We have a quorum, the meeting is being held inperson in San Francisco. I would like to remind all individuals present in attending the meeting inpersoncious that all Health Protocols must be adhere to at all times. Masks are Available Upon request upon any entrances. We welcome the Public Comment. The commission will take two minutes of Public Comment first from those attending inperson and then those attending remotely. Meeting id 24921851744 pound, pound, and pressing star3 to raise your hand to speak. You must stick to the agenda item, unless youre speaking in open Public Comment. We ask that Public Comment be done commission to order. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend the help to staff during this meeting for their help. I would like to announce that item 10 has been removed from the agenda and will be rescheduled to the meeting of august 23. Mr. President. Thank you, and before calling the first item, i would like to announce that the Public OpinionUtilities Commission acknowledges that stewards of the unseeded land located within the historic territory of tribe. And other family of the historic recognized commission verona band of alameda county. Also recognizes that every citizen residing has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the tribes and Aboriginal Land since its finding in 1932. Its not only important that we recognize the history but we acknowledge the fact that the people have established a working partnership with the ufpuc and flourishing members within the San Francisco communities today. Madam secretary, please call the first item. First item is item 3 adopt new finance understate to allow hybrid inperson meeting during the covid emergency and similar resolution at a Commission Meeting within the next 30 days. And Public Comment please. Members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on item 3, please raise your hand to speak. Do we have any members in the public that wish to make a comment on the 3. Seeing none, mr. Moderator, are there any callers with their hands raised. There are no callers, thank you. Public comment on item 3 is closed. Thank you, commissioners any comments on item 3 . If not, can i have a motion to second. Move to approve. Second. Moved and seconded. Roll call. Commissioner ma raned. Aye. Maxwell. s. Aye. Poxen. Aye. You have three ayes. Item 3 passes. Next item. Adoption of minutes. There any questions or comments op the minutes. Seeing none. Do we have any member of the members present that would like to provide comment on item number 4. Seeing none, mr. Moderator do you have any callers with their hands raised. Madam secretary, there are no callers on the queue. Thank you, item 4 Public Comment is closed. Thank you, commissioners any additional or comments or motions. Moved. Moved and seconded. Roll call. Measure and. Aye. Paulson. Aye. Maxwell. Aye. You have three ayes. And the minutes are approved. Next item please. Next item is number 5. Anybody wishing to make a comment, and not on the agenda, please raise your hand if you wish to speak . Seeing none, do we moderator do you have any hands raised. We have four callers. Caller number 1, go ahead you have two minutes. Speaker im dave warner from palo alto, thank you for your service were lucky to have you as commissioners. To my knowledge, we stopped receiving plans on the negotiations. I think we learned that our need for water in storage is not as great as it used to be. I think between lower demand and the draw and possibility earlier flow is helping our water rise due to global warning. So in the spirit of doing the right thing, we decided to release our extra water down the river but because the plan is still held up in the litigation, they dont contribute. To we released some of the extra water but the Water District would not release anymore of their centers. If. Ff pc takes fleet in working with all parties and finding creative solution, Amazing Things can happen. As we saw with the northern rivers, substantial funding should be solved, with our already higher rate. Please ask to receive regular updates. We asked several times if we can get back to the meeting table. It would be great to know what progress can be made. Thank you. Thank you, for your comments. Next caller, you have two minutes. Speaker im matt parker im a whitewater kayaker for 25 years and i want to tell you how much i appreciate the close, and these days, we have a mental crisis, when the human body is around whitewater, it produces serotonin so any chance you can get on whitewater and help the Mental Health on this country, it will help. Anything you can give is much appreciated. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next caller, you have two minutes. Speaker francisco decosta. I want the Community Benefits. On Community Benefits. Yesterday i had a meeting with some woman that was suffering. Suffering. From taod insecurity and here you are sitting on your asses, 300 million grant, and we want more about it. Im asking you sir, i want to talk to you facetoface. We can have a meeting at the contracting center. I want to give you details about the corruption still going on at the puc. And we need to have a meeting on what is happening in yosemite area because of the fires. And all of you who think you are wise, we learn that having done right by the first people. You have not done right by the first people. You have polluted the water and now youre going to suffer the consequences. And get back to the Community Benefits, i would like to speak to the general manager, only half an hour to pin point to him who fought for the Community Benefits and who is getting it one our children and single mother are suffering. Sorry, caller your time is expired. Next caller, you have two minutes. Speaker good afternoon, commissioners and chairman. Im nathan rangle im president of california out doors ive spoken to you a couple of times over the last few months. Were representing commercial outdoor providers including