Transcripts For SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 101315 201

Besides our doctors and his wife but our San Francisco giant pam bear and her husband unknowable the old san franciscans you looked at the things you see everything from the newer families to the salesforce each one say, oh and providing resources which will make San Francisco general a flagship of research for another hundred and 50 years advertised an honor for me to serve on the board as a representative from the commission since 2002 and i having served on other foundations believe me ive never seen a foundation where the generations have passed the torch has passed in families can come together and make significant and ongoing candidates to providing provide the highest quality of health care with dignity and respect for the the patient in selfreliance i San Francisco General Hospital this is part of Community Health network and laguna an integration of coordination of services and when dr. Chow came board and i he in 1998 it is the leadership and the trust and commitment to the highest level of excellence for the citizens and visitors that are in San Francisco general so on behalf of i know as as member of the also the foundation and i said to this the outstanding leadership i will move we accept this gift and thank those exceptional donors for the ongoing contributions belief in San Francisco general. Theres a motion for the resolution was interest a second . Second. Okay. Well be considering the resolution he didnt see my Public Comment. Could we the executive director the Foundation Come up and say. I was going to ask there is more than one resolve we need to understand how each of those resolves work we have the resolution because it has been moved and seconded and certainly like to have the executive directors also talked u talk with us perhaps someone can explain not just accepting the 5 million but 3 parts the other two parts i recognize is sort of allowing foyer circumstances that dont have significant consequence could you explain why we have the 5 resolve to this. Well. Ill defer to you and greg and the City Attorney here each of them are separate dr. Chow in certain types of depends on. We can give due recognize. Greg this is a money thing well let greg handle that. Theres a lot of money who is were really thanking and. Lets note doctor chow youve not seen because the quiet phase and the process that the foundation is going to consider the naming we went through the zuckerbergs and now proceed with the naming of the all the creditable donations thats a reflection well let greg give details. We should recognize what is happening and greg wagner chief Financial Officer weve spent times structuring this so i simple intents so basically what resolve is broke down it is clear it reflects the timing of the various gifts that have come from the San Francisco general foundation and the naming recognition is associated with those gifts to when you look at the resolution starting on page 2 you have a first resolve section which says that in honor of generosity of the individuals who transcribed a 25 million gifts that 25 million as said in march of this year, the commission accepted the gift and the board accepted the gift that constituent the first portion of the funding from Pricilla Chan and a Mark Zuckerberg and knitted 25 million from a varieties of other donors we approved the names of the Pricilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg General Hospital but not passed a resolution with the additional naming this lists the naming earned with those enlists in the 25 million then in addition to that in section on page of you have a second section of resolve clauses and what those are doing first, it is recommending to the board to accept an additional 5 million of cash weve been ref from the foundation on top of what we received today and secondly, listing is additional naming that is associated with that second deficit to it is absence confusing how it was laid out but to make it clear were dissipating it out to align with the gift of acceptance resolution that have come through this commission in multiple steps so i hope that helps but happy to answer any other questions. For me commissioners do you see that. Could you review the reluctance on pauctance on pagr on pagee on page on pagev on pagei on pae on paw on page 8. You have to be built or named. The first is for two of the gifts so the board is required to approve and accept a lot more details ill invite julia but the board is required when conditions attached or associated with the gift and in these skies conditions associated with the gifts weve agreed is that the naming would have a length of Time Associated with with that weve carved that out resolution for all practical purposes the naming once approved by the board will stay in practices weve included the resolve clauses that is part of the discussion about those particular naming opportunities the second one is essentially giving the director of health the recommending to give the director of health some Administrative Authority to do minor changes such as adjusting slightly the location of the actual singe it going to appear and making modifications if there are issues where instruction or renovation we have the horticulture to make those substantial adjustments administratively without having to come back to the board of supervisors every time we need to our executive director. Thank you, commissioners fewer support i also wanted to acknowledge director garcia for they are partnership eucalyptus our foundation would not have been successful if we didnt have a great relationship with the department of Public Health and our team of individuals at the hospital to thank you briefly donor recognize is a major contribution our ability to understand and support this is really a key to be successful and just to echo commissioner sanchez you said is to great this the most beautiful thing about the effort it brought together philanthropists in San Francisco and the greater by the way, to supporting the institutions it is San Francisco general a marriage of not only their Financial Resources but the endorsement and theyre willingness to support ongoing and were excited as we moving forward we know the needs of hospital continue to grow and were commented to be robust this is a great deems of future engagement were excited so i can take further questions about the core recognize if you have them. No, thank you further questions . From any of the commissioners. Id like to thank the executive director amanda as well we began were new in those areas in terms of working with the foundations and myself i want to thank the donors pub this is a very incredible risk we thought Mark Zuckerberg was remarkable we hope to have many of those resolutions laughter and we look forward to working with amanda manned alcohol on a monthly basis to make sure she thinks where our capital future and they can strategize direct their efforts on behalf of the department anticipate the staff we want to thank the executive director and also the foundation for all the incredible support it is going to be an incredible beautiful building and just to note november 21st is a saturday and it is going to be an incredible party for this and the renaming and acknowledging all our donors and potentially more donors to come as we see what incredible work on the campus. One more thing in addition to the names on the list an amazing outpouring of the support from the provider in the faculty and doctors and nurses and front line people day to day doing the work it was a continued Community Effort so thank you. Well, thank you this is certainly be outstanding list and one in which we should all be assessing this with gratitude those organizations and people feel so dedicated to health care and a San Francisco general thank you. Thank you. Commissioners any further comments are we prepared for the vote. I was looking at from the edward chow garden and saw a hot tube laughter . ; is that correct. Are they down to plants or something that i could use the salary the city gives me. No were prepared for the vote. All in favor, say i. I. With gratitude please vote i. I and opposed . The resolution has passed unanimously and we look forward to many more thank you. Commissioners. Id like to give a note of thanks to the City Attorney they wanted to make sure they were doing this in the rights order so thank you to the City Attorney. Very, very wellthoughtout clapping. commissioners we move on to item 8 a resolution greer the principles of Ethical Practices of Public Health well vote on next meeting in is just a discussion. Before we begin is there principles or is this the privileges is the whereas the principles or another documents called the principles. Those radio the principles there are 12 of them and. The whereas. 12. Thank you for that clarification. Well, maybe you should explain what you do with those. So part of in our romans as Health Officials were weighing the risk and benefits when we are making Public Health decisions so we take into account the ethical considerations part of Public Health coalition requires us to codify how we make and incorporate ethic alcala decisions making into the publicity activities so the credit dan by the Public Health society and as the code of ethics you see is whereas are 12 verbatim calls the ethical practice of Public Health we are requesting the commission to approve those principles and provides a foundation to build our Decision Making progress we are in the process of developing a comprehensive approach that is the foundation for that. A again example the one we did with the screening at bmi as information becomes available to use it is early general Obligation Bond do consider the information to weigh the risk and benefits and to make a decision that open missed the benefits and minimize the harm the screening been different for one group we want Equitable Health care . An example of ethical Decision Making all to have equal assess for the screening of diabetes. Okay. Was there any Public Comment. Ive not received Public Comment. So well precede to questions. Sure. So it says those policies are bans the Public Health code of ethics so there are not the Public Health code how do we modify them and likewise were going 20 going to comply this allows us to comply with national standards. Rights we did we took the one there are ill show you there is a toolbox that summarizes the principles for Public Health and this is the one that is most commonly used adopted by the Public Health association we took the principles verbatim their ethical processes that make it more specific those are broad principles. Those principles are the principles from the Public Health code of ethics. It has several different names people do you want is and tweak it created by the Public Health society they call it the principles of Public Health so people call it a little bit differently we basically took the title and basically put it right here. Right. May i make a request im till in support when you look at the ethical principle looking how they Work Together to but i trust in National Endorsement it has to be good but you dont think i dont like the format of that resolution it is a inadequately and when we look at the Public Record it should be reshaped to say whereas the National Practices has established principles and then you list the principles rather than the whereas i think it needs to be doing the Public Record differently the format and go elevate this this is adds you know credibility and stufr where this is from or who is in alignment with those principles so i have no problems with adopting them not form, you know, the final record for our actions it is kind of confusing. Oh, i know your the com try on our first e. R. In the introductory paragraph are the whereas to many cases this seems those are the whereas we could state of those are the principles. Okay. Resolve that we accept those as principles and that i think then clarifies can be easily read if were reading whereas for all United States wonderful thing and at the bottom say were adopting the principles it is more a for the most part and then also values dating them we didnt sort of pick them out of thin air theyre related to how you testify those are the histories this is where people are using weve found used intoxicate appropriate therefore wish to add do you want them and resolve that the you know bar and then comes the principles so that. Commissioner chow would you like us to come back with a form or like to approve in principle this and then we presents to you here on behalf of the appellant that shoulders we should come back with a better foreman. On the agendas well discuss that and vote. We have other opportunities. So i think this works. multiple voices . Whatever final copy well come back with a final opportunity. Exactly those were on the principles on which to half the department is operating the public should be aware were looking at the promises principles. Any further comments. The only comment i thought i cant remember this came out in the last two years something on the Public Health mission pushing and i cant remember if, in fact, there was a chapter in under that dealt with that on or about you may want to check that i could be absolutely wrong i didnt flag that that way. Ill look at that. It might be worth looking. Also the board is recommending this code or a code. My understanding it could be a coincide node specifically this one but this seems to be the one that is the most comprehensive in terms of it being able to give you lad it is the duty in specific practices. Thats fine. So i think those should be whereas. Okay. Any further comments. No. Precede to the next item. Thank you very much for the suggestion. Well look forward to be able to see the principles. Okay. Great. Thank you. Item 9 is a dph Financial Report and mr. Wagner and quick intervention. Trying to figure out commissioners this report is for discussion no action you need to take. Its barely show up on the screen. No, i, probably make it through here so long as the mouse works on the screen. Thank you. Okay. Commissioners greg wagner chief Financial Officer we have a presentation on our yearend financial Quarterly Report so this is a summary of our yearend general funds financial position as recorded front seat in the Controllers Office this is a little bit later than the Financial Report because of the yearend in particular we have to go through a longer process of crossing out the books it making takes more times for the fabulous to settle we like to wait when we can bring them to you when in their fully cut our big picture for the fiscal year 20142015 is very positive we had a good year we have a couple of of things going on were ending the year with a net general Fund Contribution back of 11 million however, this is necessary of an additional contribution to reserve or so that will remain in place and be a cushion against future losses the operating expenditures and revenues were favorable . Allowed us to meet your targets and allowed us with the Controllers Office to Fund Additional refers this helps u. S. Bancorp us to have greater Financial Stability as we go forward into the continued changes in under the state and federal policy actions so again as you can see how the highlevel of numbers breakdown on the summary table when you take our flat operating expenses and revenues we had a fractiously surveillance of 74. 2 million of that amount 63. 