The city of San Francisco sfgov tv meeting of the rules committee occurring thursday, september 8, 2016 we will begin shortly. [gavel] hello good morning everyone and welcome to our exciting rules Committee Meeting of thursday, september 8, 2016. Im Grady Katie Tang chairman of the committee and to my left is cohen. Mar will be joining us shortly. From sfgov tv would like to thank charles kremenak. We have any announcements speed tends thank you. Thanks. Please sounds all cell phones [reading ordinance] at this time i think oregon about skip over item 1. If we can go on to item 2 item number two, [reading ordinance] so, this is one of the i guess routine appointments to the reentry counsel and am happy to support supervisor avalos on the. See no other questions or comments on open item number two to Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] we will do that without objection [gavel] lets call item 35 together item 35 [reading ordinance] great, thank you. So, at this time i believe that colin kelly from our puc would like to make a few remarks there will although commissioners in the order appears on the agenda for the presentation. Good morning supervisor. Im here to offer my support for the reappointment of the three commissioners to the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. Francesca hitler was squarely and [inaudible]. I would like to give you a little perspective of each one of them. Quickly. First, i like to start with Francesca Vidor can in fact, our history goes back to 1996 when she was a Department Head of environment and i was City Engineer where she was trying to introduce Green Buildings which i thought she was crazy at the time. But, now its industrystandard. Working with her, i really understand her a little better, not holy but a little better. She is really pushed our organization. First Major Organization with Community Benefit policy and Environmental Justice policy, which we advocate nationally. She is really pushing on sewer System Improvement Program, Green Infrastructure, and how we plan to protect the environment and i think her drive to help us successfully launch clean power sf is a testimony to her tenacity. I just want to support her in a reelection. The next commissioner i would like to give my support to is in court egypt was courtney and i share a lot of the same vision about creating jobs. And how we not only provide opportunities for communities in these jobs that were created but how do we build a pipeline for people in the community to get these union jobs with benefits and how they also can become City Employees as well. So, he has really focused his efforts on our sewer System Improvement Program, i wonder system Recruitment Program and also clean power sf from the perspective of how we can provide jobs to the community and i think he has been very valuable in his contribution. The last one, commissioner is in molar tainted and miller king has been there for 19 years and she has been a voice of reasoning that she has what we call the jesse water running through her veins. She knows everything. She documents on every conversation we had were for the last 19 years, every time we talk about a subject she pulls out a piece of paper i was talking out 16 years ago and shares that with me. So, at a minimum, she is a great filing system. She has been really the sort of the foundation of making sure our organization is financially responsible get on the Water System Improvement Program and sewer System Program and also clean power. She is focused on how can we protect our ratepayers, financial. She needs our financial or actual our budget process every other year. She has been really thorough and as she reviews our budget. So, one promise that in and i made is that we are going to stay on until we actually built the digester and southeast Treatment Facility and so i want to make sure that i help her and shes going to help me say when those with that project is complete. So, in closing, i would just say im very fortunate to be the general manager with an allstar team as commissioners and i would hope that you support the three reappointments here today. They give a much thank you very much. So at this time will call up each of the commissioners in the order that you appear on the agenda. Come on up. Thank you. Hello kitty good morning. Im Francesca Vidor. I really appreciate your consideration of my reappointment to the puc. I been on the commission for eight years now and i feel very proud of all the work weve accomplished so far and Environmental JusticeEnvironmental Policies pasted i feel like to puc graduate years ago is really institutionalized a lot of its green programming initially recognized nationally and internationally as an environmental steward. So i just hope that i can continue to serve in that capacity. More specifically, im really looking forward to being able to assist with the limitation of the sewer System Improvement Program. And as harlan mentioned, the Green Infrastructure i think is huge potential budget from an environmental perspective but multitude of benefits that can provide jobs to storm Water Management to beautify neighborhoods throughout San Francisco. I am also looking for to continued success of clean power sf which another weve got launched i think is gone beyond our expectations as far as success of enrollment into the next big push is critical and i hope to be able to assist with that. So thank you for your consideration. Thank you could just some general questions off all of the appointees to just either speak to in your remarks or insert if you havent already addressed, but wanting to know, why you would like to continue