Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 11117 20170112

Francisco the only reason i didnt thank you very much. As you all know this process was very comprehensive a great deal of effort in searching candidates with the skill setsdz and characteristics that are desired and talked about in so many communities meetings and the right experience to lead the San Francisco Police Department the search included internal and external national as well as local about the its my pleasure to announce the author process paid off we found a candidate that both the commission and i felt embodied what the Police Department needs in the police chief in William Scott the deputy chief of the San Francisco Police Department. Deputy kind of scott a 20year veteran of lapd during the course the last years has under gone transforms within the department of justice and with the experience of managing a Department Taking on similar changes coupled with the progress made under 101 i didnt see leadership i be we have exponentially increased to build the 20 percent Police Department more quickly and effectively deputy explosive scott seen first hand not only implement a series of reforms but to transform the condition to build the Community Trust and create a transparent and accountable Police Department it to starts its top and deputy chief is up to the task not only has scott helped to usher in reforms but has the operational and administration experience needed to keep our streets safe hes responsible for management and proclamations the la south bureau and responsible for managing four geographic areas and has led more than 17 hundred employees that served nearly seven hundred and plus residents in 57 mile radius im confident weve gained something unique in deputy exposure scott and look forward to his leadership as we move forward moderate as a city i want to thank the Police Commission for having the search your dedication has not gone unnoticed and our your hard work brought us this mroment and thank you all of you in Public Safety groups as well as our interfaced leaders youve been at the table helping us understand the need of your city and also listening to all the people heard impacted, and wanted our officers and our Police Department our city ultimate to do better our entire city ive said it before that the realize the department of justice report was not the end of the journey it is the beginning and has provided us with a road map we promised to honor and have a leader in place with the experience burglary his belt and the leadership skills to work with all the different entities involved to succeed this is a great day for the city of San Francisco and want to welcome dearly and his family to its my pleasure to introduce San Franciscos next chief of the San Francisco Police Department William Scott. clapping. good morning, everybody. You first of all, i want to thank mayor ed lee for taking the steps to select me for in motion i know that process was not an easy one a lot of folks that were qualified and grateful im selected to lead this great city and Great Department i have a rule when i speak in public i try to eliminate the word i say words are about we but i know you guys want to know who i am ill start with a little bit more before me and what youre getting in terms of who i am i brought my family with the exemption of my family my wife and son and son tyler theyre the force i couldnt do that without them bear with me. And been with me throughout the journey a little bit about me, im from alabama and went to the city college of became ill be brief i dont want to use up all the time when my wife and i got married we wanted to live in San Francisco. clapping. you know it didnt work on that way immediately because la came first iconically yesterday was our anniversary of 29 years on our anniversary we ended up in San Francisco to accept this job i thought that was wonderful in the making it is really a great thing. So with that, i will talk about the week. Anything else successful Police Department has to successful and the office definitely and chief of police will drive about but really about we thats what i want to focus the rest of any reacts to the Diverse Community that make up that great city what youll find in me the same person ive been a person had been fair and consistent and thats the same thing i like to share with the men and women of the San Francisco Police Department because that is where the work is done one hardest parts before many process i couldnt reach out to the men and women of the San Francisco Police Department and the men and women ill be working with starting today that will change and so excited to get to know the men and women of that Police Department because one thing ive met a lot of Police Departments and within to a lot of places all around the world those who have us are dedicated we have in common we care about the community and about the service from what i see that rings true here ever departments has issues and things to work on the men and Women Department from everything ive heard and seen and arriving at the airport and how friendly of the officers were they didnt know me the officers ive met since ive been here have been very friends and family and impeaching when my wife and i went to lunch a couple of weeks ago we sat next to a couple of officers thats the type of service that rings true for a cop that really cares about this city it is easy to be easy to not engage with the community and i think with this department from what i seen personally not the case here and looking forward to working with the fine officers of the San Francisco Police Department lastly let me say thank you to the progression and commissioner president loftus the recruiting if you remember that actually taught e talked 0 me in the process i wasnt looking for a job i love la but funny how god works when looking for a job job and the opportunity came my way and i put myself in a position to take advantage and thats how that played out the fact that is the place i wanted to live and the opportunity came up that felt like me when i saw the infrastructure and the things the mayor is doing that felt more right im so existed to be part of that and the land is an important piece chief chaplin researched outside to me and im looking forward to working with him so thank you, again, for allowing me to be your chief of police. clapping. i want to take the opportunity to again pubically thank to the commission and i had a chance though the process working closely with president of the Commission Commissioner president loftus a lot of quality thoughts conducted throughout this yearlong process and commissioner president loftus thank you your dedication because not only poov but the quality of life here in the city and i want you to say a few words how this has impacted our longevity laughter . No comment. laughter . Thank you, mr. Mayor thank you so much so i want to thank you, mr. Mayor for making the selection and Toney Chaplin and the staff and the men and women of the San Francisco Police Department uncertainty around your leader is hatred and chief chaplin laid the ground work and here we are so many communities the bayview came out to our Community Members of the committee and san franciscans cared deeply about that city and very deeply who their police chief is we had a credible amount of candidates and competitive scott san franciscans want to know you appreciate that position i think you will see and have the same feeling he had hes the right man there is extraordinary work and great work done everyday on the street and lift that up and address the diminishes we know so San Francisco, california be a beacon of hope country we can rebuild trust and keep us safe congratulations competitive and mayor clapping. we workout together an, an entire family dedicated city officials thank you good to all the members of the Board Members of the board of supervisors for their dedication things occur and hear it from