Commissioner moran here. Commissioner maxwell here. Commissioner paulson here. And we have a quorum. President caen good. Will you please read the announcement . During the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. For those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i. T. Staff for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make two minutes of Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 087 5808, pound, pound. And star 3 to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if they have not already done so. Madame president , the first order of business is item 3, approval of the minutes of august 25, 2020. President caen commissioners, before you you have the minutes of august 25, 2020. Are there any additions or corrections . Seeing none, madame secretary, could you open it to Public Comment. Secretary members of the public who wish to make two minutes of Public Comment on item 3, approval of the minutes of august 25th, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 087 5808, pound, pound. To raise your hand press star 3. Mr. Moderator, any callers . Madame secretary, we have one caller in the queue. Secretary thank you. Caller, you have two minutes. Caller, can you hear me . Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Hello . Yes, can you hear us. Im sorry, this is barry nelson with the Golden State Association just so you mr. Nelson, this is on the minutes, item number 3. Yes, it is. Well, im sorry, its Public Comment. I apologize. Okay, you can call back during that item. I sure will. Thank you. Secretary any other callers, mr. Moderator . No other callers in the queue. Public comment on item number 3 is closed. Commissioners president caen commissioners, a motion and a second . So moved. Second. President caen madame secretary, please take the roll call vote. President caen aye. Vice president vietor aye. Commissioner moran aye. Commissioner maxwell aye. Commissioner paulson aye. We have five ayes. President caen motion carried. Next item, please. Secretary next item is item number 4, general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up to two minutes on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda, by dialing 14156550001, 146 087 5808, pound, pound. To raise your hand, press star 3. Mr. Moderator, any callers on general Public Comment for items not on todays agenda. Madame secretary, there are several callers in the queue. I will queue the first caller. Secretary thank you. Caller commenting on item number 4, you have two minutes. Go ahead, caller. Hello, can you hear me . We can hear you . Yes. This is barry nelson with the Golden State Association. You should have received a letter in area packet, that letter came in this morning from a group regarding analysis done by the National Treasure service, a pay review of the models used from the toronto river to develop the Agreement Proposal that the commission submitted to the state board. That review which you recall we requested for quite a few years, brings enormously important questions. There is also a number of new scientific developments on related issues, so the request in the letter is that the commission remove the v. A. , stop making claims about the benefits of the v. A. That we now know are not supported, but we also request that you agendize this item for discussion in future meeting, so your staff can present their thoughts about the peer review. But also so the Ngo Community can present our thoughts about the peer review. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Next caller . Commenting on item number 4, you have two minutes. Good afternoon, this is peter. I wanted to comment on the same item barry mentioned. We were one of 14 environmental clerks that signed on this letter, which im guessing you havent had a chance to read yet, but i hope you will and take a look at the peer review. It was done by anchor qea, an extremely reputable business. I encourage you to check out their website. There is a lot of misinformation out there. The Trump Administration issued a biological opinion for the delta which was based on bogus science i would hate to see the sfpuc getting into a similar situation of embracing science that is questionable. Obviously, when an agency has an interest in a study coming to a certain conclusion, the group that theyve hired often will come to that conclusion. And the study finds that there is serious issues with the model for Rainbow Trout and steelhead and has a lot of problems with the salmon model as well. I want to point out the voluntary requires two things. Required discharge would be 38 greater than today, but total discharge is just 4 . Thats because the main focus is on redirecting spill for better timing. And really that should have been done for the last several decades. The other problem with the voluntary agreement, there is no backup plan based on flow. So if it fail, were just out of luck and thats problematic. I like the idea of putting this on the agenda in the future. And would encourage you to invite John Rosenfield from the Bay Institute to present because he has done some great work recently and i think it would be quite edifying. Thank you very much. Next caller commenting on item number 4. You have two minutes. President and members, my pronouns are she and her. Im going to talk about the basics of