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Matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Mr. Acosta, good afternoon. Commissioner paulson is joining us. Good afternoon. I got a few calls from the area where some houses were dren drenched and for some, the city workers or sfpuc did not respond to the situation. So, we need to find out what happened. In the army we have standard operating spread procedures. I know the general manager may not have been in San Francisco when the rain fell. He should go over there in this situation because again and again, that area is effected. Something needs to be done. Its engineering. The other thing is the island. The businesses over there and the people. They dont get steady electricity. We need to find out in the short range and the long range, what are we doing about that . I know in the year 2019, we have generators that can kick in and supply electricity. Text not right when people have food in the refrigerators and it goes bad. Some people cant afford to stock their refrigerators again and again. We should not fail to be considerate. I know some of you commissioners will talk to whoever is in charge of that situation and fix it. We also have a situation arou around and no clarity on whats going to be happening with the monopoly company. I know its in your agenda, but when its on the agenda, you speak about things in general. You do not speak to the constituents and the difficulties they may encounter if we have extended blackouts. So we should have some information given to the people if we have blackouts. Whos responsible and how we are going to address it. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Any other Public Comment . Next item please. Item five is communications. You have before you communications. Are there any commissioner comments or questions on communications . Hearing none, are there any Public Comments on communications . Hearing none, next item please. Item 6 is the Citizens Advisory Committee update. Good afternoon citizens advisors. Hello. Good to see you. My name is amy. Im here to give an update from our annual report that recently came out that you should have. Im excited to report from 2018 and 2019. Ill let you read the report, which tracy helped put together based on our annual Membership Survey and our leadership summit we had in july. Im going to spend my moment up here to update you on some follow up items on the resolutions that passed in 2018 and 2019. So we have three updates and i have and ask of you. Stay tuned. The resolution we passed in support of the sfpuc local distribution program. So they have kept in direct contact with our waste water subcommittee, especially with amy who has been engaged on the branding process for the new business line, which is really exciting. Second update is our resolution in support of improved regulation. In order for the c. A. C. Members to be more effective communicators around ground water, we asked staff to have more effective visuals around ground Water Quality and data. Were continuing that conversation and scheduling an update to see how that effort is coming along. Three is our resolution and support of fostering a skilled and diverse utilities workforce. So this past august and in this resolution, we ask for a dedicated staff person to be hired, which would aid in the agencys progress towards being able to track the agencys process towards achieving the goal of diversifying the workforce. We heard from h. R. Staff recently that the agency was struggling to reach core operational goals. So any additional staff would go to support these core operational goals. So i just wanted to emphasize the importance of staffing this role and creating the Data Collection structure and system to track the anciegencys proce each department is required to submit a Racial Equity plan by 2020. Theyre looking forward to seeing how they meet that policy mandate. My final update, which is around staffing. So, recently this past week we learned that the mayor rejected the most recent request to approve the staffing position for public posting. This position, which has been filled by the role of tracy for a while. I am here to make a plea to urge the mayor to approve the position. Tracy has been staffing us for a while. Shes been holding two roles for some time, i think two years. This position is an incredible addition to making the c. A. C. More effective. Having that direct line and being in alignment with someone on staff allows us to be more fis efficient. It allows us to work in tantum with sfpuc staff and it adds a lot of power to the work we do. Anything that you need from us to put pressure anywhere you need will write a letter. I will do a sit in. Anything. I was on the p. U. C. When this position didnt exist and its night and day. Tracy has been holding it down for a while in these two roles because she recently had a different position. Shes been doing it with style and grace. We need a dedicated full time staff person. Yeah. Ill be providing an election update some time in january. Were going to be having leadership elections on the c. A. C. Ill be back. Yeah. Those are my updates. Commissioner. Yes, i like for you to go back over, if you dont mind. I think it was the second or third recommendation regarding a dedicated person