everybody so supervisor president london breed. Good morning, everybody. On behalf of the permit holder San Francisco board of supervisors i want to welcome our now police chief this is a that its been a Long Time Coming im excited reached outside to folks in Southern California and so i think that is saying a lot to the process and says a lot about what the commission did it make the decision and the mayor, of course, as president th board and someone that grew up up in the city i had a lot to say what i wanted to see in a police chief we have a lot of challenges in San Francisco it is not necessarily just about rebuilding trust about establishing trust in the first place we have an amazing team of officers weve worked with it in past in the community and dedicated to the city their dedicated to reform and now time to lead San Francisco in the in the right direction and we can this leader can help us move the team forward im looking forward to a new day in San Francisco and looking forward to changes in the department in San Francisco im looking forward to make sureing were doing everything we can to make sure that people who are not deserving of wearing this uniform are weeded out of the department at the end of the day at the end of the day, we have work to do work to do in bringing groups together in bringing the Police Departments an important and im very excited hell be the leader of department well support him and im asking the members of the public and community to doing everything we can to work with us and be optimistic about the future of this Department Time for a new day thank you, mr. Mayor for your service and the staff and welcome to the scott family and the commission for all the hours of work and coming up with what i believe is a good decision for the city thank you all. clapping. so this concludes our announcements were open to a few questions a few. All right. To call on people if you want to raise your hand my question will be. Chief welcome to San Francisco glad you got here. Thank you. My career as chief one in the room George Gascon and sfpd is needed for its homophobic and tightened police force all 3 outdoor ciders are difficulty inaudible of the rank and file of the police what do you plan to do to overcome that obstacle. Well, a couple of things first of all, i was so i know what many feels like if the street officers level one thing i have to understand about Police Officers when youre out through trying to do our job and protect the service you, you are you getting the support you need to do your job and for the most part thats my job to make sure the officers get support and everything they need to do their jobs and coming in from the outdoor i know that some people that is a shock to the system heres something i saw from the chief come in from the outside the are a different view and fresh look than those who do that well, are able to come in with new fresh idea and work with the talent within the organization this is a talented organization my the fact of the matter to work with the talent within the organization and come in with fresh eyes and see things differently i wasnt raised in the organization this is doable our last chief that came from the outside chief bratton was a great role model he appointed me to captain i saw what worked for me as a new chief what worked was a chief that made me building that he was supportive of me getting the job done giving me the tools and people will know who i am im not going to change im the same person the person that i am a can resonate with those and most of my years of lapd have been in operations so my job to make sure i i get it. Support we still have a lot more work to do and the mayor sets high standards i plan fully plan to be as successful to get doctor i want you to know what they are and what theyre going through. So from what you know about San Francisco and San Francisco Police Department you you know from issues of issues of supports that arrest numbers inaudible . What do you see as is bigger challenge for the Police Department. Ill start this is a more absorbable issue across the country we have a challenges in the profession its a organization like many others are has recognized what those challenges are the thing that effected me this job it opportunity is that the organization did recognize that are challenges and saying we have things to work on throughout the leadership and the change is a challenge in profession and some things have to change what i see that there is an organization that recognizes that as well as be open so those challenges are over come can be overcome like i said, we have good people in the organization so change is difficult for everybody but whether your Law Enforcement are not the exchanges we can do it. Specifically what changed. You know use of force policies that the Police Commission and is poa and the communities have been weighing in on thats a huge thing in our profession in Law Enforcement whether or not those changes call for progress that is the fact they change can be une uncomfortable my 27 years seen a lot of challenges thats a hot issue but when i see is progress i see bodies working to get a policy down on paper that worked and that process has been a difficult one that is one example officers when you take something away from an officer theyre used to this is a shock i is with in my 27 years we adapt and comes to foregone conclusion thats one and many others but the big one so when i talk about change and the exchanges that is good things that attracts me to the position and chief chaplin recognizes theyre working and the Police Officers i read about at the recognize it and willing to move forward yeah, that will give and take. This question is for the mayor. Youve having had qualified candidates and town to 3 what was the deciding factor in choosing William Scott. Well, you know, i have and demonstrated over any 5 years a deep appreciation for the men and women of the San Francisco Police Department and what i had to discipline myself my national inclination to look within and what distinguished and made a difference was that i had to discipline myself how we can be better as a department and the city and in that i had to search for the qualities and skill sets that that implement effectively and immediately as possible those changes that many, many people throughout the city internal and external to the Police Department and the commission had more than requested of our city and so i look at this as being the skill set and the ability and the leadership and the proven qualities to lead this department in that change that bill talks about we are changing as a city were changing on the standards of what we expect the officers to do and i believe that in looking at this and really focused on those recommendations and those disciplines and successes we mayor ed lee led me to look at all the candidates and determine it was not an outside versus inside ultimate who has the skill sets and the Proven Ability to bring this department forward. One last question jena. Hi given the attack in berlin where do you stand on shooting at moving vehicles. Let me start my comments by saying it is a tragedy frill for the most part people lost their lives our hearts go out to the folks to those folks, and, secondly, all i know right now is a couple of paragraphs in the newspaper not there for the process to make assessments on who happened in a berlin and how to represents to pending sfpd policy but ill say this and craw on any experiences as lapd in 2005 we went through this process dividing a Strong Organization and bodies of the issue and move forward with a pop policy that is restrictive only moving vehicles i saw that in proclamations at a lower le good morning lions whew [ applause ] well this is a great morning. I got to walk and to roll with all of you to the Dianne Feinstein Elementary School and im glad to see the lioness here our vision zero hero [ applause ] she has got the most famous costume for