Transcripts For SFGTV MTA Board Of Directors 20200205

any public comment on this item? >> no, mr. chair. nobody has turned in a speaker card. >> seeing none, we'll close public comment. is there a motion to approve these items >> a motion. >> second. >> item five, communications, i have none for you today. item six. >> board members, new or unfinished business. wow, a remarkably silent group. >> i'll volunteer one thing. >> i put myself out there on that one. >> i first of all want to direct director tomlin and all of the staff on the excellent workshop last tuesday. it was really rich and substantive. and you came to a lot of new conclusions. and i wanted to share i've had several colleagues reach out to me to share stories of their commute. i've had them express faster traveling times, and remark about the aspect they did not anticipate, which is how quiet it is on market street, and they could even hear birds churping on their walks. i just wanted to share that. i'm sure all of you are hearing positive feedback as well. but i think it is a great success, and it is clearly have an immediate impact. >> wonderful, thank you, director ecan. i want to thank you for the workshop, and particularly for the market street opening. i was limited how much time i had at the microphone, so i didn't thank staff adequately, but i want to reiterate thanks to director reskin, to director mcguire, and director tomlin for all they did to make it happen. victoria weiss, and all of the people on the staff. there were so many people who briefed me throughout the entire process, and who worked hard to make it happen, and they had appropriately big grins on that beautiful wednesday afternoon. i have certainly heard, anecdotally, from our operators, how much better things are going on the street. i think it would be useful if we were able to quantify that or get some sort of survey response simply so we can address that and let the public know that the effect that we promised is real. and the second thing, i don't see director toran. cabs are allowed on market street. i have seen them moving efficiently up and down market street. so with that, we will move on to item number seven. >> item seven is the directors' report. >> director tomlin, this is er your second meeting, third meeting if you count the workshop. so i know you're in the swing of thing. the floor is yours. >> first up, i would like to direct our chief financial officer, leo levinson, who can present the staff awards. >> leo, welcome. >> i have staff present to be recognized. so today we're going to recognize the custodial staff in our system that responded to the december 7th subway flooding. we heard last board meeting about the engineering staff, and this is the other half of the picture to make those stations clean and usable for the public. they responded on a saturday. they do their workday in, day out, on incredibly dlt difficult circumstances, and this is one particular time when they went above the call of duty that clean this flooding event up and made the system available. i would like to bring them up. along with -- so we have the managers here to join with me. kirstin, or director of facilities and real property management, lisa chow and lisa ising. >> would you speak to the microphone? >> yes. come on up closer. and so on behalf, really, of all of the custodial staff in the system, we would like to recognize this particular group who responded on that day. and they include the swing-shift supervisor, shen, lee shen, rick tong, shing jong, william quang, jean hi quang, jerry leyong, joseph freeman, lolita carrino, and cho yong shen. [applause] >> thank you all on behalf of the board of directors and on behalf of the entire city for your quick work that day and your constant and vigilant work every day. is there anyone among you who would like to address us, not a command performance, but certainly welcome if you'd like. >> welcome, sir. >> thank you. thank you, board of supervisors. >> i appreciate that. thank you very much. >> all right, we're handing out the rest of the awards. while you guys get your awards, again, thank you so much. thank you for your words, sir. and thank you, leo, and i think director tomlin, we can move on to the next award. >> i would like to call to the podium tom mcguire to begin our visions error report. and i think for our award recipients, i think there is a photo that we would like to take over there. you're already on it. you're a good man. all right. all right. mr. mcguire, welcome. >> good afternoon, directors, tom mcguire, director of sustainable streets. if we could have the laptop screen, please. so i'm here to talk to you a little bit about why speed matters, and why it is so central to our vision zero efforts, and to give you a timely update on the taskforce that just released its recommendations yesterday morning. you'll hear us talk, in almost all of our talks in vision zero,wets whether i, whether it isenforcement are, the importance of reducing vehicle speeds. we know from the day we've been working with the public health and police department over five years collecting 62% of the fatalities that take place in san francisco, the primary cause of that fatality is excessive speeding. it makes sense when you think about the nature of our streets and the fragilelity of our human body. it is really striking when you see -- if you're hit by a car, you have a 90% chance of surviving that crash with just an injury. if you're hit by a car traveling 20 miles per hour, you have a 20% chineschance of surviving crash. the results have been proven to be empirically true, when we look at states that have implemented our top legislative priority, automated speed enforcement. the 142 cities and communities around the country who have that, they're seeing consistently their collisions go down. anywhere from 13% to 53%, and they're seeing their fatality going down because they're consistently seeing their top-end speeds go down as a result of that enforcement technique. so the link that we see in the data is very clear: speed is what causes fatalities and serious injuries on our streets. so automated speed enforcement, or really any speed reduction tool, is only as good at the legal speed limit we're able to set on the streets. it is interesting, when you look at the ways in which we set speed limits in california, they don't seem particularly consistent with the values that i hear this board expressing or with our vision zero transit first policies. this is a diagram from the california state transportation agencies speed-limit-setting manual. and you'll see things that appear to be protecting drivers from speed traps, preparing your radar gun, making sure you've calculated the 85th percentile, and lots and lots of data about how traffic is moving on streets we know to be unsafe today. and then there is this one little section called "consider other factors," which you only do after you prepare your speed gun and collected all of your data. so what are the other factors? you dig into it and you realize that the other factors include things like accident records -- they say accident records, not crash -- business, residential density -- everything that makes a san francisco street is kind of buried away in this "other factors" box. and we and the other big cities in california don't think that's right. that is why assembly woman laura friedman from los angeles county passed assembly bill 2363 two years ago, and it created a taskforce to identify findings and recommendations to reduce fatalities to zero. it came out of her attempts to use state law to change the way in which we calculate speed limits, and to raise up those data-driven factors around, with the crash records of the streets. the effort to change state law -- to change the speed limit methodology did not pass in 2017. instead, the taskforce was formed. it just released its findings yesterday. and i'm cautiously optimistic about the results for two reasons. the first is, there is the statement in bold on the screen here. i think this is the first and one of the clearest statements we've seen from the state of california about what we already know here in san francisco: the relationship between speed and injury severity is consistent and direct. the state is saying, if we're going to get to zero deaths and get serious about controlling the rate of injuries on our streets, we have to control our speeds. and there are three encouraging take-aways, and none of these can happen tomorrow. all will require further legislation, but the report does provide a technical basis for future legislation. the first is a recommendation that prioritizes lower speed and speed limits on a high-injury network. we drew out our high-injury network in 2015, and lots of other big cities in california follow our lead. secondly, lower speed limits near vulnerable populations, senior facilities, shelters, playgrounds, and health care facilities. while we showed the dying graham odiagram of the 80% -- it looks much worse for the elderly and people who are very young. we have vulnerable streets here in san francisco, and the state is saying we need to protect them. and finally, while it doesn't give us the right to use law enforcement -- i think this is the strongest statement we have seen from the state today. it is not permission, but we cleell clearly have a roadmap to move two of the policies in our vision zero strategy, to move those forward. i want to acknowledge kate green, who served on this taskforce, and is working closely with our legislative affairs, folks in city hall, and with assembly members, who is continuing to try to keep the fight for o.s.e. going in san francisco. thank you. >> thanks, tom. so that was a very timely report. we are hopeful that the state of california will learn from the abundant data and case study analysis available from other communities throughout the world to legalize some of the most affective tools for managing safety on our streets. meanwhile, our vision zero efforts continue, and last week we did have one fatality, a motorcyclist collided with a motor vehicle, resulting in a fatality. at this point, the rapid response team has no recommendations. moving on to culture change, which has been a big topic these last couple of weeks. this week is also the one-year anniversary of ombudsman person delores brandings' report, doing a detailed analysis of conditions at the f.m f.m.t.a., and offering a thorough set of recommendations. one of the things i've asked my staff to do is take a look at all of those recommendations and be tracking progress against each of them. in quick summary, our human resources director, kimberly acreman, has been leading that effort, along with donte king, and virginia harmon. they have been busy creating some standards that did not exist, about treating all employees fairly. it includes written recruitment policies that make the process more transparent. integrating diversity into all of our h.r. initiatives. providing better training opportunities to managers and supervisors, as well as frontline employees, in partnership with the department of human resources. reviving the e.o. process to make it more easily understandable, and improving communication and transparency throughout. we are -- also, as you saw last week in our budget exercise, we have a significant ask around creating a new division for race and equity within the department, as well as a significant ask of increasing staffing at the department of resources in order to meet all of these goals. i believi think we're making god progress, and the pace of that progress should step up as h.r. becomes more fully staffed. so we'll be continuing to update you at board meetings throwlt throughout the year. in the meantime, we're also working on cultural change work, including doing a better job of tracking specific outcomes around discipline, employer pathway progress, by race and gender. i have been meeting personally with our black and african-american affinity group, as well as the change fmta group that was organized around women's issues and masogony in the department, from previous administrations. and engaging all of those groups in really productive conversations. as you know, we're creating a new office on race, equity, and inclusion. and donte king has been leading the development and implementation of classes throughout the organization at all levels and all divisions, around understanding and addressing the ins institutional and systemic issues. if you could bring up the slides, moving on to the next topic, we're very excited about this as well, which is bus acceptance. this picture on a very truly foggy, wonderful day from last week, is the last of the rubber tire fleet replacement program, enabling us to retire our least reliable vehicles, and offer new vehicles that have a huge number of benefits, including extending the miles driven between failure from 3,000 miles per failure to over 10,000 miles per failure, and this is resulting in significant reliability improvements on the bus side. that is being complemented by, as you know, increasing the number of operators who are actually available to drive the service. we're finally starting to see some significant improvements in reliability on the bus side. and these electric trolley buses are equipped with an electric battery, and they can go off wire for significant distances in order to detour around a special veep event or an incident. and they provide a better ride ergonomically. and it means we have the greenest transit fleet in all of north america. the next photos are from our market street. a quick build launch of a better market street. our crews have been working so hard to deliver this. they have been out there at all hours, and despite the rainy weather that slowed things down, it has been a tremendous success. this includes so many different divisions that have been working on this both within our agency, at the police department, at p.u.c., at public works. and we're starting to get the data now on performance. we knew that there was a lot of excitement last week, and so we didn't want to count what was happening last week in our performance data. and it's a little too soon, i think, to reveal some of the numbers because we want to make sure things settle out. but what we're seeing is at least a 20% increase in bike ridership on some very cold late january and early february days. we're seeing measurable improvement in transit travel in speed and reliability. one thing that is am moving tamusing to me is the rider savings greater than the actual savings because of the ways in which we perceive time. but our riders' persceptions drive it. so we care about the data, as well as the quanti fiablquantifiable data. welcome to the year of the rats. one of the biggest events in franchise is the chinese new year's parade, which this year is february 8th. the sfmta has been a part of these parades for a very long time. our staff and their families will be riding a dedecorated motorized car. and this is my first time being a judge, and i'm very, very excited. and i'm going to need some help practicing my tones in cantonese. obviously, a huge amount of effort around making the parade successful, routing our buses around it, keeping everyone safe and figuring out how the whole city works. this is a hugely important parade, both for us, as well as for the city as a whole. and finally, i'd like to close by recognizing two very important african-american san franciscans. marial pleasant and shor charlotte brown sued and won the right for all californians to have equal ra righright to public transportation. as san franciscans and as americans, we should know and celebrate their names. my staff has developed a video on their story. if you go to youtube and search "transportation is for all." that will come up. and we're also partnering with the san francisco public library to make sure their biographies are available for anyone interested in their remarkable stories. that's all i have for you today. >> chairman: excellent report. do we have public comment cards? >> robert shasana and he herbert riner wish to address you. >> good afternoon. happy new year, whatever. i just want to talk briefly about vision zero. i think you are missing completely the point of vision zero. the point is to keep pedestrians separated from the street. and the problem is, you don't enforce any of your own regulations. the amount of cars -- i'm sorrsorry -- the amount of bicycles, skateboards, one-wheel whatever they are, electric vehicles going the wrong way, up, down, on the sidewalk. i also have an objection to wheelchairs. and the only way that i can think of making both of us happy is i think all electric wheelchairs should have a noise-maker on them because they silently approach you at twice or three times the speed of pedestrians on narrow pageants, and you pavemeu have to jump out of the way. if you have this idea that electric vehicles are going to have noise-makers, i honestly believe you should have them on electric wheelchairs. [buzzer] >> the other thing is, all these scooters, they have laws on them about helmets, about not using the sidewalk. and you don't have anybody out there enforcing your own rules. and i would suggest hiring a couple of retired police officers, with the ability to issue fines and summons, and equip them with electric bicycles. >> chairman: thank you very much. mr. riner? >> herbert riner. i have some concerns about the culture of m.t.a. is anything being done to stop bullying at the work sites. women, ethnic minorities are identified, but there should be protections against being bullied by supervisors, and sometimes by peers. you have to address this because this is a real problem in any city agency, including m.t.a. secondly, on the whole question of vision zero and safe market street, something has to be done about bicyclists who continually go through the red lights we have to be protected against automobiles, but bicyclists have to be monitored too. people -- all pedestrians have to be protected. three, about accessibility, that means accessability for everybody. that means that people shouldn't have to walk a quarter of a mile to the bus stop. and that bus stops should be convenient. when you have these muni projects and you eliminate bus stops without any increase of the buses on the run, that's basically a zero minus solution. [buzzer] >> so these are the things that really have to be addressed by this organization. thank you. >> mr. chair, those are the only two people who turned in a speaker card. >> chairman: seeing no further public comment, public comment is closed. >> i know director brinkman knows about this study from the m.t.c. as well, with respect to bicycle usage in san francisco. and what this study showed me was that it was very interesting, that most people that ride bikes are very wealthy, with respect to $100,000 or more in terms of salary. but only 14% of these bike riders are asian...(indescernable ). asian...