sfpuc. I continue my support of a municipal utility district so we, as a public body, and have more control over the delivery cost of electricity. And while we should not be an island grid, storage is essential especially with these fires that are going on that can be problematic for transmission lines that serve our great city. So, seeing were a densely packed city, we should put batteries in and solar panels to help and be able to ride through difficult times as well as be able to store electricity that you can purchase in the overnight when it is inexpensive and send it out to the grid for our customers when market electricity is much more expensive. So continue the acquisition of renewables as we work toward a 100 renewable power, all electric San Francisco and keeping the Value Proposition commercial utility power. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Next caller commenting on item number 4, you have two minutes. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, president caen, member of the commission, protection alliance. Ill speak further about the peer review that mr. Nelson and the other caller discussed. I think theyve given you a fair bit of background. I would like to highlight a couple of the points that came up in peer review. First, at the peer review stage that the district salmon model assumes rather than predicts predator control. In other words, the model doesnt demonstrate that predator control will be effective, it simply assumes it from the beginning. The only thing that the salmon model predicts according to the peer review that will be highly effective in increasing salmon abundance is large increases in flow. Id like to point out that a number of us have raised the assumptions about the models in the past in exchange with the irrigation districts and also with senator feinstein. We questioned those assumptions and in return our good faith was questioned. That was really particularly by the irrigation district, that was really in our view an unacceptable response. And we do feel grateful that the service has added the clarification about what was assumed and what is demonstrated in the models. I reiterate my colleagues request that you agendize a meeting to discuss these issues. And that we try to Work Together to find ways to have the puc successfully managed rather than deny increased flow in the lower river. Thank you very much for your consideration. Thank you, caller. Madame secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. Secretary thank you, mr. Moderator. That closes Public Comment on item 4, general Public Comment. President caen through the chair, i would like to make a comment on the Public Comment, if i may . First, i want to thank the public for participating. Its very much appreciated and its not easy these days doing it technologically, so thank you for that. And for bringing these issues to our attention. I would be interested in hearing the results of the peer review and i know, im sorry i havent had a chance to look at the letters that came in, i guess, today, but im just wondering if we can agendize it or get some signed of briefing on the results of the peer review, because i know weve been asking and eager to see what is being said by the scientists and the peers in the field. And then i just would also like, you know, i appreciate ms. Dupris participation. Shes always bringing us important. I know were overdue for a conversation around Battery Storage in particular and would like to request that we somehow get an update on that, on our regular clean power sf tt. I know the city of San Francisco does have Ambitious Goals on Climate Change and fossil fuelfree future, so it would be great to get an update on that as well. Thank you. Through the chair, i would also like to hear from our staff what they think about the peer review. Id like to hear their response to it as well. Very good. We could put that on the agenda for future discussion. Yeah, we can we will work with you to put it on the agenda. President caen good. Any other comments . Commissioner paulson this is commissioner paulson. I agree with what commissioner maxwell says. Wed like to have analysis of this since letters have been coming in. Im not in favor of agendizing it as an item, but im i would like to have a staff report to that effect. President caen fine. That can be facilitated. My point was it cannot be discussed at this point because its not on the agenda. So the information will be agendized in some form. Next item, please. Your next item is item 5, communication. President caen commissioners . Any comments on communications . Seeing none, madame secretary. Could you please open this up to Public Comment . Secretary members of the comment who wish to make Public Comment on item 5, communications, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 087 5808, pound, pound. To raise your hand to speak press star 3. Mr. Moderator, any callers for this item . There are no callers in the queue at this time. Secretary thank you. Public comment on item 5 is closed. President caen next item. Madame president , the next item is item 6, report of the general manager. I need to make an announcement regarding Public Comment for this item. The general manager is going to give his report covering nine different topics. To ensure we have Public Comment as we consider the