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Goodlett place, San Francisco, california. Mr. Chair, those are my announcements. Supervisor mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call item number 1. Hearing on the grand jury report entitled act now before it is too late, aggressively expand and enhance our High Pressure firefighting water system. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the Public Comment number, it is 415 to enter the queue to speak. Colleagues, much has happened since this item was last before us. So nothing has happened or removed or substantially reduced the risk of city faces in the event of a catastrophic fire caused by earthquake or otherwise. As were reminded by the fact were conducting this hearing remotely due to historic pandemic, disasters or unexpected are not only possible but ininevitable. Were holding this hearing today because its better to expect them, anticipate them and do all in our power to prepare for them. Since we last heard the item and gave our responses to the civil grand jury on the recommendation, i authored an additional resolution on the topic that was enacted on november 27 of last year. Among other things, resolution 48419 urged the department of emergency management, sfpuc, the Fire Department to provide consolidated report to the board of supervisors on the state of the citys preparedness for major earthquake and fire, including planned funding for efws. These are due by june 30th and the first such report was issued within that deadline. So as a reminder for the public, there are four related documents relevant for this discussion. The 2019 civil grand jury report act now before its too late, aggressively expand and enhance our firefighting water system, resolution 42219, the original resolution the board of supervisors prepared responding to the findings in that report, resolution 48419, the additional board resolution urging, among other things, the completion of the report being presented today and, of course, the report were really here about today. The fiscal year 20192020 emergency firefighting water system report. Finally, before i invite our presenters, i just want to say this can sound dry and bureaucratic and technical, but what were talking about today is that as our city burns, as it has and will again, that we have fire to put out the fire. Its that simple, but it is never that simple of course. As a policy making body we declared a state of emergency to rapidly expand the firefighting water system to protect all neighborhoods in the event of a major earthquake and fire. So what i hope were all looking for today is that sense of urgency and that shared commitment to a rapid expansion. Colleagues, as we begin this hearing, know that there are additional staff in attendance and available for questions from the Fire Department, office of resiliency and Capital Planning and sfpuc. Id like to welcome our presenter, manager of policy and Government Affairs and the Capital Planning director and resiliency officer. The floor is yours. Thank you so much, chair mar. We are happy to be here. Im going to share my screen so everyone can see our presentation. Give me a second. Can everybody see my screen . Yes, we can. Excellent. Good morning, supervisors. This is john here with the sfpuc, im joined by heather green from the office of resilience and Capital Planning and colleagues from the puc and Fire Department to assist with questions the committee may have. Thank you for calling this hearing and allowing us to report out on our first ever annual report which we submitted on june 30th to the board. The report was written by the Fire Department, the puc, and the office of resilience and Capital Planning. I will begin the presentation and pass it to heather to close out the presentation. Before i get started on the report, id like to provide a brief description of the emergency firefighting water system, which ill refer to as the efws. For those tuning in, who are not familiar. The efws is a High Pressure water system built after the 1906 earthquake, mostly in the northern, central and eastern portions of the city as that is where the city existed at that time. The primary source of water for the system is the hetch hetchy system, with the bay water as a second source via two pump stations. The ownership of the efws transferred to puc in 2010 and its been a Great Partnership with San FranciscoFire Department being the end user of the system. As such, system improvements and expansion must be approved by the Management Oversight Committee consisting as the chief of the Fire Department, the director of public works, the general manager of the puc and the assistant general manager of water for the puc prior to the implementation of any project. Finally, we use robust hydraulic modelling to inform the decisionmaking of the oversight committee. The last fiscal year, the grand jury prepared a report on the efws. That report subsequently helped to inform resolution 48419, which was referenced and that was unanimously passed with supervisor mar sponsoring the item. That resolution urged the following. Complete a study analyzing efws Water Supplies with the folks on the west side by june 30, 2021. Were making Good Progress on that item and look forward to discussing it with the board, the puc cac and the public once it is further along. Were not quite at this point yet to have a detailed discussion on it, but we look forward to doing so in the future. Item 2. Complete a more Detailed Analysis of neighborhood firefighting water demands by june 30, 2021. Were working closely with a professor on this item and looking at neighborhood demand out to the year 2050. Were for the first time including the parks, like Golden Gate Park and mclaren park. Item 3, complete a plan by december 31, 2021. We continue to work on this as well. And obviously integrate findings and make revisions to the plan based on the two aforementioned studies. Finally, the resolution urged the creation of an annual report to be submitted each june 30th detailing the efws work the city agents completed over the fiscal year. This report is the focus of my presentation today. Ill begin by discussing the fires that utilize the efws this past fiscal year. There were two fires that utilized it. Fire number one, occurred on february 29, a fouralarm fire in the bayview in district 10. The Fire Department utilized the efws for ladder pipe operation. On may 23 at a fouralarm fire at pier 45 in district 3, the Fire Department utilized the efws for ladder pipe operations and connected it to five inch hose for a hose tender. The fire boat was utilized. The staff can add more details about these fires as needed by the Committee Members. We also had a busy year completing Capital Projects for the systems. We do recognize and agree with the urgency to implement Capital Projects. We completed four Capital Projects this past fiscal year including finishing critical upgrades to see station number one. Weve upgraded pump station number 2 which is the base of van ness. Were also gearing up for another big