SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
City and County of San Francisco
London N. Breed
Mayor
REGULAR MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
1:30 PM
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
City Hall, Room 400
San Francisco, CA 94102
This meeting will be held in person at the location listed above. As authorized by California Government Code Section 54953(e) and Mayor Breed’s 45th Supplement to her February 25, 2020 emergency proclamation, it is possible that some members of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission may attend this meeting remotely. In that event, those members will participate and vote by video. Members of the public may attend the meeting to observe and provide public comment at the physical meeting location listed above or may watch live online at https://www.sfgovtv.org/sfpuc
Instructions for providing remote public comment are below PUBLIC COMMENT CALL-IN:
1 (415) 655-0001 / MEETING ID: 2492 675 0385 # #
Commissioners
Anson Moran, President
Newsha Ajami, Vice President
Sophie Maxwell
Tim Paulson
Dennis J. Herrera
General Manager
Donna Hood
Secretary
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Written reports or background materials for calendar items are available on-line at the Commission website.
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CEQA Appeal Rights under Chapter 31 of the San Francisco Administrative Code: If the Commission’s action on a project constitutes the Approval Action for that project (as defined in S.F. Administrative Code Chapter 31, as amended, Board of Supervisors Ordinance Number 161-13), then the CEQA determination prepared in support of that Approval Action is thereafter subject to appeal within the time frame specified in S.F. Administrative Code Section 31.16.
Typically, an appeal must be filed within 30 calendar days of the Approval Action for a project that has received an exemption or negative declaration pursuant to CEQA. For information on filing an appeal under Chapter 31, contact the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors at City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244, San Francisco, CA 94102, or call (415) 554-5184. If the Planning Department’s Environmental Review Officer has deemed a project to be exempt from further environmental review, an exemption determination has been prepared and can be obtained on-line at http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=3447.Under CEQA, in a later court challenge, a litigant may be limited to raising only those issues previously raised at a hearing on the project or in written correspondence delivered to the Board of Supervisors, Planning Commission, Planning Department or San Francisco Public Utilities Commission at, or prior to, such hearing, or as part of the appeal hearing process on the CEQA decision.
ORDER OF BUSINESS
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Adopt renewed findings under State Urgency Legislation to allow hybrid in-person meetings during the COVID-19 Emergency 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 April 26, 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
d) 2009 Water Supply Agreement Update
e) Annual SuperGreen Multi-Year Service Agreement Customer Update f) Sewer Inspection and Replacement Program Update
7. Report of the General Manager (discussion only)
a) Drought Conditions Update
b) Report on Recent San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Activities, Events and Announcements
8. New Commission Business (discussion only)
9. CONSENT CALENDAR
a) Approve Amendment No. 2 to each of the following three contracts to provide as needed Sewer System Improvement Program and Hetchy System Improvement Program Environmental Services: (1) Contract No. CS-258.A with Environmental Science Associates/Orion Environmental Joint Venture; (2) Contract No. CS-258.B with ICF Jones & Stokes, Inc./Panorama Environmental, Inc., Joint Venture; and (3) Contract No. CS-258.C with URS Corporation, increasing each contract by $1,000,000 and increasing the duration of each contract by 11 months, for a total amount not-to-exceed for each contract of $8,300,000 and a total duration for each contract of nine years and 11 months; and authorize the General Manager to execute the three amendments. (Johanson)
b) Approve Amendment No. 3 to Contract No. CS- 369.A, Program Scheduling and Cost Control Staff Augmentation Services, with ECS Inc., extending the duration by one year and six months, to provide program/project scheduling, critical path method scheduling, forecasting, change control, cost controls, and cost estimating for capital improvement projects in the Sewer System Improvement Program, Water Enterprise Capital Improvement Program, and Hetch Hetchy Capital Improvement Program, for a total duration of eight years and six months, with no change to the contract amount; and authorize the General Manager to execute this amendment. (Johanson)
c) Approve Amendment No. 2 to Contract No. CS- 369.B, Program Scheduling and Cost Control Staff Augmentation Services, with PMA Consultants LLC - Dabri Joint Venture, extending the duration by one year and six months, to provide program/project scheduling, critical path method scheduling, forecasting, change control, cost controls, and cost estimating for capital improvement projects in the Sewer System Improvement Program, Water Enterprise Capital Improvement Program, and Hetch Hetchy Capital Improvement Program, for a total duration of eight years and six months, with no change to the contract amount; and authorize the General Manager to execute this amendment. (Johanson) d) Approve the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Work-Based Learning Program rules; award a grant agreement to SFUSD to fund career awareness and exposure opportunity for San Francisco youth through paid work-based learning opportunities at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission; and authorize the General Manager to execute a grant agreement with a not-to-exceed grant amount $6,000 and with a duration of one year. (Ordikhani) e) Approve the selection of Kennedy Jenks/ATS JV, AECOM/WRE JV, Woodard & Curran/SRT JV, and Brown and Caldwell/Lotus JV; award Agreement Nos.
PRO.0188.A, PRO.0188.B, PRO.0188.C, and PRO.0188.D, As-Needed Specialized and Technical Services, Water Enterprise, to provide short-term, highly specialized work for the Water Enterprise; and authorize the General Manager to negotiate and execute four professional services agreements with Kennedy/Jenks Consultants Inc/Applied Technology & Science Joint Venture (KJ/A-T-S JV) (PRO.0188.A), AECOM Technical Services Inc./Water Resources Engineering Inc.
Joint Venture (AECOM/WRE JV) (PRO.0188.B), Woodard & Curran Inc/SRT Consultants Joint Venture (Woodard & Curran/SRT JV)(PRO.0188.C), and Brown and Caldwell/Lotus Joint Venture (Brown and Caldwell/Lotus JV) (PRO.0188.D), each for an amount not-to-exceed $5,000,000, and each with a duration of five years, subject to the Board of Supervisors approval under Charter Section 9.118. (Ritchie)
f) Ratify correction of the contract award amount for Contract No. WD-2880R, Warehouse Office Suite Renovation, 1990 Newcomb Avenue, San Francisco, under Resolution No. 21-0126, adopted by the Commission on August 10, 2021, from $1,328,039 to $1,338,039. The agenda item, award Resolution, and Contract Monitoring Division (CMD) memo incorrectly identified the total contract amount as $1,328,039, when the Bid Submittal and Bid Tabulation identified it correctly as $1,338,039. (Ritchie)
g) Accept work performed by Cratus, Inc., under Contract No. WW-703, Mission Street, 16th to Cesar Chavez Street, Brick Sewer Rehabilitation; approve Modification No. 6 (final) decreasing the contract amount by $92,973, for a total contract amount of $6,061,536, and increasing the contract duration by 31 consecutive calendar days, for a total contract duration of 426 consecutive calendar days (approximately one year and four months); and authorize final payment to the contractor. (Johanson)
REGULAR CALENDAR
10. Consider and adopt the proposed Wholesale Water Rates for Fiscal Year 2022- 2023, which will become effective for meter readings on or after July 1, 2022. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission developed the proposed rates in accordance with the terms of the Water Supply Agreement between the City and County of San Francisco and its Wholesale Customers, which was approved on April 28, 2009 by Commission Resolution No. 09-0069, and amended and restated on December 11, 2018 by Commission Resolution No. 18-0212, with subsequent approval by the Wholesale Customers. This action constitutes the Approval Action for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 31.04(h) of the San Francisco Administrative Code. The Planning Department has determined that this action is exempt from the CEQA. If the item is approved, the Commission will rely on that determination to make its decision. (Perl)
11. Adjournment
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