THE CORE PROBLEM WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC COMMISSION IS POOR LEADERSHIP - ABJECT CORRUPTION - THAT WILL BRING DOWN THE SFPUC - RIGHT NOW MOST OF THE MANAGERS ARE JUMPING SHIP.

 

Our team has worked hard to take on a case that most attorneys and experts in San Francisco have looked at and found that they could not spend the necessary time to stand tall and represent.

There was a time when we in San Francisco led the United States. San Francisco was the site where the United Nations Charter was drafted, and it was signed at the War Memorial Building. 

It is a shame that the SF City Hall has harbored too many corrupt folks and led the corrupt San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

The Swer System Improvement Project (SSIP) - started with a budget of $6 Billion - has reached $15 Billion today and is heading towards $25 Billion. 

The SFPU Commission meets, and there is not a single person who has qualified experience and, chronologically speaking, an understanding of the Raiker Act - and how the SFPUC should be operating.

The Hetch Hetchy Valley was and remains the most beautiful valley in the world. The Tuolomne River was famous for the millions of Salmon that arrived at the Tuolomne River year after year and spawned - only for the SFPUC with intent - to draw so much water from the Tuolomne River - heat the river and choke the Salmon to death. 

The last count was less than 47 salmon, and the SFPUC has never once mentioned this fact.

For thousands of years, the indigenous tribes followed the Salmon's path from the Pacific Ocean to Hetch Hetchy and beyond.

The indigenous tribes of California, who lived on and cared for the land for over 15,000 years, were carbon-dated, and in some cases, DNA evidence showed that many tribes inhabited and cared for the land for over 7,000 years.

For some strange reason, "strangers " are full of greed and salivating over the gold and other minerals, contaminating the land and surroundings.

Built homes close to the rivers, cut the old growth redwoods, waste and pollute the rivers as part of the mining, and other atrocities that make no sense - destroyed all that was pristine.

The worst entity that went unnoticed for decades is the two-legged human being that has not respected Mother Earth, and today the result is Climate Change.

John Muir, who spent an inordinate time in and around Yosemite and was familiar with the forest, the rivers, the valley, the mountains, and all the the Great Spirit created - fought to save the Hetch Hetchy Valley - and the greed politicians convinced the United States Congress - to flood the Hetch Hetchy Valley - to help and save San Francisco - more, after the 1906 Earthquake.

Today - Peter Drekmeier and a few other keep speaking Truth to Power and try our best to convince the SFPUC to save the Tuolumne River - folks like Steve Ritchie and Dennis Herrera are a pain in the ass - lie, and these guys have to step down and fade into oblivion.

We do not need the SFPU Commission - none of them have the expertise needed to smoothly operate the key aspects of Hetch Hetchy operations, Calaveras, Crystal Springs, the many reservoirs, and the over 170 cisterns that SFPUC took over from the SF Fire Department.

Billions of dollars were set aside to address deferred maintenance operations and structure - clean water pipes, sewer pipes, force mains, our reservoirs in San Francisco have two feet of sludge, and other contamination.

This supposedly clean drinking water from the reservoirs is meant to be drunk, and is pumped to over a million people who are put in harm's way. 

Our team has a presentation on the situation of many contaminated reservoirs, where the SF Public Utilities Commission has failed due to deferred maintenance and has encountered problems with the Plumbers Union refusing to work under unsafe conditions.

When I say our team, it is a team that I put together, the local citizens of San Francisco, who met every Wednesday for many months to help the victims who were fired by SFPUC - Joe King, Adolfo Padilla, and Conrad King.

The manager, William Taehan, and Frank Jordon - knowing well that the Plumbers refused to work in "Confined Spaces " - enticed the laborers into doing the "Confined Space " project for more pay, without proper training and putting them in harm's way.

Two of the three workers were injured, and all three were traumatized.

The Laborers' Union 261 refused to help the three victims - even though they paid their Union Dues - we will deal with the Union when the time comes - complete with empirical data - and verified corruption that must STOP.

The City and County of San Francisco - Civil Service Commission - is a joke and must be audited by the FEDS - it has single-handedly destroyed the lives of hundreds of workers - by kicking the can down the street. 

Steve Zelter, well known all over San Francisco and beyond as an advocate, has attended the Civil Service Commission meetings - spoken Truth to Power - the Commission listens and does nothing to help those who most need help.

I prayed and had to come up with a plan that most would not dare to follow - I took it upon myself to first address the SFPU Commission on October 28, 2026, and offer them a solution: give the three victims, Joe King, Adolfo Padilla, and Conrad King, a second chance.

I attended all the SFPUC meetings every second Tuesday and fourth Tuesday - from October, 2025 to April, 2026 - at each meeting, making my views and those of my team. 

There was no response - let us see once the FEDS come in and charge the SFPUC under the RICO ACT.

I commend the SF Cal/OSHA for reviewing the documents we sent them and for their diligence, fortitude, and tenacity in coming to the rescue of Joe King, Adolfo Padilla, and Conrad King.

I commend the State Civil Rights Department for accepting the initial documents sent by the three fired SFPUC employees - and scheduling them for an interview.

Even as an SFPUC manager makes half a million dollar salaries - the likes of Dennis Herrera - others make over $400,000, many over $300,000, and have the audacity to fire innocent workers, one worked for over eight years without a single notice, and not obeying orders.

Another was commended as Employee of the Year - what made these corrupt managers who must be fired - William Taehan, Frank Jordon, and their supervisor, Steven Ritchie, who has been milking SFPUC, and any audit will show this - RICO ACT must be endorsed. 

The Truth told to the public at large. 

While this singular case has forced two of the fired employees to file for Workers' Compensation, obtaining it has been easy. The families have suffered endless pain and have come before the SFPUC and stated the facts.

It is time to rid the chaff from the wheat - and the corrupt managers, and there is tons of information with the Feds - you see these corrupt managers - fall down much like gadflies - swatted from the wall of corruption.

The Mayor of San Francisco is a Joke - and he has taken our once great City and County down the drain - and is drowning in the cesspool of his own creation.

Our team appeared before the SF Inspector General and provided her with all the empirical evidence on a platter. We have yet to hear from her.

Greg Wagner - SF Controller is a decent human being - his first Press Release stated to all: "No one is above the law.

I pray to God that the City and County of San Francisco - change its solid ways - daily things are getting from bad to worse.

I served as the Sixth Army's and the Presidio of San Francisco's last Congressional Liaison - dealing with United States Senators and Congress Representatives - I am proud to serve the United States - and not afraid of the many crooks - who we pay - the taxpayers - and have to deal with abject nonsense.

As the Director of Environmental Justice Advocacy - I have tried my best for the last 50 years - to do my best - and never knew that a time would come for me to - defend those that need help and are innocent - preyed by corrupt managers that we taxpayers pay their salaries in the thousands.