next halloween. [laughter ] i also want to say thank you to all of the elected officials and departments, our Police Officers, the parents, but most importantly, the kids of Dianne Feinstein thank you for walking with me [ applause ] to our principal, im going to work very hard with all of these people that i stand next to, our transportation experts, from the county and muni. Our rec and park director, our assessorrecorder, our director of walk sf. Were going to work really hard to make sure all of our streets are safe for you to walk to school and from school every single day. That is important to us. I want all of you kids to grow up taller than me [laughter ] that is kind of easy, but we start off with easy things; right . And i really want to say thank you to all of the parents, to the volunteers of this school. Because every single day, somebody is watching out for all of you, and mostly its your parents and i want to say thank to all of them and our School District who is working very closely with all of us, making your streets safer, slowing down traffic, educating everybody who uses the streets. We got to have safer streets and working hard this november, because its electionyear to try to raise a big, big number. How about 100 Million Dollars for better streets . Whew [ applause ] that is a lot of money, so were all going to Work Together, keep our streets safe, educate each other and make sure you are safe every day. Thank you very much, principal, for working with us. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you, mayor. Thanks, good morning girls and boys good morning i hope everyone is doing well. Its so nice to see you all today and to be able to walk and roll to school with all of you. Growing up here in the sunset, one of my favorite things when i was growing up was actually walking to school with a lot of my friends and playing with them before school started. You know sometimes school can be long and its not as fun all the time. But at least i tried to have some fun in the morning before i went to class. And so i want you all to try it out if you do walk to school in the morning and see if you feel better throughout the rest of the day and if you have a little bit more energy and experiment with that and see how it goes, okay . To all of the parents, i want to thank you for taking time out of your day to encourage kids to walk to school and well do everything to make it safe for them, not only Elementary School, but throughout their years. Thank you for being here today. Next i would like to introduce our superintendent lee. Good morning, Dianne Feinstein Elementary School lions can we get a roar . Thank you all for showing up to school today and every day. We are so proud of you, all of you lions. And we love you. And we want you to be physically active. We want you to be safe getting to and from school. We want you to come to school with a great, positive frame of mind, ready to learn, ready to be kind to each other, ready to think about your place in the world and in this city. So think about all of the adults that are here, mayor lee, supervisor tang, all of our department heads, you all are going to run this city some day. You are going to be up here 20, 30, 40 years from now, so just imagine your place on this stage at the walk and roll to school 2050, okay . [laughter ] so thank you all for paying attention to how you get to and from school and how you treat each other. At this point, i would like to bring up Manuel Rodriguez one of our fantastic parents at Dianne Feinstein elementary. [ applause ]. Thank you, mayor lee and to our elected leaders for visiting our school community. For a long time now i have been rolling to school with diego and paolo and we work outside and hop on our bikes and roll down the hill to get to dianne fein [stpao epb ]. Of feinstein and gives us more time to focus on each other and not so much time to worry about parking and traffic. Walking to School Every Day makes us feel good and helps us breathe the fresh air and get exposed to the environment. So i would encourage all families here to the greatest extent possible, if can you do it, try to walk to school at least once, twice a week, a month, whatever works for you all. Thank you very much. Thank you all for being here. [ applause ] thank you, manuel. Hi im nichole the executive director of walk San Francisco and we along with the San Francisco safe routes to School Partnership put on this event every year. So i want to first thank the San Francisco safe routes to School Partnership partners led by the department of public health, who are here with us today. I want to thank other partners within the partnership and thank my team at walk sf for all their hard work, especially josie, and the mta and ywca and the San Francisco bike coalition, sf environment, and especially sfusd and thank our leaders who are here with us today. We have the Police Department, the mayor, we have supervisor tang, the department of transportation leader director reiskin and our superintendent lee and rec and parks director phil ginsberg. Thank you all for being here with us this morning and im probably forgetting a few people, but i especially want to thank the school for hosting us this morning and principal chang and nurse catia has been amazing so lets give a round of applause for the school [ applause ] so as the mayor mentioned for all of you voters and future voters out there, there are some really important measures on the ballot that i want to encourage you to take a look at. Because these will help make our streets safe and those are propositions j and k and make sure you take a look at those before you go to vote. And i also want to encourage all of you to get active, follow manuels advice, try to get out and try walking once this week. If you havent already today. Do it more often, if you already do it sometimes. To try to get out there and move your feet. I want to especially thank you our vision zero hero have you met the vision zero hero . Hi everybody so vision zero hero, what do we want . Safe streets. What do we want them . Now kids can we try that together. What do we want . Safe streets. When do we want them . Now. What do we want in safe streets. When do we want them . Now awesome, i will bring back principal chang and thank you all. [ applause ] thank you so much. I want to reiterate our thanks to all the people who showed up here and support our School Every Day. Good afternoon, id like to Public Utilities commission to order. Madam secretary would you call the roll. Moran, here. Kwon, here. Courtney, here. Caen is excused from todays meeting and commissioner neater vietor will arrive later. You are copies of the minute of december 13 and any additions or corrections . Do i have a motion . So moved. Moved and seconded. Any comment on the minutes . All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Plnts are approved. Next is general Public Comment. Thatd is a chance to talk to the commission under our jurisdiction that are not on the agenda and have a speaker card from mr. De costa. Commissioners the last time around i brought out a number of issues with the water system Improvement Project and our sewer system Improvement Project. Now, i want to revisit them so that your commissioners really know where im coming from. You go recently i made a trip 1600 miles to north dakota to understand fully whats going on when it comes to people who are greedy. There used to be a time in San Francisco where you had to pay 10 dollars for a bucket of water. History recounts it. We cannot take it for granted that we get our water from hetch hetchy and we really dont Pay Attention about the millions of gallons of water that are wasted. When i show you the charts and say san franciscans conserve the water, thats fine, but at no time and i mention this again and again and again, when we have our pipes bursting and millions of gallons of clean treated water are wasted not one commissioner asks for accountability. We have to factor that in, which brings me to the question that you get a thousand, 100 pipes or old pipes or sewer pipes and over a thousand miles of clean water pipes, we havent received emempireical data on how many of the very old pipes and some are wooden pipes by the way because i worked at the prosidio, how many of the pipes have been replaced . Replacing those pipes i know squf this comes with the union who prefer to have steel pipes than flat pipes so we have to rethink if the conduits are stronger and flexible or thinking about it with the unions. The time has come to work as stakeholders in partnership. Im going to be monitoring from the videos what the commissioners say to better help me address it in writing. