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Releases were about three times that much. So really water is coming in a little bit of water is coming in, but more than that is flowing out of the system. So, in fact, were releasing about 500 cubic feet per second above our full natural flow. So more water is coming out of our system than the river tully actually would provide at this time of year. So if we receive a curtialment notice of effect the flow is already going down the river. So in summary, again, dry year, but hetchy has been doing good. Water bank has worked well for us. As i reported last time, if we have a really dry year, we could run out. Conservation is still [stkropbg ] and systemwide demand hasnt been this low since 197677. Happy to answer any questions . I have one question about the water bank. What is the general plan about the water bank . Do we have certain dates or certain amounts that have to be in the water bank . How does that work well, the two are 570 acre feet is the full capacity and we cant go below zero in the water bank. We got down to about 55,000 acre feet this year, the lowpoint of storage, but we feed water bank with the water we release from oshaughnessy and release instream flows 500ique feet per second, as well as release from cherry, home powerhouse and we generate there. This time of year we start to feed water bank and bringing it back up again. We expect water bank, if its a bad year, we expect it still to get up to about 160,000 acres feet. If its a better year, the more the better. If it only gets to 160,000 acre feet as we take advantage of it next year, at some point it will get to zero next year, depending on exactly what demand is. So its basically done its job for four years running and that is really good. We are going to try to stretch it as along as we can, but that depends partly on nature and partly on culture customer demand. And partly on water management. Well, all on water management. Nature and our customers have big hands in this. Thank you. Any Public Comment on the drought report . Certainly the next item i have is actually recognizing cheryl davis, who has decided to retire. And cheryl has been with the puc, if you didnt notice for 32 years. So she is one of those employees that actually knows a lot that has gone on and seen a lot over time. She has been with the city for about 34 years. But one of the things that cheryl did early on in her career here at the puc is actually she managed the Customer Service bureau through the last big drought and i remember that drought even though i wasnt working here. It was a tough time and she did an admirable job doing that. She has led our water supply and Treatment Division for a number of years. She has served you as assistanted general manager for operations and served you as the acting general manager for a period of time and finally what cheryl has beening is workforce development. Not only just here in the puc, but across the bay area. She has been recognized by her colleagues at other utilities as being one that has brought them together in, i think, in a very significant way to bring this whole issue up to where it should be and the attention being paid to it. Cheryl really has been the driving force behind it. So im very sorry to see her go, because its truly a success. She ran an open house here last year and literally hundreds and hundreds of people attends those open houses. She has been recognized across our industry by different associations. She was actually a Founding Member of the Water Reuse Association of Northern California and president of that association for a number of years and very interested in diversifying our water supply as well and as been recognized by her colleagues as well for that. Its very sad to see cheryl retiring because of her wealth of knowledge and she is always one to be open and free with information to all of us who are working here today. So that i say congratulations cheryl, on your retirement and hopefully if you would like to come up and say a few words, we would like to hear from you. [ 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

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