dealing with diversity. You mentioned they said they were having some staffing problems with everything. What was that conversation again . So that was specifically an update through members of h. R. , who had said that its really important if theyre going to hire folks, to just add it to the core operational needs. So we got the vibe that this wasnt part of that. So i just wanted to reiterate that. The reason why we wrote that resolution was to specifically underline the need for a dedicated staff person to track those, and create those metrics, because i believe they didnt exist and then also making sure that they are keeping that on track. With the diversity. Yeah, specifically. Okay. So your concern is that you need a dedicated person. Yes, that was the resolution that was passed by the full c. A. C. All right, thank you. Yeah, of course. I also want to thank you and appreciate you for your two years of service at the c. A. C. We really appreciate the work you do. I know that all of you are volunteers and put your time and energy into it. I dont really quite understand. I know its a little confusing because there are two positions were talking about. One is the equity position and the other is c. A. C. Staff person. Were reasons given for that position . Before, was there a dedicated or shared responsibility before . So when we staffed that position, we staffed it with a temporary position and so thats how we have been staffing those positions. This is sort of the theme that when we go into budget, some of these positions are pretty much core of what we do. So we want to identify those as permanent positions, and i think at least what the Mayors Office is telling us on these positions, they would prefer us to get a permanent position and fill them. So were going to have a conversation with the Mayors Office to identify you know, which ones we would say is a priority because i think they want to limit the number of additional permanent positions, so we have to have that communication. So were going to have to go back to the Mayors Office and identify that we are adding it to the budget and so if we can move forward with this temporary until we go through the budget process. Right because i know how it is for somebody to hold two positions at once and you cant do either well. So, im hoping that through our budget conversations that we can indeed as soon as possible have this conversation and figure out how to both address the issue of one Person Holding two positions, but also figure out how to make this a permanent position. And just to say, its a theme throughout the whole organization. Its about temporary and not hiring folks fast enough. Yeah, again, diversity and workforce is certainly one of my main goals here as my seat is suppose to be community. For a long time, we heard that the workforce at p. U. C. Is aging out. This is a great opportunity. I am with you on that. If you need any letters, if you need us to do anything, im willing to sit in and watch as well. We cant wait until the end of this. There are so many creative ways that we can start getting people prepared to take on these jobs. Some creativity is not just about hiring and permanent positions and all that. Where theres a will, theres a way. Thank you for your work and all the hours that you put in. Thank you, i appreciate it. Thank you very much. Any Public Comment on the c. A. C. Update . Let me give you another angle. So this is an Enterprise Department. Some people in city hall should be told what an Enterprise Department is. You earned the money, hopefully to spend it in the right way. Now the city, implicit biasness, resiliency, equity, but when it comes to action, it can be summed by two letters, b. S. So, im glad some of you commissioners have empathy and compassion. Our young people need career jobs, not temporary jobs. Whether its in construction, whether its in anything, i always had a job and i never had an interview in my life. I always got what i wanted. But, i am dealing with young people who are dying and they are dying because theyre not given opportunities. Let me tell you something with this 6 billion s. S. I. P. System improvement project, which will now be 10 billion and soon will be 12 billion. 5 of that should be put aside for community benefits. The people who are doling out the money, which i know they are, the they will give 300,000 to open up a restaurant, but they will not have the decent sit to have a full time employment for something that is conducive to battering the community. We need young people or somebody whos younger to understand what are their needs. We need people, older people like some of yall, who can do a Needs Assessment because you have experience. The commissioner anson moran has been there forever. He can do the assessment in 5 minutes. Hes a good man. Im not saying the rest of you are bad, but he should be our leader. He should take these people aside. I know youre in the labor force, so im just like saying because from my heart. Its time to wake up. You talk the talk, but fail to walk the walk. Thank you very much. I have to go now. Thank you. Any other Public Comments on this item . Next item please. Item 7 is report of the general manager. Good afternoon. Commissioners, the first item is a bay delta Water Quality control plan update. Good