there's clearly benefit for sfpuc. but what we saw when we did interviews, community members felt slighted if they were not included. to have their input elevated to a point where their perspective is considered a valuable, we talk about community involvement and the colder involvement becoming real. there are ways that the community feels, they can give better input to the ultimate outcome. if they are involved in the design and oversight, it benefits them because it reflects their concern and their needs, their desires. what we found is that community involvement might mean something different than it does on the peninsula or in the south east. it is important to create some consistency around what stakeholder involvement must include. it is important to take into account differences in community needs from community to community. it is pretty challenging, and because there is such a diversity of community that is involved with the service territory. certainly. >> i don't want to step on your presentation, but we kno

is intending to do. -- what sfpuc is intending to do. and conceptualize and community benefits. we are happy at the end of this to take your questions and fold it into the final definition. at this point, the draft definition states that community benefits are the positive impacts resulting from development and operation of the waste water and power services. they need to be a good neighbor by all of those impacted by the services, and balance thesfpuc's economic, environmental, and social goals. they devote sufficient resources to achieve the following in outcomes. i will come back and talk about those little bit. you are looking at some of the programs we have identified in the assessment we have done. the areas include the stakeholder and community involvement, workforce development, internal and external, environmental justice, economic development, arts and culture, health, education, land use, and financial contributions. we look at that to include volunteerism. stakeholder and community involvement is extremely critical. we put it

that is why, for many years, the sfpuc has worked through our water prevention program to discourage the flushing of and used medications. we look forward to working with the board of supervisors, environmental advocates, of course, the pharmaceutical industry, to find a solution to this. at this point, i would like to call up caring hurst who will talk about our various water prevention efforts. >> good morning. i am the water pollution prevention manager. a lot of what i was going to say, both the supervisor and others have said. in terms of the efforts that the puc has done. our main responsibility is to keep pollutants out of the water system. once they reach a treatment plant, whether it is a drug, greece, mercury, -- and the entire philosophy is to keep chemical's out of the system. we do that through education, inspections. one example, we lowered a limit with dental offices to reduce waste. they have installed sectors that would allow residents to use less pesticides. we also have locations where people can cut their runoff. the bottom line is controlling the chemical before

adopted with the deferred decision regarding long-term water supply after 2018 and 32030 until the sfpuc undertook further planning and analysis. it would be adopted -- if adopted, it is assumed this commission would visit water supply again in 2018. the minimum release schedule on water supply issues are discussed in the memorandum dated august of 2010 and are included in the files for this project. effects of the possible change on water supply are also discussed in the variants chapter of the final eir. the second change would be in the causes of the proposed commission resolution. this is the resolved clause. it is further resolved that this commission directs staff to continue monitoring water supply and demand to determine whether the commission should consider other strategies to meet demand up to 2018. it adds the following language, to provide to this commission for consideration the interim supply allocation in december of 2010 in accordance with the existing contractual obligations and provide information to the commission and the public by march 31, i sfpuc has the capabilit

we support this program and want to thank the sfpuc and consultants for their hard work in the excited they will make this program even better. we look forward to the education fees, more public meetings, will look jobs and opportunities for our community. supervisor maxwell: thank you. >>the puc being who they are, they are part of a conglomerate dealing with the energy, energy being the largest employer there is, the largest industry there is. the opportunities that they bring to the community, especially the lower and disadvantaged neighborhood, is something that needs to be looked at and needs to be dealt with. i look at the project over here on golden gate where they are constructing a building, and i see very few people from the neighborhood. i have not seen one woman there. i do not know if they call themselves policing their own projects. i'd like to see some community activity to monitor these projects because i find it hard for an agency of this magnitude to look at itself in any kind of critical way, being part of the southeast job coalition, i would like to be able to thank

but we could see an accelerated rise of maybe three or four times that according to,ip sfpuc. instead of half a foot we could see three feet. you know out here at fort point here in san francisco. first of all we don't know what the climate is doing to do, but secondly, the way ice gets dumped into the ocean from the land based - well sea level rises from one, the water gets warmer and inflates because it's density is less and that's well understood and handled by climate models. what's not well handled is the fact that when ice gets shed from green land and antarctica, there's 70 levels that if it all melted would raise sea levels but the problem is it's not like an ice cube where we're shining a lamp on it to watch it drip. it might slip. we're seeing more and more of these failures and we saw part of antarctica, shed off in a few days. somebody was looking at satellite map's and away it went. that caused sea levels to rise. that mechanism is not well represented in models or understood very well. sea level rise by itself is gentle three feet of rise may not do too much but

