i'm not only speaking on behalf of member but all residents. this sun acceptable. the city needs to find a better solution to clean energy in san francisco and not put the burden on the shoulders of low income residents, thank you. [ applause ] >> if i could ask folks to hold their applause so we can move through public comments, thank you. >> supervisors, i'm arthur feinstein, chair of the day chapter of sierra club. as you have heard from gwenn previously, as you might expect, we are completely in favor of this. urge you adopting it. not to go over board but this is probably one of the most important vote you will ever do.

people talk about the sky falling. well, it is falling. climate change is very real. there is nothing scare yer in this world. we are seeing incredible droughts in the midwest affecting our food crops. this is not the only time this will happen. we are seeing incredible floods and storms. there's nothing more threatening to our civilization than climate change. the only way we address it is by reducing our dependence on coal and fos it is fuels. we have a chance now to take an unprecedented step of going for 100% green energy. no one else is doing that. marin was the first cca, but they have a mix. we appropriately as san francisco are moving forward 100% green energy. it is the only way we will solve this problem. it is already too late to make a change from where we are. if we don't do anything,

your kids, your grandkids are going to face a world we can't imagine. that will be scary as all get-out. i urge you to make this vote, thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is chris wright, the executive director of committee on jobs. our group was involved around business tax. in larger discussion about needed revenue and funding for investments in city services in our community. before you is a program that is the exact opposite of the investment. this multimillion dollar contract fails to create jobs or renewable energy and exposes most vulnerable san franciscans to rate increases. to the controller's report electricity cost will increase by nearly 80%. just to break even. additionally city

government is charged higher rates by the puc to pay for this program. the end result is lost jobs and unnecessary harm to the economy. the contract with shell does require any renewables be built anywhere but in san francisco. the report says the program will result in a less of more than 100 jobs, far from the promises of a deal promised by program advocates before. another detriment to the program is fact customer also automatically be enrolled into the program. meaning residents could unknowingly face significant increase in cost. i would say that on this point that members of this body in the past have been and would be critical of a private company that automatically enrolled customer into a premium product. yet this is proposed right now. in summary, this is a bad program that fails to meet the most basic elements of its previous promises. you should vote to send this back to the drawing board, thank you. >> thank you.

i will call a few more names. barbara raymond, katherine roberts, al winerup, nick freeman, christian ettiger. >> i'm rod block, executive director for golden gate restaurant association. i'm here in two capacities, the business community and as someone followed cca in 2004 when first voted for and i worked for supervisor pier. at that time cca was promised to create thousands of local jobs, green jobs, move the city to 100% renewable at better price than pg&e. eight years later we have a contract before you. a contract that is going to cost close to $20 million, not counting six million already spent, which the controller says will cost jobs, not increase, not create city and city-owned power generation and will cost residents 77% more for electricity generation. let's look at the players in this process.

shell energy. so shell energy, pg&e, clean power sf and rate payers. shell energy we found out two days ago started drilling in alaska, also the largest investors in the canadian and carbon intense way. pg&e a local company has challenges. they have some problems. being an industry leader is not one of those -- industry leader around clean energy is not one of their problems. i have given all of you an nrdc report generated this year based on the 100 largest electrical gone ray tors in the country. out of that report pg&e, as part of -- they are the lowest co2 emissions per megawatt of any investor-owned utility in america. while they may have other problems, co2 emissions isn't one. the other part to highlight is clean power sf. they have a million dollars of marketing. currently if you look at

their marketing they say will my rates increase. they say we will try to be comparative to pg&e. they don't say yes, by 77%. they say can i exit the program. yes, enthusiastically. they don't say you will have to pay to do that. that is not the best marketing if we want a fair and balanced conversation. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon chairman chu and supervisors. davis fix. i'm a plan c board member. as you know plan c is a civic organization with more than 1,000 members. while we and everybody else support green power and concerned about climate change this proposal does nothing to increase the creation of green energy or green jobs. we have consistently opposed public power and see the cca as the first step in that direction, which voters in san francisco have consistently

rejected over the last number of years. we are concerned about the money committed to this program. san francisco cannot afford this money. i as a puc customer am concerned even if i opt out of the program as a puc customer the 19 million i've committed to this program i will have to pay for, whether i want to be part of the program or not. this will increase utility costs. i'm concerned about the controls. as a pg&e customer my rates have not gone up substantially but rates with the puc have gone up significantly over the past number of years. finally this program will be run by a bad player. executive director of green peace united kingdom called shell one of the dirtyest, most regressive corporations in the world. i urge you to reject the cca. thank you.