02 is programmed into those revenue refers so those are not directly returned from the general fund their withhold by the Controllers Office that is available to us if we have a shortfall in the future years. So ill cbo through quickly by divisions and happy to answer questions i dont want to spend too much time San Francisco general living San Francisco General Hospital had a net surplus as you can see a lot of things moving around and we have seen this over the last 18 months how we experience the projections are matching up to the San Francisco<\/a> giant pam bear and her husband unknowable the old san franciscans you looked at the things you see everything from the newer families to the salesforce each one say, oh and providing resources which will make San Francisco<\/a> general a flagship of research for another hundred and 50 years advertised an honor for me to serve on the board as a representative from the commission since 2002 and i having served on other foundations believe me ive never seen a foundation where the generations have passed the torch has passed in families can come together and make significant and ongoing candidates to providing provide the highest quality of health care with dignity and respect for the the patient in selfreliance i San Francisco<\/a> General Hospital<\/a> this is part of Community Health<\/a> network and laguna an integration of coordination of services and when dr. Chow came board and i he in 1998 it is the leadership and the trust and commitment to the highest level of excellence for the citizens and visitors that are in San Francisco<\/a> general so on behalf of i know as as member of the also the foundation and i said to this the outstanding leadership i will move we accept this gift and thank those exceptional donors for the ongoing contributions belief in San Francisco<\/a> general. Theres a motion for the resolution was interest a second . Second. Okay. Well be considering the resolution he didnt see my Public Comment<\/a>. Could we the executive director the Foundation Come<\/a> up and say. I was going to ask there is more than one resolve we need to understand how each of those resolves work we have the resolution because it has been moved and seconded and certainly like to have the executive directors also talked u talk with us perhaps someone can explain not just accepting the 5 million but 3 parts the other two parts i recognize is sort of allowing foyer circumstances that dont have significant consequence could you explain why we have the 5 resolve to this. Well. Ill defer to you and greg and the City Attorney<\/a> here each of them are separate dr. Chow in certain types of depends on. We can give due recognize. Greg this is a money thing well let greg handle that. Theres a lot of money who is were really thanking and. Lets note doctor chow youve not seen because the quiet phase and the process that the foundation is going to consider the naming we went through the zuckerbergs and now proceed with the naming of the all the creditable donations thats a reflection well let greg give details. We should recognize what is happening and greg wagner chief Financial Officer<\/a> weve spent times structuring this so i simple intents so basically what resolve is broke down it is clear it reflects the timing of the various gifts that have come from the San Francisco<\/a> general foundation and the naming recognition is associated with those gifts to when you look at the resolution starting on page 2 you have a first resolve section which says that in honor of generosity of the individuals who transcribed a 25 million gifts that 25 million as said in march of this year, the commission accepted the gift and the board accepted the gift that constituent the first portion of the funding from Pricilla Chan<\/a> and a Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> and knitted 25 million from a varieties of other donors we approved the names of the Pricilla Chan<\/a> and Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> General Hospital<\/a> but not passed a resolution with the additional naming this lists the naming earned with those enlists in the 25 million then in addition to that in section on page of you have a second section of resolve clauses and what those are doing first, it is recommending to the board to accept an additional 5 million of cash weve been ref from the foundation on top of what we received today and secondly, listing is additional naming that is associated with that second deficit to it is absence confusing how it was laid out but to make it clear were dissipating it out to align with the gift of acceptance resolution that have come through this commission in multiple steps so i hope that helps but happy to answer any other questions. For me commissioners do you see that. Could you review the reluctance on pauctance on pagr on pagee on page on pagev on pagei on pae on paw on page 8. You have to be built or named. The first is for two of the gifts so the board is required to approve and accept a lot more details ill invite julia but the board is required when conditions attached or associated with the gift and in these skies conditions associated with the gifts weve agreed is that the naming would have a length of Time Associated<\/a> with with that weve carved that out resolution for all practical purposes the naming once approved by the board will stay in practices weve included the resolve clauses that is part of the discussion about those particular naming opportunities the second one is essentially giving the director of health the recommending to give the director of health some Administrative Authority<\/a> to do minor changes such as adjusting slightly the location of the actual singe it going to appear and making modifications if there are issues where instruction or renovation we have the horticulture to make those substantial adjustments administratively without having to come back to the board of supervisors every time we need to our executive director. Thank you, commissioners fewer support i also wanted to acknowledge director garcia for they are partnership eucalyptus our foundation would not have been successful if we didnt have a great relationship with the department of Public Health<\/a> and our team of individuals at the hospital to thank you briefly donor recognize is a major contribution our ability to understand and support this is really a key to be successful and just to echo commissioner sanchez you said is to great this the most beautiful thing about the effort it brought together philanthropists in San Francisco<\/a> and the greater by the way, to supporting the institutions it is San Francisco<\/a> general a marriage of not only their Financial Resources<\/a> but the endorsement and theyre willingness to support ongoing and were excited as we moving forward we know the needs of hospital continue to grow and were commented to be robust this is a great deems of future engagement were excited so i can take further questions about the core recognize if you have them. No, thank you further questions . From any of the commissioners. Id like to thank the executive director amanda as well we began were new in those areas in terms of working with the foundations and myself i want to thank the donors pub this is a very incredible risk we thought Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> was remarkable we hope to have many of those resolutions laughter and we look forward to working with amanda manned alcohol on a monthly basis to make sure she thinks where our capital future and they can strategize direct their efforts on behalf of the department anticipate the staff we want to thank the executive director and also the foundation for all the incredible support it is going to be an incredible beautiful building and just to note november 21st is a saturday and it is going to be an incredible party for this and the renaming and acknowledging all our donors and potentially more donors to come as we see what incredible work on the campus. One more thing in addition to the names on the list an amazing outpouring of the support from the provider in the faculty and doctors and nurses and front line people day to day doing the work it was a continued Community Effort<\/a> so thank you. Well, thank you this is certainly be outstanding list and one in which we should all be assessing this with gratitude those organizations and people feel so dedicated to health care and a San Francisco<\/a> general thank you. Thank you. Commissioners any further comments are we prepared for the vote. I was looking at from the edward chow garden and saw a hot tube laughter . ; is that correct. Are they down to plants or something that i could use the salary the city gives me. No were prepared for the vote. All in favor, say i. I. With gratitude please vote i. I and opposed . The resolution has passed unanimously and we look forward to many more thank you. Commissioners. Id like to give a note of thanks to the City Attorney<\/a> they wanted to make sure they were doing this in the rights order so thank you to the City Attorney<\/a>. Very, very wellthoughtout clapping. commissioners we move on to item 8 a resolution greer the principles of Ethical Practices<\/a> of Public Health<\/a> well vote on next meeting in is just a discussion. Before we begin is there principles or is this the privileges is the whereas the principles or another documents called the principles. Those radio the principles there are 12 of them and. The whereas. 12. Thank you for that clarification. Well, maybe you should explain what you do with those. So part of in our romans as Health Officials<\/a> were weighing the risk and benefits when we are making Public Health<\/a> decisions so we take into account the ethical considerations part of Public Health<\/a> coalition requires us to codify how we make and incorporate ethic alcala decisions making into the publicity activities so the credit dan by the Public Health<\/a> society and as the code of ethics you see is whereas are 12 verbatim calls the ethical practice of Public Health<\/a> we are requesting the commission to approve those principles and provides a foundation to build our Decision Making<\/a> progress we are in the process of developing a comprehensive approach that is the foundation for that. A again example the one we did with the screening at bmi as information becomes available to use it is early general Obligation Bond<\/a> do consider the information to weigh the risk and benefits and to make a decision that open missed the benefits and minimize the harm the screening been different for one group we want Equitable Health<\/a> care . An example of ethical Decision Making<\/a> all to have equal assess for the screening of diabetes. Okay. Was there any Public Comment<\/a>. Ive not received Public Comment<\/a>. So well precede to questions. Sure. So it says those policies are bans the Public Health<\/a> code of ethics so there are not the Public Health<\/a> code how do we modify them and likewise were going 20 going to comply this allows us to comply with national standards. Rights we did we took the one there are ill show you there is a toolbox that summarizes the principles for Public Health<\/a> and this is the one that is most commonly used adopted by the Public Health<\/a> association we took the principles verbatim their ethical processes that make it more specific those are broad principles. Those principles are the principles from the Public Health<\/a> code of ethics. It has several different names people do you want is and tweak it created by the Public Health<\/a> society they call it the principles of Public Health<\/a> so people call it a little bit differently we basically took the title and basically put it right here. Right. May i make a request im till in support when you look at the ethical principle looking how they Work Together<\/a> to but i trust in National Endorsement<\/a> it has to be good but you dont think i dont like the format of that resolution it is a inadequately and when we look at the Public Record<\/a> it should be reshaped to say whereas the National Practices<\/a> has established principles and then you list the principles rather than the whereas i think it needs to be doing the Public Record<\/a> differently the format and go elevate this this is adds you know credibility and stufr where this is from or who is in alignment with those principles so i have no problems with adopting them not form, you know, the final record for our actions it is kind of confusing. Oh, i know your the com try on our first e. R. In the introductory paragraph are the whereas to many cases this seems those are the whereas we could state of those are the principles. Okay. Resolve that we accept those as principles and that i think then clarifies can be easily read if were reading whereas for all United States<\/a> wonderful thing and at the bottom say were adopting the principles it is more a for the most part and then also values dating them we didnt sort of pick them out of thin air theyre related to how you testify those are the histories this is where people are using weve found used intoxicate appropriate therefore wish to add do you want them and resolve that the you know bar and then comes the principles so that. Commissioner chow would you like us to come back with a form or like to approve in principle this and then we presents to you here on behalf of the appellant that shoulders we should come back with a better foreman. On the agendas well discuss that and vote. We have other opportunities. So i think this works. multiple voices . Whatever final copy well come back with a final opportunity. Exactly those were on the principles on which to half the department is operating the public should be aware were looking at the promises principles. Any further comments. The only comment i thought i cant remember this came out in the last two years something on the Public Health<\/a> mission pushing and i cant remember if, in fact, there was a chapter in under that dealt with that on or about you may want to check that i could be absolutely wrong i didnt flag that that way. Ill look at that. It might be worth looking. Also the board is recommending this code or a code. My understanding it could be a coincide node specifically this one but this seems to be the one that is the most comprehensive in terms of it being able to give you lad it is the duty in specific practices. Thats fine. So i think those should be whereas. Okay. Any further comments. No. Precede to the next item. Thank you very much for the suggestion. Well look forward to be able to see the principles. Okay. Great. Thank you. Item 9 is a dph Financial Report<\/a> and mr. Wagner and quick intervention. Trying to figure out commissioners this report is for discussion no action you need to take. Its barely show up on the screen. No, i, probably make it through here so long as the mouse works on the screen. Thank you. Okay. Commissioners greg wagner chief Financial Officer<\/a> we have a presentation on our yearend financial Quarterly Report<\/a> so this is a summary of our yearend general funds financial position as recorded front seat in the Controllers Office<\/a> this is a little bit later than the Financial Report<\/a> because of the yearend in particular we have to go through a longer process of crossing out the books it making takes more times for the fabulous to settle we like to wait when we can bring them to you when in their fully cut our big picture for the fiscal year 20142015 is very positive we had a good year we have a couple of of things going on were ending the year with a net general Fund Contribution<\/a> back of 11 million however, this is necessary of an additional contribution to reserve or so that will remain in place and be a cushion against future losses the operating expenditures and revenues were favorable . Allowed us to meet your targets and allowed us with the Controllers Office<\/a> to Fund Additional<\/a> refers this helps u. S. Bancorp us to have greater Financial Stability<\/a> as we go forward into the continued changes in under the state and federal policy actions so again as you can see how the highlevel of numbers breakdown on the summary table when you take our flat operating expenses and revenues we had a fractiously surveillance of 74. 