Matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Mr. Acosta, good afternoon. Commissioner paulson is joining us. Good afternoon. I got a few calls from the area where some houses were dren drenched and for some, the city workers or sfpuc did not respond to the situation. So, we need to find out what happened. In the army we have standard operating spread procedures. I know the general manager may not have been in San Francisco when the rain fell. He should go over there in this situation because again and again, that area is effected. Something needs to be done. Its engineering. The other thing is the island. The businesses over there and the people. They dont get steady electricity. We need to find out in the short range and the long range, what are we doing about that . I know in the year 2019, we have generators that can kick in and supply electricity. Text not right when people have food in the refrigerators and it goes bad. Some people cant afford to stock their refrigerators again and again. We should not fail to be considerate. I know some of you commissioners will talk to whoever is in charge of that situation and fix it. We also have a situation arou around and no clarity on whats going to be happening with the monopoly company. I know its in your agenda, but when its on the agenda, you speak about things in general. You do not speak to the constituents and the difficulties they may encounter if we have extended blackouts. So we should have some information given to the people if we have blackouts. Whos responsible and how we are going to address it. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Any other Public Comment . Next item please. Item five is communications. You have before you communications. Are there any commissioner comments or questions on communications . Hearing none, are there any Public Comments on communications . Hearing none, next item please. Item 6 is the Citizens Advisory Committee update. Good afternoon citizens advisors. Hello. Good to see you. My name is amy. Im here to give an update from our annual report that recently came out that you should have. Im excited to report from 2018 and 2019. Ill let you read the report, which tracy helped put together based on our annual Membership Survey and our leadership summit we had in july. Im going to spend my moment up here to update you on some follow up items on the resolutions that passed in 2018 and 2019. So we have three updates and i have and ask of you. Stay tuned. The resolution we passed in support of the sfpuc local distribution program. So they have kept in direct contact with our waste water subcommittee, especially with amy who has been engaged on the branding process for the new business line, which is really exciting. Second update is our resolution in support of improved regulation. In order for the c. A. C. Members to be more effective communicators around ground water, we asked staff to have more effective visuals around ground Water Quality and data. Were continuing that conversation and scheduling an update to see how that effort is coming along. Three is our resolution and support of fostering a skilled and diverse utilities workforce. So this past august and in this resolution, we ask for a dedicated staff person to be hired, which would aid in the agencys progress towards being able to track the agencys process towards achieving the goal of diversifying the workforce. We heard from h. R. Staff recently that the agency was struggling to reach core operational goals. So any additional staff would go to support these core operational goals. So i just wanted to emphasize the importance of staffing this role and creating the Data Collection structure and system to track the anciegencys proce each department is required to submit a Racial Equity plan by 2020. Theyre looking forward to seeing how they meet that policy mandate. My final update, which is around staffing. So, recently this past week we learned that the mayor rejected the most recent request to approve the staffing position for public posting. This position, which has been filled by the role of tracy for a while. I am here to make a plea to urge the mayor to approve the position. Tracy has been staffing us for a while. Shes been holding two roles for some time, i think two years. This position is an incredible addition to making the c. A. C. More effective. Having that direct line and being in alignment with someone on staff allows us to be more fis efficient. It allows us to work in tantum with sfpuc staff and it adds a lot of power to the work we do. Anything that you need from us to put pressure anywhere you need will write a letter. I will do a sit in. Anything. I was on the p. U. C. When this position didnt exist and its night and day. Tracy has been holding it down for a while in these two roles because she recently had a different position. Shes been doing it with style and grace. We need a dedicated full time staff person. Yeah. Ill be providing an election update some time in january. Were going to be having leadership elections on the c. A. C. Ill be back. Yeah. Those are my updates. Commissioner. Yes, i like for you to go back over, if you dont mind. I think it was the second or third recommendation regarding a dedicated person dealing with diversity. You mentioned they said they were having some staffing problems with everything. What was that conversation again . So that was specifically an update through members of h. R. , who had said that its really important if theyre going to hire folks, to just add it to the core operational needs. So we got the vibe that this wasnt part of that. So i just wanted to reiterate that. The reason why we wrote that resolution was to specifically underline the need for a dedicated staff person to track those, and create those metrics, because i believe they didnt exist and then also making sure that they are keeping that on track. With the diversity. Yeah, specifically. Okay. So your concern is that you need a dedicated person. Yes, that was the resolution that was passed by the full c. A. C. All