Due to the covid [indiscernible] being held via teleconference. For those watching the live stream be aware theres a brief time lag between the live meeting and what is being viewed on sf gov tv. Id like to extend our appreciation to the staff for their assistance during the meet. If you wish to make a Public Comment dial 1415655001 [audio digitizing] ill ask asking to keep muted and item 19 has been removed from the agenda and we will not hear closed session item 19 the other closed session item will remain on the calendar. The first order of business is the annual election of officers. At the first regular meeting of the commission after the first day of october each year the members shall elect a president and Vice President of the commission to serve a oneyear term. Commissioners you, will first nominate the elected position and elect the position of Vice President. Public comment will be taken separately on each. [indiscernible] members of the public who wish to make two minutes of Public Comment dial 1415655001 on the election of president. Meeting i. T. 146 534 1295. To raise your hand to speak press pound pound. Mr. Rod moderator do we have any callers. Madame secretary, there are callers. Caller your line has been unmuted. You have two minutes. Caller my name is francisco and the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission is at a crossroads and we need some stellar leadership. And i have two candidates that i would like one to be the president and one to be the Vice President and i will say at this junctu juncture mr. Harrington for president and mr. Moran for Vice President. Thank you very much. Thank you, caller. Madame secretary theres no more callers. Clerk that closes item 3 the position of president. [indiscernible] these nominations require a second and well discuss the nomination. If theres only one nomination ill call for a motion and if it requires a second we will vote. If there is more than one well consider nominations on each in the order made until we elect a president. So with that, the floor is open for nomination for the office of president. I nominate Sophie Maxwell for president. Thank you. Were there any other nominations . Seeing none, the nominations are closed. Mr. Harrington will close and second the item . Moved and seconded. Madame secretary call the roll. Clerk [roll call] you have three ayes. Congratulations, commissioner maxwell. Ill hand you the virtual gavel. Thank you very much. I appreciate the nomination and i appreciate the vote of confidence. I also would like to just thank all of you but especially anne for her devotion to the city and commission. She was actively committed and i will not say i hope to do the same but i really appreciate all shes done and all that shes meant to our city and commission. [audio digitizing] nominations for maybe Public Comment first and then well ask for nominations for Vice President. Madame secretary. Clerk members of the public who wish to make two minutes of comment on the election of Vice President dial 1415655001. Meeting i. D. 146 534 1295, pound pound. To raise your hand to speak press star 3. Mr. Moderator, do we have any callers. We have a hand raised and then it was unraised. Let me see if i can reach out and see nay meant to keep their they meant to keep their hand up. Thank you. Caller, did you intend to lower your hand or want to make Public Comment . Madame secretary theres no other caller for the item. Clerk it is now closed. Commissioner therell be a nomination that does not require a second and then a vote. Nomination for Vice President , Ed Harrington. Id like to nominate mr. Moran. Ill second the nomination. Any further nominations . Seeing none the nominations are closed. First and second. Thank you. You had a nomination now we need a second. Ill second that. Its been moved and seconded. Madame secretary give us a roll call vote, please. Clerk [roll call]. Commissioner thank you for being willing to take this on. Madame secretary read the next item, please. Id like to make a comment. This is tim paulson id like to thank both of you for stepping up to service and looking forward to working with both of you. I also want to say i dont know if that came in the minutes a few minutes later that really welcoming Ed Harrington and his experience and our friend over the years to be one of our colleagues as we serve so congratulations to the two of you. Thank you. Madame secretary, next item please. The next item of business is item 4 approval of the minutes of september 22, 2020. Are there any correction to the minutes or discussion . Seeing none and may i have a motion and second to approve the minutes. Ill move the minutes. Second. Madame secretary. Members of the public who wish to make two minutes of Public Comment on item 4 approval of the minutes of september 22, dial 1415655001 meeting i. D. 146 534 1295, pound pound. To raise your hand to speak president star 3. Press star 3. While were waiting sit appropriate for me to vote on the monts or abstain . Whats the right answer . Commissioner, you may vote on the minutes. Okay, thanks. Madame secretary there is one caller in the queue. You have two minutes, caller. Caller greetings. Ill have more on the next item but on the minutes first of all, yes, commissioner harrington you may vote on the minutes and cant abstain as youll recall and second on page 8 of the draft minutes at the bottom the commission entered close session at 4 30 p. M. I believe the minutes are supposed to indicate who was present in closed session pursuant to the sunshine ordinance so the minutes can be amended to reflect that. Thanks. Ill do that. Madame secretary theres no more caller