Transcripts For SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 111015 201

Transcripts For SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 111015 20151130

Next item, please. Approval of the minutes for october 27, 2015. A motion to approve the minutes. Second. Questions or comments on the minutes all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries that motion carries next item. General Public Comment items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items,. Any Public Comment general Public Comment at this time i have one from blaine p come up please. Hi i want to make sure im speaking at the right time for the sewer failures cross the city but the neighborhood full name on the agenda i want to make sure im speaking. Its not on the agenda this is a fine time. Thank you very much. My name is a blaine i live in Mission Terrace my husband and i put our life savings into buying a home in San Francisco 3 medias later flooded with raw sewage the same situation across our neighborhoods and across the city. This disagrees situation my residents find a repeated patterns of misleading patterns if sfpuc and to the commission id like to point out an example in the document interest from mccain republican how to the Public Utilities commission it admits that how point number 2 states how that there is not much risk for over flow health implementations a great risk to that ocean documents that they have Health Hazards one of the ways in which this is a misleading situation by sfpuc officials a dangerous situation toxic sewage the commission not to stop lloyd they say in the report were asking for them to stop discharging raw sewage into our homes and businesses a major problem needs to be addressed immediately thank you for your time. Thank you. Good afternoon good afternoon, commissioners my name is david i serve as the president thought terrace on the screen if i could go to the one particular photo i would like you to see the one on the top here this is the sewage clear up and they are wearing hazmat suits osha requires they be prepared to deal with raw sewage so when you received an answer on the 29, i believe this was misleading at best also on the 29 you received a lot of information about permanent fulsome street options to solve the problem when we went to the meeting think 17 and fulsome we were told the public was told the options are 200 plus 80 million this is not the one on the elevation but barriers in front of the homes to protect the businesses and homes on is 17th street and fulsome street last wednesday at indoes the Community Room we received with only option that they will look at the question of removing a barrier that allows raw sewage to flow down into the tunnel that goes from underneath the Mission Street very duck to chevys im suggesting that were playing something a baitandswitch were stating we have this money on one project in one neighborhood not another it should be revisited singing a bore on the west side of 230z to carry the sewage out to the zoo where that Sewage Treatment plant has the capacity it will be Cost Effective in the long run thank you. Thank you. Donna marie. Good afternoon and told me my family owns two properties we had those properties for more than thirty years this is the second major sewer failure flooding my a grandmother has alzheimers and the flood researched 6 feet of level of sewage water level is atrocious most of homes in the neighborhoods are similar to a war zone meaning most of properties have been gutted and in senior homes without a fortunes or water heaters and severe plumbing issues it is nearly a year for any real assistance to this neighborhood and this is is not the first time or second and the fact it is those sewer failures are occurring within weeks of each other is something to be noted and our neighborhood has formed solutions not sandbags to organize and get the citys attention on this matter thank you for thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you very much. Any additional Public Comment on this item . Next item, please item 5 communications. Communications everybody has communications in their packets questions or comments on item number 5 communications . Any Public Comment on communications . Hearing known next item, please item 6 other Commission Business. Other Commission Business hearing Public Comment on other Commission Business next item, please. Report of general manager. Report of general manager is next. Sorry about that so the first item i wanted to give an update on the drought steve richie. Good afternoon, commissioners steve richie vaunt general manager so for water if i could have the slides please ill be undergo similar information to report as before storage we again hanging 73 percent capacity at hetch hetchy 85 billions of water looking good the water bangup to one and 85 thousand it dropped from last week but with the recent storms adding to that and we finished the construction project that is bringing in water as well. That slide is awe you cumulative it is early in the season the red line is above the black line this is the first time in 3 years precipitation above medium were not going to the badge but that didnt include the water in the last 36 hours weve started oh, well on the slope there appears in the high country 2 inches of snow from the recent storm that is looking good for precipitation. Here are the actual numbers again that is as of november 8th add an inch to hetch hetchy and through the month of november quite a bit of that left at the average for the entire month a good month not as good down here but those are the real precipitations as opposed to to last year, i dont need to how those are precipitation forecasts