wishes to make a comment on may 26th, 20 dial 888 2733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line and i would like to remind everybody, this item is for approval of the minutes. Nowdo we have any callers . There are no callers in the queue. Approval of the minutes is closed. May i have a motion and a second on the minutes approval . Approval. Second. Can you take a role call vote. role call . I think youre muted, commissioner. Commissioner maxwell, your microphone is muted. Maybe raise your hand. Commissioner maxwell, at the top, youll see four buttons and one looks like a small microphone, tap it once to unmute. Perhaps while were working that out, could you give us a thumbs up or thumbs down to approve . , yeah, i couldnt see you ad it went blank and i couldnt communicate or see you. Im back. How do you vote on the minutes . Yes, aye. Commissioner paulson. Aye. Thank you, we have five ayes. The motion carries. Next item, please. Madam president , item 4 is general Public Comment and member of the public may address the commission on matters within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda by dialing 888 2733658 and access code 3107452 and pound followed by pond again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have callers . There are multiple callers in the cue. Queue. You have four questions remaining. Commissioners, my name is francisca depasta and today i want to talk about blatant racism. I viewed the funeral of george floyd and it brings memories of the discrimination that we are witnessing in district 10. 10, blatant discrimination. indiscernible . Even as im speaking, you dont have your act together because im hearing funny sounds on the system. Anyway, ill be watching the presentations and giving my comments on what you perceive being the best interests of the community and what i perceive to be the best interests of the community because i have a track record attending most of your meetings and witnessed the shenanigans. Thank you very much. Operator you have three questions remaining. Question thank you, chair. indiscernible . Question just briefly, the work of this commission, in the era of covid19 i hope it will pass sooner rather than later and want us to continue to play the long game aspirational goals. Recently it was started at forming a municipal utilitys district and i support this commission being not only a purveyor of generation of clean electricity, but to become an operator of infrastructure. I am concerned about high electric rates in San Francisco and i know that you as a commission are doing your part to help. By offering valued propositions for generations. I ask your continued advocacy in being able to be involved in the delivery side of the house, as well, because the public process that you afford will be able to help to reduce the electric rate in San Francisco. Gun, again, i ask for your contd advocacy as you continue the work in bringing clean, greener and less expensive power to San Francisco. Thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Question hello, commissioners. Thank you for allowing me to speak with you today. My name is elaine challenger. Im a member of the san m matteo bike council and we have had many discussions about the problem and possible solutions im going to discuss today. And last year, the san matteo board of supervisors requested a grand januaryery repor jury repe gravity of the problem. They agreed something needs to be done. Here is the setup. Beautiful open space, sunny views of the reservoirs and hills, a relatively safe path on sawyer camp trail and kinata road and a hell hole of cars trying to pass between k irinata road where cyclists are expected to travel with cars at high speeds along highways. On top of that, cyclists cross merging traffic and a gravel shoulder. Cyclists are hit frequently. On may 1st, i witnessed a cyclist hit and the worst thing for me was this collision was predictable and it will happen again and again until we fix this problem. So here is my ask, the pc has existing roads on the land surrounding lower skyline 9 92 d kinata road that would give cyclists a safe path. Im asking you to allow access to connect skyline to kinata road. There are land use issues and a greater need now to accommodate the rising number of cyclists. You can reach me at saferbikelanes icloud. Com and the san matteo bpack invites to our next virtual meeting. Thank you so muc much. Operator you have one question remaining. Question good afternoon, commissioners. This is peter dreckmeyer. There was a new rule that will gut the states for the Water Quality certifications. My opinion, this is the worse attack of many from the Trump Administration on californias quality of life. But right now, california desperately needs agencies leak the sf puc to stand up to trump. February 25th, commissioner vitor opposed the Trump Administrations buy love cal bl administration for the delta. Thank you. Youve been a great leader. Three and a half months have passed and still nothing has come back to the commission. Please step up on the vital issues. Today i ask you to not just oppose the latest epa rule of degradation to our environment but to sue the Trump Administration. This would send a clear message. I hope you will agendaize agends for your next meeting. Operator you have one question remaining. Question im a resident of san matteo. Its reported my citys average use is 86 gallons of water per person and in contrast, San Francisco is 46 gallons per day. According to the integrated information system, the bay area is in a moderate drought. But even though theres ample storage, usage will be high this year. Especially at a time when delta water levels are not repennished, for the habitat to sustain part of our economy such as salmon, theres a lot of room for better water management. So the focus on the specific opportunity, i would like sf puc to be working with wholesale buyers to show them best practises and improve water demand management. Sf puc Water Conservation is not what we see down here. We should all come together on this and communicate that its a better that its a Community Priority to manage water better and why. But sf puc needs to be the main driver on that. Thank you. Thank you. There are no more callers in the queue. Public comment on item 4 is closed. Madam secretary, could you please read the next item. Madam president , the next order of business is item 5, communication. Commissioners, any comments on communications . Madam president , a couple items. Last meeting, commissioner maxwell ask about a request i made of staff to develop a water budget work sheet. Ive provided a repan an expanso the commission and i wanted to say if anyone wanted a copy, if you contact the commission secretary, shell be glad to send them a copy. The other comment is on 5d, the alternate water supply Quarterly Report. Number one, i thought it was an excellent report. This presented a thought process behind it and i thought that was very positive an positive and u. The take away for me on that, theres a table on page 4 of the report that its a pie chart and basically says that in a worse case scenario, what we would be looking for is 100 mgd of supply and we have identified about 75. And those are very round numbers, leaving about 25 mgd with no identified solutions at this point. So in terms of responding to commissioner vietors request about what do if we had to meet the requirements of the delta plan, were short on that and we need to identify additional projects of that at least in theory might help bridge that gap. But again, i thought it was very positive. On the water budget, this kind of goes hand in glove with that report and i would also hope that, perhaps, by as early as the next meeting, we could have something to show in that respect. Thank you. Now. Commissioner, could you other commissioners have copies of the additional thoughts you had, the personal point that you made . That has already been distributed to the commission by the commission secretary. Its fairly brief, about two or three perhaps and it has a narrative and theres to numbers involved on it, but it does lay out the basic thought process i was looking for. This was briefed but very well done and you could understand it, so thank you. Through the chair, i also appreciated the effort that went into the report. Id like to request, especially because of commissioner morans interest in leadership on the water supply budget work i dont know what it looks like, but at the next meeting, so that its not just in communications but some kind of workshop so that we can dialogue and ask questions of staff if need be, especially when commissioner moran is a little further along in his thoughts and maybe already now, but i feel like that is a better way for me to kind of digest and process, to actually have a presentation, have someone kind of walk us through the highlevel points and to say that it looks like theres a 25 mgd delta, what do we do about it or what have you . Any other comments on the subject . Mr. Kelly, could you comment on 5f, which is your report on contracts . This is the first time its being present aske and presentee to draw attention to the report that is in communications. Yes, so 5f is a report of all of the contracts that are delegated, that you have delegated under my authority to approve. In the act of transparency, we wanted to provide a list of contracts and they hav who theyn awarded to and bring that out so everyone can see all of the activities that have been delegated to me and not go to the commission. So thats the purpose of the report. Were going to submit this quarterly so that you can keep track of all of the contracts that we have let out under my