(indescernable... (indescernable). are we doing more to encourage those women and latinos and asians to use bicycles more -- are we doing educational programs towards those communities? >> yes, absolutely. social equity is a key point not only for the values of the sfmta, but also in the world of providing protective facilities for people who want to ride bikes or scooters or other forms of mobility. one of the key things we learned is if we want more than just fit, young, white, wealthy men to ride bikes and scooters, the first thing that we need to do is to to provide protected facilities. particularly the bike lanes, like in the middle stretch of valencia, those are just uber and lyft pickups and dropoffs. there are protected facilities where we're seeing an increased diversity of riders. that's one of the reasons why th they are committed to having -- the goal is actually for 2021, and we're wanting to accelerate that. and that includes completing the protective lanes on howard and fulsom, 7th, 8th, 5th, and portions of the embarcadero, and, more importantly, implementing the community-based transportation plans, like our remarkable bay view transportation plan, which started not with infrastructure, but started with deep community engagement in the bay view, asking local community members what are their priority transportation investments in order to meet their specific needs and priorities. so we're definitely looking at more culturally appropriate and community-based design approaches, particularly for the neighborhoods that represent san francisco's diversity. >> chairman: all right. a very helpful question and answer. directors, anything else for director tomlin? wonderful. that woo an excellent report. thank you. you're merging right into your job very well. thank you for that excellent report. let's move on. >> the citizens' advisory council's report, i do not see any of the officers present, so no report today. item nine, public comment, it is an piewntopportunity for the members to address the board. we'll start with jane natoli, followed by robert chasana. >> chairman: all right. welcome. >> hello. let me just pull up my comment here. good afternoon, directors, my name is gene natoli. on my behalf and several other folks who could not make it here today, i want to start by thanking director tulman. i know you're stepping down, and i wanted to express our thank you for everything you have done for the city. [inaudible] >> unfortunately, i couldn't ride because i have a broken hand. i suffered this broken hand a few weeks back because i was hit by someone driving while biking in san francisco again. this is the third time i've been hit in four years. this time it was on north point, in the paint-only bike lane, it was in the middle of the day, and it was bright and clear. it was someone looking to park his car that didn't see me. we continue to see situations like this all over our city. there are victories that we should celebrate that are worthy, our streets are still too unsafe. i implore you not to lose sight of how much work remains. these are people's lives we're talking about. that number needs to start going down for obvious reasons. even one death is too many. i've been lucky enough to walk away from my crashes. we still have a lot of work to do. i look forward to continuing to support the city's efforts to make the street safer for our most vulnerable users. [buzzer] >> but i keep coming back to the same questions: who isn't here to speak up. who will speak up for me the nec next time oom i'm not so lucky? we need to truly make our streets more safe. there are a lot of exciting opportunities for safe streets, and i'm hoping you'll rise to the moment and be the leader i know you can be. >> chairman: thank you for your articulate comments, and good luck on that hand. mr. chasana, the floor is yours. wonderful, we'll consider you taking yourself out of the cue. >> okay. rowan getta. >> good afternoon. i would like to echo what was said earlier about director brinkman. it is very sad to hear you'll be leaving us, and i thank you for your long-time service here at the board. i'm sure --ime i'l -- i'll be speaking about bike lanes later. but right now i want to talk about something completely different, and that is the san francisco/oakland bay bridge, which has had bus lanes on it for about two years of its almost century-long existence. you may have heard there is an effort going on to bring back bus lanes on the bay bridge, and there is a few organizations, the east bay, working with assembly member bonta, on an effort there, that has been supported by the bart board and the alameda county transportation commission because their governance doesn't make any sense, either. as well as by the city councils in berkeley and oakland, and maybe emeryville, if i remember correctly. a.c. transit, obviously, operates transit bus service on the bay bridge. i would like to remind you all that the muni 25 line also operates on the bay bridge, and its unreliability is very much caused by traffic on the bridge in both directions. [buzzer] >> it can start from the terminal, but it can't start its loop on the island at a predictable time. i would strongly e encourage this board and the m.t.a. to work with these people. thank you. >> chairman: anyone else? public comment? seeing none, we'll move on to item 10. >> your consent calendar. all items are considered to be routine unless a member of the board wants to have it considered separately. mr. chair, no member of the board or the public have indicated an interest in severing any item,, >> chairman: wow, this meeting is as efficient as market street these days. with that, i'll entertain a motion on the consent calendar. >> motion to approve. >> chairman: very well, item 11. >> it is a presentation and discussion regarding embarcadero traffic safety. >> good afternoon, chair heiheinke, my name is casey hilldrith. i'm mere t here to give you an update of planning along the embarcadero corridor. working with our partners, the port of san francisco, who are the jurisdictional owners -- which is why you haven't seen some of the work i'll show you, but we've been working since 2014 on trying to reenvision or understand the challenges along the corridor, as well as reenvision how we can design and program and manage the embarcadero for the next 100 years. i think it is important to point out that it is just -- the embarcadero, talking about better market street, it is one of our key, specific corridors. so before we sort of dive into the problems and challenges and talk about solutions, i did add a couple of slides in this deck to pay respect to the distinctive d.n.a. of the embarcadero, as well as point out some of the wonderful work our partners, the port, are actually working on, and some of the larger challenges that they're facing as the owner of the embarcadero. >> chairman: it is hard to believe that someone once thought that would be a great place for a freeway, isn't it? >> you're stealing my thunder a little bit. >> chairman: sorry. >> first and foremost, this is an active maritime environment. the embarcadero did not existent. it was water and title flats a couple hundred years ago. so a fun slide that you can see at a museum up in the north end where some of the ships were just -- they came, they unloaded, and they just didn't go anywhere. they wanted to stay. it has always been a very dynamic waterfront and has been competition for space. but only in the turn of the 20th century did we really start to see the outline of the waterfront that we sort of recognize today. right? so the sea wall was built over several years. land was brought in to fill in those title flats. and we have, you know -- we expanded our downtown and sort of begin to have the waterfront that we can recognize today. certainly the embarcadero itself was still wildwest, did not look like what we have. but you did see ferries, and the real key aspects of the d.n.a. of the embarcadero and how people get around. those only strengthened over the years. but we also saw the introduction of the automobile, so this is a slide from the late '20s, really showing the changes over the years that took place right in front of our sort of front door to the bay. within a couple of decades, yes, we had really manifested a different set of values along the waterfront, choosing mobility and through foot over our civic identity, and certainly any sort of sustainability. but this freeway still lives in the d.n.a. of the embarcadero, so we have to understand what it did serve and how we can pay respect or mitigate and respond in new ways to challenges. so save for all of the bad things that happened, loma paraddo parado was a god-send. we have dedicated transit lanes, we have bike lanes, and we have a shared-use promenade on the water side. that is now a sidewalk, and people can ride their bike. as long as you do not have an electronic motor, you're welcomed on the promenade. this was the state of the practice 20, 30 years ago, but we now have many new challenges and demands on our street, and with the introduction of so many more pedestrians, this design, while wonderful, does have challenges and we need to think ahead to the future. but it still remains, you know, there are just moments of beauty and serenity on the embarcadero, despite its dinoism. we throw out one comment that the port likes to mention, they see about 24 million visitors a year, tourists, commuters, residents, it really is a waterfront for everybody. and that popularity translated, fortunately for the port, into a wonderful down payment, public funding, to support making sure that this waterfront is going to be resilient for the next 100 years and beyond. so the recent bond that was passed is really a down payment on how the port can begin to plan and implement safety upgrades so it is not exposed to high risks from an earthquake, as well as, you know, this is the frontline for climate change and sea level rise. they're actively working on this program. and they have a problematic-phased approach of strengthen, adapt, and envision. trying to focus on where we can make smart investments that improve safety now, while we build towards a larger vision and adapt to changing conditions along the waterfront. currently they're in what is called a multi-hazard risk assessment face, and they're available on the website, and it is a deep dive into understanding the nuance onuances of where they can make those investments and be as strategic as possible. as we think about our transportation assets and regional transportation assets, it becomes pretty apparent there are some serious risks with sea level rise. we have the portal into our market street tunnel, as well as the bart tunnel, and that picks up regional and really federal interests. so army corps of injuries, bart -- they're all involved in this conversation, in addition to the port and other city agencies. there is still work to be done today in terms of also strengthen their historic buildings along their waterfront. it is such a vibrant corridor today, although there are a number of those buildings that don't really have a maximized use. a lot of interim uses or they're just plain vacant. the port has actively issued several r.f.t.s for ideas believers and we're collaborating and coordinating as those development ideas come on line. and they're updating their waterfront use plan. and there is also active development. i want to point out, around broadway, you have them about to break ground very soon. not only is it a permanent home for local artists, but there is zero parking. there is a facility next door, 100 units, and there is zero parking. we need to address today's challenges and serve these new uses coming forward. bringing it back more to transportation, the waterfront is really ground zero for the growth we've seen in the city, and that means growth in congestion. you have soma neighborhoods growing, and this is their bad yard, where they recreate. and you have more commuters coming in then ever before. and uber and lyft came on line while we were in the middle of our planning for this project, particularly along the waterfront. there is a huge impact that uber and lyft have on congestion along the embarcadero. but going back to its iconic nature and the wonderful places that we know along the waterfront, we do want to be careful on how we frame congestion. there is bad congestion and possibly good congestion. so whether there is a farmers' market or a marathon or a cruise ship call, it is a very complicated corridor, and we need to understand it in a lot of detail. and sometimes congestion is just a sign of a wonderful place to be. so we really have to try to keep that in mind as we try to tackle mobility and access improving this corridor for safety. but we also know that we have congestion, and we have safety issues that look like this every day. it really doesn't take more than one bike ride, one walk along the embarcadero to see these types of conflicts, and it really represents the diversity of uses on the embarcadero. you're touch and go uber and lyft, and you have large trucks that are delivering goods to businesses, amidst this wonderful place where we all want to move and rec create and linger. some of the key aspects we've understood over the years in looking at the embarcadero, we're kind of in this negative feedback loop where the bike lanes are not sufficiently safe for a broad range of people. so, well, they move over to the promenade, where it feels much safer for them. but then we have bicycle/pedestrian conflicts, which then pedestrians feel like they don't belong on the shared-use promenade. and also we have this boulevard, which is quite long, so as we commit to timing our signals for the slower, more vulnerable pedestrians, it creates sort of a wait and race environment along the embarcadero, which translates into some of the safety issues that we see. this was brought up earlier, as wellday well today, people are trying to survive and thrive out there and trying to get ahead. we do have cyclists on the roadway, and this is an image of a red light and the number of bikes coming through the intersections. it is very inviting. you have a lot of these t-intersections, but if i'm an elderly pedestrian, and i have a walk sign, this can be quite threatening, and so we do need to account for that as we look at designs and build out our education and enforcement strategies. but we know at the end of the day, speed and the unpredicpredictability of people's behavior along the waterfront, particularly in vehicles, is what is contributing to our safety issue. it has come into stark vision, hit-and-runs, people who clearly know what they're doing cycling out in the roadway, and so we do have a design problem that we need to solve. that brings us back to sort of the core of the presentation, and why we're here to respond to vision zero. embarcadero is highlighted, pretty much the entirety of it, but then our high-injury network, the data, speaks to the vulnerability particularly of cyclists, as it relates to serious injuries and fatalities. and we know we have to address this and that it is unacceptable. how do we do that? so i'm going to try to really quickly tick through these, and give you a deep dive into the depth and breath of what we've debate doing working with our partners. a lot of the work has been couched under the embarcadero enhancement project, of strengthen, adapt, and envision. i think we're going to move towards of a problematic framework and branding for these efforts since it is well beyond one project. keeping in mind, again, safety is our number one priority, wanting to improve access for everyone, keep people and goods moving along the corridor, contribute to the economic vie tallitvitalityof the corridor, d respect the d.n.a. of this corridor, and, again, respond to the challenges of tomorrow as best we can today. we've gone through it iterations of this, but clearly safety is number one and we can walk and chew gum at the same time. we started our outreach in 2014, trying to not put our biases into the public dialogue. really trying to invite people to come and tell us what they want to see on the waterfront, tell us what their vision is for a safer, better, nore sustainable waterfront. we held a series of workshops, and had people envision their perfect corridor. we generated some of the themes and assumptions that we carried forward, this series of workshops was a wonderful start to kicking off a dialogue with the public. we did know that a key subgoal or objective of our project was, again, protecting each user. giving each user its dedicated space, protecting existing bike lanes. we went through a very thorough analysis if we should be beefing up the bike lanes we have, and looking at intersection designs with sort of what is out there today, or moving to a sort of new design, a new framework for the embarcadero corridor. clearly both, in both our analysis and in public comment, the two-way waterside bikeway rang out as likely the safest, easiest to desierntion design ad most popular, and so folks want to be by that water, by the dynamic uses. it took us a long way to get there, but this is now driving the project since 2016. but i really wanted to take a number of stakeholders with us on that analysis. it is a challenge, though. there is no typical cross section of the embarcadero. every block is different. you have the sinuous waterfront, but it is very technically challenging. as we try to find the space for this new dedicated bikeway, we have to employ a number of strategies and really go block to block to block. we'll point out what clearly came out of the workshops is storing your private vehicle on the waterfront, general parking is clearly not the priority. where we can widen the promenade, we certainly want to do that. and where we have the third travel lane along the embarcadero, we see that as an opportunity to transform the corridor for safety and provide space for the bikeway. we have strategies beyond that, where we have a number of pinch points, so this tool kit is really what brought us forward to the current state of the project. that has meant going out and talking to a number of people. and i have learned a tremendous amount, and i've met so many new people in my interactions along the embarcadero. i won't go through this list, but needless to say, there are a lot of folks who love the embarcadero, who really want to weigh in. there are a number of neighborhoods, in addition to these tourism-oriented groups and business-oriented groups. and we did hear early on from shakeholders that the pier nine area had a different set of challenges than the main corridor. it a lot had to do with how the embarcadero is designed. it is a very different set of issues over there. so i have spent a lot of time up in fisherman's wharf talking to them. and i went out this summer with a lot of their vendors to see what the challenges are that their food delivery people experience on a daily basis, and how can we anticipate those and accommodate those as we generate designs and strategies for the embarcadero. in 2018, we tried to round out our planning phase, and really present a vision, along with other ways we can complete the street and make it more safe and comfortable for everyone. we had a tremendous turnout. several hundred people showed up at the ferry building. and clearly some of the key themes that came out of people's feedback was this is a wonderful vision, but we need to move faster, we need to do more now. another key theme that came out was: this is great, but as a pedestrian, how am i going to be interacting with thie this new facility. so we need to hear more and learn more about that. i'll come back to those themes in a moment. but, you know, where we are now, this is the vision, separated two-way facility on the waterside, using that as an opportunity to enhance the character and sort of the predictability of the promenade so that it can accommodate multiple uses. you know, trying to squeeze and better utilize our existing dedicated transit-way. and trying to shorten our pedestrian