that has been intimately involved. i seriously want to thank the residents of park merced that have come out and stood, waited for many hours today and many days. i want to thank you for your comments and your thoughts. i know is a very important issue. i have to say that for me, there is still a question that remains that has to do with the impact of potential loss of rent- controlled housing. i understand that there are differences of opinion with respect to that issue. i am still puzzled as to whether

or not we have all of the information that needs to be had to make an informed decision here. i think that something as important as this project requires that we have as much information as we can. with that in mind, i think that it might be beneficial to everyone involved if we give ourselves some time to consider some of the issues that are involved including some of the legal questions that may require that we, as a board collectively discuss those matters in closed session. with that, i will make a motion to continue this item for two months to give us sufficient time.

the next meeting in may will be the meeting of may 31. president chiu: there is no meeting on may 31. supervisor campos: than the meeting of june 7. sorry, june -- president chiu: i know we are about to launch into budget season. my suggestion is that if we can do it late may. madam clerk has proposed may 24. how does that look on the calendar? it's currently clear. supervise a capmos -- supervisor campos is making a motion to table this item.

is there a second? the motion is to continue -- of pay. the motion would be to continue items 27, 28, at 29 to the twenty fourth of may. seconded by supervisor elsbernd. >> we will still be in our budget season in may. just about -- just a warning for folks. >> there are a lot of legal issues that are underlying this. what i will do is i will calendar a closed session for the board to discuss with the city attorney's office some of the issues that underpinned the decision that we are about to

make. unless there is any discussion, will we take that without objection? we will continue these items to the fourth of may. and with that, madam car, -- clerk, can you read the in memoriams? >> on behalf of the board of supervisors, for the late joseph alioto and mr. charles mcglashen. that concludes our business for today. president chiu: we are adjourned.

>> welcome to "culture wire." today we're headed to smpling f. camera works, a premiere venue for artists working in photographer, video, and digital media. the latest exhibition lists clearness as a set of political alliances and possibilities that it is behind the sphere of

dominant gay and lesbian culture. the curator fills us in on the process of creating this thoughtful exhibition. and what she would like you to take away from it. >> i co-cureated with danny, a chicago-based writer and curator. the conceptual framework is what it means to be clear and radical for our generation. clearness as a set of political alliances and possibilities, not necessarily related to institutions of gender and swam formativity. danny and i wanted the show to feel funky and to have a really tangible quality to it. so part of that was incorporated handmade objects

and installations and beautifully printed photographs and videos. there is also a lot of opportunities to participate and to take postcards or to get the photo taken or sit within a tent made out of afghan blankets to watch videos. the exhibition is organized in three distinct galleries. in gallery one, which is the gallery designated to clear activism, there is an installation by the oakland-based collaboration and it's called "unleashed power." it's all focused on one protest that happened in chicago in 1991 with the activist organization act up, which was protesting the inadequate health care for people living in aids, and specifically it focuses on an act of police violence that occurred at that protest. the thing that is really interesting for me about that

piece is that it brings us back 20 years to what clear activism looked like at the height of the aids crisis. gallery two features work that is related to intentionally communities that exist both within cities, also in rural spaces, and transient communities as well. the return features a no madic clear tribe, the people who join this tribe are often in various states of transition themselves, whether it's leaving behind previous gender assignments or corporate jobs or a life within cities. a lot of the work featured in the exhibition and a lot of the installations are handmade objects. there is a lot of do-it-yourself aesthetic and that handmade do-it-yourself feeling is something that

mimics the idea and the reality of the alternative world making that we're trying to represent here as far as the self-sufficient community goes. gallery three features work that relates to the ideas of self-determinenism, alternative world making and utopia. visits can still participate in this -- visitors can still participate in this project. during the opening, we invite visitors to come in and try on these costumes, pose in front of the backdrop. he was really inspired by comic books that he read as growing up and thinks of this space as a post-apocalyptic monster portrait gallery where people can remain genderless once they put on the costumes.

we think it's important that this be happening in san francisco, which is considered an ekpe center of the queer actual cure. the majority of the queer cultural events happen in june which has been designated as the pride month. which to me translates as the period of time in which people can be in clear arts and culture. in september, it's hashingening back to that and proving that this is something that is scon significantly happening all the time. what danny and i hope visitors take away from this exhibition is to observe the diversity within the designation of queer in terms of race, in terms of gender presentation and intergenerational perspective of what it means to be queer as well as what it means to exist

and be active and work in solidarity with people whose identities may or may not look like yours. chairperson campos: good afternoon, and welcome to be lafco meeting. my name is david campus. we're joined by committee vice chair ross mirkarimi, as well as

commissioner lia pimentel. i want to thank members of the audience for being here today. covering the meeting for sfgtv are caroline and derrick. >> please make sure to turn off all cellular phones and pagers. chairperson campos: thank you very much. madam clerk, could you please call item no. 2? >> approval of the minutes for the meeting february 28, 2011, special lafco meeting. chairperson campos: colleagues, i believe you have a copy of the meeting minutes. any comments or changes to those minutes? and we open it up to public comment. is there any member of the public to like to speak on this item? seeing none, public, disclosed. emotion?