authority. So thats what the purpose of this report is, is to increase transparency. Is that mean to say, ann, or do you need mor . Yes, yes, so well be seeing this quarterly and well be seeing it under communications. You certainly didnt do much between january and march. [ laughter ] oh, dear. Any other comments by the commissioners on communications . Could you please open this to Public Comment . Members of the public who wish to provide comment on item 5, communications, dial 888 2733658 and access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have any callers . There are multiple calls. Thank you. Operator you have three questions remaining. Question thank you. Im going to talk to you about the clean tower sf report and i thank you for presenting it. Its very clear and it looks like were doing a lot of good things. We are thinking about our customers by keeping covid19 and all of its attended issues in mind. Thank you for having good relief in place to help the people of San Francisco, to keep them in this program, which is clean power sf. It shows leadership and protection and respect for the brand. And so, please continue with that. When i went to look at various rates, i appreciate you all publishing the rate. There are two support rates involved. Other than that, i appreciate your continuing work and i look forward to frequent reports and conversations about this program. Thank you. Thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Question this is peter dreckmyer. I sent you a couple of letters yesterday. The one on the water supply budget work sheet that commissioner moran has requested. And regarding 5d, i agree, its a wellwritten report. But i feel its based on an old way of thinking. And this is in no way a criticism of staff. I think paula does great work, but trying to work within policy that is dated. And so im very enthusiastic about the water supply budget work sheet. I think we will have a much better understanding of water supply, issues related to that. So i hope you get a chap chanceo look at my letter. I requested there be a backgrounder included with that, so the elements are clear on how the system works and water rights. So information about the baker act, the 1995 flow schedule and i requested that there be information in there to look at the history of water entitlements and demand and storage level and so annual entitlements, tourist demand over the years and how much water was remaining in storage at the end of the year. I think that will be very helpful in transformin determiny moving forward. I hope there will be an opportunity to for the public to ennaturengage in using this too. Some of the factors to be considered are entitlements but alternative supplies, demand is we know demand is much lower than it was projected. New storage could be included and level of rationing and taking a look at the offramps and all of that is explained in my letter and i look forward to bringing this issue back in a couple of week. Thank you, caller. Operator you have one question remaining. Question so commissioners, on the water issue, i have requested several times to contract the tribes who have a vested interest in the reverse and the water which they consider water which we stole from them. So much like the racism that we are witnessing today, this issue happened during a time where congressmen could make bills with other areas an, steal the water and bring it to San Francisco. Thats ashame. You need to make it right. We have some telling you what is right and what is wrong you like to do wrong. Right now, they cannot speak for themselves. I said this before. We need to hear from the tribes. , the indigenous people, who were here for 15,000 years, unlike the strangers who came here from 400 years ago and screwed up everything. We need to hear from the tribes. This pandemic is something we should reflect upon. Thank you, caller. Your time is up. Thank you so much for your comments. Operator you have zero questions remaining. There arent any more callers in the queue, madam secretary. That closes Public Comment on item 5, communications. Madam chair, i have a question on 5d, im sorry. Is it ok if i ask it . Of course. 5c is the bay area watershed and rights of way wildfire preparedness and i just wanted to know if there is someone who can answer that. Is there a particular goal . Is there a place were trying to get to in being prepared for wildfires in these watershed areas . This is steve ritchie, assistant general manager for water and i would like to ask tim ramirez to respond to that question and hes on the loin. The line. Thank you for the question. We try every year to do the work that is outlined in the report, so what weve tried to do is to describe the entirety of the preparation work that needs to be done, the mowing, the massty case, vegetation and were on track to do that. In general, we try to get all of this work done by july 4th. We use that date for a couple Different Reasons and some are obviously, perhaps, associated with the holiday and others are based more on the vegetation and its growth, which is highly variable. So were generally on track to get all of that work done and were also theres a couple of updates from the memo. Were hoping to have our prescribed burn next week at san andreas dam, and i will be sure to get an update when i have that schedule down. Well be working through the details and i think well able to get these things done on schedule in the next few weeks and then well be as best prepared as we can be to fight the fires, help fight the fires that undoubtedly will happen. Weve had both meetings remotely like this one and thanks to brad and lee and it went very well, all things considered. Were in as good of a spot as we can be at this point. Great, thank you, and thank you for the update. Commissioners, before we move on, is there any further discussion of any of the items under communications . Madam secretary, the next item, please. Madam president , the next item is item 6, report of a general manager . Good afternoon, commissioners. Before i jump into the covid agencywide update, i want to recognise our black community. Today george floyd was laid to rest following his tragic killing by Minneapolis Police department on may 25th. Mayor breed asked all City Employees to hold a moment of silence for a full eight minutes and 46 seconds at noon today to mourn his loss. To mourn in this. This is the same amount of time that a Minneapolis Police officer pressed his knee into mr. Floyds neck until he died. Last week, i sent a statement of my reflection on George Floyds murder and in it, i shared my experience and invited their staff to share this. Over the last week, i received a ton of emails everyday from staff sharing their stories with me. I think this is important for a step in laying the foundation for identifying what the puc can do to create a Work Environment where employees of all race can strive and still respect it. As we move forward, i wanted to make sure that we take an approach that goes beyond lip service and instead puts in the hard work to understand how systemic racism is showing up at the puc. Once we understand this better, we can identify and make concrete changes to address any system and behaviours at the puc that allows for this to occur. I believe its possible to make change that we want to see in the world, at the puc. I invite the commission to work with us on what we can do, big or small, to make a difference. On a positive note, we want to make great progress. Weve been making great progress on building up or Business Continuity plan and this effort goes way beyond how and when we return to our regular work site. It will drop into end of aspect of what we to and how we do it now and also into the future. We need to maintain a healthy workplace, maintain collaborative decisionmaking, region the way we work, keep employees informed and maintain an effective workforce. The newest work coming out of this team in the coming weeks is finalized in how we mark facilities for proper social distancing, launching an it Lending Library for remote employees to borrow desk chairs, keyboards and other basic Office Equipment and issue an update and update our telecommunication agreements. We are also developing this plan in coordination with the reopening plan. The city direction to all departments is to continue what were doing. That means that employees who are telecommuting now, well telecommute regardless of when the shelterinplace is lifted. From a timely perspective, we are anticipating employees telecommuting and to continue to ddo so over the next 12 to 18 months. There are sole factors that could shorten or extend this. Some teams may report back sooner. We will not bring remote employees back to the work site before august 31st. That will give us time to make sure we do this right and also for employees to plan out their summer work schedules. When we do begin to bring employees back, well start with those who are absolutely on site to complete their work. Employees engagement is another topic to all of this work. Im happy to report that our workforce is very engaged with us and more than 1100 employees participate in the first Employee Engagement service in may and provided great feedback on how were communicating in decisions were making. We plan to follow up with the survey in the coming weeks. We held several virtual allhands meeting including our very first agencywide virtual allhands meeting two weeks ago. Over 1200 employees participated in the meeting, which is nearly half of our workforce. We plan to use Virtual Technology to engage our employees on the work ahead. We will share that information with the commissioners so that we can have an opportunity, so