president vietor: the commission took no item -- action on item 16. could we have a motion regarding whether to disclose? >> move not to disclose. president vietor: all those in favor? opposed? >> any other items before we adjourn? president vietor: seeing none, the meeting is adjourned.

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>> good afternoon and thank you very much for being here this afternoon. i am general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. i want to thank you for allowing us to be here to talk about the energy retrofit programs they have been allowing us to do. it was a really simple goal. it was federal stimulus money, and the goal was to do something long term that was good and the other goal was to make sure we spend the money quickly and got jobs we were creating. what is great is we accomplished both. we wanted to celebrate that today. the city already provides about

100% clean natural gas -- not natural gas. back that up. the city provides greenhouse gas free, 100% renewable energy. what is different is we're saying now that we provide that energy, we should always still be conserving, all we still be looking at energy efficiency opportunities, and that is what we're doing. this is one of 10 sites in the city including other cultural centers, health centers, where we took this money and really changed the behavior of what is happening in those buildings. we are here to celebrate that work. we had $3 million of this money from the stimulus funds. we are updating fluorescent let's -- lance and replacing them with modern efficient versions. we are updating the outside air economizers, as we call them, which is a nice way of bringing the frog inside buildings and cooling it down. we spend this money on time,

which is difficult to do for some places in the united states, but the goal was to spend a certain amount of money by this last june. we have already spent 80%. we are completely on target to spend all the money by next august, which is the requirement of the program. we have also created jobs. we have over 12,000 labor hours. it is a wonderful success. we have been doing a lot of energy efficiency programs peer this extra money allowed us to step up and do even more of those, so we are pleased about that. in the last 10 years, in total, the puc has saved a total 40,000 megawatt hours per year, enough to power 5000 homes. it is a wonderful program. it is really pretty simple. we are reducing greenhouse gas emissions, saving the city money, and improving the performance of facilities like

this, so what could be better than that? thank you for joining us in that today. i would like to introduce our mayor to save a few words. [applause] mayor lee: thank you. thank you for your stewardship of this program but also the whole pc. we appreciate your mindset, your attitude to go forward and really help our city in all of this energy use. i also want to welcome you to the arts commission. we are here at our mission cultural center, and it is one of the buildings the city owns, but amongst the 10 buildings the city owns, you should see the diversity of where these buildings are. community health centers, other cultural centers pierre the arts and is very enthusiastic about this center because it houses so much.

after november 8, i can do the salsa. a? but thank you. there are so many people that visit the center every single day, and they, along with our arts commission, art lovers, just get to appreciate the cultural historic art that is presented here, both in its visual and performing, but it is functional buildings like this that i want to really express my thanks to the department of energy and dr. kelly is here today as the acting assistant secretary to verify, if you will, our city's appropriate use of this money. and, of course, supervisor campos is here today. he and i have been on many walks throughout our community. not only for public safety issues but also, i think, for both of us, it is just the pure enjoyment of being in our neighborhoods. we love to see our buildings updated as they are. there is an update on the boilers, the furnace, the air

economizers, as they say. we do not really have air- conditioning in our great city. we have air economizes to freshen the air. to the lighting fixtures where if the rams are not being used, why are we wasting energy in that respect? our health centers, our community centers, 10 of them, and the smart thing cpuc did with this energy efficiency team, they did the auditing, so they knew what the base line was and how we would measure the improvement, and i want to talk about them. they have been doing this not just from went and that money came in. barbara hail -- hale, others, you are part of that energy

efficient team, and i want to express my thanks for working with the rest of the city and the building owners and everyone working together, because it is with those audits, and then wit and a great mind, to bring down what could have been in large single contract, we broke it down to represent opportunities, something the supervisors and i have been working on, and that resulted in 76 bay area workers getting jobs. that is that we use our federal money not in it -- not only in a responsible way, the money we were rewarded, but we use it even more responsibly. we kick up the standard by engaging the people who use the building in their habits and their culture and using it. it can be improved, and then we use our ability to contract out, and the puc contract in the 42 suggest this could be done by

many more people involved, and guess what? we have that many more people who are trained to this kind of building improvement, so you look at all of that, and you say it got started with president obama, to stimulate. it was not to do everything. it was to stimulate the economy, and we took that word "stimulate" in a very specific way, and we stimulated our neighborhoods and our art and our culture, and we stimulated our job ability. that is what this whole program was about, and i think is another example of how san francisco does it not only the right way but even a better way, so thank you very much for everyone coming here to celebrate. [applause] >> thank you, mayor. next, we want to introduce the

acting undersecretary. thank you very much. from the department of energy. >> assistant secretary tree you have to keep your washington vocabulary correct. that's right. anyway, thank you. thank you, mayor, and thanks to the cultural center for inviting us. it is a wonderful opportunity to see how san francisco has been created in the way it has been able to use its recovery act money. the recovery act, of course, as the mayor said, was designed to stimulate economic growth, and clean energy, of course, is a key part of that, and the things you are doing here are a wonderful example. altogether with the recovery act, we put something like $12 billion into upgrades. more than 2300 grants to cities and counties around the country, and that includes 306 grants to the state of california, for a total over $700 million, and

that money has been put to very, very good use. one of the things we tried to do was create flexibility so that they could design and the most effective way to use it in their local communities, and the way that san francisco has chosen to do this is an example of when you let people be creative. it is a marvelous example of what can be done, but nationwide, we are very proud with what we have been able to do. we are creeping up on having to retrofit many homes, saving the average homeowner $400 per home, and that is per year. for a total savings to the homeowners of about $200 billion. we have also in the process created over 24,000 jobs. they are offered jobs with

continuity. people have picked up skills that will be very important to them. our goal was to get 1 million homes retrofitted with the recovery that. there are 125 million homes left out there, so we are not going to be running out of work. we have also upgraded commercial building space and put in 156 megawatts. this is all under this recovery act. this has been a very significant clean