2 million of that amount 63. 02 is programmed into those revenue refers so those are not directly returned from the general fund their withhold by the Controllers Office<\/a> that is available to us if we have a shortfall in the future years. So ill cbo through quickly by divisions and happy to answer questions i dont want to spend too much time San Francisco<\/a> general living San Francisco<\/a> General Hospital<\/a> had a net surplus as you can see a lot of things moving around and we have seen this over the last 18 months how we experience the projections are matching up to the Affordable Health<\/a> care act and so some go significant changes we have our night patient revenues higher bin budgeted 10 we are budgeted significantly this, an increased medical rate for Eligibility Program<\/a> that allows us to enroll people into medical and we get paid fee services that has been a big boob do your our fee revenues were below budget on a number of the state and federal Revenue Streams<\/a> as you can see here theres a addition safety net care pool and shawl we see that every year in our Financial Report<\/a>s thats the second and thirds line on this slides are tied together learner we budget a significant amount of excess Budgetary Authority<\/a> in this case we need it to draw down the funds the supplemental few minutes we have a make a loophole expenditure that gets matches and comes back to us we dont want to run out of Budgetary Authority<\/a> to risk noted drawing funds as you can see a shortfall in revenues but an expenditure savings that is equal and offsetting we didnt center to put that the dollars to get matches but not matched because not enough money to do that shortfalls in our revenue and significantly in our realignment dollars that are associated with the recoupment of the align dollars a significant on or about were going to be continuing to watch over the next couple of years. Laguna honda has a modest surplus because of revenues help at home a small surplus in salary and fringe that help at home is a deficit for years and theyve corrected that in the black now for several quarters in a row that is a big effort sow so were happy to see that and primary care weve got a 13. 2 million surplus two convenes one capitated revenues were underestimated and second a salary and fringe benefit savings we see at the end both of the hospitals and primary care we have salary and fringe savings we dont expect that to continue as for ramping up on capacity and process changes to streamline and expedite our hire so well be looking at that closely but i think that is a with time catch up as weve involved in our h. R. Systems to be able to fill vacant positions Jail Health Services<\/a> is essential around budget another one has historically had an expenditure deficit so they have gone a long way to terminate that as well in our Mental Health<\/a> division some significant variances but most of what those are are results of changes in accounting more than theyre an indication of something happening operationally within Mental Health<\/a> a change in the way our interim payment are made starting in 20132014 so were essentially paid at a higher rate we had to go back and elevate when were audited and have a supplement on the audits whats your liability to have to repay some of the funds back to the state we went through and experienced this year and look at it did dictated and updated our revenue model weve gone back and addressed add additional revenues for 20132014 to cover ourselves if we have to pay back because the live payment methodology we will be able to pay that and wont come off our bottom line there is a significant savings the bulk is a settlement of an old costs report that allowed us to release expenditure dollars thats a one time widen fall because of the settlement in Public Health<\/a> again, youll see that we have a realignment loss that ab 85 recruitment is splits within the San Francisco<\/a> general and pushing youll see a little bit of it in two places and some expenditures savings on the salary does the bulk of that from delays in phil newest budgeted it positions again as we get our hiring rammed up wiener well see that decrease as were able to catch up on the timing and get those positions fills Substance Abuse<\/a> a 5. 1 million surplus Substance Abuse<\/a> favorable expenditures due to a higher cost settlement a one time savings well not expect to repeat so kind of in summary of where we are ill be happy to answer any questions but weve under a new reserve policy weve talked about at the Commission Part<\/a> of annual appropriation ordinance approves by the board of supervisors too years we have been able to build up reserves that burglary protect us against this volatility in state and federal revenues thats a big priority for us just because were weve limited ability to manage on the margins when we have those big swings in the revenue over the two years ago weve now working with the Controllers Office<\/a> set aside 92. Million that reserve so give us a level of comfort in terms of how we can deal with future losses issues that are driving the deposits into the reserve well be watching closely over the year we have a potential dislife without the possibility of parole significant disallowance of payments maids in prior years from sb 28 that reenforces on the laguna honda replacement project so we put marine corp money in reserve in case we have to pay that amount back we have a reduction in the deexpansion rates that is gone into effect over the last couple of months and again as part of the ongoing uncertainly over what the state will recoup and interacts the waiver weve estimated 27. 9 million potential liabilities that is referred for in the fund as well so again, it is a good year weve hit over Key Financial Targets<\/a> a second year in a row watt the supplemental appropriation that is always worth mentioning after a decade of supplemental appropriations and weve started to establish mechanisms foreign dealing with the uncertainly this is a beg source of Financial Anxiety<\/a> for the department so ill be happy to answer any questions and questions dr. First of all, thank you this is really a great written summary it looked at the late late night and it was clear and i guess two issues were demonstrating great fiscal maternities with the captioners under our control wear containing costs and staying within our projected revenues and we have mostly positive surplus on a management prospective thank you to everyone director garcia and mr. Pickens and everything and, of course, yourself doing all the direction and also on the reports side i it out you emphasized the drivers so want to thank you for making any late night really pleasance and im glad i was helpful and im sorry. You have to change the reports this is a change in the reports and i got it it was very nice the question with regards to the drivers that are sort out of our control i think the one in our control there is services and safety were doing great im worried about hundred Million Dollars<\/a> the 5 percent of over total budget the state we might get it how do wells address that i know you have contingency reserves at the local level but are the counties together working at the state level to make sure that captation praits rates dont fall below what is reasonable and the realignment revenues flow and promised i guess i would hope we can get a better grasp of hundred Million Dollars<\/a> i know you guys are doing if you could reach. Weve worked with all the hospital and other communities colleen is the policy director we have worked diligently working on many of the issues together but this is has been a historical process for the departments and having this reserve is won the abilities for us to be able to responds to those at times revenue comes in it could be an audit from 5 years ago so it is very volatile that is why within our goals and one of my dowels to have the reserve for the department which the city has allowed us to do to insure were not spending the same and dont have a reserve and all of a sudden the costs that come to us are revenue that comes to us we cant spend either we have to go through due process on a policy and advocacy level we worked with all the counties hand to hand trying to look at this week on those specific issues if you have questions about those specifics. One id like to followup this disallowance im not sure i understand what is disallowed we can here on behalf of the appellant and sure i can. Rather than less controls. Sure and just briefly to add to our director garcia one of the big sources ever uncertainty is the funds that come through the 1115 waiver our addition and safety net pool few minutes it is because theres a formula that ties us to the Financial Performance<\/a> of ever on the one hand, other counties that perhaps one of the things weve been pushing as we go into the negotiation of the new waiver to create a system that gives us a little bit more certainty and control predictability abilities one day get a letter the estimate for your allocation has changed by 36 millions positive or negative and we react we have a little way of knowing that is coming this is one of the big policy and legislative concerns how can we work on the new waiver to make it a little bit more structured and predictable. On the disallowance of the sb 1228 that one really is more of a technical item were in the process of working with the state and frequenting to fought what our option to appeal that but basically what it is their is a state plan amendment approved some years back to allows us to draw federal dollars to grurms us for the debt service of laguna honda weve been working closely what the state to do that we recently were notified that under federal accounting rules that the way they view those payments are sense they were maids on Debt Services<\/a> about patients occupied the new facility theyre not an eligible experience for reimbursements that is a technical urgent care policy interpretation that came down to us were in the process of really trying to dig through that and figure out you know what our options for appeal and build our argument were going to make our best effort to change that but this really is one of the things where this is from fiscal year 2005 through 11 the payments were made it is many years later and all of a sudden one of those things that gets caught in the federal audit process those types of things so many years worth of times between the point you get paid and final audit is closed we have some exposure of uncertainty about are we going to are a negative or positive audit settlement and align for those kinds of technicalth issues are really our best strategy to have a reserve in place you think about 2 million operating budget to essential be operating on no reserve which weve been up until two years ago it is not a viable place those are the two policy approaches to next the way the payments are made and kind of a financially plan in a 2 billion budget bound to be variations or various and how to create a modest and reasonable cushion so were able to adapt to the new items as and come. With the disallowance with a one time i mean were going to get it or not not a reoccurring expense from our budget. Correct Going Forward<\/a> once the patients have occupied the facility the initial theyve race is no longer a relevant grounsz for disallowance. So what it it sounds those are parts of the audits and thats correct. And go on i want to comment i thought again and this is in the just this year this formats were using a steel helpful and continues to be transparent and allows us to understand even in the good years what is happening and the good news this is second year as you say makes for a much more sounds sleep at night. Absolutely laughter . Im sure in our case. Absolutely. So any further comments on this ends of our report. Ill note no Public Comment<\/a> requests for this. I dont know from the director wishes to comment. As a historian in the Defendant Department<\/a> it is a good year despite the fact of audit extension again this was a goal we had to have a financial reserve to be able to manage unforeseen issues and the fact that state and federal government do take time to process those audits, etc. And so we never know what is going to come we just get surprised but encouraged one day it is positive and now it is negative so this is here on behalf of the appellant will allow is a more stable prediction of our financing as you can see what we are doing well from the operational point of view the issues the federal government and the State Government<\/a> that interest changing their direction how we get paid. Thank you very much. When the summer goes if were on time and on budget maybe we should be our own country and states of San Francisco<\/a> maybe thats the solution. So move on commissioned to the next item is that all right. And, yes. Item 10 new bus. Equal i said to thank everybody for having participated in the planning i know that commissioner pating has ideas of trying to hem formalize some of the thinking for the future and the Public Health<\/a> so i hope the meeting was helpful. It was helpful thank you to the department of Public Health<\/a> and decreasing doctors i felt i walked awful u away from that briefing feeling for the first time i understood all the divisions and how they Work Together<\/a> and the importance of them as well i think that will help us in our smaller committee. Thank you next items please. Move on to the joint conference and commissioner sanchez you have summaries in front of you, you from the accepts j. C. Meeting and laguna honda meeting. So the september 22nd meeting we looked at the Quality Management<\/a> report a new format and he guessed were all trying to learn it. It had a very good update on the security Port Commission<\/a> progress that is going and the discussion of 340 pharmacy update well expand the that is of service for our clients actually receiving the 340 b bed think an outpatient basis were looking at and had continues to follow the transition for the new rebuilt, of course, well be having the Ribbon Cutting<\/a> on november 21st we otherwise received routine reports not routine in the sense that was not important but routine we get those regular reports from the hospital administrators the patient care from the Human Resources<\/a> which is an issue theyre on track and should be able to accommodate our new building at a little well needs our are personnel and during the staff report we had a revision to the rules and regulations and revised the clinic documents and revised the ed privilege list and in closed session approved the criminals and fifth street corridor from the directors report. Any questions please. Doctor sanchez yeah laguna honda conference met on the 13th the majority of meeting was in closed session we were reviewing the medical improvement medical quality bids and incredible reports the votes were in closed session and voted not pertaining to the incredible report that really concluded the