Welcome, everyone. Good afternoon to the january 23rd meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Madame secretary, role call, please. President kwon, Vice President courtney and item three . Item three is approval of the minutes of january 9, 2018. We have a motion for that. So moved. Ok. Second. Any discussion, commissioners . Is there any Public Comment . In all favour . Ae. Opposed . It passes. Item number four is general Public Comments. So members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction but are not on todays agenda. So, do we have any folks from the public who would like to come up . Ok. Item five. Item five is communications. Any discussion, commissioners . Any Public Comment . Item six. Item six is other commission business. I have one item. I just i know that were in the midst of budget hearingses and i just wanted to make sure that the Green Infrastructure offline meeting that we had requested will happen
All right. So, were good. Item number three, approval of the minutes. Wi aer going to approve four sets of minutes today. The prebudget hearing january 18, 25 and february 1 and the january 23rd regular meeting. Do we have a motion to approve these minutes . Move to approve all of them. Second. Any discussion, commissioners . Any punt comment . Ok. All in favour . Aye. Opposed . Approved. Item number four is where members of the public can address the commission on matters that are within the matter of jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Do we have any Public Comment . For general Public Comment . Yes, please. Hello, everyone. Im name is bonnie, may i have the overhead, please . Im here to talk about the islay creek watershed, flood mitt investigation, opportunities, Climate Change, and the triple bottom line. And here we are upstream at the School District, the lshaped piece of land which is under that black [laughter] you cant see it because its under that black. Ok. Right her
In all favour . Ae. Opposed . It passes. Item number four is general Public Comments. So members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction but are not on todays agenda. So, do we have any folks from the public who would like to come up . Ok. Item five. Item five is communications. Any discussion, commissioners . Any Public Comment . Item six. Item six is other commission business. I have one item. I just i know that were in the midst of budget hearingses and i just wanted to make sure that the Green Infrastructure offline meeting that we had requested will happen before our february 13 date. Yeah. Were actually trying to schedule that. I know brian and team is putting everything together. To have an offline conversation with you. Brian henderson, acting a. G. M. Were looking at trying to schedule for friday. This week. Friday this week. Ok. If you could let us know sooner rather than later. Because i dont know if friday this week w
Meetings. Her commitment to the department , herren enthusiasm learning everything a department does. All of the challenges that it faces and her willingness to get in there and try to solve or to advance ordeal with those challenges all the while maintaining her wonderful sense of humor. And because i think this is a job that takes well more than a year to master. Ive been really impressed by the degree to which she has mastered the jobs and the inns and outs of the department and the commission and the confidence she shows now in running meetings with lots of people in the room, compared to when she did it in the beginning i think that shes earned another year in this position. I think she deserves another year in in this commission. I think we will all benefit from having her as our president again. I am so humbled. We need a second. Commissioner. Do you accept the nomination . I do, yes. Thank you. [laughter] gladly. I was surprised. Thank you. Any further discussion . It would be
Retiring because of her wealth of knowledge and she is always one to be open and free with information to all of us who are working here today. So that i say congratulations cheryl, on your retirement and hopefully if you would like to come up and say a few words, we would like to hear from you. [ applause ] someone i wont name, but asked me how i endured it . And the answer about how i have endured it is that its such an honor and privilege to work in an area that is so essential. Both for people, and for the environment, and for the planet. So i have considered that an honor and a privilege. I particularly want to thank Senior Management of the puc for supporting the work that i have done in workforce reliability. Because at this point, mr. Harlan was referring to bay work that is 27 different agencies that are collaborating together. And the took a huge lead role in this and Ed Harrington called the first Strategic Planning meeting. His support as a senior manager of a major utility