>> good afternoon. my name is barbara raymond. i'm happy to be here. i'm sorry everybody left before i had a chance to talk to everybody. i'm a resident of san francisco. i live in the mission district. i purchased a house there in 1978 so i have been here a long time. i went out for the sierra club about five years ago. the petition talked about hetch hetchy, how san francisco owned hetch hetchy, what a wonderful program it s. everybody signed my petition. whether in the park in the heights, dolores or farmer's market, everybody loved this idea. then disappeared.

i don't know who was against it. i never heard anything more about this. this is five years later. i still have my tee-shirt i wore when i came here five years ago. it says clean energy. well, i was really looking forward to saying great, we are going to have clean energy. i'm sorry, i came to this wonderful presentation. it was excellently researched, beautifully presented. i will tell you what, the last -- all i heard is it will cast more. well, that is fine. our wonderful program of picking up garbage is -- gosh, i have to skip this part. that costs more too. but anyway when i heard the word shell, i live in hawaii part of the time. they went for clean energy too. there was a volcano over there. they take clean energy, which is not clean from a

volcano, has sulfuric acid and is dirty energy. i don't think shell has any clean energy at all. not mentioned any solar power. how are we going to get clean energy? >> thank you. >> shell does not have clean energy. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hi, nick freeman, i'm a resident and native of san francisco and strong believer in the idea we could have clean energy. i don't think this plan is that plan. i'm not really qualified to kind of dissect all the different problems it has. i think one of the problems that i did feel was a stumbling point that i feel could be addressed would be to kind of understand how we can get a better plan than shell. i don't think we are in a good place with this project.

i understand they are the only ones who present it and qualified but i think it is really important to do better. i don't think it is going to be successful or popular or widely adopted or a good model for follow-on procedures if we don't take the time to get it right now. there are several ways that could be done. one of the first is to enlist and adopt some of the community-based initiatives in place. work with some of the power producing groups, some of the private enterprises. i just think handing everything over to shell is a prescription for disaster, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm katherine roberts. i am a small rental property owner in district five. i remember eight years ago

when then supervisor mirkarimi got elected. i recently purchased my building, telling him it would take $30,000 give or take to put solar panels on the roof. i really wanted. i pay the utilities for the whole building because the way it is metered, my bills are extremely high. he said i would hold off because we will probably have community choice aggregation before the end of the year. then the next time he got re-elected i asked him again should i get solar panels. he gave me the same answer. so this clearly has been going on for a long time. i can't afford 30-plus thousand for solar panels. there are new models where you can loose but you need a higher credit score than the credit score i have. even just to pay to rent them would be more

expensive, then i would only be renting them. i'm interested in the city getting some kind of program where if i pay -- i'm sure i would be paying probably the higher rate because i pay the bills for the whole building. could be 25, 30 a month. that would be a lot more affordable than 30,000 for the panels. i want you to do all the outreach you have been talking about. multilingual, take care of people on the care program and pg&e now so they don't suffer anymore >>clerk: councilmember knapp?ly because of the switch over. i would be very interested in finding another provider, making the contract with shell short-term or doing because i have the same qualms about shell everybody else does, at least as strong, maybe stronger than what has been expressed. so if that is a temporary -- if that is something that could be improved in the short term that would be great.

>> thank you. david s*edker, jacquelyn swim, michael sambrano, walter -- >> hello, supervisors and represents. my name is chris ettinger. i'm here representing the sierra club, citizen's climate lobby. i think the sf power initiative is a tremendous opportunity to do something affirmative, to address this climate change crisis and really set an example for other municipalities around the country. i think other municipalities are looking to do similar things. we need to get the ball rolling and build up the momentum. this is what needs to be done. i think the clean power sf is a good vehicle for that. thank you. >> thank you.

next speaker. >> thank you. my name is al winerup, with the clean energy alliance, bay area. how many people decide to have a child based on the first six months of his life and for getting about the rest? you know, this legislation is not about 30 megawatts but the entire clean power sf program. it states very clearly this is just a kick-off of a much broader kind of program. 30 megawatts, we know 400 is residential and another twice that, another 400 is commercial. we are talking about 20 to 30 megawatts out of an 800 megawatt program. that program will generate jobs, jobs, jobs. without people working there are no consumers. no one to worry about consumer questions when there are no jobs. this is an economic program. it is kick-started by a

very, very small piece. that is not the legislation we are talking about. the legislation we are talking about is the entire program. not just the first 30 megawatts. no one will go into this unless there is 770 megawatts. it is all economic development, job, greenhouse gas reduction, democrat control of our energy system, the things that will put san francisco back on the map as the city that is moving forward. >> thank you, next speaker. >> ♪ you ask how much we need clean power, must i explain. we need all my city like roses need rain ♪ i will tell you until we are green

and blue until the 12th of never, we will be needing you ♪ hold it close, never let the clean power go ♪ hold it close, meld the budget like puc ♪ and i love you and need you until the blue bells forget to bloom ♪ will need you even if the budget had met its doom ♪ will need you the city and i will tell you green and blue ♪ until the 12th of city never and that's a long, long time ♪ until the 12th of never, and that's a long, long time ♪ maybe give us a dime and down the road i look and there runs

budget mary ♪ and she got lots of gold and i know she cares about me ♪ it is good to touch the city green, green grass ♪ of home ♪ >> thank you. [applause] >> will lowery, isabell, eric brooks, joshua, john weiss, june brasheres. >> good afternoon, my name is jacquelyn flynn, the executive director of the a. phillip randolf institute in san francisco. i first would like to thank ed harrington, all the service he's given to the puc. i thank them for their presentation. i think it is a lot of information to digest. i am here, and i would like to say we are here. i have folks with me. on behalf of communities and residents we serve.

