Transcripts For SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 32817 20170403

Item number 3, the approval of the minutes motion that of received to was incorrect as stated should have said february 28th. Thank you, commissioners any other additions, deletions, or changes. Id like to move the item as amended second. Any public all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries. Item 4 general Public Comment address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. I have a speaker card from mr. Da costa welcome. Commissioners you do said that in the southeast he sector there is a lot going to happen a lot happening and a lot of that that has to do with with the infrastructure now if you go on the website we dont have a real idea of what is happening with the Community Benefits i hope there is not a misunderstanding but for everybody to have a good understanding we need manage to be posted on the website about the Community Benefits that will for by the community and the task force established how the disbursements of those communities benefits have been made this is critical we just cant be developing the southeast sector 0 without petitioning to the contamination and pollution and the other things happening but were not the manifest on the Hunters Point shipyard has been changed with class one dirt going to the landfills youre not aware of that because Small Business is not giving you that type of information when it comes to the Treatment Plant some of you are not aware of notice of violations so notice of violations play havoc into the community and impact and the Environmental Issues not not too many people in the southeast sector will speak to you and tell you the truth there are a lot those that get the money rubber stamp from fremont i represent the first people and representing the Muwekma Ohlone our standards are the highest the land was stolen from us our standards are higher and all dictates come from the great spirit that seize everything last week christians and others talk about power the first people of this area want us not to at that time supervisors are in recess youll hear me a couple of times more thank you very much. Thank you my other Public Comment okay. Seeing none moving on to Communications Commissioners you have the communications to the public if there are any questions or comments or discussion about that. I have a couple of comments. Under the the correspondence log march 17 first of all, i want to commit on our new week in review i think that very good you like it. Oh. laughter . Me, too i second that. Too much information. It was very good it is recorded as we in review oh, im sorry, i recall not legal yet laughter . This is part of our nature Plants Program laughter and then under 5 c i didnt quite understand the via last item item 7 and that will be mr. Richie. Well continue the negotiations regarding the unspent and unencumbered surplus in the capital fund. Ive refer that to eric well answer that particular one mr. Sandler. Yes. I do. Oh. Yes. So there was a provision in the swhoil relayed to the revenue Capital Projects and the 2009 agreement priority for that to be true up years that relatives in look at what happens a violent in the wholesale rate weve made a rate for the wholesale customers to eliminate the issues associated with that. Are those monies that we agreed a long time ago we had paid to us before the Capital Improvement was put into let me explain it a little bit better monies every year a small portion of the Capital Regional plan opportunity no current rates and not through debt we base that on the appropriations that are made every year and at the end of every 5 years we look at you how much was spent versus appropriated and if we didnt spend it well return it to the wholesale customer that results in the volatility in the rate we want to have that on an annual basis. I see thank you. Sure. Thats it. Thank you thank you, mr. Sandler any other questions or comments on communication any Public Comment . Seeing none, is there any other Commission Business yes i won item i did see the unauthorized about the sunol valley water Treatment Plant expansion treated Water Reservoir learn about the implication. Thank you not to my knowledge commissioners okay any Public Comment thank you next item is a special one recognition of an old friend mr. Kelly. So i have the great honor and privilege of giving a special recognition to bobby brown ive been knowing her and her daughter for a long time was born in Jones Borough louisiana i have a date my mom will kill me if i ever give out a date of someones birth ill skip that at a young age participated in Voter Registration and sit in these protesting the segregation she moved to San Francisco in the great migration in the mid 19 informing and San Francisco 3r5r79d insight in these at city hall bringing attendance to the need for housing at Hunters Point for black families that married from the south and working in the shipyard and railroad and the post office in the 19 psychos the first black woman to hit the Imperial Department store in the 70s the first to head the equal e e o of correct National Bank and Wells Fargo Bank on the west coast in the 1980s Society Vice President of Human Resources for Stanford University i cant stay stanford sorry about that this didnt flow and where she recorded directly to connecticut do less i cant rice is important in 1990s the relation analyst responsible for Union Negotiations and arbitrations she served over the decade and has developed training and Employment Opportunity for youth and people of color in 2011 retired from professional duties and stated active in the Community Family and church until the present time shes been an active member of Southeast Community Facilities Commission since 1993 and i would like to say shes been a force in really help to shape the vision of what we want to do in the southeast when the puc could have done better shes been helping the community out there i wanted to say my great pleasure that i bestow this recognition into barbary brown clapping. and we have a certificate and like to make comments to the commission theyll be more than welcome. Yeah. So my mom requested me to speak on her behalf shes anybody else and oh, my goded and looking forward to today and she shared and come into the Commission Prior to 1993 art agreeing most appointed her herself and ms. Jackson and women in the community worked hard on the campaign and collaborated with many black latino and polynesia around making sure that mayor agnos understood the meaning for a voice to have representative as far as the bayview Hunters Point and her being a child of civil rights and the great migration seeing many of the elders from Providence Baptist and regarding seeing how to work hard and trying to make sure that voice was always present if the community so she shared how during her tenure at the Southeast Facility Commission that was one thing that kept her humble was making sure she was out of the community and spent a lot of time amongst our elders and also our youth and also trying to emphasis creating that pipeline of leadership in communities and also insuring she always gave back so shes very humble and anybody elsely oh, my goded and also grateful and seeing the fruits of her labor through through general manager harlan kelly so again she wants to thank everyone and really appreciated being honored and is very appreciative im her eldest daughter tony and proud to be part of honoree so thank you for providing her flowers clapping. well, thank you for your comments and barbary thank you for joining us mr. Da costa. Commissioners we all go on the journalist and very foe people that live a legacy i appeared at hundreds of meetings at Asset Community Facility Commission building 18 hundred oakdale and overtime i had to address difficult issues as barbary brown looking at me and understanding the plight of the community in the year 2017 not too much has happened to our community anymore over we address the vital issues she was a fighter they dont make them no more and Martin Luther king and others fought for our civil rights they fought for our civil rights their heart was in the right place and they didnt mind laying their lives down one is barbary brown overtime i would talk to her and overtime she would take me aside and talk with me she understood the plight of our community 0 on behalf of the bayview i want to wish you the best and thank you for being somebody that really cared for the community as dr. Espanola jackson thank you clapping. thank you any other comment . Well, thank you very much and yes, please welcome. Good afternoon. Commissioners executive director of Southeast Community Facility Commission and i want to say its been an honor working loads mrs. Brown ive been in the position to francisco point im in the position because of city and. Item no. 8 report of the general manager. Well have an update on the pl plan. Dpmg commissioners charles acting director of communication at the San Francisco public works ive got a presentation about some of the outreach activities we conducted over the past year as we enroll the customers first, the numbers update im standing in for barb and meekly our cca director i want to give you the late numbers for the last two years for the enforcements were received 25 additional this week that puts our opt out rate at 2 percent and supergreen by 3 when you combine that with the upcoming may 13. 