[ applause ] someone i wont name, but asked me how i endured it . And the answer about how i have endured it is that its such an honor and privilege to work in an area that is so essential. Both for people, and for the environment, and for the planet. So i have considered that an honor and a privilege. I particularly want to thank Senior Management of the puc for supporting the work that i have done in workforce reliability. Because at this point, mr. Harlan was referring to bay work that is 27 different agencies that are collaborating together. And the took a huge lead role in this and Ed Harrington called the first Strategic Planning meeting. His support as a senior manager of a major utility really set a tone for success for that and its progressively grown. Steve ritchie, who has been supervisoring my work has been very supportive and Harlan Kelley and one outcome of this is that the bay work model, there actually isnt anything else in california like it. There is nothing else in the nation like it. I havent been able to find anything like it internationally, and i am very involved with International Water associations. So the kind of tone that the Commission Takes about openness to innovation has really showed up here and paid dividends for you that i hope will benefit you for many years to come. Thank you. Thank you very much. [ applause ] cheryl is probably one of the people around here who has been with the organization longer than i have, and now that you know, that you are leaving, i think the rest of us are safe. [laughter ]. Cheryl is always about people. She managed the peopleoriented part of the business, the Customer Service section for a while. One of the things about her involvement with water reuse is that she started getting very interested in the ethical implication of water supply decisions that were being made. And really did some pioneering work, if you google her, you will find publication references all over of the place of the work she did in that and very much a precursor to the triple bottom line kind of thinking that were looking at today. There were some of us way back then, who thought ethics in water . What is the nexus here . Is it contracting . No, that is not what it was about. She moved the needle on that significantly. So i have said it before and i will say it again, thank you very much for that contribution to the puc. Thank you we do have something to present, do we not . We do have something to present, but before we present it, i just wanted to add that cheryl and i worked very closely together for many years. And i just cant believe this day has come that she is leaving us, but its been a wonderful working relationship and i have really appreciated everything that you have done for us, and everything that you did for me. Cheryl was acting general manager for a spell there, and that is not an easy job. And so we do have a recognition for you, that the secretary will read. Certificate of honor presented to cheryl davis in thanks, appreciation and commendation for her 32years to promote Environmental Stewardship and contributions that have benefited the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you. Do we have somebody with a camera . I mean everybody has a camera. [laughter ] so cheryl, why dont you come up and well have a picture . [ applause ] that concludes my report. Any Public Comment on the general managers report . Next item please. Item 8 is the consent calendar. All matters listed here constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of commission or public so requests and if so the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered a separate item. 8a, authorize agreement pro. 0008 not to exceed 4 million and duration of five years. B, accept contract 2673r, approve modification no. 3, decreasing the contract by 478,716 and authorize final payment to the contractor. C, approve plan and accept cations and award contractor no. Wd2746 in amount of 4,316,950 to the lowest qualified responsible and responsive bidder azulworks, inc. Any items to be removed . Item no. 10. 8a. I would like to remove 8c. So may i have a motion on 8b on the calendar. Move approval. Second. All of those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Now well discuss item 8a. 8a, i really just have a comment on it. And that is that this is a procurement, whereby virtue of there only be one bidder that we would work with, they were able to dictate terms to us that were in excess of what we indicated our maximum would be. And because of the fact that they are the only people we can do business with at the moment, that that is we dont have much of a choice on that. What i would just like to ask our contracting and management folks is that we desperately need to get somebody find somebody else in the market that can provide these services. Its just an example of where market control like that works very much to our detriment. With that, i would begrudgingly move the item. Well continue to work and see if we can find others to provide those services as well. Thank you. Do i have a second . I will second. All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . Motion carries. Item 8c. I want to understand all our cisterns are in the Northeast Quadrant of the city. So the new ones are all proposed for the west. Now how about the southeast southwest . So there are actually located in different locations throughout the city. So this is just a new one that were putting in. Well, that isnt what the item says when i read it. It says that most of them are in the northeastern and the new ones that are listed are all in well the avenues, around you golden gate park, south golden gate park. So how about the other areas of the city . I dont see where any of them are located . We can provide you information on that, but they are located mostly on the eastside of the city, not just in the northeast side of the city. And they are located also on west side of the city and were just expanding them out to the avenues where the auxiliary water supply system does not exist, the High Pressure firefighting system. In northeast we tend to get good afternoon, president caen, in the northeast we tend to have pipelines and the south and west part of the city, we dont have that Pipeline System. That is why were putting more cisterns in the west arnold ends of the city. How about the southwest and southeast what do we have there . I think in the southwest we have put in some cisterns and in the southeast . We have Pipeline Systems there. So effectively, its been developed more on the Pipeline System on the eastside, than on the west side it sort of stopped around 19th avenue and never expanded out to the beach. And that is why the cisterns are going in out there. Its more costeffective for us to do that than expand the Pipeline System. Okay. May i suggest this was not really a thorough report in terms of the overall situation. We can provide an update on the entire program, to show you, its not just the cisterns, but