meeting for that day. Note in Public Comment<\/a> and move on on item 12 the Committee Agenda<\/a> setting. So it is our my intent to have our closed session on the elevation of over director at our next meeting. Were looking at at planning a planning meeting hopefully, a session online sometime in the spring. Any other items that the members would like to speak to if not well go on to the next item. The consideration of adjournment. Oh, a motion for adjournment is in order. Motion to all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Were adjourned thank hi. Welcome to San Francisco<\/a>. Stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. Lets look at common earthquake myths. We are here at the urban center on Mission Street<\/a> in San Francisco<\/a>. We have 3 guest today. We have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. I want to talk about urban myths. What do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance . Hes sleeping during those earthquakes . Have you noticed him take any special . No. He sleeps right through them. There is no truth that im aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. You hear the myth all the time. Suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something i hear they are aware of small vibrations. But yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. Today is a spectacular day in San Francisco<\/a> and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. Is this earthquake weather . No. Not that i have heard of. No such thing. There is no such thing. We are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. There is no relationship. I have heard its hot or cold weather or rain. Im not sure which is the myth. How about time of day . Yes. It happens when its least convenient. When it happens people say we were lucky and when they dont. Its terrible timing. Its never a good time for an earthquake. But we are going to have one. How about the ground swallowing people into the ground . Like the earth that collapsed . Its not like the tv shows. The earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but its not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. Its not going anywhere. We are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. Southern california is moving north. Its coming up from the south to the north. You would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. Maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. For better or worse. Yes. This is a tough question. Those other ones werent tough. This is a really easy challenge. Are the smaller ones less stress . Yes. The amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. I think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4. 7. So small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future . Not anyway that you can count on. I have heard that buildings in San Francisco<\/a> are on rollers and isolated . Its not true. Its a conventional Foundation Like<\/a> almost all the circumstances buildings in San Francisco<\/a>. The transamerica was built way before. Its a pretty conventional foundation design. I have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. Is there anything of value to that . Yes, if you are in your room. You should drop, cover and hold onto something. If you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. If you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, its not a bad place to be. The reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. You are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. You are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. You want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. Where can i buy a Richter Scale<\/a> . Mr. Richter is selling it. We are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. They are not available. Its a rather complex. In fact we dont even use the Richter Scale<\/a> anymore. We use a moment magnitude. The Richter Scale<\/a> was early technology. Probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. Is that true . Loma prieta was different. The ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. So anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. We are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to San Francisco<\/a> and a fault totally independent. Much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. So people who were here in 89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isnt really the threshold of damage. When you triple it you cross that line. Its much more damage in earthquake. I want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for. Working for the city and county of San Francisco<\/a> will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change weve been on the edge after all were at the meeting of land and sea worldclass style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the citys Information Technology<\/a> xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at San Francisco<\/a> General Hospital<\/a> our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house Senate Regional<\/a> wearout system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of San Francisco<\/a> give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the citys future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisc good afternoon id like to call the order of regular meeting of Public Utilities<\/a> commission todays date is tuesday, october 13, 2015, roll call please. Commissioner president caen commissioner vietor commissioner moran coordinating commissioner moran Vice President<\/a> we have a quorum approval of the minutes of the minutes of september 22nd additions, deletions, or changes to the minutes seeing none, may i have a motion. So moved. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries we also have the minutes of september 25, 2015, the joint meeting of lafco and puc any additions or corrects. Move approve all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries at this point, im calling for Public Comment<\/a> on any item not on the agenda i see a card from ann clark. Hello ann she also has good news. I do have good news i am here on behalf of the friends at camp mather for the staff for the support and advise you gave to us for a family friend day on september 2nd of we really had a terrific Family Fun Day<\/a> a lot of people there i want to also comment that sfpuc was next to the fire truck and sfpuc notch of them what is a bounce ball next to the bounce house was a table and they brought pictures for kids to color that table with all the kids around it and the bounce i didnt house that table was full of kids all day long they loved it they loved the coloring and the pictures and they behaved wonderfully that was really exciting to see the little ones with such fun in a good way was nice thank you to harlan and others that came and supported us and let you, you know that was really, really, really a fun family day thank you very much for your help. Good im glad it here it im sure the parents were happy they were involved that the fun any other Public Comment<\/a> before we move on. Item 5 communications. I didnt thank you madam president a couple of things one on the report on the 525 golden gate building the status of id like to probe a little bit deeper than the memo went i right hand lane reporting on the performance of leading elements is not part of the certification we did it to get the right thing thing im interested and sounds like from the memo a series of studies and reviews that are take place on the living machine that will produce an in depth analysis in the not too distance future within the other elements the solar panels and my understanding is theyre working as anticipated and indicating that is probably beyond pilot stage pretty much predictable and Wind Turbines<\/a> are a different story and what i understand is that what the memo said basically, thats been shut down for survivalist issues and performance issues i understand one of the things the company that made those has gone bankrupt and so it at proprietaryy contract were not in the position to maintain them theyre a a lot of lessons ill be interested to knowing what they are when the Wind Turbines<\/a> every produce power before they were shut down did they live up to the expectation and what did we learn about the process and technology and what how to make those lessons known to people despite that is a followup item on the part of the living machine id like addressed in the reports that come forward my understanding we expected that we would produce a lot of excess water and could use that water for irrigating the Civic Center Plaza<\/a> and projecting forward that in an area like downtown you didnt need every building to have those intelligence if you could have enough of them they could share the water they produced and get good coverage theyre looking at spending money trying to figure out how to get water into the purple pipe systems that should be installed there this was one way to accomplish that it appears im going from it appears were producing. Bunch ever water not using the building were not producing the surplus my indication weve learned in that process also my understanding that in the design of the buildings because we thought to whether be a surplus of water we made decisions about the water things walk waterless urinals from the result of that technology or not as much water coming out of that the residual the conservatism and that you shouldnt rule out Supervisor Scott Wiener<\/a> features and fixtures because you think you have enough water to handle it well get beyond those are the kinds of lessons i was hoping to have recorded and to look for a forum the Architecture Community<\/a> should know that and the Building Community<\/a> should know those things im looking for another addition and make sense to wait for the living machinery reports we owe it to the people that pay for the projects to do a better report. Then on the construction contract award summary i havent had a chance to look at the information id asked for that information because the one of the fundamental management benchmarks for the San Francisco<\/a> Public Utilities<\/a> commission contracting process we would monitor performance against engineering estimates this data says the engineering estimates have been used are growth measure and certainly not something youll use a Financial Management<\/a> tool and my understanding is that were planning on doing a different kind of cost estimate that is important to recognize as we go to different contracting methods use different ways of managing we need to make sure the metrics were using are having up to the protection that are appropriate thats one as we get into how we manage those contract not just the ordinance but how we chose as an organization we need to keep in mind thats my comments. I have a comment on the building on the building i also love to see comparison you know the Bullet Center<\/a> in seattle theyve been saying theyre the green it commercial building in the country and it would be nice to have a little bit of comparison not two in depth but to see if their systems are perform in the this is a and by comparison what were doing Lessons Learned<\/a> exercise not too deep of a dive but in the shirt of sharing with the architecture field the envelope that was one of the intentions a little bit of comparison and similar types of buildings. You know it is an excellent point you also have oath building right there. laughter . I know that organization would be happy to serve as a benchmark i had a question about the emergency sister tenors and he cant recall i think that arent we using portal a water for this water supply im wondering if this is a conversation we can reopen and tie to the nonpolitical work were doing and the ordinance wools be rolling out i know there is probably health and political issues but smells now is the best time when were in a drought to voluntary that conversation and transition a portion of that water to nonport nonportal. Theres a lot of id like to thinks before we start engaging folks and how we deal with stormwater and so the question how do you use a combined system or have a speculate system we need to get the grips the issue to use our combined sewer system as part of you know the a w s system we are planning to build a recycled facility at oceanside which we passed the eir were definitely moving forward and the level were going to straight r treat it of one of the highest levels with asbestos so we need a time we need how to plan around it most expensive part is transportation of our moving water with the purple that is my understanding as you imagine digging up in San Francisco<\/a> is really a challenge so not only that were looking on the side if we want to be a power provider we need to talk about how we actually have extra capacity so this is something for sure we probably need to come up with a plan how we are planning to treat that as one water because that is the concept were moving towards yeah, and go back on the comment of c n g c we would like to give you anymore information the missing piece moving in that direction when the engineering estimates were engineers and contractor that are building that are ideals how to save thats what im interested and have you know a third Party Practices<\/a> but we can go through that as far as the building is concerned when we talk about 525 talk about the leading edge and ill say the Wind Turbines<\/a> is the leading edge i think one of the concerns once we start bringing the company in they went out of business and do we stale it e. R. Not we felt we can continue i think the point we definitely have a lot of Lessons Learned<\/a> but well have the whole shape the fad that maximize the wind velocity and i did a process who can take advantage the slope of the side of the building to generate power i feel that the way that the wind it is your baselines are concerned they need to be engineered better than today so well go back and take a step back as far as the Water Concern<\/a> there is some challenges with the water urinals and the carriage that is there is caused a problem that is high and a lot of you know chemicals so we choose the waters because we felt there was enough water and then with the excess water well water maybe the city hall or Something Like<\/a> that i think the challenge is that the cost of bringing our pipes to city hall versus how much water becomes a problem so what i think this is all new information that helps inform us when we Start Talking<\/a> about other projects we had to try it out first so i think we would love to go back and say to the original assumptions and summary something higher and the cost of actually bringing it to the where we thought would he would be well definitely work on that. I appreciate that let me be very clear i think your point those r were experiments and test we went farther most people 0 would go further than most people would go we had an opportunity but the fact it didnt perform according to our expectation is not a ding we the ding we didnt tell people what we learned so im anxiety to get those out with the respect to the excess tenocisterns were tt going to direct portal reuse and the standard that will be protective of Firefighters Health<\/a> and might be good to get a definition how good it needs to get thats a design criteria to make better use. Thats right to get a sense in this one water roll out or whatever the timing that of those sister tenocisterns. We like a system where water can move around we have issues with the sewers with a large volume and the