which i think i got out of your statement here, but what are some of the challenges that you see facing the that the puc will be facing in the future and how do you expect to work to address that . I think a couple of the challenges were going to face the drought is going to continue i believe. I think Climate Change is on a trajectory where water is going to continue to be scarce. So were going to really need to be much more aggressive about that person find our water system. We are bringing on groundwater. We are bringing on recycled water and i believe its not a moment too soon because Water Management is that a critical issue for the puc. We also be seen our rates go up so i think its going to be really important, especially from Equity Perspective to make sure that a low income communities and communities already struggling to stay in the city are going to be able to afford their utility services. As we enter into the rebuild of our sewer system. So, its credited a lot of documentation and Community Engagement to make sure especially those most vulnerable financially will be able to pay the increased rates and will be able to rebuild our system. With that in mind. Thank you. Any questions from other Committee Members spewing commissioner cohen thank you for your interest and willingness to serve. Theres been a lot of call, date conversation about the Wastewater Treatment plant government usually try to rebuild it. Do you feel any strong or i would imagine that you do feel strongly about the rebuild process. What are some of the feedback to hearing from the neighbors in the neighborhood around the looming the development of the Treatment Plant . Welcome i think change is hard and i think its overdue. So i think the neighbors have a lot of questions. I been really proud of pucs involvement at the neighborhood level the engagement level. Theres been a lot of outreach to communities to participate in the beginning of what theyd like to see in the community. I its been a long time since the 50s synth that plant was built and theres been a lot of negative impact, and i feel like were on the brink here of really being able to create a destination place with the Treatment Facility and without reenvisioning and rebuild of the Community Center that. I think its going to be a place of pride for that community thats long overdue people can gather, we are people 10 x. The neighborhood in a whole different level than they have been able to for these last years. I think that by focusing most of our dollars and most of our attention in district and interview and that site, that its going to be an opportunity to really galvanizing reinvigorate and i live in the community thats not happened historically, really. Since maybe it was first done years ago to look for to that effort. I know my commissioners share the commitment to making sure that budget is really done right and is really led by the community. One thing i want to, and not just you but the entire commission, you guys have done a fantastic job in bringing summer interns and on board and to the department whether their young engineering students or students dont even know they want to the engineers and results of the end of the summer to their placement they have found themselves on the pathway to a new career. I think that really has to do with the strength of the and the direction not only of harlan and his executive and also the commission being in sync with the overall vision of exposing young people to careers they would not normally be think about it when you think about the environment. When you say about empowering people to be more than an activist but actually rolling up the sleeves, learning the science to save your participant and be a part of the rebuild. The project will be going on for a long time. [laughing]. Theres room for a lot of room for opportunity to inspire other people. Coming on board i think that is right. One of the challenges we are seeing retirement the silver tsunami is coming but one of the opportunities is to engage our youth and get them excited about these jobs and break the pipeline for them to become the next generation of utility leaders, really think. I know other questions. Thank you for your presentation and answering the question. Commissioner supervisor mar is not here. He might have questions before this is over. Thank you. Well commissioner king good morning. I certainly have any of you times before. Im here to certainly ask for reassignment to the commission for the next four years. I think im just going to jump over eight accomplishments because ive been vicechairman ive been on the commission for so long and we have done so much of the infrastructure, and the birth of the water system, the 4. 8 billion that is almost completed now, 90 completed, and the beginning of our waste water system. So, we are now 11 completed on that. That is 2. 