Running late and we have a quorum. Next item, please. Item 3 is the annual election of officers, discussion and possible action to discuss a president and Vice President , each to serve a onearea term. I would like to nominate president cane for an additional term and make a motion along with that nomination. Ill second it. All those in favour . Opposed . Motion carries. Congracongratulations, madam ch. Thank you. What was the motion . The motion was to elect and i i was unclear, i nominate made a o elect. Are there any comments on that . And im sorry if i was unclear . Very good. Thank you for clarifying, commissioner moran. And for the position of views president , you would like to nominate the current views president francesca vador and what is confusing is who is acting as clear at this moment . Im chair but not doing the nom nations. Who is, the vice chair . As acting chair we have a nomination of Vice President . Any Public Comment . All those in favour say aye and opposed . Congracongratulations, vice pre. Thank you. I will hand this back to our president. Can i just Say Something so that were clear. I wanted to say for my understanding and fulfilled vince courtneys presidency and so, she didnt fill a full term and thats why, you know, because the bylaws said you cant fulfill two full terms. So she was Vice President when vince resigned so she assumed his position and i think we want to try to make that clear in the bylaws. And i think something that were working on and hopefully well get that to you guys soon so that can be clear. I would like to speak to that, as well, because i believe our bylaws do not actually clearly state what happens when there is a vacancy on the commission, whether through a resignation or some other reason that a commissioner leaves their post. So ive requested by the next meeting and i know this will take advanced notice, that we do have a bylaw amendment before us that clarifies, that in the event of a vacancy, the next person in line would then assume the role via an election and that that person would then be allowed to serve another term because it will have been a short term just completing the vacancy term. And im hoping it will be more clear than i stated but we will work to clarify the bylaws in the situation since it does not specifically address what happens when a vacancy occurs. Part of the confusion comes from, we have a term that is date to date as opposed to a length of time. One of the changes that we could make is to say that a term of office will be one year from the date that that office is assumed. So if somebody leaves madeterm and somebody else takes out, they have it a year. I dont know what issues that will create. But i thought thats one way to deal with it. The reasons was that the terms for commissioners are in august for the bylaws and i believe per legislation. So that then gives a month for there could be the person to assume the position and get settled before theres an immediate election of officers and thats why the october date is are pretty important to stick with. And we can speak a bit to that and i wonder if our council wouldnt mind at the next meeting with the new bylaw amendment introduced, could explain the reasoning and i would be happy to take it through, as well, but my understanding is because our terms as commissioners begin and end in august per whether thats bylaw or legislation and therefore, sometimes the seat does not get filled because of the process until september. So once the new commissioners on are board next september, theres an election of officer. If we Start Playing with dates based on vacancy rather than appointment by the board of supervisors, it might make it more complicated because everyone might have different lengths of serving as an officer. I appreciate that and i think thats one of the things we thought to think through. The other part of that is that if somebody is serving as an officer and then they dont get repointedrepointreappointed, yoe problem. So i dont know october is the solution. But we have time to talk about it as we go forward. Thank you. I would just like to add that in the past weve had many different months. Weve had spring, january. And weve been all over the map and this does not occur very often. Moving along, minutes of september 10th, any additions to corrections . Ill move approval. Second. Any Public Comment . Any discussion from the commissioners . All those in favour . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item, please. Item 5 is general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commissioner on matters in the commissions jurisdiction and not on todays agenda. Mr. Decasta . Good afternoon. Good afternoon. The question first, i would like to offer my condolences. One of the commissioners, francesca vetra, she lost her brother and shes served this commission as best as she can. And in doing so, she serves us and so i think its fitting that we offer our condolences to you and be strong. Also, i want to congratulate the women on this commission, the president and the Vice President and i want to now going to the nittygritty. So we have had some letters between the administrator from the epa and the Governors Office and the sipuc and as an environmentalist, politics is one thing and being an environmentalist is quite another. So this both can be done by anyone. Any attorney. I know that just from reading the letter that he must have delegated some attorney to read the letter and then reviewed it. The others who may have reviewed it, but you know when we focus on the facts, we environment oceanside treatment plan and one at the bayside and then one in the treatment plant. Thats mentioned in the letter. Secondly, if you know how the system works, most of the wheels, the blue eirs are not working. Whos fought is that . It our fault. Thirdly, there are incidents that may be discussed today, i dont know. Thank you. The next speaker is mr. Dreckmyer. I would like to wish you a happy water year on october 1st. If i could get the overhead on. You see the water bank is 1. 