SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
City and County of San Francisco
London N. Breed
Mayor
REGULAR MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, June 14, 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: 2481 759 6071 # #
Commissioners
Anson Moran, President
Newsha Ajami, Vice President
Sophie Maxwell
Tim Paulson
Dennis J. Herrera
General Manager
Donna Hood
Secretary
Accessible Meeting Policy: To obtain meeting materials in alternative format, please contact the Commission Secretary at 415-554-3165 or via email at [email protected]. Providing at least 72 hours’ notice will help to ensure availability.
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 May 24, 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) Alternative Water Supply Program Quarterly Report
e) Recycled Water and Purified Water Opportunities in San Francisco
7. Report of the General Manager (discussion only)
a) Drought Conditions Update
b) Hetch Hetchy Capital Improvement Program Quarterly Report c) Wastewater Enterprise Quarterly Report including Southeast Area Major Projects Update (1) Biosolids, (2) Headworks, and (3) 1550 Evans Southeast community Center
d) CleanPowerSF Integrated Resource Plan
e) 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. 1 to Memorandum of Understanding No. CS-1203, Consulting Services for Workforce Development Programming for the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power Capital Plan, with the San Joaquin County Office of Education to assist the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission with meeting its workforce requirements for the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power Capital Plan through worker participation in San Joaquin, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Mariposa Counties; and authorize the General Manager to execute this amendment extending the contract duration by two years, for a total duration of five years, with no change to the contract amount. (Johanson)
b) Approve an increase of 120 consecutive calendar days to the contract duration contingency for Contract No. DB-129.1, Bay Corridor Transmission and Distribution – Phase 2 North, to Mitchell Engineering; and authorize the General Manager to approve future modifications to the contract for a total contract duration of up to 915 consecutive calendar days (approximately two years and six months), with no change to contract amount. (Johanson)
c) Award Job Order Contract No. JOC-89, 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 minimum guaranteed opportunity amount of $50,000 and a duration of two years, to the responsible bidder that submitted the lowest responsive bid, Trinet Construction, Inc., to perform general engineering work in San Francisco Public Utilities Commission systems and operations around the Bay Area. (Johanson)
d) Approve the assignment and assumption of Grant Agreement No. PRO.0151, an administerial change in fiscal sponsorship; and authorize the General Manager to execute an Assignment and Assumption Agreement for the existing Grant Agreement No. PRO.0151, from San Francisco Parks Alliance to Earth Island Institute, Inc. (Ritchie)
e) Approve an increase of $675,000 to the contract cost contingency for Contract No.
WW-687, Force Main Rehabilitation at Embarcadero and Jackson, with Anvil Builders, Inc; and authorize the General Manager to approve future modifications to the contract for a total contract amount of up to $7,890,844, with no change to contract duration. (Johanson)
f) Accept work performed by Minerva Construction, Inc. for Contract No. WW-691, Sunset Boulevard Greenway - Phase II Irving Street to Ulloa Street; approve Modification No. 2 (Final), increasing the contract by $138,631, for a total contract amount of $2,966,379, and increasing the contract duration by 310 consecutive calendar days (previously approved by the Commission) for a total contract duration of 705 consecutive calendar days (approximately one year and 11 months); and authorize final payment to the contractor. (Johanson)
REGULAR CALENDAR
10. Adopt a Resolution pledging Commission support of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, June 2022, in the City and County of San Francisco. (Perl)
11. Approve the use of certain form contracts to purchase and sell electricity and related products; delegate to the General Manager authority to execute the contracts on behalf of the SFPUC; and authorize the General Manager to seek approval from the Board of Supervisors to execute power supply contracts: (a) with terms in excess of 10 years or requiring expenditures of $10 million or more subject to an annual expenditure limit of $150 million per year; and (b) with anticipated revenue in excess of $1 million or more subject to an annual revenue limit of $10 million per year, through June 30, 2027. (Hale)
12. Retroactively accept and expend federal funds sourced by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and administered by the State Water Resources Control Board to provide assistance to eligible residential and commercial customers who accrued wastewater arrears during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Perl)
13. Adopt a Resolution accepting the 2022 SFPUC Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) and authorize the General Manager to submit the WMP to the California Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety Wildfire Safety Advisory Board on or before July 1, 2022. (Ritchie)
14. Approve the proposed Water Enterprise Security Mitigation Plan (Security Mitigation Plan) and designate the Executive Director of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management as the qualified authority to review the Security Mitigation Plan; and authorize the Water Enterprise to implement the Security Mitigation Plan. The proposed Security Mitigation Plan was prepared by Water Enterprise staff in response to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Decision 19-01-018 (Phase I Decision on Order Instituting Rulemaking Regarding the Physical Security of Electrical Corp) (Decision 19-01-018 or Decision). (Ritchie)
15. Authorize the General Manager to execute, on behalf of the City and County of San Francisco, an Agreement with the County of Tuolumne, for an amount not-to-exceed $2,497,197 and with a duration of six years, which will provide funding for enhanced essential services, such as fire suppression and protection, sheriff protection and patrol, road maintenance, and ambulance services, as well as mutual aid services, for the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power Project. (Ritchie)
16. Authorize the General Manager to execute, on behalf of the City and County of San Francisco, a Collection Agreement with the United States Forest Service, Stanislaus National Forest, for an amount not-to-exceed $2,330,087 and with a duration of five years, to provide watershed protection for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s approved water sources and surrounding lands within the Stanislaus National Forest. (Ritchie)
17. Approve the selection of Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, Inc./Applied Technology & Science Joint Venture (KJ/A-T-S JV), AECOM Technical Services, Inc./Water Resources Engineering, Inc., Joint Venture (AECOM/WRE JV), Woodard & Curran, Inc./SRT Consultants Joint Venture (Woodard & Curran/SRT JV), and Brown and Caldwell/Lotus Joint Venture (Brown and Caldwell/Lotus JV); award Contract 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 execute four professional services contracts with KJ/A-T-S JV (PRO.0188.A), AECOM/WRE JV (PRO.0188.B), Woodard & Curran/SRT JV (PRO.0188.C), and 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. (Johanson)
18. Adjournment
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