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other general Public Comment . Greetings. Grood afternoon commissioners, eddie long bright long defense projoket dedicated to bayview Hunters Point. I have been before the commission several times over the last year and today i like to present a hard copy of the bright line sustainability summit report willects tend bringing together 40 plus organizations dedicated to environment justice, Workforce Development, key Economic Issues and bayview Hunters Point and bring forward policy makers to make sure bayviews Hunters Point is included. There are a flb of issues outlined but today isprint a hard copy of the report and thank the San Francisco Public Utilities commission for its continued involvement on the issues whether it was commissioner kwon or commissioner courtney for thoughts on disadvantages communities and kellys involvement and staff working with the Mayors Office to include bayview Hunters Point into investment in spanish communities state wide. We hope it is illuminating and look forward continuing to Work Together with this department and Mayors Office especially in light of the new federal administration and how maybe the most uch mystic way to put it is equity advocates are heading for choppy water so need the city and coupty of San Francisco and state of california for continued equity. Thank you very much and thank you for the report. Any other general Public Comment . Seeing none, moving to communications. Commissioners, any comments or questions based on the communications that we received . I just have one. In the advanced calendar we have a follow up list of things that are requested by the commission and there is a space on that for what the response is. Some of those are getting pretty old and what i would like in there is at least a date by which we will be getting a answer to follow that. One that has a short timeline and spoke briefly to staff about that this morning, i requested staff to identify opportunities to build or require leckical disbution facilities and like a preliminary version of that report before we get the budget update in february. Any anything else from the commissioners or core spaupdance or Public Comment on correspondence . Okay, thank you. Seeing none moving to other Commission Business. At the last meeting i want to thank harlan and staff for reaching out to me along the points that eddie onraised a moment ago, we started our first class of 2017 the preapprenticeship program doesnt exist so we have 8 young men and women and Public Utilities commission will find ways for these folks to have opportunities to take care of the land, some of the people in the audience may be interested but wanted to let people know i will continue to engage president moran and colleagues on the Workforce Development issue but as we move into collective bargaining agreements we dont know the extent we will drown on the issues skoe now we are in a Holding Patterns but want to applaud efforts with staff in connection with launching the first class of 2017 so thank you. Thank you. Can i just mention, one of the opportunities as we go into bargaining there could be a opportunity for apprenticeship classes to be created. Classifications thank you. Any other Commission Business . Mubing moving to report of general manager, mr. Kelly. Good afternoon knhigzers mptd first i would like to give you a update which is not on the calendar of what we have been doing in the past because of the rain storms so i ask tommy moallah to give a brief presentation on the efts we have been under and trying to manage the storms. Well Work Together. No silloes here. Good afternoon commissioners. A sig nificant part of our business and appreciate the time. A update what is going on here in San Francisco. Basically the amount of rain we received since january 1 and as of today as of noon today we are about another inch for today. We have been doing a lot of work. Staff has been handing out sand bags, a lot of prevent chb measures we will talk about here briefly. You all know about adopt a Drain Program that has been very significant. We have adopted over 1100 adopted by the public. Commissioner caen mentioned at the last Commission Meeting and commissioner kwon we appreciate all your tweets that you continued to please keep the tweets coming chblt we track all of them and think this is contributed significantly to the amount despite the amount of rain we received, the localized flunding is relatively limited. Our Treatment Plants are functioning at capacity. The whole time we havent major issues. There have been localized flooding in some areas. What you see before you is holding trainings for the public how to clean a [inaudible] we hand out rake jz brooms and shovels for the people that adopt a drain. We have another one at southeast plant and another coming up on thursday. It will be at golden gate headquarters and that has been sold out within a couple hours so that is packed and will have another one at ocean side in the upxing upcoming month. We also have been handing out a lot of sand bags to specific areas we had issues in the past and staff is out there very diligence insuring those specific areas are handled. This is in working in concert with department of public works, we have a lot of rake crews out from the pu c and all hands on deck during this storm. As you can see with handed out over 1100 bags that is just pu c piece and dpw has handed out im sure a lot more than that. What you see there is response to 17th and folsom. As you know we had issues in the area over the years. We are test piloting this technology here. We have launched this twice in the wet weather. We have put up these flood prevention barriers. They are up since last friday. When they are up, we keep the business open. What you see there are the red ones we remove those during Business Hours so people can enter the businesses but we staff this 24 7 once they go up. They have been up since last friday. We havent gotten a flood in the area so we can insure it works but this is the only area we put up flood barriers. Overall response has been timely and have been pretty extensive. Lots of crews out pretty much 24 7 handling our business. I will take any questions you may have. Thank you. Commissioners, any questions . Any Public Comments . Thank you, mr. Kelly. I think the one thing i would say just to add to that quickly is that we have been notifying all the board of supervisors of areas where they are proun to flooding and keeping them in the loop because we have recently have new supervisors so we have been reaching out to them and letting them know about flooding in their area. The next item i have is a clean pow cleanpowersf update. Barbara hail. Thank you. Barbara hail assistance general manager for power, happy new year commissioners. The first update of the new year. We have continuing good news on enrollment. I also want to report on a hearing we are expecting and to close out the conversation for now on rates that we have had at the last meeting. On enrollment, you know since november 1, we began enrolling additional customers in dishricate 5 and 8 and adds to customers in district 10 and all those folks throughout San Francisco who raised their hand and said they wanted to be enrolled. That brings our number of customers we are serving up to 80 thousand accounts. Our opt out percentage is 2. 