28 water feet. And last year, which was above average, is about 150 precipitation and the puc had entitlements to 107acre feet, so more than the full storage. And system demand pretty much leveled out. It was 196 last year and it looks like this year maybe 197. So we have a lot of water, demand is down and i hope we take that into consideration when it comes to the fish and the salmonbased ecosystem. Sorry, this is a little faded. This is a graph put together by brian brown, required economist and member of the overview bond committee. The red line is the cost of water and as it goes up, demand goes down. Theres a price signal. The blue line, until you get theres a grey line and blue line together, hard to see but where that ends, on the left of that is actual demand and then the blue line to the right, which is only blue is projected demand. And the gr earthquakes is what brian browns model suggested to be on price prices. You see he was incredibly accurate and predicting demand will continue to go down. We will get serious about water entitlements will be and provide more water for the ecosystem that desperately needs it. Thank you very much. But. Thanthank. Thank you. The next speaker is mr. Rosecrantz. Thank you. I represent restore heteche and california trout have sent three different letters, encouraging increased access and recreation in the area in the national park. One to the mayor and secretary and one to the general manager and one to the superintendent of Yosemite National park and all have the same contention that the recreation access today is not consistent with what was promised when San Francisco committed to with what San Francisco with what San Francisco committed to when it asked congress to pass the act in 1913. Most recently, we suggested that the best way to provide that access is through an electric paramedielectric powered ferry service, drop people off at the falls and people can fish the grand canyon and things that are not available today. I know that on behalf of San Francisco, the general manager expressed grave concerns and in our recent letter to the superintendent, we wrote, it will be essential, of course, to com blucomply with the raker ace ensuring theres any associated costs. We note that water supply reservoirs in california and beyond routinely allow boating, indeed in most cases gasoline paramedic boats are allowed and confident the utilitys Commission Staff is capable of ensuring that all customers continue to receive clean and safe water supplies. And theres been some press on this and more press on this and weve had discussions with the park service and interior and im just getsing yo guessing yod as well. I would like to open the dialogue with the general manager, with board members, mr. Carlin but were available to talk to work through some of these issues. Thank you. Thank you, any more Public Comment . Seeing none, next item. Item 6 is communications. Commissioners, any comment on communications . You have two things that i would like to discuss. When we talk about the bay area, ridge trail. , i see that the timeline on that is i dont see that right now. I believe its in 2022 or 21, 21. So will that come before us again . Because i see, although it will be docent oriented, were going to have bikes and horses and i was wondering how that controls all those different vehicles. Im with land management. I think youre referring to 6e, the recreation improvements on the watershed and we wanted to provide an update on the other programmes on the peninsula. Trail is in there and this is a project thats been before the commission in the past. Its been awhile and weve put the city planning that released the document almost three years ago and so that document has yet to be purplishe published for cd review and this will come back before i goes anywhere. Were running our Ongoing Programme with the docents. Thats the same and then other alternatives including cayhill, as well, and that will come back in 2020. I want an update on that. And lets see, how r d do i hae anything else . No, thats all i have on communications. Ill add one comment on that that one of the precipitating events was the people concerned about access to the montero mountain and the approach is take, commonsense cal an common. If im not mistaken, the permit idea, you think, is a good one giving them access and we know whos there. And i think that makes a lot of sense. It will come back to the commission, the ideas that we have and anything we could will come back for your consideration. Thank you. Thank you. Next item, please. For Public Comment . Im sorry, Public Comment. Before we get into that one would lik, iwould like to note e forwarded to the commission and entered in as Public Comment. Thank you. Im Matthew Blaine speaking on the same issue. I was at the last meeting and i was not available go to meeting. I hear it was productive and i would like to thank staff and commissioners for being supportive and i want to mention the timeline issue. Im hearing a scarry timeline, taking no time to remove public access, which is present. So hopefully all of these be projects can move forward for public access. