Of the minutes. Any Public Comments on the minutes . Hearing none, all those in favor . Opposed . Motion carried. Next item. Item 4 is general Public Comment, members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissioners jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. I have three speaker cards here. The first is eileen. Good afternoon. Eileen, coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods on my own behalf. I live two blocks from sunset reservoir. I attended the Community Meetings before the retro fit of north basin. When asked why south basin was not being receipt retrofitt d retrofitted, it made no reference to north basin. In the puc report from 2018, the report states that both basins have been retrofitted. In the current 10year capital plan, the plan does refer to south basin. Currently there is an 8 million allocation in fiscal years 2830. The line item is line 109 in the water enterprise spreadsheet. The item description is to update the 1996 Risk Assessment report, the project justification states, i quote, sun set south basin is critical to the water supply distribution and will be need to be repaired. If not made, the longterm repairs will be significantly more costly and the collapse of the roof could result in a major interruption of water service. The project plan fails to mention the loss of life or property in the surrounding neighborhood. Yesterday i was at the Capital PlanningCommittee Asking that the puc item be continued and the puc plan amended. Im circling back to the chronicle article. Its on the side of the hill, naturally, and as such is classified as a dam. The main concern for the reservoir in the case of a large quake is the roof. Without seismic improvements, the roof could sway laterally with the movement of the earth. It could collapse and possibly damage the pipe that brings clean water from hetch hetchy. In that case, the supply of Drinking Water to much of the city could be cut off. Even if the roof stays intact [bell ringing] enough damage could be done so contaminants on top of the roof, mostly bird droppings could get into the water supply and cause health concerns. Thank you. Did you say there was information . Okay, good, thank you. Francis is next. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. So, commissioners, when the advocates for our citizens come here and talk to you all about something, its because theyre concerned about what is happening in the community. And i think we got to take make note of it and give some feedback. What is happening is the corruption in the city has reached saturation point. So much so that in the marina times you can read all of it. Not only that, this information goes all over the world and many of them send me an email asking me whether its right, wrong or whatever. And this is a shame that has been brought to our city. I mention to you, commissioners, that you allow brought to the fore, either by the mayor or the board of supervisors, and its a very difficult job to represent the taxpayers and the citizens. But it is not right for us, the taxpayers, those who are doing due diligence, to read that thousands and millions of dollars are wasted. I mean its shocking. And some of the commissioners i wont say everybody but some of them think its okay. Its not okay to waste taxpayers money. Now, we are trying if you look at the sfpuc and all the projects, there is a lot of improvement to be made. Why are we trying to buy things from pg e . Why . Why . On one hand, people are saying i dont have money, on the other hand theyre ready to spend billions of dollars to play [bell ringing] to dance the tango with pg e. There are san franciscans who are monitoring all this thing. There are many san franciscans who are interested in ethics, in morals, standards. So im just bringing to your attention that this city needs a lot to do and move in the right direction. Thank you very much. Thank you. Im going to hand the chair back to the chair. Thank you. Ann clark. My name is ann clark, i wanted to let you know we had a wonderful womens meeting at the club and the two people we were honoring is ann and francesca. It was a tremendously interesting program. This is our third and now were beginning to have younger women, middleaged women, older women all together talking about what we see and think is important. But ann and francesca really came forward and talked to us and let us know we also had gloria duffy, the president of the Commonwealth Club. You can see there were a lot of women there. There were men. I want the men to come to. We will invite you, tell you come in. But once again, we want to thank you from the Commonwealth Club for ann and francesca and for the lunch and the fact that we all got together and had talking at our tables, and talking to each other. And bringing forward a lot of wonderful cooperative information. So thank you, thank you, thank you. And i will give these to donna. They have their names on them. And well plan again for next year. There certainly will be a next year. Ann, thank you very much. I hope you like the cup. I found it by accident. President caen well, first of all, i have to tell you about the cup. The cup is a herb king cup that i use every morning with my tea. My morning tea. And i think about you. And im certain that francesca would like to speak, too, but the two of us were so honored to be recognized by the Commonwealth Club. And we had a great time. In fact, i think were a great horse and pony show [laughter]. In terms of talking about the Public Utilities commission. And also, you know, our life and what has happened. So again, thank you so much. Well always remember this honor that youve bestowed upon us. You all were wonderful and it was wonderful to have that kind of conversation going back and forth. And, ann, the interesting thing is, i found that cup by accident and i decided that we had three people who were talking and i couldnt give it to just one person, so francesca got the cup. I did and ive been using mine