5 percent so out of the 80 thousandwe had more than 80 thousand we offered services to, 2. 5 percent opted out which bring tooz the 80 thousands. We received 382 upgrades to super green since my last report and that results in a total of 1991 accounts signed up for super green. Customers continue to sign up for future enrollment, which we are taurg target the First Quarter of 2017. We now have 544 customers that queued up, 79 percent of which are super green so we are starting the planning process now for having supply arrangements to make sure we have adequate supply to enroll the additional customers. We will come back to and of course before we do that. Move toog the cpu c item. The california Public Utilities commission announced that it will be having a hearing before all of their commissioners on the topic of ccas, Community Choice aggregateers. In the notice of the hearings which will be held february 1, the california pu c noted that Community Choice aggregation has been expanding and it is expected to continue to expand in the state. They noted this creates regulartory questions for them in in particular questions around who is responsible for electricity procurement, contracting and reliability in the future. Whether there are likely to be any stranded utility assets as a result of the expansion of Community Choice aggregation and wundsering how cca expansion will impact their Regulatory Oversight and particularly called out environmental and public purpose programs they are responsible for. As a cal cc member we have been asked to participate in the hearing to testify. We are coordinating with cal cca members and will report back once we know more about what the hearing will cover and what our expected roll is and as well well report on how it went and what we learned. Does that notice include anything about the pca . Not specifically, no. It is very short notice that appears in their daily calendar. Once we see a aquil agenda we may see more detail that might bring up the pcia issue. Currently issues like stranded assets are embedded in that issue. I hope that the discussion could be broadened. Yes. Thank you. Can you develop on that, stranded assets . Um, themy understanding is the notice one of the regulatory issues they wanted to address was the possibility of creating stranding assets i assume within the utilities by virtual of more communities goes to Community Choice aggregation that is my understanding. What they seem to be employing is as more customers receive their Electricity Supply from Community Choice aggregateers, the investor on utilities who may own generations supply may find they dont have a market for them. They dont have a customer for it and would be a characterized as a stranded utility asset. The california Public Utilities commission would be interested in how the cost of those sorts of assets would be recovered and what they have done in the past is assign them to charges like the pcia that commissioner moran mentioned. The other thing that bag says is they need togiven cra is projected to continue to grow that the investor in the utilities need to be cautious in their acquiring of assets that they know in likelihood might become stranded. Yes. Along those lines pacific gas and leckric when they applied to retire deoblow canyon rsh they think it is wise to retire is because the expansion of Community Choice aggregation and wont need the output of that plant to serve bundled utility cusmers. Thank you. I have one other item that is the rates item to address if i may. Please. So, i have been filling you in that pg e was making filings at the california pu c to modify their rates. When i last mentioned this at our december 10th update where we talked about projections of what those rate changes would be. Pg e said they would increase rates. You may have seen in the news they did on january 1, so pg e increased the rates and expect the impact to the hetch hetchy customers to be small and effect on the revenue neutralfelt for clean pow cleanpowersf customers i reported we projected about a 5 percent higher bill for residential customers resulting from the pg e rate increases so to be clear, our ratesclean pow cleanpowersf rates have not changed. What pg and e charges clean pow cleanpowersf partners has changed. Those rates are going up. So, we have projected about a 5 percent increase. Now that we have the actual numbers we can report the actual impact. Bills for the average clean pow cleanpowersf customer in the Green Program will be about 1. 9 percent higher so more favorable than projected from what pg and e filed but it results in higher bill frz the customers the rate increases result in higher bills for our customers. Late in december pg and e filed at the california pu c to change the solar choice customer rate and that filing makes pg and e 100 Renewable Program solar choice more competitive with the super Green Program. The average residential super green customer will continue to see a bill savings relative to pg and es 100 percent renewable offering. We had been experiencing about a 6. 3 percent bill savings in our super Green Program with pg e rate change for their 100 percent Renewable Program we project a 1 percent bill savings for residential super green customers. From 6. 3 to 1 percent still a savings so that is good. Pg e somer choice rates for commercial customers however are lower than the super green customers now. Super green commercial customers. We were providing a 4 to 6 percent average bill savings for commercial super green customers and now projecting a 2. 1 to 3. 5 percent increase for commercial super green customers relative to the pg and e 100 percent renewable product. Im gibbing a range for commercial customers because it is dependent on the type oof commercial customers. There are a number of rate schedules. It is mixed bag of news for our clean pow cleanpowersf rates program. We are scheduled to come back to the commission in april to kbraess rates issue. We expect pg e to have another rate change, which we expect to be a increase in may or march timeframe is when the next california pu c decision should we coming out that effects pg e rates. I want to make sure i close the loop on what we were projecting versus what we are seeing now that the rates are in effect. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioners any questions for mrs. Hail. I have a comment. Yes mr. Decosa. Commissioners when you listen to the presentation you need to have 4 or 5 phds. It is very convoluted. The best way is to report the deliberations on our wrap site. I would like to know for example how many megawatts of electricity is produced or is distributed by pg e . They have some coming from the jefferson transmission line. We also know that they have 400 megawatts coming from pittsburgh, a undergrounds transmission line. And we would like to know the price, the pricing. So, we have choseen to compete with pg e and rightly so. I was involved with Community Choice aggregation way back in 1999 and as much as we fought very hard for Community Choice aggregation, sfpu c did not help us. This clean Solar Program has been in place for the last 5 years and see thg real results in the last 2 years. 1 and a half year to be precise. And then we would like you know, to have a chart to see exactly how are we doing with the clean solar. Paying attention of course to pg e. What i really want to focus is, when the rico active established and think some havent read it, hydro electricity was supposed to be used by San Francisco. Mew nistalities getting subsidies and the prosidio where i worked, Public Housing getting subsidies but all that fizzled and went away and we chose to sell to [inaudible] and other entities and i would like to know how you are going to infuse or bring that power so that we are fully in control for and utilizing it right here in the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Freed. Jason freed executive officer for lafco. One thing i want to keep in mind and mentioned by mrs. Hail is yes, rates are changing a little bit but you will see pg e chairfcking in the sprirng. One thing that was popular among the commercial side is having one rate for the entire year and not one rate enjanuary and one in the spring and summer that you have one rate that is stable and easy to understand and think that is key the program does have so you may see a small period where now for a few months we are 1. 