Different modifications and what the specific requirements would be. We expect this to unfold over the next year or so and we thank you in advance for any support that you are willing to provide in the process, in the code modifications process. So, our next steps, again for the suite of strategies, the incentive grants and mandatory requirements. We are finalizing an implementation plan. We are coordinating with departments on an ongoing basis. We have begun Community Outreach but we will that, especially when our grant modifications are approved. We will do a big push to make it as visual as possible in our communities. Those immediate grant improvements that we are trying to do in the coming months are increase our program funding, which was actually done a couple of weeks ago. Our commission is funding pieces. We are trying to expand it for the additional project types. Special assistance for low income. Streamlined application process, enhanced assistance when it comes to the Grant Application and also the technical side of it. Technologies and permits and city processes and things like that. And also assistance with identifying qualified contractors who can perform the work. I also understand that supervisor safai requested an update on our cuyoga capital project. So, the status of that right now is that negotiations are underway with caltrans to develop a coop agreement. And that will establish the terms for their participation in the project. We are in the negotiation faze phase right now. I hope this update to describe our strategies has been informative. Thank you for your presentation. I see there are a few supervisors that are lined up to ask questions. Before we get to them, let me i know that in the april hearing, you did a pretty good job explaining the five, 25, 100year storms. And just to for the public that may not have been there or heard it, can you explain, for instance, when you say 25 years, what does it really mean in laymans terms . Theres been rain data captured in the city for over a hundred years. We have a very long record of what rainfall has fallen in the city. There was a Statistical Analysis initially performed in the 1940s that looked at the patterns we have seen as a city. And on a longterm average, a storm with a fiveyear return period would come once in every five years. And that doesnt mean that if a storm happened in 2000 that it is going to happen next in 2005. Because it is like rolling a dice. You could get two fives in a row backtoback, a week apart from each other. But on a longterm average, every five years. Likewise a storm with a 25year return period can occur once in every 25 years on a longterm average. And a hundredyear storm would be once in a hundred years. What that means in any given year theres 1 of a chance of that kind of storm occurring in San Francisco. I said that the data was originally done in the 1940s. But we have periodically looked at the rainfall record that has occurred since then in the many decades since the 1940s to confirm it still reflects the statistical trends of the data we have. I believe it was most recently done in the last five years. We have looked at all the data we have and the longterm Statistical Patterns and that curve is still relevant today. Now, as we move into the future, theres a lot of uncertainty with respect to what Climate Change is going to be bringing with respect to rainfall intensity. But unfortunately, what we dont have agreement in the Scientific Community about how our patterns may shift. We know that they may shift. Thank you. I just one of the things that we are always how do we compare with other places in california . Other places in california dont have combined systems with the exception of a small area in sacramento. So, when we talk about a combined system that carries both wastewater and storm water in the same set of pipes. The best comparison for us is other combined systems in really large urban areas. A fiveyear storm is typical for those large urban areas. New york city, chicago, philadelphia, seattle to name a few are all large urban areas with combined systems that have a fiveyear design standard for their infrastructure. I guess when you say we have a combined system neuroplaces, are they newer places, have they moved away from combined systems and pretty much have two systems . I i dont know the Industry Trends on that. So, most cities have a separate system and the reason they have separate system is because it is a cheaper system. Because the storm water when it overflows, you dont have to treat it. But we have a combined systems because we treat everything. Every drop of rain has some form of treatment in it. It goes through the treatment plants, to the box sewers and we have these box sewers around the perimeter of the city. So, it is a more expensive system to have. Is there any thinking whether or not it makes sense for us to go i know it is going to cost lots of money. But going to sort of a twosystem for San Francisco . I think the challenge is that in the early in the 1849s when our sewer systems were built, it was built as a combined system. They actually by the turn of 1899, we had 300 miles of combined pipes and we just continued to build off of that. So, to answer your question, if we want to separate the systems, both systems, one of the challenges is that our treatment mrame plants have a certain capacity. That means we would have to first separate all the sewers in all the streets. If you look at trying to separate the entire system, you are tearing every street up. It would be over 16 billion and i just want to point out that the cost of the sewer system comes from the rate payers who pays the sewer bills. So, it doesnt come from taxes or property taxes. It comes from your puc water and sewer bill. And so, that means that we would have to raise rates considerably if we want to perform a lot of these major Capital Investments. When you talk about the 16 billion or whatever it is for a twopipe system versus lets say to amend or fix a system that could actually have larger capacity, whats the difference in price . I mean, would it be cheap tore do one way cheaper to do one way or another . I think one of the challenges that we aring on the sewer system is that it is an old system. It needs a lot of Capital Investments. So, at one point you are looking at the collection, which we identify 1. 