drought 33 very little water goes through them in the sense weve been push conservatism and a lot of water is not moving the solids it will be nice to flush it there are a lot of issues to use more water but be more efficient the main thing it would be hard to to the projects from going along we should think of ways to be nice to not tiein with the cisterns but the water use throughout it city at a higher level of recycled water is another approach i definitely welcome that that we look at how we can make the city use water. Okay. Any other comments . Any comments from the public yes gary. Good afternoon, commissioners eric brooks im with the sustainability chair at the San Francisco<\/a> green party and on the water Chapter Sierra Club<\/a> excuse me. And i wanted to point out a couple of things on the last item you mentioned in the countries like australia that had severe drought cisterns are a crucial part of the keystone to the drought storing water instead of letting it run through the ocean is crucial the do idea we need to not store water is counterintuitive to me i know weve not done test projects we must a few years ago i pushed age and your head of wastewater enterprise did a great report on compost toilets take the solids out of system this commission do nothing about that report we need test pilots those involved separating the urine part of waste from the other waste it a better methodology for a low flush or no flush urinals and no toilets ill urge we get series about the test programs done for compost toilets in the urban area we need to initiative and get that off the ground in San Francisco<\/a> just to give you a hypothetical on the numbers if everyone in San Francisco<\/a> used composite instead of a flushing toilet well save 5 billion with a b 5 billions gallons a year and completely remove human waste out the system and put them into a composite system a vital next step well rocket past australias and look like the innovators and take the 21st century to repeat weve got to do large sail cisterns in every business in the city to address the state of california thanks. Thank you yes. I didnt want to jump on the nonrestricted portal maybe not a discussion or presentation one minute on is there any challenges with the new ordinance coming online and i think that is a pretty good summary on ask the general manager if things with going according to plan and that is achievable. What part do you want the legislation and the nonrestricted perpetrated i like that are 10 or 12 projects in the cue that has indications for a host of reasons on the reasons around flushing the systems and revenue generations and all kinds of things and staffing potential to revenue review the projects but a lot in there a short summary. One of the Biggest Challenges<\/a> and maybe someone who has been. Paula back there. Working on it the wastewater side paula. One of the big champions with the new regulations is that basically, we want large buildings to actually treat their wastewater on site so this year definitely continuous but some concerns i mean our system is built so we have operators at the plants now all those decentralized locations which could be problematic if theyre not working properly so i on the thing we need to try to moving in the right direction and carefully because you you know the plant is all of our resources are and it is arguments about the decentralizing and centralizing and taking out you know solids and so i think that is you know our concern if whatever they have is not you know removing the solids as presented or where will they put the solids thats a concern i do feel like the living machine you on the system like that can be something valuable but i think the Lessons Learned<\/a> well talk about the challenges of the living machine we plugged it in and it didnt work properly but sewer operators that manage our systems and another buildings they may not have the system and the cost would be well work with the office paula did you want to talk about more liv. City Attorneys Office<\/a> not on the agenda to go into details about the substantive you can schedule something. At some point it might be worst and in tandem with the Lessons Learned<\/a> but mower of a presentation especially leading up to budget the budget indications. Are they another any other Public Comment<\/a> on this item seeing none, other commissioner business. Now as you may know i am leaving any position of president today so i had a few things to say ive reflected about what has been going on and im truly proud truly proud that that commission and staff accomplished everything they have. First, i want to thank general manager kelly for his leadership on advancing this agency i wanted to thank our City Attorney<\/a> for the work on every single one of the issues as you may know they are i wanted to mention highlights over the past or parts year, of course, the drought we cant forget that and certainly went beyond the aspiration target and exceeding them all this is true of our with wholesale customers as well i want to give credit to the water team for all the hard work and add over the years the proper Water Management<\/a> has certainly showed it as we look at our reservoir as compared to others im sorry that nicole is not here i wanted to mention her in the same topic of the drought and her best staff because the campaigns were the same tyrone so get the wonderful job of coordinating the wholesale customers and us not only have we been getting results on the reservoir but moving forward to disif i our water zones and getting construction on the west side expired water faucet well continue our process constructing the ground water wells in San Francisco<\/a> and today, we had a press conference to all the progress 16 new wells for the ground Water Project<\/a> as you may know this years Water Improvement Program<\/a> is over 90 percent completed in 2002 when the bond issues were passed and things were really in disraw truthfully i thought this was never going to get done and now 90 percent done thats very exciting. Another milestones was achieved the achievement of over 7 millions save working hours with the Training Programs<\/a> and workforce a lot of credit goes to a gm how and director wade now moving to my favorite area the southeast i was very hesitate about saying this it was endangering but a Successful Campaign<\/a> that is what more can i say about i cant read my writing about everyones i got to get it right your number 2 is our number one got is; right . Yeah. It was very catchy and tie responsible for that and i want to tell you something i found out he was a biology major they cant write so how he does so well, maybe you were destined to be a scientist you know how compassionate i am at invest work and looking at to the project and design and expressed were not waiting for the Large Capital<\/a> projects this year a gm and his Wastewater Team<\/a> made the progress ramming sewer inspectors to 150 million i was very much in favor of and very good pieced in the paper about that 3 advertising ones on that side ill keep a close eye on the sewer and wastewater those we owe the people in the Southeast Area<\/a> this year i also wanted to commend the efforts of a gm alice for 15 hundred youth darting around the sfpuc offices we also celebrate some great Financial Milestones<\/a> this year thanks to the Adams Sandler<\/a> and his team a successful bond sale for the water system and for the first time we sold Revenue Bonds<\/a> to finance the work of our power system that was a plus. And i also wanted to recognize transition of our deputy manager most of time we works behind the scenes and many projects involve in the wrong direction i cannot go into details laughter but lets say that im glad youre on our team michael and given you a new middle name pg e. laughter . And last but not least watch talk on the clean power sf the past year weve made the launch of the hierarchy and when you look at the several months weve made progress i want to thank jkd kelly and her staff for completely a lot of work and topnotch puc staffs and launching a successful Clean Energy Program<\/a> for the entire city i having also have every confidence that commission as president and letting this thing out of bag will carry the torch to the finish line youll be there when it happens. I want to recognize donna hood it is the girl that keeps us running together and on time thank you donna for all the work ive done for me and lastly i want to thank my fellow commissioners for your Services People<\/a> never thank commissioners ive been thanked 5 times in my life you put in a lot of work and care i wanted to tell you that is the best commission ive ever sat on and youre wonderful and i say thank you for your services with that, were going to have elections so the first id like to nomination for Vice President<\/a>. Madam chair id like to nominate commissioner moran for Vice President<\/a> and. I accept that nomination. Any other nominations better not be. laughter so all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The the motion carries now want. Id like to nominate francisco can. Do you accept. I accept thank you. Any other nominations i. Opposed . That motion carries. Congratulations thank you and now we have the tradition of changing of the seats. laughter just one second you know in the haste to side that you didnt officially ask for a second for the record could we identify the person who slooint seconded the motion you i did that was very soft laughter thank you. So we change seats oh, yes, but before you leave our seats can i speak. Yeah. I didnt know when you leave or after you leave but first of all, i wanted to perp say that spending time with you under our wantscy has meant a lot to me as a friend but also as a mentor you told me when andy was in my seat youd spend 16 hours go over the agenda items thank god for technology with the ipads but been a lot of things were able to accomplish you went over them but some that are very, very dear to me and one was the cca you were very compassionate about making sure that was affordable you have drilled that in my head even when i called you today reminded me it has to be affordable thats who you are you are about the budget youll always be about the budget whether or not our president and the other thing your compassionate about your involvement in the defendanters with her that not able to move the clean water with the water you remember passionate we were doing it so, now were going to involve you no later than in your president on the commission or not well make sure youre involved in those defendantsers and the other thing about our Credit Rating<\/a> on the power side basically means we are fundamentally sound and in our power so we can get. Favorable bond rating it is important so as atology of our appreciation and serve i have a couple of gifts to give you the first one is talk about the invest defendanters id like to give you a photo of d c water the before and after of their defendaigesters theres an article recently a press conference they talked about the power you you know poop to power now that is something were moving forward and looking at and i think that is going to be a big positive and the other thing were looking at allergy so have a product to sell were looking to become a revenue generated enterprise the other things id like to give you is your own gavel i think this 5th imperatively you have one every day of the week but i dont know about saturday and sunday and a box of truthfulness to enjoy in our spare times pass that and an honor to serve with you as most of other commissioners know ill reach out and i think a lot of the commissioners are concerned about a topic i go so youll always be involved in the ones ive mentioned to you im sad to see you go but im looking forward to because ill be talking to you ever other day but also looking forward to spending time with frankies can with Unfinished Business<\/a> up to speed on the recycling and other things i know you care about im looking forward to working with you thank you. I wanted to two words of in coming chair thank you for your services on behalf of the commission it is great to serve with you those many years and president and your grace and humor had been hard to follow ill do my best on behalf of the commission clapping. thank you all now the chair move. Take my gifts laughter . Okay. Thank you very much next item please mr. Secretary. On the report of the general manager. Did we have Public Comment<\/a> on that. Oh, Public Comment<\/a> gentlemen Public Comment<\/a> on this item. Mr. Brooks. Good afternoon. Again commissioners so first of all, a quick critical aside on poop to power ive been working on the Global Warming<\/a> gases and issues like that for thirty years a scrutinize the poop to power carefully the way those systems are designed and being destined right now theyre actually schneider to increase the production of methane if you look at the climate signs ill see that is exactly what we dont need recognizing that methane is much more serious than o2 now to the subject at hand i want to thank commissioner president caen for being under his watch sf clean power has gotten underway we appreciate it in the community for clean power sf having the number one environmental commissioners in the presidency as we launch the program is important and a good sign as well as the Vice President<\/a> being the number one nuts and bolts how to run it and a really good sign well be counting on you mrs. President and mr. Vice president to make sure there is no further details and their cut as much as possible i realize the needs for moving forward sensible but comments latter on the details of that but please get our staff to go forward as much as possible on the program and good to see you france confess in the presidency. Thank you. Any others. Please call the next line item item. Report of general manager. So for the first item is drought update steve richie. Thank you steve richie vaunt general manager for water, please have the slides for information and Additional Information<\/a> first of all, the hetch hetchy continues to be fairly folds 73 percent of capability our water bank it one 84,000 feet above what we expected and this is solely because of the conservatism that people achieved and more theyve safe down here the more up countrys thats a good thing those are reservoirs around the state theyre quite allow people are hoping for more precipitation this year that is 11 percent of capacity and on the merced reservoir and low reservoirs not as well as ours are right now precipitation you can barely see a red slice in the beginning of the chart maybe about a half of inch in the handkerchief in the first four days of the month beginning on october 1st, we got the rain and potential for additional precipitation this weekend it as a start well not expect serious precipitation for a month or two but starting out more than zero thats a good thing. Deliveries continue to be amazing the demands throughout the summer is 200 millions gallons per day comparing the green with the red line the customers have irrigation it has gone way down people are not using a lot of water only indoor thats a going thing and well below our target and above what our target was here are the individual usage we show this chart for the month of august the 15 lowest yours per capita 13 percent are your customers very low usage so it is much as San Francisco<\/a> all of our customers are pulling their weight and that is shown the totals we have saved collectively 13 billion glances and our goal was 13 were ahead that