We have a quorum. At this time i would like to make a brief announcement. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and mayor brown have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held virtually with all members and staff participating today via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the commission, staff and members of the public. If you have not already done so, i am now going to ask all members of the commission and staff to mute themselves to minimize background noise. This meeting is being televised by sfu tv. For those of you watching live stream, please be aware that there is a 20 to 40second time lapse between the live meeting and what members of the public are viewing on sfu tv. We extend our thanks to sfu staff and sfu tv i. T. Staff for their assistance. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is called. Dial 8882733658, access code 3107452, and followed by pound and pound again to join the meeting as a participate. Dial one then zero to be added to the speaker line. Before i call the first item, madam president , i would like to make a note that item 17 is being removed from this agenda and will be rescheduled to a later date. And your first order of business, madam president , is item three, approval of the minutes of april 28, 2020. Excuse me, donna, this is francesca. I just wanted to say its item 16 that has been removed from the calendar, and not item 17. Thank you. Oh, my apologies. Thank you. Commissioners, before you you have the minutes of april 28, 2020. Are there any additions to this list . Second. May i have a second . Madam secretary, could you open this to Public Comments. Members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on item 3, approval of the minutes of april 28, 2020, dial 8882733658, access code 3107452 and followed by pound, pound. Then 1, then 0 to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have any calls . Madam secretary, we do have one call in the queue. Thank you. You have one question remaining. Hi, speaker, go ahead. My name is francisco de costa, and you may be surprised that im still using my time for Public Comment. And the main reason being i follow all the project, and they are eight weeks into this pandemic and we have a major project that is a system Improvement Project, and we need to know, more or less, but i know that there are some difficulties, how are we progressing on the project, how are we progressing on the outreach, and why do we have dwayne jones and juliet [indiscernible] still in charge of the outreach and they havent been doing a good job . I know some of the managers, they are now considered essential workers, and we are seeing theres nothing happening at city hall and theres nothing happening at 525 [indiscernible] the Public Utilities commission. So again, we the public need to know how that project, the sewer system Improvement Project is moving forward. And we need to be notified about a hearing, or at least a general gist of the program on the backside. Thank you very much. Mr. De costa, before you hang up, that was Public Comment on item 3, approval of the minutes. And im assuming you wanted to make Public Comment on item 4, which is general Public Comments. Excuse me, what is happening . What is happening is on this tv, it said Public Comment no. 4. And what you are saying is the right things that you did not know what im observing, so now weve moved it to okay. Item no. 3, so i do not want to make the Public Comment again because everybody heard it. Okay. So thats [indiscernible]. Okay, thank you. We are doing our best. Mr. Moderator, do we have any other calls . There are no other calls in the queue, madam secretary. Okay. Given that Public Comment on item 3 is closed. Could you take a roll call vote. Commissioner caen . Aye. Vicepresident vietor . Aye. Commissioner moran . Aye. Commissioner maxwell . Aye. And commissioner paulson . Present. But do you vote aye on the minutes . Oh, aye, im sorry. Thank you. Its 50, madam president. President moller caen please read the next item. Item 4 is general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and not on todays agenda. Members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on item 4 dial 8882733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 1, then 0 to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, please open the phone lines. Madam secretary, the lines are open. Thank you. Madam secretary, we do have callers in the queue and people can continue to queue up while callers are speaking. Thank you. We have our first caller. One question remaining. Hello, caller, go ahead to speak on general Public Comments. Yes, thank you. I sent you a latter yesterday. I hope letter yesterday. You hope you had a chance to look it over. It provides suggestions on how we might respond to a very good question the commissioner vietor asked two and a half months ago. It essentially was if the 40 unimpaired flow is implemented or voluntarily adopted, how will the sfpuc respond . Im very much looking forward to having that conversation. I hope this item will be agendaized soon and i hope you get some ideas from the letter i sent you. Thank you very much. Thank you, peter. Madam secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. Okay. Thank you. Public comment on item no. 4 is closed. President moller caen madam secretary, please read the next item. The next item is item five, communications. President moller caen commissioners, any comments on communications . I do have a question on 5 c , the