9 percent higher or about that for residential and less for the commercial side, that when you see the next group of rates come in the spring you see that flux wait and will be more in line. We should look at the big picture not at one section of time but the entire period. Commissioner moran you made a lot of good questions that need to be asked at the cpu c level and know your staff will put those questions together. I agree if there is Public Comment at the february 1 meeting i will be there and make the comments because it is important we look at the his istically and providing something that does Something Better than what pg sque e can do for Green House Gas reduction. We dont seem to get credit for that and how the cpu c approaches the subjects matter. I notice there is a lot of people in the audience, dont know what they are here for but willing to bet most are Climate Change supporter and want to do their part to support. They can sign up today, we have a computer and willing to bet we can get to work with the system to get them to sign up for clean pow cleanpowersf Renewable Program super green. If you are not signed up police talk to someone on staff or mireself or somebody else and happy to get you signed up today. Thats great. City attorney could we have people sign up before they speak . [laughter]. Thank you for your creative thinking on that. Any other Public Comment . Mr. Kelly. The next item is a drought update. Steve ritchie. Steve ritchie assistant general manager for water. Could i have the slides, please. The drought update but it feels more like storm and flood update because we have water coming out our ears at the moment in many of the reservoirs. This is a slide you have seen many times before showing the storage levels. Important to note hetch hetchy is about 290 thousand acre feet two days ago. It is 310 acre feet a day. We are releasing 4 thousand cubic feet per second so a lot of water mubing through the system now. The water bank count is full at 570 thousand acre if he will feet and filled over the weekend. [inaudible] is spilling, eleanor is spilling and cal varus is coming up and may become a problem for the contractors area at cal varus because we are getting so much water in so fast we cant get rid of it. From a water supply front in the reservoirs this is looking to be a good year so far. I included a photo taken of hetch hetchy over the weekend. Nor normally you can see two sets of falls. Here you can see 4 and if you look close 3 other smaller falls so there is a lot of water up country now. In the precipitation chart shows that. The red line crept above the 1983 line which is the wetest in record. Not to say this is the wettest year but shaping up to be a wet year. At about 75 percent medium precipitation this year. Um, up country you see this month we already well exceeded sth medium total for the month year to date about 26 inches of 36 inch average total. In the bay area here we havent quite gotten to the average for this month but certainly it will break that for the week is out. There is no doubt about that. Because as you look at the forecast for the next two weeks where red is the higher areas of precipitation you see this week which is thtop chart and next week which is lower chart shows heavy precipitation over Central California and the sierra. The snow pack is above medium which is good. Last year we had a short snow pack but may catch up this year. It appears this weeks storms in snow elevation will drop to about 5 thousand week where it was about 9 thousand feet over the e weekend so see if the snow sticks. Water available to the city but on the next chart the water available to the city has come heavy and early this year. 373 thousand acre feet is what we expected we needed to make the system tote aelg full and we are well on the track to get above that. Lastly on the slide total deliveries, at 135 million gallons per day for the system a quick check before i came here, this is the lowest since 2005 and probably going back i suspect student the 88 through 92 drought. The current weekly demand is low in the whole service area. One note on this, the water control board is holding a workshop january 18th regarding exstense rfb drought reg ymgzs regulations and we will provide the storage numbers and inform of our storage situation in San Francisco. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you, commissionersgy questions . One not related to the topic. Going back to agm report. Why dont we wrap this up and before we get there. Anything else for mr. Ritchie . Any Public Comment on the water supply report . Thank you. Commissioner kwon. I want to make sure i heard you right. The clean power basic Green Program, is it still a little less in price and more green than pg e basic program . Barbara hail assistant general manager for power. It is better in quality, yes. It is a betterit is greener in that it has higher renewable content and better ghg profile. Less ghg emissions. The little bit higher is just inl the cost, so it is 1. 9 percent higher for our residential customer on their bill. Thank you. Youre welcome. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Mr. Kelly. That concludes my report. Thank you. We move to item 8, which is i think what most people are here for and first of all, thank you for coming out on a rainy and stormy day to talk to us. One caution i would like to get is probably more directed toward myself than anybody else and that is that this iswe are early in the process of dealing with the challenge that is presented to us by the state and my own sense of that is it is not helpful to get overly positional at this point. What i would like to do and what is staff is prepared to do is to present the best dat a that we can at the moment, present as to what the state is proposing and the impacts on us could conceivebly be. That isnt a position and we are trying to get as close to fact as we can and we open up to Public Comment and welcome whatever comment you have. The head of the state board asked San Francisco to step up to the challenge. I like her and like that but dont know what it means and it will take a while to figure that out and to figure how to respond to so now the challenge we have anyway is to keep learning and our minds open and listening to everybody that has something to contribute to the discussion. That being said, let me ask mr. Ritchie to come up and do the first part of that and give us a good of picture he can as to what the state is ising of us. Steve ritchie assistant general manager and will make a minor apologize in the presentation is fairly dense because there is a lot of information here. First about our system and then about the states proposal and what we believe the effects of that would be and where should go. If i can have the slides please. As i will ask the commenters i will ask you to be as sus sinkt as you can. Qu will try hard. First this is a map of the bay delta system. If you look at the screen the optic yellow section there is the delta with the Sacramento River from the north and son joaquin valley. There is a little circle there noted where hetch hetchy reservoir. We are in the middle of that. We provide about 85 percent of the Regional Water system supply. It is unempaired flow is 1. 