Mayor breed and the governor looked at the restrictions and the meet is held the conference and televised by sfgov. Tv. For those watching the live stream be aware theres a brief time lag between the live meeting and what is being viewed on sfgtv. Id like to extend thanks to the staff and i. T. Staff for their assistance during the meeting. Id also like to note on the published agenda there was an incorrect dialin number for this meet. The correct dial in number is scrolling on the live feed. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item call the number. Before you have the minutes of july 28. Are there corrections or additions to these minutes. Seeing none id like to open it up to moller caen are there corrections or are there comments. Please press pound, pound to speak. Are there any callers. Theres one caller with their hand raised. Ill unmute them now. Speaker you have two minutes. Clerk this is regarding the minutes. Mr. Moderator are you still there . Speaker, if you can hear us raise your hand by pressing star 3. Madame secretary they dont appear to be on the line. We have no other callers . Not at this time. Madame chair id like to move the item. Ill second. Thank you, madame secretary please do a roll call vote. President caen. Aye. [roll call]. Thank you, we are five ayes. The motion carries. Next item, please. The next item of business is 4, general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission up to two minutes on matters within the commissions jurisdiction and not on todays agenda by filing 14156550001 meeting i. D. 146 136 9319 and pound pound to speak press star 3. I believe were working on the slight technical issues so please bear with us as we accept calls. Mr. Moderator please start the first caller if we have one. Madame secretary i have three raising their hands but we dont know if theyre audios bridging. Well try the first caller. Clerk caller, can you hear us . Madame secretary, the callers are not getting audio from us . What do we need to do . Let me reach out to sf gov tv folks. Apologies for the error. We switched our Public Comment line from the at t bridge line to webex. This is our first go around. Apologies. Commissioner madame secretary do you recommend we take a brief recess while we work this out or stay live. Wait, eric yeah. Dont hang up, eric. Okay. Madame secretary, i think we have resolved the audio bridge issues. Clerk apologies, eric. Please start your Public Comment again from the beginning. Apologies. Caller commissioners, eric brooks representing california ans for Energy Choice and clean energy alliance. What id like to do is call four for you to call a hearing on resilience in three areas mainly related to electricity. That is resilience on local Electricity Supply and protection from blackouts. These all relate to the fire and covid and employment crises were facing right now that work together. So protection from blackouts and making sure our local supply is secure, protection from fires, wildfires and protection of reducing dependents on wasteful and longrange transmission lines and particularly because of the crisis were in we need to create thousands of jobs. We need to design our programs in the sfpuc to aim at the areas of local resilience to have protection from fire and electricity and have more jobs because were going to need them. This is going to relate to my comments on the future item but i wanted to make sure that and ask you to have a hearing on this. So we can flush it out. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Next caller in the queue. Caller commissioners, were having problems with the communication. I hope we got it fixed before we start Public Comment. So i havent heard anything about what is happening with sfpuc. What is happening with our general manager and manager of external affairs and if you think thats the right thing to do you are sadly mistaken. These people keep positions wasting millions of dollars, Community Benefits which i for one having attended so many of the sfpuc meetings created the situation at hand and you took mr. David anderson and you are very familiar with his name to subpoena these people who have been hookwinking us. So commissioners, there comes a time are you commissioners for the people or against the people . Because you know theres a lot of information over there. A lot of information that will send many people as many as 20 people to jail. Thank you very much. Thank you, caller. Next caller you have two minutes. Caller can you hear me . We can. Go ahead. Caller thank you. Mr. Caen and members my pronounces are she and her here with you. I believe sfpuc is about San Francisco. Ive been looking at various satellite images and i still wonder to this day why we only covered half the Sunset Reservoir in solar panels. We can get a few more megawatts if we covered it fully. Im quite familiar with it and ive looked at satellite images and think we can put solar panels on top of city hall and wouldnt be visible or detract from the architectural significance of that magnificent buildings and electric rates and i dont have the answer but the reason i think why delivery charges are so high is because the average kilowatt hour use is low. I think the answer is use more electricity and useless fossil fuel. Im a heavy user of electricity in my home and my delivery charges are extremely low so we have to be a voice and get rid of some of the discouraging baselines. Again, continue to work towards being in the municipal utility district and develop as much as possible within the city and county of San Francisco. Its a great city and to have the resilience that comes from having solar panels on rooftops and lastly, Energy Storage. No one should have to get