i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. this day is tuesday, february 11, 2020. roll call, please. [ roll call ]. >> before you have the minutes of three meetings, we will take them individually. the first, january 23, are there any additions or corrections to the minutes? >> move approval. >> second. >> any public comment on the minutes of 23 of january? hearing none, all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed. the motion carries. secondly, the january 28 minutes of the regular meeting. are there any additions or corrections? >> second. >> public comment on the minutes of january 28. all in favour? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries. lastly, the minutes of january 30, which was the special budget hearing number four. any additions or corrections? >> move to approve. >> second. >> public comment on the minutes of january 30. all in favour? >> aye. >> opposed. the motion carries. next item, please. >> item 4 is general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission'

i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. this day is tuesday, february 11, 2020. roll call, please. [ roll call ]. >> before you have the minutes of three meetings, we will take them individually. the first, january 23, are there any additions or corrections to the minutes? >> move approval. >> second. >> any public comment on the minutes of 23 of january? hearing none, all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed. the motion carries. secondly, the january 28 minutes of the regular meeting. are there any additions or corrections? >> second. >> public comment on the minutes of january 28. all in favour? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries. lastly, the minutes of january 30, which was the special budget hearing number four. any additions or corrections? >> move to approve. >> second. >> public comment on the minutes of january 30. all in favour? >> aye. >> opposed. the motion carries. next item, please. >> item 4 is general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission'

francisco public utilities commissi commission. and i've never done this before, but i reached out to two elders who know a lot about the san francisco public utilities commission so they can read what i get, so they can do something and put this thing on track. we are not supposed to spend taxpayers' money on having a picnic and having a special thing offsite and spending thousands of dollars. that's wrong, simply wrong. >> president caen: the next speaker peter drakmeyer. >> hello. peter drakmeyer with community trust. if i could have the overhead. i came across a chart with different demand projections. it's interesting. i put that red dot to show what demand is now. if you look at four studies that went out in 2020. they range from 350 million gallons per day to 450 million gallons per day. we looked at what would happen if the sfpuc contributed for two years and then maybe we got nervous and hit a third year of drought. you could make it through the design drought, 8.5 years. so now is the time to make that decision for this y

. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunitie

but the san francisco public utilities commission said it is not interested. in any activity that allows human contact with that pristine water. >>> it is a great quality water. >>> it is beautiful. it looks beautiful now. i know we are desperate for rain. it looks pretty good. >>> which is surprising given the weather we have had lately. it will be really much colder this weekend. but only a tiny bit wetter. over san jose clear skies of san francisco here. concorde oakland livermore san francisco all in the 60s. highs from today in the 70s. for many locations. santa rosa which was 82 earlier in the week is down to 76. but still the numbers for the middle of winter are crazy. san francisco stands a slight chance of showers this weekend. only minimal. it is mild to warm for now. low pressure will be plunging out of the gulf. much cooler by saturday. it is what you will notice about this weekend. the temperatures will drop off a cliff. upper 70s and if you at low 80s this week. by sunday we will be in the 50s. the winds will be picking up. in terms of the rain c

carlin. >> chair peskin, supervisors, i'm here on behalf of the san francisco public utilities commission. i'm the deputy general manager. this item we have been working on for several years. it's an exchange of our brought at 639 bryant street which for exchange. it is based on fair market values. there is no cash being exchanged but there are other considerations part of the development deal with the developers. there will be tenant improvements at the port. there will be moving costs absorbed by the developer. and he's helping us to secure a tank site for hydrogen peroxide tank for border patrol and our sewers. so i'm happy to answer any questions, but it's pretty self explanatory in the material that was developed for you. >> are there any questions for mr. carlin? this has been discussed by this committee and the board in the past and was actually once considered as 2000 marin as the temporary site for the flower mart, but as we all know, they ended up with a different proposed site. supervisor safai? >> i just wanted to point out to the clerk that the item on the screen is not repre

