Unkeyed lands within the historic territory of the tribe and other familiar descendants of the historic federal Mission San Jose band of alameda count and he recognizes that every citizen in the greater bay area has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the tribes abridge nal lands before and after the San FranciscoPublic UtilitiesCommission Found nothing 1932. It is important we not only recognize the history of the tribal lands but also we acknowledge and honest o the fact that the oshg loney people have established a partnership with the puc and productive members within the many greater San Francisco bay area communities. Today. Approval of the minutes of october 10 of twe. Why any corrections to the minutes. Notes. Okay. Public comment. Member when is wish to make comment on item 3 press star 3. For members. It prosecute void comment on item 3 . Do we have callers with hands raised. There are no callers. Public comment is closed. Is there i motion to approve the minutes. Move. Seconded a motion. The roll call president paulson aye rivera. Aye maxwell aye ajami. Aye commissioner stacy. Aye you have 5 aye avenue. The upon minutes are passed now we will have general Public Comment. Member his wish to make 2 minutes of remote comment on matters in the commissions jurisdiction not on todays agenda press star 3 to raise your hand and silence computers. You will hear i chime had there are 30 seconds and. Do we have anyone present for general Public Comment . Caller are hands raised . There are 2 callers that wish to be recognized. Thank you. I un muted your listen you have 2 minutes. Good afternoon im mary birtworth a resident of San Francisco. Several meetings members of public including myself have asked the dmoigz revisit the 8. 5 years design drought the tool for managing flow release the design drought has a return period of 25,000 year. I dont believe that this is reasonable prop for managing flow release on the tuolumne. The policy is damaging to the environment during dry period when is life adequate slows the most. The indicator the damage is the low number of [inaudible] in the river. 186. Ef 466 in recent years. I urge the commission to direct your staff to analyze flows using a 7. 5 year design drought and demand projections the finance bureau water sales rejection. And present the results to the public. This hopeful low will facilitate a dialogue from the instream flows needed maintain a sustainable population of salmon in the tuolumne. Again. I urge the commission to drop the lawsuit against the state water board. And work with the state to ensure flows in the tuolumne are consistent with the instream flow stoornlsd adopted by the state in 2018. And residents care about the environment. We look to the commission to be responsible stewards of the river. By increasing flows in the tuolumne. You have 2 minutes. Thank you this is peter drubbingmy are for the Tuolumne River trust. I thank you for moving general Public Comment to the beginning of the meetings. Yesterday i sent you an e mail encouraging to you request an update on the state of the Tuolumne River environment and salmon. This year is getting off to a poor start again. And also i wanted point out that in your water supply condition update 93. 4 and the end of the last water year and beginning of new water year when tell rain again. Puc has 6 years of water and storage. Don pedro is full of allowed to be now. And despite the water and expecting a wet year, we had pretty low load this is year. And puc might argue that is up to irrigation districts. You did in the past encourage them to partner with higher flows during the summer not to kill steel head. Well is a precedence for working with them on that. 8d in communications is the multienterprise climate update reference the longterm Vulnerability Assessment at this meeting dave warner asked the puc staff if they look at the intervals for design draught that is how likely would be to occur. And said, can we ask the design draught. I can think about doing this. He knew it was locked at before and the consultants found. Thank you. Your time is expired. If there are no more callers that wish to be recognized. General public ment is closed. Jot general manager report. Read those items. A report. General manager the San Francisco puc commission activities, events and announce ams. Commissioners, 2 items both are not the most pleasant but there were 2 passings in the course of the left several weeks of individuals that did i tremendous amount of work and were of beg your pardon to not just the puc but the city. The first was don fermachine you may know or may not he was a long time deputy City Attorney that was the foremost water experts. In the state. And balanced love of water law is the love of the out sdpoors a fish aremachine and conversationist. And i had the pleasure of working with him for a great many years as City Attorney and i know many in the room had the opportunity to work with don. Both when he was a deputy and brought him become as a prop f retiree and did work on behalf of the puc. The second individual was tony irons. Who passed the end of september. And was truly a renaissance man the city architect in charge of building of city hall even though tony never spent a day in college. He learned on the job back in new england where he grew up in hymn ham. Am he was a renaissance man who lived on a and the last years spit his time in new mexico and ham hymn and in his retirement i spent time with him in mexico and a wonderful machine who when i decided that i was going to exactly here the first people i called to ask for add voice and was the deputy general manager under suzanne who is the general manager after he left the city architect. There were great individuals