Limit your comment to the item Public Comment in a civil and respectful manner and address to the commission as a whole not individuals. I would like to extend thanks to sfgovtv staff and puc it staff for assistance. If you have in the done so silence your electronics. Thank you. Before calling the first item. San francisco Public Utility Commission acknowledges owns and stewards of the uncd lands in the historic territory of the tribes. And other descendants of the historic federal recognized count e. Puc recognizes every citizen residing within the greater bay area has and continues to benefit from the use andoxpation of the tribes lands. Since before and after the San Francisco pu c Commission Found nothing 1932. It is important we recognize the history of tribal lands on which we reside but also acknowledge and honor the fact that the people have established a working partnership with the puc and productive and flourishing members in the greater San Francisco bay your communities today. Could you read the first item. Item 3. Election. Officers discussion and possible action to elect a president and Vice President. Each to serve a year and the puc rules of order number 6. So. This is how the process will go. Well have the president ial election first followed by Vice President ial election. William following step to bes taken we will are Public Comment. Nomination for the Commission President. Motion and second and then vote. Then repeat that for the Vice President. I would say it has been an honor to take that role and i would be happy to do we have Public Comment first. Thank you. Member who is wish to make Public Comment on item 3 the election of the commission p. Press star 3 to speak. Do we have anyone to provide comment on item 3 the election of the Commission President . Any callers . There is one caller. Thank you. Caller, you have the floor. Im sorry i wanted to thank you for allowing Public Comment at the beginning. Thank you, sorry. Thank you. We have other callers in the queue . There are no callers. Thank you. Public comment on election of the president is closed. Excellentful colleagues can i have a nomination for the commission p. Commissioner maxwell . Thank you i like to nominate tim paulson for president. Is that acceptable to you . Yes. Okay. Fantastic. Thank you. Yes, he did. And commissioner stacy seconded that. Can we have i roll call on this, please. President ajami. Aye. Vice president maxwell. Aye. Commissioner paulson. Aye. Commissioner rivera. Aye. Commissioner stacy. Aye. 5 ayes. Excellent. So im going to at this point i hand the gavel to the new president. And you get to run the Vice President y nomination. Right . Do you have to, yes. I do. And thank you. Im looking at the order here we are going to do the same process that we did for the nomination and based on cheat shows i have a moment to comment i know the president ajami was going to Say Something before she went in her process before i say anything, thank you for your leadership and i look forward to being the chair but i think you had comments to make that got skipped over. I gift floor to you if you said you were starting and cut off. No, no, not really. I certainly has been a privilege to be leading this commission and im happy to hand it off to another member to have their america in this process and happy to be here and being part of this body. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you commissioner ajami and thank you for your leadership and im honored be the for colleagues to have faith in me to be the chair. I have been on the commission for awhile and hopil be as good as pred seszors making sure we dot good work done during our tenure. Commissioner maxwell and i came on the same time years ago. So if you believe it, we are technically the senior folkos this thing. I look forward to working with you. We are going to continue moving forward to dot same process for the Vice President. I think that that will ask the commission we open Public Comment before we have that process, also. Members of the public had wish to comment on item 3 the election for commission Vice President. Press star 3 to raise your hand. Madam secretary well is one caller. This is on the Vice President election. Caller you have the floor, you have 2 minutes. [inaudible]. Public comment before this process, also. Public ment is open. Right now through the secretary. For the nomination of the Vice President. Yes. [inaudible]. Im sorry we cannot hear you. Sounds like we have technical problems. Is there anyone present to provide comment. Public comment on nomination election for the Vice President is closed. Okay. I will entertain a motion for nomination of a Vice President. Forgot. Ajami is recognized. It is not mine but since we have 2 wonderful colleagues that were joined us earlier this year almost a year on this commission, i wanted to nominate commissioner rivera as Vice President if that is considering seniority since commissioner president paulson mentioned as Vice President if this acceptable. Yes, i accept. Okay. There has been a nomination and accepted do i hear a second . Second. Well is a motion and second on the vote on the nomination of Anthony Rivera to be the Vice President of the commission. So madam secretary we will have a roll call president paulson. Aye. Commissioner ajami. Aye. Commissioner maxwell. Aye commissioner rivera. Aye. Commissioner stacy. Aye. Vice president congratulations. Any comments mr. Now Vice