4 percent that continues it rise weve started the enrollment process for the Net Metering Program and signed up citywide we sent them opt out notices on may 20th and another schedule in two weeks so far seen 7 opts out were underway for the next enrollment im going to transition to a power point we can recap the activities weve conducted over the past year well there we go. So just to provide you some framework in may of 2016 we extraordinarily 7 thousand commercial account is in district 5, will and 10 and people that signed up throughout the city in november of 2016 we enrolled significantly more customers most of them residential 70 thousand in district 5 and 8 and anyone that signed up right now we are in our enrollment for Net Metering Program in district 5 and 8 and Net Metering Program customers that signed up early and true updates in the march to june timeframe and on top that anyone that signed up early when we think of outreach for the education throughout the city we divide it to two categories the first citywide were out in the community with meetings and staffing bothers and fairs and festivals with the partners at the 350 sf and online with our own posts Facebook Linked and twitter were advertising to increase the accordance and partnering with the sierra club and phone banks and pretty much every newspaper letter in 2016 had either cleanpowersf as the lead article or in the body of newsletter the other category is what we do for targeted outreach were educating the customers that were automatically enrolled Pay Attention we want to minimize the opt out rates and, of course, having this conversation we are improperly them get to supergreen option in front of them inform there the supergreen rates so we have to send the enrollment that the state requires and send notices because were greening certified and comboobd to update the customers and hosted Community Workshops that were amp improperly and adds in newspapers and advertised in district outdoor venues ill get to that later and targeted Online Advertising with San Francisco public works and sf staff we canvas the neighborhoods doortodoor and generated supergreen signups in those areas i want to review the collateral to kind of get us to this point and through the enrollments youll see the enrollment notices we put together every consumer we automatically enroll at the same time once we enroll an area of the city people that moving in and out and since that is a cleanpowersf jurisdiction area we send people that move on in two enrollment notices to notify them theyll be cleanpowersf customers as well and have the supergreen mailings that were required to do were greening certified and have the annual joint marital with pg e and the joke is were less of open outreach and direct mail shob show them this year if you sign up to get a interyoull get 8 mailings over the course of the year thirty to 40 percent of the time is directed for mailings in the cac r cca program some of the districts 5 and 8 this is a picture of the San Francisco Planning Commission dominations we took over the castro muni station and some of the nip adds that promoted the Community Workshops in district 5 and 8 and citywide engagement on facebook and linked in and twitter and San Francisco Business Times and, of course, were at Community Events and Community Festivals you see the events with the local 261 we did a clean energy yoga in hayes valley and a wide vast of events and given you a peace officer we conducted last year this chart kind of shows you how we did to the green lines are the updates we generate for supergreen when we automatically enroll customers as you can see on the bottom that green bar shows you where our spring enrollment is mostly businesses and then see the green bar to the right the fall improvement 70 thousand customers mostly residential the act of sending a notice for a host of supergreen updates this representatives our best opportunity to talk with customers and tell them about the program and give them that option to renovate, upgrade to supergreen throughout the enrollment customers were upgrading to supergreen and almost went off the charts in a week the yellow is the elderly enrollment supergreen throughout the year you see the steady stream of them all year and my late but final slide tries to track some of the outreach activities ive shoitd in the previous slides and match them to spikes in signups we had a lot of connect on earth day the sierra Club Phenomenon banking three weeks of upgrades and then, of course, again, all the active weve planned around our residential enrollment in the fall of 2016 generated supergreen signups were watching and learn and preparing for the future for more enforcements if you have any questions. Thank you, commissioners any Public Comment mr. Fried. Jason fried, executive director. Yeah. Your time is up. Its broken. Ill use this one thats fine. Jason fried, executive director. Of lafco first of all, thank you to the staff for thank you for all your hard work around the outreach enrollment and one of the things 0 weve had this presentation last year the Lafco Commission met for the first one this was one thing an unenvious role your staff has been doing an excellent job but so the question how does that work it will cost more money not good for the cca you need to keep our flows as low and green for the environment it needs that to occur for us to get the best Screen Program well be step forwarding over the next few months and figure out how to increase that without increasing our costs and find other source of money outside of cca program maybe grants or other things we can tap into that will give us the access to do better and more outreach i shouldnt say better were doing everything we can but we need more supergreen signed up that is someone signing people up there and working with the staff it is a difficult time consuming thing we need to figure that out in a better way or more effective way that is Cost Effective as possible hats off to your staff theyll continue to do the excellent work and roll out maybe those in the audience or go to cleanpowersf any other Public Comment. I have a comment for charles not related to this but seeing him up there i wanted to say congratulations to you that have that wonderful piece on the first page of chronicle about the cca for George Harlan congratulations. Thank you very much we work hard and michael conducted a great interview for that good thank you. Thank you. Any other comment . Okay mr. Kelly the next item, please. Is greatest supply update ground water supply update. Steve richie assistant general manager for water. If i can have the slides please id like to give an update on the ground Water Project that requested at the prior meeting pointing out this is a key component of the dividing our water supply as in 2008, by the commission this slide shows on overview that is expected to supply up to 4 million gallons we will be pumping and slowing ramping up every year it will be blended with our Water Supplies and benefited water will be distributed thought San Francisco and next slide, please the blue blend will go to half the city phase one of the ground water will include as a matter of law four wells that delivers up to 2. 8 million gallons the completion in may of this year and expect the Drinking Water approval for the supply to the system in the next two days and actually in the process with the startup of the well station we should be introducing ground water to the San Francisco water system in the next couple of weeks in phase two we will commensurate two in Golden Gate Park for the supply wells that will be up to another 1. 2 million gallons a day the pipeline are under construction from spring of this year through the summer of 2019 and able to add that second phased to the San Francisco water system in late 2020 that is dependent the ground water that assumes the role of irrigating Golden Gate Park currently accomplished by ground water our operational goals to make that a route part of water system again well start with one million gallons a day and has capacity we can shift amongst the wells if we dont like for example, water intrusion or that thing penalty of perjury rates can be adjust and paying attention to the health in ground Water Quality theyre available for Emergency Operations should produce up to 6 million gallons a day if regional supplies are disrupted and the facilities are operating in the emergency supplies so well have external power for operations heres a chart showing the anticipated quality a perimeter in the meter according the maximum came in contaminate ass remain who the Drinking Water standards to make sure we continue to deliver the high quality water to the customers weve been doing a lot of Public Outreach to 2007 weve had various Community Events over 7 thousand participant that participant in the tasting and people cant tell the difference continue the ground water we had focus groups and media come over in the media and current itself Planning Department the eir process did a lot of mailings and had treatments available and advertise at 2525 golden gate and reached out to the San Francisco chronicle charles did a good job of that with the ground Water Project and an article with the coverage on that and got a memory bart ad campaign and putting that out a associate media and plenty of updates on the site and this wrapping up here with the basic the muni campaign were seeing two supplies were trying to deliver the message that existing our supply is go and ground water is a good way to do that with the supply and ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Is this material on the website. This particular presentation will be on the website later today or tomorrow i have a brand new fact sheet. It includes the before and after measures. Thank you commissioners any questions or comments. Yes. Your chart Water Quality i dont know about the science of what should and should or shouldnt be in water i know this nitrate is quite a bit hire what do you mean. If we north side a concentration in our supplies we expect 1rish8 no red in that because of surface water not finding the kwhamgz contemplations from historic sources in the area but it is only at 1. 