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SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 101315 October 29, 2015

That motion carries general Public Comment i dont have i new general Public Comment is there on any Communications Commissioners any questions or comments. None are there any questions or comments from the public on communications . Seeing none, thank you 0 the commission business. There is 0 none moving report of general manager mr. Kelly. My first update on the drought steve richie. Thank you steve richie assistant general manager for water slides please. Begin the standard chart where we are in storage hetch hetchy is 73 percent of capacity and water bank a third of its capacity at one and 90 thousand and get approved acre and water bank from the water bank a pretty good year Lake Elsinore is down it not a typo substantially for a construction project to modify values values for the dam the precipitation a new water year started october 1st a new red line off thegraphy as you can see were ahead of the curve this time maybe that will continue well see how it goes actually, i have a chart showing the precipitation another hetch hetchy it is almost an average for the month and some potential for precipitation tomorrow night as well as over the weekend so we may be above average for the month of october it is early but something. Total deliveries after our summer peak of 23 hundred and 5 m g d weve dropped down and demand is a redondo strained by folks were seeing very, very the outside irrigation people are conferring substantially. And the total water savings is well above the target and continues on the upward trend the entire year. Briefly about the only thing lastly as i mentioned last time we are that running a full scale at the time of the aqueduct systems used in 1992 drought we begin into the mountain tunnel and it is down to the bay area of october 14th the test is winding down now well return to hetch hetchy other than november 3rd weve targeted november 12th but had some precipitation in cherry that caused a spike so we elected to start the bach off of the cherry supply but be able to fully test the system and found were a little bit of a challenge but by the knew the test was successful and delivered water to the cherry customers a reminder noted to this is what the cherry aqueduct for a period of three weeks and ran effectively here to answer any questions. Thank you very much mr. Kelly. That concludes my report thank you. Bosco update. Public comment on general Public Comment. Public comment on the drought report . Good afternoon eric brooks San Francisco green party sustainability chair a quick question for staff you noted that a reservoirs was drawn down to do Technical Work on the reservoirs and i think pipe connections i was wondering whether when this happens is that storage transferred somewhere else especially during a drought it is doable or do we lose the storage the other question i thought a sf clean power update is that later on in the agenda . Okay. Lets take a look. Good afternoon, commissioners commissioner Vice President moran congratulations on our election as Vice President i hoped to be able to congratulate commissioner president vietor in her president i was not here at the last meeting but thank you to the for commissioner caen and her kind comments about the relationship that is well, this year for the Drought Campaign as evidenced by the slides it steve richie put up i wanted wanted to start off i wanted to speak about mountain tunnel very pleased with the action that is before you today puc has an Engineering Firm to provide the vitality plan for the assistance to fix the mountain tunnel i urge you to move forward and act think that recommendation from our staff and getting this firmer on board quickly to protect the water users from the collapse from this water system the staff recommend an agreement whether result in step up to the plate the connective reliability risks of mountain tunnel and i agree i also want to urge you to this commission to address two other major actions required to eliminate those risks of water supply outage as i said over the past 22 months since we were informed the mountain tunnel might have a catastrophic flurry talked about the risk and the possibility of extending when the tunnel is shut down your staff concluded it could be done i appreciate the response as well and hope that the opportunities to shrink the Overall Program we examined this work as it moves forward second on september 22nd i spoke to you at the time i spoke about the 5 part plan with the completion with the acquisition to fix it in the effectual of a failure from the tunnel collapses and raping to create an Emergency Response plan but the fifth part of this total plan to identify and implement plans for how to meet water supply needs not region in the event of an not planned option and if bosco is at risk today of not having the sufficient Water Supplies in event of the collapse of the mountain tunnel and to address this issue including the identification of alternative Water Supplies that is necessary to prepare for and reduce the risk of a water supply shortfall for the entire region an urgent i believe will require assertive leadership in negotiations by San Francisco to meet this challenge all 5 parts of this mountain tunnel plan plans will be required to begin the task and specific actions and completion date each felt 5 parts should be examined to determine if their schedule schizophrenia be short end i appreciate the commissions opportunity to speak today that concludes my remarks ill answer any questions you might have and i have a copy for the commissioners. Thank you, commissioners. Thank you very much. Actually, i have a question. Okay. Youve spoke of this