crossings so our pedestrians are less vulnerable, and maybe we can save some of the green times on the sig false, an signals, and e sewer our goods are moving along the corridor. a lot of this corridor is not up to current standards with a.d.a., and so that would be a huge improvement if we came through and made accessibility improvements all long the corridor. this vision will take some time to get to. how do we start to chip away at this vision and create safety improvements today? well, we've been doing that work. we've really been trying to maximize -- before we shift to this new configuration, we've been making a number of safety improvements along the corridor, and we're using paint, posts, and signs as much as possible. whether it is reinforcing the message of a shared promenade, greening up the bike lanes to make them feel as safe as possible, protecting crosswalks, making them more visible, and introducing better connections back into the city-wide bike network, and adding a bike signal and turn at northward, as they go north into fisherman's wharf. >> again, speaking to a lot of the quick-build techniques we are now using paint posts, signs, signal timing, new pedestrian crossings, separating bicycles and pedestrians from the vehicles so there is that separation if not physical separation. this has worked well since it was installed earlier in 2019. here we are with the quick build and the challenges from you as well as the mayor's office. the last few months and year we have been trying to integrate the quick build concept into our project. an initial vision like this with a sidewalk level bike lane and a lot of heavy infrastructure chain changes. we may need to go there. we will be more achievable short term, leaving the curbs in place to provide physical protection and provide predictable behavior for everyone. in thinking where we could start -- going back to comments from earlier today. we are investing a tremendous amount of energy and capital into the protected bicycle network. later this year we will reach the embarcadero with that physical protection. we are falling a little short of a key transit facility, which is the ferry terminal which was recently expanded. it has led to an explosion of pedestrian scooter and bicycle traffic south of the ferry building where we don't normally have a lot of congestion. we want to be comprehensive. the proposal we are working with the port on and expect to implement this summer involves taking an extension of the howard and folsom corridor protected bike lane up to the front door of the ferry terminal. this should not be seen as a snippit of th embarcadero corri. it will provide safer pedestrian crossings and no right turn on red restrictions. just trying to make that connection work and really connect folks coming to the city from the ferry system, connectsem leslie to the -- seamlessly to the soma neighborhood and job centers. i won't go to the specifics of this slide. there are more details at mta.com embarcadero. it is light touches. taking parking, making this happen. i will introduce bike signals to begin to introduce more predictable behavior for people on the bicycle or scooter and getting that activity off the promenade and learning from it to apply to the remainder of the corridor where we can. just today and more recently there has been a lot of calls and suggestions. why can't you tackle the next block down with a problematic valet operator to block the bike lane. we are going to find a way to protect the existing northbound bike lane. we are working with the port on details. we expect to protect the bike lane and keep loading for the active businesses later this year, and then similar proposal up near pier 35 where we have the secondary cruise ship terminal. we have a wide parking lane. we don't need to talk about circulation changes. it is just reshoveling to provide better protection. we are working with the partner at the port. expect the three proposals to move forward in 2020. we also don't want to be just focused on just engineering. thinking through enforcement and education strategies that can be married with these changes to comb through 311. update collision analysis to be as recent as possible and diving deep. thinking about enforcement not just about pd but how can uber and lyft enlist better behavior to being nudged to a better loading spot. early indications we think we can make better load zones to achieve this, hopefully this year. they seem open to that. in terms of the larger embarcadero project, we are in approval phase trying to figure out what is that entire product description to move forward to the review? we are continuing to coordinate with all of the port programs and projects i mentioned. we are targeting an initial capital investment. we want to walk and chew gum. we have areas where quick builds are not achievable. investing in those corridors to chain together a complete facility along the two and a half-miles of the embarcadero. you have probably seen the 3-d animations. a new facility and when they it compared to the chaos out there today, we are hopeful we can bring more folks on board with this vision and do this as quickly as possible. i have a couple slides i am going to skip over. we can come back to them. it is tackling the details of circulation. there are places to modify circulation for the bikeway. other places have random left turns that slowdown transit and trying to simplify those intersections to be more efficient to work through the details of that. also, the tires on the planning phase assumptions. two travel lanes each direction has been a core part of the project to date. we want to make sure that still makes sense. trying to figure out what we need for quick build and what can perhaps wait for another day or separate area to tackle separately from the bike lane. another slide. just diving deep into. we recently have been breaking down the corridor. it is huge. we have to phase this in overtime. we knew that a long time ago. moving away from the northern segment of this corridor to get? to be surgical with where we make investments and come up with ideas. again, i want to speak quickly. there is a separate planning effort at pier 39 with money from the ta to think more broadly, not just in terms of embarcadero corridor but how circulation is working. we are anticipating completion of jefferson street phase two which is actively under construction, removing parking, creating a pedestrian-bicycle friendly condition. we are eager to respond to that to tie to the study and work with the core group of stakeholders at pier 39 to come up with that vision. so in closing, we have a number of projects on a number of timelines we are trying to integrate the quick build concepts to the work we are doing. we know we have opportunities, we have identified the first phase of those to complete in 2020. beyond that we do need to complete our environmental review before thinking about another wave of quick builds as early as 2021 while building towards the first initial investment in the larger capital project and also seeing what happens with our circulation study in fisherman's wharf in pier 39. a couple key steps will be going to the port commission next week to give a status update to be followed by a spur lunchtime forum talk. in particular, i want to call out the work of the mayor's office of disability contributing to getting to the curb to focus on the pedestrian experience within the protected bikeway design. going back to the comments. i want be to dive deep on that particular topic. how can we make a b bikeway facility safer for everyone? that will launch more details to come how we get back to engage with the community later this year and fold in the quick-build implementation,notification to the public. i hope this wasn't too much. i am done. >> hardly too much. very informative. do we have public comment. >> we do. >> we will start there. start with janice followed by bryan and then pete. >> thank you. all right. hello, directors. i am janice lee. this is special for me to speak today. i start working at the bike coalition over six years ago specifically to be the community organizer for the waterfront. for years this is what i have been saying and what the sf bicycle coalition is demanding. we deserve a world class biking experience. yes, we support the quick build projects. yes, we want to see more urgency between mission and broadway now rather than next year. more than anything, we don't want to wait. make all of the embarcadero safer biking now and not just three blocks. people biking here deserve it. make it a place to promenade. we support it now and in the future. we know the popularity of bike commuting can come in conflict. it took a decade for better market street to get approved. we now see how incredible car free market is. with the embarcadero. they have been working since the first presentation before this board in july 2014. casey walked through the entire history. in october 2018 you unveiled a two way protected bikeway as a result of the planning and outreach. let's not wait. we have waited too long. this is an informational item today, but if this is a chance to be on record, your strong remarks will provide urgency for the city to do more and faster. three blocks simply is not good enough i in in 2020. we know we can do better. >> thank you. good afternoon. i am bryan hashtags man, i am the walk sf. we are working with the city agencies to make improvements real and to get them in the ground now for the embarcadero. we get calls and e-mails regularly from seniors, parents and others not feeling safe using the current shared use path on the embarcadero. people are walking, biking and scooterring in the same small space. we don't have many other shared use paths in the city. this is not working the way it currently is. we saw from the vision zero data the street level isn't working either. it is dangerous for people biking in the street. it is unique in san francisco and should be welcoming to those who use it for those visiting or using it every day. if we take a critical eye towards the crossings and work with the senior disability work group we can make the waterfront safe for everyone includes most vulnerable. we look forward to workings with the city partners to make this happen. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, directors. pete, managing partner water barlow indicated 369 between folsom and harrison in business for 12 years. we are participating in the development of the southern waterfront with significant investment in the two restaurants. i want to read a response i wrote to the street blog article regarding water bar. it didn't get published. i want to go on record with it. water bar has never opposed the port's plans for a protected bicycle lane and never asked for special exemptions. the proposed plans have included the street treatment in front of restaurants. we have concerns about the design in terms of impact on deliveries. we have not been involved in the decision making at this point on the embarcadero project. our desire is to provide safe se and efficient access to the restaurants for guests and cyclists. water bar is deeply committed to balancing the needs of guests, cyclists and the community stakeholders. we value our unique location on the waterfront and we want to uphold our responsibility to share the beauty with everyone. our commitment includes sussporting sustainable nodes of -- sustainable modes of transportation. our responsibility at water bar and epic is to become sustainable businesses in a challenging restaurant environment. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i am ron. i have been biking in san francisco and on the embarcadero for the past eight years. it is great to see something might happen on the embarcadero. i would like to echo what janice said. this has been in design and planning for six, seven years. you will probably end up in a place where the planning including the process which is not started and and the design s not complete. the plans is going to approach the great proportions with multiyear periods of lulls. it is good to see something proposed for quick build. i like it. this has to move faster or at least not take a double digit number of years to build bike lanes to save lives. i would call you on to extend the quick build faster than proposed. i want to express i like the quick build that is proposed, especially that concrete dividers are proposed for the quick build. that is refreshing to see because it is all posts and paint which only goes so far. concrete is good. i appreciate the last minute changes made to the presentation. i am very happy to see that addressed. it would be grat great if the ma could update the slides. it is different than what is on the slides. it would be nice to publish that. thank you very much. >> matthewlam bers. >> i am the vice president of the san francisco pedi cab association. i have been there eight years in july. when we talk about the fatalities that occurred on the embarcadero, i have witnessed the aftermath of both of those. one was my friend and co-worker kevin manning. i want to thank. casey and his team for being responsive and transparent in the work they have been doing and the quick build stuff. it has made a great improvement in our daily lives. i will extend this invitation if anybody wants to go on a ride i will point out the playerses we -- the places we face on the embarcadero. my friend is out of work for six months. he was reended by an uber and fractured his hand. his doctor said stay off work because of the injury. the sea wall project is not going to mean shit if we still have cars. excuse me language. >> no more speaker cards. i don't see anybody lining up. close public comment. directors. >> i have a question. when we did the eir for the bicycle plan, were the improvements in the plan? i would like to understand what needs to happen based on what we can use from the larger plan report that happened and what new needs to happen today? >> i can't recall what specifically is in the bike plan. we have been moving forward under the assumption this is an iconic corridor. the changes are consistent with other projects where we are exempt. i will say we are kicking the tires currently. we will be re-visiting the environmental assumption and look back to the bike plan eir to make sure we are not missing opportunities to be included in that. >> you mentioned the sequence. is it the typical exemption or supplemental eir? >> current assumption is that it would be a more traditional exception. we do have to do a historic resources evaluation to make sure the project description is specific where we might excavate so that the evaluations can occur. >> the problem is how much time that takes, right? >> we have quick build. when will we be in a place to do the state historical resource? >> we arwe are working to kick t off now. in terms of the review, we are re-visiting the assumptions in the planning phase to respond and be flexible responding to the quick build initiative. when we have a stable description we want to do outreach to make people aware what is moving forward. how soon we can do that is the million dollar question. >> you showed intersections with bicycles and pedestrians. are there by south carolina the. >> between folsom and mission, we are not changing the pedestrian crossing distances. it is utilizing what is out there. the plan is to modify the existing signals with new signal goes to speak directly to the bike lane, but having a bike signal at every intersection if you think about the two and a half-miles. we don't want to over design for safety and separation of modes then create more behavior as people don't want to wait. how can we best provide for safety for pedestrians at crossings and still providing convenience for the cyclist and scooter. >> there are awkward intersections that the street doesn't align with where people are crossing. i would think it would be those intersections. you have got the muny trains coming, cars turning, cyclists, walkers. people walk across with the train coming. i would think we prioritiz we -r ties those. >> those are multiple roads. we did tackle that with a bike signal and tightening up the geometry. one of the rationales is that you are avoiding a lot of the complicated intersections. we are not advocating getting rid of the bike lane. wherever there is room to create the separation on the city side we will continue to explore along with a two way facility on the water side. >> is there concern about the speed and what the cadence we are moving through things? it is not clear if it is a slowdown on our side or the portside. you have shown a lot of groups outreach to the first meetings in 2014. it is now 2020. what, if anything, can we do to make this faster? the restaurant doesn't want to block the bike lane but we are not fixing that any time soon. how do you make theirs happen quickly. for that particular case we were challenged to re-look at it and came back with a solution. we are looking to build the two way water side vision. how many projects are we doing at once? it is a challenges corridor technically, and the dna on the waterfront, there are folks who talk about the freeway with a sparkle in their eye. we want be to bring those folks along. a lot is technical in nature. we can't do one thing to solve the problem. it is surgery on every block. >> at the end of the curb bike lanes, through the bulbouts, that where we anticipate the bike lane coming across the bulb out or it won't work? >> for example in front of the ferry building, you have hundreds of pedestrians waiting. the bikeway will be in the configurations. pedestrians are outside. the bailout would have to be large. we have more opportunity for how they do it today where they are making eye contact, they are being respectful and pedestrians are able to wait close to the roadway. we think there are opportunities where they are crossing the bikeway and roadway in other locations they have to do that in one go. that is where we are on the details of every intersection. >> director eagan. >> excellent presentation. a pleasure to watch. the photos are amazing. they capture the conflicts so well. it made me wonder if there aren't good examples. the portland access and vancouver sea wall. i think there is a lot of pedestrian crossing so they took a travel lane maybe during the summer. >> i was just there. i was talking to their staff about conflicts with a great park but you have the speed which is an issue. they are providing a faster protected facility on the surface boulevard. >> i think they did as a quick build. >> it is a quick build and they are looking to extend it in phases. >> the third comment is i love your framework of strength, adapt and vision and making the safety provisions. is there not a way to do the quick build for the full two and a half-miles? something more immediate. we have been given back the data re-enforcing the decision. the three blocks feels like a small step. i hear it is technical. is there not a way to do a billion dollars now as part of the mayor's challenge which he referred to in 20 miles in two years as we have the project down the road. >> i will come up with a stronger answer. i kicked the tires on the assumptions. we have a director that is wonderful at communicating value and i think those discussions are active and hot in terms of the next steps. do we want to take on that challenge now. the proposals were developed many months ago. by no means are we saying this is it. this is where