Commission to order. Please take roll call Duran Kwon Caen and vietor are excited charlie a quorum is present. Commissioners, item 3 the approval of minutes for november 8 to any additions or corrections we i will move the approval moved and seconded. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes] opposed . The minutes are approved. We are on to item for this is opportunity for general comments from the public for items under our jurisdiction that dont happen to be on calendar today. I have two speaker requested [calling Public Comment cards] commissioners, my name is franciscoi took a trip to [inaudible] to stand by the sioux tribe the dakota sioux tribe and to witness really held the protectors of the water are really respecting mother earth. Over there, they want to build a pipeline and if they decide to put the pipeline under the missouri river, which is a very wide river, it could pollute millions and millions of gallons of water. I want to connect it with the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. Recently, its been over a week we get some foul smell in our Drinking Water. When you report it to the communication people, they say thats just a temporary measure. Im very serious about this. The clean Drinking Water reportedly comes hetch hetchy. The pristine water that belong to the [inaudible] the other tribes. Ive stated before here and i brought them over here so that you could see them face to face and we must not take our Drinking Water lightly. Why is this foul smell in our water . Why werent we informed about it . So i know you are hearing me and people are hearing me and i hope somebody takes this very seriously. Water should not be smelling, and i know because ive a very keen smell. Forcing people to go and buy bottled water when we said our water is the bastard that is number one. Number two, we have the king tides which is adversely impacting some of our areas. Many areas in our city. I prefer not to discuss it here. I want to go really deep into it and this time i want to sit down with the cup Comptrollers Office and im not [inaudible] i do everything in the open. I want to sit down with the Comptrollers Office and give him some history. I know the general manager commissioners [inaudible] and commissioner moron and the other commissioners, and their attorney who knows me very well but we need to wrap this represent the citizens of c graham san franciscans who deserve the best because they do pay into the system. Thank you very much thank you. Second card. [calling Public Comment cards] this is the first time ive appeared before you. On the other hand, ive sent a lot of emails to you in my name is out in georgia dominated san franciscans and a ratepayer. What i would like to talk about is the balboa reservoir. Back in august or september you received a real estate report from staff and one of the items was about four reservoirs. The reservoir reports said that puc is trying to help the city fulfill its mission to give people Affordable Housing. Now that is a very noble thought but i think what you, because youre going to be making some serious decisions on the issue, is you have to look into the details of what they call Affordable Housing. There are two points. One iis Affordable Housing is defined by law as being for homeless, low income and moderate income people. That is a area Median Income of 120 of two 120 of Median Income. Now what the excuse me what the Development Parameters for balboa reservoir points out isnt i cannot even over half affordable. It only requires 33 Affordable Housing as defined by law. So to me this is like bait and switch. If you keep up with the papers that la City Attorney is suing sears, jcpenneys, macys all these companies for putting forward this idea that you are getting 40 discount off retail price, basically i think with the city team is doing is doing a bait and switch. They are telling you that we are promoting and we are giving you Affordable Housing but it isnt. So i want you to really look into the details. Asked the City Attorney ford opinion about what Affordable Housing really is. The other aspect is when i can for the 33 Affordable Housing, its deed restricted to be affordable. However, its all in the details. The definition of in perpetuity is for the useful life of the building. How is in perpetuity only for the useful life of the building . I guess ill stop here. Ive given you my hard copy. I hope you read it seriously. Thank you thank you, we do have that. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon commissioners. The handout for you. Maybe a couple months ago it sounded from one of the meetings like the record to be couple of opportunities for the commission to discuss the Water Quality control plan and it has not been agendize yet and i think thats disappointing theres a lot of people in the committee would like to comment and ask questions. Much with the plan is. The staff meanwhile is meeting with a lot of different organizations and agencies. I believe dispersing erroneous and misleading information. For example, the top your packet there is this rreef and he uses the figures are challenged in the past Economic Impact of 188,000 jobs and 49 billion in lost sales. The excuse given by staff is that weve pointed out that last year we read 32 sales gap of 265 which might consider supply. Thats over 30 rationing and according to david19 2014 study we should seem a lot of 7 billion and was 25,000 jobs. Now staff says we were not basing it on that study were based on his earlier testimony did it despite its front of for in 2009 and those figures were repeated in 2013. The second thing in the handout shows you that the figures from 2009 were more insulated vent when he 14. So its even worse case for staff who argued they were looking at that. Per Business Sales losses for a example, the 2009 figure for 50 higher and the 41 was more than twice as high. So the number that is a sales loss of 6. 