that you can have an opportunity to participate. While we continue to push forward with this effort to meet the needs of employees, were responding to the needs of our customers. The latest numbers on the emergency Customer Assistance Program show we have received over 3800 applications since launching in may, which, i think, is remarkable. This effort automatically extends the programs to the current enrollees and provide criteria for new enroleees. Enr. Work is underway for nonprofit customers. By continuing to do work with our customers employees, City Partners and others, we will look to move forward from these tough times in a better and responsive agency. I just want to thank you again for your support on all of the efforts and i look forward to working with the commission over the weeks and months ahead. Thank you so much. Your statement was very moving and i think it would be good to submit that to the editor. I think everybody would like to hear your statement and i want you to know, and im speaking for the commission as a whole and im sure you would all be in agreement with me, but certainly anything we can do to aid in this, were 100 there for you. And for the cause. And so i just wanted you to know that and with that, any discussion about the first part of mr. Kellys report . Seeingnone, madam secretary, could you please open this up for Public Comment. Operator members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on 6a, update on operations during covid19 emergency, dial 888 2733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, are there any callers. There are multiple callers in the cue. Queue. Operator you have two questions remaining. Question first and foremost, today we had a funeral of george floyd. And all over the world, people are thinking about racism. So here in San Francisco, we must ask ourselves, we have a mayor who is black and we have police chief who is black and we have a city administrator who is back, we have a general manager from the sfpuc who is black and we have several other blacks who hole pretty good positions and we have to ask ourselves, we have blacks here in San Francisco who are less than 5 of the population and why are they in dire straits . This is what we about the to ask ourselves. Got to ask ourselves. Now, we have many middleclass blacks living in tents. Theyre suffering and im on the frontline. I can do a little bit, but i have others who can help us. If yoSan Francisco public utilis commission should ask themselves, all of the commissioners, what have they done, concretely done to elevate the condition of those who live in tents . You sha g should go to city haly to see the tents in front of city hall. They dont even follow the cdc rules. That is the worst type of congregate living. We have to ask ourselves as human beings thank you, caller, your time has expired. Operator you have one question remaining. Question this is peter dreckmyer. I read this statement about george floyd and its highlighted and i thought the statement was excellent and conveyed what a lot of us shared and made me proud of the puc and mr. Kelly and i hope, too, it will be published for greater distribution. Thank you, mr. Kelly. Thank you, caller. Madam secretary, there are to more callers in the cue. Queue. Public comment on 6a is now closed. General manag manager, next ite. This is the Sewer System Improvement Program quarterly update. Steve robertson. Can i do an audio check to make sure everyone can hear me ok . Coming in loud and clear. Ill share my screen. And give that a second to come up. You can see the 2point the billion dollar 2. 9 billionand fr we closed at 37. 1 i 37. 1, making progress. We now have what you can see the the blue part of the pie chart at the top, 18 projects in what we call preconstruction, planning decision and award phases. The largest and all green area representing construction shows 16 projects and then in the grey area to the left, there are 36 projects for which weve moved into the closeout and completed phases of the project. We had some discussions and now with covid, were meeting virtually and at todays meeting theres an update and thats a separate item on the agenda and i thought it may be appropriate for a slightly different format, focusing on the Program Metrics and this will keep the presentation brief. I have nine slides and we welcome your feedback as we speltewelcome your feedback. You can see photos where the contractors have been implementing safeworking guidelines in response to the covid19 pandemic. And since many of us cant go to the site to see the progress, because it is real, we thought we could bring the site to you and we have some very recent aerial drill footage from may 28th to just the end of last month. While the video is playing, i believe this will be muted so well ask questions later. Now were flying over what is now being demolished as the former asphalt plant. We get closer to gerald and impressive footage to see San Francisco laid out like this and were flying over the former site, which has demolished. As we pass over large white tanks, those are the oxygen facility and you can see the headworks facility coming into play, sort of in the middle of your screen now where the camera rotates around and you can also see the existing part of that building on the left thats still intact. But on the right, the building has gone and demolished seeing some red containers and the crane there. If we can see my screen again where construction continues. Your slide is back in the screen. Construction continues across the city and weve shown a few photos and the photo on the left is a combined sewer discharge project and this quarter three of the four csds and theres the area to roughen up for concrete for a protective coating. The photo in the middle is set green infrastructure. This completed piping and the photo shows grading operations have commenced for the northend of the project site. On the right, it shows oceanside plant and this shows the demolition of the gas holding tank that was completed this quarter and continuing with the theme of demolition. You can see i have a reference for cost expect expenditures to date, current forecasted cost and the cost variance between budget and forecast and you can see a variance at the bottom right of 679 million and the majority of which is from eye bo solids and headworks and well cover in the next presentation. Then table 3. 2. They provide a summary for the additional projects who are added to the program at the end of 2018. We initiated these projects into ssip that were not in phase one but were produced at the large budget cycle as part of the tenyear capital plan and they are positively for Flood Resilience and so theyre tracked separately in the report. And you can see in this case, a variance at the bottom right of 108 million. So the report helps us to understand the cost safer varias using the health of each project and this table shows a summary and this quarter, rar were reporting 17 projects, meaning the forecasted cost in the approved budget and there are five projects we would say need attention, indicating that those forecasted costs are over the approved budget and by greater than 1 or less than 10 and 15 projects with forecasted costs over the approved budget which falls into the exceeding limit. In february, we talked a lot about Market Conditions and other factors impacting our projects. The ssip was last rebaselined in 2018 and we had been attending to rebaseline again after the tenyear capital plan and twoyear budget were approved, but, unfortunately, as weve wee been talking, covid19 delayed some of our plans. Hence, there are no projects which meet the respiratory expose i would say it is not good, but to some extent we can appreciate why. please stand by . Im going to stop sharing the screen so i can see folks. Yes, its one of the unknowns were wrestling with. We have no crystal ball. These are unprecedented times. I think a lot of us at p. U. C. Look back to days when the market did turn down, and we were able, to some extent, to take advantage of that. Our times are very different now, and when theyre unstable, like any economy, there is a risk they could go up or down, and we dont know how cities, countries, and communities will respond, so we need to adapt and make it sustainable as we move forward. We need to use the information we have to be ready. If i may, the other thing that we are paying close attention to is the way businesses cooperate. You know, being social distancing and stuff like that, will go down, so were balancing that versus, you know, maybe, a lot of construction that is scheduled will be cancelled because of the finances, so were, you know, sort of unclear how that will balance, but the main thing that ive constructed all the folks is that we didnt want to come out with any new contracts during the period of time of where we had a lot of uncertainty until we had the you know, work with the building trade and the unions and come up with some protocol. So i think the building industry, they are doing an outstanding job of making their sites really safe and efficient. You know, they just really embraced it, and i think theyre doing a bangup job of keeping their sites safe, and hopefully, well see that. Thank you. I have a question. Do you think thats why the e. P. A. Loans went down so significantly . They were at 309, and now, i read theyre possibly at 1. 