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May 8, 2026 Valerie Howard Re: Crocker Amazon Playground (email + attachment)
May 15, 2026 SFPUC Capital Finance Power Enterprise Bond Sale Results May 15, 2026 Robert Hall When will SFPUC set artificial turf policy?
May 15, 2026 Valerie Howard Re: Crocker Amazon Playground Proposed Renovation
May 15, 2026 Bay Area Water Supply
& Conservation Agency
Agenda for the May 21, 2026 BAWSCA
Board of Directors Meeting (email +
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1 From: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2026 4:18 AM
To: ChenStaff
Cc: [email protected]; SherrillStaff; SauterStaff; WongStaff (BOS); MahmoodStaff; DorseyStaff (BOS); MelgarStaff (BOS); MandelmanStaff (BOS); FielderStaff; Waltonstaff (BOS); ChanStaff (BOS); [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Herrera, David; Commission; John-Baptiste, Alicia (MYR); Madland, Sarah (REC)
Subject: Re: Crocker Amazon Playground
Attachments: Trees.pdf
Dear Supervisor Chen: Your predecessor in District Eleven, Supervisor Safai, oversaw pla nting thre e thousa nd street trees without which “ our urban canopy would have been i n the negative. ” The 128 mature trees in Crocker Amazon Playgrou nd are ZjQcmQR YFpfptBa nnerStart
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Dear Supervisor Chen:
Your predecessor in District Eleven, Supervisor Safai, oversaw planting three thousand street trees without which “our urban canopy would have been in the negative.” The 128 mature trees in Crocker Amazon Playground are an important part of that District Eleven urban canopy, because they not only clean and cool the air and beautify our District, but they also serve specifically to counteract the harmful effects of the already-existing artificial turf soccer fields next to them on the other side from the proposed artificial turf baseball diamonds. Putting in more acres of artificial turf and removing these trees would adversely affect all our health, athletes and non-athletes alike. There is a better way that is healthy for all.
KEEP THE MATURE TREES AND REAL GRASS!!!
Sincerely,
Your Constituent,
Valerie Howard
1 From: SFPUC Capital Finance <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2026 8:57 AM
To: Commission
Subject: Power Enterprise Bond Sale Results
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Completed
Bond Sale Results Announcement
May 15, 2026
Power Enterprise Revenue Bond (Refunding) Series
2026A
On May 15, 2026, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) successfully closed $26,690,000 Power Revenue Bonds, 2026 Series A. The 2026A Bonds were issued to refund outstanding Power Revenue Bonds, 2015 Series A for future debt service savings of about $426,000 per year or a total of about $8.5 million. The Net Present Value (NPV) savings were approximately 12% or $3.9 million. This bond financing was issued pursuant to authority granted by the City Charter through Section 9.109 and ordinances of the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The SFPUC Commissioners authorized this issuance at their April 14, 2026, meeting under Resolution No. 26-0057.
2 Kirkwood powerhouse, which is one of the many projects refinanced by bonds with this transaction.
Sales Results
The 2026A Bonds were purchased
by Barclays as Purchaser on April
21, 2026, under a direct purchase
Bond Purchase Contract allowing
the transaction to proceed swiftly
and efficiently without the time
consuming and costly preparation
of a bond offering document known
as a Preliminary Official Statement.
Barclays was selected through a
competitive RFP process from
firms in the prequalified bond
underwriting pool currently
maintained by the City Controller
and the prequalified banking pool
currently maintained by the San
Francisco Airport (SFO).
The Direct Purchase transaction
did not require an investor
marketing period, Preliminary
While the bonds were offered with 5%
coupons on bonds maturing in each year
from November 1, 2026, through
November 1, 2045, the actual bond yields
were significantly less, thus generating
additional premium when the bonds were
sold to the investor and this premium
reduced the size of the bonds required to
refund the bonds. The SFPUC thus
generated nearly $30.0 million of bond
proceeds including the premium, by
issuing nearly $26.7 million of bonds.
Yields on the bonds range from 2.41% for
bonds maturing November 1, 2027, up to
3.93% for bonds maturing November 1,
2045. Accounting for all costs associated
with the financing, the overall interest rate
on the bonds (referred to as the All-in True
Interest Cost or "All-In TIC") was 3.74%.
3 Official Statement, or a rating at
closing. The transaction does
require the SFPUC to obtain a
rating from either Moody's or S&P,
at the purchaser's expense, in the
future under a provision designed
to allow the SFPUC to avoid a
special trip to the rating agencies
by allowing the SFPUC to obtain
the rating in conjunction with other
expected rating surveillance
reviews. In exchange for these
accommodations and money-
saving terms that allowed the
SFPUC to time the pricing with
increased flexibility to take
advantage of optimal market rates,
interest rates on each bond
included a modest premium of 22
to 25 basis points (0.22% - 0.25%).
At the time of the transaction, the
broader financial market had
largely stabilized following the
significant volatility due to the U.S.
military strikes on Iran in late
February. Although municipal
yields rose sharply during March,
yields fell toward the pricing date
with municipal yield rates declining
between 5 and 33 basis points as
volatility diminished.