construction year this year and anticipate breaking ground on three projects in the near future. We also continue to complete planning and design for a westside project. That potential project is undergoing Environmental Review, a state requirement. We want to thank supervisor fewer for her leadership in this project and all the collaboration from supervisor mar and yees office on it as well. Were excited for this project. Finally, we are also currently bidding on a project to continue motorizing efsw around the city. This adds resiliency to the system. In addition, the puc and San FranciscoFire Department also work with Development Projects in San Francisco to ensure that they, too, install efws infrastructure within their boundaries and adjacent neighborhoods. The pier 70 and hope sunnydale projects installed infrastructure. Additionally, the board approved Development Agreements with efws Infrastructure Requirements for the potrero fire station. Feignly, the pending approval agreement, requires installation at efws infrastructure as well. The puc in coordination with the San FranciscoFire Department completed over 27,000 hours of maintenance on the citys firefighting water structure this past fiscal year. Our report includes the details on all of these maintenance activities, but id like to provide highlights. In partnership with the Fire Department, hydrant inspections were completed as well as corrective actions on those hydrants based on what we found. Additionally our two agencies cistern, reservoir inspections and took action based on these inspections. We fixed pipeline leaks, which not only saves water, but ensures the water pressure the Fire Department needs to fight fires. And finally, we completed inspections and repairs of pumps, generators and valves. This year the San FranciscoFire Department in partnership with multiple agencies including the puc undertook important drills, special projects and hosted key meetings. The Fire Department, including their fire boat crew, and the puc completed a pier 90 drill. During this drill, the fire belt pushes water into the efws pipelines. For the First Time Ever the Fire Department and puc completed the bay bridge pump station and pipe drill. This simulated a large fire on the western span of the bay bridge. Based on this drill, the Fire Department has developed new procedures for combating fires on the bay bridge. Its a very key drill and im sure the Fire Department can provide significantly more detail on it. The Fire Department completed hose tender drills and they completed planning for a joint hose tender drill that will occur this fiscal year. The Fire Department is working with the port to schedule dredging adjacent to the seawater inlets located on the piers. This is to ensure that they have adequate draft through a 24hour tide cycle. They have to be able to draft. So its low tide, high tide, and everywhere in between. The Fire Department has also requested that the area near the pump station number 1 inlet tunnel also be included in the ports dredging boundary to ensure that inlet tunnel is kept clear and seawater can flow as needed. Finally, there are key discussions with rec, park and the Fire Department. As stated early, rec parks are now going to be included in professors post earthquake fire dema demand calculation. Those look at the earthquakes and the fires that break out in the city and then determine the water demand to fight the fires. For the first time, parks are going to be included in the demand. One of the places where this has large implications is Golden Gate Park. So discussions have begun regarding additional hydrants within the park. The potential proposed efws westside project has two new highpressure lines that go through Golden Gate Park. Also, at discussions between puc and the Fire Department occurred, our two agencies agreed that interagency efws drills will be conducted on a quarterly basis going forward. Finally, the puc and Fire Department are currently working with the City Attorneys Office to update the 2015 memorandum of understanding between our two agencies that details the operations and maintenance of the emergency firefighting water system. Were doing so to better detail and memorialize exercises and drills our two agencies will complete together. We were aiming to have this done by june 30, 2020, but the schedule slipped due to the pandemic, however the memorandum of understanding should be updated and well share it publicly. We have landed on quarterly interagency drills and that will be noted in the under to the memorandum of understanding. At this point, i will pass it over to heather green for her to close out the presentation. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. Thank you for having me. Pleasure to be here. I just want to echo johns remarks about the civil grand jury. Thank you to all members for all your work. It was a pleasure. I have a few notes on where weve come in fiscal 20. So youll recall in march, the bond passed. The ballot with 82 of the vote. You can see here the history of the geo bond program over the last 20 years or so with the three historical bond, 2010, 2014, 2020. Our most recent bond at the end. And this is a reminder of the programming included in the bond. So it was 628. 5 million, our largest bond to date. 153. 5 million of that was estimated and marked for the emergency firefighting water systems. Among other Public Safety priorities, but that one came to the fore during the planning process and with the leadership of supervisor fewer and all the support from supervisors mar and yee and everyone, we were able to pass this historically large package for our Public Safety improvements. Next slide. And then the last slide i have here is just an excerpt from our bond report about the of eser 2020. It shows the projects will be guided by the Technical Steering Committee as well as the Management Oversight Committee, which is the fire chief, public works director and the puc and the assistant general manage over the water enterprise and the puc. That is the Decision Making body for the project and i just wanted to make that clear. Sometimes its not always. And that is it. We are excited about the prospect of having all these resources to invest in the system and following the good planning work that is currently under way, we expect to see real improvements in safety, especially on the west side which is where the investments are going to be dedicated. Thank you. Supervisor mar thank you so much for the presentation. Do you have anything else to present . Great. Thanks again. I just have a few questions on the report and your presentation. Just on the ms. Green, on the 2020 eser bond and the 153. 5 million that is allocated to the upgrading and expanding the efws, can you just state a little more about the time line and the process for determining what which projects will be funded with that 153. 5 million . Yes, so our office doesnt implement so much, so if i can, ill kick it over to john to talk about the decisionmaking ahead. Of course. Puc. The way it works, we have developed clearly weve done a