right, thank you. Yeah, of course. I also want to thank you and appreciate you for your two years of service at the c. A. C. We really appreciate the work you do. I know that all of you are volunteers and put your time and energy into it. I dont really quite understand. I know its a little confusing because there are two positions were talking about. One is the equity position and the other is c. A. C. Staff person. Were reasons given for that position . Before, was there a dedicated or shared responsibility before . So when we staffed that position, we staffed it with a temporary position and so thats how we have been staffing those positions. This is sort of the theme that when we go into budget, some of these positions are pretty much core of what we do. So we want to identify those as permanent positions, and i think at least what the Mayors Office is telling us on these positions, they would prefer us to get a permanent position and fill them. So were going to have a conversation with the Mayors Office to identify you know, which ones we would say is a priority because i think they want to limit the number of additional permanent positions, so we have to have that communication. So were going to have to go back to the Mayors Office and identify that we are adding it to the budget and so if we can move forward with this temporary until we go through the budget process. Right because i know how it is for somebody to hold two positions at once and you cant do either well. So, im hoping that through our budget conversations that we can indeed as soon as possible have this conversation and figure out how to both address the issue of one Person Holding two positions, but also figure out how to make this a permanent position. And just to say, its a theme throughout the whole organization. Its about temporary and not hiring folks fast enough. Yeah, again, diversity and workforce is certainly one of my main goals here as my seat is suppose to be community. For a long time, we heard that the workforce at p. U. C. Is aging out. This is a great opportunity. I am with you on that. If you need any letters, if you need us to do anything, im willing to sit in and watch as well. We cant wait until the end of this. There are so many creative ways that we can start getting people prepared to take on these jobs. Some creativity is not just about hiring and permanent positions and all that. Where theres a will, theres a way. Thank you for your work and all the hours that you put in. Thank you, i appreciate it. Thank you very much. Any Public Comment on the c. A. C. Update . Let me give you another angle. So this is an Enterprise Department. Some people in city hall should be told what an Enterprise Department is. You earned the money, hopefully to spend it in the right way. Now the city, implicit biasness, resiliency, equity, but when it comes to action, it can be summed by two letters, b. S. So, im glad some of you commissioners have empathy and compassion. Our young people need career jobs, not temporary jobs. Whether its in construction, whether its in anything, i always had a job and i never had an interview in my life. I always got what i wanted. But, i am dealing with young people who are dying and they are dying because theyre not given opportunities. Let me tell you something with this 6 billion s. S. I. P. System improvement project, which will now be 10 billion and soon will be 12 billion. 5 of that should be put aside for community benefits. The people who are doling out the money, which i know they are, the they will give 300,000 to open up a restaurant, but they will not have the decent sit to have a full time employment for something that is conducive to battering the community. We need young people or somebody whos younger to understand what are their needs. We need people, older people like some of yall, who can do a Needs Assessment because you have experience. The commissioner anson moran has been there forever. He can do the assessment in 5 minutes. Hes a good man. Im not saying the rest of you are bad, but he should be our leader. He should take these people aside. I know youre in the labor force, so im just like saying because from my heart. Its time to wake up. You talk the talk, but fail to walk the walk. Thank you very much. I have to go now. Thank you. Any other Public Comments on this item . Next item please. Item 7 is report of the general manager. Good afternoon. Commissioners, the first item is a bay delta Water Quality control plan update. Good afternoon, steve richey. The bay delta plan update will be brief. Theres not been a lot of activity. The state i believe is in some disarray at the moment. There was suppose to be a milestone reached in midoctober where they were to determine if the voluntary agreements were suitable for the state water board review and that day came and went with no action. The thing that did happen recently is the state provided the results of much modeling they have been doing, using five different models to model different parts of the bay delta system and they provided the results of that modeling. The modeling results is just a pile of data. There is no analysis of that data. That came to us in late november and we had staff trying to digest it and understand it. They did have a webinar today to introduce the models, but buried in their emails and they would like comments by december 12th and those who received the data said the same thing. Thats not enough time to digest all this information. We will be continuing that. In the meantime, i dont believe there are any meetings scheduled for discussions with state officials so probably not much will happen until january some time. Thats where we are. Can i ask a question . Sure. So, looks like were going to have a pretty good year, thankfully. So far so good any way. Its indeed that we have a high water year, which i believe happened last year as well. Yes, last year and 2017. Yeah. But in those previous years, i know that some of our stakeholder partners felt there wasnt enough water released, even though we had a high water year. Can you explain if indeed we do, we are fortunate enough to have a surplus, if you will, of water. Will we be able to release more for the fish as we have been trying to do . Yeah, we do release a lot of water because theres simply no place to store it. That has been part of the criticism, that particularly in 2017 when we had 3 million acre feet of water that San Francisco could have diverted, there was no place to divert it to. It was all released. So actually, it was a good year for the fish that year, in that there was a lot of water in the system and it did have to be released the same in 2019. Then we had 1. 