5 billion in 2014 probably was a lot higher in 2009. But they did not look at 30 . You can calculate that from the other percentages. A couple other things. The brief says easthas developed halted 11 Development Projects with the city cannot guarantee water supplies. That is a real problem. It has nothing to do with supply. Its allocation to basket is entitled to 124 mcd and laster the use one 22nd theres plenty of water. We been working with the city palo alto to do a transfer on december 5 they agreed to put the issue on the finance committee because we think thats what happened in his other efforts as well. Finally, it is for examples given had to reduce water use by 40 w limit us to 25 per person get well San Francisco as you know in a drought publication is protected because theres not a lot of extra water around. So bosco gets hit much harder than speaking to a lot of other things in this that are the problem with but i dont have time right now. I do want to leave a request under the sunshine ordinance for the names and Contact Information of all the people that that has met with and shared this brief with this information. I will be busier for you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Members of the commission, thank you for this chance to talk to you today. I am a cochair of the Water Committee for the bait chapter of the sierra club and im speaking today for the bay chapter. I want to bring to our attention this piece that was in sundays chronicle that is titled, it is time for San Francisco to help state their strategy for sharing. As you know Felicia Marcus is the chairman of the state Water Resources control board and she is reaching out to San Francisco and i think you folks in particular, to step up and help us to protect our rivers and i protecting those rivers, to protect the best to eric and debate that is so important to all of us here in the bay area. Now i understand that staff has been working against the state water board on this and spreading the idea that it would be better to negotiate some kind of a settlement that would involve other kinds of Habitat Restoration but not involve actually keeping more water in the rivers. I want to make it very clear that nobody is opposed and nobody denies that there is other kinds of Habitat Restoration which is necessary. But it is very clear that if we dont have water in the rivers all of those other efforts are for not. To deny that is to join the kind of denial of science that we unfortunately now are going to have in our white house and in both houses of our congress. If we dont support our california institutions to protect our environment like to state that we live on, we will have nobody to protect it. We really need you folks to step up. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hey, drudges, hunter cutting tip number of the Sierra Club Member of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club a lot of organizations here in San Francisco. Im also a gadget am raising a family. We live in the Mission District with my kids go to mission hygiene we are big water users. Were also big on science. And the signs on the water board thats been proposed as the clear. Weve got to leave the water in the rivers. Right now, though, we have the puc objecting to that. You get the general manager of the puc [inaudible] offering an oped in the San Francisco chronicle, and against the signs and water board. Thats not leadership position. If this San Francisco pc cannot get behind the signs and the water board says the rivers need any laughter offer an alternative. You just cant argue against the water board. We need those rivers in california. People in San Francisco supports saving the rivers in california. Those both of those are incredibly important Economic Health of the entire area in the city of San Francisco. It just not okay for the puc staff to be out there opposing the measure and not offering a legitimate alternative. So i think is a leadership issue for you on the board to offer that leadership. The Current Situation is just not okay and i know people are done taking a look at this at the coming weeks. The deadline is january 17 and we need to see Something Different coming from San Francisco puc before january 17 on this issue. Thank you very much. Thank you. Commissioner courtney on the water board because i do a lot of state agency work , Labor InternationalUnion Michael carla knows what we do that i would not go so far as to say theyre infallible it is a unit that i would highly recommend you go look into that board at who those Board Members are and just take it with a grain of salt if you will. I dont know that were supposed to just fall in line with those directives. I think would be irresponsible for us to do so. That is just my comments. Thank you for your comments. We are this the general Public Comment session. Its not a jedis today to get really get into in the depth of it it deserves. That would be something we will need to