45 milling grams per liter that is negligible the standard is 45 gallons or foments that concentration so the concentration is the ground water a number of things generally more mingletion in the surface water but after the blend that is visually indistinguishable in our water supp supply. How often do we test the water. Certainly weve been testing if on a frequency and part of application for the Drinking Water. Some recently some place the ground water was inundated with something terrible cant remember what it was but, yeah id like to know if well be testing the water we will provide the information and california is lots of ground water contamination and massive things we dont have 80s situations in San Francisco were fortunate. It is the marina. Oh, the ground water concentration it is contamination from an old facility their slowly cleaning it up. And thats a separate item. The marina that is sources not in the area the west side if you look at the slide that shows you the map of area a gray dash line showing the Boundary Line on the west side of San Francisco if i can skip to the slides you can see it on the screen that is the material well pull the water from the marina is actually up that particular slide up there in the white zone north of the blue zone not an area that will be delivering water it is actually a gas facility and those are two sites. Yeah. One 3 blocks of each other. Commissioner. Remind me why were doing this ground water blend with the Drinking Water rather than blending that and using it for irrigation or low purposes because of our combined system and we dont have combined piping or actually were using this is the very suitable for portable and, in fact, Golden Gate Park is irrigated with ground water from the Golden Gate Park and one of our combination projects to take the wastewater from oceanside and irrigate Golden Gate Park with the watermelon that a lower quality water and use the ground water for drinking pumpers two working combinations with the Higher Ground water for direct use and there is not enough nonground water Drinking Water available if we didnt mix that with ground water seems like a variety of lower use for irrigation from the toilet flushing to all kinds of things before we move to the blending options. Well, there are ways you could do that theyll involve the much double funding a higher expense that will be from the west side in older neighborhood that is extremely expensive the quality of ground water is good and matches the supply well, that is something weve been public defender literally for two decades. I think also you want to mention part of the diversify g diversifying. We made a commitment to diverse and were a lot of the wholesale customers depend on this for Drinking Water we have a special hetch hetchy it may not be there so it is important to disif i if you look at how much were blending to make sure we stench the supplies so most people think why are you blending now compare it so if the drought were to continue well be more aggressive. Not just drought in the urban water with San Francisco with low water use demand increases we depend on that for dephil ginsberg to make sure we meet that goal. You end up diversifying so thank you any other comments. Any Public Comment mr. Da costa. I want mr. Richie to know reach out to our residents who and you know to some of the Industries Like the ones that manufacturer beer and my wife understands some of the things with water having been in the Restaurant Industry and if you look at a chart and youll see the hardiness the amount of hardiness in the final column and as one of the commissioners stated that it increases and we had hundreds of people come here before and speak to coloring men i know of hundreds of a lot of people have resulted rather than fight the system get bottled water and we have to incorporate that into the cumulative impacts when we make much changes this year a lot of rain what if we take the expose water and pump it down into the water shed . And are we clear when we say on the residents do everything is not contaminated with lake merced and they somehow dont go into the water shed i can go on and on but lets not go two dope what we can do is in the Digital World is get all the impeccable date and force it on the post it on the website so that those people that run our restaurant those people that manufacture our bore one of the best in the nation and i dont know drink too much beer but thats what they tell me and want mr. Richie you know hes a good man and does his Due Diligence but let him post the data on the website thank you very much thank you any other Public Comment . Seeing none, that concludes my. Any additional general manager business. That concluded my report. Time for the bawsca update. Good afternoon commissioner president moran pleased to be here you mean contempt were do on the state control board and bawsca submitted our comments that friday we collaborated closely with our staff and our member agencies in doing so i want to talk about that a little bit as ive said before we support the objective to protect the water for fish and wildlife and the settlement discussions amongst the parties the state boards plan is for the regional plan and this is why bawsca cant support the present proposal specifically it can cost a substantial reduction of water to the unaware to the one. Million bawsca residents but i want to speak about something that was very important as part of comment letter the puc present a better plan take advantage of the river studying studies by the 1990s in addition to the proposed rectifies theyre designed to have the proposal includes measures to include the physical had been at that time and reduce the department of Environmental Health mingle and reduce the practices on the salmon population we at the state board as others this system the San Francisco Regional Water system faces the risks overall water supply you find yourselves in a time for that so it is important to remember San Francisco has the perpetual legal to deliver to the bawsca agencies the puc must meet the requirement as stated by incarnate in january at the meeting the commission quote we will be 2k3w50bd to make the investments to make sure the service area is served so well continue to working closely with the puc on those matters given our agencies significant reliance on the projection for today and into the future and what is critical to meet the regional supply for their community so i appreciate our time i have copies of my statements and copies of comment letters you might find helpful. Thank you youre welcome. Thank you for your work. Commissioners any comments. Thank you any Public Comment . Okay. Seeing none more often to the consent calendar mr. Secretary item 10 calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests public, or staff so requests removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. Thank you, commissioners any requests to remove open item Secondhand Smoke any requests from the public . Seeing none, can i have a motion there is a motion that has been seconded. All in favor, say i. I. The consent calendar passes item 11 item no. 11 flooding workshop Flood Resilience study conclusions on floodrelated policy, and updates on the existing and new programs to reduce the flood risk. So before we get started would like to remind the commission this is the third series of presentation on flowed risk the last presentation that we gave back gave in may of last year this is right before stephanie went out open Maternity Leave were so excited shows back and ive been trying to recruit her new addition to work for the puc in the several years were happy to have her back and in our presentation in may 2016 we walked through the Flood Resilience study and look at the flood protection policy options for the San Francisco public works our next step from the meeting where staff we wanted to hold a series of road shows to get feedback on our under god resilient work and further develop a set of projects that will address the flooding within the city today, we want to provide you with an update on that work and our conclusions on the level of service a 5 year storm designed storm is the right policy for the puc and well continue to guide our projects we will also update you an additional efforts the analysts or designs that were looking at the status of some major floats related Construction Projects in neighborhoods that to meet the levels of service were also looking at programmatic strategies to reduce the localized flooding in some of the neighborhood were also looking at presenting to the board of supervisors on april 12th so this is what it is timely and part of Public Service committee and so a lot of the material that we have here today will be presenting at that committee today ill have tommy who is going to share with us of how the Operation Team has prepared for and responded to such a wet 2017 and then stephanie will come up and will go into the flowed resiliency and update you on the flood Construction Projects in the various neighborhood and all the next steps with that background ill have tommy up first. Slides please. Good afternoon, commissioners tommy assistant general manager for wastewater. So to set the discussion the phase for the discussion we all know and seeing in the news with the wet weather its been extremely wet weather earlier this month say was deemed the states wettest year in the recorded history those images show damages that all of this rain has cost statewide and talk about what weve done locally in San Francisco. Those are the facts what you see before you today is weve had 74 rainy days this is 5 years worth of do not weve collected that is more than weve seen in the last 5 years in total weve had 0 thirty years of rain prepared to this year of 22 inches of rain thirty percent more in previous years and on a Beautiful Day recycle day it is easy to forget the rainy season is not over our Treatment Plant runs in the past 5 years and has doubled the amount of time and doubled the amount of wet weather to treat ill move on to the Collection System we do a lot of work in the streets to prepare and respond to storms this slide summarizes the activities this year sewer sections as you can see we exposed our goal for cash the last two years one of the things were most existed about in some of you have done this weve partnered with the public with the catch basins and were pleased with the response of the public we delivered over 12 hundred sandbags this year alone and i know what im about to talk about the combined system weve talked about that in the past now well talk about that the some more. Our combined system as you may know is to handle the stormwater our pipes are