we can come the agreement and get started. it would include taking one of the two northbound lanes between broadway and north point would have impacts to the ports partners. they are an enterprise organization. they support their needs through real estate runs. they also are the owner of the roadway. we are at the beginning stages having conversation. it would be changes that we could make to the transit system in order to not just build a bikeway bulletin crease the number of people that is embarcadero serves. keep the port key tenants whole while improving safety and public outcome. i think there is staff work and additional conversations necessary to answer those questions. we would certainly be happy to hear from all of you to what degree should we prioritize this corn door over the long list we are trying to build out in 2020. we have a long list of priorities with real staff constraints. >> . >> i enjoyed the presentation and i want to see these improvements. i appreciate the clear presentation in that regard. i go up and down to the ferry building every day. i think we should prioritize that stretch. i would love to get rid of the cars. i am interested in a few things. baseball season is going to start and the congestion increases dramatically. that is high priority because of the flow of so many different users. we have a lot of visitors who are not daily commuters, in addition to the huge amount of daily improvements that is bike lanes it is important to communicate. i know we also have special events like the giant's runs. it is often closed. i wonder if we can move these to get extra pace as we move for. we know how to close those roads to vehicles. i feel there are good possibilities. i support it with anything we can do understanding the staffing that we are dealing with. thank you for your good work. >> can you go back to the second to the last slide? so much of the conversation is how to make this go faster. i want to put a suggestion on the payable table. as you can see the three main elements of work, design in gold and construction in purple are consecutive, not concurrent. one thing we did at mtc is risk design. you may learn stuff in the environmental process and rip up design drawings. you know this corridor pretty well. i think that risk would be worth taking here. the specific suggestion is whether or not we could deploy that strategy to move the detailed design to the environmental process. it looks like eyeballing it saves quite a few months and gets the construction sooner. >> it is something we are trying to do if not necessarily presenting to the public. one thing about the corridor and we are talks about construction drawings. we inherited the corridor, typically you need a drawing with the trying up to dated. it was not good enough for construction purposes. we have had to build that from scratch. we does coordinate to split 50/550/50 the50/50. it is in the right coordinates. that was lacking for a number of years. we now have that and we are accelerating the more detailed survey is what you need to advance to detailed design. we are getting serious about doing something here if you have assets tell us now. we are doing that to provide the flax built to go faster. we didn't know where the funding was going to come down. i want to be careful not to over promise and not deliver. that is on our mind as we prioritize staff time and investments so that can happen sooner. >> are you doing this in house or by contract. >> we have technical consultants on board. now focusing on design and the public works are seedings the civil design. everyone is moving quickly right now on tasks. >> more general point if you want tosifen time you are going to to risks. we tried to take out ever reelement of public risk and it goes slowly. this sounds like it may be worth taking. respect. >> thank you for the presentati. shout out to epic and water bar. thank you to entrepreneurs, i am sorry i didn't realize how safe it is the for you. it is not okay. that biggs the question of acceleration for revenue producing. that provides a lot of revenue for the city and the county. lastly i i would like to echo the concern about consolidating that design issue. i think you can do that. it is not rocket science, you are not a stranger until we get to the issue. in terms of the embarcadero freeway, you can go to the pine and experience it there. >> director brinkman. >> i am so sorry for the loss of your friend and colleague mr. manning. he was killed by a hit-and-run driver who i don't think was ever apprehelped. think about the impact on friends and family and those of you who still work on the embarcadero with your cabs offering such a great way to get around there. it reminds me that we can not trust the car drivers to keep us safe. when we are on foot and on buyses we need to make a safe space. they know we have concerns about so many unfilled positions in the sfmta. if we are working on this and you did such a good job every minding us what we don't know. there is so much we don't know. i assume our meal row. it does take time and money. the best thing to do in this situation is say please do what you can, let us just be the voice of support do fixing that and making it safe. let's look at taking out the travel lane. we have seen what the roadway looks at when there are no cars on it. this is a little step back and keeps the traffic moving and keeps people safe. we need to jump in on this and embrace we are doing it now. let's quick filled changes. you come up with so great ideas. thank you so much for coming today to show that you are committed to make sure we make this a roadway. if we increase the person through it. they are going to boom more. the embarcadero is going to be a safer and more pleasant place for every where. >> if i may point out. one thing that they do to their credit is get deliveries at peer 26 and ferry over to the restaurants. if you think about building out the infrom structure it is easy to see that functioning trying to deliver and then use a mode to get to the last mile. they are doing great work. >> anything further? excellent presentation. this is not an action item. you have been given a lot of assignments. it probably feels like an action item to you. >> i will make sure the tenor of your comments will be delivered to the port commission next week. >> that concludes is business before you today. >> thank you very much. we are adjourned. >> the hon. london breed: all right, everyone. thank you so much for joining us here today. we are here with representatives from the department of emergency management, the department of public health, and our san francisco airport, and other city agencies to talk about the city's preparedness for the coronavirus and to let the public know that san francisco is ready to respond in order to ensure public safety. since the first outbreak in china, we have been monitoring the situation and taking appropriate steps in order to address the challenges, and i want to be clear that there have been no cases here in san francisco, and we will continue to work with our local, state, and federal agencies to track progress and provide multilingual information, as well. the emergency response center has been activated here at the department of emergency management. now i know there have been rumors of a flight coming here to san francisco with diplomates from china. i want you to know that we are not aware of any such flight, and if anything changes, we are prepared to take the necessary steps to address it, and we will make sure that we notify the public every step of the way. so at this time, we have a number of our department heads that are here to talk specifically about their role, what we are doing and what we will continue to do, and i want to thank you all for being here today to help us get the word out so that the public is aware of the facts and the situation here in san francisco. so with that, i want to start with the director of emergency management, mary ellen carroll. >> thank you, mayor breed, and thank you all for being here. the city has been working with our federal, state, and local partners for almost the last two weeks since the first initial outbreak in china. these partners include the c.d.c., the state office of emergency services, and s.f.o. today, you are all here. welcome to the emergency operations center for the city. we have activated the ops center, and -- basically to ensure our readiness to respond. we -- it's the role of the e.o.c. basically to provide situational awareness and to coordinate resources and information. we will be broadcasting in partnership with the department of public health public health information about how to prevent the spread of the virus and how to stay healthy during flu season. so with that, i'm going to introduce dr. tomas aragon from the department of public health. >> good afternoon. my name is tomas aragon, and i'm with the san francisco department of public health. we are working closely with the california department of public health and the centers for disease control and prevention to track this novel coronavirus which originated in wuhan, china. this situation is rapidly evolving and changing. it's important to recognize that there are no confirmed cases in san francisco at this time. we are actively preparing for the possibility of confirmed cases. we have activated our emergency response plan specifically for this type of scenario. this is what we do in public health. we have a lot of experience responding to outbreaks. we are in touch with our health care providers, our hospitals, our regional, state, and federal partners as we implement pret implement protocols on how to identify potential cases, how to isolate them, how to test them, and how to ensure they don't affect others. at this time, residents of the bay area are at low risk of becoming infected with this novel coronavirus. unless they have recently been to wuhan, china or unless they're in contact with somebody that's a confirmed case from that area. it's important to know that at this time of year, there's still important things we can do to protect our health. for example, making sure that we wash or hands, that we cover our coughs and sneezes, and that we stay home if we're sick. it's not too late to get the flu shot and prevent symptoms similar to the novel coronavirus. at this time, i'm going to turn it over to our colleague from the airport, mr. ivan sotero, from the san francisco international airport, who will give us an update on what's happening there. >> good afternoon. ivan satoro, san francisco international. although the flight from wuhan was cancelled, all departing flights from wuhan, there was a direct flight to s.f.o., and that was ceased last thursday. we still have a flight to s.f.o. for any lingering folks traveling to the u.s., to s.f.o., in the event they stopped in wuhan, and we are monitoring the state department flight out of wuhan, and our latest information is that flight will arrive to the u.s. v via anchorage, and it will land in ontario. we will have two checks. first for passengers boarding the plane and u.s. -- officials will do a second check upon landing, and then a third health check before taking off and landing in ontario, so we'll notify you of any changes as the flight makes its way to the u.s., and i understand it will be departing sometime tomorrow. thanks. >> the hon. london breed: all right. so that concludes the information that we have at this time. are we going to take a few questions? [inaudible] >> thank you. it's a very good question. we have decided, in consultation with our regional and state partners, in order to not confuse the public, that we would only be reporting confirmed cases. the state will be developing a summary at a state level that you can look at that will have more specificity, and the c.d.c. will also be doing that. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> currently, the risk for acquiring this infection in the united states is very low, and at this time, we're not recommending any special measures, including masks, so it's not necessary. >> the coronavirus is novel. can you go over the symptoms, how people will tell if they have the flu or coronavirus? >> it's novel, so that's why we can't confirm with just the symptoms. it's where people have been. so people that have arrived from wuhan, china. that specific information with their symptoms is how we determine who needs to be evaluated. [inaudible] >> -- where will people be quarantined if they do come up? >> so the san francisco airport is located in san mateo county, so the san francisco airport has arrangements with san mateo health department to evaluate patients. >> did you want to say where they're going to go? people are afraid. >> i'm not sure where they're going to go to. >> so even though the max is not recommende -- mask is not recommended, people are still concerned and not receiving information. can you confirm what type of mask to wear for the coronavirus, because some people feel they have to have a certain type. >> that's a very good question. the question was, is what type of mask, if somebody chooses to do the mask? at this point, we're not recommending that anybody wear any mask. what mask is used when they are recommended differs on the environment. so in the health care environment, they will be doing things a little bit differently. the challenge is that we don't know enough about the virus. we don't know enough about the virus. if we learn more, it will give us more guidance on the level of infection control that's required. >> with an incubation period of roughly 14 days, is there any action to check people who arrived in early flights, considering it takes 14 days for the infect to take hold. >> so when people land from china, they are given instructions in their native language so they know what steps to take next and get connected with their health care provider. >> so no plans from the emergency management system to contact them? >> if they get screened and they get symptoms, they'll get health care. if they don't have symptoms, they'll get instructions on what to do next because people may have symptoms outside of the state of california. >> my passion for civil service is inspired by a tradition. scda stands for supervisorory control and data acquisition. we can respond to an alarm, store history, so we can look at previous events and see what went wrong and if we can improve it. operations came to scda and said, can you write a program that would run the pumps at crystal springs pump station to eliminate peak power usage during daytimes, and we performed that function. i love the puzzle. every time there's a problem that comes up, it's a puzzle that has to be solved, and we do it. >> travis writes all the code for the original water system. he is super passionate. he knows every little detail about everything. he's a great troubleshooter. he can walk into the plant, we can tell hem an issue, and he'll nail down what the problem is, whether it be electrical, mechanical or computer. he works very well with others, he knows how to teach, very easygoing, great guy to work with. >> my passion for civil service is inspired by a tradition. i'm performing a task that has been done for thousands of years. the aztec had their aqueducts and water supply for the city. we bring water from the hetch hetchy reservoir, and we don't pump it. the romans would have been proud. my name is travis ong. >> good afternoon. i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utility's commission. today is january 28, 2020. role call, please. (role call) commissioner paulson is expected shortly and we have a quorum. before you, you have minutes of three different meetings and i will call them separately. the meeting of january 9th, 2020, are there any additions or corrections to this meeting? any public comments on this meeting? may i have a motion? >> to approve. >> second. >> all those in favour? the motion carries. secondly, we have the approval of the minutes for januar january 14th. any additions or corrections. any public comment on the meeting of january 14th? may i have a motion, please? >> i move the item. >> all those in favour? any public comments on the meeting of january 16th. may i have a motion? so moved. all those in favour? >> approved. >> commissioners, you all know i attended budget meetings. and i thin take those matters vy seriously and one of the reasons why i come and attend those meetings personally is so that after i do my research, what i call empirical data, i can write about it. what is happening is with our resources, if you are not very serious in what we have, where we get our pristine water from and how we bring it down the three pipelines which once were full and that's why i mention the name of the engineer. i wish he was in that room in spirit. if we do not seriously address our resources and time is running out, then we will be in deep, deep trouble. now even as we speak, we flush or toilets with clean drinking water. every time i go closer to homes, they always offer me that water and that water is sacred water. but some people don't get it. now, i saw you are wasting a lot of time, talking about the trails, this, that and the other. that's not important. what is important are the resources. what is important is climate change. what is important is what we have seen already and other countries are experiencing. that is important. now some of you all, and i know all of you all, but some of you all have institutional experience and memory. you have to pass it on to those who are willy-nilly, who give themselves titles like chief strategists, strategists of what, i want to know. where are we moving and what goal? are we going to a better place? and the only way you cab g can a better place is with your heart in the right place. that's the only way. so i'm now going to the board of supervisors. thank you very much. >> thank you. the next speaker is -- i'm going to apologize to begin with because i won't pronounce in correctly. , mr. mimo. thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners. , commissioners. one day i saw on my curbside somebody was fooling with my water meter or maybe checking and i felt a sick sense to check my bill and i looked and my bill was higher than the previous month. i call your department and i say this year was use 25% what we use normally and my bill is slightly higher. when the space inspection say, d your transponder not responding correctly and you have used $50. whereas it's normally a $100. so you have to pay for it. so your meter is showing 345 units and the transponder is saying 324. somebody came later on, took the tile out of the meter and i call the department, can you read. now cannot. ten days, 15 days and they cannot read. 529 must be. if i can't afford it cannot afft immediately, it's a collection. i say can you change the transponder now. no, these are all broken from other houses. so 50 sitting there could be 10,000 already moved from the city and this is a smart meter. you gave it to us and we are in this travel. i wish we should be. so this is the problem, what you can do now. i talked department to department and nobody knows. when they meet, i call the secretary, i left an answering machine message and didn't debt the message back andidn't get a. what is this? ten people in puc in the water department couldn't tell you when you meet and who you are. so this is the trouble we are going through in the public and these meters start checking every meter, check tens of thousands of transponders and