paid off with the additional water in the country i want to talk about to things related to the drought one is legislation that was just signed by the governor sb 555 relates to water loss audits that leakage of water from systems is a big topic weve done studies of waterlogs that are more detailed than the routine measures to go through weve done this ever 5 years this is a mandated done annual it so happens were currently beginning our next water audit to really track down the system we know how much lamenting in the system we called our nonrefer water the fire flows and things of that nature but the leaks is a special subset so understanding our legion rate we should have the result in early 2016 but not mandatory for all Water Systems<\/a> of 3 thousand but routing routinely do you imagine were not sure it is to be necessary to be annually but well do it announcing the one other thing were doing a full scale delivery test interest the cherry aqueduct from 1987 to the drought this is the aqueduct it comes from Lake Elsinore<\/a> and will be at the low Water Treatment<\/a> plant plant we expect it there tomorrow and fliflt that to november 12th this is a full scale test to make sure that the ac duck that was damaged in the rim fire and has water to be flibltd bring it down here and filter it and it at the Treatment Plant<\/a> and back out of the system to the hetch hetchy supply and expect it to be a successful test on the other hand, like everything were doing something new and different and things to be learned a photo of lower cherry aqueduct this is about 90 million gallons per day along the hillside that is heading towards cherry lake in the background and behind the mountain tunnel and be part of our mountain supply a successful test one more taking a look at to deal with the drought ill be happy to answer any questions. Commissioners. Thank you next item. Next item is an update on the automated teller machine. Thank you. Hello julie let km automated teller machine for external affairs well pull up the slides too as part of Budget Planning<\/a> process that the commission is engaged in theres been a request to review all the agencies policies to provide updates on the Community Environmental<\/a> Justice Policy<\/a> as you may know last january the commission got an in depth presentation dying i tying back to the positional and last april the update on the upper Pilot Program<\/a> so for the update ill give a quick refresher on the benefits policy and program and i am sorry to yolanda that will give you a more in depth presentation of that work this is would be a new presentation for you all. As you may know the sfpuc is the only one with an virtual policy to the a Good Neighbor<\/a> and important to reiterate that the Good Neighbor<\/a> policy is really central how we do that in january when our general manager was asked how much do we spend open Community Benefits<\/a> the expense with an operating budget he was trying to errors reinforce that it is embedded into the activity. Since the presentation last year a couple of things to highlight on the implemented Community Benefits<\/a> policy one area if in the contracting so were now successfully incorporating Community Benefits<\/a> into the professional Service Contracts<\/a> it get over 5 million and weve been able to leverage over 6 million in candidates from firms like a coming and partisan and w ac hill and others so jacobs big and little jacobs they have partnered with the sfpuc making financial and in kind contributions as part of professional Services Contract<\/a> were excited since january weve been looking at putting those opportunities into into procurement contracts and on the construction see when per putting out contracts to be ultimate delivery method that we would look at opportunity to put Community Benefits<\/a> languages into the rfp youll hear in the general manager presentation on the education and Youth Employment<\/a> work that continues to grow and reach for students and young people throughout San Francisco<\/a> were very excited about and as we look at the communities benefits work now were in year 3 it is very clear were having an impact and the Community Benefits<\/a> and donna provided a hardcopy of the Community Policy<\/a> there are 10 different areas that the commission excluded in the policy around the impacts for the workforce and Economic Development<\/a> and Community Participation<\/a> and engagement and all of those areas weve begun to track the disclose or not disclose amazes and amounts and the individuals we reach and last january we talked about talked about the fact were in partnership with the Controllers Office<\/a> and uc berkley to create a Monitoring Program<\/a> that lets us move beyond we compacted 200 kids or 200 kids coming through the puck puc what are we trying to chief with the puc and are they more open to careers in the areas we care about e were in the early stages of developing that and cock it the commission to tie it into the policy those are clear policy decisions were making a the other phenomena happening were getting a push by the Public Utilities<\/a> throughout the Community Benefits<\/a> work so British Columbia<\/a> and chicago and seattle are a few of the utilities that reached United States<\/a> e out to us of replication and in particular theyre interested in the work weve been doing and integrating that into our professional contracts all of the conversations they ask what is the ingredient how to move from the Community Benefits<\/a> to the locations i think all of us have been on board in different places or observing the policies being pass and never implemented any take away in the commission and the policy itself identified the resources and when as a question that commission beau traffic mentioned what is the resources when we had the policies, etc. I think the Community Benefit<\/a> policy was structured that was smart they tied a resource question into the policy saying the policy should create a program and the program should be a resource for implementation were able to have dedicated staff it really takes and pilots opportunities for prelims they dont do that in isolation a small team that are a dedicated and work sibdz with the agency whether wastewater, etc. They clorls with sister agencies with the consultant firms and nonprofit organizations weve been able to see the impact if you look at what weve done around the younger and house the young people not in the puc we dont have room by commitment to do a service in kind policy to reach the scale and impacts i think is a part of the partnerships so ill stop on the Community Benefits<\/a> policy and program you guys have gotten a lot of information in the past year and i am sorry to yolanda that will lead the Environmental Justice<\/a> work at the puc shes done an extraordinary job to a highlevel and abstract not disproperty impact on the no road map not last week she can copy what seattles seattle or portland did i see the presentation shell show you how to dive deep into what it means for the 200 employees and my job everyday and working with the staff at a level of piloting the completion as well as working directly with the staff to say to help them shape the completion of the new policies it is exciting and groundbreaking not to to the my own horn with that, im going to turn it over to yolanda. Thank you juliette and good afternoon. Thank you commissioners im delighted to be here to give you an implements of the Justice Policy<\/a> that was passed thanks for our leadership in 2009 at that time, we still are today, the first and only public utility to have an Environmental Justice<\/a> policy i was hired in late 2012 to implement this policy in particular and as juliet yet mentions not a lot of example to turn to and the challenge we were faced with how do we make this policy have matt haney for us as the puc and within the utility sector particularly as a water power sewer what does it mean to embody the principles to the Environmental Justice<\/a> we know thanks to our go back and the Good Neighbor<\/a> policy it is fundamental how we do business we know there as strong business cap for Environmental Justice<\/a> how to add weight to the Infrastructure Investments<\/a> so we needed a place to start the best practice no matter where our working is usually to set goals so step one to set some goals some clear articulated 3 simple goals the first one really relates to that integrating into core decision business all the core of Environmental Justice<\/a> to a Capital Program<\/a> or policy or any of the pragmatic ongoing work the second goal we established and it is really in supportive of being able to achieve the fiscal integration everyone at the puc should in this not only what Environmental Justice<\/a> is more importantly what it means for their job on a daily basis at puc the second goal is the education of our staff and the third goal is really a fundamental tenants of Environmental Justice<\/a> in general that is meaningful and diverse Stakeholder Engagement<\/a> we set those goals and worked with the leadership to get input and sign off on those with those 3 goals to establish the framework we were going to use for implementing this agree wide policy and i always like to say you know you need multiple tools tool in the toolbox but especially, when it comes to something that is abstract and feel intackle as inspirational justice were trying to implement this cross the agency and the business of our water enterprise is different from the wastewater enterprise different from the power we needed a system to be flexible and tangible to track so this graphic tries to show you, we created the different tools for the different scenarios so starting they top with the Environmental Justice<\/a> policy that is the broad policy or leveraged tools we get more specific with with each tool the guidelines are more appropriate at the staff levels and in the as highlevel of the commission but getting to the nittygritty around the check list that are meant for project sponsors as theyre working to through their promotions and understanding what Environmental Justice<\/a> meant we did a systems graphing he didnt want to recreate the wheel or a bumper to bumper ceqa like process that people will be perceiving as a barrier or check the position were trying to adds value in the business context so we did a systems mapping to understand the key legislators where decisions are made we can effectively take the tool into the Decision Making<\/a> processes to make sure that the Environmental Justice<\/a> are being taken account ever and from there weve selected pilots and as a sample on the pilots best been into with the wastewater enterprise. So this is a snapshot of four of various pilots or different tool in the toolbox that we put together the first one relates to the Service Goals<\/a> were a higher level commissioning commission experienced tool, if you will, to provide the benefits and adhere to the Environmental Justice<\/a> a great example of without the staff to work on it but at the highlevel has meaningful that the staff picks up and runs with that the staff looking at the service goal and this feels less tangible how to make sure were doing this we worked with them on a basic level to map out the areas of concerns in our region for the system improvement sewer system where we have concerns if theyre proposing projects a physical integration a map they can touch and feel i know he need to be asking those extra questions and aware of the Environmental Justice<\/a> area the other 3 ill go over in wore detail starting with the Community Engagement<\/a> i started a fundamental to make sure we have meaningful and difference Stakeholder Input<\/a> as a Public Agency<\/a> were already very expert in Public Engagement<\/a> and outreach we wanted to builds on the expertise when we are out there gooenl with the public the input we receive is reflective of the democrat graphics the community we are working in we may say one hundred ipad surveys we want to peel back that identical of the hundred people did they represent the diversities and the only way to do that we need to measure and track our work we instituted an entity based metabolics for people to selfreport on although their demographics and benchmark that so is are we getting a representative population or not in this sample slide we did very well on most categories equipment with the latino geographic we feel short and this is why with that knowledge we need extra special partners with the Community Based<\/a> organization with the tracking of the community that were trying to reach in order to get those people to the table and say yes. The input is next slide, please reflective of the community. Another example of an implementation tool and sgraig into the exit structures with the trillion bottom line tool with the system improvement programs and already does a great job and balancing the environmental economic proposed projects we at a simple layer of data around the geometryal dimensions in Environmental Concerns<\/a> so and, track both gray and dark projects in f that area by the time we are done weve installed x number of Green Infrastructure<\/a> in the Environmental Justice<\/a> communities or x number of projects outside of the promotions visa verse and helping to inform the project sponsors as theyre planning their promotions to be aware of those principles and have given giles how to balance and prioritize those in communities of concern like environmental judicious communicates and the last polite i want to share really relates to the ongoing investments in the southeast system improvement programs but specifically for the big dollars like the bio solid and invester projects we know that ceqa does a grok great job and cumulative impacts we know that second did not require you to per say to look at the soy connective impacts that relates to an Environmental Action<\/a> or impact in essence to proactively pick up where ceqa leaves off with a comparison to look at the soy economic systems and how well are our normal capital pragmatic investments to be able to address the issues within our water power sewer provider i want to be clear especially, when i talk about Environmental Justice<\/a> it is a broad area through this the goal to understand what is this lay of the lands and this is the first components of this report is an existing reports of a snapshot of what it looks like for bayview Hunters Point<\/a> from an Environmental Justice<\/a> prospective and there, there to driest and the areas of potential opportunities for the puc to have a positive dictate impact thats with the second part the Impact Analysis<\/a> in reminded with the ceqa process for the bio solids project and another quick look at in 2016 in addition to finishing those Environmental Justice<\/a> and guides well also be working closely with the water and power in establishing their pilots and building them how out with the wastewater enterprise i look forward to come back next year and sharing more updates with that, ill be happy to answer any questions. Questions or comments. Well, i want to thank you for this great work i mean this is one of the situations we develop policies and unless we realize and put smart people nothing happens within that on the shelf they gather dust ive taken the Environmental Justice<\/a> policy to not only a new level but to create a model for not only people the utilities but people internationally to deal with i want to thank you for what you have done and looking forward to hearing what is next and what well be able to do with the Impact