6 billion. But other than the collection, we have another 7 billion. We have to upgrade our treatment plants, our outfalls, our box sewers that capture. So, it is a lot of investments. So, if you add this on top of it so, the question is whats the balance . Because right now, your combined bill with water and sewer is an average of 71. But if we were to invest 16 billion, your sewer bill would be 400. And so, the question is that, it is affordability and you have to make choices. We are engineers. We can design for a hundredyear storm. Not a problem. It is about the cost and the disruption to the entire city to make that happen. And so, thats why we are presenting other options. And even in places where we are planning to do infrastructure, we want to offer these options because we know that it will take time to actually go through the Planning Design and its construction. And we wanted to make sure that, you know, you can fight Mother Nature for so long. But we are trying to adapt and give options that people with invest in their property. There are some areas we look at flooding, some homes flood and right next door, some do not. One of the reasons is that if you have a downsloping driveway that goes below the sidewalk, those folks flood. And right adjacent to it, they have driveways that are above the sidewalk and they dont flood. And so, thats why we are looking at ways to try to, you know, help people and have this construction adapt to these lowlying areas where water comes to those lowlying areas when our sewers are filled up. One last question. In terms of your outreach, i know that 50 people showed up. Did we actually reach the residents that were heavily impacted, like cuyoga . So, we have email lists of stakeholders that have come to any of our flooding events in the past. So, we sent email notifications out about all of the community meetings. But we also went doortodoor and had conversations with anyone we could reach. But also distributed over 200 flyers including the cuyoga corridor. We tried different ways to outreach to individuals and we are also planning to do a followup. We are going to send another email out to say for those of you who are able to make it, we appreciate it. And for those who werent, heres a lot of links to the information we presented and we invite you to let us know if you would like to have a personal phone call with our staff or a personal meeting to be able to go through some of this material if it is of interest to you. I appreciate sounds like you have made an effort. But sometimes the effort doesnt result to what which is the question i have is even with that effort, were you able to reach at least some of many of the residents that were heavily impacted . With the flyer for sure. We left flyers on each of their doorsteps. Does that answer your question . My question is really straightforward. Out of 50, would you say 25 of them came from the heavily impa impacted . I see what you are saying. Of the 150 of them, about half were from the cuyoga neighborhood. And of those, just sort of in my general sense of who was there, about half of those were people who are impacted by flooding. And the other half were sort of interested or concerned or so, we didnt reach the whole cuyoga neighborhood in person. But we also hope that the followup that were planning this weekend next would be able to reach some of those individuals in a more personal way. Thank you. Supervisor safai. Thanks, supervisor. So, just to build on that point because i think supervisor sheehy and i share part of the city that has some of the worst flooding when water is coming up to the side of a car. It is not the same as coming township the top of your foot. And i think what you saw in the frustration the woman walking out of this room is that, yes, we are experiencing Global Warming and it is real. And what that means is something that might have occurred every 15 years or every 20 years is now happening every other year. And so, i think theres a lot of frustration in years and years of buildup because majority of the homeowners in our district have lived there 30, 40 years. This is the only home they have known this is something they inherited or bought a long time ago. This is a part of San Francisco, these are working families. And they have no other options really. So, you have a lot of children. You have a lot of monolingual speakers. You have people coming from all over the world and this is a home that was not disclosed to them that they were experiencing flooding. They were not it was not identified to them that this was something that they would experience. And so, they are horrified. And so, i think the right way to approach this is theres a very organized group in our district that can identify every single home that is experiencing major flooding. And so, what i would suggest is working with that group to identify those 50 or 60 homes. I want to commend the puc. I know would have been having a lot of conversations on information before purchasing the home and raising the driveways. We are looking at maps yesterday where theres new construction right next to a home that has a downward sloping driveway and that person is experiencing significant flooding and the one next door has a driveway that slopes up to the home and. I think there are more Affordable Solutions than making the sewer up to a hundredyear capacity that would affect the rate payers dramatically. If you are talking about a three or 400 million upgrade for one system to even get it to a 25year storm versus doing raising the foundations or the driveways or 50 or 60 homes, you are talking about saving millions and millions of dollars. So, maybe a 20 million project for 50 or 60 homes versus 400 million. That is a lot of savings but it is real. I think we need to move quicker. We have had early conversations with contractors this is what they specialize in. I think we need to get i would request the puc to put together a request for information, rfi, get a qualified list of people