Okay. We have the whistleblower is so important to us that i wanted to have it on there twice if thats okay . Oh, yeah, sure. Its such a rare opportunity for someone to have governance over that particular program. indiscernible . October 21st. Well make sure that you guys get the invitation as well. So regarding the work plan, a couple of housekeeping things. Peter is going to take on the capital plan. So we are going to have the liaison for the capital plan. And peter an will transition the Whistleblower Program from brenda which was very important. We still dont have anyone for the 2011 road paving. Again, im not too concerned about that because everything has been spent, or almost everything. And then all we have left is the park bond. Iis anyone willing to meet with the park bond people between now and october . Because they really are the meat of our october meeting. Anyone . Anyone . Anyone . Okay, thank you. And i also see the seawall in our next meeting and the seawall can you explain the status of the seawall . Ann might know more than i do. Im not much in the meetings on this so if i could ask her to tell us what she knows about the status. The seawall bond has been delayed temporarily due to litigation. You kind of drifted off there location . Litigation. Litigation. So it hasnt been issued, right . Correct. It hasnt been issued and so the projects cant start. Correct. How much notice will we have in the issuance it takes a few months to get this stuff going, right, after the litigation is over . Exactly, yes. So well know, well know that its coming. Awesome. And then, finally, one other housekeeping question and this is if you guys are comfortable our packets include for every bond two things, like the short one thats presented to us and then the big report. Are you guys comfortable with that going out as a link and not being printed for us . But i have to say that brenda did reference it today and so it obviously was useful to have this in the packet. Oh, a hard copy versus electronic . Yes, thank you. Its useful to me as i look at the presentation charts, is there something that i would like to see in more detail, and then i go to the quarterly reports. But, peg, tell us i thought that most of these departments issue quarterly reports anyway. So theyre not specifically doing it for this . I think they do. Im not 100 sure on that. We need to check on the standard oversight reporting of each bond program. But many, if not most of them, do something for commission, for example. And so our thought here, again is that rather than to include a hard copy of every report wed give you a link and you could review it, save paper, you know, on everybodys end. Certainly, as a practical matter at your meeting we could have a hard copy of the latest report if one was wanted. I think that in the distribution packet, i think that mary at least reached out to me to ask if i would prefer a link or a report and i said i wanted a printed report. So you could still have other Committee Members who would not prefer the printed copy to get the link so they can go and to read the detailed quarterly reports. Is that too much work for staff . Id like to suggest then that we all have electronic copies of the report and only have the staff to print and prepare the shorter summaries. Would it really be an inconvenience for us on our computers to refer to the electronic copies . Not saying that we dont want the quarterly reports, the thick ones, with all of the detail. But i think that the electronic copy is sufficient. I dont think that is a matter that we need to vote on. So, mary, can you just take this under advisement when you put these things together . And our materials are posted online and i do plan to eventually, if its comfortable, to move some that are not printed basically. Were trying to save paper. And so if theres a way that folks are comfortable with using some electronic version, that would be helpful in the production world. Chairman great. Awesome. Thats all for the other committee business. Chairman any further comments . Members . Wow. Meeting adjourned. We made it. Chairman are we adjourned . Yes. Okay, thanks. This facility is the largest project in our sewer system improvement program. It has a price tag of 1. 3 borghese. It is rebuilding one 1. 3 billion. The policy and Government Affairs team helps the finance team talk to legislative officials and policymakers creating financial programs for us to get low interest loans. Getting the funding for the project was important to save money for the ratepayers of San Francisco and enable us to build the project on budget. We were able to secure for the sf p. U. C. The loans from the epa and state mostly for the facilities project. We are providing low cost funding for projects that really provide tremendous social and Environmental Impact. For example the 699 million loan is going to pay for half of the biosolid project. What is challenging of the new sources of financing. They require the group to look at creative option ways to take the funds and build them to the existing process. The southeast plant is in hunters bay. It is across the street from residential homes. One of the objectives was to make it an asset. It will be at another plant further away from houses. It is going to help in terms of odor, air emissions, noise. This project that receives the federal loan funding is going to create 3,000 jobs in the community. In addition the streetscape improvements and architecture there is a lot of thought so that it is an asset to the community. It feels great to win the financial assisting ability award. I believe the group works hard to an chief Financial Stability in everything they do. We are getting world wide recognition for the work we are doing because of the green infracture projects in the communities with a lot of