Analysis<\/a>. I just wanted to add to the president s comment the work ive seen the impacts of the work you guys are doing youre doing a phenomenal job with the youth employed or under employed this is one of the small components but want to encourage you to keep up the work. Maybe thats a good transition. Question and again you know, i thought that was a good presentation he appreciate that inputs were doing a lot of stuff in the right direction and to be part that that i have a process question separate from the content and we talked about a process of trying to do a review of puc policies in the off budget year it prepares us for the two year budget process weve coming up to is that intended to be that review for those two policies . That was my understanding of the assignment. Okay. The assignment from the finance team that kind of been in conversation were happy to do it definitely we never had a conversation. Ill give you a little bit of that direct conversation when i had hoped for the commission adapts policies within the policies some work better than others those are good and go through specific things to be accomplished and numbered so i would like a comprehensive review of the policy as it exists and you have done a keep dive on several areas that is hive appropriate but not covering some areas one of the things that says in the communities benefits policy is that we should properly resource those are a list of areas and that the authorities should be in place to actually execute those the obvious question in those ten areas are we properly resources and from the answer is yes. Yes. Great from the answer is no thats a longer discussion why and when we need to do something in the project and likewise we get into some of the areas your moving forward towards but not gotten to yet we should have a discussion that so we have a sense not only of the areas of emphasis and higher achievement but the areas we need to strive for for and in this case, the policies really give a nice outline to follow and frankly, if there were not the case you can say that perhaps for nicely but say that we on the policy is deficient in some areas we wanted to do this but think it is a bad idea to so have the policy not a papering in a binder someplace but provides a link between the commission and the work of the jkd and the staff to get that work done so i dont think we hit it weve talked about this at some length but it as valuable presentation it didnt go do this job i hope to get that policy when we adopt a policy well decide that becomes something that is a guidance to the general manager staff and something to report on back to the commission. Ly noted i want to point out that first of all, to thank yolanda for her great work isnt in amazing to see her up in front of a bunch of engineers who want to do their work i think that theyre coming around they understand that we are doing combrok and a great way to document it with our consultants working on projects that are giving back to the community and when we look at deciding on choices we have an abilities to effect areas that are ignored i think everyone is getting jazzed up about making a difference i dont know if i need more resources with yolanda preaching the word were getting a lot of folks and julie let were changing as an organization i dont know if i need more of that we need more sincere mans anyones and get the nonrestricted believers into the room theyve done an outstanding job in turning this organization around i want to give merry proposals and juliette i dont know if i can answer that question i think in all the policies one thing ill be looking at is a sets of getting staff to make sure the policies are being met but is there a way we can integrate and do them without Additional Resources<\/a> im loovl that and seeing from the intent of the policy to come back and further clarify but theres a realty of what resources we have and i dont know if we need that conversation i dont have a policy id like to have that conversation and talk through it. Just to respond to that i think that is a good response to the issue and if it turns out we are properly resources and staff and have the authors to get the job done thats not the discussion other hurdles maybe legislation or maybe a bunch of other things we should have that discussion and rather than do a capture on putting you on the spot but the tendency so say no on the spots on the fly if we sat down with a policy what does the policy say and address that and if it says your supposed to properly staff it and yolanda has done it and this is an important step. And we have one more presentation. One more about our education and Youth Employment<\/a> update and well have laura page come up with an update. Good afternoon commission and thank you for invite us im laura page i these the arts and organization ill share the art and education as well as the workforce that is managed by steve if i could have the slides up thank you. Our agendas for today to go over why the puc invests in the youth ill spend time with an overview of why we support various programs and go into depth and highlight some of the work and happy to answer our questions. So why did the puc have felt in education weve supported the classroom about pollution and waters and interning for many years beginning the work in 2012 Stephen Curry<\/a> and i have developed a pathway for kindergarten and preschoolers to learn about what we do to instill kids to help them to grow into responsible deputies and have a invested interest in math and engineering and science were dpaej with students k through 12 our interim programs help the kids that know little about school and a dowel to turn the students on to the puc from engineers to project merchandise to policy stewarts this slide shows many not all the initiative by the puc and kaurtd by puc staff or through our Partner Organizations<\/a> the key value that to inform are cross the top the sustainability, litigatingcy environmental literacy and teaching and learning and career preparedness and helping the school around strrment management and water conservatism and through the support of sfpuc the district has dramatically but u cut their water and energy were working on two green projects ill ask in detail on the development literacy were realizing a curriculum that covers water and power sewer projects it will help all through nonprofit to incorporate the important lessons and will serve as a guideline for future curriculum giles to reintegrate our programs weve supported sfpuc stem department the engineering and math weve helped with the career barriers you including the job instruction in the classroom to help the kids to understand real life planning and theyll need to carry out the projects and as the kids move through the system were offering paid work basis location introduce the summer grant and partnerships are the sfaud technical in School Program<\/a> where students are learning about opportunities and at this point id like to share some of the highlights of this body of work. So sustainability a major ill i ill from San Francisco<\/a> Public Utilities<\/a> commission singlefamily dwelling to help them be more be able efficient from solar raise on 3 schools cesar chavez and the Sustainability Office<\/a> with the department of environment helps with tremendous incur savings i savings from physically to behavior challenging change program this year with the San Francisco<\/a> Public Utilities<\/a> commission the district hired a conservatism manager first place to help manage the retrofit across the one hundred 60 schools has inform San Francisco<\/a> aging Adult Services<\/a> commission so do this and replacing old boilers and insufficient windows and updating sfpuc supported the design and construction of the programming in Green School Yards<\/a> in the soot the intensity a Elementary School<\/a> the first super sized school yard the Modernization Program<\/a> hundred 50,000 they raise grants from governmental including the steward grants it will feature a range of stormwater and nature play areas for students and the Site Incorporated<\/a> rainwater into the toilet flushing before this investment and the one at stevenson elementary more than 2 acres of asphalt will be removed and replaced to prepare for the stormwater and inform a future grants for the prelims of those fees so the School District<\/a> can be prepared moving to environmental literacy we brought 55 students to camp mather for the year ends up combrgs trip with the great support of camp mather and rec and park they learned about the dam how our water flows and how we generate electricity configuring their school and the puc Staff Members<\/a> talked about our path would be highlight youll see in the top right hand corner the hike around Hetch Hetchy Reservoir<\/a> we encountered a momma bear and cubs especially for the students were pleased to open the demonstration garden youve heard about coming in january of next year construction is Broken Ground<\/a> on the puc reservoir in bruno heights and a part time educator was hired two weeks ago employed by the team under an extension under 8 b and students from neighboring schools about learn about the sustainability and this site includes a bunch of features students will touch and a micro scale and some of the features include compost toilet so to mr. Ricks point were piloting that we working worked with the rec and park to have this on public land and excited to see how this works with the students a green roof on the tool shed for run offices and wetlands and race vegetables and all those features were designed to be ada compliance students with disabilities will assess this site the materials ive discussed are in alignment where the next Science Standards<\/a> the first since 1998 a good time to look at the human impacts on the earth thats the work were doing. Moving to Stem Education<\/a> this is the openly of willie l. Brown middle school the First Middle School<\/a> and learning the supports of firms that particle in the communities benefit weve supported this since day one providing Financial Support<\/a> to enhance the Science Learning<\/a> and weve also provided volunteer times to connect with the patterns and share information about the sfpuc and continue to support this throughout the year that has to do with Green Infrastructure<\/a> weve got buildings and recertification. Finally in career preparedness youve heard about this in the passive were pleased to say we reach more youth than any other departments we have in 2015 more than 13 hundred students got paid directly with the puc or other personally with others agrees weve having had nirms students return as commissioners many of the students aspire to work with the puc upon college and those investments people with the pipeline were continuing to evaluate our students into the workforce and well be excited to report back on this in the future. Providing youth with paid learning opportunities supports our mission of being a Good Neighbor<\/a> particularly in the neighborhood that are impacted by our procreations were investing in youth with the puc and services and in enlisting them as ambassadors to their communities and streamlining our Workforce Pipeline<\/a> and receiving the benefits of their empowers and create while theyre working with staff thats about been a Successful Program<\/a> were pleased with the past year and thank you to the commission for your support this year i have a quick additional programs on the literacy developing curriculum and classroom materials for the k through 12 framework ive described youll get a copy in november and increasing the efforts to show the students including sites on the peninsula and eastbound the interims visit the trail for the first time we would like to share that with more students during the school year tends of this month two bayview will be visiting the modesto river this is not polite program that we hope to be a tradition were looking forward to expanding from San Francisco<\/a> so Additional Schools<\/a> throughout the area and exciting that that with that, id like ends and open up to any questions thank you. President. For the first this is an exciting and tremendous effort a lot of what my day job focuses on who the puc is doing on a larger scale in terms of next generation g sf weve found in a child is not involved in Science Education<\/a> by 7th grade you lose tradition and access to Stem Education<\/a> is an entity issue im excited to see that and in terms of employment weve been on in our small way one percent you decrease Violent Crime<\/a> by 80 percent im exist and this is great work. Thank you. I just one thought that hadnt quite been mentioned in this presentation ive been largely the retirements conundrum at the puc for the 40 percent in the years those are pretty significant numbers it smell those programs especially working in tandem the environmental investments particularly in our youth and those educational and Career Development<\/a> programs have a potential to get the right people into the right jobs it would be great from the presentations down the road having an understanding the metrics and really you know where the opportunities are you know to be building those pipeline career jobs along the way i know this is going to be something that pretty years is not very far how many kids to transition into the jobs and what are the missing pies are we taping into those communities that needs the jobs and trying to tie those you know incredible programs together. So thank you very much. Thank you. General manager. That concludes my remarks. Any Public Comment<\/a>s on the general manager report . Seeing none, please call the next line item. Item 8 the consent calendar are considered to be routine may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. Approve the absorption assignment and authorizing the exist agreements from mckinney to consider engineering and b prauchlt and 30 years the increasing agreements with a time expectation of 3 years and c for agreement and tolerating up to 25 thousand in an extension ever one year and d to agreement as authorizing increasing it up to seven months and e approving the agreements and authorize the time extension up to have months and f awarded contract number in the amount of one Million Dollars<\/a> plus to the lowest responsive bidder and d accept the contract for a total amount of 3 million plus and authorize the final payment to the contractor. Is that that was g reporter. That was g. Would any commissioners like to remove any of the items from the consent calendar. Item a. Item a will be removed anything else a motion to approve the rest of the consent calendar. So moved and second. All in favor, say i. I. The motion carries item number a. Letter a i guess. Letter a. My question is that in reading the end it it appears well be our intent to use that agreement to fund a chief building engineer and i guess lie question to staff is whether this is an interim action that will be requesting a real one in the budgets or what is whats going on. Harvey milk club bureaucracy we utilize this and have been utilizing it since it was certified to augment our current staff we have all of the engineers that monitor and engineer the building from the Wastewater Group<\/a> and we have one consultant engineering who such as underneath the wastewater. Is this a need we expect to be going on. I would say for the next number ever years, yes thats probably more i think right now given that we have the Platinum Building<\/a> and staff one of the things were looking at is bringing someone that is familiar