that create good neighbors and create -- once i think people need to understand quickly. we are part of the family of bayview hunters point. everybody fleshes there. everybody is a part of it. we are a part of a view. my office is in bayview. the of theory that -- the theory that we are different things -- we're the same thing. i wanted to share that. chairperson maxwell: why don't we open this up to public comment? francisco? >> i find this meeting despicable, and i will explain to you why. you were the representative from district 10. do you notice in this meeting the first two agenda items were about the redevelopment agency, and now three items on very important things. you get the opportunity to ask

puc to present. that presentation was not forthcoming. that is putting in very diplomatically. what i am seeing is this. i am having a meeting tomorrow with the chief financial officer of sfpuc, and i am going to be writing an article. this article that i write will be what i really have in my mind. what we have here is a lot of corruption. i have sent another article from the old days to ed harrington and to the chief financial officer. i will put the link in the article so that you know what is happening here. what we want to know is from the $4.60 billion that was spent for clean water, how much of it was community benefits. not the little stuff, but how much of it was?

we just want to know. 2%? 3%? 4%? 5%? now, the bond measure will come again about $1.40 billion or $1.60 billion. we want to know what percentage. we do not want stories about my office in the community and that crap. that does not fly. too many people all over the southeast sector -- bayview, hunters point, are suffering. they want to know what kind of benefits they will get. i have been participating over here. somebody who represents us is not doing her job. i am glad she is getting termed out. thank you very much. >> i will try to be brief. specifically, i want to touch on one thing karen mentioned in terms of some of the siting

decisions going on on the digester. alex twinsburg, chair of the cac, but here is myself. there was a picture showing the original shoreline. karen said something really important that i think jumps to your level more than it does theirs. that is that they need to consider it seismographs, flooding risks. the puc focuses on puc facilities. the land use facilities to think of the entire city. when we look at the port docklands, when we see these maps -- these things are going to be under water or under high tide probably within a generation. the land use committee released to ask itself how we are going to arm our this land. are we going to write it off right now to the tides? moving the digesters -- moving the entire treatment plant to

the back plans creates a tremendous opportunity protect port infrastructure. it creates an opportunity to open up what one of my neighbors has called the industrial force field around bayview hunters point that so divides our communities -- the northwest portion from the rest of the city. it creates a tremendous opportunity to redevelop the land, about 12 acres, a to 10-- 10 yo 12to 12 acres, right nexta prospective caltrans stopped coming into something that will help the neighborhood. as you watch this develop over the next few years, please think about this in the broader context, not simply focused on puc infrastructure, as they do. chairperson maxwell: if we look at it in the broader sense, both of us sit on bcdc. and it is coming up with

regulations on how you build. nobody in their right mind would build a sewage plant on the back plans that could be, as you mentioned, underwater. that does not make sense. what we are doing at is looking at zones where you do not build things, where you do not put yourself in a position where you are going to have to do all kinds of things. it does not make a lot of sense. that is what we are looking at. we should be coming out, i think, probably next year, with some guidelines for municipalities. i am almost sure that those guidelines would not suggest to anybody that you build a sewage plant where you know that there is going to be problems with flooding and with tied issues. it just does not make a lot of sense. i understand what you're saying, but i think the port and all of us will come up -- all of the port and all of us will come up with a plan that you will see and understand that we are

looking toward the future for 50 years down the line. >> if i may say something, i think that is a really important consideration. in most cases, i think that is exactly the way to go. the key point with this is that we have a sanitary landfill that is going to be underneath the water within 20 years. that is what exists at pier 9094. it has total interaction with the bay. it is surrounded by industrial infrastructure, meaning the port facilities. right now, the plan is basically parking lots. some of the vision that i have heard from folks is that they want to build economic generating uses over there. the problem with that was the could not do that with the biggest real-estate bubble in the history of mankind. we're not good to have any other chance to clean up that land fill. chairperson maxwell: i disagree with you. i think we will have more opportunities than you imagined.

i think there will be opportunities -- much better opportunities than putting a sewage plant over there that will last year for the next 50 to 100 years. i think there will be plans. i just hope that you will look into -- a little bit more into the port. bcdc will be coming out with this online and you'll see it and have a better understanding. thank you very much. mr. pilpao? >> i had separate comments on the community benefits and the digester. i may need a little time to extend. with respect to community benefits, i wanted to reinforce some of what the staff said. puc has done local hiring since before it was popular, before city built, before work force development as a concept. a local hiring ordinance is now being talked about. some of this goes back decades.