before have you and boca received anything of us in terms of a timeline . For an Emergency Operations plan no, we have not i have taken the initiatives of scheduling meeting with the agencies to look at what flexibility they have and their supplies and your staff is attending those but there is no timeline for identifying when that question will be addressed and resolved. Okay. I do notice on i asked for in timeline we did june 23rd and under the hundred 2 dash 19 an Emergency Response implementation and it is a solid line but nothing addressed 0 this. To the Emergency Response plan is scoped specifically at tasks that need to be done on motherinlaw to fix the tomb or prepare to fix the tunnel in an event of a collapse construction work to repair the tunnel thats moving forward i asked for the other part that is from the tunnel is going to fail what is the plan for making sure we have sufficient Water Supplies because right now the expectation the failure is up to 9 months to fix and so in the meantime, your staff has come forward with the local supplies is 3 months maybe a little bit more certainly not 9 months of supplies so until my request how to plan to get through that and do some thinking ahead to understand more what might happen and the opportunities to remove some of the risks. General manager this is safety for all of us not only for bosco but san franciscans that should be addressed. Yeah. I think one of the things that steve richie you might want to speak on it were looking at not only if it, it is a failure other not having assess to the hetch hetchy how long what we go without you know the hetch hetchy water i thought that was more than 3 months. Yeah. Yeah. Steve richie assistant general manager yes, we prepared a technical memo weve finalized well provide to the commission we seated the potential for outage of 90 days excuse me. 90 days one hundred and 20 and 90 days we have plenty of compatibility to provide one and 80 days we just fall short so contrary to the comments there is not this huge gap beyond 90 days we can get one 80 days with the demand management we can manage that 200 and 70 days we have to have more significant actions we met with bosco and identity the shift by the customers is an important thing to do we agreed to meet together with the individual customers to do that i want to make sure youre clear we have been work on this and on all the correspondence to bosco we have supplies available and manage our supplies in the event of a shortage from hetch hetchy for whatever reason we do that not certainly not frequently but every year we have a month or two shut down we always go to alternative supplies that basic plan is there so i get irritated with had it is indicated no plan we have a plan to do deal with those situations 9 months is a long time we have more work to do to cover that thank you. Any other questions. Thank you. Public comment . Seeing none, well move on to the consent calendar mr. Secretary read the items. Item 4 a consent calendar all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine there will be no separate discussion of these items 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. A ward agreement and authorized the professional services with goodwill solution not to exceed 3 million with a duration of two years and number one to the joint agreement with the geologic safer and c approve the terms and conditions with the readvocate license and thank you commissions any items you want taken off the consent calendar. I move the cleaned. Second any pubs what to all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The puc. Mr. Secretary read item 10. To amend c2 to a 6 and authorize the extension of the term by 3 years. Okay. Any presentations any discussion any questions. Ongoing can i is there any Public Comment on this item . May i have a motion. So moved. Moved and seconded emphasize none opposed the that motion carries. Item 11. Approve the selection of the award agreement and authorize the position for the agreement for the amazement, 201,129,000,000 for a duration up to 10 years. Thank you members . Ill second both and seconded i have a question in the scope of work for this agreement the firm would be advising us during the hearing phases and correct to be doing deals of whatever option adapted by this commission. Thats correct. So okay. Theyre helping us with the interim repairs well have them for the duration whatever alternative. So theyll be the engineers of record for whatever alternatives. Correct. Thank you. Any other questions. I have a question. Yes. Im a little bit fuzzy on this concept well go into the mountain tunnel and repair that. First, were going to do a condition ascertainment the placing last assessment was under 2008 so mick mill on and jacobs will be doing the actual Condition Assessment they did the 2008 assessment to theyll been going back into the tunnel to do an updated assessment and do repairs in 2017 right after the Condition Assessment and then the plan is that the following year excuse me. The following year in 2018 theyll do additional repairs and at this point, a theyll say should we continue with repairs or look at a tunnel alternative. I know that was discussed but you have informational or forgot even and i have a motion and second. All in favor, say i. I. That motion carries. Item 12. Approve the plans and specifications and award the contract to 654 in the amount of of 11 million plus to the quality and responsive bird in t k construction. Commissioners, any questions. I have a question about the protests. Okay. We had the one protest from gordon ball because they had stated we needed or the low bid had to be prequalified when we rebid it didnt have that requirement so basically no merit to the protest. Isnt that unusual we had it before but not this time. I dont think that is unusual i think that is a lot of vegetation work we wanted to expand the pool of contractors who can bid on this. I see okay. Any other questions for the commission any Public Comment . May i have a motion. Ill make a motion. Second. All in favor, say i. I. None opposed the puc approved the contract n p and authorize the general manager to implement the project. Commissioners . Ill move the item. Youll move the item. Second. Moved and seconded any questions or discussion any Public Comment. Seeing all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . None opposed the puc. Next item. Project c w w s i p and authorize the general manager to implement the project. Commissioners . And all im sure the staff is prepared for a presentation if you want a more detailed and ill move the item. Seconded. Any any Public Comment . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . None the puc next time please. Item 15 approving the project and authorize the general manager to implement the project. Commissioners. So so moved ms. Casco mr. Chairman. Second. Its moved and seconded any discussion . Any Public Comment . Seeing all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . None opposed the puc. Next item, please. Item 167 public hearing and possible action to the f water sufficient irrigation for the Public Utilities Commission Rules and regulations. Mr. Richie give a thumb nail presentation and on the second page the California Water Commission Approved a revised lets see we use the acronym model water landscaping so the amendments were proposing in the states revised landscape ordinance from one thousand to 5 hundred square feet and the definition used to determine the water budget to result in a more sufficient water use and the existence to the installation of the irrigation centers and master shut down values and to approve the irrigation equipment and the appendix peculiar for the calculations those are more a matter of technical changes except the Square Footage their consistent with the landscape ordinance. Thank you commissioners any other questions or comments . Any Public Comment . May i have a motion. So moved. It is moved and all in favor, say i. I. Fair to say there are none opposed that motion carries. Item 17. Approve the section of the qualified 0 respondent to the cleanpowersf for conditional authorize the general manager to execute one or more contract with a qualified Court Reporters and seek the approval from the board of supervisors for the approved prequalified respondents to the extent. Ms. Hale barbara hale assistant general manager for power you heard the brief summary and including were seeking the pool of suppliers the ability to move forward with the Contract Negotiation and execution let me review for you to emphasis the specific conditions that were laid out in the agenda items those conditions with happy new year the pricing is consistent with the commissions adopted policies and this is the issue of having the cleanpowersf program meet our availability goals renewable contents for supplies through this pool of bidders from eligibility portfolio those are california compliance portfolio standards resources located here in california that is achieving the clean power of the program and moving to some of the other aspects of it we want to make sure that the approval is conditioned on counter parties or counter parties are the suppliers meeting your support requirements so have a good Counter Party to move through the program with us and volumes are limited to the 60 megawatts the commission authorized us to got rid of and bid option one contract are not to steady 5 years and the same for the Resource Adequacy that same 5 year limitations and bid the Firm Renewable contracts that will be limited to terms of greater than 25 years the Resource Adequacy contracts with limited to procuring the quantity required by law and finally, the total cost of the Energy Supply will not steady 35 million per year that is placing constraints on the general manager authority in that will presented in the context of our expected costs and rates for the program our Business Plan and Risk Assessment well be bringing those forward for your review pursuant to the schedule on the 7 in draft form on the eighth and final form and finally we adopt best practice on december 8th under our current schedule with that, well be seeking approval to move forward to the board of supervisors on a track for approval of those tracks with that, ill be happy to answer any questions i would note that you know our common practice to include some additional dripers of how we selected the bidders and in this situation we selected a pool of bidders they did Evacuation Team went through a paved fail test as opposed to a scoring test and those bidders that passed were brought forward to the pool and were seeking approval to negotiate in this pool setting to make sure we leverage has much Competition Among the counter parties and bring the lowest price to the program with that, ill be happy to answer any questions. Commissioners. Question commissioner caen. Im very happy with that plan the question i have for you are were going to know what green pg e chosen. Before we choose ourselves if ours is better green well know that you that. We will know penguins we know what pg e has filed as planned we wont know exactly what theyve committed to by the time we sign confirmation for the supply we know theyre commenting solemnly swear committing to california compliant portfolio content category one power we do know what the particular mix is i understand it is largely solar. So what we know about the program is was it they stated at the california puc. Okay. Were shug

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