together. We can build out a scope of work. You all are the experts. Lets come up with a cost estimate because we are getting into the rainy season again and i know from talking to these folks it just builds tremendous anxiety and stress because they know their homes are going to get flooded. They are not hoping for no rain in a drought and we had that for a couple of years and there wasnt anything. But, you know, 2 00 a. M. Beginning of this year, there was five minutes of dramatic rain and my phone started ringing off the hook at 3 00 or 4 00 in the morning and i know supervisor sheehy was down there in the early a. M. And the water stays there for a while. Im glad we are pushing caltrans. I know initially they didnt want to continue to investigate looking at reengineering and having some flood mitigation at the end of cuyoga. I understand that it is a little bit slower to work between interdepartmental agreements. But i think we just need to do everything we can to move quicker at this point. Lets have a firm date on the rfi. Lets have some cost estimates and then work with the folks in the audience that have identified they can tell you exactly the 50 or 60 homes. I dont want to get into semantics. But if two feet of flooding is happening in my home versus three feet and you are going to say no for the two feet, that just doesnt seem fair. I think at some point if theres flooding in the home and the property is being dodammed, we have to figure damaged, we have to figure out a strategy to mitigate that. This is many, many years of buildup in terms of the infrastructure and design. That is not pointing fingers at any of you. But there are billion dollars projects all over the city and then you have one part of the city that has water coming up to peoples car door. It feels unfair. So, i think that it is important we move aggressively at this point. You have had time to put together a plan. Maybe it is rebuilding barriers and moving driveways. Lets move aggressively so we are not here next year right when the raining season is going to start and people are feeling that anxiety again. So, if you can give us an idea. Maybe director kelly can come up and say what it would take in terms of a time frame. What would be a reasonable amount of time to come up with an rfi. And im talking about the extreme before selling the home. People dont want to sell their homes. Lets talk about the extreme of raising the foundation and what that would cost and a time frame for that. So, our plans are we recognize first of all that approachi approaching homeowners, low income. We are trying to develop the Grant Program to make it easier for them. So, we are putting out a request for interest on designers and contractors. And so, hopefully by the end of this movant, we will have a list. However, if the applicant is familiar with their own designer or contractor, thats fine as well. We want to make sure that they understand the types of options that are out there and work with the designers and contractors to achieve that. So, the plan is that probably in two, three weeks we are going to go out with that. Great. We are just going to put a quick rfi and make sure people are bonding and insurance. So, we are going to move forward with that. What is important is we are going to provide these options and we are going to let people know. It is really really depends on them filling out the application and taking the initiative that, yes, we want to, you know, utilize the Grant Program and be in the program. I would just say to go back on that point. Some of the organized neighbors have an entire list, phone numbers, addresses, emails. I think that would be a good place to start. Then some of them are attorneys. They can help with filling out the applications for those that might not be as familiar with that process. I think it would be a clab rotive collaborative effort. Some people are intimidated by that. Im sorry to interrupt. If theres any feedback, we want everyone to participate. We want to try to make sure that they participate so we can reduce the risk of their homes flooding. We would like everyone participate because even if we were to go from a fiveyear to a tenyear, some of these areas when it goes beyond that will still flood. I think it is pru dent for everyone to take prudent for everyone to take us up on this program. I think theres going an upgrade over near the Farmers Market. How much pressure is that anticipated to take off of the area that floods on cuyoga . Do you know . The objective of that project is to meet our level of service and to minimize flooding from a fiveyear storm in that specific location. But it will have an impact on whats happening higher up along the cuyoga corridor. So, i think what the very preliminary modeling is showing is that by building the parallel sewer and increasing our capacity, that at the foot of cuyoga near 280, in that area, we would be looking at cutting flood depth in half in a 25year storm. Thats what the preliminary model is showing. But that project is still in very, very Early Development phases. It will be undergoing more detailed analysis. Thank you. Just one last question for director kelly. So, after the two or threeweek rfi process, how much time do you anticipate before work could potentially begin on some of those homes . I know you have to create the grant. Yeah. Right now they are actually applicants can apply. And for the dry wet proofing, they can apply. It is really a case by case situation. And thats why we would like to meet on site, look at because it is very Site Specific on what measures would actually work. So, you know, we are going to take it case by case on every one of the applicants. So, if we have 60 applicants, we plan to meet with each and every one of them. Thank you. Supervisor sheehy. A couple of things that i wasnt aware. What is this with what is the plan . I dont think that was really i think maybe supervisor safai has been informed about it. But the caltrans plan. What are you looking to do there . That project is at the culdesac of cuyoga, below rouso. I know the area well. I have been down there. So, what we would be proposing to do is to make maximum use of the caltrans property