afternoon, steve richey. The bay delta plan update will be brief. Theres not been a lot of activity. The state i believe is in some disarray at the moment. There was suppose to be a milestone reached in midoctober where they were to determine if the voluntary agreements were suitable for the state water board review and that day came and went with no action. The thing that did happen recently is the state provided the results of much modeling they have been doing, using five different models to model different parts of the bay delta system and they provided the results of that modeling. The modeling results is just a pile of data. There is no analysis of that data. That came to us in late november and we had staff trying to digest it and understand it. They did have a webinar today to introduce the models, but buried in their emails and they would like comments by december 12th and those who received the data said the same thing. Thats not enough time to digest all this information. We will be continuing that. In the meantime, i dont believe there are any meetings scheduled for discussions with state officials so probably not much will happen until january some time. Thats where we are. Can i ask a question . Sure. So, looks like were going to have a pretty good year, thankfully. So far so good any way. Its indeed that we have a high water year, which i believe happened last year as well. Yes, last year and 2017. Yeah. But in those previous years, i know that some of our stakeholder partners felt there wasnt enough water released, even though we had a high water year. Can you explain if indeed we do, we are fortunate enough to have a surplus, if you will, of water. Will we be able to release more for the fish as we have been trying to do . Yeah, we do release a lot of water because theres simply no place to store it. That has been part of the criticism, that particularly in 2017 when we had 3 million acre feet of water that San Francisco could have diverted, there was no place to divert it to. It was all released. So actually, it was a good year for the fish that year, in that there was a lot of water in the system and it did have to be released the same in 2019. Then we had 1. 7 million acre feet. We cant divert that much on the river, so that has to be released. So we do make big releases in big water years. Theres no doubt about that. When does that determination get made . We ultimately determine the water year type generally january or february we have an idea. By april we know in terms of delivery. Are we going to have to call for rationing or not . Thats written in our contract. Thats the drop dead date. Most people really start to get a sense of the water year in january, when you do the first snow survey. So january and february is when you really understand. I was just looking at the results from this last storm and weve gotten for the month of december about twothirds of the average precipitation for the month. We had wet starts and then it dries out afterwards. January is when we get the best idea. And the next step with the state . The next step with the state is to provide comments on the modeling and what we seen already is something i eluded to in a prior comment. Some of the activities that well be engaging in, you need to look at in a way so you can see what happens every single day. They have certain models that are built for the system that only look on a monthly basis. So it loses that fine detail and thats how they modeled it gi n again. Thats a big issue, because youre not modeling this at a fine enough scale. Im going to try to produce a graphic that demonstrates to the commission and others what is lost in translation when you have that different kind of noting modeling going on because its important to us. That well be providing to the state. Then what is a little up in the air. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments . Thank you. Next item. Mr. General manager. Public comment. Are there any Public Comments on the bay delta update . All right, the next item is the sewer system improoument Program Quarterly report. I would like to introduce Steven Robinson who is the new program director. He comes from a consultant. He has worked on our projects for about 12 years. Hes very familiar on how our system performs. Also, he lets stantech on what they can help the community out as part of how they can help design and deliver some of the projects. So with that, i just wanted to welcome steven here for his First Commission meeting and so if you commissioners could be kind to him. He will give his first update. Welcome, were happy to have you. Thank you. So we have some slides please. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is Steven Robinson, the director for the waste water Capitol Program. I came in november and im glad to represent and serve p. U. C. In this position. I want to give credit to all the work thats been done so far and i recognize theres a lot of work to be done and im excited to be in this position today. Ive been around and served p. U. C. For over a decade. I sat in these seats behind me for years and this is my first opportunity to speak. Im glad to be here and be gentle as the general manager has said. So ill start in the period ending in september, and then ill go over the Quarterly Report. So the overall, currently we have 34. 