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioners, if you see on the ed, declaration of emergency update repair, treatment plant, final of affluent force main. Theres more than just a simple sentence. Theres a history of that being compromised to stability. Who would ever dig through conduits under a force main without doing any assessment around 2004, compromising the force main . Now we are in 2019, and theres this sentence coming before the commission and i know maybe its in that book over there, but thats not the way to do business. This is exactly linked to what i said in my comments. This force main, millions of gallons go through this force main into the bay. Talking about treated sewage, its more than what some of us think and the own way you know this is when it smells really bad. The commission decided to dump the waste water this is a proposition where the people went, dealt with the clean water and entitled it the water system improvement project. So we need to have a hearing on the force main. And we need to have a hearing which is connected with this force main about a digest. We already have heard in some of the presentations its delayed two years. How much will this cost, 10 billion or maybe 20 billion. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You just would like go back to the ridge trail and make a request that if you dont know now but by the next meeting if you can give us a timeline on when you anticipate the issue to be closer to resolution and before this commission. And anyone else would appreciate you having reached out to the stakeholders and engaging them because i know that was a question and concern we had. Thank you. Im with Natural Resources and i would happily do that as soon as we have one. Part of the dilemma is that were waiting fort work to be fe completed. It might be done as part of the projects. The radar will go in and we might be delayed because of the weather and its hard to say ba the access will look like. It might take three months, six months, i dont though, but as soon as we get a sense of that being finished and we can then map out what the rest looks like, well bring it back making sure the commission is aware of it and keep the people in the loop on that. Thats what we talked about on friday, that we couldnt put a date to it and they appreciated that things got done first is we would follow behind with the next iteration. We have to be specific with city planning what the project looks like. If you could keep us in the loop, either Via Communications or an update, we would appreciate that. Absolutely. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Item 7 is a report of the general manager. Good afternoon. The first item on my report is the bay delta water control update. Good afternoon, im steve ritchie, assistant manager for water. The update will cover the bay delta Quality Control as well as the board hearing, the stakeholder process which is a subject of the Mayors Office letter to you and the upcoming Planning Commission hearing on water supply and analysis for new projects. First, on the bay delta Quality Control, the voluntary agreement process is continuing and unfortunately, not as much progress has been made as hoped by people. But last official correspondence from the state was july 1, where they anticipate anticipated hava decision in midoctober. October 15th was the date included by which we would have included and determined the voluntary agreement package was ready for formal analysis. That parse to not be the case and were expecting a report from state and that will require a new schedule which might extend that deadline for some time, maybe to the end of the year. People are still talking and people are still approaching it with a positive attitude but it is just not moving nearly as fast as people had hoped. Secondly, i wanted to report on september 19th, the bored of directors held their regular meeting and that meeting, they did have presentations in a structured fashion, where there was a presentation by peter dreckmire, followed one by me and comments by the bosca director, nicole sancula. Presentations were 10 to 15 minutes in length and peter was focused on water slight issue, water supply planning and i was broader than that, talking about the bay delta plan and where we are as well as how we approached the planning. Nicole wrapped it up with the state of the voluntary agreement process and that litigation was still always a potential activity that we had already initiated as a backstop and that is the situation now. They kept it in a controlled fashion so not a lot of debate and discussion, but they did want to make sure the issues got on the table in front of them. And then, secondly, the stakeholder process, yesterday, there was the memo from the Mayors Office directed to the commission and that identified there would be a series of meetings and workshops upcoming, that the metr Mayors Office is sponsoring. Theyll be working with a variety of stakeholders on the agendas for those and basically reporting to this commissioner at the end of this process as to what progress had been made relative to coming together on issues or whether there were differences still that occurred but the Mayors Offices has taken a different role to try to make that happen. And then lastly, the Planning Commission had been scheduled at least tentatively scheduled for their regular Hearing Commission for october 24th. Its being structured with pregnants by chris kern, the environment review officer, about the Planning Commissioners role for new development projects. Ill be making a presentation covering the puc and water supply agencys role in that sequa process. So that should be a fairly comprehensive presentation on both issues that the Planning Commission has the best possible understanding of the overall process that is engaged in under law by both the Planning Department and the puc, as well. Im working with staff now on what we may bring forward to deal with that issue and we may be able to make that on the 22nd. That would be good. The Commission Secretary would be a party to that. Shes smiling at me. We may have to bend the rules. I would second that. I would like to see something on the 22nd, please, and ask the Commission Secretary to work with staff to make that happen. Any other comment . I guess im a little unclear and i havent looked at the resolution in some time, and al