And i know qualitative prioritization. Why do you rank this project first . Why did this project rise to the top or not is something worth considering. Lastly, you have a lot of knowledge now about what it takes to do Capital Projects in this region and throughout the state, and i think it would be helpful to reflect what youve learned as far as costs and difficulties and all those types of things into what is your projections for your Capital Projects and if theyre in there, its helpful to reference them, and if not, then understand why not. Because for better or for worse, you now have become an agency that does a lot of capital work, and you have quite a bit of experience with that. And i think its important for that to be reflected in the c. I. P. , so we have relayed this study to Steve Ritchie and kathy howe or to dan wade, actually. And i know my staff has been talking to them on this. Im happy to answer any questions you have. Its also been conveyed to the bosca board. Great. Thank you. Commissioners, questions . Comments . Any Public Comment on this . Thank you so much. Thanks. Appreciate it. Next item, please. Item eight is other Commission Business. Commissioners . Public comment on no Commission Business . Next item, please. Clerk item nine, all or its the consend calendar. All matters here under constitute the consent calendar are considered to be routine by the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission and will be acted on by a single vote of the commission. There will be no discussion of the requests unless the item is requested to be removed and it will be considered as a separate item. Is there a request to move any of the items from the commission . Hearing none, is there a motion to approve the consent calendar . Move to approve . Second. Any Public Comment on the consent calendar . All those in favor . Opposed . Motion maycarries, please. Next item, please. [agenda item read]. Is there a is there a motion to approve this item . I move to approve it. Any [inaudible] yes, comments . [inaudible] excuse me. Commissioner, can you please speak into the microphone . I said, could i have a a reexamination of what this actually does to the constitution in terms of the presidency. With ill let our counsel address this. This amends the commissions rules of order to set forth new clear procedures about what happens when there is an unexpected vacancy in the presidency or the vice presidency before the term is up, which is a scenario the commission was presented with earlier this year, and this now sets a procedure whereby making clear that the existing Vice President automatically assumes the seat of the presidency and can sit out the remainder of that term. And since that is, by definition less than one year in that seat, they then are not precluded from serving next serving a full year following having filled the remainder of the previous term. And this is a vote . And we vote on the next item if it works that way . That is not a vote. So the way its written well, so the Vice President would automatically become president , but when the term expires, you would have a process electing your president and Vice President , but the person who stepped in would not be precluded from the presidency. Great. Just wanted to be clear on that. So theres a motion and a second. Are there any Public Comments on this item . All those in favor . Opposed . Motion carries. Next item, please. Clerk item 1 1 is approve the selection of a pool of qualified respondents to the cleanpowersf request for offers of Renewable Energy supply. Is there a motion for this item . I move to approve. Move to approve. Ill second that. I do have a question. Did we is the recommendation basically approve all of the entities who were deemed qualified . Barbara hale, assistant general manager for power. Yes. I didnt see anything from a short list. Yes. Just to clarify that, we received 40 unique bids from 13 Different CompaniesOffering Energy from 15 distinct projects and what you have before you is a short list of ten projects. Okay. Thank you. I think thats amazing, and congratulations. What a difference . Yes, thank you. When we had our one contender years ago. Is there any Public Comments . Theres a motion and a second. Public comments on this item . All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. Next item, please. Clerk item 12, authorize the general manager to execute a joint Funding Agreement with the u. S. Geological survey for an amount not to exceed 2,182,525, and with a duration of five years. Ill move approval. Is there a second . Second. Any Public Comment on this item . All those in favor . The motion carries. Next item, please. Clerk item 13, award grant sorry. Award Grant Agreement number pro0151 demonstrations garden and programming to the San Francisco parka lines for a term of five years in an amount not to exceed 800,000 and authorize the general manager to authorize a no fee revokable license with the San Francisco park alliance. Is there a second . Second. Any Public Comment on this item . All those in favor . Motion passes. Next item, please. Clerk item 14, approve direction to staff regarding development of policy for rationing for residential water customers during severe drought. