Transcripts For SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 91316 2016

SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 91316 September 14, 2016

Good afternoon. I would like to call the regular meeting of the Public Utilities commission to order. Mme. Sec. , would you please call the roll . May i have everybody sit down . Present vietor. Here. Vice president moran . Here. Commissioner caen . Commissioner courtney herehere. Commissioner kwon . Here. Present vietor. Here. Commissioner kane is expected shortlyand commissioner courtney will not be able to be here today. Mme. Sec. Next item please. Item number three is approval of the minutes of august 9, 2016 all those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay the motion passes unanimously. Mme. Sec. Can you call item for please . Item 4 is gen. Public comments. Members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Now,the way that the watershed is at Crystal Springs measures are taken to protect it and we have a system, a unique system and we have a gentleman here who has been working on that since 1993 and i have been looking at this since 1998 vigorously. Water is going to be a resource that we cannot play with. Now, i know you have some experts here. It is the year 2016 and we flush our toilets and we have clean Drinking Water and it says a lot for the city. When we look at the Sea Level Rise and the Climate Change and this that and the other we need to conserve water and we need to use it for the right things. I am here to ask you commissioners, that if any changes are made to the watershed that you waited invite the [inaudible] to the table [timer dings] it is very simple. You do not need to be a rocket scientist. They reserved all of that water for our the last 200 years and now someone will come along for the next 30 years and screw it up. I know that you commissioners have the gumption to do the right thing. Thank you very much. Go to the board of supervisors. Thank you. Any other general Public Comment at this time . Next item please. That next item is item 5; communications. Do we have anyPublic Comment on communications . Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I am here to speak on behalf of the water review from your state board and that is required for the state law. And i am here to verify that this is a comprehensive and complete report on the annual report. I wanted to extend that information to you. Last year we gave some significant comments to mr. Wade and his team and they responded to those incorporated those and i think it shows leadership in the overall status so thank you. Thank you for your comments. Yes, i thought it was a very impressive report. I thought so too. I dont see him here so thank you very much on your comments on the report. Any other comments on communications . Mme. City clerk, item 6 please. Item 6 is other commission business. Seeing none, mme. City clerk please read item 7. Item 7 is Citizens Advisory Commission or your report. Good afternoon pres. Vietors and commissioners and i am here today to report for the cac. I am proud to say that the cac attended a cac retreat. During the retreat we obtained our purpose of the subcommittees for 2016 and 2015the cac members have the executive Management Team showed us the priorities over the 2015 2016 team and you can see more about our priorities through the water power and wastewater subcommittees in 20162017 that were identified during our retreat. We will continue to work with the general manager and the executive Management Team to provide prior input on these things that were identified. I work with staff and the board has appointments 48 out of 13 of our other appointments. In addition the board appointed members out when a donna and Steve Mckenney who was just appointed last friday. We do have people in the pipeline for eight, nine, and 10. In april after the committee adopted a resolution to honor the life of espinal jackson, the commission acknowledged what ms. Jackson had done first city. Im happy to say that her followed in her mothersfootsteps. This was passed on tuesday and it was brought to the cac last month on october 20. We will continue to monitor and evaluate the use of these Innovative Strategies to engage with the stakeholders. We had an open house and our powers subcommittee had a meeting led by our district 6 representative mark connors. Lastly, i want to thank commissioner moran, and we are happy that commissioner moller will be joining our meeting next week. And that is it. Thank you. Thank you for your service. And that was good work. Any Public Comments on your cac report . Hearing done next item please. Item 8 is report of the general manager. Good afternoon commissioners. The first thing that i would like to do is update you on the land use committee. This was a meeting that was held yesterday and it was a resolution that was passed about the peninsula watershed. So if you could come up steve and give us an update. Steve ritchie with power and water. A resolution yesterday urged the puc to authorize the resolution. We provided info to the puc which is in our Capital Program that we are working on right now. It also requires the puc to provide a report by october 17th detailing the existing conditions of the watershed plan. I think it is clear to the board that we do need additional analysis and we consider that part of the plan. You will be moving down that path but its very hard to accelerated and what is required of the plan. The watershed does go further than that. The two year plan does not include the funding for operating a trail budget system. We will bring that to you at the next budget meeting when that would open and 2019. We do plan to come back to the commission in 2017 with a plan review and we plan to provide an overview of the watershed trails plan and this was provided at the memo of your last meeting. We will come back in the near future