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Supervisors adopt technical amendments and forward SFPUC financing ordinances to full Board
Summary
The Budget Committee adopted technical amendments to seven SFPUC capital appropriation and three debt‑authorization ordinances — including Hetch Hetchy, wastewater and water revenue bond authorizations — and forwarded items 3–9, as amended, to the full Board for its Sept. 15 meeting with a 5‑0 roll‑call vote.
The Budget and Appropriations Committee on Friday adopted amendments to a package of Public Utilities Commission financing ordinances and agreed to forward the measures to the full Board of Supervisors on Sept. 15. The ordinances would appropriate hundreds of millions of dollars in capital funding and authorize revenue bond issuances for the SFPUC’s power, wastewater and water enterprises.
Eric Sandler, chief financial officer for the SFPUC, told the committee the package implements the utilities’ two‑year capital investment plan. ‘‘There are 7 ordinances tied to the implementation of our capital budget,’’ Sandler said, describing supplemental appropriations for wastewater, water, Hetch Hetchy water and power and a small CleanPowerSF appropriation, together with three debt authorization ordinances to issue revenue bonds.
The clerk summarized the measures as including a Hetch Hetchy capital supplemental of about $260.3 million, a CleanPowerSF supplemental of $4.3 million and multi‑hundred‑million dollar appropriations for wastewater and water programs, plus debt authorizations not to exceed roughly $142.9 million (power), $349.9 million (wastewater) and $347.1 million (water).
PUC staff identified two substantive technical corrections and several implementation clarifications. John Scarpulo of the SFPUC said the wastewater supplemental contained a line‑item error on page 14; the correct captioned figure should be $57,174,566 to be placed on the Controller’s reserve. Scarpulo also described amendments to the debt authorizations that would allow the city to issue refunding revenue bonds immediately after ordinance adoption.
After BLA staff summarized rate impacts — about a 1% yearly increase for some municipal power customers and an estimated 7–8% range for water/wastewater rate impacts in the first full years — Chair Sandra Lee Feuer moved to adopt the amendments to items 5, 7, 8 and 9. Supervisor Shimon Walton seconded; the roll‑call vote recorded five ayes (Walton, Mandelman, Yee, Ronan, Feuer), and the committee then voted 5‑0 to forward items 3 through 9, as amended, to the full Board’s Sept. 15 agenda.
The committee’s actions were documented for the Controller’s Office, which will incorporate the committee’s intent into the final two‑year budget package and the full Board packet for Sept. 15.
What happens next: The measures will appear on the Board of Supervisors’ Sept. 15 meeting agenda. The Controller’s certification of funds availability will remain a condition for several appropriations.
