just very happily opens at the intersection of vanness and geary to the smaller businesses and the medium sized businesses in the japantown area, the fillmore, all those folks who will be able to be confident that we have safe and accessible routes to essential transit services for the commuters again and everybody who relies on this important line. so i just want to thank everyone for your hard work, your collaboration. mayor breed, thank you. especially when you were on the board of supervisors to challenging us to really work with the community to ensure that we were listening to them, whether it was the laguna stop, whether it was the western street bridge, whether it was making sure that we were maintaining access for everyone and preserving as much parking as we were. i think we were able to maintain 95% of the parking along the corridor. these are really important features that we can ensure a complete project. we were even able to ensure north-south travel and integra
[gavel] good afternoon. i would like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today s date is tuesday, march 12th. roll call, please? [roll call] we have a quorum. chairwoman: i d like to announce for anybody in the audience who is interested in consent item 9f, that has been removed from the calendar. and i will announce that at some point we re going to take a 20-minute break for our lunch. we will decide that a little bit later. the next item, please? item three is a special election of officers, discussion and possible action to elect a commission president and vice president, each to assume a partial term in the beginning of october 2019. chairwoman: do we have a nomination for president? madam vice president, it would be my honor and pleasure to nominate you as president. i also might say i m dreadfully sorry for being late this morning. i have no excuse except to say that the mind is a terrible thing to wast
impacts of any shortage in the sfpuc water system be fully analyzed and recognized and that a voluntary agreement be pursued, that appropriately balances the various water needs. thank you. president kwon: thank you very much. next, mr. bill martin. mr. martin, please. thank you. i support the state s plan. the fish need more water. the fisher with talking about are salmon. let s talk a moment there s been a lot of talk about habitat, habitat restoration. ill recently returned from alaska. i saw a lot of salmon. i saw a lot of salmon habitat. you can say, okay, well, alaska is full of wilderness. it doesn t apply here. there is good salmon habitat in downtown anchorage. what anchorage has done is what we need it do if we re going to have real habitat for salmon. you go out there and you look at the lower tuolumne, lower san joaquin, they re really canals. they re not rivers. they re constrained by levees. when you look at real salmon habitat, it s a river that goes like
and modesto units. you didn t do it. the technical staff provided me with a modify flow model of the tuolumne river. we thanked you for giving us a common tool to analyze flow options. we used the tool to create a proposal for the tuolumne and we filed that proposal with the regulatory commission. it will require more flow than the water flow in wet years and has special rules for dry years and sequences. there was a nod from staff that it was better than what others had proposed. that was it. we proposed the selection for the responsibility for the city and the districts. again, there was a response from staff that was a nod that the numbers looked okay, but didn t have enough detail. in spite of political pressure, the water board will adopt flow objectives in november. the question now is whether you will work with them or keep trying to say no. and why they rejected some of those reasons. they were specific and detailed explanations. i suggest you look at this and take
impossible conservation goals during droughts. residents in san francisco public utilities commission combined the retail and wholesale service areas average 54 gallons per person, per day and the lowest per capita water usage if they were their own region in california. according to sfpuc, residents could be forced to achieve 20% to 30% reductions. and residents in daly city, heyward, menlo park and redwood city would be forceded to ration less than 25 gallons per person per day. these are rates not seen anywhere in the developed world. such rationing could only be avoided with major investments in new supplies that have no certainty of being able to be procured, let alone being able to be procured by 2022, the date that the water board plans on beginning the state water plan. the bay area could be forced to live under extended rationing for years, which could inhibit our ability to build anything hospitals, schools or more affordable housing to parks. we have urged the st