pipeline expansion. I would like an update and more thorough report, because i had questions related to how the locations are selected . And we dont have to answer now, but i think it would be good to have a more comprehensive. We can definitely provide that, because we had an consultant who does quite an extensive analysis of the entire city and the awss system and we provide that to you in a summery summary form. We did that in con junction with the Fire Department as our partner at the table. And were actually putting in some of the new systems. Okay. Good. That would be great. Thank you. With that i will move the item. I will second it. All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Is there any additional Public Comment on the calendar . Next all right, please. Item 9, approve and recommend that the board of supervisors approve the conveyance of an easement over approximately 3627 square foot portion of property owned by the city and county of San Francisco on sfpuc parcel 656 for the city of modesto and conveying the easement to modesto and execute an agreement conveying the easement to modesto and agreement with jw Gibson Mcelhaney henry, llc. I would like to move the item. Second. Further discussion . All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Thank you. Item 10 approve the consent agreement for switching contract no. Cs169 approve modification no. 1 and authorize the general manager to negotiate and executive a consent to assignment to the existing agreement from mwh urs joint venture to mwh americas, et cetera. Through the chair, im going to have a number of questions and my primary concern is that my questions are going to lead to other questions. Its more procedural than anything. Im not comfortable moving forward today. Im also not comfortable with the situation that may end up being practically a hearing. If i was able to get an opportunity to discuss in more detail some of my concerns about just the process here, and i would ask that we remove the item and place it on the next agenda, if there were no objections. I would have to inquire with Legal Counsel about this. Its on the agenda. Can that be done . Maureen ambrose city attorneys office. Yes, you could remove an item from the calendar and recalendar it to the next meeting. I think the question to staff is whether or not it would have implications from that point of view we have put everything on hold for this particular project, waiting for this amendment. It was on calendar last time and we pulled it and we thought we had addressed all of the questions. If we havent, we can put it to the next calendar. The matter is subject to the board of supervisors approval and cant be approved by the board until the beginning of september. So as along as you hear it by the well, you will lose two weeks in september if you dont do it today. That is right. Cathy, does it have any effect on the schedule or anything else . At this point, it doesnt hugely impact our schedule. Okay. At the pleasure of the commission. Commission is that quite all right with you all or not . Or do you want to start to hear it, and if it looks like were at an impasse to continue it . My concern is just being respectful of everybodys time. Like i said, my honest opinion is that one question is going to lead to another, and then im still going to be short the information that i need to be able to vote on it today. So i am asking that i have an opportunity to meet with you, cathy, just to flush this out in the interest of just moving it forward. Okay. I would be supportive as along as we are assured that there isnt a scheduling delay, and that hopefully, the information can be provided. I would like it to move forward, but im willing to meet with commissioner courtney, because i want him to be comfortable with this. We did spend a lot of time with mwh and go through their whole process and how they selected to add a major subconsultant. We looked at the lbes and what was on the current contract and we considered whether we should rebid it or put out another rfp . Or whether we should do this amendment . So we do spend a lot of time on it. So i am happy to meet with commissioner courtney on this. Okay. Should we continue to the next meeting . I want to point out though that we only have three commissioners at the next meeting. I do really need that motion the next time. Wasnt that item already . Yes it was on the calendar two weeks ago and we moved it to this time because we still had some followup questions with our consultant, mwh. Noreen ambrose, city attorney, if its heard today you could get it introduced by the board at at the end of the month and hear it the first week of september. If its heard at the next meeting or the one after that in august, its irrelevant. You wont be able to get it introduced until the first meeting in september to the board. So you will necessarily if you dont do it today, whether you do it on july 28th or august 11th, it wont make any difference. Okay. I just want to make sure that we have a quorum for the next meeting. Its very important. All right. Thank you. I promise i will be here. [laughter ] you better be. Do we have to make a motion to continue . So moved. You can do it by motion or the president can do it. Okay. President just did it. Okay. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 11 authorize request for qualifications and subsequent requests for proposal for agreement no. Ww628 for an amount estimated to be 225 million. Good afternoon, commissioners. President caen, this item is for our Sewer System Improvement Program project and this goes right back to the memo regarding cm gc and were asking to put out a request for qualifications and to put out a request for proposals to have contractors apply for this contract. Because we would like to bring a contractor onboard early on to work with our designers. And so in answer to commissioner morans question earlier, it really does remove the conflict of being able to work with the same contractor that then does the construction the with the traditional low bid, we cannot talk to one contractor versus another and its a conflict for us to talk to the various contractors on means and methods. And so going the cm gc route would allow us to work with a contractor in constructability. Mr. Moran, i think you had an amendment to the resolution. Well, we had talked to staff, and as i indicated before as ongoing discussion of administrative procedures we should put in place around the new ordinance. I had proposed a further resolve, that basically says this contract would be subject to whatever administrative provisions this Commission Adopts at a later time. That is correct. We talked earlier today. We came up with some language in antpation of this question coming up. If i could read into the record, the language, further resolved that the award and administration of any agreement entered into pursuant to this authorization will be subject to any administrative provisions subsequently approved