if everything is wrong, change the system tomorrow, so please fix this problem. i gave it to you in write, this bill, which is on the screen, as well as the details of what happened. and please look into it. thank you very much. >> well, for the department, i truly apologize. looking at your bill, i mean, i would be astounded. so help me in terms of what we can do about this immediately. >> we'll definitely look into it and see what the circumstances are, but we do allow a payment plan if we determine that the amount used was more than -- the bill is more than they can afford and so they have a payment plan. first of all, to find out a situation and we'll back to them. >> i appreciate them. so you will give me a call somehow? thank you very much, i appreciate that. thank you. >> again, apologies. ok, any other public comment on this item? >> item 5 is communications. commissioners, any comment? no. moving along, the next item. >> item 6 is recognition of mr. carlos for his 44 years of service to the city and county of san francisco with 38 years of service to the san francisco utility's commission. >> well, first of all, i would like to call carlos decobo up at the podium. [cheers and applause] >> can you now give us the outcome of the budget? [ laughter ] >> just joking. when a veteran employee retires, there's mixed feelings. i think first of all we're happy that the person will live a happy life at home with his life and kids, but also with great sadness to see a person that meant so much to the department that leaves a void in our organization. and with carlos, it's going to be a big void. and carlos' case, he has served the city for 44 years, 44 years. i'm jealous, 44 years and 38 of those years with the puc. his outstanding work resulted in his promotion to budget director in 1997 which was way back when we had no water and we had a lot of issues and we just separated from muni, the anson moran years. [ laughter ] >> sorry about that. it gives me great pleasure to have worked with carlos when i came over to the puc. i can say that he's an outstanding financial and physical manager who contributes vastly to the success of the water movement programme. carlos vetted all of the compell projects and has tremendous knowledge and skill and when we needed money, we would say, where is carlos. so carlos will officially retire on august 23rd, 2019. however, he returned to the agency as a prop f, employee, to help develop our budget for the next two years which shows how dedicated he is to this agency. so you coulhe could have left ue wanted to do one more cycle. so i probably need one more psych example we macycle so we . [ laughter ] >> carlos, with deep gratitude, i wanted to thank you from the bottom of my art and the agency'heart and you meanso muc. i can't put it into words. so thank you for your service and then i'll turn it over to the commission president. >> exactly. well, carlos, to you, this is a very personal recognition of you, because i remember back, it was my second meeting of the commission in march of 1997. and for some reason, i thought we were dealing with the budget, but maybe you can help me with that. why were we dealing with the budget in march? my r is such. recollection is such and ihad t question i ever asked on this commission. and it had to do with a ratio. and our meetings were at 11:55 market street, which actually was a venue i liked very much because we're close to one another's staff and the commission. close meaning physically close. and i remember you went out to find out the answer at your office, your desk and came back and ever since then, i had this vision of you, whenever there was a question financially, i looked to you for the answer and this always remains, it's going to be very difficult and it has because you have already retired. but look out and not see you there to answer a very important question. so as i said, it's a personal thank you for your service and your wise intelligence. so congratulations. >> thank you, commissioner. >> i have not worked with you long, but anyone who dedicates and is that exited to an agency and to our city, i have to thank you. i have to thank you very much for all of that, because it takes a lot to stay anywhere that long and especially in an agency that grows and grows and gets bigger but your dedication to our city is one that is exemplary and thank you so much for that. >> thank you, commissioner. >> one of my roles these days is to remember the archaic bits of history and somebody comes along who is part of the old esoterismestestreaches of histo. we first knew each other at the district attorney's office. i was doing budget work and carlos was a forensic's accountant in the special prosecution's use the knit uniti came here, carlos was my second hire and probably my most durable. [ laughter ] >> while i appreciated then and now most is the quality of the man. carlos does it job, he dus doest quietly and as near as i can tell, nobody is involved in that and he gets it done. he's been doing that for 38 years. that's a tremendous accomplishment and a tremendous gift to the city. and i want to thank you and i know this whole commission wants to thank you, as well. we should also recognise some of the folks who are here, if i might. >> certainly. >> susan liale, ed harrington, former commission secretary jacksonville tompson is here and if i missed anybody, i'm sorry for i that, but we appreciate yr presence, as well. >> thank you for noting that. well, we've heard a lot about your activities and your commitment to date and what i am just so pleased about is that now you will be able to take some time to be with your family, to do the things that, perhaps, you might not have been able to do because you've been working so hard these many years. and i just want to wish you well and encourage and urge you to take some time, travel if you can, see the city in ways that you haven't before from this building, walk the streets didn't do whatever yoanddo whate retirement days because it's a special time and i wish you could go in your retirement and have a lot of joy and peace in these days after all of your hard work. so thank you. >> thank you. >> and i know that we have some folks in the audience that would like to speak. susan liale. >> carlos, as a rate payer, as native san francisco and formal general manager, thank you for your service. i was always told the way to be better is to higher people that are a lot smarter than you are and andy, and commissioner moran, you beat me to it with someone like carlos. and so i just want to say thank you. >> thank you. >> you really did a great job, but i think commissioner moran, when you spoke about the quality of the man, that's what comes across, carlos. so thanks again. >> any other public comment? >> when i heard carlos was leaving i thought i had to come here and make sure city hall was still standing. [ laughter ] >> good afternoon. i joined the andy moran, carlos show a couple years after they were starting, about 35 years ago. when you're new and try to meet feel and try to figure out what's going on, it's hard. carlos and his team were there. carlos took me under his wing, taught me about the city and puc and i will always remember their kindness. we had lunch everyday for years, just working through all of this stuff. the other part about carlos is, obviously, he's competent. and i remember a phone call one time when i was fairly new and carlos was talking to them. the process is to ask a mayor for the budget and they cut some things and you move on and carlos was able to answer like every single question they were asking, about muni, water, hechi, maybe the same discussion you were having with him, commissioner cane. and after he finished on, i said carlos, how do you know all of that and he gave me a nice smile and made me realize that carlos knows a lot about a lot of things and knows generally what needs to happen and generally the board and what analysts wanted to hear. he was getting what was probably true but not specifically accurate on a lot of those things. [ laughter ] >> certainly really good and quite sufficient to make the budget happen for us and that taught me a lot about how to work things through in san francisco, too. [ laughter ] >> so carlos, i wish you well this retirement and have as much fun as i do. [ laughter ] >> well done. any other public comments? >> yes, i'm a cryer, so hopefully i don't. so you've heard some of the statistics about carlos and his service to the city. i think what i rcm really wanteo focus are some of the qualities. we joined in 2001 when i joined as a financial planning director and we were peers and i made a lot of mistakes and carlos was helpful at letting me know. [ laughter ] >> but he has so many qualities that i admire and respect and one of them is his commitment to impeccable stewardship. folks know carlos throughout the organization as a fixer. you know, when you have problems with the budget, he comes and helps you figure it out. but he is also an impeccable steward and knows that the funds we deal with are rate pairer funds and does not have any problems picking up on half of the rate payers and so i admire that about him. i admire how he connects and cares about with people. it's at the core of his leadership which is silent, non- egotistical and i hope we stay in touch. >> i have a problem cla makes froproclamation fromthe mayor o. therefore it be resolved that i, mayor london bree, on this occasion of carlos' retirement from city service hereby proclaim january 28th, 2020 as carlos decobo day in san francisco. [cheers and applause] >> i, too, have something to add to that, a resolution from this commission. i don't have it, but it's somewhere -- [ laughter ] >> but i have the last paragraph. on this occasion of carlos' retirement, we will finally remember and greatly miss impeccable professionalism his graciousness, his generous mentoring of others over the years and most of all, his integrity. it is with tremendous pride that this agency expresses to you war carloswar,carlos, our very bestl as our deepest gratitude, congratulations and affection to you. >> thank you. >> and lastly, the greatest honor of them all is the honor that the general managers gives you. you know, it's sort of the same theme, but i just wanted to tell a little story, i go to the gym at the ymca and i try to get there by 5:30. and some days when i drive down to the embarcadaro, i will see carlos running in the morning. and he loves to run. i know that now running, you're trying to do other things in your life, but i want you to really enjoy your retirement. do the things you love. like ed harrington and others, because you worked hard and you need to spend the rest of the time with your family to really enjoy it. so with that, i want you to come up here, take pictures with all of your proclamations and with the commission. i would like to present you with the water meter cover, kind of heavy. so hopefully you have some people to help you carry all this stuff. [ laughter ] >> he has to tell the truth now. >> commissioners, i'm truly honored. thank you very much and this is very special for me. really grateful that i was able to spend all of my professional career, basically, serving the puc. over the years, i've met wonderful people i work with and those people i will always treasure and that's what made the difference to me staying in that job, the people that i was surrounded by, the people love me, the people next to me and below me. it didn't matter. i was able to work at all levels and it was a joy. i would like to recognise my life, laura. [cheers and applause] her understanding and support over the years. i know i came home sometimes where i'm not sure i wanted to talk to her. [ laughter ] >> but she stood by me. also i want to recognise commissioner moran because you opened a door for me at the puc. thank you very much. ed, susan, harlen, you provided leadership and guidance which it gave me a motivation to continue working. eric and charles, you both mentored me and at the same time you had a trust in me. and, of course, you made this possible. thank you very much. and last but not least, is the finance bureau staff, you were my big supporters and i really truly wouldn't be here if it had not been for you, especially the budget team. thank you very much. appreciate it. [cheers and applause] >> so with that, we move into the report of the general manager. >> wow! so on the report is a local renewable energy report, my kind. good afternoon, i'm the director of the clean power program. i'm here as a part of the report of the general manager today to present work that our power enterprise has undertaken to develop a draft, clean power sf renewable energy report. and if i could have the slides, thank you. i've got a number of slides here that i'll review and i'll cover some background on this report. the method taken to identify candidate sites for local, renewable opportunities, our findings and the next steps. and this report is part of a larger planning process that we're engaged in right now for clean power sf and that's the integrated resource plan which we've reported to you previously. eventually, with capital funding approval, the high candidate projects identified in this process will be evaluated further and preliminary design work will be undertaken. so that candidate projects that continue to show value and constructability will be pursued through the capital planning process. under state law, the san francisco puc must complete an integrated resource plan for clean power sf every two years. in this plan, we model a range of supply and demands in areas and sensitivities. the objective is to develop the least cost, best fit portfolio of electricity supply that meets program goals over a 20-year period including local development. for example, the plan that we're working on will analyze and propose a mix of electricity, resources to support meeting the city's goal of having a 100% renewable energy supply by 2030. the integrated resource plan analysis allow for a better understanding of the cost and energy delivery impacts including a range of resources, but also the local projects that we've looked at in this report. and integrating that into a total portfolio for clean power sf. of course, local renewable energy development has long been a part of san francisco's clean energy initiatives. the board of supervisors urged the san francisco puc to develop this report, focused on developing cost-effective projects on city property without increasing costs to repairs by 2030. the local renewable energy report findings inform our state required irp and ultimately our capital plan. we'll be bringing you clean power sf's first capital plan at the power budget workshop this thursday. and, of course, the sf puc has been investing on city projects in renewable project for a long time. the puc has developed 23 renewable projects to date, including this building, city hall, totaling 8.2 megawatts of solar power with $27 million invested and that's revenue of the hedge hechi program invested into these projects and there's battery storage on the way. so that's a little bit of context. now let's talk a little bit about how we approach this plan and what we found. we've structured our work around three project categories that were analyzed for cost effective development, in city, city-owned sites, regional city-owned sites and then sort of a catch-all of other opportunities in and near san francisco. this went beyond the request board of supervisors. sites were evaluated for suitability to develop within five to ten years and candidate sites were those that were came capable of exporting power to the grid and had no readily identified major barriers to development. and again, we're looking at a five-to ten-year window here. the candidate sites are rated and the high suitable rating means the site is worth further time and resources, further planning and analysis to determine whether a renewable project should be implemented at the site and funds requested. if yoa medium suitability ratins assigned to sites where we know a barrier will need to be addressed before we spend any more time on renewable development. so, for example, structural upgrades to some of our reservoirs would be an example of that seen through here and low suitability sites were those too small or had obstacles to development and the use of the energy to serve clean power sf. for electric resource planning and procurement, we have defined local as the nine county bay area region and this approach allows us to provide a preference for projects developed within our bay area. and it provides access to increased resource diversity, so as you can see from the map here, it allows us to access wind, energy resources and geothermal resources that can't be developed within san francisco. and it allows for larger project opportunities, improving the scale economies of a project and lower cost of construction than may be available in the san francisco-only projects. taking a regional approach provides the opportunity to balance what are higher cost sn francisco projects with lower cost projects, providing economic investment in the san francisco bay area, but also within the city. this balancing will also help to clean power sf maintain power affordability and cost competitiveness which is critical to our success. let's look at the cost data for resource types and sizes. this chart that we developed shows a range of project technologies and costs along the xaxis, we've grouped them in locations. on the far left of the scale are larger utility scale projects, so represent be, for example, solar or wind within the state of california. the middle segment is projects in the nine bay area and the far right segment would be in-city local projects. the blue bars represent the cost ranges we've identified for projects of those technologies and locations. anon a per megawatthour of ener. this is the electricity portfolio so that red line across which is 55 to $60 per megawatt hour and you can see the technology costs compare to that average. so i think the message here is we have to get the mix of resources and locations right in order to maintain affordability. and this slide helps to further that point a little bit. so there's this trade-off between cost and local energy and the amount of local energy that can be procured while still maintaining the average supply lost. this chart shows that if we procure local projects at an average of $80 a megawatt hour, which is on the far left side of this chart, the costs of the resources are on the bottom, the x axis, if you're reading this. so $80 on the far left side and that says that we can indicate local content, up to 30% of our supply portfolio without increasing our average supply costs. the higher the local costs that we mix into our portfolio, as we move along the horizonal access, decreases the total percentage that we can procure without increasing our cost repairs. so that red bar across the top represents stability in our portfolio. as the cost increases across the axis, we can incorporate less of it and it's a simple concept. we want to emphasize this idea of trade-offs and put this in the context of our portfolio. >> a lot of information. so jus just if i understand thi, because part of this is the local versus regional and the nature of the resource, right? so if the resource cost goes down, then that would change the axis, making the local content cheaper, potentially? >> potentially, and that's a part of the reason we have the sale. maybe