That is dated. And so im very enthusiastic about the water supply budget work sheet. I think we will have a much better understanding of water supply, issues related to that. So i hope you get a chap chanceo look at my letter. I requested there be a backgrounder included with that, so the elements are clear on how the system works and water rights. So information about the baker act, the 1995 flow schedule and i requested that there be information in there to look at the history of water entitlements and demand and storage level and so annual entitlements, tourist demand over the years and how much water was remaining in storage at the end of the year. I think that will be very helpful in transformin determiny moving forward. I hope there will be an opportunity to for the public to ennaturengage in using this too. Some of the factors to be considered are entitlements but alternative supplies, demand is we know demand is much lower than it was projected. New storage could be included and level of rationing and taking a look at the offramps and all of that is explained in my letter and i look forward to bringing this issue back in a couple of week. Thank you, caller. Operator you have one question remaining. Question so commissioners, on the water issue, i have requested several times to contract the tribes who have a vested interest in the reverse and the water which they consider water which we stole from them. So much like the racism that we are witnessing today, this issue happened during a time where congressmen could make bills with other areas an, steal the water and bring it to San Francisco. Thats ashame. You need to make it right. We have some telling you what is right and what is wrong you like to do wrong. Right now, they cannot speak for themselves. I said this before. We need to hear from the tribes. , the indigenous people, who were here for 15,000 years, unlike the strangers who came here from 400 years ago and screwed up everything. We need to hear from the tribes. This pandemic is something we should reflect upon. Thank you, caller. Your time is up. Thank you so much for your comments. Operator you have zero questions remaining. There arent any more callers in the queue, madam secretary. That closes Public Comment on item 5, communications. Madam chair, i have a question on 5d, im sorry. Is it ok if i ask it . Of course. 5c is the bay area watershed and rights of way wildfire preparedness and i just wanted to know if there is someone who can answer that. Is there a particular goal . Is there a place were trying to get to in being prepared for wildfires in these watershed areas . This is steve ritchie, assistant general manager for water and i would like to ask tim ramirez to respond to that question and hes on the loin. The line. Thank you for the question. We try every year to do the work that is outlined in the report, so what weve tried to do is to describe the entirety of the preparation work that needs to be done, the mowing, the massty case, vegetation and were on track to do that. In general, we try to get all of this work done by july 4th. We use that date for a couple Different Reasons and some are obviously, perhaps, associated with the holiday and others are based more on the vegetation and its growth, which is highly variable. So were generally on track to get all of that work done and were also theres a couple of updates from the memo. Were hoping to have our prescribed burn next week at san andreas dam, and i will be sure to get an update when i have that schedule down. Well be working through the details and i think well able to get these things done on schedule in the next few weeks and then well be as best prepared as we can be to fight the fires, help fight the fires that undoubtedly will happen. Weve had both meetings remotely like this one and thanks to brad and lee and it went very well, all things considered. Were in as good of a spot as we can be at this point. Great, thank you, and thank you for the update. Commissioners, before we move on, is there any further discussion of any of the items under communications . Madam secretary, the next item, please. Madam president , the next item is item 6, report of a general manager . Good afternoon, commissioners. Before i jump into the covid agencywide update, i want to recognise our black community. Today george floyd was laid to rest following his tragic killing by Minneapolis Police department on may 25th. Mayor breed asked all City Employees to hold a moment of silence for a full eight minutes and 46 seconds at noon today to mourn his loss. To mourn in this. This is the same amount of time that a Minneapolis Police officer pressed his knee into mr. Floyds neck until he died. Last week, i sent a statement of my reflection on George Floyds murder and in it, i shared my experience and invited their staff to share this. Over the last week, i received a ton of emails everyday from staff sharing their stories with me. I think this is important for a step in laying the foundation for identifying what the puc can do to create a Work Environment where employees of all race can strive and still respect it. As we move forward, i wanted to make sure that we take an approach that goes beyond lip service and instead puts in the hard work to understand how systemic racism is showing up at the puc. Once we understand this better, we can identify and make concrete changes to address any system and behaviours at the puc that allows for this to occur. I believe its possible to make change that we want to see in the world, at the puc. I invite the commission to work with us on what we can do, big or small, to make a difference. On a positive note, we want to make great progress. Weve been making great progress on building up or Business Continuity plan and this effort goes way beyond how and when we return to our regular work site. It will drop into end of aspect of what we to and how we do it now and also into the future. We need to maintain a healthy workplace, maintain collaborative decisionmaking, region the way we work, keep employees informed and maintain an effective workforce. The