Then star 3. You will hear i chime had you have 30 seconds remaining. You must limit to the topic of the gone item discussed. Unless you are spoking in general Public Comment the chair can interrupt and ask to you limit to the agenda item. Address remarks to the commission as a whole. Thank you to sfgovtv. If you have in the done so silence your electronic device. Also item 8 on todayy agenda the hearing to consider possible action to revise the rules governing electric service pulled from the agenda and rescheduled. And additional low there will be no closed session today. San francisco puc acknowledges it owns and stewards of the unceded lands in the territory of tribes and other descendants of the federal Mission San JoseAlameda County. The puc recognizes every citizen has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the tribes lands. Since before and after the puc commission founding in 1932. It is important that not only recognize the history of the tribal lands but also we acknowledge upon and honor the fact that the people have established a Work Partnership with the puc and are productive members in the many greater San Francisco bay area communities today. I apologize. I would like to recognize brad taylor. Our favorite voice on line. He is retiring i wanted recognize him he has been managing sudden fronts puc technical operations which is over cease the puc business and server team and infrastructure applications and the Customer Service center. And well known moderator and voice behind pucs Public Comment. Who after 9 years of service with the puc decided to do other opportunity. Well miss brads voice. When you took joined the commission he was the voice that we would pay tension to. To know when to stop and start. Who is speak next and all the technical difficulties solved by brad. That is was an important rowel to play we appreciate that in march of 2020 the covid19 declare exclude state and local emergency orders instituting remote meetings of public busied. Brad worked with it teams. To amend fully Remote Commission meetings and ability for remote Public Comment of which was no easy task. Brad continued to provide with exceptional support and ensured Public Access to our hybrid meetings we thank brad. I appreciate how kind low he always after every comment or thanked them for their comments. I appreciate that. It is kind and thoughtful voice. We would loishg to thank lee for his service and welcome irene meaghan for [inaudible]. To the team. So. Good luck are brad. Welcome irene and mandy and we will miss brad but excited have new members in our team. Okay with this could you read the first item. First is item 3 approval of the minutes of august 8 of 23. Clothes. Any comments i have only have a right side i dont want to ignore you but i will try to [inaudible]. Any comments or questions . If none can we have Public Comment . Member who is wish to make 2 minutes of remote comment on item 3 the minutes of august 8 press star 3 to raise your hand. You will hear a chime when there are 30 second it is remaining to speak. Do we have anyone present to provide comment on item 3 . Mr. Moderator do we have callers with hands raised . There are no callers wishing to be recognized. Public comment on item 3 is closed. Clothes can i have a motion and second to approve. Move to approve. Second. President ajami aye maxwell. Aye stacy aye thank you. Minutes are approved. The next item. Why item 4 report of the general manager. Quarter low audit performance and review report and will present that. Good afternoon, commissioners im blackwood audit director. Thank you for having me here today. I presented the audit quarter low audit and review report for the fourth quarter. May i have the slide. June 30, 46 of the year completed. At then of the further quarter. 6 audits or 15 schedule today commence in the fourth quarter. Here are some of the details of the 3 audits completed in the fourth quarter. On april 20 of 23, the Controllers Office issued Energy Center franchise audit for years 20 then and 2020 focused on 338,000 paid to the city for the period. In may and june of this year the 2021 greening energy verification audits were issued for super green. Focuses on different rps energy levels. When we look at the in progress audits, this work includes an audit we are engaging with the board of supervisors budget legislative analysts on audit of chapter 6 with the puc. This is their biggest audit of the year. Bla come from motion 2285 passed by the board to conduct a performance audit of the pucs delegated authority for chapter 6 of the code. This was passod november 29, 2022. It focuses on the past 3 fiscal years. On this year, january 5, 2023, received our first request for information from the legislative analyst relating to the audit. And a second for information on april 20th of 2023. The first requests for information was related to understanding of our organization and identifying all of the staff involved in procurement process all of the policies and understanding all the procedures reported procure am we provide bla listing of contracts from july first of 2019 to june 30, 2022. For professional services and public works. The second ask for information a request for full approval documentation for almost 40 different contracts. Chosen by the odd tors totals 740 Million Dollars. To date at the puc24 staff have been revolve in the providing the requests in a timely manner and the agency invested about 400 hours of staff time to independent to the requests. To ensure we are dill gent in provide acraid information. In addition, to the chapter 6 audit from the board of supervisors budget legislative analyst, they have a conflict of interest audit in progress from the same motion m22185, focussed on the management and prevention of conflicts of interests in the approval and award press for contracts. May 11, this year, they contacted us and had the request for information. To electric at 10 specific contracts. And so in response of this request for