you're getting at is the blue area. so the blue area -- the green area is the local content and the blue area is the rest of the portfolio. and if the rest of the cost of the -- the rest of the portfolio came down, then that would allow us also to have more local or reduce or rates, right? >> so another way look at it is a weighted average. so if you want to maintain the current price and not raise our price because we're fair foe and people stop opting out and that's what we want to protect and if we're trying to beat pg & e, how can we do that? and if we are able to do regional and state-wide content at a price that we're seeing now, this is how much local that we can afford given the price. now if the local content price goes down, then we can do more local but if it goes up, we would have to do less because we don't want to bump and make our program more expensive than pg & e. >> but, the local content piece is contingent on the local build-out, more or less, because we won't get more local content unless we create more local content and that will increase the price. >> well, another way say it is that, if you have a certain price and then you have to say, well, if i do this project, it's x amount of dollars, you know, can we actually do that with the rest of the projects without raising the price? that's how we would look at it. and so we probably would do some projects but not a lot, unless the price of those options go down. and then we would do more. and so the theme that we're hoping is that a lot of this technology will keep going down and even the regional and state-wide, if that even goes down, then we can actually do more of the local stuff. and we want to do local. mine, if wif we had a choice, wo a lot of local but we don't want people to pay more than pg & e. >> i appreciate keeping in mind that one of the real goals this local build-out, local jobs around clean energy, right? >> and we wanted to include this to really get at that idea of integrating all of the resources and what that means to our cost, right, and what the some of the trade-offs are. it might help to take a closer look at the specifics and some of the costs that we identify or estimate. so staff evaluated 132 in-city sites across multiple city agencies. the dots on the map here represent those sites. the bigger the dot, the larger the generating capacity of the project and the dot colour representing the clean power suitability rating. green being high, red being low and yellow being medium. and then you can see, too, the distribution of the sites review bid reviewed by a city agency oe table. and so driving a bit further into our methodology, our first screen, we implemented a number of screens to get through the 132 sites. so the first seen was prioritizing sites that could support projects with more than 250 kill lo250 kill250 kill lo2. the remaining sites were identified to identify potential risks and suitability for serving clean power sf. city agencies were contacted to determine their preferences for hosting a project to support clean power sf and to learn more about site details and their plans, for example, their capital plan. analysis was conducted to determine potential on-site generation and suit abilityabily assignments were assigned. so we'll drill deeper on that part of it. these are the site evaluation factors that we considered. we looked at really a number of risks to inform the suitability rating. we looked at structural improvements that might be required on the site in order to support a project. we looked at potential environmental impacts. we looked at risks to the asset, so, for example, one issue that we find in the port area is corrosion due to the marine air. and we also looked at technical export implications and that's exporting to the grid, so there are certain parts, actually, of the distribution system in san francisco where you can't export to the grid. for safety and operational reasons. we looked at other limitations on site usage and so the host agencies on-site demand more than we produce from the project. if so, then we flag that for serving that customer rather than serving clean power sf. we also looked at potential contractual issues of the site. we reached out to agencies to understand the preferences i indicated before and then, finally, we analyzed the cost of the projects. >> excuse me, could you go back over, if they generate more, that you look at it differently? could you explain that? >> so the city sites are served by public power utility and not clean power sf customers. so really, what we're talking about what this analysis is using city property and buildings as hosts to generate electricity and deliver it into the grid to serve the clean power sf program, a different set of rate pairers. payers. if the site has sufficient demandedemand to use that electy to be used, it's a different power to the site to just consume it behind the meter, rather than deliver it to a third party like another program like clean power sf. >> can you give an example? >> so when you generate behind the meter, you might offset your own electricity usage, so you might avoid a bill, a payment to hedge power and another arrange tharrangement would be the hedge power delivers the resource and the energy is used more efficiently behind the meter and there's fewer losses. when you transform the power and deliver it to the grid, you occur additional losses so there's efficiency issues there, as well. >> so, for example, like a treasure island, right, that's a hedge customer currently and if they were could develop additional power and then they continued on with their development of the island, which is theoretically going to contain a lot of housing and retail and whatnot, they would use the power that they've developed to power those facilities, right, rather than than shipping any of that additional -- >> that's the basic idea, yes. you use it and consumer it on site rather than sort of dropping it on the other side of your electricity meter and shipping it to clean power sf. ultimately, the electronics just flow into the system, but it would offset other supply needs that clean power sf would have, so that would reduce, for example, the energy from a thi third-party contract for the clean power sf program. our findings for city-owned sites is that we identified 14 as medium to high suitability for supply and clean power sf. and that comes out to 9.3 megawatts of high suitability, projects and 16.6 megawatts. you can see the cost range from the energy from these projects is between 79 and $159 a megawatt hour and it is expanding to the regional city-owned sites and there were six sites viewed and three met medium to high suitability ranking and ther we're estimati0 megawatts capacity as high suitability and four as medium. so there are smaller sites along with a larger one. and you can see the impact of the scale on the average cost being between 42 and $104 a megawatt hour. >> my question is, what percentage would you put on the two, the in-city and regional? >> what percentage? >> what percentage of total? >> of total, of what we looked at? >> in terms of what it's going to produce to us? >> i need to come back to you on what the contribution of the projects would provide in terms of total energy. it goes as high as $150 across the range and the medium suitability sites have issues that would need to be addressed before we move forward with the project. for example, structural reinforcement of the building. and these are the regional sites. the lower cost regional projects can help balance the higher cost in-city projects and support an overall higher bay area region renewable content. some other opportunities for developing renewable energy resources that we found include off-shore wind. this is the installation of wind turbins off the coast in the water and this hasn't been done yet on west coast and so this is an emerging application of wind energy. it's been deployed pretty significantly in europe and the u.s. just recently developed its first project on the east coast near rhode island. in this application, the wind turbines would be installed on floating platforms out in the sea. let's see, we also are taking a close look at the development of disadvantaged community solar programs. california state cap and trade funding has been made available to community-choice aggregation programs to develop green tariff and community solar programs for disadvantaged communities and about two megawatts of potential funding has been allocated to clean power sf. to subsidize suh a program. so we're analyzing that further and that's something we've identified as promising for further work. we're also analyzing the development of a feed-in tariff and under a feed-in tariff, clean power sf would pay building owners in san francisco to feed electricity into the grid. so very similar to what we've been talking to with city properties, but this would be targeted to private properties. we're still conducting analysis on the potential o potential ofa program but initial results indicate two to ten mea megawatf rooftop solar could be cost effective in ten years from such a program. so what are the next steps? we intend to continue planning and development of the high suitability candidate sites. those amount to 49 megawatts to new solar and 40 megawatts of battery storiage. we'll be coming back to you on thursday with the clean power sf capital plan and that will support additional planning and anticipates project construction. the early years of the plan propose funding, additional planning with the latter years supporting cost of asset ownership. and meanwhile, we'll be continuing to keep an eye on the medium suitability sites to positioourselves to partner witt agencies to be high suitability sites. >> you mentioned if a site is producing more than it uses, is the battery storage a possibility? >> it is, absolutely. so we've been doing a lot of work, looking at battery storage and it's a technology with a number of different applications, not all of which you can do at the same time. so for the sites that we looked at for this plan, we were looking at using the battery storage to shift the energy production from the solar plants from the middle of the day to the evening or early evening. , where energy is now getting much more costly. and we've been seeing, because so much solar is coming out of the grid that cost of energy in the middle of the day is coming way down. so that's a way to also balance it against our customer's demand. >> so if we were looking at using, say, city hall, we could have the battery storage somewhere in the basement and would that be a program that you would consider or something like that? >> that's really a different application, most likely. so i mentioned the shifting of energy. another application would be using the battery to provide back-up power. and if you pair it with a solar project, you can provide clean back-up power in the case of a grid emergency, yeah. just a couple more here. so we're not proposing to do any further work at this time on low suitability sites and as is our practise in power, we'll keep an eye on those sites for the potential of any of these ratings to change. we're sort of always doing that with our city sites. we're also proposing to move forward with the development of a feed-in term program and solar community programs and we'll keep you apprised of progress in those areas as they take a more defined shape. we will be looking for opportunities to partner with opportunities on off-shore wind as the technology matures and pathways for development become clearer. the redwood coast energy authority, which is the community choice energy program serving humboldt county and cities in the area is partnering with an area off the coast of the humboldt project and looks to be one of the first projects in california and there will be other sites opened up by the federal government for leasing over the next several years. so we'll be paying close attention to that. and, of course, we will do everything here with engagement with our community and stakeholders. we're proposing to engage with stakeholders over two phases with the first phase focusing on taking the work i've presented to you today together with our integrated resource plan to the community of the next couple of months. so we're planning to present the integrated resource plan to the commission, the power cac and local agency commission later this quarter and targeting an april approval by this body. so the plan is to come with another presentation to inform you about the work we've undertaken with the integrated resource plan in advance of a vote. , which would come later. integrated resource plan is due to the california puc on may 1st. so that's our deadline. and we'll be sharing updates with the members of the board of supervisors and their offices and we'll be inviting community-based organizations to our roundable to receive a general update on the table, but also some content on our integrated resource plan. and we're relaunching a newsletter which we'll use to update and inform our customers. we anticipate that our capital plan approvals will fund recommended next steps and that will begin next fiscal year and then we'll begin next fiscal year with a round of engagement and that second round with include meeting with community stakeholders and host city agencies to further pursue potential sites, projects on their sites. so with that, i'm happy to take any other questions you might have. thanks. >> are we working with hope sf, which is doing a lot of building in the housing developments on patrol hill and bayview, sunny sunnydale? thank you for the question, commissioner. barbara hail, generate assistant manager, yes we are. we're working to improve the electrical grid that serves them as well as energy efficiency and other program areas. >> great, and wher are we givine who live there stakeholders and be a part of whatever groups you're doing, at least they are aware? >> yes. >> and we're working with the mayor's office of economic and workforce development, as well, who are managing those projects. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> can i ask a question about the site review? did you -- what about the watershed lands? do we look at those and the opportunities out there, especially the public access portions? >> so some of the sites that we've identified do include some of those lands. >> like a knoll? >> yes. >> i had a vision of putting solar panels along and some microhydro-in the new tunnel. i'm wondering if you're thinking about the creative, innovative ideas. >> you know, we're happy to take in more ideas and to do a round two of this. the sites that i identified here are the extent of what we looked at for this round. and i do want to point out the work done by our staff was on quite an accelerated schedule for this. and our planning doesn't stop with this report, it doesn't stop with the integrated resource plan we'll bring to you in next quarter and we'll continue to do that work. so this is an ongoing process and we'll always be looking for a new potential site across the puc, across the city. so happy to consider other possibilities. >> it just feels like we're such large land holders and this is a secondary use which it seems like you covered the lands are not real estate, which we don't use for primary purpose or primary used to. utility. and i understand the sensitivities of watershed development, if you will, but just feels like something done around energy production, clean renewable energy on the available lands, we should at least review it, taking into consideration all of the potential pitfalls. >> i think one other way to think about what we've done here in the next steps is, we've identified projects that we've been aware of that we think have the best potential that previously we really didn't have a use for. and i think they'll give us an opportunity to try things out because we know there are competing uses for some of these site expose we alsites. >> another factor is how close you are to transmission or distribution by the grid. >> absolutely. >> so you can have a space out there, but you're not close to the grid, you have to get it there and it could be very costly. >> that's right. >> well, it's very exciting. thank you. >> any public comment on this report? >> mr. kelly? >> the next item is our sewer system improvement program, major project update and i think steven, you'll introduce the project manager of the southeast community centre. >> i'm steve robinson, the program director and as we kick off 2020, providing updates on the major projects in the program, we thought it was timely and fitting to talk about the community center and i'll hand it over to shelby campbell to provide that update. >> good afternoon. i'm shelby campbell. the i thought i would start off with a recap of the project. the new southeast community center will be located at the corner of evans avenue and third street. the plans were five-acre site include a three-story building community center and pavilion for the picture room and kitchen. in the three-story building on the frowne groundfloor is child, cafe and offices for the sf puc staff. on the second staff is multipurpose safe and classrooms and on the third floor is tenant space for our tenant partners and additional multipurpose space. the two-open acre space is play years for children, picnic areas, and the project includes a parks lot and a site for future education building. this is an exciting time for this project as we get time to start construction. the total budget for the project is 108.5 millions of which 70% is construction costs. to recap our milestones, in 2017, we complete a design and at the final civic design review, the commissioners appraised the project stating it will be an award-winning building and the most exciting project in the city that they're looking forward to. in 2019, we also awarded the cmgc contract to pacnc and the cm contract to the allen group. this year, we're starting construction within weeks and we'll achieve substantial completion on time at th at the. we awarded the cmgc contract last january and the sf puc issued the notice to proceed with preconstruction in april and in september, we initiated a procurement with demolition and structural-steel bid packages. to date, over 80% of the bids have been advertised. we issued the notice to proceed for construction two weeks ago and we're getting the construction office and site ready to start construction and the ground-breaking ceremony has been scheduled for saturday, march 7th. over the past nine months, the team has worked diligently to implement a local participation strategy and thanks to the efforts of my colleagues, this is now expanded into a unified work plan across all assistant projects at the southeast plant. the key components of the project are outreach with a hyper local target and strategies to remove barriers by matching projects with lb capacity and targeting workforce training and barrier removal from workforce interested in the projects. the local participation consultants for 1515 evans are joyolanda jones and james bran f jbr partners. our contractor and consultant partners are generally committed to the mission of what this project means to the community. we're in the process of awarding 11 of the 27 trade packages representing 65% completion of procurement on a dollar basis which means that we've completed the major trades. on the bids awarded to date, we've achieved 43% lg participation and 20% are with