Also recognizes that every sit en residing within the greater bay area has and continues to benefit from the ohlone aboriginal lands, founding in 1932. Its vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the tribal lands on which we reside but acknowledge and know the fact that they have established a working partnership with sfpuc can you call the first item, please do not a. Item number 3, approval of minutes of february 27, 2024. Okay, are tli corrections to the meeting . To these minutes . Let us open the minutes to public document, please. Remote callers raise your hands if you wish to provide comments on item number 3. Do we have anybody present want to go provide comment on item number 3. Seeing none, can we have a motion and a second to approve the minutes. Do we have any callers with their hands raised. Madam secretary, there are no callers who wish to be recognized. I didnt hear that, there are no callers, thank you. Seeing no more in cue for Public Comment, can i have a motion and a second to accept the minutes. So moved. Second. Can i have a roll call. President paulson. Aye. Vice president rivera. Aye. Commissioner stacy. Aye. We are on item 4. Im sorry, item 4 is general Public Comment. Can we open up to general Public Comment. Do we have any members of the public wishing to provide Public Comment. If so, step forward. Please come to the microphone, welcome. Speaker commissioners im francisco decosta and i want to bring to your attention, the Community Benefits and and our Contracting Center, which is under utilized since the pandemic. And what happens is, the Contracting Center, in the early early years, we would get a report on the digesters and the biosolids. Sol theyre kept out. And, the bay view hunters point, had a task force that the task force mandated the Community Benefits. 5 percent of a billion. So in the first 6 billion it was 300 billion and we wanted have a real audit on it to see how that money is being spent on the community. Right now were headed towards 12 billion. So we shouldnt be hood winked. We need to utilize the Contracting Center because we really need it. And its under utilized. Its open from tuesday to thursday. It should be open from monday to friday. Again, and want you all to look at it as something that the community wants. And needs. Thank you. Thank you. Are there anymore folks in line for Public Comment . If you could can you please come to the microphone. Seeing none, lets open this up to remotel. Trace for item number 4. Madam secretary, there are three callers with their hands raised. Thank you. Caller your line has been unmuted. You have two minutes. Speaker thank you, director for river tribe. First i want to thank you for reinstating remote public participation, really great move, we really appreciate it. Second thing i want to mention is under communications does the alternative water supply plan. This is a really big deal so i want to encourage to you schedule a workshop. Its, its full build out would cost between 16 billion and 25 Million Dollars it would double the budget and we know there is very little room for moving things around. We feel like the expensive comments, we submitted on the draft were not adequate lea dressed and we would like to do that in a no fo rum. And the plan only looks at our outside projection. So these are the numbers in the urban Water Management plan thats how they described it. Everything possible gets built thats how much the demand would increase and need to be filled through the plan. Also, we need to discuss the design route that would have a huge impact on the water mriez that might be need to be developed. So the urban Water Management plan will get start getting updated next year, 2025. In 2020, the projection for demand next year was 216mgd but last year it was about 178, weve got to get the pro sections rights. Again, i hope you schedule a workshop. Thank you. Thank you, next remote caller. Caller your line has been unmuted, you have two minutes. Speaker thank you, im calling on behalf of my parents who applied for the sf pc customer assistance program. This program is suppose to help low income people like my parents but its been months since they applied and theyre still not getting a discount. I mean their income clearly falls within the guidelines and they still had to sent a letter that they had to submit a bunch of information in order for them to verify the income. Theyre older immigrants and justifiably, uncomfortable with giving out this kind of personal information. And to top it off the letter sent to them was not even in spanish which was the language that they applied. So they could not read the letter yet alone understand what they were being asked to give. I mean, they went through whatever the online credit check thing was, which was frankly made them really uncomfortable. But apparently that was not enough. I mean, you say youre helping low income people. Are you . I mean, my parents are immigrants, they work hard their whole life and paid their taxes and they still dont make enough to meet their basic needs, the least you can do is not make it harder for them to get a little help. I hope you do something about this, i know there are a lot of families like mine that dont feel like they can call and tell you about the programs that are accessing this program. I mean, please were the city of San Francisco, we can do better. Thank you. Thank you for your comments and information. Next remote carol, please. Caller your line has been unmuted, you have two minutes. Speaker im under the Power Committee for the last two years. Ive also been