at your next meeting or to. I would be happy to answer any questions that you might have about that but i think this is very significant for us as the puc. So the plan would accelerate the process . It would implement the watershed plan. Has there been communication with this board with this plan . There has been discussion and there are commissioners thathave given us the access. I just wanted to inform you that this is happening. Although, it is not on the agenda so you may not want to discuss it as much. We are doing whatever we can to make sure that whatever is adopted is consistent with the plan. You will let the commission know if theres anything additional . Yes. And, we will provide that to the board. Any other questions commissioners on this . Okay, thank you. Please keep us informed even if there is no action needed. Now we will have given update on cleanpowersf. Good afternoon, commissioners we are currently serving 300 locations and we have an opt out rate of 1. 9 and not last year was 1. 8 so weve seen a slight increase but we have the and no harm no foul opt outperiod that has concluded. Are super green and and green are now down to 6 . So we have acquired some of them as well. Kelly has approved a contract for renewable energy. The Customer Program notification is being sent out in batches. The first two batches have gone out. We are planning on enrolling about 73,000 service locations. So, i just told you that we currently have 7300 a so this is a big step for us. About 8000 of those customers of receive them so far and weve received 49 up out and 53 from super green in that process. How many again . So out of those 8000 we got 49 opt outs and53 upgrades. We are currently planning our spring enrollment. We are currently planning on doing that in may 2017. We are meeting regulatory requirements that we are working on and one is to meet adequacy requirements and the other is to meet a long term activity requirement and that is for Renewable Power for 10 years or more. We are making more progress on those. I dont have any concrete steps but i will for the next meeting. On the regulatory front i would like to discuss one activity that we were engaged in and that was about the Diablo Canyon radiation plant should be retired. We believe the plant should be retired but we also believe that cca it just like the cleanpowersf should be procuring on behalf of their customers and not pg e and those supply choices should be made by the local agencies like yourself and with community and part. We are also asking pg e for a request for Cost Recovery for resources that will be needed not now but before the 2025 deadline where diablo will be offline. Also we are looking for approval for new Energy Supply plans and we are arguing that that is the process that should be used for any needed resources to make up for diablo for pg e customers. I am mentioning this because this is a big ticket item and it is also likely to draw some press so i just wanted to make sure that you know where our positions are with that venue in the california Public Utilities commission. In their filing, pg e projects how much load they should leave as their responsibilities and become part of that caseload. They are suggesting that in 2025 a little over 40,000 kwh per year will be served by cca. To put that in perspective that is about 19 more than clean energies. How much was that . So that would be 34 tw hours. It is a lot. That is my way of thing it is a lot. That service is territory why . That is not San Francisco . No, no, no. That something would San Francisco will be serving. We will be serving a fraction of that. They are arguing that only a portion of that should go to them and also an investment with the op low to keep it in market in that process and that would be 100 per gigawatt hour. [inaudible] youre anticipating where this is going but part of what pg e is doing is asking california puc to pass on cost for all of the customers they currently have. While at the same time, a saying bunch of them are going to be our customers anymore. What are they projecting when theyre projecting that they are going to be losing customers. I mean, those customers will be there customers anymore. A portion of their load they will serve with renewables and increasing their Energy Efficiency committment. And not just San Francisco but other parts of california as well right and pg e are arguing that they will have higher efficiency costs and higher costs for their customers. And this is settlement for what . This is to settle the case saying this is what pg e agreed to. But is this for the shutdown of diablo . Yes, the shutdown of diablo and the replacement of the energy that will be needed. So, without pg e have they projected how they will replace the power . They are saying they will increase the power with increase renewable and increased Energy Efficiency. Do we know how much that is . Yes, i do not have that in front of me but i can certainly get that for you. They are saying they dont want to cover all that load too. I can bring back to you the portfolio of what they are proposing between Energy Efficiency and renewables. Okay . Thank you. Thank you very much. It looks like cca is doing what they are supposed to hopefully pg e will follow suit and do what theyre supposed to. Mme. Sec. , can you please call the next item. They have been doing excellent work. Commissioners, i think youre also bringing up good points about the cpuc i am very concerned with how they were performed based on past project of ccas. This well be a problem not just for current ccas but future ccas. When you look at how much energy they will be losing you can almost make the argument that you dont need diablo anymore but for diablo that is not the problem. The problem is that for the renewals that are intermittent in nature, that is not a problem for diablo. That means you dont need a plant like diablo anymore. We