7 complete with 899 million extended to the close of september. Last quarter we closed at 32. 2 , just to put that in perspective. This quarter, were able to progress one project forward into the award face and two projects in the construction phase. So we have 19 properties in preconstruction, and 15 in construction, and 36 in the close out or completion stages represented in gray. I wanted to give you some highlights of those properties that is ongoing, especially in the construction phase in the upcoming slides. So this quarter, the project that youre familiar with, the construction phase in august. The Construction Management general contractor advertised four early out packages. Demolition and the asphalt plan areas. Next quarter we expect the opening of these packages. The team coordinating with multiple agencies to provide assistance to clear the sites in the intended work. We plan to provide an update early next year, knowing that its also a significant project in the program. More to come early next year in this project. Three of the five scopes are now in construction, very different from further ahead. Scope one, site preparation. During this quarter, the contractor continued demolition and continued to work towards dry dependent work. The pump station across evans, constructions continues. Recent work includes completing the installation of new bar screens. The influencer and force main, award has started. So they are constructing three work projects. And the lift station. The team has completed 95 design. Scope three for the main scope work facility itself, we are on the third of six waves of bidding for construction work packages. 12 packages advertised this quarter so things are working steadily ahead for the head works project. So back in october, several work packages are seeing higher bids than estimated. The teams working with the contractor, they started to evaluate those bids and worked to rebuiid to make sure they me the objectives before the project. Another project is the seismic reliability and Condition Assessment improvement project. It includes seismic improvements to the sedimentation building adjacent to the head works facility. Theyre doing that with concrete repairs to various channels and pipe structures within the plant. Caps fleconnecting to the build on the north and south side to strengthen it in case of an earthquake. As you seen in the tours of the facility, the seismic work along the north side of the building folded in. It works within the head works construction area. The north side work continues with the replacement of these piles, but the work on the south side of the building was issued under a separate contract, ww665. The contractor has mobilized on site and started this preconstruction survey. Construction is anticipated to start next quarter. One more area of interest is the jackson street project. Completing rehab of the remaining 240 linear feet of the main. This was to combine sewage, servining over 300,000 people. This asset could not be construct with the previous work, and the force main could not be shut down to rehab this section of the pipe so it was phased. During this, they advertised the contract to receive bids. Now they will proceed early next year. The timeline of a few of the Major Projects win phase one that are active and under way. The red line shows us where we are at the end of september. This is an update in the Quarterly Report. The blue includes both design and environmental, and green represents construction and gray is closeout. The highlighted more construction, division street, c. F. D. Rehab project. Thats our discharge project and construction is continuing to perform these concrete repairs, now that we had an opportunity to work on these and to implement repair on backflow control in these structures. A lot of this is night work and construction completion is expected to be completed next year. Now one of the Green Infrastructure projects in construction right now and it anticipates completion in 2020. An infiltration gallery construction. The oceanside plan utilization project thats currently under construction with an expected completion of february 2021. The demolition of engines, similar to southeast. Theres much coordination with adjacent construction at the plant, much more congested and busy with a lot of work going on at the same time. Finally, a broader perspective for some other problematic updates. We want to acknowledge the great work happening here and this summer we celebrated the eighth year of the city works internship program. Since it started in 2012, they provided a paid internship to young adults between 16 and 19. This summer we had 15, supported by 8 program partners, in which my previous employer use to be one. Thats my engagement with the program. This is one more example on how were trying to leverage our Infrastructure Investments into our youths in the community. Special thanks to Young Community developers, and ms. Lopez for managing this program. So this concludes our presentation for s. S. I. P. Any questions . Im glad to take them and i can roll through the Quarterly Report as well. Thank you very much, pretty good for the first time. Thank you. Commissioners, any comments, questions . Yes. You first tim. Mr. Paulson. You