Third Quarter budget status report. Certainly there werent any surprises in it, but i was a bit baffled by the fact that our power contracts could be reduced. I always felt that they were long term. So i would like a comment on that. Do we have shortterm power contracts . I would be happy to address that if the commission is comfortable with that. This is barbara hale, power enterprise assistant general manager. So i understand you to be asking specifically about the statement in the item president caen that says that clean power sf has been able to offset reductions in demand through reduced power purchase contracts, through reduced purchase of power. President moller caen yes. Yes, so our plane power sf supply portfolio is made up of a mix of contracts with varying durations, varying terms. Some are as long as 20 years, some three to five years, some as short as a month. We do not purchase power to meet 100 of our forecasted demand. So we purchase also in the shortterm market up to a day ahead to close that open position since were not procuring 100 . So it means one month and day ahead purchases that can be avoided when we project the decline in demand like were experiencing with covid, and the clean power sf savings are attributable to these avoided shortterm purchases. President moller caen well, thats very fortunate. Thank you for identifying that. I had no idea. Youre welcome. Thank you. President moller caen are there any other comments on communications . Madam secretary, could you please open to Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on item 5, communications, dial 8882733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by found again. Then dial 1, 0 to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, do we have any calls . Madam secretary, the queue is currently empty. Thank you. Given that, Public Comment on item 5 is closed. President moller caen next item, please. Madam secretary next item is item 6, report of the general manager. Good afternoon, commissioners. This is harlan kelly, and its great to be here. I can see all five of you, and donna, which i think is a great improvement since our last conference. So i just want to give donna a lot of respect and our i. T. Team to make a change from one technology to another, and i think its working well so far. With that being said, i would like to just share with you today all the support that sfpuc is providing to its employees, to our customers and to the city and county of San Francisco as we continue to respond to this global pandemic. First, our workforce remains our top priority. Employees remain split across three main areas. The first one is we have remote employees, which is about half of our employees are working from home. We made some Major Investments in new technology and equipment to ensure everyone continued to get their job done from their homes. The second group is onsite employees. About half of our employees are continuing to work in physical locations, job sites each day. Each of these sites we have their own clean protocols because we want to make sure the areas are safe and clean. We also implemented social distancing practices and are providing personal protective equipment. In fact, we are getting such a large supply now that we can actually, you know, use and discard them and use more p. P. E. S and not try to save them and wear them for multiple days. So i think that is something that were so happy to have now. Also were getting more supplies more frequently working with the eoc, so thats great. Also in line with the Governor Newsom directive, were filling up our ability to perform Health Screening, including temperature scans at our work sites every day. And then the third area is that we have Disaster Service workers, and dozens of our employees are staff at the puc departmental operations center. We call it the doc. And also the citys Emergency Operations center, which we call the eoc, each week. Well over 100 of our team members have served in the eoc from the start of the City Response effort. As i mentioned, we started the mandatory Health Screening a few weeks ago to protect our employees who continue to report to the puc work sites and facilities. Each screening includes a Health Questionnaire and an inperson temperature check. Employees who show symptoms are not permitted onsite and are provided information on covid19 testing appointments. Mandatory screenings started at the southeast Treatment Plant, the citys distribution division. Since then weve added other areas, griffin yard and oceanside Treatment Plant included, to the list. As more locations come back online, including our 525 golden gate headquarters, we will begin Health Screenings in the coming weeks. Second, we have made sure our customers continue to have access to wider services. With the support of the from the mayor, we extended the suspension of water and power shutoffs due to late payments through july 11. We continue to postpone liens and collections and late fees, and we have provided rental arrangement deferment for tenants who are at our facilities. Recently we announced a new half Million DollarGrant Program to support small and local businesses in the bayview neighborhoods that are being impacted by this pandemic. This is made possible for by our social impact partners, the mayors office, supervisor walton and the citys office of economic workforce development. And this week were launching an emergency Customer Assistance Program which will help residents residential customers maximize their