worried about being stuck in an elevator but we should have batteries in buildings that have elevators to people dont get stuck. Thank you, caller. Your time has expired. Madame secretary, there are no more calls in the queue. Commissioner thank you. Public comment on item 4 is closed. The next order of business is item 5, communications. Commissioner commissioners, any comments on communications . I have a few myself. Under 5c im curious why the audits have been postponed to greatly. Commissioner caen, here with Business Services and chief financial officer. The abbreviated Office Report we have for you now is because our audit manager is replaced to the covid command center. The controllers office, auditor has varied staff currently deployed to the covid response. So the audit activity city wide has slowed down. And they perform much of the activity we wind up reporting on so its a combination. Oh, i see. I understand now. It wasnt terribly clear in the report. Maybe i didnt read it thoroughly enough, i dont know. Anyway, that makes sense. Sorry about that. Commissioner thank you. I do have a question about 5g inspection. 5d, sewer inspection. What were saying here is we have a shortfall of 10. 1 million. And that will continue to the new year as well, correct . Thats what im seeing in the report. Are you there . I apologize for the delay there. Commissioner caen, the figure youre referring to the shortfall im not sure i know exactly what youre referring to there. Can you please be more specific ill try to address your question. Commissioner you speak of the fiscal year 20192020 and 64. 7 million but we have a shortfall of 10. 1 million then you go on to say thats going on the same in the next fiscal year. I can address that. That wasnt worded very clearly. My apologies for that. Let me back up a second. So weve been providing a Quarterly Report on the gravity sewer rehab and Replacement Program for some time and as you noted in your comments for this quarter we substantially update the content and format of that report. It previously was a single scale and we thought it would be helpful to provide additional background on this. Thats the reason why you see the change in the Quarterly Report and certainly we would welcome the commissions feedback to continue to modify and improve this Quarterly Report. The reference to the 10 million shortfall isnt worded quite correctly. We made adjustments to that budget in response to the recent overall budgetary changes that came with the covid financial impact. We reduced the overall budget but we dont expect that to have net impact on the actual work because there was already approximately a 10 million plus gap in the actual progress versus the budgeted amount of money. So weve adjusted the budgets Going Forward but the reference to the 10 million shortfall is not worded correctly so well clarify that in the future. At the moment thet Budget Resources are not a constraint on the progress for the gravity sewer r r work. Commissioner so clarification, there is not a shortfall or there is . There is not a shortfall. Apology for the confusion. It wasnt worded correctly. Commissioner pong i think im commissioner okay. Im clear on that now. Thank you very much. Moving on i wanted to understand on the second page under table 1, unknown service material. You have copper at 84. 5 . What is that all about . Im the assistant manage for water. Let me pull the table. Basically we had inspected 386 unknown surfaces whether et was unknown it was unanother material the service was constructed of. Of the 386, 326 turned out to be copper, 23 turned out to be plastic and 29 turned out to be galvanized and 8 we were unable to determine the field and need to do more work on. Commissioner im curious why theyre unknown. They were unknown in the first place because they werent properly entered into the record and we have 177 Service Connections in San Francisco. So the number of unknowns if roughly on the order of 5,000 if memory serves and weve done spot checking to figure out what the unknowns are and make sure we can verify if they have [indiscernible] components in them. Well be work with them over time. We think the estimate that may have lead is on the order of 1,000 or so. Were doing field checking and slowly working our way through that to alleviate all delays in the system. Commissioner i see. Thank you. Madame chair, while were on the item, commissioner moran, as far as the lead testing in the schools what is the status. Sounds like 10 schools have been tested under our program. Whats the status on the others . When page of the report is that on . Commissioner page 3. The last paragraph above the heading. We tested all the schools in the School District and archdiocese of San Francisco. A total have 10 schools have exceed the action level so the remaidiation work being remediation work is being carried out by the district and arch archdiocese and we take it out and replace the materials. Commissioner but all schools have been tested . Yes. Commissioner thank you. Commissioner okay. Moving on i had questions on 5f. Specifically spread sheet the ninth item which would be cw37401. Were we aware of the humongous change laid out . This is agm howe for infrastructure. We were tracking that all along and knew the change was quite large. A lot of was due to geotech conditions. There is a multiple slide on the slope we were putting in the rear. Commissioner correct. I did know that. For some reason it stunned me to see the amount. Thats understandable. Thank you very much. Okay. Can you please open up Public Comment. Clerk Public Comment is open for item 5 communications. Dial 14156550001 meeting i. D. 146 136 9319, pound, pound and star 3 to speak. We have