more specifically, i think art and claude had a hand in it when the plant was expanded in the '80s. that part of it i do not think is about giving money away to the community by way of grants for other programs. it is about creating meaningful jobs and career paths that the staff talk about. in terms of the broad sense of community benefits, i think this requires some conversation about what it is. i know the consultant is here and should speak to it at a future meeting. there are both hard and soft costs and benefits, both individual benefits and to the public generally. i hope that would get talked about as your resolution moves through. with respect to the task force, the waste water cac that alex and i also sit on is an ongoing body that advises the puc. that is not referenced here. as someone who has sat on that

for several years, i have been frustrated by the ambiguous process on digester replacement, or seeming inability to see whether we are doing a food waste digester to support our larger environmental goals, and where we are going with the sewer improvement master plan. alex talked-about site selection. i think that should consider both the southeast planned and pier 94 sites, and we should have a broader conversation about all of the land both east and west that is controlled by the puc and public works. i hope to see expedited implementation of this project and that you will have regular reports back to the board, whoever is sitting on the committee. chairperson maxwell: again, i want to thank the puc for all the work they have done. i think we will see the benefits have been many. i just want them to blow their horns a little bit. they do not really do that a lot.

i think the legislation that we have, the resolution, really speaks to the benefits. they would get a package together. that is important. the digester task force and their work -- i want to thank them. no good deed should go unnoticed. that is why we are doing the resolution. colleagues, any questions or comments? no. thank you very much. we will see you monday. we're going to continue this. and on the resolutions, without objection, some moved. >> you want the hearing continued? chairperson maxwell: continued until monday. i know. thank you. the proceeding is adjourned. thank you.

>> good afternoon. thank you very much for coming today. a gorgeous day for a sunset solar discussion. everybody always says sunset,

solar, city, son? what you have before you is one of the largest reservoir is in san francisco. it serves over half the people of san francisco for its water, and we have the equivalent of 24,000 photovoltaic panels out here, and that is enough solar to give us 5 megawatts of solar, which triples the solar output in san francisco. lincoln high school up there is one of the largest in san francisco. this reservoir will produce enough power to light up lincoln high school for six and a half years. it provides enough solar and enough energy for 1100 homes in san francisco. it is a start, but it is part of the city cozy green plan. it adds to the city's hydropower, and it is not just for city hall or the hospitals, but in a few more months, it will also be powering the homes that will be built in hunters point. the shipyard development program

will be the first 100% greenhouse free electricity at a retail level because we will be bringing that power to them. so it is a good day for all of us to be celebrating all of that. obviously, this would not happen without a lot of partners, but the key person who was the most influential in doing all of this is the mayor of san francisco. during his term, we have made incredible strides in terms of all the kinds of green, green things you want to do, and the mayor is here to finally say this is up, running, testing is complete, and we are going to get power out of this reservoir. >> thank you to your leadership and to the commissioners at the puc and the staff at the public utilities commission here today. let me extend my appreciation to the two city representatives that are behind me as well, and that is our local district supervisor, carmen chu and

supervisor eric mar. both were instrumental in helping this process along. it got stuck for all kinds of reasons. nothing is ever as easy as it may appear. all kinds of details and nuances and all kinds of issues associated with making sure that we provided the right kind of work force to actually install these 24,000 panels. all of that was finally worked out. barbara hale and her leadership was instrumental in working and putting together the power purchasing agreement and putting -- getting the support of the board of supervisors and eventually getting 75 people to work, 21 of them from disadvantaged backgrounds. i do not know if you have had this opportunity -- of course, maybe i'm just looking out for it. i always get window seats, but honestly, nothing is more thrilling than coming around and

looking down at this project. i'm not saying you can see it from space, but you can certainly see it from a few thousand feet up, and it gives you a great sense of pride and expectation and hope that similar projects like this can be done not only throughout san francisco but all across this state and country. it is limitless, the capacity we have to do these kinds of private spirit with creative financing strategies and with these power purchasing agreements, these are easy things to do ultimately in terms of addressing the up-front capital needs. they can easily be financed and advance in a way that addresses our general budget fund shortfalls. this is really a model project. it tripled our municipally owned solar output, it gets us to 7 megawatts of production. again, still scratching the surface, but this represents the largest municipally owned project in the state of