i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utility's commission. today is january 28, 2020. role call, please. (role call) commissioner paulson is expected shortly and we have a quorum. before you, you have minutes of three different meetings and i will call them separately. the meeting of january 9th, 2020, are there any additions or corrections to this meeting? any public comments on this meeting? may i have a motion? >> to approve. >> second. >> all those in favour? the motion carries. secondly, we have the approval of the minutes for januar january 14th. any additions or corrections. any public comment on the meeting of january 14th? may i have a motion, please? >> i move the item. >> all those in favour? any public comments on the meeting of january 16th. may i have a motion? so moved. all those in favour? >> approved. >> commissioners, you all know i attended budget meetings. and i thin take those matters vy seriously and one of the reasons why i come and attend those meetings personally is so that after i do my research, what i call empirica

francisco public utility commission's rules and regulations in the section on cross connection control and to add local cross connection controls for beverage dispenserses and a testing requirement for back flow prevention and assemblies or devices and affirming the findings. >> we had to continue this because the amendments were substantive. they have been discussed. any members of the public to testify on this item? seeing none, we will close public comment. without objection finally get this off our plate as they are finally getting -- finally getting along. this will be sent without objection. you do need a red line of the previous item and you would like us to resined the vote. can we go back to item three? i will make a motion to c resined the vote and make the amended in the red line i have given to the two of you and send that item as amended to the full board with recommends without objection. now, madam clerk could you read the fifth and final item? >> eye team 5 ordinance amending the planning code to enable the use of development project sites during the project approval an

like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today's date is tuesday, february 25, 2020. roll call, please. [roll call] >> clerk: we have a quorum. >> very good. commissioners, you have before you are the minutes of february 11. are there any additions or corrections? >> i'll move approval. >> second. >> is there any public comment on the minutes of february 11? all those in favor? opposed? the motion carries. at this time, i'd like to call for a general public comment. >> clerk: madam president, we need to hear -- oh, i'm sorry. >> that's okay. >> clerk: it's been a long day. >> shake the sand out of your shoes. >> general public comment, item 4. members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the commission's jurisdiction but not on the agenda. >> beiokay. i have six speaker cards. bill collins. >> bill collins for pacifica. first, i'd like to thank the commissioners for serving and particularly you, president caen, for your years of service. i saw my next-door neighbor washing his car in his driveway

the san francisco public utilities commission said it is not interested in any activity that allows human contact with the water. >>> in our experience people and wilderness people in national parks. people in lakes where people go. trouble tends to follow. we have to be cautious about the kinds of access that might be allowed to drinking water supply. >> reporter: there is no camping allow. trails are minimal and the road in and out is close tonight. despite the fact public access including boating was promised back in 1913 when congress voted to build the dam. now after the group proposed voting to the department of interior a ban on voting at hetch hetchy was quietly slipped into the 2000 page 2020 federal spending bill. the puc general manager for water said he doesn't know who put it in there. rosecrans thinks he knows. >>> way too much influence on the park service. to keep people away from the spectacular canyon.>>> that is it for the news at 5 pm. >>> the news at 6 pm begins right now. >>> breaking news a new coronavirus case in northern california. it is a possible first in the u

like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today's date is tuesday, february 25, 2020. roll call, please. [roll call] >> clerk: we have a quorum. >> very good. commissioners, you have before you are the minutes of february 11. are there any additions or corrections? >> i'll move approval. >> second. >> is there any public comment on the minutes of february 11? all those in favor? opposed? the motion carries. at this time, i'd like to call for a general public comment. >> clerk: madam president, we need to hear -- oh, i'm sorry. >> that's okay. >> clerk: it's been a long day. >> shake the sand out of your shoes. >> general public comment, item 4. members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the commission's jurisdiction but not on the agenda. >> beiokay. i have six speaker cards. bill collins. >> bill collins for pacifica. first, i'd like to thank the commissioners for serving and particularly you, president caen, for your years of service. i saw my next-door neighbor washing his car in his driveway

i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utility's commission. today is january 28, 2020. role call, please. (role call) commissioner paulson is expected shortly and we have a quorum. before you, you have minutes of three different meetings and i will call them separately. the meeting of january 9th, 2020, are there any additions or corrections to this meeting? any public comments on this meeting? may i have a motion? >> to approve. >> second. >> all those in favour? the motion carries. secondly, we have the approval of the minutes for januar january 14th. any additions or corrections. any public comment on the meeting of january 14th? may i have a motion, please? >> i move the item. >> all those in favour? any public comments on the meeting of january 16th. may i have a motion? so moved. all those in favour?

