Hello, welcome to the rescheduled meeting. Today is tuesday, august 27, 2019. Please call role. [roll call] do we have a quorum . Commissioners you have the minutes of august 13, 2019. Are there any additions or corrections . I have one correction, and that amused me, because i did not adjourn the meeting. Perhaps i was tier one spirit. Physically i was not. Any additions or corrections from the public . Seeing none. May i have a motion. I will move as modified. The motion carries. Next item, please. General Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission. Commissioners, i want to talk about the headlines that are made linked to pg e. They are getting from bad to worse. So, pg e, right now, even though there are deliberations going at the California Public Utilities Commission which i am monitoring, they are arbitrarily statements that we will have to pay more, when it comes to our rates, because of the fires. The statements made here about clean power, and how, you kn
Please call role. [roll call] do we have a quorum . Commissioners you have the minutes of august 13, 2019. Are there any additions or corrections . I have one correction, and that amused me, because i did not adjourn the meeting. Perhaps i was tier one spirit. Physically i was not. Any additions or corrections from the public . Seeing none. May i have a motion. I will move as modified. The motion carries. Next item, please. General Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission. Commissioners, i want to talk about the headlines that are made linked to pg e. They are getting from bad to worse. So, pg e, right now, even though there are deliberations going at the California Public Utilities Commission which i am monitoring, they are arbitrarily statements that we will have to pay more, when it comes to our rates, because of the fires. The statements made here about clean power, and how, you know, they are getting an increase in customers. I am one of their customers. So
Yes. So what jobs are you talking about in terms of lean hiring process and the dashboard stuff . What are you talking about . Are you talking about staff at puc or construction . What does that mean . So the first one is the lean hiring process. Thats actually looking at how we do recruitment. So we actually have controllers recruitment for what . Personnel. So how we go about recruiting staff. What are the various steps with going through the posting, the announcement, the actual interview process, all of these things we have identified ways to improve that process, to speed it up. We have noticed a lot of issues around the agency in terms of the time, how long it takes to recruit staff. So this effort is associated with streamlining the process so we can recruit people faster. Is this through the d. H. R. . Yes well, its through the Controllers Office through their lean training process which is about business improvement. It is advised by the d. H. R. But being runned by the Contro
Perhaps we should orchestrate thats what happens before we go to the planning commission. That is my thought. That would be great. That would be great. If we could see some draft policy framework statements that is intended to go before planning, that would be great. Thank you. Any Public Comment on this item . I have a card for you. Commissioners, 300 years ago, the state team that was mentioned this list for the california Natural Resources agency, the California Environmental protection agency, the state water board, the department of water resources, the department of fish and wildlife, none of them existed 300 years ago. The tribes, the native americans have been there for 13,000 years this is a very convoluted subject. Im going to stick to the river. We abuse that river for a long time. Now we are pretending to do something, but they are doing nothing, and the way we do nothing is by saying, you know, we dont have the authority, the state has the authority. This commission has be
Esthetic, and then Energy Recovery as well. I also wanted to show you this just to provide you a snapshot from our actual design model because we did design it in a bama 3d model to get you to appreciate the complexity. I showed you the pretty aboveground structures. I want you to see what the contractor has to face. Basically when you look at this, all the different colors represent different waste streams, whether its treated and untreated sludge, wastewater, chemicals, all being laid adjacent to each other. Remember, im connecting to the existing Wastewater Treatment plant and i also wanted to point out you see those vertical looking piles on the bottom of each buildings, those are piles and based on the last count i got theres 132,000 piles to go along with the 220 cubic yards of soil that are going to be excavated. Remember the digesters in the buildings are 65feet tall, but theres probably about two storeys of infrastructure and pipe galleries and equipment below those. Again, 22