information we provided documentation for the selected contracts with policy and procedure documentation. Based on our discussions and check ins with them. We uponpated the closure in this fiscal year. Were doing everything we can to provide them all of their information requests. So. As you know the audit bureau monitors all open audit recommendations throughout the agency to ensure they are addressed timely according to respective dead lines. As of june 30 of 23, we had 15 different recommendations across 2 audits the sewer system improvement, contract and recommendations from the ref now lease audit of Crystal Springs golf partners currently still hope. Moving forward we anticipate completion of 11 audit in thes First Quarter and they include the wholesale revenue requirement, statement of changes, balancing account for fiscal 21. And 2122 the fiscal year 22 23 and the water, wastewater and hetch hetchy and power. The assessment the reliability standards compliance audit the Cyber Security for fiscal 22 and 23. The nert audit and 14blb compliance audit phase 2 oft revenue bond programs audit. We participate the launch of 4 audits this quarter. The audit of the Financial Statements for water, wastewater and hetch hetchy and power and phase 3 of the bond problem audit. Thank you for your time, im available for questions. Thank you. Why commissioner maxwell. Thank you. Mented have been if the chapter 6 audit with the board of supervisors how often will this happen . One time thing . The board of supervisors my understands nothing reading the motion and talk with them they have the discretion to look at different departments and so they do this every 3 years based on my understanding of the documentation and the motion. They do a department every 3 years yes and the puc they could do ours again if something were to come up or not. Could do ours again. Im working with them to understand their full plan for all the audit activities they have and other policy reviews they are doing at the puc. Is there any over limited partners in the audits the other audits we are doing. There would be over laps not all back to square one yes based on the contracts in the first request they had an over lap in the second request and they acknowledge they wanted further details and information. There was over lap. Thank you. I appreciated the recommendations that were provide especially one les to my heart contract management improve ams. That is an person issue. Thank you. No questions can we are Public Comment, please . Member who is wish to comment on item 4a press star 3 to raise your hand. Anyone here to provide comment on 4 a do we are callers in the queue . There are no callers wish to be recognized. Public comment on item 4a is closed. Well is in other report. Thank you. Thank you. Could we have theed next item, next is item 5 the bay area water supply and Conversation Agency update. Good afternoon, commissioners. Good it see you happy summer as well. If i could have the slides. Thank you. Pleased to be here to talk to you about the project i referenced a few times our water reliability round table. And this is an effort that we under took begin interests expressed by different stake holders throughout the 3 counties and other areas for an opportunity to collaborate with the stake holders on water reliability the concept of one water what is the opportunities that exist we will have 3 goals to understands how projects are discussed could fit within a one water concept. Identify collaborative opportunity and identify how entities Work Together and support each other and figure out huwe move forward with this. The report is available on our website. The graphicsil go through federal from the report. It was an Interesting Press we general low did it all via remote. And we used new tools. We held 4 workshops. And each workshop had a different theme. It was focused on a theme. And they occur in the may of 22 to february of 23. The invited participates really inrighted everyone we connect with and in different buckets. Water, wastewater. Our member agencies but the wastewater entities in the service area and regional areas. San mateo agencies, a lot focussed on where is the gap . In this water can sept in san mateo has the biggest area. There is san mateo city and county agency governments. And san mateo flood water. Flood control. Valley water, San Francisco and house interests as well as ngos. We roach out consistent low on all sorts of issues. And we got good participation by the member agencies. One of the things we want to work on is participation by other this is was an area we recognized needs work moving forward. So i mentioned we have 94 workshops in the report you got materials for all of them they were focusod topics and an Educational Opportunity for the participates and get feedback. Each workshop featured a guest speaker and highlighted topics. Based upon the input we received from others. Invited list water and power. Presented on one water plan. Approximatelyo alto on its efforts. Puc on the alternate water supply and so fourth. The youveed 10 clothes and experts in the field educate everyone in how we pip inspect this process in a better way. And in order to we learned zoom is in the the greatest opportunity for stake holder meetings to get input. We tried test out new things we had inneractive poles. Break out groups different ways to engage xrnt that into the report to inform future work. So we had polls, that is information this is in the report as far as the interim products. One be main products from this project information sheets. So project participates were invited to share about their planned future projects and put this information on a standardized form. And then could be used to launch in other efforts. The strategy 2045 or this map shows the result graphicically of those projects. That were identified and you know are they surface water. Storm water. Recycled. Had phase of planning in a way to try to capture had is going on in this large