were talking before i even looked up. What was the role of Young Community developers in this . I can speak to that having served with my previous employer. Now as program director, theyre a community partner. Theyre a nonprofit and helping leverage a public, private, and Community Partnership delivering this internship program. They help identified candidates, screened candidates, together with us as partners and p. U. C. And the private firms are involved. Work to make sure the program is administrated and the candidates turn into successful internship partners. And how would you describe internship in terms of job descriptions and construction, and all the projects. Yeah, there is a pretty broad range looking back to 16yearolds and 19yearolds. The earlier stages, a lot of it was work shadowing and work site or orientation. When they hit 19, theyre on their way to college or in transition, so theres more practical learning skills in delivering projects. How does that work in terms of apprenticeship in the construction site . Thats a next phase. I know theres a long career pipeline. This internship is one piece in the middle. From there, theres an expectation or progression in trades or more professional career opportunities. Thank you. I want to point out that this is part of the proposal that the firm submitted to the city that they wanted to participate in the program, which is more professional service related. So, a lot of these youths rotate amongst your subs, in your team. This is something that theyre doing using their resources to provide. So the city is not really, you know. We welcome it. We try to assist. Its something that the firms are doing as part of their social responsibility that we ask them to do as part of their solicitation. Thank you. Thank you. So you were sitting on the other side of the room for years. Years [laughter] so now that youre on this side of the room, what do you bring . Whats going to be different . What have you been looking at and seeing from the other side that now that youre on this side, why did we hire you . Thats a great question. Its wonderful to be in another interview. Its really good. [laughter] i can say it has been ten years. It doesnt stop. Yeah, it keeps going. Its been ten years since i started learning about how we work and what San Francisco p. U. C. Does in this city. Over the last year or so with this transition of what the ssip has evolved. Ive had a lot of conversations with the staff, learning how the program evolved and how it continues to evolve. Market conditions have changed. Were ten years smarter than when it started. Climate change, there are other impacts continuing to impact the development of this program and how we deliver good infrastructure in the city. I think the timing opportunity for this role, i can bring construction experience and design and knowing how to deliver, at least represent or facilitate the great work we have to deliver the commitments we already made. So youre the deliverer. Were moving into the delivery phase. One of the last slides shows the development to get to the red line. A lot of the thinking and the planning and the strategy has been developed. Now we have to deliver. Thank you. That wasnt so bad. Thank you. Good. As long as that answer was okay. [laughter] i guess since were doing a few interview questions, i have one main one and you probably know what im going to ask. You know, one of my commitments to this commission in the city is around Green Infrastructure and resilient infrastructure, especially in the face of Climate Change. We had a lot of discussions and budget allocations and back and forths about that. I would love to hear your views on Climate Resiliency and what you because you did mention Climate Change. We now really get it after 10 years since you began. What do you supposed to do to address those issues . Yeah, Climate Change, and how we address it in our infrastructure and our Ongoing Operations is huge. Its personally very important to me. To demonstrate some of that, the majority of the properties i have worked on here has been on the waste water side. The majority of those have been within Green Infrastructure. I helped deliver some of the early implementation projects. The first efforts in the Capitol Program to incorporate Green Infrastructure thinking to our daytoday waste water and storm water and what we do here. The majority of those early implementation projects were streetscape probablijects. By moving those along and knowing the challenges and addressing those projects and what it meant to deliver is expensive. Its complicated. The streetscape as a public right of way is challenging. As things move forward, we are now looking to leverage some parceltype projects and share responsibility with the School District as a partner and move that thinking forward and do other good things. There are other Grant Programs of course that were on board with. Then theres the storm Water Management guidelines with the developers, implementing lots of work across the city. Theres a great map on the p. U. C. Website that shows where all the projects have been implemented and their stages of progress. It is powerful to see it happen. It has to be integrated with everything we do. It is our future. As we fail to recognize that now then we would have