in the ku. Queue. Commissioners i would ask you amend the motion to approve what was on the table to include the amendments on the closed session. Public comment is closed i assume and madame secretary would you include the amendments . Yes, i will. Commissioner thank you. Now may we have a roll call vote. [roll call] will madame secretary would you read the next item. The next item is item 5 general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission up to two minutes for matters within the jurisdiction and not on the agenda by dialing 1415655001, meeting i. D. 146 534 1295,. To raise your hand to speak press star 3. Mr. Moderator, do we have any callers. Madame secretary there are multiple callers in the queue wishing to be recognized. Thank you. Caller the commissioners again i hope you start with a new slate. We have a dark cloud over the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission and as you all know and the public knows by now people are jumping off the ship. And we need to have some sort of clarity as to how were going to proceed in the future. The sewer system Improvement Project start with a 6 billion budget. Its now 12 billion and growing. And i hope in that context we have transparency and accountability. It is for that reason and that reason only i selected two you to lead the sinking ship. This ship is sinking. We need somebody with good leadership. A good leader knows the way, shows the way and goes the way. Thank you very much. Thank you, caller. Caller david pillhil a number of items. Number one, welcome to commissioner harrington the fourth general manager to serve. Two, congratulations to the new commissioner officers who i anticipate will serve us well. Three, i appreciate former members cain and vitor who both served well and should be honored for theirlongtime service on the commission. Four, wed like to pay our outstanding p. U. C. Bill and wondering when that can be done in person to get a receipt . Perhaps the general can address that . Item 5, keep up the good work on infrastructure maintenance including linear asset management. Six, in memoriam i note the passing of jim salerno. Protected Public Comment in the environment and was a good guy and karen kubicks husband. Im also not getting closed captions for this meeting if someone can check with sf gov tv that would be great, thanks. Finally its nice to be heard at a Public Meeting and ive always felt heard at p. U. C. Meetings and they anticipate continuing to feel heard and this is really a good place where we can discuss Public Policy for the benefit of the city and region. Thank you all very much. We will check with sf gov tv. Caller can you hear me. Yes. Caller and we dont want to close customers, simple as that. Storage is essential while i believe it is important for San Francisco to be connected it can help us to be able to access inexpensive power when it is plen plentifully available and to help the city get through the more challenging times of the day. We can have storage in the city as well as solar to the other half of the sun set reservoir, lets make it a p. U. C. Available in customer service. Im a heavy user of electricity averaging 30 kilowatt hours a day in my allelectric home running entirely on renewable energy. Im proud of that. 15 seconds, caller. Caller thank you very much. I appreciate it. Commissioner thank you, caller. Next caller. Caller good afternoon, this is peter dreckmyer policy director for the Tuolumne River. I want to congratulation commissioner maxwell on being elected to serve as president. I think shell do a great job and congratulations on commissioner moran on becoming the Vice President and welcome to commissioner harrington. I think youll be a good addition to the board and 11 days ago the federal Regulatory Commission was add sunday asked to waive a process and i want the p. U. C. s stance first the Fishery Service released the fish model upon wish the Tuolumne River agreement is based and state commissioner vitor was not reappointed to the board likely because she asked questions staff wasnt comfortable with and went unanswered now youre partners on the tuolumne are attempting to undermine the states role of protecting our quality and rivers it doesnt look good and represent the values of your constituents. Stand up for whats right and dont just hide behind the irrigation districts. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Madame secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. Thank you, that closes Public Comment on item 5, general Public Comment. Thank you, madame secretary. Will you read the next item, please. Next order of business is item 6, communications. Any comments on communications . Yes, mr. Harrington. I have a comment about [audio digitizing] the first item on there is for the Crystal Springs reservoir. I thought we talked about restricting access to our watershed and would like to hear a comment about whether we changed our mind about that and how that all works and the second thing is with all the fires going on is this going to help or harm our ability to fight fires, build fire breaks and those sort of things and that can be answered here or offline if thats easier. This is horlan. We can bring back the summary of the whole project so that you can get caught up. Thatd be great, thank you. Any further comments . Seeing none, i guess well need to have Public Comment. Madame secretary, do we need to have that . Members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on item 6 dial 1415655001 meeting i. D. 146 534 1295,. To raise your hand to speak press star 3. Mr. Moderator do we have any callers . There is one in the queue. Caller