85. Is that a stimulus or do you think thats just the way the market is right now . Commissioner maxwell, this is richard from finance, and i will be covering the loans later on in the agenda, items 12 and 13. Interest rates are historically much lower than they were on the first loan, so were taking advantage of that. Thank you. Anyone else have a question or comment . Yeah. Commissioner paulsen with a couple of questions. One, that was a really good snapshot, including that aerial of really what is happening in the big piece and also, you know, a good favor of some of the other stuff thats going on, and as my colleague, commissioner maxwell said, the economics of this time are totally unprecedented. This isnt like 2008 where things crashed and whatever. You get wall street booming and because of, of course, so much work that weve done in the bay area, wsip and ssip are necessary work. So some of the other constraints in private sector area construction arent having well, i shouldnt say that because i dont know this arent probably under the same types of scrutiny. Cost shouldnt be discussed in this room as we move forward, and i dont expect it to be a part of what were going to have to administer as we approve projects and move things forward. And i did have a question in there, and maybe itll come up in the next presentation. Mr. Robinson, i have just a general question upon reviewing the proposed summaries, and i have taken out all of the southeast, but our other projects, im just curious as to why theyre running so late. 24 months late, 11 months late, theres quite a few. Im just wondering if you could give me a general comment on that. Sure. My initial response would be the schedule response is challenged, and as i was mull mulling it over and thinking about the impact of covid, we did have some impact with the virus and the shelter in place, by midmarch, i mentioned that we would have intended to run a Rebate Program around this time frame had covid not hit, so now, were looking at these in more detail, so now, its more alarming and more things popping up in red than we would like it to be, so well be taking a look at more of these things in the future to see if therell be more green. I have a question. I was looking at my notes and this was from 10,000 feet, but when we talk about ssip, am i right that what i heard and saw in the slides is that the entirety of the project, 38 of it, you know, is complete or almost complete. There are 32 projects that are you know, you can see theyre on their way to close down, and theres 16 other projects that are ready to be you know, theyre in preconstruction and design, whats going on. When people look and say whats going on, any way . 38 complete, 32 are about done, and weve got 16 more that are in the pipeline that well be managing. Is that a fair is that a fair backofenvelope statement . Yes, i think so, commissioner. The intent of that pie chart is really to provide a snapshot of the progress of the through. That number, that 2. 97 billion has not changed, but we look forward to the advertising of the projects, and we want to think how we best report that. Okay. Thank you. Madam president , if i might when i was looking through the report, as others have commented, there were a whole lot of red dots in there, and i was trying to get a sense of what that was about, and i expected to see a lot of covidrelated delays, and so i actually, relatively little of that, that there were a lot of other factors, you know, like dealing with multiagency projects, one where i think it was the Unified School District actually didnt have the legal capacity to review contracts. I think it would be helpful, to me, any way, if you could group what some of those are. Weve had some discussion about it, but also look to you know, these are the factors that are making our planning, you know, less reliable than we would hope. You know, how do we think about those factors . Can we do, what are we doing to address them . So aside from just rebaselining, if we can get a wind of the underlying causes and have that discussion, i think that would be helpful. Yes, thank you. Also this is harlan. Some projects, when we found out when weve got from 35 to 65, weve seen a significant increase. We purposely thought about looking at what we can do to bring the costs under control. You want to think about how you can bring this project back into alignment, so we realized that there were great opportunities to reduce this budget down, and we took the time to do so. So we took the time to redesign stuff so we can be more reasonable with the costs, so i just wanted to point that out, but i agree with you, commissioner moran, that we should group them into these categories, you know, ones that just fell behind because of scoping, bringing in the budget. [inaudible] john, at the following meeting. I think we would all look forward to seeing that. Yeah, that would be great. Any other comments, commissioners . Madam secretary, could you please open this to Public Comment . Clerk members of the public who wish to provide comment on item 6b, dial one, and then zero, to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have any callers . Operator madam secretary, there is one caller in the queue. Clerk thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Oh, good. Commissioners, i know the presenter. Ive met him a couple of times, and i can see hes taken a military approach to this project, but theres a lot of history, and now, we have mr. Robinson, who was handed a project. And the public needs to know that initially this project supposed to cost 6 billion, and now, we are looking at 15 billion. And if you are a commissioner, and you are looking at a projective sum of 16 billion, you have to have some justification. This project still has the stench that goes as far as two miles down. How can we resolve this as soon as possible . And for how many customers, people that endure the stench . So you can come up with statistics, 28 or 34 or whatever is complete. But how are you best addressing quality of life issues . How can you get rid of the stench . Operator thank you, caller. Your time is up. Clerk are there any other callers . Operator there are no other callers, madam secretary. Clerk thank you. Public comment is closed. Commissioners, any further discussion . Next item, please. Clerk madam president , the next order of business is item 7, sewer system improvement ledger project update. Thank you, president caen, commissioners. Firing up my screen again to share. [inaudible] its been a while since we provided updates on our Major Projects in the southeast area, so we thought it would be appropriate to briefly cover the biosolids had works and the Community Center at 1550 evans, even though the center is not part of the Sewer System Improvement Program, it is still part of our wastewater capital plan, and all three projects are very active in the community right now. In these challenging times, we need stability, and we are literally working together, building foundations. Our construction has continued during the covid19 shelter in place, and we can say that demolition is complete. We have torn down the old and need to complete the new. As harlan said, we are recovering, but we also have an opportunity to reimagine our future and recognize that as we are talking about our Market Conditions and economy that will continue to change. We have three project managers, but in the interests of time, i will present all three projects and will make them available for questions. You can see some of these, and we last presented an update in february, where we took a hard look at how the costs increased, and how we were able to make the project affordable again. As we showed you back then, this slide shows the new proposed budget project that we had forecasted. The approved budget baseline is 1. 27 billion. Thats an increase of the 400 million that we talked about, and so hence, we have one of those red dots. The first bullet is about design, redesign, and construction going on concurrently. Its the benefit of the construction manager general contractor, cmgc that we talked about. Final documents are scheduled in early 2021, prioritized for what needs to happen for construction. Second bullet celebrates completely of demolition like we saw in the flyover earlier. Project schedule at the bottom. This, again, shows the same completion by 2027 that we presented back in february as a red dot, but it is holding stable, hence, our cost production, it is holding stable. So for the same response to Market Conditions and cmgc, we now have greater clarity of what it will take to do a megaproject of this side, and it is better to know now so we can adapt. So since the major project milestone is the demolition of central shops, i will risk showing in the same way a small video. This is shorter, and it is a time lapse of demolition of central shots, and you can see literally the speed with which those buildings came down, so bear with me a second while i fire up the video. It is coming through momentarily. The three web cams that are installed for the construction of the project document, record, and observe over time, youll see one of those trees disappeared. Our view is clearer now, and you can see one of the buildings start to go. The process of demolition takes the first out, and the second, and now, a little bit of a remainder, and now you can see what it looks like with both those buildings gone, and the site clears. Well stop sharing and go back to. Issues and challenges that we summarize in the report, a lot of these were very consistent. We just talked a little bit about them, as well. Construction and impact associated with the Market Conditions, and we mentioned back in february, as well. And then, of course, the covid impacts, covid19. Unlike the question we had earlier, we opted in the Quarterly Report to put a programatic response. There were a few cases for individual projects that we called out where there was a very specific cause for concern. In