failed. Everything i see so far is moving towards incorporating to what we do. We have to keep it front and center and ill always respect that. Great, thank you. I invite my other commissioners, if you have an interview question at this time. If you do not, we will thank you for your presentationation. Public comment . Next item please. The next item is the update on pg e bankruptcy and the citys acquisition. You skipped one. Im sorry. Thats part two. Okay. Waste water Enterprise Capital improvement Program Quarterly report. This one is much briefer. Its about the waste water Capital Improvement report. We highlight three Capital Projects that since the last quarter have now moved into a forecast of were scheduled extended the previously approved schedule by six months or more or a cost variance of 10 more than the approved project. The first one is called kansas and moran street. Its a delay to the original baseline completion schedule. So the agreement with San Francisco public works going underneath part of their property and public works is expressing some concern about the proposed tunnel alignment in this case underneath their maintenance yard. They work on a 35 design but wont be able to release the request for qualification and the r. S. P. For the specification of that tunnel work until we come to an agreement with the San Francisco public works with that issue. Thats a work in progress. Now phase two, its forecasting a delay to the original baseline completion schedule. This is the second phase of the project. Its to convert gary boulevards center lanes and the bus transit lanes. They placed this property on a temporary hold due to funding. Thirdly and lastly, the new Treasure Island waste Water Treatment plant. Forecasting a delay also to the original baseline completion schedule. The team is working to complete the c. E. R. For early 2020 and is moving ahead with the recommendation for a design build operate approach. To so that conclude it is highlights of the three projects. Ill take any questions on those if there are any. Commissioners, any questions . Any Public Comment on this item . Hearing none. Thank you very much for your report. Next item please. All right barbara, youre up for the pg e bankruptcy and city acquisition offer. Thank you, barbara hale, goods afternoon. Im here to make a brief update on where we are at with the bankruptcy case and our efforts in acquisition. Im going to do a highlight on the bankruptcy on the claims cases that involves pg e. The regulatory, california regulatory and legislative activities that have been under way. So since we last briefed you, pg e asked the Bankruptcy Court to find that inverse condemnation does not apply, which would relieve it of substantial claims against it. The court ruled against pg e condemnation does apply. Subsequent to that, pg e reached a 13. 5 billion settlement with wildfire claimants. You likely seen reports of this in the newspaper. It was covered in the chronicle today and there was quite a bit of anticipation of this happening, which was covered in the news as well. The settlement would cover pg e 2015, 2017, and 2018 claims, which would include the campfire and the tubs fire. It also includes the ghost ship warehouse fire in oakland, as well as others. So it includes wildfires except for the kincaid fire, which is the one that happened most recently. The bondholders plan, which was the other competing plan that the bankruptcy judge allowed into the proceedings may no longer have the support as a result of the wildfire victims. So, another plan amendment, we seen a number of these. Were still on this roller coaster of changes in the bankruptcy where pg e is trying to put together a plan that meets its financial op obligations. None of these plans meet the pg e Safety Culture and general approach to center pg e work on rate payers and customers that were looking for in a broader change. Its the kind of change we would bring about where we own and operate the system in San Francisco and be the utility providing service to all of san franciscans. In respect to claims cases, as a result of that settlement, the two areas of claims cases that are under way are in a bit of a pause mode. The San Francisco superior court set of cases, trial to determine the wildfire claims for particular claimants, that may not need to go forward given the settlement. The judge did not rule on that yet. The u. S. District judge that was asked to estimate claims did formally pause that effort on monday, yesterday, given the settlement at the request of wildfire claimants. Then moving on to the california regulatory environment. Theres a number of activities under way at the california p. U. C. That is relevant to us in thinking about acquisition and the pg e bankruptcy. So first off is that i would note the cost of capital case. At this time of year, every year, the california p. U. C. Looks at applications from the utilities on what their estimated cost of capital and rate of return should be. The utilities, all three major utilities, pg e, southern california, and San Diego Gas and electric ask for higher returns on equity to account for the additional risks from wildfire. The judge in that case recently issued a proposed decision that would reject that framing and said basically on the basis that ab1054 