A roll call, please.

President Paulson.

I here.

Vice President Rivera.

Here.

Commissioner Jeremy.

Here.

Commissioner Maxwell?

Commissioner Stacy?

Here.

You have a quorum.

Thank you.

So before calling, um, the first item I'd like to announce that the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission acknowledged that it owns and are stewards of the unceded lands located within the ethnohistoric territory of the Moequa Alone tribe and other familiar descendants of the historically federally recognized Mission San Jose Verona Band of Alameda County.

Excuse me.

The SFPUC also recognizes that every citizen residing within the Greater Bay Area has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the Molequa Ohlone tribes aboriginal lands since before and after the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's founding in 1932.

It is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the tribal lands on which we reside, but also we acknowledge and honor the fact that the Mullah Alone people have established a working partnership with the SFPUC and are productive and flourishing members of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area communities today.

So uh Donna, can you read the first uh item?

Item number three, the summary of the budget hearing questions.

So are there any new summaries or questions that have come in or that we have since last Friday's meeting?

No, there are no no update at this meeting.

Okay, so let's get in.

Seeing none um getting into the meet.

Um, can we call item four?

Item four is a water enterprise and Hetchichi Water, fiscal year 2024, 25 and fiscal year 25-26 operating in capital budgets and tenure capital plan.

Welcome, Mr.

Ritchie.

Uh good morning, Commissioners.

Steve Ritchie, Assistant General Manager for Water.

Um, and I'm happy to present on our biennial budget uh for the next two years.

If I can have the slides, please.

So I always have uh a couple of reminder slides up front, again pointing out that uh our water system really does span the width of California, so it's uh it's a much bigger deal than uh uh other things that that you've heard.

Uh this is the third largest water utility in California, so it's uh uh a major, major part of the state's water infrastructure.

Um and we have customers that are outside of San Francisco, uh but San Francisco is shown here.

Our water system customers include San Francisco, most of San Mateo County, uh, the northern part of Santa Clara County, and up into uh Alameda County.

Uh and just for reference here, the darker the blue, the greater the percent that that community relies on San Francisco for its water forests.

So, for example, Hayward is the darkest blue because they are 100 percent of the San Francisco customer, and just south of there is the Alameda County Water District, which actually only relies for about 20 percent on us, except when the State Water Project can't supply them, and then they come back to us looking for more water.

So it's uh we are a more reliable supply than the State Water Project.

Um this is the more routine map uh that we show of the system, a schematic uh that includes the major elements, our three reservoirs uh in the Sierra, uh Lake Lloyd and Lake Eleanor and Hatchetti Reservoir, uh, and then the tunnels uh and facilities coming down from that, the powerhouses uh and operating reservoirs, then crossing the San Joaquin Valley for uh again ultraviolet treatment uh that provides the treatment for our Hetchetse supply that is so pure, it does not need to be filtered uh then crossing through the Coast Range Tunnel where it is joined by water from the two uh Alameda County, Santa Clara County reservoirs, uh San Antonio and Calaveras, uh, and then again through the uh Irvington tunnels to get into the Bay Area proper.

And then you see the the gold area is our service area, um, and then there are the three uh uh peninsula reservoirs, Crystal Springs, Pilarcitos, and San Andreas.

Uh so we have those eight major water supply reservoirs in our system.

Uh and just one note about them is these are all very old dams.

The oldest dam in the system is Pillar Citos, which was constructed in 1866, uh, and except for the newly rebuilt Calaveras Dam.

The youngest dam in the system is Turner Dam at San Antonio Reservoir, which was constructed in 1964.

So that 1964 dam, which is already 59 years old, is the youngest dam in the system.

So it's a very old system, and that's part of what we're talking about here in the budget is we have a lot of ongoing repair that needs to be done there.

Uh and one other key thing about this is that uh our system is really storage reliant more than anything else.

And this is mostly driven by our water rights and how they've developed over time and the fact that we are junior to uh the irrigation districts uh on the Tuomney River.

But that uh that uh large amount of storage is really an advantage for us, and I know we started to talk about climate change a fair amount.

That amount of storage is really helpful for us because uh it is in addition to the snowpack.

So, as snowpack might be down at different times, uh, we have the ability to capture water that is precipitation as rain or carry over precipitation from prior years.

So having a lot of storage is a nice buffer for some of the effects that we will see of climate change.

There's much more of the climate change story, but I know that's been a big topic, and I want to make sure that I point out that kind of thing.

Uh next, uh I want to talk about the water enterprise organization.

Uh you see me here a lot, uh, but uh I am I am just the tip of the iceberg, as you would say.

Uh there are about uh, in terms of official positions, we have about 1,100 positions in the water enterprise, uh, and this is the overall organization chart.

A number of my managers are here today, and I'm gonna introduce them and ask them to stand up at the time.

Uh the deputy manager is Ellen Levin, uh, who unfortunately is out on leave, so she's not able to join us at this point in time, uh, but she works a lot on Bay Delta issues uh and for Don Pedro relicensing issues, uh, so it's a very key part of our organization.

Uh, first, it's going from uh left to right in the bottom, uh Hetch Hater and Power and Margaret Hannafort, actually, you saw just the other day uh for an item.

Uh they have in terms of official positions about 249, and they're responsible for the operation of the system uh from the reservoirs in the Sierra on down through uh the foothills and across the Central Valley.

Uh the exception is the Tesla Ultraviolet facility, which is run by the Water Supply and Treatment Division, but then the Het Che Power Project continues on through the Coast Range Tunnel to Alameda East.