this case, pg e power supply to that end that we demolished remained in place, and pg e struggled to respond to that request to disconnect power so work could continue. Modifications to the contract that we talked about in february. Now that we looked at the Cost Reduction efforts and how even some of the terms of that contract changed. The next big lift for the project, now that the facilities have been demolished. Closure of jerold street in fall, and theres 6 million of construction to be advertised in the next year as we work on the next phase of construction on this project. Next, we have the southeast head works project. You can see on this some really amazing photographs and construction in some really small, constrained spaces. The Quarterly Report shows a budget of 418 million, so what youre seeing now is a forecast of 200 million more, even with some reconfiguration of scope and price reduction, a more accurate projection. We have reached 95 construction completion and expecting to reach final by september. Scope three is the main head works, the largest of three construction, which includes fine bar screens, grit, and handling systems in order to control. Weve given notice to proceed and p. P. Has started the drill operations this week. As we previously reported late last year, the cost of head works was trending higher. Continues to do so for the same reasons we talked about today Market Conditions, etc. In our Cost Reduction efforts, we have worked together to provide the least expensive alternatives, and as a result, we reconfigured those scopes from a brandnew 50 n. G. D. Pump station to rehabilitate the new pump station. Project schedule at the bottom gets a green star, so thats good news. It is on schedule. Theres a huge effort by the team to keep it on schedule. Its critical for success and what happens to the entire plan, and same thing, you know, second slide on this project to think about, how those costs impact the project about literally structural concrete, process piping, and electrical resources, but also covid19 safety requirements. This is not a huge income. Heavy lift around the drill piers and foundation construction. Weve changed our path, and you can see in the slide, a 3d model of the construction station rehabilitation work. The head works construction project continues to be making great progress overall. In addition to supporting the heavy construction, we will be bringing our project design and contract amendments to you for approve as well as the cmgcs, as well. Thirdly, last, certainly not least, the southeast Community Center at 1550 evans, the project gets a green star, but we are experiencing the Market Conditions that we are experiencing across the line as a whole. We will know the moment those trade packages are awarded. [inaudible] demolition and grading is complete, like you can just about see, but you can see where the piling operation is going on, and now were literally building those foundations. 92 of those trade packages have been awarded, so were well underway. The project schedule gets a green star, on schedule, doing what it needs to do. From issues and challenges perspective in the Quarterly Report, we talked about similar concerns. This project, also, too, had challenges with pg e being able to disconnect, scheduled for last month, excited and proud to, to be able to say with lots of effort. Pg e did disconnect that power, and also for this package, acknowledging that were currently on budget, but those trade packages are still trending higher than we had hoped. So as we look ahead, you can see a rendering that we might be familiar with on the screen, and now, you can see a more recent rendering that has been produced, with a few looking across third street. We are working with the utilities, pg e, to allow that to be progressed, and we will look towards the contract amendment to adjust to our changing conditions. So to finish, this is a screen shot, my last slide, from aerial drone footage of the last presentation. It highlights our three projects, really interesting panorama. Theres a lot going on at coordination of these projects and ensuring their impact on the community is a positive one. Its a big undertaking, and we may not always get it right. These are challenging times that weve been talking about, and for lots of Different Reasons. A huge thanks and lots of appreciation goes out to the entire team, especially to our Frontline Construction workers, who are keeping us moving forward. So this includes our project update on all three of these. Well of course be coming back in the future to cover more regular meetings, but were happy to answer any questions now if you have them. Commissioners. Madam chair yes, madam chair. On the closure of jails, how long will it be closed, and what are you doing to mitigate the traffic issue . Thats a thoroughfare directly to the freeway for trucks, for the community, so what are you doing to mitigate that issue . Thank you. Let me just stop sharing the screen, and i may ask the project manager to chime in for a second. We know that theres been signaturout reach to impact signature outreach to impact traffic flow to jerold. Th there has been a lot of engagement, but i wonder if carolyn include c carolyn chu can speak to some of the efforts that weve been making. And also, i want something in writing about the mitigation, the plans that you have thats best for routing. Theres a lot that goes on in that area, and whats the best mitigation for that. Yes. Hi, everyone. Can you hear me . This is carolyn chu, p. M. For the biosolids project. Commissioner, you asked a very good question. We are developing plans and looking at detour routes and plans for closure across jerold. Were kind of closing gerald to control that worker and neighborhood safety during the course of construction. I think the planning process, as steve said, you know, were looking at the duration of the construction, but and we are working closely with sfmta, as well, to develop those plans, and one other thing was we are also, you know, concurrent with that, doing a lot of advance outreach in coordination and letting the local neighbors and visitors know we havent gone up there yet, but were working with our p. U. C. Team to develop that outreach strategy to make sure that, to the extent possible, we want to minimize the impact to the local neighborhood, but understanding that we do need to close jerold because of the construction work that we just showed you. Okay. I think id like to see your outreach schedule and what you plan to do, and i think its also important to know that, you know, theres only a couple ways to get out of bayview. You dont have third street is not one of them, so those ramps are extremely important. So yeah, any way i lost my train of thought, but id like to see that. Also, when you say fall, thats only a couple of months now. Were almost in july, august, september, october, thats maybe only three months, and you dont seem to be that far along the way for such a huge undertaking. So i would say i understand, commissioner, i hear you. What ive captured and written down is a written rule box mitigation plan around jerold. And im concerned around your timing. You said fall. Fall, for me, is september, and thats only a couple of months. But i dont know if i know, you made carolyn may want to share the conversations with a lot of communities way in advance because we want them to know what the impacts to their businesses, so its not like we havent started the conversation. Juliet and i were involved early working with public works and a whole bunch of folks to try and get their input, so any way, i think its part of this ro as part of this robust plan, we should give a timeline of all the things that weve done and all the things that we plan to do so we can just paint the big picture. Its not that we could have done more im not trying to make a judgment on what youve done or havent done. Im just asking that since youre saying that its coming up in the fall, you say youve done outreach, but id like to know whats become of the outreach. If youre going to close this for two years, and its a major thoroughfare to get to the freeway, and people do it every morning, im sure that you have, but theres some things that you can say that people are looking at. Oakville streets youre going to advance, oakville is one of them. It seems to me if youre going to be talking about october, thats in a couple of months, thats what id like to see. But what have you come up with, the actual plan, is what id like to see. And then secondly, you mentioned youre keeping the old youre revamping the old odor control or whatever it was, and im just concerned about odor, since odor was one of the huge issues of the community. So if were revamping something, is that in any way going to have a any way be less than what it would be if it were new. Yeah, i can help clarify, clear up some confusion there. There were two significant changes where the rehabilitations of the lift station, the pump station that literally lifts the flow into the head works facility, were not rehabilitating an existing odor control facility. It is brandnew, state of the art. By changing the view from the pump station, it allows us to modify both the location and the position, and it will still hold them to the same standard, so were not rehabilitating anode or control facility. It will be grand new. Okay. And then back on the traffic control, were not meeting in august, august 11, and september is right around the corner for fall, so how soon can you give me that robust plan that youre talking about as far as traffic and so on . People are going to be getting back to work, people are going to be getting more school buses and so on, so when do you think you can get that back to me . End of june . If i remember, a traffic study has been completed. Analysis is complete, and i feel like we can get Something Like that done relatively soon. Carolyn . Yes. We can share with you what we submitted as a preliminary draft, sfmta, because theyre part of that process, that street closure, so we can provide that information you providyou we provided them, and then you can ask questions. I guess what id like to see is what the m. T. A. Has come up with, how theyre going to reroute, what thats going to look like for the community. Thats my main interest. So i understand what youre going to do. I want to understand what they come up with, with what theyre going to do, and how theyre going to mitigate that. Okay. I guess were not im not really interested in what youre sharing with them, im interested in what they come back with. Im assuming you already shared it. Now what have you call come back with, i guess thats what i want to see. Preliminarily, what have you come up with . With the desire to see what it will actually look like and what we have come up with together with m. T. A. . But preliminarily. Im not sure its all worked out yet. Ill look into that with carolyn and when its going to get there, and make sure you have that within the timeline. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioners, any other questions . Comments . I see one. Yeah, i just wanted to chime in there. And so in addition to that, i think it would be helpful to understand sort of what the outreach has been and how the community has responded, as well. [inaudible] for the alternative transportation and what the response has been, so the communications piece, i think, as well, would be helpful. Commissioner viator, i think i heard most of that, but i think it was what outreach has occurred to today and what would the plan look like . Yeah, specifically on the plan. So has the plan been presented to the community and how have they responded . Are they following the plan, or theyre upset and say great . That alternative will work fine. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, i gijust wanted to al add because were doing outreach in certain groups, so we just wanted to, you know, highlight their concerns and how were mitigating their concern, and then, we will provide them. Madam secretary, could you please open this to Public Comment . Clerk members of the public who wish to provide comments on item 7, dial 8882733658, access code 3107452, and pound, followed by pound again. Dial one, then zero, to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have any callers . Operator madam secretary, there is one caller in the queue. Clerk thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Commissioners, let me speak to the outreach. If the outreach is controlled by dwayne jones, miranda jones, and as i heard the man saying, they had one meeting at a community church, bluffed the people. Please dont bluff the people. The demographics of the bayview have changed drastically. Latinx, chinese, white, asian, and if you dont look at it that way, youre not going to do it justice. As for people moving from one area to another area by cars, by the bus, by the light rail bus that is now being repaired, you all have no clue what is happening. You commissioners have no clue what is happening. And from me listening to this other woman thats chiming in, she has absolutely no clue what is happening. Get your act together. Besides, you have a contract with emerson, the emerson contract. I read it all, and we have an investigation, with some names being spewed out. You all are asking to be investigated. You all are asking to be investigated by the federal bureau of investigation. Operator thank you, caller. Your two minutes have expired. Madam secretary, there are no other callers in the queue. Clerk thank you. That closes Public Comment on item number 7. Commissioners, any further discussion on this topic . Mr. Robinson, thank you very much for your presentation and for bringing us up to date. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk madam president , next item is item 8, new commission business. Any new business . Vice president viator . Thank you. So i didnt know whether to bring this up after harlan made the general manager made his statements about the letter that he sent or now, but i as i believe most of us all were, were extremely disturbed by what happened with george floyd and the video, and the ensuing uprising has been helpful in that once again, we are having to strike out and fight against Structural Racism that is present, i believe, in our society. And i believe quite strongly that we as a commission, not just our general manager, should make some kind of a statement and take a position, and i would like to propose that we do that via a resolution that does state several of the policies and the work that we have done in the past but really pushes us to double down and go even further, so take a stand against systemic racism and oppressive violence, and to also recognize that covid19 disproportionately hitting communities of color, so recovery is going to be a challenge, especially because systemic racism is prevalent. I think as an institution, there are things that we can do to show our commitment that we are already doing as a p. U. C. , and especially under our leadership, under general manag manager kellys leadership, but i dont know if were doing enough implicit bias trainings with the staff, if were doing as much as we really could for black and brown people. I also think that we could be doing more to review our own practices and policies to make sure that were not inadvertently behaving in ways that promote or advance racism in any way, and i just would not feel right if i did not Say Something in that vein in this commission and state what weve done to combat Structural Racism and do as much as we can to avoid it in the future. This is commissioner paul sopau paulson. I would like to volunteer to be on that committee. What i do is i fight for social and economic justice. I also live in a world where we waste more trees than anything else in the history of the earth, and actually doing something is obviously what at least i think about when things put together. And as ive done this on other sides, i dont want a bunch of platitudes out there. Harlan, it was a very well drafted statement, so i appreciate that on behalf as a commissioner, and your leadership on that, but i want to make sure that we Say Something that we mean. Not just a condemnation, but do something affirmative because theres a lot of things that were putting into judgment right now, but what are we going to do about it . I dont feel like just being a signature on a great looking piece of paper. If thats something the Commission Wants to do, is going to do, i want to be a part of that. Ive got my commissioner hat on when i say this, so if youre going to do Something Like that, its got to be as commissioners on the Public Utilities commission that has a statement about what, you know, weve been entrusted to do. So ive gone on longer than i expected to, but i just i dont want to spin wheels on this stuff in these incredibly challenging times. Madam secretary, i would like to turn to you on this. Clerk yes. Because this item has not been agendized, id recommend against further discussion of what you want, and id recommend this be placed as a future agenda item. Madam chair . Yes. Id like to have a report from h. R. C. On the status of black and brown people on the p. U. C. Who are working, especially the status of black and brown women, where are they in management . Are they on the lower side, labor side, where are they . Id like to see Something Like that in writing. Well, i would like to put this in motion, so would this be something that well, mr. Kelley, what do you think . Madam chair, i was thinking of, like, a report or something that we could see, so it would be sort of like a report, i guess. Yes, i understand. I wasnt reflecting to what your statement was. No, i was just talking about we could not really discuss this now because its not on the agenda, but that doesnt mean that we cant start something that we can discuss the next meeting, so im turning to you, mr. Kelly, in terms of is this something that a. G. M. Ellis would start to put together . Yes. I think this is something that i would personally be involved with, and i hope that it will be something that a whole bunch of folks will participate in. We recognize the things that weve done, but we need to talk about what else we can do. And i just wanted to get back on it because, you know, to have meaningful change, it will take time to understand what the changes you need to make that are meaningful. So we can start the dialogue, and then, when we agendize it, we can have a deeper dive on this conversation because i do have some deep thoughts about things that we may want to put in there. Im not quite sure im getting it. Are you talking about a report or resolution . I dont know how long that would take to find out where the state and status of black and brown people are in the p. U. C. . I mean, you have who they are and where they are, and, you know, to see what jobs they have, and then, we go thats one maybe thats one tool we can use to for the other. So commissioner, i just want to let you know, i wasnt referring to your okay. Thank you. Were going to talk to sheryl davis and see what information she has. We do have some of that information so we can crossreference, and so we can provide that information to you. I was just referring to the first request. Yeah, and that can help, actually, with the first request, when we know where people