local minority contractors, including ground control, gunmens, hby8 pioneer and red dropper. dipper, sorry. put my glasses on. five of the 11 contracts, we've awarded had a 75% or greater lbe participation. the bids are trending 10% above or estimated costs but we're working diligently with the subs to review drawings page by page to identify savings and realign the project back to budget. the two biggest are structural steel and electrical. the structural steel sub says every fabricator in the market is booked and the only suggestion for savings was to start construction in august of '21. he told us if we start next year, we can get 1.5 million back and beyond budget. as for electrical bids, the contractor calls the bids we received no-thank you bids and the contractor who wins things, i'll have to figure out how to do this project. i have to say the electrical sub has been a true project at the table, spending hours to find solutions. for incidencfor instance, theret blighting package deemed comparable and that was a $200,000 savings. the good news is, we're ready to start construction, starting with abatement and demolition of the warehouse building in february. our kick-off is thursday and our first partnering meeting is on monday. orchestrating everything in place to start construction and then pushing everyone at the end of construction are always the most challenging points of a project. we're also working on a facility's management and operation's and maintenance plan for 1515 evans and intented to issue rfp some time this year. another update this year is at the public art for the project has been selected and i'm sure randall will provide an update. and with that, i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. what is unique about this building since we are the publig it and we deal with water and power? are there any water features that are going to be there, that people can see in the activity area? are there any educational, outside educational treatments that people will be able to identify and learn from and is it going to be any outside exercise equipment? if you go outside the country, people are doing that with open spaces and especially since this is not necessarily in a park but somewhere where there are people and eyes on it. this is definitely a use -- i'm sorry, start with the last end of your question, the adult exercise equipment, so that green area that's next to the education building, we're kind of leaving that open for additional programming space in the open space. , which is now just a lawn area. so because on the left-hand side, you see the bio swells and so that's our main demonstration feature is stormwater control with bioswale garden on the left-hand side. so that's a waste water, stormwater control and then renewable energy on the roof. >> that's great, but i mean, we're surrounded by water on three sides. there should be something so when people come that features that. there could be a drip of water showing you where this water goes. right, sorry. i do have that feature. >> we do? >> yes. i forgot about that. so on the community center building, the rainwater from the roof, we will demonstrate the travel of that rainwater down an exposed pipe down the -- drain down the building and then it will be exposed at the sidewalk and we'll have a trench plate over the sidewalk and show that water flow to the bioswell. >> ok. that sounds great. i just think in addition to, that's wonderful -- >> i agree. we did evaluate treating water on site, but the building just really isn't large enough. >> we don't have to do that. that's pretty big, you're right. but i mean, i'm just thinking that being that we're surrounded by water on three sides, there could be somewhere showing the bay and how deep it is or just where people are. i mean, i've been to places where -- i mean, like in europe and in germany, there's a drip. you can see in front of their city hall. and there's just water features and i think since we are the public utilities, you are on the bay side and people there live around that. we have more waterfront than anywhere else, that there could be some idea of how we could show something different, because if not, it's a lawn with bioswells but something that relates it could where you are in the surrounding and in the bay and the water. because people don't always realize that. >> so i would say it's more of a holistic approach. we have, actually, 15-50, but we also have the treatment facility, as well. and there we have a prominent water feature. >> i would like to see somethin. uc. we can still think about it. we don't have people look at something that would consider that. >> in our installation -- >> what i would say that we should definitely talk about it, but we thought that, you know, we wanted to focus on the waste water side because this is a waste water mitigation and so we wanted to talk about, you know, stormwater management and stuff like that. this is something we can talk about the other programming we have. >> it's not either/or, right? i'm saying and, because stormwater goes where and we're preventing it from going where? into the bigger ocean, in the water, right? >> that's the whole thing with the bioswells and stuff. but i would love to chat with yoyou. we're going to manage the berm. >> the focus with the art installations because we did have that discussion and it was beside it to go more towards cultural installations as opposed to who the sf puc is because this is the community center, as opposed to a building that's for the sf puc. >> i think it all goes together because this community has lived with the puc for many, many years and so we are intertwined and i don't think it's either/or. it's and. people that live there and people coming there, you don't even recognise that the ocean, the water is right down the street and how it affects the whole community. so thank you. i appreciated commissioner maxwalemaxwell's comments and ie to see interpretive signing to say this is how much water is taken out of the stormwater system, the bay is over there in case you need to know the connection. my day job is one of our core partners and they're doing incredible work and have developed a campsite out there now for the community and they have a whole, like, greenhouse where they have a native plants that they are using to plant the whole, you know, southeast and selling plants now. plus, there's a whole kayaking program and it would be nice to off through the community center local programming that would actually take people to the water, to the bay. and so just, you know, for us to really be thinking about programming that will tie in both with public utility and education and sort of local efforts that are going on from getting people out in the bay and activating the community down there. >> it would be great to learn more about that, what is the bigger communication plan that will be offered to the community as part of all of these pieces. >> i would like you to get back to us in terms of how to incorporate these ideas set fort with thsetforth and you should y there is a community center that's there could begin you? to know what the water shed is and what that means, we have an opportunity to educate people on that who live in the community so there's definitely a community tie, and there's new people coming into the community. so that would be a great idea. and also to talk about why it's there. and i just think we can do more right now. this is an opportunity. because we are having sea level rise, we are having all these things happen. people need to have an idea and we can do that in such a wonderful and interpretive way that kids can hop and things and learn and touch something and learn. there's that. >> that's another discussion. >> so what we'll do is we'll definitely maybe have some conversations to get some of the ideas you have. i think the timing is perfect, because we are starting to do ground breaking, and we are going to do demo of the existing building. >> it's really an exciting opportunity. thank you for all your work. it's really looking great. now is where the fun stuff is from our perspective. what these ideas and community engagement pros can be. >> great. thank you. >> very productive. any public comment on this presentation? >> next item is an update on pg&e bankruptcy and city acquisition offer. >> assistant general manager for power. so this is the time we have an for an update on the pg&e bankruptcy. i'm going to provide a brief update on the topics. our regulatory activities primaryry at the california pg&e, some of our special work. with respect to the bankruptcy of pg&e itself, as we previously discussed, both pg&e's preferred plan and the ad hoc committee plan are before the bankruptcy judge for consideration. these are separate competing plans of reorganization for pg&e to meet the financial obligations they emerged from bankruptcy. on january 23, pg&e announced it has reached agreement with the note holder committee that the note holder's committee will withdraw that you are alternative plan and support the pg&e preferred plan. so now we would have just one plan before the bankruptcy judge for how pg&e would emerge from bankruptcy. in its announcement, pg&e recognized it needs to work with key stakeholders, including elected officials and the california p.u.c. and i'm going to quote how pg&e will look, act and be held accountable, as it emerges from bankruptcy. in a filing regarding this newest plan, the governor's office said that it believes the plan fails to address his earlier concerns, these are concerns that were expressed in a december 13 letter. i summarized that to you januar. and the governor also said that he sees it as an attempt to leverage the bankruptcy process to force the state into accepting a quote, subopt matt matt -- suboptimal plan. pg&e hasn't filed this plan. it only has pg&e's announcement. there is a status conference in the bankruptcy case tomorrow, the 29th, before the bankruptcy judge. we expect to learn more there. there's also a filing that pg&e has to make before the california p.u.c. that filing is on friday the 31st. that starts to get into the california p.u.c. and the regulatory topic i wanted to talk about. the california p.u.c. has an investigation on the plan already opened and begun. pg&e is required to file testimony supporting its preferred plan and addressing its compliance with the ab1054 requirements. so as a reminder, those requirements are fair treatment of victims employees, continuing to make progress on climate change initiate is through pg&e, demonstrating how the plan is newt ran on average to rate pairs and how the plan positions the company for safe, reliable and affordable service. so those are the metrics that were laid out in ab-1054. the governor said so far he hasn't seen a plan that meets that. on friday pg&e is supposed to have filed testimony that speaks to those issues. and that may be the first time we see actual filed documents that describe this newest plan. we are following that case. and together with the city attorney, we are evaluating our level of engagement in the case. at this point we anticipate that we will be prepareing testimony. then the third topic is legislative. at the last meeting i reported that the bill that we were proposing for senator wiener's introduction was introduced. it's been -- it's in print as senate bill 804. this is the bill that would allow local agencies to qualify bonds for more favorable credit ratings and reduce service coverage. if it was pass, agencies like ours could use the authority to make power systems more resilient and safer and cleaner but financing infrastructure liar battery storage, combinations of renewables and storage, distribution system acquisition and improvements. staff have continued to work with stakeholders to garner support for senator wiener's bill. the california municipal utilities association, for example, has come out in support of the bill. the legislative activities are underway and percolating. the p.u.c.'s policy and government affairs team is plugged in and will keep coming back to you with further information as things develop. so i talked about those three things. i mentioned a couple of the internal activities we are doing like the legislative activity and regulatory activity. we have also completed our work on a refresh of our 2015 business plan. we are continuing to o on our operational readiness to take on expanded service responsibility and preparing to request an indicative credit rating for the new envisioned enterprise were we to expand. so with that, i'm happy to take any questions you may have. thank you. >> no questions? any public comment on this report. >> that concludes my report. thank you. >> next item, please. >> item 8 is a bay area water supply and conservation agency report. >> good afternoon, commissioners. harlan kelly, general manager. thank you for the opportunity to speak to you again today. i believe your secretary passed out a statement that is really going to be the focus of my comments today. as you'll recall, i came and spoke to you at your last workshop on your water enterprise budget. and in february, this commission will consider adoption of your ten-year cip and two-year budget that's been proposed by your staff. boska supports the projects included in this program. i think they are necessary to protect the water interests of the 1.8 million residents and community organizations we represent in three counties. importantly, we also support the inclusion of the increased funding for water supply programs that's included in that to meet your legal and contractual obstacle debases for water supply. and i've -- obstacles for water supply. we propose additional staff be hired to perform the work. we are concerned even with those additions, implementing the c.i.p. will require a greater number of internal staff and more outside support to get the job done on time to ensure the water system remains reliable and able to deliver an adequate supply of water when and where it is needed. this issue should be addressed promptly by the commission and fixed with additional money for inside staff and outside consultants. so i request the commission look more closely at the tasks to be tone and resources recommended by staff to do them. it could lead to failure if this is not fixed. it is needed to put up the money today rather than delay. we are committed to paying our fair share. this need is increased by climate change impact to our water supply. the commission should follow the law which requires the p.u.c. to acquire supplemental water supplies. included is additional funding for the regional groundwater storage and recovery project which is a critical project included in your state-mandated water system improvement program. the need for this additional funding so it can meet its water supply goal. what we don't understand and cannot support is any suggestion that this is complete without the individual projects and achieving the specific project and program objectives that have been set forth by this commission. the oversight was extended by the legislature for another six years. we want continued state oversight for this program until it is completed. so in summary, we support c.i.p., we support the projects and pleased to see the water supply program included and appreciate your hard work on both these programs, but we want them properly staffed and funded so they can be successfully implemented. we ask the p.u.c. state the course as established recently by the state legislature. i thank you for your time and i'll answer any questions you might have. that completes my comments. >> commissioners? >> i do have a question. are there specific areas that you have concern? and if so, what are they? >> so we do have some areas of specific concern. we had discussions with those at a staff level. we regularly meet with your staff, we had the opportunity three times to meet on the c.i.p. as it was being developed. so those have been conveyed in previous meetings. around the ability to actually get projects implemented. you have a lot of funding appropriation that hasn't been used in the last several years, and it was a great task to bring that forward to make sure you used that. but that indicates some difficulty in actually implementing projects that were planned. so the question is how do you overcome that? and we've had some discussions about that. but i think that's also a conversation that's really appropriate sometimes at a staff level. so i don't have any more that i was planning to prepare and speak to you today about. >> well, that has to be ongoing with staff. so i'm sure that we will make sure that that happens. >> yeah, we will work with nicole and her team to talk about how our plan to actually implement the program and meet the schedule. >> yeah. i would be curious for there to be a feedback loop on that and better understand how much we are talking about and to really get some more specifics, because i've had the same concern as i expressed in our budget hearing that i'm just -- this real urgency around water supply because of unknown factors, regulatory climate, climate change, whatnot, and want to make sure we are not caught unawares or underbudget, if you will, for what we need to get done. and i know that steve has done a lot of thinking on this. but since we are in our budget hearings now, it feels like an important time to really figure out specifically what we are talking about and what we need to get to where we need to be. worst-case scenario, right? is how we should approach this, i feel. >> i just want to say the second week of february, february 25 we will definitely give you an update of where everything is. in the budget, we also have a schedule. but we will iron it out in more detail. so we'll work with you and talk to you about the update that we'll give then. >> good. any further comments? >> i want to be making decisions before that, though. meeting on the 11th of february. >> i think what nicole said, and correct me if i'm wrong, the money is not the issue, it's the resources, meaning contracts and higher folks, right? >> the question is your ability to deliver it. and so if there's reallocation within existing resources, if that's something available, that's something to be looking for or processes that need to be back. obviously there were a large number of changes that happened. and what's gone on since then and what happened and why do we have that, and if it is more resources, more program management, consultant resources, those are things we have seen in the past have assisted the p.u.c. in getting work done. >> yeah. so i'm hearing it's beyond money. >> resources could be the element but for some reason they are not. >> let me be clear. i was here when we did the weather system improvement program. and there was a lot of doubt by everyone. but what we did is we came up with an implementation plan of identifying what we were going to do in house, who was going to manage what projects, how we were going to get a program manager or not, hire the environmental consultant, design consultant, construction manager, design on the contracts and stuff like that. so we will come out with an implementation plan to do that. we have more than enough resources to do it in house, because infrastructure has 80 positions that are vacant. so we can actually manage around that. we have the ability to issue contracts that we did. so i'm confident that we'll be able to do it. so we just need to come up with an implementation plan and work with