with vertical building so thankful been valuable i think that the role of the this person is not fulltime anymore training our staff i think over time we probably will get operators who have the knowledge in a vertical building as well as wasteWater Treatment<\/a> plant to obtain the expertise needs to run this complicated building so because all of the systems are kind of goingson to the Lessons Learned<\/a>. That really goes to part of question is one of the lessons were learning that we need a higher level technical level of staff to run the building and how do we appropriately that and have the costs and what struck me here the title was chief building engineer it seems like a Civil Service<\/a> people may report on this statement so i guess my question or what ill urge to look at as you come forward with a budget is this neon a level well be funding it through regular City Employees<\/a> and if it is a shake down issue were learning what it takes we need interim to help to do that thats fine but that flag went up ill ask you to look at that. Another thing just we also worked with the real estate as well and one of the champs that is a unique building trying to get it expertise was challenging well definitely come back and look at the level of resources that we need and when will be a time to bring it. Okay that satisfies my question ill be glad to move i. Opposed . Public comment . That motion carries. Flment. Item 9 authorizing the grants for the assistance for large alternative Water Project<\/a>s. Mr. Richie does anyone have comments or questions from mr. Richie would you like to hear more about in item or make a i. Opposed . That motion carries. Sorry. Public comment next item, please. Approve the pamphlet and authorize increasing the agreement by one hundred millions pursuant to the charter section. I have a question. Yes. Question, please. It gesz gets my attendance from 5 millions to one hundred and 5 millions thats not our original are ordinary meantime it appears this building in the price of Transition Services<\/a> well get a case. Thats right barb hale when we transition to receive the services directly well that became necessary. The numbers make sense in that context i guess my question is one of contracting it used to be a professional Services Contract<\/a> there were managing the paper and making sure that everything reconciles this is now putting both that seem contract a payment for a Utility Service<\/a> and if there recent anything in the im wondering why were doing it my concern any percentage of gross weve just boasted roof of that and why are rechoosing to do that arena a regular budget item to pay for the services and a couple of thoughts first of all, no booster of the fees because it is not based on the fee is not based that way it is like coordinators for us to receive the fees on top of the fees were protected and the seconds item id like to respond so it the point you made i just lost red on. On one budgeted. Yeah. So it is budgeted it is include in our budget and power for resale the transition costs are budgeted not allowed to my directly without some sort of be conceptual vehicle and advised by the City Attorney<\/a> this is the appropriate vehicle. The City Attorney<\/a>s Office Consulting<\/a> with the energy team the contract you had already provided within their scope of roles for them as a scheduling coordinator to make certain required payment to cal i so, so this was part of what you employed them to do they previously didnt make your transmission payments 20 million a year it comes across a significant amendment but within the scope no mark up on performing that function for the Transmission Service<\/a> so for that reason it was a legitimate and appropriate vehicle for accomplishing what you need to accomplish which is to transmit those charges in the modification to the contract that will accompany this item for approval at the board of supervisors there are responsibility there will be articulated and you could i guess go out and put out a new rfp but have the legal contracting mechanism to accomplish this services not necessity for doing that within the term of their existing contract. Oh, i predict the City Attorney<\/a> has been involved and eminence a level of comfortable my concern whether, if any doing this your occurring some untended communication if their bombing that or any other it is just unusual in my experience having e Million Dollars<\/a> administering 5 million and all of that in their contract is yeah. Actually if i may to put more context ap x earned 2 million for their services each he a every year and makes payments for us there they are not as large the practice your expressing concern a standard industry practice as i mentioned the i s o accepted the payment from coordinators and puts restrictions on the fees they earn advertised not unique to us this is standards industry practice but for the volume of dollars were talking about with the change weve been conducting our business with ap x on smaller dollars amounts. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve that item and so moved. Second. Public comment . Hi jed 350 the answer might be occurring im wondering if this contract will allow for if contractor to also serve the scheduling needs for sf clean power obviously needs schedule over the years weve talked about the need for the schedule for sf clean power to have technical capacities to integrate resources to create integrated Power Systems<\/a> so wondering if that would be covered thanks ms. Hale. Yes. It is covered in that contract so ap x will be having services to the Utility Program<\/a> thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners again eric brooks San Francisco<\/a> clean power and power city sf this is an interesting opportunities for people watching tv are not interested in what ms. Hale said we expected but we do need to drill counsel deeper into the scheduling coordinator is capable of doing in relation to sf clean power especially sf Clean Power Program<\/a> that advocates are push for you, you to put forward the one by the study by lafco were talking about and continuing to push for thousands of people being hiring over the locally over the next 10 years to build efficiency, demand response, Battery Storage<\/a>, navy a Title Program<\/a> and weight Power Program<\/a> and a winds farm we know there will be solar all over the city and probably be solar from projects and it is this is all of these types of resources most of which are called local distributed Renewable Energy<\/a> our resources that a large number of them put together called a visual power plant youre mixing resources and demand resources and Battery Storage<\/a> all of those things together to have an equivalent of a power plant on all the time and from the x works we need to make sure that staff drills counsel into could they have a strong capability to do scheduled coercion for a visual power plant if you dont nia they need the staff on board to get the robust job driving local clean energy weve been fighting forgive for the past decade a police do deployed with our staff maybe now the capability to do the skeleton cooperation for the Power Plant Services<\/a> and make that clear if we dont have this in order without the build up hopefully next year we wont well be behind the eight ball and not getting the program over the ground especially to make sure we doing the built out to talk about the jobs please drill down on that point. Im hoping to get more detail when we have our working group after this vote and take a short break further comments on this item . Theres a motion on the i. Opposed . That motion carries and why not take minute break 325 please. Madam secretary. Item 11 a working group for an every single one of the sf clean power risk analysis and the business components the subcontracting strategy and the overview schedule for the spring 2016. Barry hale assistant manager with puc we talked about at the last joint meeting. How were going to petite our spring 2016 launch of the sf Clean Power Program<\/a>. So as you can see here well talk about the risk analysis and Business Plan<\/a> are power supply and contracting and approval strategy and the of schedule so for context those are the goals and objectives were leading with affordability weve talked about that a lot and other goals to balance with that this is what the Business Plan<\/a> a all about getting the balance and making sure we provide for longterm rate and final sustainability well we work through meeting the observes for example, within the Business Plan<\/a> effort well laboratory the initial enrollment and testing whether it is viable does it remain viable when key costs and revenue assumptions are test and running sfeft analysis for example, the percentage of renewable weve procure if we procure more than 33 percent or less 50 what that side to the overview final liability and similarly if we model pg e rates and pg es rates are different than anticipated so as we look to meet or beat pg e rates well look at the overview effect and did it remain finally viable and the opt out rates how the Program Allows<\/a> for opt out were modot the 20 percent opt out rates that is other programs in california and higher than expelled or lower what is the effect on the financial liability similarly we will be looking at the full enrollment case and testing financial liability under the full enrollment case and just for context the initial enrollment is thirty to 50 megawatts and 20 thousand to 75 individual accounts it is about a 35 million a year operating revenue full enrollment puts us 4 hundred megawatts of loads serviced and three hundred accounts and about 200 and 70 million in annual operating revenue this is just slightly berlin the wastewater enterprise for context this is this is. A big program and thats why were going through the care to do a robust Business Case<\/a> robust analysis testing you know what if things are different than we expect will we be a viable program. And will we achieve the various objectives were looking at so weve identified what the risks are we think threaten our ability to achieve the objective we use the discipline of enterprise wide Risk Management<\/a> to identify it and score them as you can see on this slide here the goals on the left and the risks that weve identified weve gone through sailed a rigorous approach the Business Plan<\/a> takes the risks which you see on this slide in the second column and the impacts on our sf clean power objectives which you see in the first column it identifies the Mitigation Strategy<\/a> for reducing this risk and the mitigations sdraemgz in the third column and finally through the effort with you well romanced policy guidance well ask you to do you want to guide our management of the program Going Forward<\/a> thats what you see in the fourth column. And what the fourth column attempts to do give us guidance how we can get the balance right amongst the Program Objectives<\/a> how green is it it is affordable by equally pg es rates or less than were trying to given the amount of money were collecting from the customers and where are we going to employ that transitioned margin above our costs well be looking to the Business Plan<\/a>ning effort in the presentation ill be making to you to help to identifies the guidance to us so we can move forward with the program under our leadership chief of police the right balance. So to give you a little bit texture of this enterprise Risk Management<\/a> i want to go through an example the cost of supply exceeding sf clean power revenue has been identified as one of the most likely and severe impact risks that we face under the enterprise wide Risk Management<\/a> approach you give each risk a rating for the livelihood and the impact we could be you know a sort of afraid of things that are risky rather unlikely to happen we should be paying attention to the risks that are highly likely to occur the cost of supplies being greater than revenue initially is a high severe risk with high likelihood of occurring i mentioned before the initial Program Costs<\/a> are about 35 million a year the overview operating costs are 35. 70 percent of the cost of sf Clean Power Program<\/a> are the cost of the Electrical Supply<\/a> how we handle that cost is very impactful to the success of the program so what are we doing there this hive risk high likelihood issue weve identified the strategy how we manage supply our strategy strategy was to go out to bid so supply from various providers we now know what the likely costs from the results of bidding process and know weve come to you on our next meeting 19 and ask you to advise us to go forward to lock into to fix the costs for the full volumes of the program needed for the program is so we will before we launch this program have defined that cost and having taken those steps implemented that mitigation strategic we have been able to target a mitigation rating after taking the steps of 4 a moderate or low overview ratings identifying the livelihood the costs greater than our revenues having being managed we know what those are to the contracting process that gives us a sense of enterprise Risk Management<\/a> process and the methods were going through in putting together the Business Plan<\/a> for you and identifying the strategies and risks and how the overview revenues collected from the program can cover the overview costs of the program id like to talk about the counteracting approval strategies if youre ready for me to move on to that item okay. So what were going to before he can to you at our next Commission Meeting<\/a> a request for approval of supplier pool what were looking to do to make sure we register the competition by putting the offers out and maintaining flexibility as we gordons well be asking for approve for continual authorization to execute the contracts the way the contracting approach for you if 0 sf Clean Power Program<\/a> a master agreement with a bid option one provider thats what well be norwalk with them over the next couple weeks once we have a master agreement with them that commits to us work p with them Going Forward<\/a> when we wish to procure the actual supply the second step the process that are referred to as at confirm it follows the master agreement well tell them specific volumes for specific delivery dates for specific shape of consumption and a specific sternum whats our best and final price and assign then a confirm from the bid option policy that provides the most attractive overview price. So if bring to you on the 2 that the the request to authorize us to negotiate and execute the contract with the option bid option pool well be working with that larger group i think that is 12 total bidders with the expectation well probably come to you finally with contracts for bid option one with multiple bid option one but a conform with only one of those the initial launch the program. So action been the commission on the 2 that will allow introduction shortly thereafter at the board of supervisors we would expect then not to have authority to sign the master agreement until mid december and then be in a position to sign a confirm with a bid option one bidder in early january so well ultimate on about doing business with suppliers","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia801203.us.archive.org\/2\/items\/SFGTV_20151022_090000_Public_Utilities_Commission_101315\/SFGTV_20151022_090000_Public_Utilities_Commission_101315.thumbs\/SFGTV_20151022_090000_Public_Utilities_Commission_101315_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240623T12:35:10+00:00"}