and people and be wonderful public servients did a great job on behalf of the puc and the city. I think we all owe them a dent of gratitude for service and i know that many people i know many here are going to miss each of them. Any comments from commissioners . Commissioner stacy . I just want to chime in and honor the memories of both don and tony. I think don probably taught me everything i know about California Water law and i started working on the water system improvement program. He was a great teach and he did in the suffer he was kind and wise and i think he was also really important in the negotiations with modesto andtur look. He understood everybodys point and made him a better negotiator. And going on a hike with don he accident name every flour, tree and bird. It was a learning experience. And his start on the rivers. Dpon and tony contributed so much to the puc and the city at large and i realliment to honor their memories. So. Thank you. That concludes my report. Thank you. Unless anybody else is open to Public Comment. Members wish to make Public Comment on 5a press star 3 to speak and silence computers. Speakers hear a chime had there are 30 techeds. That will extend their schedule and view of completion. The 2 projects challenging throughout implementation and critical to meet the level of service. Adopt the change the status of the grounds water and recovery and the alameda recapture project our second finding the anticipated project Cost Increases for those 2 projects will result in over all increase program dj budget and require funding approval. The annual report details the potential need for increase to commolest the croak recapture project and roej nal groundwater storage and Recovery Project. In mate of the increased budget and funding necessary is provided in the report. This information has not been shared at this time. So our second recommendation as the commission directs staff to provide updated billions and the associated plan to secure approval of the funding so this it has sufficient fund to be complete. Our third finds willing is a po need for additional project it ensurety puc adopted Service Goals are met. Given the potential change to the groundwater Recovery Project and the croak recapture product the supply yields lower than planned and therefore you may be impact on meet the water supply Level Service goal. The third recommendation is the commission direct staff to identify the rust changes to the 2 projects on the Regional Water system yield. Water supply and puv ability to meet the Service Goals. Puting together, i wanted make sure i ended on a positive note and i think interestingingly enough the mention of tone emirons important in the early days this report identified that this fore. 8 billion Dollars Program is almost 99 complete that is greatism dont want the res to take away from this. I think irrelevant im looking forward to the day had it is complete and can stand together it say we have done everything we needed to do. And in accordance with law to ensure the reliability of the system. In the just for the residents of San Francisco butt within. 8 million resident and 40,000 buildings and i look forward to this day. That concludes my remarks. Thank you. In is there this is discussion only to the commission is there discussion with the commissioners would like to weigh in on this . Or anybody else. Thank you. Seeing none. Thank you. Thank you for that so lets open to Public Comment, please. Members who wish to make 2 minutes of Public Comment on item 6 press star 3 to speak and silence device. You will hear a chime had there are 30 seconds plastic. Do we have anyone to provide comment on item 6 . Do we have callers with hands raised. If there are no callers that wish to be recognized. Public comment on item 6 is closes. Regularical dar. Next item. Prove the revised water supply assessment for 20th avenue stones town project the state of California Water code section 10910. California environmental act section 2. 115. 1. 9 and section within 5155. Good afternoon will commissioners general manager for water i will say i agree. Don did not suffer fools lightly. That was true he was a great fwie and will miss him. Im before the looking for an approved revised water supply assessment for stones counsel a 2780 are project surrounding the stones town mall in the southwest area of San Francisco. It is here before you today for a couple of reasons. One is that the project has had a change changing the project variance, variance where they look at not just one alternative but a second that can branch off of that. This project variance changed the project changed smalt. That assessment was adopt in the october of 2022. Not long ago. The second change is that the updates to the projected retail water demands associated with adopted Housing Element 2022 update. This was manage that was done earlier this year. And it was based on the ceqa document completed in late 2022 and adopted at this time. That had an increase in housing within the city. And what was in the eir was increase over the next 20 yers of about 100,000 units which lines up with the majors 5,000 per year. Changes. So, staff analyzed that. And saw that there was a relatively small increase in the demands. But real increase in demands this is would occur over time in multifamily residential use. Based on those 2 issues the Planning Department asked you to revisit the assessment. And the water supply assessments are legally required to do identify if there is available water for i project. And it is a document to be used in the Environmental Review process this is not an approval of project this. Is just approving the water supply assessment to allow the eir project to move forward. We did conclude there is