region. In looking at those together we had recycled water and policy and others together a range of yield 21 to 40mgd some are in concept stages. And that was the exciting piece and how to how to work on the project and move them forward with the interests of the agencies. So, after we went through the shots we pull today together and tried gauge the interests of the group and working together further. And there was a lot of that interest. And we will facilitate this effort we have workshops budgeted for this fiscal and the recognition the result will feed in the straj 2045 work. Whether remains independent or absorbd that remains to be seen. We will see how this works out. It was exciting the other big thing in our plan for next year the idea of the provide for grant support. That was the key take aways was what there was a need for someone or agency to provide assistance in identifying grant opportunities. Possible low writing grant applications or a consultant write them. Everything shy of Grant Administration if you will. And so this is something tht board supported in the work plan and we are moving forward with that it was a positive effort and useful in our next steps forward and the questions you all have about what is help negligent service area and the potential plans and i want to make sure you were aware and answering questions you might have. Thank you. Mrs. Stacy. Thank you i applaud your efforts it is i great problem solving tool we need more of in the future. Can you give examples on your the map that shows various projects. You have a lot of projects shown as other. Would you mind giving a couple of examples. Im sure i can leave them in the report. Jot other projects goes to some of the grant support. So things to facilitate projects moving forward was the big piece of this. That was the twhon stood out in my mind. I thank you than i were projects on a map. I will look here may be tell stand out here. Others. A purple. I will get back to you the others are not stick out to mow in my mind. Apologize. Look at the report im sure they were listed. They were all listed and an information sheet for each project. Thank you. Thank you for this. I have a saw your different questions. Lots of projects listed in your slide the one with the bubbles on the map. And and you know we have seen a lot of the projects in this format on the maps for a long time. And im assuming a lot are interested in Building Partnerships and build some together. Im wondering00ue know well is one thing to talk about partnerships and another to build them and a lot of that goes back to what is at stake. Who owns the water who will deliver it, what does it mean n. Conversations this you had, wases there anything that was of exceptional that came out you had not thought b. I think it is always great to bring people together and have the conversations. Another thinga come out of them i feel like they were like 5 things we did not think about or 5 opportunity that were there we did not Pay Attention to. And while we have talked about this together. Financing was important. But it is not just financing it is who operates. Who is the northern. Who has the right to use it. How do you transfer friday location to location. A lot of other things that guess behind the projects. I wonder federal anything come to minds . Attending those workshops. You hoyt 2 things. First the reason we are moving forward with the guarantee Assistance Program had is something i have been less than enthusiastic about. I appreciate when we get grants but guarantee administration is complex and we have a small office and that was in the one i was thrilled about but came across unanimously. I will say, that well is a legality of grant moneys out there to get to the grant monies. To be cape okay of getting them. There an assistance level that is coming they can offer. That was a major push that will make a difference. Other thing that changed an institutional question. Right. How does the development of a project relate to the existing status quo. And rights and obligations . And with the pucs continuing interests the threats on the supply. Climate change. Well is an increase recognition that there is a benefit to the diversification for other reasons that did in the exist 15 to 20 years ago. Now the benefit bring others together to say if we increase partnership this is are logical. Where you got a basin and those partners are coming this is a logical connection with shared needs. That seemed to be more evidence then and there in the past. But that requires money. That was where i think trying to provide the money and keeping that conversation going and addressing the real appropriate keksz. Which is different saying i want to partner with someone on the bay and do a project. I thats an upon different institutional consideration. This was about upon hey, where are the natural partnerships we had not thought about and obvious to us. Some of these meetings were held in the wake of the flooding. I money to be on im disappointed that for example i dont see more of on site reuse options on other peoples tables. You know. I dont think that would have shown up here i was not expecting this to show up on this. That is going to show up through the boska strategy and take a larger a role boska is play in a large are policy framework. Here is manage we can assist you with and put on the table and help you move forward with it. There are some city this is have done it. Not that it is not done but not a broad policy. Because of the upon difference in thes Development Patterns. It is you dont have alost develop enemy all of the areas and not necessary low the thing they will focus on. Right you often hear lots of development and popping lagz is growing. I lastly googles campus you know, thats like a minicity. Right. Yea. And south bay stuff is differentful we are to think different low about the policy. You know in the Larger Development areas in the south bay than at the back to the san mateo thing. There are difference