sized we build them larger to handle the rainstorms the sanitary are the same types of as the plant we are treating all the stormwater that hit the ground running why it is important to all of us when the stormwater hits the ground a lot of things in the grandson in the streets there are chemicals and grease and oil and trash and anything you see on Market Street end up into the system and goes to the Treatment Plant for treatment now heros something we dont often talk about as of benefit to our system whether a truck or fire in our streets our water folks whenever a fire they make sure we have enough pressure and volume to put out the affair and the firefighter will perform what we do think what happens to the millions of gallons it end up on the streets into a catch basin that goes to the Treatment Plant for treatment the ashes the dirt all the chemicals that are used to put out the fire all that that in a combined system is treated now unlike other systems where that might flow into the bay we have before 5 percent of our system that is separated and in case of a fire well treat that as an emergency our job to not allow the run off to get into the bay or ocean so a lot of things has to be done well have to pump around with using hoses to eliminate that or prevent that from happening at all our combined system is able to treat any of those things from a fire a diesel spill to better protect the Water Quality of our bay and ocean now Stephanie Harrison unless you have questions for me will drill down into the rival this year and go into the flowed resilience conclusion any questions. Okay. Thank you tommy. That is harrison welcome back. Good afternoon Stephanie Harrison im a project manager for a lot of projects that the puc is working obama on ill start with a series of slide to describe the rains tommy talked about the decrees but ill talk about in 2017 so the takeaway that it is very wet weve the best available prektsz were off for the forecasts have not predict what weve seen on the ground and tommy team has made the best of crystal ball well look at what we saw this graph so we used effort to make decisions with respect to the staffing and staffing storm watch and crews and deploying our barriers this shows the green bars the rainfall forecasts we saw on any given day and every day of this year and the orange line is our sort of our action trigger it says when are we going to deploy the barriers and when we will deploy the storm watch we changed the trigger midstream this is the Information Available this is what we know one day ahead whether the rain hits so based on the information the orange boxes show when we deploy the flowed barriers . When the flood barriers their gearing up for heavy rain this is shows how we prepared for storms but dont know what is coming until that hit the ground running the blue bars on top of the green bars as you can see that if match up some days far less rain predict look at the first couple of days in january and a some days had a lot more one example march 4 what of those forecast on that day was point one inches we got in some that areas more than a inch in a couple of hours so you know it is when we dont have good information into a storm it is hard to prepare weve got a lot more work to do but the question when did it flowed and the red oars for one on the march 4 date and on january 20th those were two incidents of dense rain bursts that laced 5 to 10 minutes but more our system could handle the flooding was not on the dice with the hoist forecast with the highest green bars but didnt happen on the actual rain the blue bars their flashy storms with dense cells of rainfall after the january 20th flowed we reevaluated the trigger and lowered it and deployed the barriers right now they were not deployed because of previous trigger i want to say that tommy Operational Team is working with the Information Available and sometimes there is just too much rain so tommy talked about the benefits of the background system of the combined system i want to emphasize your price is predominantly to carry the stormwater their by and 99 more 99 stormwater with the upstairs are full and even with the large capacity just sometimes when the rain is to dense that the water goes to the low lying areas and sometime a big rain the water can come out in the low lying area any drainage system will do that behavior beautiful that way youve seen that before predominantly a large storm how tides may impact the flooding but mostly natural to that grateful and it can play in a courageous collapse but so the question which neighborhoods flowed and mass is determined by typography so this maps shows the historical we have a hilly city where the gravity flows when it rains the next slide with the 5 year storm the blue on this map is the historic waterways and the red is areas with surface irrigation in a 5 year it is hard to see on the screen but hard to show the areas that get inundated in a 5 year storm in a there are a couple of more that are small and hard to see well get there but the vast majority of the system cant handle that we have fast projects up to our 5 year storm level of service while working on a Long Term Plan for the entire city but even once were there there is a large storm so what does that look like the next slide is another extreme scenario one hundred years it like rolling the dice it can come any time what is apparent the areas getting inundated are closely following the historic waterways so ill do a quick driving into the water shed this is the Mission Creek and large basins shown here this is the profile on the bottom half of that slide the brown is the land surface and the gray is the pipes underground follow it to twin peaks and southerly and causes a traveling jam and the bowl in the typography a large establishment this is where the water comes out in the bowl shaped typography too this slide is an example building hypothetical building at the bottom of a bowl like folsom when the system is full water exits at the lowest point so we want to avoid basement back up so the plumbing code required that low fixer have a backflow preventer those devices are covered the location is important if someone puts a devices on that house it is raining and raining is coming down you could end up with a basement back up we dont want to see that on the house instead we want to see it on low fixer that way when the system is not can you ask you about the backflow preventer. Were required by code when the elevation of the fixer is lower than the vents in the sidewalk that is specific. How do we know i mean do you have a map of the involved properties. It depends on not a map that is valuable it depends on where you have a basement or have a down sloping driveway or youre living on a hill so a plumber will determine if you meet that code with a major renovation. So it is triggered by a major renovation. A new development i dont believe. Is that something that is worth considering. Well we are going to get to that. laughter . We do have the Grant Program which enables people to have a reimbursement for doing the project full cost. A per backflow preventer costs that represents it was hard to figure out a way to do a reasonable full cost if someone want to replace their concrete floor with tiling you mean what i mean we talked with the plumbers and signed a cap at that cost. Thank you it is different for my Given Properties okay. So we try to avoid the basement backs up but the system water even when we have the book preventers in place through man holes and vents any drainage system can behave this way so lets talk about what this water looks like in San Francisco the terminology wise stormwater is over Land Republic off it can be in the stormwater the sanctuary is industrial wastewater for homes and businesses not raining our pipes have sanctuary sewage but combined stormwater and again, our pipes are sized to manage stormwater that looks like folsom example in dry weather through 2 million pipes a day during the 5 year storm were seeing about 5 hundred and 48 million gallons of flow and if in storm event the percent of water that is sanctuary derived from sanctuary flow is. 2 percent so at the peak of our design storm when the pipes are full thats when the waters might be coming out of manhole 2 percent sanctuary. So how do the pipes know i find that fascinating. Nothing penalty of perjury the water out ill go back a couple of slides if we have a large storm from the profile a red line right on the ill show it theres a red line right on the typography that shows the bowl shape if the upstairs are pressureized than the water so much water under pressure and the energy level of the system is rising so thats the hydraulic grade line as the water rise from the top of hill come down and contributing and getting heir and higher the first place through the manhole at the lowest point the system didnt know anything that water is screaming from twin peaks and there is no where for it to go so the pressure builds up that comes out at the lowest point. What happens to the sanctuary flow. Well that is all mixed together in the same set of pipes. I know, but youre saying 2 pointed sanctuary. Correct. It is all mixed together with the 99. 8 percent of stormwater mixed into one combined flow. So when you have dry weather not raining there is a most of sewage which is a grove at the bottom that so when you take a shower you flush the toilet it goes into that low area and were trying to represent how much room that takes into the actual sewer so this is the first people that on your left and then just do show that the capacity of the upstairs are mainly built for stormwater so when the stormwater comes in it actually mixes you have a rush of water coming in and it mixes the sanctuary flow if you look at the comparison of we have in there versus the stormwater it is a mix and combined the whole point we are trying to illustrate that the size of system is really built for stormwater because we didnt need to have those size of pipes with the sanctuary flow to illustrate we you know a back in the day the informing they built the system and reinforced it in the 70s made it for more stormwater of a certain size to manage stormwater. Storms of a certain size really. Well be happy to provide additional followup. If requested. So im going to talk about the flowed resiliency study we prepared in may i mean, ill summarize it i presented this last year and we looked in did study we looked at various levies of flowed protection from a 5 year to one hundred year storm and the benefits and costs of policy options those are the policy choices we considered in the study and ranging from one. 3 inches in 3 hours that is the storm every 5 years on a long term average down to 2. 