for Morning Coffee as well. Thank you so much. It really was a lovely luncheon. What a great setting with the bridge as the backdrop and the ferry building. I think everybody enjoyed themselves and learned a lot. I want to thank you. Well do something again and oh, you had your silver dollars. Absolutely. Waiting for the gold rush. Waiting for my daughters tooth to fall out for that. Your daughter doesnt have a tooth that has fallen out yet . Theyve all fallen out. You never know. Silver dollar, im going to shine it up and its going to my granddaughters christmas stocking this year. Shell be thrilled. So, back to business here. Communications. I should ask, any more Public Comment . All right, moving on. Communications. Commissioners . Any comments . Seeing none mr. Kelly. Report of the general manager. So the first item is a bay delta water control plan, Steve Ritchie with update. Assistant general manager for water. There is very little to update on this. The main activity has been continues to be the state of california suing the department of interior about the biological opinion that was released on february 19 in the state suit on february 20. Weve been at least tracking who is suing whom and who is joining in the suits. The most recent information was that several environmental groups sued the department of interior and the state water contractors have joined that suit on the side of the bureau of reclamation. So there are reportedly conversations going on between the state and federal government that were not a party to at this point, so we dont know where this will end up. If it will end up in a potential settlement or just be pursued in litigation. Were all all the parties of the voluntary agreements are watching with interest at this point, because that effort is on hold until there is resolution or direction given on behalf of the state and federal water projects. Thats it. President caen we talked about a couple of resolutions in support of the lawsuit, so that is still in progress, right . Yeah, and i believe also we looked to scheduling this matter for consideration potentially in closed session at the next meeting involving our litigation. President caen thank you. Any other comments . Any Public Comment . Seeing none, kelly. The next item is update on pg e bankruptcy and city acquisition offer. Barbara hill. Good afternoon. Assistant general manager for power. Im here to provide a brief update on the pg e bankruptcy and the city acquisition offer. Ill provide an update on three topics today. The bankruptcy case in federal court, the california puc bankruptcy activities and our education efforts. First off, the case in the federal Bankruptcy Court. Yesterday, pg e filed additional revisions to its plan of reorganization and the disclosure statement. The hearings in the federal case on the disclosure statement are under way and projected to conclude march 16. Its unclear how the filing of revisions will affect the plan and the overall schedule. We call that pg e settled with many parties and capped the wildfirerelated claims, however, the state and federal governments were not a party to the settlement and they have outstanding claims. The federal Emergency Management agency and california state agencies participating together have filed objections to the treatment of their claims. The Bankruptcy Court has ordered mediation to address these state and federal government claims. One of the parties that is a key participant in the settlement of claims is the tort claimants committee. They represent many wildfire victims. They have filed a motion expressing concerns that the pg es plan is too leveraged to support pg e stock prices. Under the plan, wildfire Victims Compensation will be funded in part from the sale of pg e stock managed by the fire victims trust. Those sales would occur over time after pg e emerges from bankruptcy. So they will have a vested interest in the Financial Health of pg e. The city also expressed concern about how leveraged pg e will be under its plan. And that kind of brings us to the second item i wanted to talk about, the california puc bankruptcy plan. Our testimony at the california pub puc made it clear that pg es plan increases by 65 the utilities borrowing. That it creates an unwieldy level of indebtedness that will hamper pg es ability to operate as a viable entity and that will substantive substanti s increase the costs. It will raise the likelihood of default. The likelihood of failure to fund capital needs. It will force pg e to raise rates. Rates that are already among the highest in the nation. The evidencery hearing is being conducted by the california puc on the bankruptcy plan have concluded. The briefs in the case are due friday, also due friday are responses to ruling from the commission president. That ruling asked parties to address a number of issues that pg e did not adequately address in its direct testimony. Things like safety and organizational structure. So there is a lot going on at the california puc and the federal case and well continue to brief you on that as we appear every two weeks. Finally, our education efforts, weve enhanced our education efforts through the website ive been telling you about, public power s. F. Org. Its where residents and stakeholders can go to help themselves to information about the acquisition efforts. We can report as of march 10th, weve had 2665 unique visitors to the website. Thats about a thousand more than i reported two weeks ago. About 175,000 people have been reached by our pushing that content out on social media. 