8 million acre feet per year on average. Average is what ill use in many cases to dif rirchiate from all years because those are two different things. We divert about 14 percent on average of the unempaired flow. The turlock and modesto divert 40port percent of the flow. The remaining 38 percent remains in the river. For reference in the dealty, San Francisco divert about. 7 percent of the unimpaired delta inflow similar to east bay mud and less by the Water Project and Central Valley project on thesicrimento and san joaquin rivers. This slide is one we use to describe our relationships with the irrigation districts. The hid row graph shown here over period 20 lane to 2016 shows the number of different year types. The higher the bars the more water there is. The lower the lines the less water there is. You see 2011 was a wet year. 2012 want too bad. 13, less. 14 and 15 were very dry years and 2016 started to become wet again. The dashed red line there is the irrigation districts maximum entitlement and the amount of rinch they can divert if the water is available. The gray sheeding within the hid row graf graph is the amount of water the districts can take. The green part above the line is the amoupt of water San Francisco can take. We take water when there is a lot of water and store it. We have a storage based system that relies on reservoirs so we threw extended droughts and that includes the reservoir jz water bank in don pedro so during the middle years when it was very dry we drow down the water bank and fed the irrigation district supply from the water bank and using up the storage to keep enough water for our customers in our system. It is poncht to note that we take water and really wet year jz use it through dry periods and that is how the system works for us. Stephen if i interrupt you. Do you know off hand the 2014 number we took out of the water . It is in the drought presentation. I think the water available to the city, 1 year was 50 thousand acre feet and the other was 22 thousand acre feet in terms och water available to the city. Thank you. I can lookit was 22,000 acre feet in 2014 and 50 thousand acre feet in 15. By contrast this year it is up to 270 thousand acre feet. Our water supply planning basically is driven by the storage fact by Drought Conditions and we have plenty of water in normal years but extended drought are the challenge. The Level Services objective isthe worst drought we experienced is what we plan for. With no more than 20 percent rationest of 265 million gallons a day and that comes from 184 million gallons a day we owe to the customers and 81 million gallons a day for San Francisco. The biggest problem and not knowing when the drought will occur so we need to plan each year as if it is beginning or middle of the brout drout manning samario. We projected shortages would occur about once every 10 years. Is that 20 percent shortages or just some type of shortage . That is some kind of shortage, yeah. One that gets into triggering effected drought scenario. The same time our customers water use among the lowest in the state. This covers june 20 sphene to may 2016 demd. San francisco resident use about 41 gallons per customer a day. When you mold with the whole sale customers the usage is about 52 gallons per person per day and state wide 82 gallons per person a day so san franciscans use half the water used in other residential areas in california. At the same time, we diversifyed the supply. Consurivation and adding ground watt toor the supply, recycled water we are getting ready to Start Construction on and non portable ordinance are areas where we try to stretch the envelope and find different ways to supply water. We are conversations to look at potential use of waste water for Drinking Water with 4 different water agencies. We approved a mou with one of those last month so looking a lot for Water Supplies but that doesnt mean we can turn on the tap and water magically appears. Briefly on the bay delta plan the state board is working on rsh they are charged setting Water Quality objectives to protect the beneficial use in it dealty. They proposed to update the 20076 delta plan first san joaquin and [inaudible] those effect us. There is a similar effort on the Sacramento River so looking at the entire system currently. Some of the recent history in 2012 the state water board released its original ceqa document for bay delta plan update and at that time they proposed requiring 35 percent of unempaired flow february through june to protect fish and wild life in all years. Opposed to on average, it will be every year. That is a issue that is very important to us. We provide comments at that time that they didnt analyze the effects that reduced hetch hetchy supply would have on us accept in a cursory fashion. We presented to them water supply and Socio Economic impacts nof 35 percent unimpaired flow at that time. From 2016 they have a revised proposal. Since 1971 looking at the recent data average unimpaired flow february through june is 32 bert and wet years over 60 percent, dry years 10 percent or less. What the state board is proposing now is require 40 percent from february through june every year whether wet or dry. The proposal include adaptive implementation with flows ranging from 30 to 50 percent so 40 percent is the starting point but maybe we want less or more. Also, recommends non flow measures should be pursued, which are Habitat Improvement said. Includes state of emergency change provisions without being clear what the state of emergency actually is and also includes very importantly a framework for accepting volunteer agreements that would meet or exceed objectives to protect fish and wild life so will come back to volunteer agreements. The state water board is working on a similar proproseal for the Sacramento River. On the 2016 revised proposal comments are due march 17, that is extended 120 days in two ichckriments from the original due date of november 15. Hearings began november 29 and concluded negative november 23. The state board is considering approving the amendments in august 2017. The big question is what is the proposal mean for us . Potentially impacts to the system can be very significant. We could be required to contribute 52 percent of the flow per the agreement with turlock and modesto districts. We have an agreement under certain conditions we are obligated to provide 52 percent of the required flow for fish. That would believe in all years . Um, 52 percent would apply to any flows. And then the 40 percent is all years . Yes, 40 percent is all years. Thank you. Yeah. So, if you take those thing synchronize to account, we would face increased rationing of 50 percent at normal or contract level of demands. Basically at 223 mgd which is our 2013 demand as we got into drought or 265 mgd we look at 50 percent rationing. At 175 mgd the current demand which is basically included in the mandated rationing from the state board we have to do additional 20 to 30 percent rationing on top of decreased demds. The notion we have shown how low we can go this proposal would cause us to go substantially below that for demand. We are at 10 or 20 percent below . About 20 percent below 2013 levels, this is in addition to that sph this is in addition to that. The number of dry year shortages would double or triple. One in 10 years under the lower demand probably double to twice in 10 years and 265 mgd that is 3 times every 10 years. The effects are substantial given our current supply situation. Without major investment and uncertain water supply projects because people talk about desalination and portable u. S. Of waste water are things that might be done but no slam dunks. Without significant investment we would not be able to meet the 184 million gallon a day obligation. San jose and santa clara wanted to be made permanent cut u cusmers and couldnt. East pal o alto growth is at risk. We talk about San Francisco providing supply or other customers providing supply to them so they can resume the growth that is pressing in their area. If we look at this big a supply cut that wont happen. Those will have major impacts for housing and jobs in