2 inches in 5 hours. And just to the point of reference the 19 informing the city of pipes have managed water in year storm and changing a longstanding policy is a major investment if you upper market put in a bigger pipe youre bringing water down the hill faster you have to look at the system to the Treatment Plant along the way it may need youll have to expand a lot of pipes not ended up shoving flow faster down the hill and causing a problem somewhere else. Thats one of the things that want to make sure that everyone understands it some folks feel that if youre in the process of replacing or repairing sewer lines up sizings them up size them to be prepared if you do increase the capacity of the system that section is already done 0 the problem where up sizings the sewer and that carries the water counsel treatment. Stream to a Treatment Facility it makes things worse so thats why when we start getting into some of the projects solutions it is it is costly to move water you have to move it from out of that area and then have to construct a larger pipe all the way down to the Treatment Plant youre actually a mile in some places tearing up streets and it becomes expensive i want to i want to put that out there it is more too than sizings the two blocks of sewer to solve our problem thank you. So the findings of our study we presenteds in may this is a really brief summary table you see the range of what the options we evaluated from a 5 year to a one hundred year storm i didnt show you all of them the cost of projects representative projects noted to get to that level of flowed protection as you can see to get to current level 2. 3 billion up to a one hundred year is 15 billion investment and then we look at the full economic break and enter from Property Damage to Business Impact to transit and Transportation Impact and the benefit of putting those projects and then looked at the by the people cost ratio that was greater than one for the 5 year storm about one for a 10 year storm and then low cost benefit for large storms because of inner frequent period the high costs didnt happen often the benefits are not relatively as high so all of the factors are important at the end of the day you the commission have asked us to focus on rate affordability so this graph is a representative for a relative rate projection for each policy projection starting with the current bill 36 a month for Sewer Services by 2030 looking at additional 14 a month for a state of good repair that includes the ssip and r r and operations as the cost of operations increased to 2030 and youve seen in slide before on top of that the flowed protection this references the top piece representatives the relative increase for the flood from ranging from a 5 year storm to 15 a month additional by 2030 as compared to one and 22 theres a month for a one hundred year storm this give us a snapshot to compare the different policy options with apples to apples assumptions about implications but in reality when we make a policy decision and move forward were balancing our priorities and our projects with a very thoughtful implementation timing we can phase our work and rate affordability is a crucial item and the sequencing harlan kelly. This is the victim were facing as you look at the chart and look at you know treatment and collection you know were spending 2 housing unit 9 billion on the Treatment Facilities that actually services the city so you know that is something that were indefinite want to move forward but when we look at the other collections and other promotions weve identified those also service certain areas so the challenge is you know i dont know if the rate will payers will be willing to pay for everything, of course, engineers we can design it to do whatever you want but what can we afford we looked at the flowed resilience and looked at flooding thats why the decision that we are coming to that a 5 year is sufficient because the cost of moving it higher than that is really expensive given that Mother Nature storms are coming in youre spending money and the areas may still flowed flood thats the dilemma but we need to make investment and continue to make investments so i think that is the dilemma in identifying projects and priorizing them. So after we presented this to you in the middle of last year, we focused on sharing the information and soliciting feedback one of the things we conducted a road show 14 communitybased organizations throughout San Francisco and in october starting in october and inside and outside of flood this map the blue cots are the neighborhood associations or Community Groups the flood impacted and the green dots are outside of flooding and the orange are citywide or a multi Neighborhood Organization has art of each presentation we solicited input so what did we learn we have one and 55 completed surveys to date and the results have been remarkable consistent the top two priorities challenges have been scandalized by our participant as first aging infrastructure and second schematic reliability with the flood protection as the third priority this is true when you average the one and 55 surveys but true we sprayed the groups in the flood impacted areas from outside the flood areas the priorities are the same with the groups so what did we learn notably all participants tend to attribute this to low lying areas and underground creeks they thought it effected a bigger part of city than it did they thought it compacted 20 percent of San Francisco but reality less than one percent of San Francisco and then also both groups felt that the flood protection was desirable but only a few people thought that 0 investment in the rate increases large investments will be worthwhile to protect such small areas when we talked to the citizens the rate payers the flood focused group or the representatives of city group they had the same conclusion. So based on the analysis the Flood Resilience analysis and the feedback weve received weve concluded the level of service are appropriate are staff will continue to design the projects to minimize those the levels of service valeted by the commission at various points in the ssip and continue to implement the flood projects into there the capital plan for the Collection System and also through fast track systems well go through today, our neighborhood ill transition into that the neighborhood updates and flooding is one of the many critical appropriate that San Francisco faces and that major cities nationwide face we have a list of other priorities we are looking at through the ssip the ssip includes some of the fast track flood related projects ill talk about as well as r r projects we can into incremental impacts down stream and looking at programmatic strategies to reduce the flood risk beyond count infrastructure and talking about that at the end edge of this workshop so right now ill go through and provide an update and this is part of what the board of supervisors is asked to see next month this is a preview of what well show the board of supervisors on the individual neighborhoods so this is a map of where the 5 projects on the west side and the bay side forester the main project consultants a new auxiliary pipe a parallel pipe on affirmativeer and up size on the streets to raise crosswalks and roadway for curve site recreation that was there was a comment about the number of things weve received thanks to the outreach from our Contract Team and anticipated the construction to happen this spring and summer that is four or 5 million and will be before the next rainy season the neighborhood is the er bone were all in all to route the water into the system upstairs this getting water into the system were coordinating a lot of work going on in the neighborhood a paving conflict and replacement project were coop with the projects and issued and under construction again by the next rainy season that is 1. 5 million the next project in this neighborhood were looking at as a matter of law new upstairs to collect water from the surface and converting the ravine an unused ravine to store rainwater were working closely with our 101 property and geotech weve initiated the engineering a 23 million for this project we have alternative system to manager the sfrrment in a 5 year storm but looked at incremental investment im talking about one standard pipe size bigger one pipeline bigger we have a ravine sitting there that is bigger than we need more a 5 year storm so if we up size the pipes were looking protection in a 25 year storm so that makes better use of existing ravine for stormwater and maxes our Green Infrastructure and very relatively very low cost were talking about an additional one to one and a half Million Dollars in construction money for this additional benefit thats what were looking at for the neighborhood the folsom area the folsom is a very tough neighborhood flooding here is a long standing issue because of challenges so those challenges include technical challenge of getting moving the water and the typography ive shown you how cost were talking about following expands go all the way down to Mission Creek so a mile a one half of expansion for a limited timeframe were looking at you know a little bigger neighborhood but chasing is one mile and a half down stream is outside of where the flood is causing on impact we started with dozens of expects we did a full evaluation of 15 alternatives and now weve narrowed to the two on the table so those are 1. 