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Do you want to speak briefly to this . Yeah, briefly. As we went through the water supply assessment process for the last several months and for different projects, questions came up about how how much would projects have to ration in the future, particularly if they were very high performing projects where people were using less water. And so we prepared this as a way to get direction to analyze in detail that if people are using, you know, less water than others, you know, how would that be treated in terms of overall rationing levels we might get to in the future. Because of the baydelta plan, water assessments look at us in terms of one level of us having to go to extreme rationing levels, how that would play out. So what weve suggested here is we go through analyzing what we did in the modified assessments is we focused on individual projects, but this would be asking the question more broadly, should there be whole customer classes that we should treat that way when theyre using, for example, whatevers just necessary for maintenance of Public Health and safety, you know, a very low amount or they have the most Efficient Home that they possibly can have . Are those levels, if they would then maybe say, you know, wouldnt have to have any additional restrictions, but if we still needed to reduce the levels of demand throughout our service area, you know, who would be picking up the theoretically the Something Like that on that because theyve already done as much a good job. Its already trying to find out, tested, and see where that follow decision could lead as we go through this whole process. As we go into the urban Water Management planning process next year when were going to have it revisit the Water Management plan, which is our basic demand document and what we call here the retail water shortage allocation plan, which is the rules by which the commission would look at shortage in the future and we have that Water Management plan. So were just looking for some concurrence that we should dig into that issue in depth and you know come back to this commission with an answer of what that looks like. So this resolution is giving you direction to research this and come back with a proposed policy that we would then consider . Yes. Correct . Okay. Just to be clear on that. And are there elements in this guidance that are new or is this pretty much what we do every time . Well, weve tried to do things like this, but theyve been done different ways. There was no, say, statement of 50 people were at the health and safety level and were not going to ask them to do more, or if theyve got the most Efficient Home possible, that were going to ask them to do more. Were going to try to tease that out, how that can play out, as oppose to doing it on the fly as we might do at some point. And im not sure exactly what the best way to ask the question, but we just got through a bunch of water supply assessments, and those were the result of, as you said, individual project analysis as opposed to applying a general policy. Right. If and this may not be answerable, but ill ask it any way. If if there was a policy that had the elements that were directing you to look at, is there any conflict between that and what we just got through doing on the Water Supplies . I dont think theres any conflict in that because those projects were ones that were particularly folks that were going to have all new water use water efficient fixtures and theyre going to have nonpotable water recycled there, so their use is going to belower than the most efficient be lower than the most efficient uses because youre taking that off the table, so i dont see a conflict with that. Okay. And when do you anticipate this coming back to us . Well, were going to be looking at the schedule for the whole urban Water Management plan, so where it fits into that yeah, where it fits into that. Being on. Great. Is there a motion to approve this direction . Motion to approve. Second. Any Public Comments . All those in favor . Opposed . Thank you very much. The motion carries. Next item, please. Clerk i will read the closed session items prior to Public Comment. Item 17 is existing litigation pacific gas and electric company. Item 18, existing litigation, city and county of San Francisco versus pacific gas and electric company. Item 19, existing litigation, city and county of San Francisco versus pacific gas and electric. Any Public Comment on any of the closed session items . Is there a motion on whether to assert attorneyclient privilege . Move to assert. Second. Any Public Comment . All those in we spoke with people regardless of what they are. That is when you see change. That is a lead vannin advantage. So Law Enforcement assistance diversion to work with individuals with nonviolent related of offenses to offer an alternative to an arrest and the county jail. We are seeing reduction in drugrelated crimes in the pilot area. They have done the program for quite a while. They are successful in reducing the going to the county jail. This was a state grant that we applied for. The department is the main administrator. It requires we work with multiple agencies. We have a community that includes the da, Rapid Transit police and San FranciscoSheriffs Department and Law Enforcement agencies, Public Defenders Office and adult probation to Work Together to look at the population that ends up in criminal justice and how they will not end up in jail. Having partners in the nonprofit world and the public defender are critical to the success. We are beginning to succeed because we have that cooperation. Agencies with very little connection are brought together at the same table. Collaboration is good for the department. It gets us all working in the same direction. These are complex issues we are dealing