need to make sure that we are and i know that your staff is doing this already is just making sure how those procedures are being handled because if they are trying to recoup charges they could be doing that for a plant that customers already been charged for. But just keep your staff on this plan. Thank you jason. Any other comments on this item . Seeing none. Next item please. The next item is the report of the Capital Improvement Program Quarterly report. Good afternoon. I like to briefly touch on the highlights in the last quarter in these areas and then also budget and schedule issues that are in the report and then conclude with a couple of comments. Firstly i like to highlight that mountain tunnel there is six things happening. One is that the tunnel has access improvements will be on their way and you addits have been added and they willbe Going Forward to. Finally, the longerterm project mountain tunnel improvements is moving forward as well in the planning phase and that means recent conclusion of the phase for that program. That kind of addresses mountain tunnel. In terms of other projects we successfully completed the crossing of the kv transition liens against mount pedro we we resulted in some bid projects and we have approved two new projects at both kirkwood and home powerhouses and also the moccasin pin stock project using pin stocks for multiple available funding. Finally we had a request for qualifications issued in july. Shifting to the program the cost of the wind fire program is about 20,000 under the baseline budget. The other good news is that we submitted about 80 of the eligible insurance reimbursement packages which is about 5. 7 million. So, that is moving forward. Further to that we will have a number of eligible grant reimbursement packages through through the and that is where we will return. This rehabilitation is expected to be about Million Dollars above the approved baseline budget. Also we will be looking at the powerhouse project and the d2 expansion on that work. For the cherry dm out works participation we havent included the construction budget in the current baseline and that will be included once we have the design finalize. And then, just a couple other notes that low or cherry aqueduct will be complete after a little bit more discussion. We are waiting for a response from Land Management before we can really move forward with that work. Finally, i mentioned that in terms of inspection and repairs, the second phase of the interim repairs are expected this be a about six months after the plants shut down. That is all i have. I be happy to answer any questions. Can you give us timelines . Can you give us timelines for items you talked about that are i dont want to say overdue but i guess they are. Which projects did you want to know about . All of them. Okay so there is a forecast scheduled extension on several projects mainly the lower cherry aqueduct it is about a year behind schedule due to right away issues. That would be 2017 . So, yes. So, we are planning to rebuild the construction january 2017 and issue a notice to receive in july. And so, what is completion to show me see completion isif you just give me a moment i can look that up. Okay. The completion would be june 2018. Okay. And then, with respect to the other projects that i mentioned, mountain tunnel inspection and repairs, phase 2actually dan, do you know what the completion date is for the repairs . I can look. Well, you said it was set back six months because of the inspection . That was mountain tunnel. So that would be december 2019. Okay, then how aboutwe have two other projects. Yes, while the san joaquin pipelinewell, i mentioned to overruns and those were the two scheduled overruns. Okay, and what completion date we have for calaveras . So calaveras stand that is the wissup that is not part of my report today but id be happy to answer that. Im sorry. That is scheduled for 2019. Thank you. Any other questions . Any Public Comment on the hetch hetchy water and power Capital Improvement program . Seeing none, next item please next item is the wastewater enterprise Quarterly Report sewer system improvement program. Good afternoon commissioners i am karen kubikthe assistant manager of the wastewater enterprise Quarterly Report sewer system improvement program. We have one to report and this is the use of 1550 that will not be for sore ups they will be for griffis pump station. We were looking at 2017 now are looking at 2018. So if i can have the slides please. There are five that were given awards we have a few Infrastructure Projects heading out the door and we have three green Infrastructure Projects and three improvement projects and eight that are complete and one in closeout. You can see the percentage complete our on the low side still but this will be picking up and picking up as we get into 2017 and 2018 as well. Here just to give you an idea of where some of our Program Projects are. The green is construction on our bar chart. I will do a little deeper of a dive on the projects i know youre interested in. As well, we have our early implementation projects we have three and construction and to our in the works and about 2018 mid 2019 we will have all of these built, running, and monitoring their performance. So, this is really exciting. On the treatment plan side, this is a two marquis projects that we spent a lot of time talking about. The first is headworks and headworks is at 68 at 358 million. And we are looking at the construction being completed by february 2017. The second is biosolids and it is in the current phase design at 35 by the end of the year. And we anticipate completion to be spring 2017. This is our one full Environmental Review that we are doing in this process and construction is on track to begin in the summer of 2018. A lot of time is being spent on the project sid

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