5 one and a half mile expansion or a 12 foot diameterer tunnel and the last project ill talk about as a ssip project at the end of cayuga as a reminder weve talked about this project in the past this neighborhood meets the levels of 5 year storm they dont 0 flood in a 5 year but a 25 year storm were trying to help the area that is most heavily impacted the culdesack where cayuga meets 0280 were looking at regrading the caltrans property and drain the surface water because it will be digging into the berm well build a wall to support i280 and coordinating with caltrans but they told us verbally just a verbal this month that they dont want to move forward with the project so we are following up with them and we will be providing you with further update as available whether or not this project gets built there is a down stream concept along the alamany corridor the intent of that concept will be to meet the level of service in the area of alamany Farmers Market and the 101 subcontractor but incredible benefits of having flood reduction upstream in the cayuga neighborhoods are a similar benefit of street flooding but haves a benefit of recusing the basement back up in larger storms not having a place to go but moving the water out of neighborhoods more quickly ill talk briefly about this concept not a expected that is it is a project that is Development Item no 6 other Commission Business. It is a project were looking at like folsom it is big and expensive and entails significant disruption dune down a linear corridor the Mission Creek nicole you may be hearing more about that i know that supervisor ronens office is working with caltrans with an alamany it will be a Construction Zone were looking at opportunity for collaboration in order to reduce the neighborhood impacts youll be hearing more about this concept an area we know needs to be addressed at this time not prioritized because the impacts were primarily for roadways as opposed to Property Damage whether we determine did fast track projects we started a year or two years ago it was focused on Property Damage and high flood risk and Property Damage this is more about roadway and Farmers Market so you may be hearing more those are the neighborhood updates and next steps so following on the flooding resilience process and the affirmation of our level of service were now going to think about is the Implementation Plan to get there to meet the level of service so right now we are finishing up an effort to integrate a lot of the different efforts and in the u w a with clean and infrastructure and others seismic restrict of channels basin were integrating those ssip into a single consolidated and prioritize capital plan Implementation Plan and well be coming back to present the result in july were in the process of looking at how would all the different priorities come together into one consolidated plan and what are the real priorities and how we phase the different projects well be coming back to you right now the platoon is coming back in july. If i may request on that when you come back doss bylaw im going to turn it over to ive been interested in the Green Infrastructure i didnt really see how that been explored or analyzed in this priority project so id like to get a better understanding of that to make sure there is been a consultant to come in and is minimal effect but other benefits or you know Mission Creek on the dynamically component it might be a pilot to explore cost prohibit active. I think this is an example of Green Infrastructure were using this as a tool the wa mean during the course of rain we lose water out of system and sort of dependable you need to move water quickly and in large volume in this case were looking at the other one the cayuga we talked about the flood of cayuga that was an Infrastructure Project as well but caltrans is sort of you know taking a step back and i guess well have to see if we can move forward the project but the Green Infrastructure project were pursuing. The Green Technology is advancing so adding to make sure that someone with that expertise and you know that someone is really naval the opportunities there and speaking to those directly. Thank you so, yeah as you can see from this slide. Keep on going. As you can see from this slide Green Infrastructure is one of the things were integrating into this overall obviously for the Collection System and the plan itself is going to identify additional projects beyond what is currently budgeted in the ssip and so were going to need to work on phasing and cash flow and affordability at the end of the Day United States of america after we make the investment in the infrastructure there will be a storm bigger our design storm im sounding like a broken record in the same neighborhood and same people had been vulnerable to flooding with that in mind were looking at what we can do beyond infrastructure this slide a sneak peak of what were going to be bringing to you no doubt in the touch were continuing to explore 3 options above and beyond infrastructure that infrastructure is or gray some puc programs your heard about our Flood Insurance theyve quadruped and the floodwater grant weve paid out one and 40,000 as far i think we have 11 applicants total and so were working and theres a lot more individuals that were in conversation have not submitted their placards especially in the wake of this rainy season and adopt a drain over 15 hundred drains adopted so far that is changing again with the wet season weve had and looking at some potential future city programs will be evaluating partnering are the small Small Business disaster relieve with the office of Economic Workforce Development and to date the applicants have been the disasters theyre all roefrn from it is fires how to expand their Small Business Disaster Relief fund to include flooding and expanding expanding the areas reor resistant so the understood management ordinance in effect as part of our requirement as part of our partnership with fulsome theyre all related to open waterway ways like the ocean dont consider the historic creek to be an open waterway but within those fema by the coast we have requirements within the Building Code for flood reconstruction for new development and major ramps and looking at to expand that into the in land flood areas were looking at leveraging federal mitigation system funding working closely with the Zoning Administrators Office how the mitigation funds are available on a statewide basis and how to leverage those with the structures of the projects and then also investigating select voluntary Property Acquisitions and i think harlan kelly want to talk about those options we are starting to evaluate beyond what we can do with engineering drawings and pouring concrete. So the one thing looking at coming to try to decide on a level of service whatever level of service meets you know land on the 5 or 10 i recognize that Certain Community will be impacted with the low lying and so the first one i wanted to do is make sure that people recognize they are living in low lying areas and if the storm event is larger than the sewer the water will go to low lying areas and make sure those areas are defined and work with the city with the management ordinance that gets to our point were starting requiring things to be done and people are aware of that and the other thing that disclosures people are in the low lying areas and our stimuli system is for certain storms people find overseeing areas put their saifgd and buying their home and all of a sudden it understood and they didnt know they look to us like what will the city do we want to make sure theyre aware of that and ill say that right now people do have a choice you know that you know they bought the house and seen the flooding happen in their area theyre not aware or in the last thirty years it from flood and now 5 years we have dense rain that is flooding so what we want to do it give options i met with Certain Community and they basically said that you need to fix the system so we will never flood again, if you live at the bottom of bowel whatever capacity of the system we design if the storm is larger than that that why go to the bottom of boat we will give a list of chose one if you feel the folks this is voluntary that you want to no longer be at the bottom of the bowl well actually look at a process to actually purchase our home assuming youre not necessary bottom of the bowl and purchase it for fair market value we need to figure out what to do with the property but if we work with the Mayors Office of housing to fix that the basements are now floodable and then whoever purchases that a lot of that recognized the area in which theyre living so that is one that were looking at the other is raising homes or raising their interests entrances to their homes or trying to help the areas to help waterflood proof their basement and so thats some of the Grant Programs we having as stephanie mentions the backflow and Installation Program so were looking at a suit of options and looking at different cities were looking at chicago and new york and looking at some other cities because kansas city they have different programs so hopefully next couple of months were come and present some options we can offer instead of being in an area that is you know prone to have flooding when a system is you know over capacity because of storms i think one of the challenges you recognition ocean beach is hard to fight Mother Nature those storms we saw the video within 15 minutes water came in and flooded three or four feet and then as you can see the sewer system working and thank god the neighborhoods came out and raking and went back down it took them 15 minutes that is one hundred year storm within like flash understood but you know of those administration i do think we have interesting wloefrn patterns that we have so what we want to try to do is work with the community in the areas so explore overseeing options i think we want to talk to the mayor and spoken to the mayor he role you know, i think is positive about looking at uptick folks that role dont want to be in the area we can have the volunteer y buy out and take out insurance given all the other projects and weve