california. here is a state of 38 million people, and what you see here today is the biggest of any of the other municipally owned projects in the state, one of the largest in the united states of america. again, we are still barely scratching the surface. the optimism that all of us share today, getting this thing off the ground and getting this thing up and running and to the great work that lies ahead, to wit, my final point. we have done an enormous amount with our local global climate action plan. i always call it local global, but it is local calls to roll back our greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. do not worry about that. we have already rolled them back 7% below with our 2008 numbers. those were just unveiled a few months back. it takes a couple of years to analyze the data. first city to put up its

greenhouse gas emissions to third-party review, so these are real numbers. why is that important? it has given us a confidence and optimism that we can reach some of our stretch goals, and we are going to create a new goal today. we are in the process of working to convene a task force led by some of the folks you see behind me in front of you that will represent the diversity that was represented in this planning process to put together a new goal, and that is to have 100% of the electricity that is drawn down in san francisco -- not just public, but also private -- 100% of it to be renewable by 2020. it may sound audacious to some and ridiculous to others, but it is absolutely achievable from my perspective. this is exactly how you do it. what we are already doing at hetch hetchy and what we have done with our municipal road

leads the nation. what we are doing in terms of increasing our private sector participation now 21 hundred solar installations that have been put up in our city alone, we are now leading. last year, there was no other big city in america that installed more solar than san francisco. we can get there with our extraordinary work we have down on energy efficiency. 45 megawatts of energy saved. again, we are barely scratching the surface. with the strategies that and his team have perfected, taking methane gas and converting it. all of these things, the wind efforts and the offshore how we're going create, and i will tell you, it is good to be lieutenant governor. we will get the ocean power project done right off the coast here of california.

with all of these things, that is up to 100 megawatts on the high end of potential power generation. we will do a small pilot, hopefully as early as next year, the early part of 2013. all of these things put together in the aggregate, i'm absolutely confident we can get there. that is what we are also announcing today, and i look forward to being a big partner for the city and helping steward the process. all of this combines nicely too nice words for the implementation of ab 32 by 2020. there is no question we can achieve that, and there's no question san francisco needs to be on the forefront in order for us to achieve that, which means we have to do more than any other big city in this state, as we always do. we can do it, the state will achieve its goals and we will once again reignite a national debate and again prove the leadership that has been a great part of our heritage.

congrats to everybody. thanks again to eric and carmen force during this and to joanna and the team and the department of environment. all great job. thanks for all of your hard work. >> thank you. this does not happen without a lot of work in city hall. the best things happen when they collaborate for the mayor and the board of supervisors. we have witnessed two of the leaders in this effort. carmen chu was the key sponsor and eric mar was the key vote. memo congratulations to the mayor for his leadership on the project, to my colleague, who was the key and deciding vote on the matter, but also to the department, who really worked hard to get the package together. the department of environment,

the puc. without the hard-working staff, we would not be at this step today. the mayor talked about how it was so exciting to be able to fly over san francisco and see the solar projects. it is just as exciting driving by the solar reservoir every single day and seeing one panel go up and two channels and finally, all of them seem to be up. finally, it is very exciting to be the home of the sunset reservoir project. the solar panels here. the sunset really is a cool place to be. just two weeks ago, we open up the first lead certified public library in the entire city, the first ever, and now, we are at the home of the sunset solar project. the sunset truly is a cool place to be. i just want to say thank you to all of the amazing staff members who really helped put this together. it is exciting to see the panels of, to see them generating power, to see the people who now

have job skills that are available to take on to other future projects. thank you to the staff, the mayor, and thank you to my staff for supporting this. >> you get a lot done with the sponsor of the board. it takes six votes to do a lot of things at the board of supervisors these days, and eric mar was the sixth vote. >> i think i'm getting way too much credit. this was a partnership with the mayor's office, the department of the environment, and many community-based organizations that advocated for the future. i used to take my daughter to the swings right on the corner there where you can overlook lincoln high school, and i know this is a great educational opportunity to teach about how we need to have a sustainable future for our children. when we were here a few months ago, these 12 football fields