your line has been unmuted. Caller so commissioner Ed Harrington mentioned, i too would like you to address not only our expense but the water in light of the huge fires. Id like you to do a Needs Assessment to have data on the adverse impacts of the large fires on our water, our forests and our watershed. Thank you, caller. Madame secretary there are no more callers in the queue. Thank you. That closes Public Comment on item 6, communications. Commissioner thank you. Madame secretary read the next item, please. Clerk item 7 the Citizens Advisory Committee annual report. Please unmultiyour camera and your mike. Your camera and your mike. Your camera and your mike. Your camera and your mike. Tyour camera and your mike. Eyour camera and your mike. Your camera and your mike. Caller thank you so much. That was an amazing pronunciation of my name and a do appreciate that. I know its not the easiest thing to do. Im the d10 representative to the s. F. P. U. C. Advisory committee and appointed by who is now the california board of equalization and now on the Police Commission and adviser shammon walton. My pronouns are he, his and him. I want to say congratulations to Sophie Maxwell as well as mr. Moran for winning the seat and all the commissioners. Mr. Harrington thank you for taking up the mantle. Have a long and distinguished career and we appreciate that. Mr. Paul son, we totally look forward to working more deeply with you also. You are the right people to be in this position at this moment in time and i want to thank commissioners cain and vitor. Theyd done amiefg work for community and related to the amazing work and related to the p. U. C. And other issues across the board. I had an opportunity to speak at the last meeting about the importance of the [indiscernible] in San Francisco. In a far distant past others might have [audio digitizing] i want to say from our committee to you, we appreciate the stance you took in order to ensure san franciscans were taken care of. It was fun to fight with and not against you this time and making sure san franciscans are taken care of in this unprecedented time and it hasnt gone unnoticed from our position in the middle of this new covid reality. We actually do get to talk to people on the street. We like to interact with them in a way that others dont have access to. And i know time and time again people are really encouraged by this. Using one of the many tools and ive worked with folks in the Faith Based Coalition throughout San Francisco as theyre distributing thousands and thousands of meals to people in need across the city not apart of other programs and including information about the things you have done to people who did not know about them. So its not anecdotal but i want you to know people were surprised and they were impressed by the commission. Through the c. A. C. We were able to leverage connections in different ways to leverage the good work youre doing and h harwin and d. M. S are doing and i want to share that with you as we consider ourselves partners with you. I hope you feel the same. Thats one example of us going i think above and beyond to make sure different segments of the population had not heard about the different programs have access because as weve seen as you know, everyone on this panels had careers in public service. Sometimes Different Organization within even within the City Government have silos and up to folks like us on the c. A. C. To navigate that and do Different Things to get information to the people who need it. I wanted to thank you for that work and what youve done there. I just wanted to share from our perspective some of the things that we have done in white of everything we want to in light of position with we need to make sure everything is done correct correct correctly covid19 hit us in a way and we have done work and continued to meet consistently and in that we highlighted a few things and talked about the bill Relief Program not only through our own resolutions but also practically going tout different agencies to make sure they know about and apply to it. We have also taken a look at improved ground water by in corm rating different data graphics. Were in a video world. Were in a world where its not just enough to have prose in writing but want to marry the writing and do signify research with data that speak to the story and help different tra trailblazers within the organization do that work. As we go out to communities they cannot only read but see the impact that ground water and ground water safety has. And were talking about the air quality impacts specifically around the 6 billion waste Treatment Plant and loving my community the way do i looking at air quality now during covid is crucial. Work with staff internally to the s. F. P. U. C. To come up with our air quality fact sheet and it outlines not only the great work the p. U. C. Is doing and codifying it. Its important to us that people realize when it comes to certain levels of air pollution, etcetera, the positive things the p. U. C. s doing we codified that by working with staff to highlight that. And that is linked in our annual report. One last thing i want to mention because i think it goes without saying from a full c. A. C. [audio digitizing] its equity for individuals, for nonprofits and the multiunit Department Buildings and helping the folks take advantage of the seat p. U. C. Programs to make things asset p. U. C. Programs to make things move more equitably and efficiently through San Francisco. Were also wanting to make sure the business of the p. U. C. Is there. And for me whats really important is the fact that as were talking about the c