identified you know we need to settle on a level of service which you know were recommending did 5 years but recognition how many of projects just to get to our 5 year level of service to close to 2 billion just to meet 2 billion were planning on doing that over a period of time and looking at specific opportunity like alamany can be an opportunity if this corridor is invested if we can participate so were looking at i can timing of all the work and you know it is really a tough situation not easy we looked at some positions on folsom 17 projects was it 17 projects . And even in the one or two were selecting 350 million for a couple of blocks so we can come up with the Engineering Solutions we have to look at you know the whole picture. From for the folsom projects for example, how does that work related to the 5 year standard. So that area doesnt meet the standard it is below the standard that is something that we feel that we want to really look at but it is no i mean thats why we looked at the 17 is it 17, 15 but you want to explain. That will get us to the level. This is for the purpose of getting to the 5 year level of service when we look at model with the construction in place the project in place across the board and remodel a bigger storm if we model the infrastructure in place and simulate year storm theres no longer flooding but simulate a bigger storm. It is that the same with the cayuga project. The cayuga project is different the cayuga up at the 280 with the culdesack it meets our level of service when we get a big storm they can have 4 feet of water just at the end of that culdesack gingsz the 20th century berm that project is intended to provide to reduce that huge impact on the bottom of culdesack and would that raise the 5 year. It meets the 5 year. Oh, it does. That cayuga upstream of 20th century meets the 5 year and meets the 10 year storm. But the base of culdesack. It meets the 5 year. It meets the 5 year storm. What happens when you get a bigger storm you get water on the street and it is all ends up there the impact right there theyre so great so about again, the alamany down stream and to get the 5 year the cayuga is the only one were investigating the neighborhood that meets a 5 year level of service right now. But im also hearing the 5 year question is out of window and putting 2 billion and were going to potentially see flooding. And so i understand there is a suit of opportunities that will be explored my purchasing some of the residents in the types of areas at the end of the day might be a cheaper option and a more successful option potentially. Because it will be a drag to move forward with 2 million of investment and all of a sudden with a 5 year storm come barreling down. Youre totally right the first one that i would like to do to make folks aware of the area in which they live. And then give the options and make sure that when you purchase a house when you renovate something youre going to work with everyone in the areas on Flood Insurance and then have options because some people love their neighborhood and is i dont want to move id rather take you on the grants and raise the property and put flood barriers in front of entrance whatever to minimize our flooding that is sort of the program were recognizing because i mean even if we had raised it to a 5 or 15 year storm 50 years the same thing will happen in a low lying area the one thing i want to point out you think one of the concerns that most have is water coming out of sewer sewer charging out of the manhole and trying to articulate with the areas where water and the pipes that are following the hill or water come down and then when it goes to the flat area i get a lot of pressure the water comes out of man holes and then you know if we were to wed like the machine holes the pressure has to come out of your plumbing to i know were having a complex system not a separate system explain what the benefit of a combined system so, anyway those are the challenges i feel that we need a suit of nonengineering options to be able to work with folks in those areas to see if we can you know have a long term Engineering Solution but maybe a short time or long term nonEngineering Solution. Is there such a thing as Flood Insurance that perhaps we can offer. Something weve looked at but the Flood Insurance program is federally through fema to take advantage of the fema dollars we want to promote the fema program. The other thing ill say to me that is like a analogy of seismic insurance that is Mother Nature our system was built for 5 years a one hundred year storm comes in are we responsible you know for folks flooding and you know so that is really you know at some point you have to recognition that you know where our responsibility stops and where insurance and all that and how people can prepare to protect their property so i think that is so were trying to you know really draw where that line is. The city didnt have plans to provide Flood Insurance well be promoting other Flood Insurance programs. Right i dont mean to imply that whatever we approve will be cheaper. Yeah. No thats an excellent question i think that we sent stephanie down there to fema that was an issue about Flood Insurance we had to clarify you want to Flood Insurance is actually the fema Flood Insurance program is plays they rely on the fema flood playing map to determine the flood risks and associated rates if youre in a fema flood zone youll pay a higher plan in fema theyre like folsom not in the flood zone not subject to flooding if open waterways if so a draft fema flood zone have been created for San Francisco and just been released our moral port property their hugging the infringes of the city where the waterways are so if youre experiencing flooding inland youre not fema flood zone the promotes are steel affordable for people that are not in designated flood zones like a loophole in that if youre a renter and want to insure our content only not the structure but the content the premiums are at 37 a year in youre a Property Owner and want to insure the structure and contents the premiums start at the 1 and 44 a year not like quarter insurance that is subsidized bus nationwide fema wants to get a lot of customers outside of flood zone; right . To help pay for their program they have low premiums out u outside of that so we as san franciscans been but you know when we have flood vulnerable areas outside of the fema flood zones we are eligible for significant discounted premiums so it is you know we like to say that affordable for everyone not forcible for everyone but relative to other shiners with that said, that be certainly beats 2 billion i mean were talking about buying homes and know how many people does that cover maybe one hundred. Maybe not that many. Well, i think for example, in the folsom area was it folsom area i identified by 200. Properties. It is harder when were talking about number of people versus the number of structures that is hard because folsom is mixed use cayuga a primarily residential weve done analyze at the end of the day were the Sewer Service provider for San Francisco and i believe that it is our one of our charges to provide a fair level of Sewer Service to all of our rate payers so we need to balance an obligation to meet a stated policy level of service maybe im not the best person to talk about that but provide a fair level of service of Sewer Service to our rate payers so it is gets really extracted to say that folsom is expensive so but we can look at other solutions not just investing in Engineering Solutions well come back with the option of nonEngineering Solutions and Engineering Solutions but also within the areas we feel we would like to make investments to get our system to 5 years even that we have so prioritize over a period of time thats part of things we prioritize it, it is really you know challenging but i feel that at least were going to come with you know what we feel are solutions will be in prioritizing system. To that point id like more information on a couple of options when you come back which will be more in the policy space like low prevention didnt see and solutions how much did that get you not the lowest lying might be the ones getting hit by the one hundred year storms but just some sense of like is there something from a policy perspective to at point of sale and mandate a backflow how far does that get us or the installation what about disclose at the point of sale more policy oriented options beyond infrastructure i dont see as potentially related directly to transfer of homes and what happens how to shore up the homes that might not be purchased or eligible for flooding is that an option to be co recovered. This is part of options that are definitely as we you know gave you know, i think well definitely look at transfer homes and give you a list of policy that you can consider policy options. Part of tool kit. Commissioners any other questions. Thank you very much. Thank you. Public comments. Mr. Da costa. You know commissioners ive been listening very intentionally to this presentation and one of the things we need like if you go three hundred years back to sea like who owned the land and who made a mess with the concrete jungle so, now im a man that likes to find solutions in the house we have mr. Don and others mr. Richie here and we can ask them that if we keep on developing and having skyscrapers and have a mayor that says oh, hell do something and others that talk about 5 year model that didnt work how will we find solutions . So he did have solution that we talk about this piping that look at one attach pipeline and divert the water into a huge transport boxes that the gentleman can give you an idea about i think i watched a documentary on las vegas and slowed down the water not just oh, we have the tools that we know which are miniscule and other tools to us now high time the people had been building skyscrapers should do mitigation and we have to have the guts if you want to live in San Francisco the land of Muwekma Ohlone you Muwekma Ohlone never, ever planned for so many people to live here just come and live here and destroy the land