Good morning, this meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the April 4th 2024 regular meeting of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I'm Supervisor Dean Preston, Chair of the Committee, joined by Vice Chair Catherine Stephanie and Supervisor Connie Chan.

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Madam Clerk, do you have any announcements?

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Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Please call item one.

Item number one is a resolution approving the umbrella memorandum of understanding between the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the San Francisco Unified School District in establishing a partnership framework for SFPUC's installation and operation of various green infrastructure projects on SFUSD properties with a total term of 40 years from June 1st, 2024 through June 30th, 2064.

Thank you.

We'll first hear from Sarah Bloom, watershed planner with uh San Francisco PUC and Kate Levitt, Director of Communications for the San Francisco Unified School District.

Welcome, please proceed.

My name is Sarah Bloom, and I'm a senior watershed planner with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Thank you very much for your time this morning.

I wanted to start by thanking Supervisors Melgar and Mandelman for sponsoring this resolution.

I also wanted to start with acknowledging the partnership between San Francisco Unified School District and the PUC that started over 15 years ago around green infrastructure and schoolyards.

By starting small with a handful of demonstration projects designed to both manage stormwater while also providing educational and stewardship opportunities to students, we were able to build upon our access successes and scale up that investment through our various grant programs that we now have in place.

And now we will we will be scaling up that investment even further as we begin to work together through this agreement on capital green infrastructure projects.

The agreement before you today is what we have named our umbrella MOU, which establishes the general framework for our partnership, including overall objectives and roles and responsibilities between our two agencies for all phases of a project from planning through ongoing maintenance.

Under the MOU, the SFPUC will be responsible for hiring contractors to install the green infrastructure.

And after completion, the SFPUC will be responsible for the ongoing maintenance of the infrastructure.

This umbrella MOU does not commit us to any specific projects.

In the legislative file that you have, you will see appendix A1, which is our site agreement document.

These individual site agreements will be the mechanism by which projects are authorized on a specific school site and will include more detailed project information and responsibilities.

These individual site agreements will run for 30 years, which is consistent with the asset life of our Capitol Green Infrastructure.

And if the board chooses to authorize the 40-year umbrella MOU, the individual site agreements will be brought to the SFPUC Commission and Board of Education for approval and incorporation into the umbrella agreement.

This structure acknowledges the value of having a long-term vision to govern our partnership and guide the repeatable creation of site agreements to initiate projects going forward.

The approval of this MOU will help the SFPUC reach its long-term vision of managing one billion gallons of stormwater using green infrastructure by 2050.

It will also provide SFUSD with the schoolyard improvements that increase children's access to nature and benefit all of us by creating a more resilient city.

And now I'll pass it to Kate Levitt with the San Francisco Unified School District.

Welcome, Ms.

Levitt.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for the introduction.

I just have a few brief uh comments to make on behalf of SFUSD.

I'm the communications director for the Bond program at SFUSD, which is working in collaboration with SFPOC to develop, design, and implement the green schoolyard projects.

And we um we were already seeing the impact of the collaboration that we've had with SFPOC at many of our schools.

Um we think it's uh it's amazing to have both the opportunity to manage stormwater better at our school sites and also um bring more opportunities for students, educators to interact with nature and um and bring more opportunities for learning into our school environments.

So we're um really thrilled for this MOU and in full support and looking forward to working with SFPOC into the future.

So thank you very much.

Thank you very much, and thanks uh to both PUC and uh SFUSD for the collaborative work on this.

Umly questions I had were just I understand the structure here, this has an umbrella and then the attachment A, which is a site-specific agreements as they come up, and those will have separate approvement approval process uh just but for not just for the board but for members of the public, um even though we're not approving the site specific agreements, uh where would one find a list of uh in and in priority order of what those uh site specific sites and and the plans are.

Yeah, so we um don't have a full list of anticipated projects.

I think once this umbrella MOU is approved, we'll get started on kind of that process together.

Ways that the public will be able to see that is um once an agreement, well, actually, we we have the first project mostly agreed on, um, Giannini Middle School, that is in our PUC capital plan.