. >> the san francisco public utilities commission says it is not interested in any activity that allows human contact with the water. >>> this money's "moneywatch" report, the president's plan to stop coronavirus. >>> plus, how facebook is fighting misinformation. here's tony tantillo diane king hall . >>> wall street ended mostly lower on wednesday. the dow dropped 123 points. the nasdaq added 15 while the s&p 500 lost 11. it is the fifth straight day of losses for the dow and s&p 500. driven by worries over the coronavirus outbreak. president trump trying to ease the public concern at a white house press conference say the u.s. is, quote, very, very ready to handle that threat. president has requested to and have billion dollars to fight the disease. members of congress say that number is not high enough. >>> facebook has banned misleading as about coronavirus. claims about medical treatment, conspiracy theories, and figures will be taken down. also not allowed, ads that create a sense of urgency to promote a product. unpaid posts that do the same will also be removed. >>> and still l

next item. >> item 11, approve modification of the san francisco public utilities commission's on-site water reuse grant program rules to double the amount of grant funding for eligible projects. >> mr. ritchi >> steve, assistant general manager for water, this is to approve modification of the on-site water reuse grant program rules. you previous lydell gated the authority to make changes in those -- you previous lydell gated the previously delegated the authority to make changes in those. we need to increase the amount in individual grants that might be available to get the best leverage to get recycled water projects done by individual facilities. so i would recommend that you approve modification of the rules to increase the eligibility, basically from $100,000 to $200,000 for projects that can deliver 450,000-gallons a year. and from $500,000 to $1 million for projects that be deliver 3 million-gallons per year. >> why? what did you see that made you think we needed it? >> the projects are costing more, so if we increased our share, that will help make sure the projects get accomp

. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunitie

i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. this day is tuesday, february 11, 2020. roll call, please. [ roll call ]

i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utility's commission. today is january 28, 2020. role call, please. (role call) commissioner paulson is expected shortly and we have a quorum.

i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. this day is tuesday, february 11, 2020. roll call, please. [ roll call ]. >> before you have the

i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utility's commission. today is january 28, 2020. role call, please. (role call) commissioner paulson is expected shortly and we have a quorum. before you, you have minutes of three different meetings and i will call them separately. the meeting of january 9th, 2020, are there any additions or corrections to this meeting? any public comments on this meeting? may i have a motion? >> to approve. >> second. >> all those in favour? the motion carries. secondly, we have the approval of the minutes for januar january 14th. any additions or corrections. any public comment on the meeting of january 14th? may i have a motion, please? >> i move the item. >> all those in favour? any public comments on the meeting of january 16th. may i have a motion? so moved. all those in favour? >> approved. >> commissioners, you all know i attended budget meetings. and i thin take those matters vy seriously and one of the reasons why i come and attend those meetings personally is so that after i do my research, what i call empirica

francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunitie

michael hyams, director of the cleanpowersf program for the san francisco public utilities commission. i do have a few slides for you today. our last presentation was to focus on the renewable energy report. i got sort of more of standard update for you. i will cover our enrollment statistics, cleanpowersf enrollment statistic. i'll provide update on key activities from the past few months that we haven't discussed in previous meetings recently. update on items that are coming up, some work that we're focused on now. first of all, our service to clean power customers continues successfully. the program opt out rate has ticked up a small amount since our last update where we presented these statistics. it's now at 3.7% of all enrolled accounts. that's still more than 96%. our super green enrollment has increased. we're now serving 2% of our active accounts with 100% california r.p.s. eligible renewable power. that's .2 percentage point higher than the last update. from an energy standpoint, the usage represents more than 4.5% of annual sales. that's a 20% increase. the program is showi