and destroy mother earth so we have some Brilliant Minds that can find ways to address mitigation thats what we should be talking about not fema and all those i work for the federal government he know fema i worked in the presidio i know what we want to mitigate so many things we had the money and so we did it repair programs with one of the commissioners that is interested and import from china and dont on how to use it i took a course what im saying we need good minds to come up with solutions and have some mitigation models so we can address this rather quickly rather than a 5 year model thank you very much. Thank you any other Public Comment . Okay. Seeing none my only comment in closing those are issues that Property Owners will be dealing with for a long term and the commission has been dealing with what pleas me we moving towards that and figuring out and important to recognize and citywide standard a 5 year standard will be more than sufficient for more people that didnt diminish the issue or problems with the remaining people face we need to deal with that one should not by a citywide but Site Specific programs that address those issues thats what i am pleased to hear so the thinking is progressing and it is prerogative so im glad to see it obviously a work in process not an action item so more to be reelevated but thank you to the staff for the work youve brought to us today very informative and helpful. Madam secretary. Item 12 approval for the minutes and authorize the appointments, local homeless coordinating board laura guzman and sophia isom. Good afternoon, commissioners kwarn. As ssip director karen had mentions in her quarterly update at the last Commission Meeting in march of 2016 the Commission Adopted the bottom line for ssip and specifically the 2 housing unit 9 billion in phase one and bio solids facility project was part of phase one approval well, were requesting to increase the planning and Engineering Contract by 73. 5 million to bring the total to one and 53. 5 million were also requesting a time estimation for 12 year and a half years this increase in contract budget within the march 2016 approved schedule and budget and the planning and engineering rvp in caldwell two phases that were identified phase one for planning and preliminary engineering and phase two for details design and engineering support we plan and executed phase one of the contract with the intent to consider different project deliver methods the designed approach was used to establish the Contract Value at the 80 million this meant that caldwell will have the 35 percent design level and through the owners representative to review and see the design to be completed by a separate designer in a design build contract given the time required for the Environmental Review and the Land Acquisition we determined in june of 2016 to proceed with an approach as opposed to design build we need to increase the contract with brown and caldwell to complete the 100 percent design and provided the support during the construction and commissioning this means that the design team will provide the work for the district of columbia contractors and donna. Can we can i have the overhead, please . I wanted to show the table where we had the design approach and how we came up with the 80 million and moving forward instead of with the c m g approach and how we got to the additional additional. To bring up to the 100 percent. So basically with an rfp two options one is that you do a 35 percent design as option one which we priced and then in the original amount of the contract and then we had the ability to do option two, that will allow them to 100 percent and so the thinking was we wanted to move the contract as quickly as possible because we know that commissioner caen wants us to do the digesters so this is the faster way to go but the project the mine project central shops trying to you know acquire that and move them off and that whole ordeal instead of waiting to continue the design not stop at 35 and wait to we you know move central shop but continue once central shop is done the contractor can start the design we moved with option two within the rfp we choose and excused it now that portion. That is the timing. The timing is actually by us moving forward with the design we are actually not losing as much time when we are stuck with the option we have to wait until the contractor is on and hire a designer and what the 35 and take it from there and now more continuity and think this is better in the long run. And actually have gone out with a tndc rfp to hire the contract to work with the designer were not losing that time were normally in traditional big build have to complete the build before we hire the contractor. The 2 1 2 years is part of a contract an additional 2 1 2 years. It is an additional 2 1 2 years for the contract not put in commissioning we wanted to designer to stay on board when we are ramping up to start the facility theyll stay beyond construction as well. I still dont understand. It is not extending the project time. No, not at all. At the contractor will be working on that project. Again point. The commission. So what happens the contractor hires the designer they will continue working beyond the commission you know the construction during the commissioning and this contractor their more than 35 needs to be there since this one 035 is doing everything we want them beyond the construction during the commissioning thats why we added the 2 1 2 years to this contract. What method did we use by and large. We used the design build for the technically la Treatment Facility but other than we traditional with the bid build the boyd was defendant for construction so it worked to our vantage the economy was not doing that well, so quite a few contractor were available seeing no additional comment can i have a motion. So moved. There is a motion that has been seconded any Public Comment . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries. I wanted to get through that we are going to start having time problems so as we go to the next item mr. Kelly can you look at the agenda and see what items with most important to us. Do we have anything in closed session we have to get done today no. Not. Critical. Okay. Thank you. Okay stem 13 Hearing Committee of the whole housing for families with children march 7, 2017. Item no. 10c approve an increase in the construction contract duration contingency for contract no. Wd2707. In the amount not to exceed 17 million with a duration of 6 years. Okay commissioners any questions. Like to move the item. Second and there is a motion that has been seconded is there any Public Comment on item all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Item 13 carries item. Mr. Kelly what is your pleasure. How much time do we have. Probably a half an hour will stretch it. So we did 13 or the. Eric said he can do 14 and 15 wont take that much time well do 14 and 15 ill do those and then lets go forward. Lets call 14 and 15 together summertime and item no. 5a advance calendar. Item no. 15 adopt a new Capital Financing policy for the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Kwarn cfo of the Business Services sums a bioannual budget were in the off year and do Good Housekeeping with the respect of policies last month february 28th we reviewed and you adopted for the reserve policy were here to talk about the debt and the capital policies are new the members themselves are thorough i have a presentation if you want to go through the presentation but can just answer questions. Ill appreciate mr. Sandler gave me a call so we had the opportunity to review it my takeaway from that those reserve policies they cost money but this is basically part of the time so our 10 year plan incorporates those policies for the mainstream of what could financial practices in the industry so were reflect well on our Credit Rating he satisfied my curiosity commissioners any thing. No objection ill move the item. Okay. Ill second that. Thank you very much there is a motion that has been seconded. Im sorry Public Comment . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . I guess 14 and 15; right . And items 14 and 15 then passed. Id like to commend sandler for putting this together it is sufficient. Thank you. Thank you. Okay item 16 item no. 16 approve amendment no. 1 to agreement no. Cs320. Grant agreement with garden for the environment for the Grant Agreement by 3 hundred 80 thousand for two years. Mr. Richie. Yes. This is extending a Grant Agreement with the grand environment fiscal for the San Francisco Parks Alliance underway for 4 plus years and extend it for additional two years ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Commissioners any questions. Im sorry to ask that it be tabled for the next meeting and continued without objection well do that then. Item 17. Item 17 approve amendment no. 4 to agreement no. Cs913 Construction Management cm services bay tunnel for the extension of 6 months with no change to the agreement amount. So this item is to extend time we have the c m consultant working with us to negotiate with the contractor to close out the last foe change orders as you recall the panel has outstanding issues that needed to be resolved so thats why we need to extend the contract thank you, commissioners so moved. Been seconded comment. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Item 17 carries item 18 approval for the terms and conditions for the golf partners equal to the rent or 83,000. 33 in basis rent for a term to exterior no longer than 2017. Move the item. Okay there is a motion that has been seconded any Public Comment thank you very much all in favor, say i. Opposed . That motion carries also shows the benefit of not only being it but having a well prepared item that covers that the ground very well we have lets see reached the end of regular agenda and items for closed session is there we probably have 10 are 15 minutes nothing i think well just take them up at the next meeting. Good then we move to other new business. Commissioner any other new business. 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