President thank you very much for the volt of confidence. I appreciate everyone i learned a lot this past year and i hope this i can be at least as effective as my predecessor commissioner maxwell. Thank you very much. Commissioner. Good to work with all of you this next wore. I believe are you begging you look like you are okay. I got it. Could you read the next item now officers for the next year are in place. Item 4 approval of the minutes of september 20, 2023 support meeting and the september 26 meeting. Open Public Comment for the approval of those minutes. Why member when is wish to make remote comment on item 4 approval of the minutes of september 20 and september 26, press star 3 to speak. Any callers . There are no callers. Public comment on item 4 is closed a roll call on approval of the mfrnts special meeting of september 26 move to approve the minutes. Second. President paulson. Aye. Vice president rivera. Aye commissioner maxwell. Why aye commissioner ajami. Aye. Commissioner stacy. Aye. Can you read the next item. Item 5 general Public Comment. Members who wish to make 2 minutes of remote comment on matters in the commissions jurisdiction not on today agenda press star 3 to speak. Please silence your tvs if that youor in the background. Are there members present for Public Comment, general Public Comment. Do we have callers with hundreds raised . There are a few callers. Thank you. You now have the floor. Eileen with speak. Sad nows on the passing of nancy weirfool. A tireless advocate on many issues including water. I spoke with her about the possibility of san jose and santa clara puc customers her response was absolutely not. There was no advantage for San Francisco. San hose and he santa clara come before this commission stateing they need the additional water to help them meet their housing need allocation. However, San Franciscos goals are to build 82,000 new Housing Units over the next 8 years. This means 82,000 now water hook ups. [inaudible] of water to san jose and santa clara is counter productive to meeting our goals. Speak continues to oppose making san hose competence santa clara permanent customers in light of the propose the state water resource control board mandate 20 reduction. Thank you. Thank you. Call are number 2, you have the floor. Good afternoon. Im mary butterwic a long time resident of San Francisco. First off, thank you for moving the yes or no Public Comment item become to the beginning of your meeting. This makes it easier for members. Public such as moiz to participate and i really appreciate it. Im here today because the tuolumne remains in crisis. I attended most of the public workshops regarding management and affects on functions including the maintenance of a cold Water Fishery in the tuolumne. My understanding it acted the workshops the commission would revisit the 8 opinion 5 year design draught the primary tool for managingfully release. It has been a year and so for there has been no response on this item. I urge the commission to reduce the length the design drought by a year and apply demand projections the finance bureau water sales prosecute jection. The actions would go a long way to addressing the water supply needs and more instroll flows. Dont believe rate payor vs to invest in supplies not needed. San francisco residents cares about the environment. We look to the commission to be responsible stewards of the river. With the salmon count low, last year was less than a thousand; we are running out of time to restore and maintain a sustainable population of salmon in the river. Thank you. Next caller. [inaudible]. [inaudible] i also thank you for letting us have the comments at the beginning of the meeting that is helpful. And also i agree with the left caller that you know we can have a safe and secure reliable water system for the residents but we also need to [inaudible] the Tuolumne River and salmon. Thank you. Byebye. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is shannon. I dont have comments on todays agenda im calling to give you a thank you for moving Public Comment up to early in the meeting. That makes it so much more possible for people like mow to participate in government. Thank you very much. Thank you. Caller . You have the floor. Hello im cynthia and i have been a resident the past 23 years. I want to happy that the longterm vulner ability assessment 2 years ago made to assess how claimant change may impact our water supply if i am correct the design draught may be put in place if severe draught would occur every 25,000 years. Once every 25,000 years. Finds it curious the puc recommend either severe rationing or a Huge Investment in alternative water supply. If the water is not needed. Does not make sense. Design draught plan is bad for consumers like me who pay higher rating for water. Bad for the environment. Rivers have less water for the environment, fish and animals that rely on the river water. Design draught plan is make decisions based on inflated water demand projections embassador information result in bad policy decisions. I hope the puc gallon back to longterm Vulnerability Assessment study and hope you will look at the data, make decisions based on data and a use of consumers, environment and wildlife. Found a severe draught is unlikely. Revisit the design draught because it is unnecessarily raises water rates, damage the environment and threatens our california wildlife. Thank you. Thank you. There are 5 