a resident for five years and four months. And as you may know that tlir island xaoernsz a power outage for the last 4 to 5 years which means basically for the time that ive been on the San Francisco public utilities, in this Advisory Board there is been over 1100 Power Outages. Which means there is been more Power Outages that and back in 2017, the board of supervisor sxz board of general, dispatched an emergency resolution overriding, dictate if they updated them. To purchase two generators and what were calling for in resolution that we passed in the subcommittee last month is for an emergency authorization for the complete island to upgrade the grid for the current residents. The resolution is named regarding emergency authorization and Power Outages on treasure island. And the reason were calling for an emergency authorization that allows to us bypass on a contract initiates and delays that have caused experience over 487 outages in the last 24 years. And just like the mayor has stated when, Public Entity that it is on the private market. On may third when we have one power outage over 4day, london mayor breed said that the well being of our residents are fundamental principal of government, its our duty to deliver services in San Francisco. Thank you, caller your points are noted. Are there anymore callers, please. Secretary, there are no more callers in the queue. Okay, seeing no more callers for Public Comment, can i get a motion i guess i can call the next item which is the report of the general manager. Thank you mr, president. Two items, i know youre aware because i advised you you of a water main break that we had on friday in the vicinity of 30th and winona. First of all, i want to compliment our staff for incredible work in terms of getting that water main break under control within about an hour and a half time. There was a number of staff onsite within minutes from trying to alleviate the program and they did a fantastic job. Is since that time, weve been coordinating with rec and park and others to do side assessment and anticipate what damages are there. Were thankful that it did, it does not appear to have impacted the work that we did in stern grove a couple of years ago. Sol thats a positive but were in the process of evaluating and we may have to make some declarations of some kind of contracting compared to what sort of repairs. That is the first thing, so i will keep you apprised as to how things develop. As you know, joe has been the existing general manager over the course of last year and he has done a fantastic job in lead thating enterprise. And im happy to announce that hes now the permanent assistant manager for waste water and joel has a long and proud history of working his way to the ranks, first at dpw and now here puc in really has the support of rank and file in that enterprise, hes a Problem Solver and always looks at solutions so were lucky to have him in that position. Thank you. Thank you, and congratulations. And we look forward to working with you. Thank you so much. And if i can make one comment, thank you for that report on what happened down in winona, this stuff got fixed and slowed down very very fast. So thanks for all of that. I know that weve been walking for a while because we have a lot to do in honoring the workers making sure that this infrastructure work that were doing not only to fix but when something happens that it gets fixed so much because we have such great staff to take care of it. So hopefully we can honor some of those workers, because its the people that are around to get this stuff maintained or fixed. Sol thank you for that report. Okay, and again, congratulations and looking forward to continuing to work with you. Okay. That concludes. Thats it for the report of general manager. Im sorry, wait, im wrong about that. I took things out of order, i apologize. I basically gave the end at the beginning. Its all downhill. Yeah, i had my mind went the wrong way. So youre going to have to take Public Comment on what i just said which i had just said at the end. I was just asking to say joe is doing a great job. So well be opening Public Comment on your report anyway. . A. Was 5d, correct. So lets open up Public Comment on that and get it going. Thank you. All right, thank you. So do we have any remote callers, please raise your hand if you wish to provide comments on item 5d which was taken out of order. Please raise your hand. Do we have any members of the public prebt to provide comment on item 5d. Seeing none. Do we have any callers with their hands raised . Madam secretary, there are no callers who wish to be recognized. Thank you. My apologies, 5a is the fiscal year 20222023 Financial Statement sxz nancy hamm will be presenting. Good afternoon, commissioners, im nancy manager. Im here to mrent fiscal year 2022 and2023 for water, waste water and hetachi water and im also joined here by annie louie assurance partner for llp. She will later present details on the results. Im pleased to the report that the puc issued for prior year 2023 on december 26, 2023. We are the only City Department that issues three separate reports one for each of our enterprises. Ngollp and their work was completed last calendar year. These three reports are now available on our website under Financial Reports. I want to highlight that n g. O. Noted that for our three Financial Statements, they issued an unmodified opinion, they presented fairly and in accordance with applicable guidelines. There were no materials miss at the same times and there were no internal control did i efficiencies noted. Additionally, each