are. Mmhmm. Thank you. And just to sort of refine it without discussing it, you know, my hope is that at the next meeting, we can have some kind of a statement document led by our general manager and with our support as a commission that would really outline what we as a commission and as an institution could really do to help bring to life and advance some of the points that the general manager brought up in his letter, but to really be of support to him because i think its really po important, and to the entire p. U. C. Team, because it would drive us, to commissioner paulsons point, to more than a really lofty statement, but what it can do to help us advance the issue. Yes, i think we can all help on that, so lets move forward to the next meeting. Okay. Any further comments . So any other new business . Madam secretary, please open Public Comment. Clerk members of the public who wish to comment on new commission business, dial 8882733658, access code 3107452 and pound and pound again. Dial one and then zero to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have any calls . Operator madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue. Clerk thank you. Public comment on item 8 is now closed. Next item, please. Clerk madam president , your next order of business is item 9, consent calendar. All matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or public so requests, in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. Commissioners, are there any items you wish to review . Could you open this up for Public Comment . Clerk members of the public who wish to comment, dial 8882733758, 3107452, and pound, and pound again. Dial one, and then zero to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have any callers . Operator madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue. Clerk thank you. Public comment on item 9, consent calendar, is now closed. May i have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar . So moved. Second. Thank you very much. Madam secretary, please call the roll vote. [roll call] clerk you have five ayes. The motion carries. Next item, please. Clerk your next item is item 10, approve amend number 2 to Agreement Number cs389 and authorize the general manager to execute this agreement, increasing the agreement amount by 21 million and increasing the agreement duration for two years for a total not to exceed of 54,500,000 and a total agreement of 11 years subject to the board of supervisors approval. This will be presented by kathy how. Good morning, commissioners. Kathy how. As Program Director for wastewater capital, this program is to request that we increase the dollar amount for carollo engineers. That would allow them to do the design of the existing station at the southeast plant, rather than constructioning a constructing a new 50 million gallon lift station and would allow them to do a design of the head works odor control facility and also look at the drill pier test program to optimize the Foundation Design with the cmgc contractor. So i can answer any questions. Any questions . Seeing none, could you open this up to Public Comment . Clerk members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on item 10, dial 8882733658, access code 3107452, and pound, followed by pound again. Dine one and zero to dial one and zero to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have any callers . Operator madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue at this time. Clerk thank you. Public comment on item 10 is now closed. May i have a motion and a second on this item . Move to approve. Second. Madam secretary, roll call vote, please. [roll call] clerk you have five ayes. The motion carries. Next item. Clerk next item is item 11, adopt resolution rescinding Commission Resolution number 200091 adopted on may 12, 2020, and approving the water supply assessment for the proposed San Francisco gate way project. This will be presented by mr. Ritchie. Yeah, commissioners, steve ritchie. On may 12, you approved the resolution for this project. In that, there was a mistake for which i need to take responsibility in that an item was not contained in the agenda item, so its recommended that we bring it back to the commission with the full item intact for consideration. Its a Water Project down in the bayview. This is merely to provide it to the Planning Department so they can do a ceqa review on the project. Any questions . Any discussion on the topic . Madam secretary, please open to Public Comment. Clerk members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on item 11, dial 8882733658, access code 3107452, and pound, followed by pound again. Dial one, and then zero, to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have any callers . Operator madam secretary, we do have callers in the queue. Clerk thank you. Operator one question remaining. Hello. As you know, im concerned about San Francisco approval so Much Development while at the same time the state water board [inaudible] im also concerned about the jobshousing imbalance [inaudible] project, which is jobs heavy. [inaudible] there will be a lot of pressure to build more housing which will take even more water. I encourage you to do two things. A breakdown between projected jobs and housing build, and projected water demand will be required as the city catches up on housing required by the project. Nerd, consider the cumulative impacts of the project on water supply. Also, development is driving the need to develop more expensive alternate ti expensive alternative Water Supplies. Perhaps new development should pay for the more expensive alternative Water Supplies that theyll require. Thank you. Clerk do we have any other callers . Operator madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. Clerk thank you. Public comment on item 11 is now closed. Commissioners, is there any further discussion on this item . Yeah, i have a [inaudible] may i have a okay. Yeah, im still in the same position on this one, and peter got on that a little bit. I just dont understand, the accumulative impacts of development on our water supply is just the elephant in the room. Im starting to get a graph on the report, and thats why i cutoff this. If we indeed need to comply with the state mandate, and we keep moving forward with these water supply assessments, these developments, i dont understand where were going to get the water for the fish. So until i have a better understanding of the water supply both for the developments and the fish, im not going to support the w. S. A. Okay. Any further this is commissioner paulson. I just want to remind myself and everybody else that we are not the planning commission. Therefore, i will be voting for this because i believe, you know, that is what the professionals have put together as the assessment as to what is going on. What is going on in terms of development is a separate item. Thank you. Commissioner moran . Thank you. The last time i looked at this, i mentioned the issue of materiality, and i didnt have any members at the time. I do now. Just setting the stage. Our full retail demand is somewhere in the order of 60 or 70 m. G. D. The impact of the delta plan on our supply would be somewhere in the area of 93 m. G. D. The impact on this of this project, as i got the number from staff is. 000849 m. G. D. , so i dont see where theres any combination of circumstances where this project would affect either our ability to provide water to our customers or to provide fish flow. So from that standpoint, from the materiality standpoint, ill be supporting this resolution again. Question is absolutely the right question. I just dont think that i think when we when we get there, kind of reading the crystal ball and having a sense of the numbers out there, i dont think its going to have a significant effect on any project that were going to take or it wouldnt be a determining factor for fish flow. And that remains to be proven as we go forward, but that is my sense of it and why im very comfortable supporting this. Any other comments . May i have a motion, please. Can i just point out one thing . These projects are the projects that you want to move forward because of the Water Conservation that it has, and all the systems and Stormwater Management and stuff like that, so these projects are very small incremental because the usage is the way we want to move projects in the future, so i just want to throw that out there, as well. Very good. Again, may i have a motion . So moved. Ill second the item. I will second okay. Thank you very much. Madam secretary, roll call vote. [roll call] clerk you have three ayes, two noes. The motion carries. Next item, please. Clerk madam president , would you like me to read 12 and 13 together . Yes, please do. Clerk thank you. Id 12, approve a Water Infrastructure finance and innovation wifia Loan Agreement with the United States Environmental Protection agency in the amount of 699,242,023 to replace the existing 2018 wifia Loan Agreement in the same amount for the Wastewater Enterprises biosolids digester facilities project for the purpose of reducing the Loan Interest rate from 3. 09 to an estimated 1. 84 Interest Rate, and item 13, approve a new Water Infrastructure finance and innovation act Loan Agreement with the United States e. P. A. In an amount up to 525 million, both of which are projects of the Sewer System Improvement Program located at the southeast treatment plan, and theyll be introduced by mr. Sandler. Although the items are quite interrelated, they will require separate actions from you two today. By way of background, in 2018, the p. U. C. Executed a wifia loan with the United States Environmental Protection agency. Wifia is an acronym for the Water Infrastructure finance and innovation act and provides low interest loans to municipalities for qualified wasteWater Projects. The 2018 loan, which is in the approximate amount of 699 million, partially funded the biosolids project. It was executed at an Interest Rate of 3. 