consider for a future agenda but thank you for your comments it is there any additional Public Comment at this time . Seeing none, thank you. Public comment is closed. Medications. Commissioners you have the communications from staff. Any questions or comments . President moran i would like to make one comment on item 5 j on page 2, in the list of nearterm actions items three states, there will conduct an annual meeting with the customers on several 16th 2016. That date should read separate 16th 2017 thank you for that correction. Other to make one comment on the annual water supply, and report. I think that i recommend that to anybody who is interested in the longterm water supply situation for our service area. It does have some comments just raising the issue that the potential state board action does create some stress to the water supply plan and some need for some changes to that. I think is an appropriate comments in there and i was glad to see it. Any other comments on communications . Yes commissioner vietor i to question on the ghd report when i noticed 74 of the fuels were from sf puc the vehicles. I just wondering when thati thought were moving towards conversion citywide towards ev and when those hummers will shift start to decrease based on the transition . So i know its a good medication item in. You come back. Ms. Hale. Thank you. Barbara hale Power Enterprises in the entity reporting on behalf of the puc and i can say that while our fleet for the city for the puc for sedans is the footprint is quite good, we do have a large number of vehicles with theres just not a low mission and alternative available to us. So we are good actors among the city departments meeting the requirements that you just described, commissioner, theres a number of vehicles that we need to operate to do our utility work that just isnt a low emission alternative for us. But overall, though pucs footprint is largely driven by our transportation our vehicles. Thats not unique. Thats true of most city departments. Those heavyweight vehicles i do note of theirs state legislation they are trying to move forward to reduce emissions. Right. We have participated in various pilots of vehicles and pickup trucks, threequarter ton pickups. But there has not been a readily available market for us to tap into to make those conversions. And they likely will not be for some of the larger vehicles we utilize likely boom trucks and such that we use on the power sites. I spent thats true as well for our water and waste water counterparts. How does biofuel score in that we it scores better but still not a zero emission vehicle. Yes. Thank you. Any other comments from the commission . Comments from the general public . Seeing none, we will move on to other comMission Business. Commissioners . Yes commissioner caen i want to mention ive adopted a drain. [laughing] [applause] trying to urge everyone to do so. Ive named my drain. Its called the and caen drain and i cleaned it out this morning before i got here. So im courage everyone to do so. Its a great idea and every little bit helps. You have steve, that she has or this big storm and [laughing] and working on a lot of flooding so its best to do that. Thank you very much. Now do we havedo we know where the and caen drain is . Yes. You can look it up. [laughing] very good. I will do that. I think it needs a sign. Commissioner courtney thank you president i know i keep weighing in under this agenda item but i did have the liberty of speaking with pres. Moran weekly before todays meeting and i dont usually say i could i say, we but im going to say, aye, just to suck it i had a real bad 10 days leading up to this meeting. Am going to say we all felt it. We had a apprentice who was assassinated on the corner in district 10, i believe it was. It was the most brutal act that you could ever witnessed or c and the way that it impacts the workers is we went up to public works and a copy with them. I dont do anything before 6 am in the morning but i was there and i did do that. I think it serves as a reminder because i have been having this conversation at this board since i got here. Everyone knows im a union activist. Thats not a secret to Everybody Knows that Workforce Development and doing things correctly and transparently isi wont even yield on that. I wont engage in a conversation with people dont believe that has to be done correctly. I think where i failed in my role here is making sure that is missioncritical at the sf puc. So when i hear about our obligations with respect to Affordable Housing or i see people caroling and friend Mayors Office about three city college, about legal fees were Illegal Immigrants and the millions and millions of dollars as much as all thats great stuff, you give a man a job and you may just save his life. So i take that seriously. I ran into some problems last week with staff and i also take that seriously. This is a difficult role for us. Because im a chill guy get im a nice guy. When you just keep playing that, you start feeling like youre getting disrespected. You start feeling like nobody fears. Nobody takes to sears. You just hear the same thing over and over again and nothing really changes. So i have that conversation with andy was a mentor to me and he always tries to get me to stay a little bit in my life and always try to get a little bit out of my lane but one of the things on my colleagues to consider is the following. In light of workforce the moment