Mountain Tunnel Project
Although the SFPUC’s debt policies set a
minimum refunding savings threshold of at
least 3% Net Present Value (NPV)
savings, with this very successful
refunding, NPV Savings were
approximately 12% providing about
$426,000 savings per year or $8.5 million
in total future rate payer relief from FY
2027 through FY 2046 on a $26.69 million
refunding.
The SFPUC's Capital Finance team would like to thank and congratulate our team of advisors, attorneys, bond purchaser, and all of our internal partners across the organization who helped to successfully bring this transaction to market. The SFPUC was advised by municipal advisory firm PFM Financial Advisors. The Bond Counsel firm was Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth LLP.
Utilities General Counsel Sheryl Bregman advised the SFPUC on bond matters in coordination with members of the Office of the City Attorney. The Bond Trustee is U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association. Montague DeRose & Associates, LLC served as the Independent Pricing Consultant.
4 For more information, please contact the SFPUC's Capital Finance team:
Nikolai J. Sklaroff, Capital Finance Director, [email protected] Edward Kwong, Capital Finance Analyst, [email protected] Daniel Fuchs, Capital Finance Analyst, [email protected] Eric Kwak, Debt Analyst, [email protected]
Earl Dunivan, Debt Analyst, [email protected]
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1 From: Robert Hall <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2026 9:09 PM
To: Ross, Autumn A; Batjiaka, Ryan; Maack, Emma; Ahn, Matthew Y; Commission Subject: When will SFPUC set artificial turf policy?
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Completed
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You have not previously corresponded with this sender. Report Suspicious Can SFPUC develop a policy on artificial turf and stand up to Rec/Park? Rec/Park manages well over 48 acres of artificial turf when you add up their driving range, athletic fields, playgrounds and dog parks. In environmental terms, the public dollars spent on these fields makes San Francisco and its leaders responsible for:
— **7 to 11.6 million pounds of plastic and rubber pollution sitting on the ground** — roughly 132 fully-loaded garbage trucks' worth. Those trucks get refilled every 8 to 10 years when fields are replaced. None of it goes to a recycling facility despite what Rec/Park tells the public. — **80,000 to 260,000 pounds of microplastic shed into the environment each year**, much of it traveling through the storm sewer system into the Pacific Ocean or the SF Bay. SFPUC has no plans to add filters to their treatment plants.
— **Approximately 220 to 400 metric tonnes of CO₂-equivalent emissions per year** across the lifecycle of the artificial turf — roughly three times the equivalent footprint of natural grass. — **Heat equivalent to 24 to 32 megawatts of continuous thermal energy on a sunny summer day**, compared to what equivalent natural grass would do at the same sites. This raises surrounding air temperatures by up to 7°F and contributes to the urban heat island. — **32 to 52 million gallons of PFAS-contact runoff per year**, discharged through the Bay and ocean. Notre Dame researchers (Whitehead, Peaslee) have estimated runoff PFAS concentrations at approximately 3 parts per trillion, within 25% of the EPA's enforceable drinking-water Maximum Contaminant Level.
— **48 acres of soil ecosystems eliminated and entombed under plastic** — the bacteria, fungi, earthworms, and mycorrhizal networks that would otherwise sequester carbon, infiltrate stormwater, and cool the surrounding air.
With Earth Day just a few weeks behind us: when was the last time any of you took dedicated time to study this issue and think about how San Francisco transitions away from spending public funds on this kind of environmental degradation? SFPUC still has no artificial policy and no plan to deal with Rec/Park’s next toxic rollout at Crocker Amazon, SFPUC’s own property.l What the heck happened to the spines of the caretakers of our precious water? Bob Hall
Keep Crocker Real
1 From: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2026 11:38 PM
To: ChenStaff
Cc: [email protected]; SherrillStaff; SauterStaff; WongStaff (BOS); MahmoodStaff; DorseyStaff (BOS); MelgarStaff (BOS); MandelmanStaff (BOS); FielderStaff; Waltonstaff (BOS); ChanStaff (BOS); [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Herrera, David; Commission; John-Baptiste, Alicia (MYR); Madland, Sarah (REC)
Subject: Re: Crocker Amazon Playground Proposed Renovation Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Completed
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This message came from outside your organization. Report Suspicious Dear Supervisor Chen:
I want to remind you that no matter what some officials would like to think, the fact remains that it is the San Francisco Department of Recreation AND PARKS, NOT the Department of WRECKED PARKS, and that we are the heirs to a priceless natural treasure Mother Nature has gifted us, that it is our duty and responsibility to protect and care for, and which is not a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder.
In Crocker Amazon Park, keep the balls flying on REAL grass, keep the birds crying from MATURE trees. John McLaren would be turning in his grave at the idea of more artificial turf to renovate Crocker Amazon Park.
We do NOT want a SILENT SPRING.