by the commissions applicable to cm gc contracts. And im not sure what the appropriate process is. I can move that amendment. That might be the best thing to do, and i will do that. Okay. I will second that. Discussion . Any Public Comment on the amendment . I will call for the question. All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Excuse me, may i ask for clarification, is that the last further resolved . Yes. Okay. Thank you. Now we have to vote on the motion itself. I have a motion so moved. Second. Further discussion . Public comment . All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item. Item 12 approve proposed modifications to the floodwater Management Grant program. The sfpuc will seek appropriations to increase its allocation to 2 million. I would like to move this item. Second. I have a question on this. Does this remove any further legal action against these properties, or from these properties . Brian henderson, wastewater enterprise, filling in for agm walla. The simple answer is no. I do have if you would like, i do have a summary of the changes. We have a very detailed description of the modifications in your packet, or i can go through a quick summary, if you would like. A quick summary would be good. Okay. About two years ago, this Commission Approved a grant assistance for floodwater Management System to encourage San Francisco Property Owners to make improvements on their properties that will lower their risk of damage due to flooding. The Current Program reimbursed Property Owners for removalable flood barriers and sewer back flow preventers. We kicked off this program to the public at a workshop, where supervisor campos, sfpuc management, and the appropriate vendors. Outreach since then has included presentations to Community Groups doortodoor outreach and dropin session where we helped the applicants with their paperwork. Our grant administrator and staff have personally communicated with over 35 individuals about the program. Flood barriers and backflow preventers have been installed by some Property Owners as a result of the Grant Program, but many face more sitespecific challenges and have not been able to take advantage of the program. Today were asking the commission to approve a set of modifications that would expand the program in several ways. Based on a feedback that we have received from oneonone meetings with residents, Small Business owners, and Property Owners. The modified program would additionally reimburse concrete flood wall and special projects such as ceiling of garage sealing of garage doors, modifications to plumbing and increase to 2 million. Coincidentally today, supervisor campos is also introducing an ordinances to the board of supervisors that would exemption these grantfunded projects to help further incentivize the program and one of which is this Grant Program modification. As with the current Grant Program, the modified Grant Program would be administered by the sfpuc and applicants would be applications would be reviewed in coordinate Workers Compensation dpw and dbi. We believe these modifications reflect the needs of the affected communities and hope you will consider approving this important resolution to help Property Owners lower their risk of damage due to flooding. We have a lot of public speakers, but commissioners, any comments . Yes, i have a question and comment. So the uptake from the First Program two years ago because i remember we spent some time reviewing right, right. Has it been pretty successful . It sounds like you have done a bunch of outreach and have people really been applying for the grants . Yes. We have had several people actually going through the grant process right now. But we have run into challenges, because the flood barriers and the backflow preventers didnt necessarily meet everybodys needs. Hence, flood walls, in further meetings we decided that we can meet an awful lot more of these needs with flood walls and grade changes, perhaps plumbing changes. Different plumbing changes than the backflow preventers. If people are still applying have they been in the areas most prone to flooding . Yes. They have. So that part it sounds like has been successful at least from the outreach perspective. And i do hear that there are projects for el ninos coming potentially this winter. So i think that probably would include some pretty heavy rainstorms. Every rainstorm spawns a whole new initiative to get this going. Yes. Im just wondering a little bit about the timing, and with the hope that if indeed the forecasts come true, that they bob able would be able to have the barriers in place by the next time the rains hit . Its an individual base. Property owners actually responsible for all the construction work. They dont go through a standard process through approvals and what not. They go through what any private construction, if you are modifying your house, you go through the exact same dbi and dpw approvals. Absolutely. Some of these can be done very quickly. Great. I would just ask if we approve this today, that you really get out there and do the outreach. Because were in july, and if people want to get prepared for what could potentially be a heavy rainstorm winter, it would be great to make them aware of this program. We will definitely continue an aggressive outreach program. Thank you. Good. Any other comments from the commissioners . Okay. To the general public, because there are so many speakers, i would like to limit it to two minutes, if you dont mind. Im going to call three people at a time. Robert hanson. Dennis casey. And chris hinkley. Come forward, please. [ inaudible ] all right. Just real quickly, im dennis casey, fivetime president of the San Francisco Motorcycle Club. Were 111 years old and we had mayors of the city of San Francisco as members of our club. Were about 100 members strong now. Were the largest Motorcycle Club in the world at one time and were first to allow women members. We have been in the building at 2194 folsom for many years. We are not an outlaw club, just a regular Motorcycle Club. We are not the sons of anarchy, but the sons of San Francisco and particular folsom street. Our clubhouse is a our club is nonprofit, we use our clubhouse for weddings, birthdays, Christmas Parties special events. Its just a clubhouse. Its open to the public. And we have always been very generous to our neighbors and never had the police there except one time 30 years ago for a noise compliant. If we are in the clubhouse right now, and the last flood, you would be the only people on dry ground. So the other thing we have done, we spent almost all of our own savings i cant mention specific numbers. Its way in excess of 50,000 to support our own foundation on our own dime. We can really use some help with waterproofing the front door and with the plumbing backflow items that we would get funding for if this were approved. Thank you very much. Thank you. Our next speaker den
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