folks to get a plan so that we can make this happen. but i must say that just keep clear that a lot of these projects are not totally in our control. and so we have talked about you making sure that we have the right resources to gently push folks that are the lead in being responsive and keeping on the burner. so these are the things we are going to work on. so why don't -- i would suggest, you know, let us work with you on the february meeting to hopefully maybe address some of your concerns and so we can move forward after that. >> and that's when we'll hear about the implementation plan? >> will we have the implementation? yeah. i think we will have the schedule be who is involved. but the actual types of contracts, environmental contracts, how many, that's something that we need to kind of work out. because there are challenges that are different from that program. we can't do business with. so we might have to come up with another strategy. >> yes. i think your latter remark is very true. certainly, we have the plan. we had to fine-tune it because environmental, not environmental, but the total environment has changed, because as you stated, there's states that we can't do business with. there's increased costs, materials, there's whole new venue. so i think what i would like to call it is really really tweaking our plan, because we do have a plan. i don't want it to sound like we are sort of lost at sea, not having an overall plan. but i'm glad she brought this up, because it makes us all work together in a more positive way. >> well, i appreciate the commission's attention to it and your questions significantly. and also i look forward to working further with the general manager and assistant general manager. >> good. thank you. >> any public comment on this last report? next item, please. >> item 9 is new commission business. >> commissioners? yes? >> i would like to add on our thursday hearing, go back over some things that i need clarifying on, and that was the tunnel issue from $689 million down to $250 million. and the other was the fire hazard, the high-risk fire. and then the $20 million trail. i don't remember what. oh, it was at crystal springs trail. the one that was six miles. and maybe the other one too. we might as well talk about both of them. thank you. >> so that will be first on the agenda at the thursday meeting. we will go through questions. those will be distributed to us? >> at the meeting, yes >> okay. next item, please. >> item 10 is a consent calendar. all matters listed here under 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 the commission. there will be no separate discussion of the items unless a member of the commission or the public so requests, in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. >> any items to be removed? to the general public, any item to be removed from the consent calendar? seeing none, may i have a motion? >> so moved >> second. >> all those in favor? >> aye >> opposed? the motion carries. next item. >> item 11, approve modification of the san francisco public utilities commission's on-site water reuse grant program rules to double the amount of grant funding for eligible projects. >> mr. ritchi >> steve, assistant general manager for water, this is to approve modification of the on-site water reuse grant program rules. you previous lydell gated the authority to make changes in those -- you previous lydell gated the previously delegated the authority to make changes in those. we need to increase the amount in individual grants that might be available to get the best leverage to get recycled water projects done by individual facilities. so i would recommend that you approve modification of the rules to increase the eligibility, basically from $100,000 to $200,000 for projects that can deliver 450,000-gallons a year. and from $500,000 to $1 million for projects that be deliver 3 million-gallons per year. >> why? what did you see that made you think we needed it? >> the projects are costing more, so if we increased our share, that will help make sure the projects get accomplished >> and where does the money come from? >> just basically from the p.u.c.'s water revenues. >> i would like to move the item. >> second. >> general public, any comment? discussion from commissioners? no? i'll call the item. all those in favor? >> aye >> opposed? the motion carries. next item, please. >> item 12, authorize the general manager to execute a memorandum of understanding between the port of san francisco and the sfpuc for the development for the total cost not to exceed $500,000. >> i think this is rather clear. >> thank you >> i just have one question. >> i'm happy to take any questions. assistant general manager for power. >> i just wanted to ask if this is one of those clean power candidates for what we were calling about, integrated resource planning? >> any development opportunity we have in the city could be. and he alluded to this when he presented the local energy report earlier. one of our challenges is we have a built environment that isn't a lot of roof space. it's more built up, right? so the roof space available for, like, solar on the roof, the garage space for storage in the basement are a pretty prime real estate for us here in the city. and typically the amount of space we have on the roof couldn't accommodate a solar generation system large enough to have export energy. so it's likely that projects like this, to the extent renewables and storage are entregrated on-site, it would all be consumed within that site. having said that, that doesn't mean we won't explore those opportunities, but that's just kind of the physical space constraints and realities that we are dealing with. and in this particular site, we are developing this as a hetch hetchy power grid. and looking at opportunities at sites like this for distributed energy resource opportunities where solar, storage, electric vehicles, all that kind of more modern grid can happen, because beyond the grid, and we can't control what happens there. >> i would love -- and i mentioned this before, but i would like to keep us moving toward developments being distributed generators and being able to power themselves at that time a minimum. clean power is great, but it feels like with these new developments that are already looking towards sustainability to really make it a unit of development that can generate its own power and just however we need to work that into contracts and negotiations, i just would urge and encourage that to continue. >> we hear you. yes. >> and so why are we spending half a million dollars to take down the poles? >> oh, because undergrounded facilities is the preferred approach. this is temporary power, just to power the construction of the site. the underground facilities aren't constructed yet. so it just bridges us to when we will have underground facilities constructed and ready to provide the service. >> so we are paying for the poles because we are putting them up and using them to distribute power? >> yes. >> okay. >> temporary. >> yes. temporary solution until the facilities are all built. thank you. >> i would like to move the item. >> i'll second it. >> have i called for public comment? i don't recall. i'm calling for it now. if not, i'll call the question. all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> the motion carries >> item 13, approve the terms and conditions of and authorize the general manager to execute amendment no. 1 to the license agreement with c5 children's school, extending it, it he remember for five years for a childcare facility at 525 golden gate avenue for a $1 annual fee and waiving for purposes of this license the requirements of section 532 of the commission's real estate guidelines. >> this is quite clear. i don't think we need discussion. >> let's move the item >> second. >> i do have a question, though. what is the cost per child of a child attending? >> good afternoon. real estate director. some of the children get scholarships. that are in our zip code here. so i will find out the exact cost for people who pay full rate. the price varies between infant care and toddler care, because the infants have a higher ratio of caregivers. >> yes. i'll provide that information. >> i'm just curious about that. >> any public comment on this item? all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries. >> thank you. >> next item, please >> item 14, approve amendment no. 2 and approve the amendment no. 1 to agreement no. cs344, increasing the amount to $42 million for a total amount not to exceed $149 million and extending the agreement duration by two years for a total duration of seven years, subject to the board of supervisors approval. >> mrs. hale? >> thank you. so under this approach, what we are asking for is an amendment to be authorized by the board to support our ability to continue to participate in the california system operator market where we transact our power. a.p.x. provides the support to us in providing that service. all the power that we move around the state is transported on transmission systems that are operated by the independent system operator, and they bill us for services. a.p.x. helps us interact i.s.o. and much of the funds you see represented here are part of a pass through of the charges that the i.s.o. bills us for. we pay through a bill from a.p.x. the actual consulting services are a fraction of what you see represented in this in s contract. it is core to our business, and we need these services to continue to operate effectively, and i ask for your support. >> commissioners? questions? public comment on this item? all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries. and the last item, please. >> item 15, approve the award of a green infrastructure grant in the amount up to $1,118,958 to the arch diocese of san francisco parish and school persons real property support corporation. >> hello. i'm from the waste water enterprise. i'm excited to bring forward our third green infrastructure grant to date for the st. thomas more school located at 50 thomas more way. i would like to point out something that's different about this project is we slightly updated our funding disbursement procedures. they are still relatively the same but we have now four structures instead of three. we are going to bring that forward for official adoption in february. >> very good. >> why are we changing? >> we are updating to be more in line with our accounting procedures. >> okay. >> i have one question. the selection of projects remind me how that's done. is that based on requests presented to us? or do we go out and fund them? >> we have been doing a lot of extensive outreach to large property owners across san francisco, but ultimately they apply to us with their projects, and we score them against our five minimum eligibility criteria. so we have a size criteria, a performance criteria and certain minimum requirements for the grant and if that project meets those requirements, then we issue them for an award. >> and are we getting grant request from the types and variety of outfits that we wanted? >> yeah. so to date we've only had schools, which was definitely a target for this program, to public schools and this is a private school. in the queue right now that's being reviewed is a park project, another religious institution and i think the other one is -- we are seeing a wide variety. the types of projects that are applying are going to be institutional properties. we have a 20-year maintenance requirement. so it is not necessarily the best fit for private property that's going to be redeveloped. so we are working closely with those institutional landowners who know they are going to be committed to their site and using their site for 20 years. >> and is the unified school district active? >> yes. >> we didn't have a higher percentage. >> yeah. they were our early adopters. they are our first two projects. they are going into construction this summer. they'll be complete by the end of the year, which is really excite. and we are continuing to work with them on identifying additional sites. so we expect to see them apply for a couple more in the next year and next round. >> go ahead. >> what is the feature at thomas more? >> it's a combination. so they are utilizeing some pavements, rain gardens and just removal of impervious service. they also have an educational cistern. a smaller cistern that is collecting a portion of the water that's in their pre-k yard. so they wanted to highlight a variety of different technologies. we are seeing with a lot of our grantees so they are showcasing the pavement in the entryway, gardens in the schoolyard so they can showcase different technologies. >> so we are going to do that to, right? thank you. >> so francesca, didn't she go through one? >> yeah, we went to one >> which one? >> the pilot project at stevenson elementary school. that was completed in 2018 and that was our showcase as to how we could do this. >> and you are meticulously recording lessons learned and challenges and additional opportunities? >> yes >> so for a year from now, hopefully there are one on two online and they will say gosh, they are not using a cistern. >> yeah. we'll do that. because this program has a 20-year maintenance requirement we had to get authority from the board of supervisors to be able to enter into the agreements and that sunetts in at the end of the fiscal year so we we are starting next week at a big program update. so we will be back to you in a couple months with those recommendations and request to go back to the board of supervisors. >> great. and if you could give us a financial update on where we are with the grants program and what the demand has been, that kind of reporting. >> we coordinate it with their capital improvements, right? >> for the school district? >> yeah. for the schools. >> yeah. the first two projects to date have been green schoolyard bond projects that were already being delivered and we were able to supplement as they were putting forward. >> good. okay. any public comment? >> i have one last question. i know we are doing a lot of educational work with sf unified and i'm wondering about the connection because i know in oakland which i'm tracking more carefully, there's this living schoolyards program that is supposed to be activating schoolyard for community and bringing kids to learn science in the garden. just wondering if there's additional programming beyond the landscaping is starting? >> absolutely. so we are including a lot of educational signage and working with the school district on utilizing that in their programming. we are also as part of the development of the next phase of our capital projects with sfusd looking at how we can interact with the school community and look at doing more education and engagement through the project delivery process, delivering our capital projects. >> it would be great to stay informed on opportunities, because i know we are in the schools talking about where does your water come from. just like the community center to have that piece integrated i think would be great. >> very good. public comment? is there any? seeing none, do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries. madame secretary, could you please read the items for closed session? >> yes, item 18 is existing irrigation, pacific gas and oil corporation, item 19, existing litigation city and county of san francisco versus pg&e, item 20, existing litigation with pg&e, regulatory complaint. >> is there any public comment on the items for closed session? seeing none, may i have a motion whether to assert? >> move to assert. >> all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries. we will now go into welcome to e commission president and if you remember, the public and you want to speak there are speaker forms you can fill out which are at the front table or step to the microphone when i call you to public comment. we ask that everybody turns off their cell phone including commissioner's and staff. i want to thank sfgovtv and media services for sharing this meeting with the public and we'll start with a roll call. [roll call] full house. general public comments and this is for any comment not on the agenda. seeing none. general public comment is closed. the next agenda item is number 2 which is approval of our minutes for january 21st, 2020. and i will ask that we have a motion to improve the minutes of january 21st, 2020. >> i move to approve. >> second. >> is there any public comment on the approval of our minutes. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> the minutes have been approved. the next agenda item is a report from our executive director. >> thank you, president and good evening commissioners. we have a pretty brief agenda including my director's report, which is just a reminder to awful you that you are invited to an event that the entertainment commission is co-hosting next week with the department of environment and 24 is an effort from senior annalist rice to put together this event so this is also for everyone watching and listening and it starts at 5:30 and goes until 8:00 p.m. and there's going to be happy hour involved in this event and the presentation begins at 5:45 and it's a workshop where you are going to learn about recycling requirements for holding events in san francisco and new rules in 2020 for reusable beverage cups and food ware which is really important information for a lot of our folks out there and creative and cost effective strategies for holding green events from event professionals. so, again, this is just a fabulous networking opportunity and we're hoping that you can all make it out and if you attend it's an opportunity to fulfill department of environment zero waste training requirement for event producers. so, come on out. have a drink with us and learn something new. any questions? >> thank you, very much. any public comment on the executive director's report? seeing none. public comment is closed. next agenda item is a report from our deputy director. >> thank you, president, good evening, commissioners. enforcement report here, i'll just take you through the highlighted sections per usual. jumping to page three i've highlighted eltrabui. it has highlight limited from us and we have been receiving complaints from one neighbour in the area about this venue. they had a broken front door that was hanging off of hinges for a decent amount of time so they were able to open it and force it closed. and so, not closing it during entertainment and they have recently fixed that as of yesterday so just wanted to bring that to your attention and they also paid their latest citation so we are working with them regular meet and page four i've highlighted club 26 mix and regularly on our enforcement reports and inspector respond to the 311 complaints regularly and i will send my name. we sat down with the venue owner and manager and mission station permit officer last thursday and we had a very productive conversation. we shared with them some recent findings that we had we're hopeful we will see progress in their behaviour. and the interim, one thing i did do for the neighbour who has been making the most complaints is i got phone numbers for the on site managers that is not something we had before so now if there's a complaint she can contact the on site manager in real time and there were no complaints for this venue this past weekend that we received. maybe there has been -- they've turned a new leaf. taking you to

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