the outfiters on the calamee river and i want to thank you, as the earlier individual, i want to thank you for the continued flows that we receive on that resource. Your your organization, the city has been a, you know, has been basically provided for the, you know, the environmental and societal and economic goodwill on that river and its really important as i pointed out, the last time i spoke with you. Rivers are the engines that drive economies through places like grant land and other communities across the state. Its important that we continue to have that dialogue and the ability to take care of that resource. So for those reasons, i thank you again and we look forward to continuing to work with you and your commission and your staff, thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Madam secretary one more caller has joined the queue. Caller go ahead, you have two minutes. Caller, madam secretary, there are no other koulers. Thank you, general Public Comment is closed. Thank you, next item please. Item 6 communications. Commissioners any questions or comments on communications that you have been provided . Seeing none, Public Comment please. Members of the public who take two minutes of remote Public Comment on item 6, please press star3 to speak. Do we have any members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on item 6. Seeing none, mr. Moderator do we have any members with their hand raised. Madam secretary, we have one member. Member, unmute your line. Speaker im gabe, im one of the author that sent a letter that demand projections to the finance projections, this is regarding 6g, the letter that he rera was impressive to set projections and providing more transparency than one expected. The finance projections can be closer and maybe on the low side. This information is quite useful, it gives all stakeholders for of common understanding of figure and possible outcomes. We now have a range to think about. Caring this a step further, the chart projects that projections are somewhere between 100, and 195 based on the finance projections and 216 based on the 2020 urban water plan. This is great information for alternative water planning. To that end, our letter asked the needs chart with a third column. The chart has two columns based often contracted obligations. I hope youll do this, thank you again general manager he rera and staff. Thank you for your comments. Madam secretary, another caller has joined the queue. Caller go ahead you have two minutes. Speaker good afternoon, this is nicole ceo and im also speaking about the water demand projections. I appreciate this report from mr. Richie. I know this is something that the public has been asking you for. And i want to add a few remarks based on it. First as i reported to you in the past, you know, baca has been doing demand and populations, since 2000. And our population projections have actually tracked very well with actual population, seen in the service area for the last 20 years, while admitantly have been off because they have been impacted by covid and several years of drought and things that are difficult to anticipate and difficult to incorporate intoman projections. In addition, i know mr. Richie has stated a few times that for San Francisco, the urban plan the outer for what you think projections is going to be. I would say that that is different in the service area, it differs by agency depending on the growth and the connection that the water supplier has to grow. There is a difference for total demand and their purchase projections importantly, the agency thats have multiple supplies, they have the ability to purchase more on any given year. And that may or may not equate to an increase in demand. That is something for us not to forget as we look at the picture, thank you very much. Thank you for your comments, madam secretary, the call queue is clear. Thank you, Public Comment on item 6 is closed. Thank you commissioners, any further comments or discussion on these items . Seeing none, next item please. Next item is 7, report of the general manager. First we will have agm, richie give us the Drought Conditions update. Good afternoon, steve richie for water if i can have the slides please. So this will be a brief update on the Drought Conditions. Ill go through a number of slides fast, because theyre not changing in the summer so theyre going to look the same until october or november, but there are some things worthy of note in there that ill stop for. First, the reservoir and the one thing mostly important to note here, or two things, one both sherri are very close to full. Theyre still quite full. But water bank is down about 40 . So basically, our water bank account has been decreased by about 60 . Thats where the impact of the drought is showing for us. It does not show until very late in the drought. So thats where were seeing the impact. Whenever i ever said, were doing better than other people, thats a very low bar because other people are doing so badly. But the impact shows up in the deficit in water bank. And speaking of the other people, there they are, where particularly upper sacramento rivers reservoirs are quite low to state Water Project are quite low. Drought mon jer has not changed, its probably not going to change much as we go through the summer. Precipitation as you can see is a flat line that will be a flat line probably until at least october. And the monthly, just for flex the same thing, we had a few good jobs and a lot of very low months. The same with the bay area. Again i pointed this out before that the bay area because of how much rain we got in october and december, the actual year to date total is greater, so we had a wetter than average year in the bay area water sheds which is an interesting thing that has done some good things for us. Snow pack is gone, melt has a occured and well talk about that later. the water is more than 200,000 feet this year which is more than it has been in resent years. And that