the park and i was listening to this professor from uc-berkeley who bring students here to talk about sfpuc and all of the politics, the bonding. i was really surprised that a professor from berkeley has taken it upon himself to share information like this, because as you know, commissioners, you do what you have to do, but what leads things to happen is politics. and our young people should know about all the politicking that goes on and how sometimes if you pay attention to the maintenance of our infrastructure it pays good dividends, and if you do not pay attention to the maintenance of our infrastructure then we have rapid issues. jon is a great guy in all the time i have known him. it is really said that he is leaving, but i suppose you have to retire sometime. i am requesting that we tap into his experience, bring him back sometimes, though he may enjoy his retirement sometimes, and share his experience with the students. and i think he will say yes if you do it the right way. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. dacosta. >> next item is the report of the general manager. >> there i

is intending to do. -- what sfpuc is intending to do. and conceptualize and community benefits. we are happy at the end of this to take your questions and fold it into the final definition. at this point, the draft definition states that community benefits are the positive impacts resulting from development and operation of the waste water and power services. they need to be a good neighbor by all of those impacted by the services, and balance

. >> i am curious, is there anyone from the pharmaceutical industry are approaching the sfpuc on how they can alleviate the responsibility on our city from having to shoulder the burden of dealing with the unwanted waste stream? >> not that i am aware of. as i mentioned, we work with the bay area of pollution prevention group. whether we look at pharmaceuticals, do male backs, have collection of tents, have the pharmaceutical associations involved -- there has been dialogue there. i am not privy to all of that, but i do not know at the city level. >> any dialogue that has resulted in tangible efforts with the pharmaceutical industry, manufacturers, or producers that have assisted san francisco in alleviating the unused drugs that are going into waste stream? >> not that i am personally aware of. >> what exactly is the process for san francisco. it is probably no different than any other municipality or state system that is hopefully able to filter out between the unwanted waste. i know sfpuc does the best that it can, but as you said, the systems are not designed to membrane out ever

first of all, i just want to applaud sfpuc staff, and especially commissioner ellis, for especially bringing this process into the 21st century. this goes beyond words community benefits and becomes more like interactive community process about what the entire community is going to be like and much more holistic. some specific recommendations, a very specific one -- i do not know if it is in there or not, but i do not think the sfpuc has yet barrier wetlands plants, and i think that needs to be integrated. new orleans had serious problems because it focused on sea walls instead of restoring what land barrier have attacked it would have protected new orleans better against sea level rise disaster events. i also want to second what share maxwell said about community process. i think it is important that maybe redo the spreadsheets for the presentations so that community benefits is not the democratic process is not under community benefits but how you reached community benefits and so there is a very aggressive process to go out and reach the entire community in public entire community in publ

we're working with the park service to improve the ecosystem that is affected by the sfpuc systems, and it also provides security. it is essential to the delivery of water that comes from the park. we're very proud of this. this is one of those really good things that we do. we have a very strong relationship with them. i would point out that we're in an agreement with the budget analyst recommendation on the side and to limit the amount of slightly less than $30 million, and we ask for your continued support on this. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. mr. rose. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, we have asked, of course, for documentation on the amount needed and the department provided us with a budget that was totaled on page 3 of our reports and table one. it is about $2.5 million less than the not to exceed amount of $30 million. those costs will be funded from water fees paid by puc water customers. the estimated expenditures o represents an increase of about a 40.6% increase when you look at the actual expenditures made under the existing agreements. there are ac

they will obtain any lease or agreement necessary and negotiate with owners or imn the sfpuc right-of-way and other project-related agreements as necessary. necessary. s/(to/içm zobtain permits and approvals or enter into agreements with state, federal, and local governments not limited to caltrans, army corps of engineers, u.s. fish and wildlife marine fisheries service, the california department of game, the water control board, the sanitary district, and bay area quality management district and enter into agreements with third parties as necessary to implement conditions of the permits or approvals. e, in compliance with government code, undertake the process for possible acquisition for excavating and combined purchase not to exceed $250,000 for temporary interest in real property located in san mateo county as follows. the list is printed of the properties. f, negotiate and execute real estat" agreements and licenses, agreements, and issuances related to the city right-of-way rights and habitat mitigation sites as!p necessary for the project. finally, notwithstanding the authority g