from the National Forecast the week were in and the lower box is in front of 17 red is wet and blue and green are definitely wet to shows for the rest of theeks and next week precipitation in the forecast goodlooking. But that doesnt mean we have to stop serving and the demand is down from the last week people are continued to serve just like they shed and were down to one and 72 millions gallons a day delivered last week go a good performance by the customers and the amount of savings is looking quite rabble and last but not least october 29th western up in the waterfront they were looking good up there just wondering down the trail what the bears like to do ill be happy to answer any questions. Are they on our staff. Actually, one of them has reportedly been swimming in the reservoir well have words with him. What about the other bears. laughter . Any questions thank you next item, please. I want to give an update not on the list about the misleading people that are here to represent the neighborhood that are flooding we wanted to let them know its not agendize but people can come and real talk about you know what our issues are and challenges and then they can come but meanwhile well work with the communities and identified each folks weve plan to workout a plan of attack to minimize the impacts you know storm will have a seer storms the storms their referring to have large 2004 was the large and the two in december was the 25 and thirty year storms those are severe storms and we want to make sure that you know el nino is aligned 3 years 17th street and fulsome and we want the 4 areas we have troops that will Pay Attention with it so wanted to let the folks know you know its not agendizeed well get to in the future with that, the next item is the audits and Performance Review nancy. Historic and forward calendar of highlights of breath and depth of the organization ask under the sfpuc takes serious consideration by visiting auditors and agencies excuse me. As highlighted in the executive summary finished the First Quarter of 20132014 with the stages of completion the figures in portal one projects were completed and 14 in process and 19 in the coming months the audit performance are perform and financial related come pricing of 90 percent of the audit portfolio the completion of Financial Statements audit and substantially followed with itself portal controls. Im sorry, i said 17. We have 17 scheduled to begin in the upcoming months 14 in completion before you the 9 audits that were completed by this they were the post audit of transactions and citywide cash disbursement and a disbursement of the it sustainable and assessment of the Human Services Agency Program from the inadvertent count followed by one performed by the california state auditor as the Grant Program the last audit secured a onemillion dollar grant for the southern boulevard trail project in addition to the 14th century 14 audits in process 17 will begin not all listed those are the significant ones planned on the major or financial related highlighting in the recent Financial Report and followed by performance audits with the sf contract active and the Fleet Management performance and to continuance to each of the Southeast Community investment framework and the sfpuc health and Safety Program at the continued through the years well keep you awe employed any questions ill be happy to answer any questions now. Commissioners. Questions. Thank you very much and thats a good body of work we really appreciate that next item general manager. The budget status report. May i have the slides please. Commissioner president vietor and commissioners im here to talk about the q one budget report. In a nut shell youll remember i talked about the out look for the 3 years with we came up with budget and draft continues and draft worsens and i think the in a nut shell of this were tracking the drought for wastewater and continued revenue decreases verse what we budget the good news for power enterprise we are tracking more towards not a reduction in power a generation we thought wed see as mr. Richie noted in his presentation weve been generating quite a bit of power and el nino were not expecting a reduction in power reduction in previously thought might happen secondly, the mitigation measures weve developed for fiscal year relationship are mitigate that impact and meet the policy goals for covering the reserves we have a busy schedule the water revenues are down by twothirds by whole receives and a number of one time savings from depth o debt refunding and one time close outs. The watermelon enterprise was similar the reduction in revenues and reduction in uses. As i mentioned things for the power enterprise look good and on time with the budget a number of restriction radio i reduction uses for the power enterprise and finally were meeting all the minimal metrics health commissions. No problems or concerns. I think were staying on top of the budget process and get through the winter were going to see what the hydrologic situation looked like the questions will what the sate is going to do in response to the winter and sxhefrment for the demand for wastewater thats one of the final questions. Great, thank you. I have a question under the debt service i see were hitting our requirement but im curious to know why do we have a separate current basis. This thaw is a new addition we have a indenture requirement that is our obligation agencies and credits analysts look at a calculation that is different from the denver it is your that is a little bit more restrictive so ill element eliminate that line from the next report. I caught it. Yep laughter . Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. Next item is the water Enterprise Capital Improvement Plan Quarterly Report kathy howe. Good afternoon commissioner president vietor and commissioners, i just want to bring up two projects that are behind schedule there are theyre both one is in town of sinal the depreciation the order and scale watertank and the other project is San Francisco ground water supply 3 wells in Golden Gate Park and we had thought that two wells could be taken out of service at the same time in order to meet the rec and park needs for irrigation in Golden Gate Park we will need to take those off one contaminate thats the explanation for those projects and why a delay in construction for each of them ill ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Questions. I have in regards to the red dots have you covered all these. Those are the two with red dots with the scheduled delays both in construction. Any other questions or comments. Thank you, ms. Howe appreciate it. The next item is the quarterly update. Good afternoon, commissioners dan waving water system todays update is july 1st through september 30th i will keep my comments brief if you could go to the slides please in terms of overall term status 90 Percent Complete with the ripening and 90 with the local program which equates to over 90 percent threshold of the Overall Program that remains an schedule with the approved completion date of 2019, however, several individual projects that have scheduled on the administrative close not the level of service those projects are in service but negotiations for change order questions and claims and recent supplements our change thirty day notice last friday you were copied and be presenting those changes at the decision. If meeting i need to inform you, we also are currently within the Overall Program budget but have to trend namely on the cals verse dam and uncertainty with the claim negotiation on a couple of the hetch hetchy and other Treatment Plants and the tunnel project we anticipate significant erosion of the currently it is covering those trends so we do have enough budgeted to cover all the known trends to date but looking at the recent trends ill touch on a couple ill be in a better position and a at the december Quarterly Report whether that he need additional budget to cover the risks over the next several years remembers in this case 9 ill not read those significant projects in recent most those are listed here we continue to make progress on system shut down and the Safety Record continues to be very good in terms of of preconstruction the alameda project it will be the loose project to finish design as well as Environmental Review and 60 percent design is done this month and the Alameda Creek fish passage a fish ladder on Alameda Creek and fish screens a sub project with the calaveres dam and finished the design and advertised the design after thanksgiving that is one of the significant trends in the program had to increase the engineers project because of the necessary additional scope revisions to the project from the planning through the design phase as well as some permanent conditions necessary tat the need for a 3 year construction on the pier construction so additional Construction Costs as a result. So moving on to construction i want to focus on two the calaveres dam replacements youre aware that is where the risks remain in the program this photo was in september and the process is going well, were on schedule more 70 Percent Completed the recent accomplishment the foundation of the excavation except when the new condo is put in place and the conduit old one is replaced the the roller of the excavation of interest and the replacements of those backfill concrete and made significant process on this and initialed the closer for the hard rock for the shell of the new dam ill show you in the following slides a little bit more detail the new to away were complete that next spring and more than 40 thousand acres of concrete to date this is a significant structure a milestone we look forward to on the left yours looking down stream and on the right is more of that feature. But this is where i want to focus to your attention this is the hard walk for rock for the new dam will be mined and after initiating the mining they needed to be investigating 16 more were claimed in this area and 14 were completes and the results interest is good news and challenging news the good news is the geographic feature that is investigated is not pervasive through this area therefore it didnt present the slopes instability issue in the bar area they excavate the rock for the new dam the challenging news is that there is pervasive joining within the rock and some of the violent are local joints some of them are out the slope features that require anymore excavation additional rock and creek to support that slope as they continue to excavate and more costs and schedule challenge to were looking at option to mitigate this as critical activities as well as looking other options i mean, ill be presented to present with we meet in december, of course, this is in addition to the champs weveless know about in terms of managing the asbestos so while much of the risk is behind us because of the excavated the foundation we have the risk Going Forward in construction and again, this is bar area it intimately tied to that. With that, id like to end aon a positive note the ground storage is going well and construction initiate in april were up to 20 percent completion this is one of the last Major Construction projects in the program we will finish it about the same time as calaveres dam work has been initialed on 10 of the well sites were working to ad

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