eliminates that risk by establishing a wildfire claims fund. So we will be filing supportive comments on that proposed decision. We have yet to see how pg e may comment on that decision. More on that as we see that develop. The california p. U. C. Has opened an investigation on the bankruptcy. Looking at the plans, its an accelerated timeframe. Were monitoring that at this point. We havent made any substantive filing in that case yet. Staff of the california p. U. C. Recently issued a report that you may have read ability in the newspaper where it made findings of a pattern of negligence with pg e, with respect to its treatment of transmission, operations, and maintain innocence, specifically they were reviewing the circumstances around the campfire. The ignition of the fire was sourced at a transmission tower and failing cable hook. The california p. U. C. Staff found negligence there. So this goes to that issue of Safety Culture and what kind of company may emerge from bankruptcy. On that front, were still continuing to see in the legislative setting a number of ideas and approaches to trying to address that, what im referring to as a Corporate Culture change. Its either because of a change in governance structure or other reforms. The coop plan, which we talked about a little bit is one of those concepts. This is the concept that mayor licardo from san jose, working with other Public Officials throughout Pg E Service Territory embraced the concept of a coop, which is a nonprofit Ownership Structure for pg e. Since we reported on this last, we have gotten a number more of local government signatories to that concept and they distributed broad principles around that concept. The coop principles address some of the concerns we had with the concept, particularly around the lack of trance transparency and the structure of the g. O. Overning board. So, that approach doesnt speak yet to how local level Decision Making on distribution grids, you know, local distribution grids would interact with that coop, but it definitely shows a lot of alignment with the interest we have in addressing the Corporate Culture concerns we have with pg e. Then of course theres an ongoing dialog on various yul y utility markets that were continuing to monitor. As things mature there, we will come and brief you on particulars. With that i am happy to take any questions you may have. Thank you. Commissioners . Any questions . That was a lot of information. Thank you very much. Youre welcome. Next item please. Oh, Public Comment, any Public Comment on the pg e update . Our next item please. The last item i have, which is not identified on the report so im going to give you an update on the storm event that happened a couple days ago. Chris mcdaniels, please come up to lay out what happened and how we respond and just go over that. Good afternoon. Chris mcdaniels, im the manager under waste water. I have a couple of things i want to report on. The first thing is noah, which is our resource for predictions for the rain. The second item is the thresholds we use at the operations dictates what we do. The third thing im going to talk about is what we did this past weekend, when we had the storm. Noa is the National Rain forecasting resource we use. During storm watch, we monitor it on an hourly basis. We have to do that because it changes so often. What were trying to find is levels of rain that we need to be concerned with. When we find those, then we react and review our process and make sure we have enough resources and coverage in the field to take care of the rain. So, thats what noa forecast is. Internally, we have thresholds. So any rain predicted, a quarterquarter inch or less, its under normal circumstances. If it goes to 0. 5inch, then we look for Additional Resources to respond to the rain predicted. We look at the city and divide it up into four pieces and we put resources in each area in the city so we can shorten our response time. When i say resources, that is equipment and labor. I dont know if youre familiar with the trucks that have a vacuum hose in the front. Those come in handy for cleaning out catch basins. We put one in each zone so we can respond very quickly. If the forecast is over 1 inch then we deploy the flood barriers. 17 and fulsome floods on a regularly basis and we proactively try to minimize the flooding at that location. If you look at the corner, we create a barrier on the Southwest Corner to prevent the water from going into the businesses. There are a couple wellknown establishments. A really nice coffee shop. Unfortunately their kitchen and their dining area is 2 feet below the sidewalk. Water tends to want to go to the lowest spot. We do that to protect those businesses and some of the residents that live there. This past weekend, as we reviewed noah every hour, the predictions were 0. 5 to 0. 75. That means we dont do anything extra. 7 30 p. M. On friday night, we took a look at it. It was 0. 25. Saturday morning at 5 50, it was still 0. 25. That means internally, we dont issue any Additional Resources to fight the storm. So, as we all know around 2 35 and 3 00, we got hit with over 1. 