again, shows that this year water bank has recovered some as it did dropping in the last drought and consecutive years. Were doing better in terms of the sequence but were far from out of the woods. And fb precipitation forecast shows a lot of no action in california, large wide spaces which delien yate no storm activities. The total deliveries, this is the slight i want to talk about a little bit. Because the green line as i pointed out is this years demand and we want that number to stay as low as it can, below the yellow and purple lines which representative calendar 19 and 20. Last week i just saw the most resent da taxer just when the meeting started was for 2 million 5 gallons a day. So it has dropped, it start today tail off and then it dropped more down below the headline, its heading towards the orange line, where i said thats where we want to get to if we want to have a good term in use. Well see how it continues to go throughout the summer. The things that im going to focus is what happened with the Ecosystem Program this year. As you recall back early in may, i talked about what we had planned to do in terms of managing the run off. We did appear to have access run off coming in. I said i would be back to say what did we actually do . And this is the time when i want to talk about how we man anld run off and did it successfully, and a z well as filling the reservoir and thats a contribute to the folks who operate the system up there. There is a little button here on that you better not push. We wanted to have a goal on that large pond that shows from the top there with a big orange blog, that improves habitat in the valley. Provides for a lot of insects and other things which feed up the food chain, its the way, you want to see a valley operate. But it needs to have high peek flows to flood up the areas that allow them to behave like that. So our goal here, would be to take advantage of that and run down in excessive of 200 cubic feed per second. So this is our plan hydro plan, this is the way we planned for it. Our planning graph is always neat. So this shows a 4100 cubic peek per second. So this is what we plan to do, and this is what we did do, so you see here, im about may 12, or so we had the weak release in excess coming out of that was in the valley areas. And then dropping off down to about 1500 cubic hundred feet per second and tayloring off beyond that until we got to the period of early june when we did have some still over the drum gates because said she was full and drum gates were up. We really managed the abilitied to get water downstream when we had a lot of water when it came time to filling the reservoir. You see in early may, storage was climbing up. And when we started to fill water through that, you can see that the fill rate dropped off, we start today fill up again. Got to the peak just about the right time in early june where we had a little bit of spill over the drum gates but not very much. So overall we experienced the flow but two hitting the peek on the mark in terms of filling the reservoir, thats how we like to operate to maximize. What did that mean downstream . Well this is a view from near the dam down to the popana value which is where the valley closed off and the river runs through it and i highlighted where pop innocent nat pond is in the Bigger Picture of the valley. And you can see there, the bond is that deeper brown water, its sha lo water and some moist ground, thats what were trying to achieve, that provide for ecosystem benefits in terms of small amphibians and bats and various things like that that are part of the valley ecosystem there that were trying to support. So well be hon to goer what they have changed and gotten some boost over the next year or so. But here we accomplished the purpose. This is where you see that large ponded area here. Its another part of the valley that were trying to use to manage the overall habitat. In terms of how we operate the system to get to and manage still down to the valley, we have a good successful year and ill be happy to answer any questions. There was an inspection by the do, dos department of what . I think it was dos it was on one of the slides. Dof is the department of forester re. Oh sorry that slipped in there. Thats the d o. C. V is decision of dams. The captioning covers it and i didnt capture it, its the safety of dams and one of the things is they want to make sure that for all dams in california, all of the pertinent operate right. And so this year, they wanted to make sure that they got there when the drum gates were operating and they were able to control how much water was there at the time. This is good. D i apologize for getting that acronym slip through. Thank you, i caught it. I noticed it. Any other comments or questions . Public comment please. Members of the public who wish to make two minutes of remote public, on item 7 a, please raise your hand to speak. Do you any callers with the hand raises. We have two callers on the queue. First caller, you have two minutes. I unmuted your line. Speaker this is dave from palo alto, i want to thank mr. Richie for the presentation. Were going to hope that we can get more of these present aces, thank you. Next caller, you have two minutes. Commissioner, and i would like similarly to know more about the famine. Whenever we have the presentation to include the native american. I want them to be included. It is their land, they are the real stakeholders, they put a stake here and put a stake there and stole the land. I know at this late year, to make some attempt to restore the habitat and all people that can stoop to that is indigenous people, and they have speak because they have their heart in the right place. Which means you cannot trust them, we have to be real now. You have to be real now. You have to be real, if we dont understand what it is and we dont understand what is racial equity. Thank you for your comments. Sorry, caller the time has expired. The queue is clear. Thank y