09 , which at the time was a very low Interest Rate relative to where the market was at the time and relative to what we would have been paying had we issued revenue bonds, which is our default longterm funding mechanism, so it looked real good back in 2018. So the first of your two items, item number 12, asks you to approve a replacement to the 2018 loan, or a reexecution that will reduce the Interest Rate to a level representative of todays Interest Rate environment, which is much, much lower than where rates were when we executed the 2018 loan. In todays market, the rate on a loan would be approximately 1. 86 , almost half of the Interest Rate on the 2018. All the terms and conditions on the loan, including the 699 million loan amount, would remain the same as the 2018 loan. The second of your two items, item number 13, asks you to approve a new wifia loan in an amount not to exceed 525 million. This will provide funding for two projects at the southeast treatment plan, the head works plan, and partial funding of the estimated incremental cost related to the biosolids redesign. It will have an Interest Rate of 1. 86 . At these rates, the wifia loan will save taxpayers approximately 336 million over the life of the loan for the first wifia loan, and the second will save taxpayers approximately 275 million over the live of the loan. Should you approve these two loans today, we expect to execute them this friday, june 12. That concludes my introduction to these items, and im happy to take any questions. Thank you. Commissioners, any questions . Comments . Sounds like great news to me. Madam secretary, please open Public Comment. Clerk im sorry about that. Members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on items 12 and or 13, dial 8882733658, access code 3107452, and pound, followed by pound again. Dial one, then zero, to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have any callers . Operator madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue at this time. Clerk thank you. Public comment on items 12 and 13 are closed. So we are going to be voting on these separately, so first, i would like a motion and a second on item 12. So moved. Second. Okay. Im sorry. Who was the first . Tim. Who made the motion . Paulson. Commissioner paulson. Commissioner maxwell seconded. Roll call oh, youre doing the roll call. Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk you have five ayes. The motion carries. Now i need a motion and a second on item 13. Move to approve item 13. Second. May i have a roll call vote . [roll call] clerk you have five ayes. The motion carries. Next item, please. Clerk item 14, adopt a resolution, one, accepting the report on the San Francisco p. U. C. Wildfire mitigation plan in accordance with the p. U. Csection 8387 c, and two, accept the version of the sfpuc wildfire mitigation plan, to be committed to the california wildfire Safety Advisory Board prior to july 1, 2020. This will be presented by steven ritchie. Good afternoon, commissioners. An independent evaluation was conducted earlier this year, and completed, and the independent evaluator made some recommendations for minor modifications to the plan, so the plan is now brought back to you because youre required by law to accept the independent evaluators plan. Id be happy to answer any questions. Commissioners, any questions . Comments . Madam secretary, could you please call for Public Comment . Clerk members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on item 14, dial 8882733658, access code 3107452, and pound, and pound again. Dial one, and then zero, to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have any callers . Operator madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue. Clerk thank you. Public comment on item 14 is now closed. May i have a motion and second on item 14 . Move to approve. Second. Madam secretary, a roll call vote. [roll call] clerk you have five ayes. The motion carries. Madam secretary, could you please read the items that we are going to consider in closed session . Clerk item im sorry. Item 17, existing unlitigated claims, item 18, existing unlitigated claim, item 19, state water board cases, Sacramento Superior Court jcc 5013, originally filed on january 10, 2019 in tuolomne county superior court, case number cu 62094, and item 20, conferring with or receiving advice from City Attorney rathering existing litigation in which a regarding existing litigation in which the city is the petitioner and pacific gas and electric is an adverse party. Please call for Public Comment. Clerk members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on closed session items 17 through 20, dial 8882733658, access code 3107452, and then pound, and pound again. Dial one, and then zero to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have callers . Operator madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue. Clerk thank you. Public comment on closed session items 17 through 20 and now closed. 20 is now closed. Next item . Clerk item 16 is a motion on whether to assert the attorneyclient privilege regarding matters listed as conference with legal council. Move to assert. May i have a motion second. And a second, please. Madam secretary, a roll call vote, please. [roll call] clerk we have five ayes. The motion carries. Madam president , excuse me, but may we take a fiveminute break or a threeminute break . That is exactly what i was going to ask. Great. And is there any reason we cant take a fiveminute break . No, madam president. My recommendation is we go into closed session first and then take a break. Okay. Well go into closed session and take a break. So we are now going to go into closed session. All right. Moving everybody now. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members are participating in this meeting remotely Via Video Conference and they are participating in the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. For members of the public who wish to make Public Comment t phone number is 8882733658. The access code is 3107452 and press pound and press pound again. When you are connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the queue to speak. There will be an automated voice that will tell you when it is your turn to speak. You may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. If you are watching vie yea stg tv and wish to comment on an item, call the item and there is a 3040 second delay. Make sure you are in a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly and mute any tvs, computers, or raid owes. Item number one, call to order. Director fei tsen . Here. Director dunlop . Here. Director giusti . Director lai . Director richardson . Director kwon . Director shifrin . Supervisor haney . Present. We do have a quorum. President thank you. I would like to open this meeting in the memory of george floyd who as a child wanted to touch the world. And he has touched the world because all across america and in every country around the world, people are standing together. They are standing together to say that Police Brutality is not acceptable anymore. That we have to get rid of systemic racism, and that black lives matter. I thought that we needed to make a statement and not let this time go by and so lets open up the meeting with his memory. So now we can go and begin with our general Public Comment. Secretary item number 2, general Public Comment. This item is to allow members of the public to athresh the Treasure Island Development Authority on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and that do not appear on todays agenda. In addition to general Public Comment, Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Members of the public may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. Members of the public who wish to address the board are items that do not appear on todays agenda, call 8882733658 and 31074452. When you are connected, dial 1 and 0 to be added to the queue to speak. Moderator r there any callers on the line . There is nobody for questions. There is nobody on for Public Comment . Nobody is here for Public Comment yet. Hearing no callers, Public Comment is now closed. Awe next item please. Item number 3, report by Treasure Island director. Im sorry. Somebody just got in the queue. Just took a little time. Okay. Thank you. You have one question remaining. Caller caller hello, president fei tsen and directtors. This is the Vice President of the Treasure Island museum. I wanted to report to you that the board that has issued a statement that the museum joins with those peacefully protesting the death of george floyd and many others in calling for needed systemic change against racism. Our complete statement is posted on our website. One of the many things that makes Treasure Island so special is the many threads of our history that have continuing relevance to concerns of today and tomorrow. That has never been more true than now. During world war ii at the port chicago trial of Treasure Island, 50 brave sailors stood up for their rights and that helped bring about systemic change. The desegregation of first the navy and then all the armed services. That inspiring story is told by an exhibition in the gallery one building that your board has provided to us. Actions speak louder than words. We have acted by posting the entire port chicago exhibit on our website where everyone can visit it. We hope it will provide inspiration, faith, aened energy