with. When you have systems as complicated as police and health and proation and jails and nonprofits it requires people to come to Work Together so everybody has to put their egos at the door. We have done it very, very well. The model of care where police, district attorney, public defenders are communitybased organizations are all involved to worked towards the common goal. Nobody wants to see drug users in jail. They want them to get the correct treatment they need. We are piloting lead in San Francisco. Close to civic center along market street, union plaza, powell street and in the mission, 16th and mission. Our goal in San Francisco and in seattle is to work with individuals who are cycling in and out of criminal justice and are falling through the cracks and using this as intervention to address that population and the Racial Disparity we see. We want to focus on the mission in tender loan district. It goes to the partners that hired case managers to deal directly with the clients. Case managers with referrals from the police or city agencies connect with the person to determine what their needs are and how we can best meet those needs. I have nobody, no friends, no resources, i am flatout on my own. I witnessed women getting beat, men getting beat. Transgenders getting beat up. I saw people shot, stabbed. These are people that have had many visits to the county jail in San Francisco or other institutions. We are trying to connect them with the resources they need in the community to break out of that cycle. All of the referrals are coming from the Law Enforcement agency. Officers observe an offense. Say you are using. It is found out you are in possession of drugs, that constituted a lead eligible defense. The officer would talk to the individual about participating in the program instead of being booked into the county jail. Are you ever heard of the leads program. Yes. Are you part of the leads program . Do you have a case worker . Yes, i have a case manager. When they have a contact with a possible lead referral, they give us a call. Ideally we can meet them at the scene where the ticket is being issued. Primarily what you are talking to are people under the influence of drugs but they will all be nonviolent. If they were violent they wouldnt qualify for lead. You think i am going to get arrested or maybe i will go to jail for something i just did because of the Substance Abuse issues i am dealing with. They would contact with the outreach worker. Then glide shows up, you are not going to jail. We can take you. Lets meet you where you are without telling you exactly what that is going to look like, let us help you and help you help yourself. Bring them to the Community Assessment and Services Center run by adult probation to have assessment with the department of Public Health staff to assess the treatment needs. It provides meals, groups, there are things happening that make it an open space they can access. They go through detailed assessment about their needs and how we can meet those needs. Someone who would have entered the jail system or would have been arrested and book order the charge is diverted to social services. Then from there instead of them going through that system, which hasnt shown itself to be an effective way to deal with people suffering from suable stance abuse issues they can be connected with case management. They can offer Services Based on their needs as individuals. One of the key things is our approach is client centered. Hall reduction is based around helping the client and meeting them where they are at in terms of what steps are you ready to take . We are not asking individuals to do anything specific at any point in time. It is a Program Based on whatever it takes and wherever it takes. We are going to them and working with them where they feel most comfortable in the community. It opens doors and they get access they wouldnt have had otherwise. Supports them on their goals. We are not assigning goals working to come up with a plan what success looks like to them. Because i have been in the field a lot i can offer different choices and let them decide which one they want to go down and help them on that path. It is all on you. We are here to guide you. We are not trying to force you to do what you want to do or change your mind. It is you telling us how you want us to help you. It means a lot to the clients to know there is someone creative in the way we can assist them. They pick up the phone. It was a blessing to have them when i was on the streets. No matter what situation, what pay phone, cell phone, somebody elses phone by calling them they always answered. In officebased setting somebody at the reception desk and the clinician will not work for this population of drug users on the street. This has been helpful to see the outcome. We will pick you up, take you to the appointment, get you food on the way and make sure your needs are taken care of so you are not out in the cold. First to push me so i will not be afraid to ask for help with the lead team. Can we get you to use less and less so you can function and have a normal life, job, place to stay, be a functioning part of the community. It is all part of the home reduction model. You are using less and you are allowed to be a viable member of the society. This is an important question where lead will go from here. Looking at the data so far and seeing the successes and we can build on that and as the department based on that where the investments need to go. If it is for five months. Hopefull