three callers. Ka caller you, have three minutes. Caller commissioners a long time ago i spoke and we need an assessment done again. One of the things that we need attention is water fountains do not have to be in the open but the raccoons and all go and drink from the water fountains and then our children are adversely impacted. Now, while you are reading the report, you found an inordinate amount of money spent on televaris. The same thing happened before where a million tons of dirt had to be removed because of crevasses found because testing wasnt done properly. Now we have another situation. So we the people, we the taxpayers want to know why is engineering so lax. We want to know that. What happens in this dynamic is you have these Virtual Meetings and the joke is we could get some of the documents, the reports, you know, commissioners, i do due diligence. I dont care if theres even 3,000 pages and you read about it and you do a Needs Assessment and then when you come for Public Comment like today, you can speak to the topic. Now, we are last on the dock. Thank you, caller. Your time has expired. Next caller you have two minutes. Caller im dave warner i want to make a comment and thank president caen for their line of questions i think that kind of questioning and dialogue is useful for everyone. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Madame secretary there are no more comments on the queue. Commissioner item 5 is closed. Next item, please. Clerk next item is item 6, report of the general manage. Caller can you hear me . A little bit. Caller can you hear me now . Yes. Caller okay. Just want to the give you an update a covid update. As you know San Francisco the opening plan remains paused as we continue to try to slow the spread of virus. The p. U. C. Continues to follow the state and city guidelines across all of our work stations and facilities and continues to support the cities overall response effort. Our Department OperationCenter Remains staffed monday through friday and we are continuing to deploy team members on longterm assignments as you heard from agm sandler. We provide longterm assignments to the city operation center. As you may know, the school year has kicked off in the bay area and students are now going back to school virtually. We [technical difficulties] three, sometimes Flexible Work schedules are not enough to give employees all responsibilities and employees may need to take time off instead. So the citys direction is for employee to perform nonessential duties to continue working from home [indiscernible] spread of covid19. Based on this guidance, our business priority plans has focussed these past few months on doing as much as we can to ensure health and safety of our onsite employees support our community and employees and assess our workforce to determine if there is more we can do to reduce the number of employees coming on site. We are currently conduct workforce assessment to further understand the reason and requirements for bringing employees on site. Essential field work is the primary reason but we understand teams are bringing employees on site for other reasons and processing or to work on Technical Resources that can only be assessed on site. This has help verify we are following the guidelines as determined if there are additional barriers to telecommuting that can be addressed headon. Per city guidance the percentage of employees physically present in Office Environments for work sites should not exceed 20 of the employees assigned to the site. This does not impact general safety. We are also the outcome of our workforce assessment to develop a framework for supporting managers making ongoing decisions on the revoked versus non revoked employee assignment. Were continuing to support our customers with our emergency Financial Assistance program. The latest numbers of our Program Shows we have over 5,800 applications for residential customers. We received over additional 100 applications of Small Businesses and nonprofit customers over this program. Over the past few weeks weve seen Great Success targeting the customers through a comprehensive Campaign Including on the ground in print and digital platforms. We can provide full report on this effort in the next upcoming weeks. By continuing to work with our customer employees and City Partners and others, well look to move forward of these tough times a stronger, better and more responsive agency. Finally, we are continuing to see great engagement through our innovations new virtual tour series that but us to continue to engage with our customers during this time. Its called the San FranciscoPublic UtilitiesCommission Source virtual [indiscernible] is what its called. Were using existing resources and experts of water, sewer and power programs. The past five sessions we average about 300 viewers each and tomorrow we will have an opportunity to lead a virtual tour of our public power program. You can sign up for the series www. Sfw. Org is the link. Its a great series. Next one is tomorrow wednesday at 1 00. All right. So again i want to thank you for your support. Thats my covid update. Commissioner so commissioners, any questions . Id like to mention that i did attend the coffee break last week and found it rewarding as we reached out to employee to make accommodations for the new life we all have to live educating our children at home and i certainly was happy hear about Flexible Work schedules and what were doing to accommodate the new life we are all living. Commissioners, any comments . Madame secretary can you open it up to Public Comment . Clerk members of the public who wish to make two minutes of Public Comment on item 6a dialing 14156550001, i. D. 146 136 9319, and