entire g. M. Report, well pause the report at three separate points after item 6b, 6f and 6i, to allow Public Comment at each of the previous three topics covered. Each time well call for public, speakers will be given up to two minutes for each topic for a maximum of six minutes if the speaker speaks on all three topics. The commission can ask questions about any of the nine topics during the g. M. Report, or at the end of the report or before and after Public Comment breaks. Were going to ask the public when calling on specific item, grouped item, please, identify which item or items you wish to speak on at that time. The first under the g. M. Report is the update on sfpuc operations during covid19 emergency presented by g. M. Kelly. Good afternoon, commissioners. Just wanted to give you an update on the covid Emergency Operations at the puc. As you know, San Francisco begins its path forward toward reopening last week by allowing Outdoor Activities that are lower risk. The plan includes steps for reassuming additional services, businesses and activities in the coming weeks and months. The gradual reopening of activities will increase traveling, interaction throughout the city, so the city will continue to regularly assess the key Public Health indicators to ensure San Francisco has the necessary the necessary Resources Available for those that are infected. The puc continues to follow state and city guidelines across all our work sites and facilities and continues to support the citys overall response effort. The Department OperationsCenter Remains staffed monday through friday and we are continuing to deploy team members on longterm assignments to the citys Emergency Operation center. Our employees remain our number one priority at the puc. Continues to provide water, power, Sewer Services to our customers. Based on the citys direction, employees performing nonessential duties will continue working from home as long as its possible through this fiscal year ending june 2021 to help reduce the spread of the covid19 virus. Based on this guidance, the Business ContinuityPlan Committee has focused these past few months on doing as much as we can to ensure that the health and safety of our onsite employees supporting muni employees and determining if there is more we can do to reduce the number of employees coming on site. We also continue to equip our onsite employees with the equipment, tools and resources they need to do their job safely. The lines of communication remains open to understand and meet additional needs. To that end, were holding focus groups this month with employees, managers, who spend their days in the field, so we can understand what challenges theyre facing with policies like wearing face masks and social distancing, especially given the hotter temperatures weve been experienced. Were also continuing to support our customers in need with our emergency Financial Assistance programs. Last week we extended our Emergency Residential Community Assistance Program which is designed to help residential customers struggling to pay their water, sewer and hetch hetchy power bill during the covid19 pandemic. The program which launched in may was set to expire last week, but will now be expanded through the end of the year as this Global Pandemic continues to impact San Francisco. Since the program launched in may, more than 6,000 customers have benefitted from the initiative. Those customers have saved a Monthly Average of 53 on their water and sewer bills, and 15 on their hetch hetchy power bill. By continuing to work with our customers, employee, City Partners and others well look to move forward from these tough times as a stronger, better and more responsive agency. Finally, we are closing out our innovative virtual tour summer series this month that has allowed us to share or continue to engage with our customers during this time. Its called the San FranciscoPublic UtilitiesCommission Source virtual exploration. And so weve had them in the past, but its really our resources and inhouse experts on water, power, sewer programs to interact with our customers, answer their questions and teach them about our system. We only have two tours left. Power tour tomorrow and a Pollution Prevention tour on september 23rd. You can sign up at sf water. Org virtual exploration and its a really Great Program and i think the tour barbara hill is going to be featured tomorrow. So i hope that you tune in on that. And, again, i want to thank all the commissioners for their support during these times. And that concludes my update on Emergency Operation during covid19. Any questions . President caen commissioners, any questions, comments . Seeing none, lets move on to 6b. 6b, steve ritchie. Thank you. Can i have the slides, please . This is steve ritchie, assistant general manager for water. Im going to report on the recent 2020, august 2020 fires that were near our facilities. If i can have the next slide, please. Im going to be talking about three fires. The mark fire, the scu fire and the czu fire. First, the mock fire. I reported on these on august 25th. These are data as of august 31st. Again, the red outline is the outline of the extent of the fire that occurred. And the little dots are hot spots that were within the last 48 hours. So this was a map that was developed last monday. As you can see, t