callers remaining. You have the flower. Im [inaudible] jackson. [inaudible] im calling about [inaudible] 18 [inaudible] [cannot understand speaker] as well as 1550 [inaudible] senior program, job training and sewer Street Program [inaudible] im trying to and want to know when will San Francisco city college feel [inaudible] in San Francisco state university. On the lot they was paid for. They have admit did anything yet, we, the people of bayview, would like ton when the [inaudible]. And could you give us an update we have not heard we come to the puc meetings [inaudible]. Thank you. I want to update. She was sits on the left of the meeting and we are supposed to been getting an um on your agenda im gwen jackson the daughter of [inaudible] jackson i had a meeting with your staff and however im need clarification. I also gave ms. [inaudible] the history for all the Commission Getting [inaudible]. I have not heard anything. Im trying to see what could you do to help us . [inaudible] over side the Organization Representatives stake holders the 2. 7 Million Consumers you serve with emphasis for San Francisco consumers for sue and power. Most effective when well is transparency. Staff provides one sided view on topics instead of unbiassed presentation. In numerous presentations we hear promoting one view. I would expected this commissioners receive a thoughtful analysis for whatever topic is addressed. Just mentioning them can cause strong reaction. An agreement staff is prosecute moted rather then and there give you unbiassed analysis. There hen mow discussion the va is missing a component similar to the bay delta plan. And should be understood by you when you judge how to address the plight of the tuolumne. And [reading very fast] another sewer rate affordable no mention. Commissioner ajami spoke about affordability measures. The design draught no discussion of the data presented. Instead it was not useful without contrary data. Thank you. There are 3 callers left. You have the floor. Can you hear me . Im john, i lived in the mission in San Francisco, oak land and beneficiary biologist, angler and commercial fisherman. I vehicle for moving Public Comment to the beginning. Im take off w to make comments it was hard previously. Wanted make a comment this i remember the tuolumne when there was [inaudible] in 2020 we had 271, 21, 86. We saul machine started to return but low numbers 23 beginning sunday. I remember 2021 when commissioner herrington commented on the water supply conscience. Got information about supply and demand of the water. Is it possible to look at support and see if we have environmental measures there also. Make it a prior next year instead of puting off. Once again. Determine your lawsuit against the bay delta plan. Thank you for moving the Comment Period back. Thank you. Caller. You have the floor. Good afternoon. Im pamela cotton i live in tuolumne county. I have been in Northern California for a couple years but a lot is going of first let me welcome mr. Rivera and Vice President , congratulations. Appreciate you moving comments to the beginning of the meeting. Many of work and have to fit it in. I appreciate it. I wanted to talk about the design draught a bit. Anyone, no offense, that looks at the science could not possible low believe this the design is reasonable. We had blooms in the bay. And all of the other things that are happening well is in the sufficient water left in the river. The salmon are hurting. So bad. And this year ocean salmon fish nothing San Francisco was cancelled because there are not enough. Anyway, gentlemen, ladies, thank you again for moving it up to the beginning and by the way, happy new water year as of october first. Lets make this one to remember. Thank you. Goodbye. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller, turn your tv down. Caller . You have the floor. Item 6 report of general manager. Why thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. Each year we come to you during the fall to present our capitol financing plan for the year this is simply a focus plan for the financings you have approved in february as part of the 10 year plan. We like to present it to you each year. This report was delayed because of our Commission Meeting that was reschedule. We completed a year we issued bonds in all 3 enterprises because of the amount of refinancing we were able to pleasure. The biggest year of financing in puc history the largest issuance of green bonds as limp all activityers guided by Commission Adopted policies and the plan a memo and the presentation. Which i will keep brief. We had an opportunity this morning at the revenue Bond Oversight Committee meeting to give them an update on the plan that has been presented to you. As well. And we hope this provides visibility on what will be coming to you. This year. To take a step back, just to sum rise where we stand today, the commission has 8. 5 billion of debt outstanding cross all 3 enter prizes. That consists of primarily Revenue Bonds and also state Revolving Fund lones and other smaller financing types. Does not include 3. 6 billion of financing that has been approved but not drawn upon. Specific low that includes the loans we have 3 loerns, these are reimburse am programs. We first need to extend the funds. Smiment for approval and we will be reimbursed. We also have the 1 and a half billion dollars Paper Program we use cause all 3. To Fund Projects before we issue longer term debt. O