77 unique individuals have signed up to receive emails and updates from us. We issued our first email this week that summarized the five things you should know about the bankruptcy case. And a majority of the traffic to the website has come from social media. And from people who are stopping and directly typing in the url to their computer. So we have active listeners and learners out there. Were working with neighborhood newspapers on print advertising. That was a question, you had asked, commissioner maxwell, so were working with the local neighborhood newspapers to increase the education. So the website will continue to educate people about our efforts and the benefits of our power work. Again, that is public power sf. Org. Encourage you to check it out. Happy to take questions. President caen commissioners . What is the nature of the response that youre getting . So to the Education Campaign . So were not getting information back in at this point. We havent really gotten many notes, but what were doing is pushing out the information and we can see that people are actively engaged with it. And so that is thats what im reporting today. We have not asked questions and solicited responses. That may be part of the future. Ill find out from the communication folks. President caen thats interesting to know. Thank you. President caen any Public Comment . All right, next item is the Sewer System Improvement ProgramQuarterly Report. Stephen robinson. Afternoon. Director of wastewater programs, to respect time, i have a slimmed down version of the quarterly update and then ill go over the wastewater Quarterly Report as well you have in your packet. Just a few slides to talk about ssip first. Used to seeing this chart. It looks different than last time. For the Program Status of the 70 projects in phase one of ssip representing 2. 9 billion, currently 37. 1 complete with 950 million expended at the close of december. Last quarter for reference we closed at 34. 7, so making progress. Specifically in this quarter, we were able to get the poje to a bid project to a bid and award phase. This chart looks very green. Representing construction compared to what it was in the last report. So we have 18 projects in preconstruction in the blue color. 16 projects in green. And 36 projects now in the gray colors. So just a few highlights of the projects. The baker beach green street was referred to as the richmond Green Infrastructure project. There are three specific locations in the project. During this quarter, the contractor opened the road to traffic during the nonworking hours in the work site. On slope stabilization on the south side commenced with the planning. The paving of the parking strip was installed, so the project is moving well ahead. Issues and challenges reflected in the Quarterly Report mention the shallow pg e lines. New delay to the substantial completion is forecasted. We can absorb that in the schedule. Specific one youve heard of, the new head works facility. Some of you had the ability to see this live. The construction photos you may not have seen demonstrating how complex and big an operation this is. We did cover the biosolid project in some detail two weeks ago. On head works, its facing similar challenges, same delivery method, working in the same constrained site. And there are currently five scopes of work in construction. That separates the two projects because head works is very much in construction. Clearing the completion on usage of the rerouted pipes on evans avenue, and scope 2, bruceman pump station upgrades and construction continues, is nearing completion, though. And completed installation of sump number one, knife gate on order control with new pumps and bar screens going in as well. Scope 2b is the influent sewer. Bid and award started with the contract of advertising. This work into three work packages. Scope 2c is the lift station, 100 design of that. And then scope 3 is the main head works. Around the 3rd, bidding for construction packages. 12 packages advertised this quarter. So heavily into construction, now moving forward with the project. Similar challenges with biosolid and the concern of the scope. And respect to the budget as well. Similar to the last, i highlighted a few other projects. Im noting with the red line reflecting the end of the quarter e down 2019 is delineating what is moving through planning and heavily into construction now. I wanted to point out that some projects are under way on the seismic improvement projects. We finished up the pump station. Were planning to issue the r. F. P. For the sewer project. 8 diameter tunnel to alleviate flooding. And the pump station project just began construction to rebuild the station to serve the mission bay area, including the new golden gate warriors arena. Construction for that will last a few years. Photo one in the left features the oceanside fixture replacement project. This is before and after. Its an enterprise arrangement to offset the purchase of l. E. D. Lighting. It shows the lighting before the replacements, remembering that the majority of this facility is underground. And the bottom is the improvement to the lighting. So simple project, but high impact in terms of creating that soft working environment for the team. The second photo in the middle is mariposa. The third photo is the bruce flynn upgrades. Just to draw attention to this photo and who highlight it, the photographer received an award from the engineering news record capturing a union welder in the access barricades welding a frame in the bruce flynn pump station. Celebrating that moment with an awardwinning photo. Next slide, program updates, nonproject related. But in november, we participated in the 6th annual expo. November 1, were being more engaged there. In december, we participated in the Winter Wonderland event in the bayview district. Concludes my ssip report. Any questions . President caen i have a question. Could we go back to slide 5 . So, what is this telling us about our timing . Are we on schedule . Yes, but of course, within the program there are a number of projects that have slipped and have concerns, similar to what we presented last meeting. On case by case basis, they identify the projects that have slipped from the baseline, either on cost or schedule. The majority of those projects on that slide are positive. President caen youre saying theyre positive, meaning what . I cant remember off the top of my head whic