fiscal year, after we issue our Financial Statement, the puc issues two a advertising al reports, the Financial Reports which consolidates the three Financial Statements into one in compliance with the requirement established by the government and county of county board also known as gaspe and also audited and that report was issued one month later on january 26, 2024. We also issued the popular Financial Report developed with financial extract to produce high quality reporting that is meant to be readily accessible and understandable to the general public and interested parties. Were honored to receive the prestigious awards for excellence and Financial Report anding Outstanding Achievement and popular Financial Reporting annually since 2009, and 2010, these two reports are included in the communication today. And i want to express my communication for working closely with finance and most especially to the finance team for producing reports each year without any material misstatement sxz without any control did i efficiencies. And with that, this concludes my portion of the presentation and ill hand it over to annie louie, partner ngo who will present the audit results. Good afternoon, im annie louie im the partner of ngo that is in charge of the Financial Statement audit. I want to go over the scope of the audits. We did audit each of the Financial Reports as well as the annual comprehensive Financial Report. The auditor responsibilities section covers what we are engaged to do under professional standards. Were engaged to provide an audit opinion about theyre in accordance with county standards. We audit as well as government auditing centers that are applicable to your Financial Statements. As part of our audit, we do cover as relate today Financial Reporting and im happy to report that we dont have any deficiencies to report. We would include that in your report but in this particular year, we dont have any specific man tore report to you. I know this is a lot of words on one slide, i will not read through everything but this highlights management responsibility for compelling the Financial Statement. And as we related to the audit committees responsibility as well as establishment, we look to you to set the tone in terms of upholding ethical standards and understanding the systems that are in place to ensure the Financial Statement right side properly stated. In terms of the results that i had mentioned this as well as in nancys report, we issued opinions on each of the statements under any financial audit. We did not identify any did i efficiencies whether its the weakness or significant weaknesses. In terms of the signature standards they are more detailed described in Financial Statements. I did want to highlight that there were a series of new accounting centers that were implemented in fiscal year 2023. Financial statement, on even more significant ones and the slide describes the high level how the estimates are put together by management. We did perform details and procedures as well as in engage to look at some of these estimates and consider, consider the key factors and assumptions that are used in those preparations and we did determine that the estimates were reasonable as a whole. Other required communications on vendor items that were required to report to you, they are professional auditing standards. In the most cases we dont have any significant matters to report so no news is good news in this case, we did have uncorrected statements that relate today claims liability and the main reason for that is because of the timing of evaluation that became available to us during the course of audit. So the information that was not able to be captured any Financial Report itself. But its material difference and that is why we were able to provide a modified opinion on the Financial Statements. Okay. Lastly, i would like to call with some accounting updates. There are a few announcement thats will impact the Financial Statements in the upcoming years and we will work closely with management to impact. And this concludes my presentation and im happy to take any questions you may have. Financial report in the popular annual Financial Report. And it was helpful, im somebody like me, im not super well versed in the financial aspects to the someplacing as long with the same Financial Information was really helpful, so thank you. Thank you. Commissioners . So thank you for your report, let us open let us open 5 a to Public Comment, please. Donna . Members of the public sorry, remote callers raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on 5a . Do we have any members of the public who would like to provide comment on 5a . Commissioners the last time i was here, and the lengthy reports were given. I made some comments and i want to assure the commissioners that ms. Home, i have always admired her tenacity and fortitude. She is a hard worker, and before i left, i thanked her for her work. Having said that, we know, some of us who refer to the various figures, linked to the various projects that the over costs on some of our projects are evident. And the layman can be bluffed mean thating you know, accountant can cover things up. So so on and so forth. But we, have to be very cautious when we spend taxpayers money and overall costs because of whatever are the factors like the pandemic or maybe whatever is happening in todays world. We need to know that. So when we look at the other projects that are in the pipeline, we see a huge amount 470 million and so on and so forth. We the people need to be taken into consideration at least twice a ye