7 million acre feet. We cant divert that much on the river, so that has to be released. So we do make big releases in big water years. Theres no doubt about that. When does that determination get made . We ultimately determine the water year type generally january or february we have an idea. By april we know in terms of delivery. Are we going to have to call for rationing or not . Thats written in our contract. Thats the drop dead date. Most people really start to get a sense of the water year in january, when you do the first snow survey. So january and february is when you really understand. I was just looking at the results from this last storm and weve gotten for the month of december about twothirds of the average precipitation for the month. We had wet starts and then it dries out afterwards. January is when we get the best idea. And the next step with the state . The next step with the state is to provide comments on the modeling and what we seen already is something i eluded to in a prior comment. Some of the activities that well be engaging in, you need to look at in a way so you can see what happens every single day. They have certain models that are built for the system that only look on a monthly basis. So it loses that fine detail and thats how they modeled it gi n again. Thats a big issue, because youre not modeling this at a fine enough scale. Im going to try to produce a graphic that demonstrates to the commission and others what is lost in translation when you have that different kind of noting modeling going on because its important to us. That well be providing to the state. Then what is a little up in the air. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments . Thank you. Next item. Mr. General manager. Public comment. Are there any Public Comments on the bay delta update . All right, the next item is the sewer system improoument Program Quarterly report. I would like to introduce Steven Robinson who is the new program director. He comes from a consultant. He has worked on our projects for about 12 years. Hes very familiar on how our system performs. Also, he lets stantech on what they can help the community out as part of how they can help design and deliver some of the projects. So with that, i just wanted to welcome steven here for his First Commission meeting and so if you commissioners could be kind to him. He will give his first update. Welcome, were happy to have you. Thank you. So we have some slides please. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is Steven Robinson, the director for the waste water Capitol Program. I came in november and im glad to represent and serve p. U. C. In this position. I want to give credit to all the work thats been done so far and i recognize theres a lot of work to be done and im excited to be in this position today. Ive been around and served p. U. C. For over a decade. I sat in these seats behind me for years and this is my first opportunity to speak. Im glad to be here and be gentle as the general manager has said. So ill start in the period ending in september, and then ill go over the Quarterly Report. So the overall, currently we have 34. 7 complete with 899 million extended to the close of september. Last quarter we closed at 32. 2 , just to put that in perspective. This quarter, were able to progress one project forward into the award face and two projects in the construction phase. So we have 19 properties in preconstruction, and 15 in construction, and 36 in the close out or completion stages represented in gray. I wanted to give you some highlights of those properties that is ongoing, especially in the construction phase in the upcoming slides. So this quarter, the project that youre familiar with, the construction phase in august. The Construction Management general contractor advertised four early out packages. Demolition and the asphalt plan areas. Next quarter we expect the opening of these packages. The team coordinating with multiple agencies to provide assistance to clear the sites in the intended work. We plan to provide an update early next year, knowing that its also a significant project in the program. More to come early next year in this project. Three of the five scopes are now in construction, very different from further ahead. Scope one, site preparation. During this quarter, the contractor continued demolition and continued to work towards dry dependent work. The pump station across evans, constructions continues. Recent work includes completing the installation of new bar screens. The influencer and force main, award has started. So they are constructing three work projects. And the lift station. The team has completed 95 design. Scope three for the main scope work facility itself, we are on the third of six waves of bidding for construction work packages. 12 packages advertised this quarter so things are working steadily ahead for the head works project. So back in october, several work packages are seeing higher bids than estimated. The teams working with the contractor, they started to evaluate those bids and worked to rebuiid to make sure they me the objectives before the project. Another project is the seismic reliability and Condition Assessment improvement project. It includes seismic improvements to the sedimentation building adjacent to the head works facility. Theyre doing that with concrete repairs to various channels and pipe structures within the plant. Caps fleconnecting to the build