SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
City and County of San Francisco
London N. Breed
Mayor
REGULAR MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
1:30 P.M.
This meeting is being held by Teleconference Pursuant to the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 and the Twelfth and Forty-First Supplements to Mayoral Proclamation Declaring the Existence of a Local Emergency Dated February 25, 2020
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During the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) emergency, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s (SFPUC) regular meeting room, City Hall, Room 400, is closed.
Commissioners and SFPUC staff will convene Commission meetings remotely by teleconference.
Commissioners
Anson Moran, President
Newsha Ajami, Vice President
Sophie Maxwell
Tim Paulson
Dennis J. Herrera
General Manager
Donna Hood
Secretary
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ORDER OF BUSINESS
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Adopt renewed findings under State Urgency Legislation to continue to allow remote meetings during the COVID-19 Emergency; continue remote meetings for the next 30 days; and direct the Commission Secretary to agendize a similar resolution at a Commission Meeting within the next 30 days.
4. Approval of the Minutes of February 8, 2022
5. General Public Comment
Members of the public may address the Commission on matters that are within the Commission’s jurisdiction and are not on today’s agenda
6. Communications (discussion only)
a) Advance Calendar
b) Contract Advertisement Report
c) Correspondence Log
7. Annual Revenue Bond Oversight Committee Report (discussion only) (Leale)
8. Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency Report (discussion only) (Sandkulla)
9. Report of the General Manager (discussion only)
a) Drought Conditions Update
b) Quarterly Audit and Performance Review Report
c) Report on Recent San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Activities, Events and Announcements
10.New Commission Business (discussion only)
11.CONSENT CALENDAR
a) Award Job Order Contract No. JOC-86, General Engineering (A-License) Construction, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Alameda Counties, for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $5,000,000, with a guaranteed minimum opportunity of $50,000 and a duration of two years, to the responsible bidder that submitted the lowest responsive bid, Ground Control Inc., to perform general engineering construction tasks for all SFPUC Enterprise Operations and Bureaus. (Johanson)
b) Award Job Order Contract No. JOC-87, General Engineering (A License) Construction, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne Counties, Hetch Hetchy, for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $5,000,000 with a guaranteed minimum opportunity of $50,000 and a contract duration of two years, to the responsible bidder that submitted the lowest responsive bid, Sinclair General Engineering Construction, Inc., to perform general engineering construction tasks for all San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) Enterprise Operations and Bureaus. (Johanson)
c) Approve an increase of 180 calendar days to the contract duration contingency for Contract No. WD-2668, Regional Groundwater Storage and Recovery; and authorize the General Manager to approve future modifications to the contract for a total contract duration of up to 2,707 consecutive calendar days (approximately seven years and five months), with no change to the contract amount. (Johanson)
REGULAR CALENDAR
12. Award four Master As-Needed Tree Services Contracts, HH-1004.A; HH-1004.B; HH-1004.C; and HH-1004.D, each with a not-to-exceed agreement capacity of $9,700,000, and authorize a combined cumulative spending authority of $9,700,000, with a duration of 1,826 consecutive calendar days (five years), to the top four highest scoring responsible firms that submitted responsive bids, (A) Anvil Builders, Inc., (B) Arborists Now, Inc., (C) Capax Group, Inc., and (D) The Professional Tree Care Co., to improve safety and reduce fire risk by providing as-needed tree removal and maintenance services on short notice at locations within or near San Francisco Public Utilities Commission property. (Ritchie)