-- a motion. we take that without objection. madam clerk, item three? >> report on the status of community choice aggregation activities, san francisco program, state legislation consideration of their resolution of support for sb 790, report on legislation affecting committee choice aggregation programs, status on marin clean energy, and status of proceedings at california public utilities commission. >> this will be sort of a tag team for item three. i will be presenting a few of these items. i intend to cover an update on where we are in the negotiations on clean power sf, a status

update with petrol solar, and update on what is going on in iran, as well as regulatory and legislative update. and we may have more to add to that. first off, we continue our discussions with noble americas, and shell is marin's supplier, delivering a greater portfolio mix than we otherwise get from pg&e. we will be utilizing the contract from work that we have as the starting point with shell, working through issues coming up in the discussions there. we've had numerous all-day sessions, constant contact with shell, and continue to make progress there. we're very glad having the assistance of both the city attorney and our lafco

colleagues. as i mentioned, we are also thinking about working with a noble americas, as the provider of back-office support, and noble americas has been providing this service for marin in concert with shell. on a parallel track, we're working on an rfp for the development of a generation resources, looking at existing city policy as the guide for that. with a clear preference for in city renewables and combined heat and power projects. we want these resources to tie their online dates and outputs and profile to what the portfolio will ultimately negotiate with shell, to make sure those are all lined. a quick update with a pole

mounted solar. considerations, over the last -- commissioner lapimentel: excuse me, could we call item 5? >> item 5, report on the pilot pulled mounted solar program. >> thank you, i got ahead of myself. butthe pole-mounted solar, the renewable team has been working with and evaluating the proposal, continuing to have a good dialogue with the solar team. based on the proposals, i should note their solution appears to be significantly higher in price than other solar project bids that are renewables team has received in the recent past. we have shared the results of our analysis, and my

understanding is the team intends to provide revised proposals and additional information for the sfpuc to evaluate, but we are continuing have productive dialogue with them and moving forward. as for what is going on in marin, the biggest news is primarily their progress on their rfp for their local build out and development of new renewables continues to move forward. they issued an rfp in december, got responses in february. there were 14 firms that responded, with a total of 25 projects tied with those responses, totaling 620 megawatts of new generation of all of those were built. their rfp focused on the wind and solar, and the location most likely to get those was the

central valley because of the good insulation characteristics there. their criteria for evaluating the bids in some ways with similar to those highlighted in city policy here, so it was interesting to talk about the characteristics of the counterparty, how much experience they have in the field, their credit rating, those types of things, localized pricing, per kilowatt hour output from the proposal, the product's viability, how likely it would be to be built and generating energy, the project location. they're giving the highest party points to those proposals located in marin. they also are a family wedding proposals in the portfolio. -- there also is evaluating proposals in the portfolio. marin short list three of the

proposals, and the firms are san diego-based, not new york city based, and san jose based sun power corp, and marin's expectation and hope is to get 40 megawatts under contract in the may, june timeframe. marin continues to be a great ally in our legislative and regulatory activities, which i amusing as a not too subtle segway to talking about regulatory -- which i am using as a not too subtle segue into the next topic. we have additional topics. the three are giving an update on the status of the bond case before the sfpuc, status of the bond case, and a little bit of news on the legislative front. regarding what i am calling the bond case, this is in relation

to ab 117, which requires cca to post a bond to cover expected reentry fees should they cease functioning and return their customers to the incumbent utility. in december, if you recall, they were set to reproof -- there were set to approve a bond mechanism that could have had negative consequences for the cca in general. the city along with our allies manage to get that adverse decision reconsidered, and they are reconsidering that case. they have reopened that case for additional information. it is not clear of the timing of the decision or what the rules ultimately will be for evaluating that bonn did not, but we expect it around midsummer.