with the 24,000-seat of panels is amazing. also, i'm proud to be here with the mayor and carmen and everyone to be part of this important partnership. the green jobs or local jobs that were created are also incredible, but think about it, this is clean and green power. that will generate power for up to 10,000 homes, or you could power san francisco general or the airport. it is just amazing, and i'm proud to be here with everyone. thank you. >> there are some people we want to find today. assistant general manager in charge of the power operations. thank you very much. the other great partner, obviously, is people who built this. if you recall this discussion come to get this done, it was a private/public partnership because he wanted to take advantage of the federal tax law that allows us to get the 30%

reimbursement, the cities cannot take that, so we have to have an outside company take that. >> thank you. it is thrilling to be here on this day when we are finally getting to turn this on and generate power for the city. recurrent energy has had a unique role in this project in that we are the owner and operator of the system selling the electricity to the utility, so it is a shining example of the way in which we can deploy tens of millions of dollars of private capital to partner with the city and deliver an important piece of public infrastructure that ultimately is delivering tremendous environmental benefits and tremendous community benefit. we are very proud to have played that role here, and i think it is also exciting to us, as an example of the way in which we are rethinking where and how generation can be located. what is exciting about this

project is also the fact that we are doing a kind of urban generation in that we are taking an unused space, filling it with solar panels, absorbing sunlight, and putting a power plant right in the middle of an area where electricity is going to be used. the other thing for us is really recognizing that this project has very literally put us on the map. i do not usually like to correct the mayor, but you actually can see this project from space. if you go onto google and look at sunset reservoir and click on the satellite imagery, you will see this project in all its glory as viewed from way up there, so another tremendous reflection of its scale. as everyone out here has noted, these kinds of things do not happen without a lot of vision and leadership, so we are thankful for the role we are playing and the opportunity to do this. and for the mayor, for his vision, his leadership,

steadfast support of the project, to supervisor mar for your sponsorship, to supervise a mar -- supervisor mar for your support. to the partners that help us build this thing and the tremendous support we received as a team that helped us to find workers, sourced locally here, create those real local jobs that we all talk about, and put those people to work learning new skills and helping to build this project here. and thanks also to all the support we received from the local solar community, particularly from solar, sierra club, and from right line. we are really proud to be here. thank you. >> thank you. the last speaker today is the head of our department of environment. they are our partner in all the things we do, and they will be the lead agency working on that

10-year plan for san francisco to the greenhouse gas free. >> thanks. good afternoon. i'm the director of the san francisco department of the environment, and i'm pleased to be here today at this press conference. san francisco does have a very ambitious greenhouse gas emissions goals, and to reach them, we need to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels. i'm optimistic that in 10 years, san francisco will meet the mayor pose a challenge to be 100% renewal will citywide. i would like to thank frank foundation for helping us to chart the course that will insure 100% renewable electricity in san francisco by 2020. the frank foundation has been a stellar department for the san francisco department of the environment and for the city. our renewable energy program has an established history with the foundation since they have provided previous funding for our exploratory work, on tidal power and wave power.

the current grant will fund a planning process that will develop a road map to 100% a renewable energy. we will work with the mayor's task force to be in stakeholders and city agencies, pg&e, and visionary renewable energy experts to make sure that our plan is both informed and achievable. currently, about 30% of san francisco's electricity comes from zero emissions sources, so we certainly do have a challenge ahead of us, but it is not an insurmountable goal. some may say it is an impossible goal, but the naysayers said the same thing about our san francisco recycling goals. they said we would never be able to achieve 75% of version rate by 2010, and we have reached a 77% ever generate. i know we can achieve this 100% when newly generated electricity and continue to be a climate leader at the vanguard of renewable energy.

just wanted to mention, as the mayor had said, there is a number of different ways to achieve this goal. there's a number of ways to look at different power sources. just to highlight a couple of the programs in san francisco that are just the beginning of our 100% renewal will goal, the goal provides similar incentives to residences, businesses, and non-profits to install solar on their building. 15 megawatts of solar projects over 2100 installations have been installed, and 45 new green jobs have been created city- wide. in regards to wait power, in addition to providing more solar installations, the potential