i'm from the san francisco public utilities commission. the program came about with state wide legislation in 2002 to enable people to take more control over supplies. i first heard of the program when the organization was advocating to launch clean power sf. what i'm most excited about, it's going to bring 100% renewable energy to my home and reinvest into renewable energy infrastructure and jobs. i had gone to a lot of street fairs and heard from the staff at the san francisco public utilities commission to sign up for clean power sf even before it launched. >> we learned about clean power sf because our sustainability team is always looking for clean operations. linkedin is the largest online network. there are about 530 million members using our site. in this san francisco office there's about 1400 employees working in roughly 400,000 square feet. >> after signing up for the program we heard about the san francisco program and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. i'm the co-owner of the new wheel electric bike shop

. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunitie

carlin. >> chair peskin, supervisors, i'm here on behalf of the san francisco public utilities commission. i'm the deputy general manager. this item we have been working on for several years. it's an exchange of our brought at 639 bryant street which for exchange. it is based on fair market values. there is no cash being exchanged but there are other considerations part of the development deal with the developers. there will be tenant improvements at the port. there will be moving costs absorbed by the developer. and he's helping us to secure a tank site for hydrogen peroxide tank for border patrol and our sewers. so i'm happy to answer any questions, but it's pretty self explanatory in the material that was developed for you. >> are there any questions for mr. carlin? this has been discussed by this committee and the board in the past and was actually once considered as 2000 marin as the temporary site for the flower mart, but as we all know, they ended up with a different proposed site. supervisor safai? >> i just wanted to point out to the clerk that the item on the screen is not repre

i am tom birmingham, project manager with the san francisco public utilities commission for the wastewater treatment plan we want to call it water resource recovery facility. i am probably going to call it wastewater treatment plant at least 10 times today. we are trying to go forward to recognize opportunities to reuse what we are capturing in the plants, recycled water or biosolids. there are a lot of opportunities here. it is no longer taking wastewater from homes, dumping into a water body. we want to do positive things with the water as it comes in. i will give an update where we are today on the project. i will talk about the items we are doing with the rest of the development, walk through some architectural images of the direction we are going with the project and update where we are on the schedule. if treatment plant will below indicated south of the existing plant. thathat is the odd-shaped gray blocks and the proposed plant is to is south. the reality is the planning documents are planning documen documents. >> can you point that out? >> yes, i can. >> you may have to know poin

michael hyams, director of the cleanpowersf program for the san francisco public utilities commission. i do have a few slides for you today. our last presentation was to focus on the renewable energy report. i got sort of more of standard update for you. i will cover our enrollment statistics, cleanpowersf enrollment statistic. i'll provide update on key activities from the past few months that we haven't discussed in previous meetings recently. update on items that are coming up, some work that we're focused on now. first of all, our service to clean power customers continues successfully. the program opt out rate has ticked up a small amount since our last update where we presented these statistics. it's now at 3.7% of all enrolled accounts. that's still more than 96%. our super green enrollment has increased. we're now serving 2% of our active accounts with 100% california r.p.s. eligible renewable power. that's .2 percentage point higher than the last update. from an energy standpoint, the usage represents more than 4.5% of annual sales. that's a 20% increase. the program is showi

michael hyams, director of the cleanpowersf program for the san francisco public utilities commission. i do have a few slides for you today. our last presentation was to focus on the renewable energy report. i got sort of more of standard update for you. i will cover our enrollment statistics, cleanpowersf enrollment statistic. i'll provide update on key activities from the past few months that we haven't discussed in previous meetings recently. update on items that are coming up, some work that we're focused on now. first of all, our service to clean power customers continues successfully. the program opt out rate has ticked up a small amount since our last update where we presented these statistics. it's now at 3.7% of all enrolled accounts. that's still more than 96%. our super green enrollment has increased. we're now serving 2% of our active accounts with 100% california r.p.s. eligible renewable power. that's .2 percentage point higher than the last update. from an energy standpoint, the usage represents more than 4.5% of annual sales. that's a 20% increase. the program is showi