the service area. The one place where i will break my own real as a responsible water agency we have to do everything we could to make sure that didnt happen. What you said is without major investment so what i think that says is we would be obligated to make the investments to make to make sure the service area is served. That is correct. That is the obligation as the provider. So our response to the 2016 proposal so far is we all need to take action for the fish, but we have serious doubts about the state water boards approach. We testified at the state water board january 3 public hearing and focus on the potential water supply impacts i mentioned here. Our doubts about the prosed benefits to fish and wild life and the results of major studies we performed for irrigation on better action for the environment. We believe you can introduce flow on the riv that have much more benefit than simply a flat number for a period of time. We do believe there are several opportunity we need to pursue with serious and realistic Adaptive Management and by that that means make an investment and monitor it for a period of time that is significant. You cant changing your mind year in and out because it didnt work last year and should try something next year and never learn gng that way so there neesds a serious knhiment to investing and understanding the system as well as managing it. We will be submitting written comments to the state water board. They are beeling developed in conjungz with bausta. Most importantly we are exploring the potential for volunteer agreements. We are working hard to move forward on some framework on that. We need to make progress quickly but all need more time to fully negotiate settlements. The reason is because settlements will not be easy. We think if we end up with a settlement to go forward, they will be painful and costly but better than the alternative. There will not be winners and losers, we are in this together one way or the other. The absence of settlements unpredictive litigation prolongs the Current Situation and wont help the environment or impacted communities. That is a quick summary of where we are and happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Commissioners, any questions before we get to public testimony . Lets do that. Thank you mr. Ritchie. We are blessed with a lot of people who want to speak to us today and our rules is you have 3 minutes to address us. I ask if you can be sus tinth that is appreciated but if you need or want to use the 3 minutes you will be able to. We do need to keep it moving so ill call out several names and if you can be prepared to step right up after the speaker before you was done i appreciate that. For our first speaker is sean sharpentay and forgive me for mangling names, itened to do that. It is nothing personal. For the record it is shurpentear. Very close. Good afternoon commission. Thank you sean shurpen tear assistant city manager in paulo alto and here to express the concern about the proposed regulation to the pu c system. East paulo alto operates within the region and san mateo county. We are a significant provider of Affordable Housing. We have. 2 jobs per employed resident and neighbors have three or two jobs per employed resident. We were born out of the desire to provide Affordable Housing in some ways and as a result 40 percent the Housing Stock is affordable due to Affordable Housing development as well as the strongest tenant kw rent controlled provisions in the state. We have dire concerns about the proposed regulation and have among the per capita lowest use of water among the bosca members and isg of 1. 9 mgd and in the last 10 years we used 95 percent of that on average and in some years we exceeded our isg. As a result, the city council is very involved trying to find new sources of water supply for the city. We updated our general plan and identified a need for 1. 5 mgd to be a leader in Affordable Housing development. As a result of the water shortage, we recently in july imposed a water moratorium on new or expanded water meters and as a result of that we stalled multiple projects critical to us and the region including 120 units of Affordable Housing two Office Projects and preeuvt school fully fupded and subsidized for east paulo alto residents. The concern if this goes through we dont know how to meet a 50 percent reduction. We are already at the Lowest Per Capita use and in addition this will make it difficult to acquire new supply within the bosca system if the water supply is reduced and for those reasons we support the staff recommendation and bosca recommendation to work with the state board and come up with a solution that is a benefit for urban per vaiers search as ourselves and the environment. I have copies the letter we submit today the water board and will give these to the clerk and that concludes my presentation. Thank you very much. Thank you and thank you for joining us. Nicole sancoola, peter dreck myer and martin [inaudible] good afternoon. Pleased to be here. Nicole sancoola, ceo for bosca. I did speak last week at the state board as well as part of the public hearing on the recirculated draft. I do have also copies of my comments that i gave the state board that day so donna can hand those out to you. I wont repeat them. I have spoken to you before so they are consistent along the lines with what i have been saying but i want highlight a few things and meant to pull up the map. Your presentation from your staff was very helpful. The first time i had seen many of the newest pieces of information about the impacts and i think you can also find it very helpful and the map that i pulled up is actually depicts the residential per capita use in the whole sale service area during the mandatory period that steve also referenced in his numbers. It shows the 26 agencies. There are a couple things i want to point out in what looks like a green color on your screen. Those are agencies whos residential per capita use is 55 gallons per day or lower. There are 10 of them and does want include city and county of San Francisco. The blue shows the residential use between 55 and 65 gallons per capita per day. As a average not with San Francisco but the bosca average of 60 in the mandatory period and comparing that to the state wide average of 82 really i believe as i look at this z spoke to the state board about really shows the commitment to long term conservation both fwhie agencies and customers and think that is a important thing that needs to be worked through because water reliability is important and part of the reason conservation is implemented to insure the reliability. With steve talks about the impacts this is a baseline and say from the residential use can you reduce 20 or 30 percent and think that is significant so we do support the work and staff and work on the settlement discussion and hope those will be fruitful because we see that as a best way to resolve this. Thank you. Thank you. Peter dreckmyer, martin gothburg and les ashler. Good afternoon president moran and commissioners. Thank you so much for ajndizing this item today. Wish we had a full commission but will take what we got. I have been very disappointed in information dissiminated bystaff and your last meeting december i commented on the fax sheet which to my understanding is still being distributed. I have a response here i like to share with you, 5 pages and i encourage you to ask your staff if there is anything in my response they disagrew with because we need to be on the same page and willing to have a dialogue about it. I was pleased last week that staff in presenting to the state water board didnt mention the figures they used before. They didnt use the inflated demind projections or economic impact. They didnt mention east paulo alto water issue. Bosca last year used 126 million gallons a day from the 184 cap. There is a lot of water available. It is allocation issue and there was no suggestion San Francisco may be cut down to 25 gallo