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Neighborhood advocate urges city attorney review of firefighting water fund transfers to SFPUC

Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee (San Francisco City) · October 23, 2023
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Summary

At a Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee meeting, Eileen Volkin alleged the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission shifted city firefighting water infrastructure to potable uses and used bond funds in ways potentially inconsistent with Proposition 218, and urged a city attorney opinion and examination of cost overruns.

Eileen Volkin, speaking for the Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods, told the Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee that the city's dedicated emergency firefighting water system (referred to in testimony as AWOS) was transferred to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission in May 2010 and that the PUC has since shifted toward a model that uses the same pipework for potable…

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