13. Approve the selection of Mark Cavagnero Associates (MCA); award Agreement No.
PRO.0232, New CDD Campus at 2000 Marin Design Services, to provide architectural, engineering, and consulting services to design new facilities for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Water Enterprise City Distribution Division, at 2000 Marin Street, San Francisco, to MCA; authorize the General Manager to execute a professional services agreement with MCA for an amount not-to-exceed $27,800,000 and with a duration of five years, subject to Board of Supervisors’ approval under San Francisco Charter Section 9.118; and request that the Board of Supervisors grant an exception from the Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code for the Social Impact Partnership provisions of the Agreement. (Johanson)
14. Approve the plans and specifications and award Contract No. WD-2878A, Regional Groundwater Storage & Recovery Phase 2A, in the amount of $6,850,000 and with a duration of 608 consecutive calendar days (approximately one year and eight months), to the responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid, Marinship Development Interest LLC., in accordance with San Francisco Administrative Code 6.23(c)(3), to retrofit existing well pump systems at 10 groundwater well facilities. (Johanson)
15. Approve the Project Participation and Share Agreement, the Buyer Liability Pass-Through Agreement, and the Coordinated Operations Agreement, so that CleanPowerSF may participate in California Community Power’s long-duration energy storage project with Tumbleweed Energy Storage, LLC; and authorize the General Manager to execute the agreements on behalf of the CleanPowerSF program with total contract costs not-to-exceed $65 million for a term of 20 years; and authorize the General Manager to seek approval from the Board of Supervisors to execute the agreements. (Hale)
16. Authorize the General Manager to enter into the Utility Distribution Company Operations Agreement between the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the California Independent System Operator Corporation (“CAISO”) to establish the rights and obligations of the SFPUC, as a Utility Distribution Company, with regard to the interconnection of the Bay Corridor Transmission and Distribution project Davidson Substation within the CAISO controlled grid, subject to Board of Supervisors approval pursuant to Charter Section 9.118. (Hale)
17. Authorize the General Manager to take the following actions for COVID-19 relief (1) extend by three months, through June 30, 2022: (a) the temporary suspension of the discontinuation or shut off of water service for non-residential retail customers for non-payment of water and/or sewer bills, (b) the temporary suspension of discontinuation or shut off of power service for non-residential SFPUC Hetch Hetchy Power Customers in San Francisco for non-payment of power bills, and (c) temporary suspension of the return of delinquent CleanPowerSF customers to PG&E generation service for failure to pay CleanPowerSF charges; (2) extend by four months through July 31, 2022: (a) the temporary suspension of discontinuation or shut off of water service for City residential retail customers not enrolled in Customer Assistance Program (CAP) discounts for non-payment of water and/or sewer bills, and (b) the temporary suspension of discontinuation or shut off of power service for residential SFPUC Hetch Hetchy Power Customers in San Francisco not enrolled in CAP discounts for non-payment of power bills; (3) extend by five months, through August 31, 2022, (a) the temporary suspension of discontinuation or shut off of water service for City residential retail customers enrolled in CAP discounts for non-payment of water and/or sewer bills, and (b) the temporary suspension of discontinuation or shut off of power service for residential SFPUC Hetch Hetchy Power Customers in San Francisco enrolled in CAP discounts for non-payment of power bills; and (4) extend by 15 months through June 30, 2023, (a) the temporary suspensions of the imposition of late payment penalties or fees for delinquent water and/or sewer bills, and (b) the temporary suspension of the imposition of late payment penalties or fees for delinquent Hetch Hetchy Power Customer accounts; all of which are currently scheduled to end March 31, 2022. (Herrera)
18. Authorize the General Manager to Memorialize the Customer Assistance Program for residential customers in SFPUC’s Rules and Regulations Governing Water Service to Customers, to modify the enrollment and eligibility verification processes, and to modify the water and wastewater discounts which, if authorized would take effect no later than April 1, 2022. (Herrera)
19. Update the SFPUC’s permanent water waste restrictions (Resolution 16-0127), also contained in Section E, Rule 12 of the SFPUC’s Rules and Regulations Governing Water Service to Customers and Resolution, to add a new provision prohibiting any homeowner’s association or community service organization from penalizing or threatening individual owners who take measures to reduce irrigation use, to reflect a similar provision in the counterpart emergency water waste regulations adopted by the California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) on January 4, 2022 (Resolution 2022-0002) in response to California’s current drought. (Ritchie)
20. Adjournment
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