california's public utilities commission is holding several hearings on pg&e's effort to exit bankruptcy, one day after a federal judge ripped into pg&e for putting money before safety efforts. law makeers this week are also making new calls for a state takeover of pg&e. governor newsom still has to sign off on the plan before it gets the final approval from the bankruptcy judge. happening today the california general assembly will hear a resolution that would apologize to imprisoning japanese americans in internment camps. a state assemblyman of southern california is perk for a formal apology. >> and today, ever since 9/11, that same fear of the other has been focused on muslim americans. >> the director of the museum of san jose is weighing in saying in part, quote, hopefully this resolution will help to make the public aware this injustice occurred and we hope it will encourage to stand up for their rights and to not allow this to happen again. >>> uber allows a safety feature to report anything that makes them feel unsafe. riders can go into an app and click on the safety cool kick

francisco public utilities commission, the san francisco public works department and the department of public work inspection relating to each agency's role and responsibility perform and four, adoption of environmental findings, including a mitigation, monitoring and reporting program and a statement of overriding consideration pursuant to the california environmental quality act. >> good afternoon, commissioners. david with real estate and development. i'm joined here today by the potrero power station team enrique, aaron and tina. and also joined by city staff and port staff, including john from economic and workforce development, mike martin. and i just want to show my appreciation for eileen, carol and sam who have been extremely helpful in pulling this together. i was in front of the commission at the last commission meeting two weeks ago. i'm going to try to keep the meeting -- the presentation brief. but just wanted to give you an introduction to the project. the port's role in the project, the location and the plan. and then the actions that you'll be taking today. so pier

i am tom birmingham, project manager with the san francisco public utilities commission for the wastewater treatment plan we want to call it water resource recovery facility. i am probably going to call it wastewater treatment plant at least 10 times today. we are trying to go forward to recognize opportunities to reuse what we are capturing in the plants, recycled water or biosolids. there are a lot of opportunities here. it is no longer taking wastewater from homes, dumping into a water body. we want to do positive things with the water as it comes in. i will give an update where we are today on the project. i will talk about the items we are doing with the rest of the development, walk through some architectural images of the direction we are going with the project and update where we are on the schedule. if treatment plant will below indicated south of the existing plant. thathat is the odd-shaped gray blocks and the proposed plant is to is south. the reality is the planning documents are planning documen documents. >> can you point that out? >> yes, i can. >> you may have to know poin

michael hyams, director of the cleanpowersf program for the san francisco public utilities commission. i do have a few slides for you today. our last presentation was to focus on the renewable energy report. i got sort of more of standard update for you. i will cover our enrollment statistics, cleanpowersf enrollment statistic. i'll provide update on key activities from the past few months that we haven't discussed in previous meetings recently. update on items that are coming up, some work that we're focused on now. first of all, our service to clean power customers continues successfully. the program opt out rate has ticked up a small amount since our last update where we presented these statistics. it's now at 3.7% of all enrolled accounts. that's still more than 96%. our super green enrollment has increased. we're now serving 2% of our active accounts with 100% california r.p.s. eligible renewable power. that's .2 percentage point higher than the last update. from an energy standpoint, the usage represents more than 4.5% of annual sales. that's a 20% increase. the program is showi

more recently i worked in the coming occasions department for the san francisco public utilities commission and served as the lead communication and special projects for congressman -- congresswoman waters in d.c. and l.a. where we worked on racial equity issues, which is timely, financial services regulation, gang mediation, you name it and a lot of other complex issues. i am a u.c. berkeley and georgetown alone. i am excited to serve the department as we reinforce san francisco's leadership as a global environmental leader and helping push the envelope as what it means to be a city that is sustainable and healthy for everybody who lives here. i'm happy to answer any questions. thank you all for your time. >> welcome. >> thank you so much. >> any questions? any public comment? we have much to look forward to in 2020. thank you. >> next item. >> next item is item number 12. the nomination and election of commission on the environment president and vice president. this item is for discussion and action. >> i was looking at this item and thinking of who would be best to lead our commission in