discount opportunities. This effort includes an online form automatically extending the program for current enrol fees and new criteria for new enrollees who are experiencing financial difficulty due to this covid19. Residential customers who have been financially affected as a result of the covid19 or shelterinplace orders have a maximum Household Income under 200 of the San Francisco area Median Income are eligible to apply. Enrolling in this Customer Assistance Program will provide a 15 discount on your water bill, a 30 discount on your hetch hetchy power bill and a 30 discount on your waste water bill. This goes all the way to september 4, 2020. We also are doing our part, and we are helping the city to address folks who are living on the street. Last week we installed six Drinking Water fixtures in the tenderloin, which we call man folds, and they are attached to a fire hydrant to allow Drinking Water access. As of now, we are looking at other areas where we can expand this program. And then finally we are moving towards recovery from this pandemic. So one of the themes that we are doing is refocussing on hiring our critical positions across the puc, and this effort has start started. Were studying the budget. Were identifying savings from the current fiscal budget and we are building out a revised budget for this upcoming year. Were collaborating on a future way of working because, you know, based on this pandemic, we realize that peoples work habits can change, and weve been working with the city and National Groups like u. S. Water alliance and others to collaborate on efforts to bring our employees back to work in a safe and healthy way. Our employees are, you know, playing a lead role in the effort too. We are using our survey and technology to find out how employees feel about the way they are working right now and if, when and how they will feel comfortable coming back to the p. U. C. Work site over the next months. I hope to share the results from this survey and our plans to bring our employees back to work. And then as another effort that is going on that i thought you may be interested in is that you probably have read in the paper about a research that a lot of universities are teaming up with utility agencies, waste water, and they are looking at the waste from the communities to see if they have the covid19 virus, and thats something that is sort of new and is very preliminary. We have been in conversations, and we are working with sanford, and they have been collecting samples from us and other cities. They have been freezing them for now with the intent to use them in the Ongoing Research [indiscernible] involved in this work, and the concept is, you know, to really look at the levels of covid virus and can it be used to track levels of Community Infection and potentially be in conjunction with testing to provide early monitoring and detection of future outbreaks. And so thats something that were participating in. We plan to talk to some other firms and there are some other universities that are doing the research, and hopefully we can engage dph as a partner and so that as we start rolling out tracing and also more testing, this could be another tool to help us sort of flatten the curve in the communities. And so that is the end of my report. And if you have any questions, i can answer them. President moller caen commissioners, any discussion . I have a question for the chair, or just a comment. I really appreciate you bringing up this question of i dont even know what they are calling it, Community Testing and tracing by utilities. I do think its a really exciting and important opportunity for us to engage in, and i would like to be able to follow it and say, if you wouldnt mind continuing to keep us updated, i think that, you know, as Public Servants and as the utility of the future, i think it would be really exciting and, as i said, and important to be able to figure out if we can take a specific community in San Francisco and be able to do a much more immediate testing response to a chinatown, to a bayview, to a neighborhood to be able to see what the level of infection is. The delays right now with the regular testing are not adequate and we are not able to get the data that we need. At a minimum for our utility workers, and at best for citywide, to be able to have that kind of immediate response, immediate data i think would be would really be a game changer, so i would urge you to continue down that path and working with the researchers at stanford and really look at what it would look like to create a discrete project at the p. U. C. Great. President moller caen is there any implication about safety of our waste water workers because of this . So one of the things i you know, and i kind of alluded to, as you know, that we were deemed, you know, essential workers, First Responders and we had to make sure we continued to provide water, waste water and power service, and so it was somewhat challenging because we had to, you know, come up with criteria that will help protect our workers, and so we worked not only with our own staff, but we worked with the Construction Industry that tim is very familiar with, and we came up with some guidelines that we feel that working with the unions, the industry, trade associations, with some robust protocols. And i think, you know, because of that, we had experienced little i think two positives, but the two positives were folks who were not at work. They were coming back from vacation. So we are trying to, you know you know l