6 inches of rain in one hour. So they started ringing me saying what the heck chris, why didnt you have the resources out in the field . We have to go by noa. Thats the resource we are going to use. Although it looked like p. U. C. Wasnt prepared, we were prepared and we had the appropriation resources in the field. These things happen from time to time. Sometimes we have too much resources out in the field because of the report were getting from noa and nothing happens. So were in the middle of a situation here where were doing the best we can. We had a meeting this morning where we tried to modify our internal thresholds and hopefully we could be more prepare for next time. Go ahead commissioner. So what was the how did you decide to change the modeling or to look at it differently . Some of the things youre going to look at . Noa will tell you its going to rain between 0. 25 to 0. 50. They also have a line saying we expect some thunderstorms. Its nothing exact, but they put that line on the description. What we discussed earlier today is maybe we take that line and take it as its going to rain additional to what theyre saying. Were going to add 0. 30 to every prediction we get if that line is there. What the hope is, is that the original number was accurate and we will hit the target. Its a moving target. Weather is something thats hard to predict. If were not there, there is a lot of Public Impact and we want to minimize adverse impacts to the public. When there is a 1. 16 inch rain, we have tons of resources out in the field. We try to work with them to help us. We are ready to go if we have accurate information. Why is 17th and fulsome so problematic . Is it the typography . Yes, that particular location is prone to flooding as we all know. We also have 14th and rorona. We identified those as priority locations. When we send our resources out, they go there first. Prior to rain coming, we send our staff there to make sure the system is functioning promptly. That means clean the c. B. S before the storm comes. We have proactive measures in place for those priority locations. 17 and fulsome back in the day, we had a stream, the natural path of water. The system can only hold so much. When it cant take anymore water, it comes up. So we know that and we put this flood barrier process in place to help the community there so we can help them protect their properties. So the watershed, the San Francisco watershed has something to do with it as well. I mean thats what, the low points with the watershed. Right, at those points we have over an inch of rain. Our system is not designed to hold that much water. So at the lowlying areas. Are they all built up or some under freeways or some places where we can do Something Different . I know that alamany usually floods. You cant even get in. Yeah, we have been looking at the Priority Areas for a while and designed projects to help facilitate the water flow. The a main any project will help cayuga. Whats the plan . So we can present to you, because this was on the calendar. We will present to you because we do have projects identified. We would love to share it with you. I know some of it. I can share with you offline, but bring a presentation to go over all that. Also, the one thing i want to point out is that we recognize we need to do Better Communications to the supervisors and make sure that, i mean its really challenging when we look at noa and it says that its 0. 75. We put the barriers up there. With the barriers, we have someone full time out there because if someone needs to get in and out of their property, we need to have folks there to remove the barriers. Were out there for three our four days and no rain. Then when we saw the forecast go back to 0. 25, we remove the barriers and then it rains. It is really challenging. It makes us look like we dont know what were doing. Thats why were starting to tell the community that were basing this knowledge on this forecast. So that we are trying to get the best data out there. Yep. So maybe well be on television or some way that we can communicate with people so they know whats going on and they would say noa alert or whatever. People would really like to know so they can prepare. If they understand why and how things happen, then i think all of us could really work better together. Yeah, so last thing. We do email, but were going to look at other ways that we can get that information out. So, with that, i just wanted to share that update. Thank you. I have a question. For the modeling, because i vaguely recall that several years ago didnt we commit to investing in some new weather modeling system that was suppose to be more . Well share that with you because thats something thats coming online in the future that will help us. It goes back well, well tell you more. Yeah, because it seems that if its not really serving us, then you have to add the thunderstorm line and add some arbitrary numbers so you can be protected. So i guess i would have a question, i would love to learn more if there is a better model we could use related to noa and in that conversation. I think what Climate Change is telling us is that we will be seeing these much more heavier rainfalls in shorter periods of time that are not really predictable. I mean there may not be a model for it. So it seems that we need to figure out some preparation, both from the communications perspective, but also from resource alloti

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