social impact. To me i am very proud of that effort to be a part of that. I nominated the team for the financial sustain ability award. They got some of the largest state and federal loans in the country. It saved the agency 10s of millions of dollars. I am proud of Temperature Team for put proud of the team for putting this together. We got the largest hello, welcome to the rescheduled meeting. Today is tuesday, august 27, 2019. Please call role. [roll call] do we have a quorum . Commissioners you have the minutes of august 13, 2019. Are there any additions or corrections . I have one correction, and that amused me, because i did not adjourn the meeting. Perhaps i was tier one spirit. Physically i was not. Any additions or corrections from the public . Seeing none. May i have a motion. I will move as modified. The motion carries. Next item, please. General Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission. Commissioners, i want to talk about the headlines that are made linked to pg e. They are getting from bad to worse. So, pg e, right now, even though there are deliberations going at the California PublicUtilities Commission which i am monitoring, they are arbitrarily statements that we will have to pay more, when it comes to our rates, because of the fires. The statements made here about clean power, and how, you know, they are getting an increase in customers. I am one of their customers. So, we havent had any deliberations. I mentioned it, last time, in january whenever we want to upgrade our power, whenever we want to do pay our bills, but, we have not reached a stage if we have blackouts, and if we happen to be a customer of cleanpowersf and how that is going to be addressed . Just having these discussions where we are getting people to come on board, super green, and all of this we need to discuss. I want to know who is providing the super green clean power . How is that monitored . What transmission lines are used and so on and so forth . When it comes to our notice of violations, at Water Treatment plants, if you have connections you know about it. No mention is made here about a notice of violations. They have had an added, substantially added notice of violation at the Treatment Plant. Theyve also had a complete shutdown at the ocean Treatment Plant of the computer system. No mention is made over here. Now, we dont need to have moles reporting to us. We need transparency and accountability. Since the commissioners should be informed about this mickey mouse operation, we need to know why this mickey mouse operation or ongoing at an increase in notice of violations. Thank you very much. Thank you. And the other speakers . Next item, please. Item five is communications. Any comments . Okay. The report of the general manager. I do have a couple of quick updates. The first one is, i want steve to come up you and give you an update about the meeting that he held. Good afternoon commissioners. Assistant general manager for water. Yesterday, i was able, together with the National Natural resources manager. [inaudible] to meet with three of the folks from the running club at our offices in berryman game. We went over the issues that we had talked about the last Commission Meeting that really revolved around the watershed Management Plan. It was about the radar facility, but others allow discussion about access to the watershed. We described the potential watershed Management Plan that was developed back in 2,001, and its importance of policies on watershed uses. A trail to the peak was not included in the plan. There was no access allow for the rest of the watershed. Of course, we do want to provide access managed to the peninsula watershed land. Consistent with our peninsula watershed Management Plan. We committed to the folks from the running club to work towards finding an alternative location for access to this area that provides an experience as close to the existing views of both the coast side and the watershed as possible. The representatives, from the club, said they would work with us to find a viable option for a trailside in the peak area. Those folks that we met with, ron liddell, sean handle, agreed that they would be the point people for the coast Side Running Club and communicate with their constituents about what we might be able to do. It is the next step we are going to work to identify some site concepts for consideration that would be in that ridgeline area, and would provide as we said, a similar experience. Something we can incorporate into an amendment to the watershed Management Plan. We would basically have some site conflicts put together and follow up with them, within the month. That is certainly by the end of september. It was a very productive meeting i felt like we found some definite common ground. Thank you. Am i on here . There we go. It would be great if we could hear back once you have come up with a resolution on what that is. Definitely. You definitely will because we have to amend the watershed Management Plan. The commission will have to approve whatever is done, and it will have to be pursuant to some form of Environmental Review. Hopefully we can keep it narrowly contained a not have a drag out. Sometimes Environmental Review can. It would be if you could invite the representatives to come come at that time. I am sure they will be here. Thank you. Is there an opportunity for educational that you could have the plants, the butterflies, or whatever it is were trying to protect so the people can have an idea and be more aware of what is going on . That way we are educating the public as well. That is a core principle of the watershed Management Plan. The only basis for us to allow access to our watershed is for education. I can arty envision certain things that would come into this, certainly a couple of interpretive panels that