newest work coming out of this team in the coming weeks is finalized in how we mark facilities for proper social distancing, launching an it Lending Library for remote employees to borrow desk chairs, keyboards and other basic Office Equipment and issue an update and update our telecommunication agreements. We are also developing this plan in coordination with the reopening plan. The city direction to all departments is to continue what were doing. That means that employees who are telecommuting now, well telecommute regardless of when the shelterinplace is lifted. From a timely perspective, we are anticipating employees telecommuting and to continue to ddo so over the next 12 to 18 months. There are sole factors that could shorten or extend this. Some teams may report back sooner. We will not bring remote employees back to the work site before august 31st. That will give us time to make sure we do this right and also for employees to plan out their summer work schedules. When we do begin to bring employees back, well start with those who are absolutely on site to complete their work. Employees engagement is another topic to all of this work. Im happy to report that our workforce is very engaged with us and more than 1100 employees participate in the first Employee Engagement service in may and provided great feedback on how were communicating in decisions were making. We plan to follow up with the survey in the coming weeks. We held several virtual allhands meeting including our very first agencywide virtual allhands meeting two weeks ago. Over 1200 employees participated in the meeting, which is nearly half of our workforce. We plan to use Virtual Technology to engage our employees on the work ahead. We will share that information with the commissioners so that we can have an opportunity, so that you can have an opportunity to participate. While we continue to push forward with this effort to meet the needs of employees, were responding to the needs of our customers. The latest numbers on the emergency Customer Assistance Program show we have received over 3800 applications since launching in may, which, i think, is remarkable. This effort automatically extends the programs to the current enrollees and provide criteria for new enroleees. Enr. Work is underway for nonprofit customers. By continuing to do work with our customers employees, City Partners and others, we will look to move forward from these tough times in a better and responsive agency. I just want to thank you again for your support on all of the efforts and i look forward to working with the commission over the weeks and months ahead. Thank you so much. Your statement was very moving and i think it would be good to submit that to the editor. I think everybody would like to hear your statement and i want you to know, and im speaking for the commission as a whole and im sure you would all be in agreement with me, but certainly anything we can do to aid in this, were 100 there for you. And for the cause. And so i just wanted you to know that and with that, any discussion about the first part of mr. Kellys report . Seeingnone, madam secretary, could you please open this up for Public Comment. Operator members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on 6a, update on operations during covid19 emergency, dial 888 2733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line. Mr. Moderator, are there any callers. There are multiple callers in the cue. Queue. Operator you have two questions remaining. Question first and foremost, today we had a funeral of george floyd. And all over the world, people are thinking about racism. So here in San Francisco, we must ask ourselves, we have a mayor who is black and we have police chief who is black and we have a city administrator who is back, we have a general manager from the sfpuc who is black and we have several other blacks who hole pretty good positions and we have to ask ourselves, we have blacks here in San Francisco who are less than 5 of the population and why are they in dire straits . This is what we about the to ask ourselves. Got to ask ourselves. Now, we have many middleclass blacks living in tents. Theyre suffering and im on the frontline. I can do a little bit, but i have others who can help us. If yoSan Francisco public utilis commission should ask themselves, all of the commissioners, what have they done, concretely done to elevate the condition of those who live in tents . You sha g should go to city haly to see the tents in front of city hall. They dont even follow the cdc rules. That is the worst type of congregate living. We have to ask ourselves as human beings thank you, caller, your time has expired. Operator you have one question remaining. Question this is peter dreckmyer. I read this statement about george floyd and its highlighted and i thought the statement was excellent and conveyed what a lot of us shared and made me proud of the puc and mr. Kelly and i hope, too, it will be published for greater distribution. Thank you, mr. Kelly. Thank you, caller. Madam secretary, there are to more callers in the cue. Queue. Public comment on 6a is now closed. General manag manager, next ite. This is the Sewer System Improvement Program quarterly update. Steve robertson. Can i do an audio check to make sure everyone can hear me ok . Coming in loud and clear. Ill share my screen. And give that a second to come up. You can see the 2point the billion dollar 2. 9 billionand fr we closed at 37. 1 i 37. 