Sincerely,
Your Constituent,
Valerie Howard
1 From: Lourdes Enriquez <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2026 2:28 PM
To: BAWSCA WMR
Cc: Smegal, Tom; Deborah Grimes; Sandra Johnson
Subject: Agenda for the May 21, 2026 BAWSCA Board of Directors Meeting Attachments: 26_BAWSCA_May21_Agenda_FINAL.pdf
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2190242.1
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
Thursday, May 21, 2026
6:30 P.M.
Burlingame Community Center – Sequoia Room
850 Burlingame Ave., Burlingame
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(Three members of the Board will participate in this meeting by Teleconference. Locations shall be:
• 255 East Illinois Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045.
• 120 West 41st Street, New York, NY 10036
• No. 222 Xinhua Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China, 400010 When any member of the board participates by teleconference, all votes taken at this meeting will be by roll call vote.)
AGENDA
Agenda Item Presenter Page
1. Call to Order/Roll Call/Salute to Flag (Vella)
2. Comments by the Chair (Vella)
3. Board Policy Committee Report (Attachment) (Ragsdale) Pg 5
4. Consent Calendar (Attachments) (Vella)
A. Approve Minutes of the March 19, 2026 Meeting
B. Receive and File Budget Status Report – As of March 31, 2026 C. Receive and File Bond Surcharge Collection Reports – As of March 31, 2026 D. Receive and File Investment Report – As of March 31, 2026 E. Receive and File Directors’ Reimbursement Report – As of March 31, 2026 F. Receive and File Employee Reimbursement Report – As of March 31, 2026
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5. SFPUC Report (Kastama/Lee)
A. SFPUC 2025 Urban Water Management Plan
6. Public Comments (Vella)
Members of the public may address the Board on any issues not listed on the agenda that are within the purview of the Agency. Comments on matters that are listed on the agenda may be made at the time the Board is considering each item.
Each speaker is allowed a maximum of two (2) minutes.
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7. Action Calendar
A. Proposed Fiscal Year 2026-27 Work Plan, Results to be Achieved, and (Smegal) Operating Budget (Attachment)
That the Board approve the:
1. Proposed Fiscal Year 2026-27 Work Plan and Results to be Achieved;
2. Proposed Operating Budget of $5,340,828; and
3. Proposed funding plan Option 2 of 0% Assessment increase.
The Committee voted unanimously to recommend Board approval of the proposed action.
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B. Approval of Professional Services Contracts for FY 2026-27 (Attachments) (Smegal) Consultant Contracts for Technical and Administrative Services
1. E Source (Water Loss Management Program)
2. Hanson Bridgett (Legal Counsel)
3. Hazen & Sawyer (Engineering/Water Mgmt.)
4. IG Services (Auditing/Accounting Services)
5. KNN Public Finance (Financial Advisor)
6. Richard Sykes (WSIP, 10-year CIP)
7. Stetson Engineering (Water Analyses, WSA)
8. Water Systems Consultants (WSC)
Consultant Contracts for Conservation Programs
9. AM Conservation Group (School Education Program)
10. EarthCapades (School Assembly Program)
11. Global Sun Landscape (Lawn Be Gone Inspection Services)
12. M&M Backflow and Meter Maintenance (Customer Meter Testing)
13. VertexOne (Home Water Use Reports Program)
14. Waterfluence, LLC (Large Landscape Conservation Services) These items are considered annually and do not represent new policy action for board consideration; therefore, they were not presented to the Committee.
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C. Approval and Adoption of BAWSCA Pay Schedules for FY 2026-27 and (Smegal) Correction for FY 2024-25 (Attachment)
The Committee voted unanimously to recommend Board approval of the Recommended action.
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D. Authorization of CEO/General Manager to Negotiate and Execute (Smegal) a Professional Services Agreement with a Human Resources Management Service Provider.
The Committee voted unanimously to confirm the solicitation process conforms to agency practices. There is no recommendation to the Board as the selection process had not concluded at the time of the BPC meeting.
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8. CEO Reports (Smegal)
A. FERC/Bay Delta Plan Update
B. CEO/General Manager’s Letter (Attachment)
C. Board Policy Calendar (Attachment)
D. Correspondence Packet (Under Separate Cover)
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9. CLOSED SESSION (Schutte)
A. Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation pursuant to Paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Government Code Section 54956.9 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Final License Application Proceedings for Don Pedro Hydroelectric Project, P-2299-082, and La Grange Hydroelectric Project, P-14581-002.
B. Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation pursuant to Paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Government Code Section 54956.9 - State Water Board Cases (Third Appellate District Court Case No.
C101232).
10. Report from Closed Session (Schutte)
11. Additional Time for Public Comments (Time Permitting) (Vella) Members of the public may address the Board on any issues that are within the purview of the Agency.
12. Directors’ Discussion: Comments, Questions and Agenda Requests (Vella)
13. Date, Time and Location of Future Meetings (Vella) (See attached schedule and locations of meetings)
14. Adjourn to next meeting scheduled for July 16, 2026 at 6:30 pm Foster City Community Building – Wind Room – 1000 E. Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City.
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