would provide information about the watershed as a whole and the specific area what is going on there. Great. Thank you. As a pre luminary meeting, would you say it a from the meeting with a group . Yes. Very positive, and constructive. At one point they did say, you are committed to this . And we did say yes, we are committed to this. Is this part of the lower trails that we discussed . No. That is a work still in progress for the extension of the ridge trail there. This is an access point that people had gained access to the watershed over many years and basically established a social trail, in this area. I would call it, given all of the references, the best advertised, best kept secret that exists in our part of the world. Any questions . Thank you. Are you done with your report . No, have another item. Public comment on this item . Sorry about that. Also giving an update on fluoride and water is steve. Thank you. The commissioners received an email from a constituent who was concerned about fluoride, in the water, and there was a recent study that was published in the american journal of medical association that was concerned about the potential for fluoridated water consumed during pregnancy to result in potentially lowered iqs, in children. The study was not absolutely conclusive, and the consensus of most people in the academic community, looking at that research was this is interesting information. There needs to be a lot more study before we draw any real conclusions on it. I wanted to quickly summarize where we are at with fluoride. California mandates that we actually floor date our water, all public Water Systems are required to fluoride their water by legislation. Its helpful in preventing dental caries in children. That is a strong belief by the cdc and others, that this is an important Public Health program. Its also an equity issue. Our optimal level for fluoride in our water system is. 7 milligrams per liter or parts per million. That is below the Public Health goal of 1 milligram per liter. We are adding fluoride in very low concentrations. That concentration was revised in 2015, to make sure we were providing dental support, not having any other adverse effects that fluoride Public Health goal was set in 1997. The States Office of Environmental Health regularly reviews those goals to determine if updates are warranted. They have not updated, since that time, despite research that has been done. It is not conclusive anyway. Regarding this particular study, noted comments by the American Academy of pediatrics where they observe the results of the study are difficult to interpret given that the iq difference was small and the results were actually different from boys and girls. There were some results but there were not conclusive one way or the other. One thing we want to point out, we do an annual Consumer Confidence report. We may consider editing that in the future, if it becomes clear there is a greater consensus among professionals that there is a reason for pregnant women to be cautious about fluoride intake. Our ccr informs parents that infant formula can be made with low fluoride bottled water to lessen the chance of dental fluorosis which is streaking of the teeth. Something we added to our reporting years ago after discussions with external stakeholders on the department of Public Health. Fluoride is an issue we take seriously, both on the dental prevention side and keeping track of what is being found by research. These studies come out from time to time, i just wanted to make sure you are aware of it. We do take it seriously, look at them critically to make sure we are on the right course. Happy to answer any questions. Recently went through a very extensive discussion on this, a number of years ago. Yes. Obviously that concludes my report. Any Public Comment . Commissioners, you have been noticed, on the agenda items we have gotten personal information. The last time around when this discussion about the trails to place took place. When things are put on the agenda, for the public, the public are not stupid. They heard the gentleman say that they wanted to put this whatever equipment on, and adversely back to the activities and so on and so forth. We need a point of contact. We need somebody to speak on behalf of the other side. Not to say that mr. Richie is not a good person i did not do a good. When you come to adjudication, you need to have both the site sincerely say that okay theres an agreement here. That is the first topic. We have ucsf here, in San Francisco, and we have other institutions that have the expertise on fluoride. At least unless we have empirical data, we need somebody who is an expert, a phd, professor, head of the department to come and say, okay, you get this water from hetch hetchy. You like to say it pristine water. When it is raining and we have all of this water, you know, we are letting it go here, they are, and everywhere, you have to explain those things. People are wondering now. Mr. Richie, a good man, can say what he wants to say. We want experts to say, and educate us on the issues. Thank you very much. Thank you. I would like to add to your comments, the fluoridation came up because of a recent letter. It was not on the agenda. I failed to ask for Public Comment, under item five, communications. Any Public Comment on communications . Item seven, please. Item seven is the water supply Conservation Agency update. Good afternoon. Thank you for having me here today. Two months ago i spoke to you about a critical water supply issue for the 1. 8 Million People , and 40,000 businesses and community organizations, under state law. I wanted to provide you an update today, respond to a suggestion from general manager kelly to include basic information especially for your two new commission members. In 2,002, the California