9 billion. So, i would really like to jump to what i see are our problems Going Forward and what i would like to do about them. First of all, i want to keep a very sharp eye on our sewer Improvement Program. It has to be on budget and on time. I have been very involved with digesters even ever since isaac came on this commission in 1997 and so they are part of me. I cannot wait until theyre in the ground and functioning so that is my true goal. Secondly, another concern i have is the fact that weve been so good about conservation and consequently, already bizarre way off. We have dropped 17 in the last 10 years in revenues. So, we have to really look at our system and how we are going to change that. So that is a top priority for me. Dr. Priority for me is to keep a very watchful eye on the clean power program. We have to also look to build out that we can do to complement that system. And just for your information, in november we have 765 new signups and out of that 70 are [inaudible] so thats very good news because thats what were looking forward to. My fourth feeling in terms of priorities is to make sure that we get our reset program completed. We have three outstanding projects and they face different problems in their development. So, i see, for sure, we have cavities completed within the next four years. The three projects their Major Projects do you think we can get them done in the next four years . The next yes, definitely there under construction now. It just we had some problems with the land situation. We had to change motion and so on and so forth. Lastly, my concern is to really forcefully look to other water sources, how we are going to do that and move forward with that. Because we certainly cannot rely on our snow melt, which might not be occurring in years to come. So, lastly, i just wanted to make some remarks about my last 19 years and the changes i have seen. First of all, i want to complement our utility. I think its a very fine fine well run utility and i would compare to any publicly held utility. Under rgm kelly and deputy gm michael carlin, it is really so just beautifully run. We should be very proud of it. And you, supervisors, should be very proud of the fact, two. Secondly, i want to remark about our relationship with boss called. Bart the is a Water District we have 26 Water Districts to which we so water and when i came on the commission there was no communication. It was just no. Now we have a very fine working relationship with them, with their staff, our staff and i would like to point out to the ceo, nicolehas been a great leader overtaking the retirement from arts johnson. The third point i like to make is that our commission is very well functioning. We worked together very well. Way back in 2008 the whole commission was dismantled and i was the only commissioner at the time, and the seats were assigned. The environmental sees the financial seats so on and so forth. So, i want to say that this stems from actually the board of supervisors and was a very good idea and i think it functions very well that we do have these assigned seats, but we all have broad vision to Work Together and i really want to complement my fellow commissioners. Lastly, what has not changed is the communication and the weight we have worked and you have worked with oscar the board of supervisors, i know the five times ive served as president for some reason theres always been some trauma. Its been a very rewording to have great help from the board. I appreciate that. So, with that, any questions and . Thank you very much for your very laser focus presentation to colleagues, any questions or comments . Supervisor mar has joined us now i just want to say i dont think you necessarily need people speaking out for you but ed harringtons letter in support acknowledging your focus on infrastructure and core water and sewer wastewater efforts. I think its important. I really appreciate you talking about clean power sf and ensuring that local buildout is so critical and we maximize the number of super green customers as well. Then, from a regional perspective come i think the dq tosca with the bay area water supply conservation agency, a letter of support showing the understanding of the regional vision of San Francisco and our partner counties and Water Systems but i really appreciate historical memory that you always provided and helping to educate me on the issues and ill look forward to more years of your leadership on the puc can i want to thank commissioner theater, also for the service and really focused on sustainability and the environment, but commissioner diane, your history with the with our Enterprise Department and the puc and the city is really amazing and im just so happy youre going to be serving again. This is entering your third decade, i think of service to the city but thank u so much. Thank you very much thank you. I do also you know as someone who cares a lot about finances as well want to thank you and commissioner before opening up the rate issue and how the revenues are defining the good and bad problem as we spoke about before in terms of how we are doing better with conservation but that impacts us in other ways. So i look forward to working with all of you to address that as well. Chairman tang, i forgot to mention i never met someone who is so interested in digest. Because of the severe need in the southeast neighborhoods to have clean and new technology but i appreciate you traveling globally to understand the technology from the workers that implement them to the technology and other things, that is really is a something about your leadership on the puc as well well it is a passion. I must say you become an expert in sludge and so they we should call you the grand madame as well as the down from hetch hetchy. I think youre incredibly good example for many women across San Francisco what leadership looks like. You walk it and talking and you done it for a very long time and were grateful for your service. You do it with a tremendous ease and is a sense of elegance particularly when youre thinking about engineering terms and you could probably really give some of these young engineering students a run for their money on terms, terminology as well as your know how your technological knowhow around different systems. I, too, just one comment and recognize you are exceptional in the sense that you get out. You walk the plans. You meeting with the consultants doing the to