1, making progress. We now have what you can see the the blue part of the pie chart at the top, 18 projects in what we call preconstruction, planning decision and award phases. The largest and all green area representing construction shows 16 projects and then in the grey area to the left, there are 36 projects for which weve moved into the closeout and completed phases of the project. We had some discussions and now with covid, were meeting virtually and at todays meeting theres an update and thats a separate item on the agenda and i thought it may be appropriate for a slightly different format, focusing on the Program Metrics and this will keep the presentation brief. I have nine slides and we welcome your feedback as we speltewelcome your feedback. You can see photos where the contractors have been implementing safeworking guidelines in response to the covid19 pandemic. And since many of us cant go to the site to see the progress, because it is real, we thought we could bring the site to you and we have some very recent aerial drill footage from may 28th to just the end of last month. While the video is playing, i believe this will be muted so well ask questions later. Now were flying over what is now being demolished as the former asphalt plant. We get closer to gerald and impressive footage to see San Francisco laid out like this and were flying over the former site, which has demolished. As we pass over large white tanks, those are the oxygen facility and you can see the headworks facility coming into play, sort of in the middle of your screen now where the camera rotates around and you can also see the existing part of that building on the left thats still intact. But on the right, the building has gone and demolished seeing some red containers and the crane there. If we can see my screen again where construction continues. Your slide is back in the screen. Construction continues across the city and weve shown a few photos and the photo on the left is a combined sewer discharge project and this quarter three of the four csds and theres the area to roughen up for concrete for a protective coating. The photo in the middle is set green infrastructure. This completed piping and the photo shows grading operations have commenced for the northend of the project site. On the right, it shows oceanside plant and this shows the demolition of the gas holding tank that was completed this quarter and continuing with the theme of demolition. You can see i have a reference for cost expect expenditures to date, current forecasted cost and the cost variance between budget and forecast and you can see a variance at the bottom right of 679 million and the majority of which is from eye bo solids and headworks and well cover in the next presentation. Then table 3. 2. They provide a summary for the additional projects who are added to the program at the end of 2018. We initiated these projects into ssip that were not in phase one but were produced at the large budget cycle as part of the tenyear capital plan and they are positively for Flood Resilience and so theyre tracked separately in the report. And you can see in this case, a variance at the bottom right of 108 million. So the report helps us to understand the cost safer varias using the health of each project and this table shows a summary and this quarter, rar were reporting 17 projects, meaning the forecasted cost in the approved budget and there are five projects we would say need attention, indicating that those forecasted costs are over the approved budget and by greater than 1 or less than 10 and 15 projects with forecasted costs over the approved budget which falls into the exceeding limit. In february, we talked a lot about Market Conditions and other factors impacting our projects. The ssip was last rebaselined in 2018 and we had been attending to rebaseline again after the tenyear capital plan and twoyear budget were approved, but, unfortunately, as weve wee been talking, covid19 delayed some of our plans. Hence, there are no projects which meet the respiratory expose i would say it is not good, but to some extent we can appreciate why. please stand by . Im going to stop sharing the screen so i can see folks. Yes, its one of the unknowns were wrestling with. We have no crystal ball. These are unprecedented times. I think a lot of us at p. U. C. Look back to days when the market did turn down, and we were able, to some extent, to take advantage of that. Our times are very different now, and when theyre unstable, like any economy, there is a risk they could go up or down, and we dont know how cities, countries, and communities will respond, so we need to adapt and make it sustainable as we move forward. We need to use the information we have to be ready. If i may, the other thing that we are paying close attention to is the way businesses cooperate. You know, being social distancing and stuff like that, will go down, so were balancing that versus, you know, maybe, a lot of construction that is scheduled will be cancelled because of the finances, so were, you know, sort of unclear how that will balance, but the main thing that ive constructed all the folks is that we didnt want to come out with any new contracts during the period of time of where we had a lot of uncertainty until we had the you know, work with the building trade and the unions and come up with some protocol. So i think the building industry, they are doing an outstanding job of making their sites really safe and efficient. You know, they just really embraced it, and i think theyre doing a bangup job of keeping their sites safe, and hopefully, well see that. Thank you. I have a question. Do you think thats why the e. P. A. Loans went down so significantly . They were at 309, and now, i read theyre possibly at 1. 85. Is that a stimulus or do you think thats just the way the market is right now . Commissioner maxwell, this is richard from finance, and i will be covering the loans later on in the agenda, items 12 and 13. Interest rates are historically much lower than they were on the first loan, so were taking advantage of that. Thank you. Anyone else have a question or comment . Yeah. Commissioner paulsen with a couple of questions. One, that was a really good snapshot, including that aerial of really what is happening in the big piece and also, you know, a good favor of some of the other stuff thats going on, and as my colleague, commissioner maxwell said, the economics of this time are totally unprecedented. This isnt like 2008 where things crashed and whatever. You get wall street booming and because of, of course, so much work that weve done in the bay area, wsip and ssip are necessary work. So some of the other constraints in private sector area construct