sufficient supply for this project. Begin there is uncertainties out there. This project not tip the balance on this. Our recommendation to approve the water supply assessment and pass it on to planning. And happy to answer questions. Any questions about that assessment . Seeing none. Open to Public Comment. Members of public had wish it make remote comment on item 7 press star 3 to speak. Speakers will hear a chime had well is 30 seconds remaining. Do membersment to provide comment on this item . Callers with hands raised . There are no callers this wish to be recognized. Public meant on item 7 is closed. No Public Comment, no discussion from the commission. Can i request i motion and second for item 7. Move to approve the water supply assessment. I will second. Can we have a roll call yoochl president paulson. Aye rivera. Aye maxwell. Aye stacy aye ajackie aye you have 5 ayes. Okay. Communications that is information only. So there is no need to discuss that. Lets read the next item. Item 9 items neighborhood by commissioners. I have one. Which which came up recently and i have been informed that the board of supervisors has taken a position to limit remote Public Comment. And because of the circumstances, there is a direction by the mayor to all boards and commissions to limit the Public Comment. And the i know this this information was sent out by our General Council to all of you i will not go through it all. Public comment is according to the direction limited to all except for those limited remote comment of which people with disabilities and others will able to call in. So. And unless there is any objections this would be the base on the board of supervisors and the direction of the mayor this would be i would say we should get the secretary to put that in the instructions for public participation. For the next meeting unless there are objections or comments . Commissioner maxwell. Unless there are people this have disabilities . Could we read that specifically. And how will they know . Who has one and who does not. This will be in listed in the Public Notice this guess out to the Committee Meetings you remote Public Access will not be visible unless you have a commissions. I dont know if we have City Attorney to clarify the specific language. Part of the notice. Commissioner, the board of supervisors adopted a procedure. And other boards and commissions in the city are adopting a similar procedure the secretaries will be provided with that procedure and published as part of your agenda package. Okay. So howl they know if i say i have i disability how will than i know whether i do or not . I mean you can put it in the. I understand there is a process. Request made to the commission secretary. She will skw somebody when is your disability and how how does this going to work . This is a case of which. A case by case. But the equal need to be made to the secretary. Can i say something. If it i think had you are getting at is if im understanding this correctly, this is in terms whether you have a disability or not is the honor system there is not going to be than i will not ask people personal medical information. Tell be based simple low on somebody representation they have a disability. Is that accurate. Yes. There is a formal process. When you like the answer i answered the question. Why well is a press and than i have to give advance notice of that they need the accommendation. And im guessing would apply to the chair who does the recognizing that is how will i know. So when in doubt tell be noted on the agenda if someonement its make that how they do it. Commissioner stays. Yes. Im sorry. Commissioner stacy and after. Commissioner ajami. Thank you i think all my questions have been answered i had the same questions as commissioner maxwell. If00 autocommission would be set up for remote Public Comment. And then someone who wished to comment remotely would let the secretary know ahead of time that they need to use that remote system. Is this right . Yes. We would set it up with advanced notice if we get no notice by the time the dead line for noticing us then the web ex would not be set up. Okay and is our plan to begin what the next hearing . The commission has . Or is there a phase in process. Through the chair. What were recommending the secretary to do now. Unless there is other we have more discussions but that is the recommendation that is sort of unofficial low on the floor. It is a big change. Tell be heard for our Public Commenters. To adjust. Public comment im concern body people getting notice and understanding how to set that up ahead of time. We will do the best we can. We will commissioner ajami. I think the same exact same question on the web ex thing. If the city is going to stop the process then every time up can be a challenge. Because it is in the just like i turn on the wareroom and member call in. It is like a multilayer process. Right. I think that is the first thingism do appreciate the same my concern was the same. Im not sure how fast people can address to the citizen. This came up last year and the honor system. And but you know we as a commission at least i know many of our commissioners would like to be ail to hear from the public in whatever setting. So. It it is are tort of not discourage the public. That is my take on this. I have a comment. Also. Commissionering maxwell. Was there an issue did manage happen. And i know that thinking about it but did something help that brought you to this point . Yes. Commissioner. There is a number of instances that occurred in the bay area and at the board as well where there was profanity exit think there was 18 cometic commentary made and there was prosecute fanity and other things that brought things to the floor and the board of