since they were willing to pull the decision back in december, we feel it is realistic to assume the outcome should be better than we first saw. under the exit fee case, along with our allies, we have been working hard to address the method for calculating exit fees. sometimes the exit fees are referred to by their acronym in terms of how it shows up on customer billed charges as the pcia power charge. the current method, we have been arguing, and appropriately undervalues or does not recognize the value of the renewable attributes, including the exit fees customers are paying for the coverage to capture the above-market costs. the renewables tends to be above market cost. we would not be getting any credit for the renewable energy associated with that. at the cpuc, even the

utilities have been backed into agreeing that the existing method is for all that and result in the calculation is biased towards a higher amount, which is a higher charge for a cca customer. so that is a positive direction there. the case is now focused on determining what is the appropriate value for what to renewables should be. the lower the value, the lower the charge, and hearings in that case are scheduled to begin on monday, and we will have sfpuc experts and others testifying on monday. last, exciting news on the legislative front. i know that the lafco team has additional information, but sb 790 is a bill to help the cca

programs through the state. the co-sponsors of that bill or the marin energy authority, sfpuc, and also the sierra club. it is a strong force there, designed to address the shortcomings of the original legislation and tie up some of the loopholes that have allowed pge need to take actions on the board. some of you may know that sfpuc being a large municipal utility and waste water and electricity areas has a strong presence in sacramento. we have our lobbyists are fully engaged. with that, i can answer questions. i think the lafco team has more to that. chairperson campos: why don't we hear from ms. miller. >> i want to underscore what mike said about the negotiations

with shell. they have significant resources working with us trying to put together our term sheet and program. that has been moving along i think really well in terms of their commitment to the program. the bond and the pcia exit fee issues are very important because those are cost incumbent on our program and it makes our program cheaper if we have those eliminated, and that is always good. finally, along with sb 790, i just want jason to give a little presentation because we have a resolution of support. in addition, we're working with other groups, utilities, to have them help pass the resolution. >> before you you have a resolution and support of 790 so we can at san francisco lafco to

the group that is supporting sb 790. it also instructs lafco to inform the board of supervisors we have passed this bill. it would also be a bill of support. there is one of the bill that we are also monitoring closely. it is a bill that was sponsored by ibew 1245, which is the local that represents pg&e workers, and that bill looks to be a spot bill, introduced, does not get the true language of what they want to do, but deals directly with cca. we will be monitoring that closely. that bill has a hearing next month, and we will have to react quickly to that bill. we are prepared to do so once the amendment is made. chairperson campos: if i may, in

terms of our involvement, may be on the resolution, what else can we do in terms of our advocacy? >> we have been active at the coalition that has been working on this. miss miller and myself have been reaching out to some of the same people on the government side that we reached out to when prop. 16 was coming about, to make sure they are aware that 790 is out there. we're working in course with the broader goal to give the bill as much support as we can. chairperson campos: ms. miller? >> i was going to add that we're going to send them a model resolution. this helps move things along, and model resolution and a staff report to present to their government entities. chairperson campos: commissioner mirkarimi? vice-chairperson mirkarimi: has the california puc ever taken legislative considerations like

this themselves? >> yes, the cpuc is allowed to take positions on legislation before them, just like your body here. you are not allowed to take positions on legislation before voters. vice-chairperson mirkarimi: and have they or will they weigh in on this? >> i don't know the answer to that question. vice-chairperson mirkarimi: i would suggest they do, because this was instigated by the assembly bill. with their endorsement, which they should endorse -- if not, they should be removed -- then i would ask that that happened. i would like to tie up all loose ends, because ultimately, cpuc needs to be enforcing the very reforms we are talking about, and i want to make sure they are actually on board. >> that is a good point, and we

will check with them. there are two new commissioners. i know that sfpuc has been in contact with them. it will come up on their agenda at some point. we will probably be in touch with some of you about insisting -- assisting with that in denver for support. also, it occurred to me that the california utilities association is having their conference next week, and i have been in touch with their executive officer about doing a resolution. it is that kind of duplication of activities that we will do with this effort as well. there are a number of those kinds of associations that will be in contact with. vice-chairperson mirkarimi: right, but in the meantime, is kind of like a sport for pg&e to snipe and undercut municipalities were trying to pursue this, and it was literally nothing with the exception of a little bit of response from cpuc in defense of

marin. i am just wondering if that will change and could this get the cpuc more emboldened to protect municipalities from this level of subversion. >> we are certainly trying, and that is the kind of thing with new members, you always have a different position. chairperson campos: i am wondering all along the lines of what commissioner mirkarimi was saying, if we pass this resolution, should we send a letter on behalf of lafco to all the members of the puc indicating we have taken a position and it is appropriate for them as the regulatory body for the industry to let the legislature know. >> yes, and we could do that with the executive director as well. chairperson campos: yes. a final question