i appreciate the questions that the board has asked. the puc, as well as the controller's office. i thank you for your service because i believe you are the front line protection for our communities. i would like to voice a few concerns i have. i have been in conversation with people around the issues that i thought of as i read through both presentation as well as controller's report. but i would like to ask that you consider the families that struggle to make ends meet and consider the parents that work hard to keep a roof over their head and lights on and the families they have warm and safe here in san francisco. i would like you consider the parents that hold full-time jobs and take classes at city college to provide a better life for their children and raise families in this beautiful city. there's disabled seniors, on fixed incomes and immigrants that have found a home in this city.

i would like to make sure we keep it affordable for them. and paying just a little more could end up costing folks a lot. there are a few points i would like to make. we support clean energy and support a clean energy program that provides jobs and community benefits. we are here to learn about more, about how this program will work in san francisco and the concerns we have is with shell being the company it is, there are surrounding questions but also the number of jobs this would actually create, the roadway opportunities it would create. in closing i say we support clean energy. >> thank you. next speaker. i'm david zefger. i want to speak about clean power sf. it is about choice. as a resident of one of the 40 unit buildings that is separately metered, i don't have the option of putting

solar on my roof because i don't owen my roof. however i want to sleep at night, knowing my electricity use isn't contributing to global warming. i feel this offers that opportunity. i want to address the issue of opting out. as a pg&e customer i had to opt out of being on the smart meter program. opting out ones that big a deal. i didn't have that much trouble understanding it, knowing how it worked and i trust the san francisco p.u.c. to make opting out of this as easy as i trust pg&e to make it easy for me to opt out of the smart meter program, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. henri wong. i'm a recent resident of san francisco. one of the reasons i decided to move to this city is things like clean power sf, which i'm strongly in favor of.

as at least one representative of young people of my generation, i hope to speak for many like minded folks. climate issues are the issues of my generation. so it really weighs on me as i think about my own future. when i have this choice of choosing clean energy when i'm given a pg&e bill i didn't have a choice in getting, it really makes me think that this is a forward-thinking city and a place i want to be in. so i want to just emphasize there are a lot of details. of course no legislation is perfect. of course not. despite the flaws clean power is the way to move forward. if you think about it and its place in this greater role, as your role here as government and role in our

future, i think clean power sf is the way to go, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, second readings, thanks for the opportunity to speak with you. my name is john weiss. i operator a nonprofit technology mentoring program in bay view, hunter's point. we are creating the future workers for the new energy economy. we teach people in the projects how to do solar energy installations and electric vehicle repair and bicycle repair. i strongly support clean energy in san francisco. i think that the city of san francisco has the responsibility to uphold and continue its reputation as a clean city. i think that the -- whatever criticisms there may be of this proposal, i would urge the supervisors to work with the architects

of the proposal to resolve those criticisms, particularly to ensure that low income people are not negatively affected. so whether this proposal is the final answer or a kick-off, that is for the supporters and supervisors to work out but please do everything in your power as soon as possible to ensure that san francisco continues to grow and be at the forefront of clean energy in america. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, june brashears with the local clean energy alliance. i want to thank the sfs public utility commission and general manager harrington, supervisor campos, everybody who's worked so hard to getting us to this point of moving this clean power sf forward. as supervisor campos mentioned, it is not as

ambitious and fully initially launching a build-out as a level that some of us had wanted but do see that this is the time to move forward and the only way we will get there. it will allow us to initiate the launch. our work not done but that will allow us to move forward to look at the programs that will get us the build-out and energy efficiency programs we need to meet our environmental goals in san francisco. through the community voice program we can have programs like a tariff, the policy that got germany to go number one in solar, using a market mechanism we can only get to by using a cca in san francisco. that is the only way we will get to the jobs we are talking about. the clean energy alliance that did an analysis on jobs. we are looking at the

renewal energy, about 1,000 jobs. this is how we get to job development in the city. there isn't another path. this is the pathway, this is the way we can move forward. i have heard a lot about choice. i was automatically enrolled in pg&e. i had no way to opt out, no matter how i scanned my mailbox or who i found, i had to too for their too risky, too costly program a long time that is risky for the most vulnerable in our society, the children and all the low income communities we have heard from that aren't paying rate increases of pg&e with no option out and pg&e goes to fear mongering to keep a lock on the community. this needs to be addressed. this is the way. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hello, i'm will lowery, i'm with the sierra club. i'm a san francisco native who's lived here my whole life and starting a family here. that is my son, ki and wife

isabella. i have an 8-month-old baby, as you see. i'm here to support his health and health of his generation and future generations on this planet. i have a letter, which i will submit afterwards, here it is. it is very important you strongly support approval of the clean sf program. this will create the foundation for hundreds of megawatts of local renewables and efficiency in thousands. the sfpuc and supervisor david campos in dialogue with community advocates of clean energy and green jobs have put forward the board of supervisors the clean power program that would engage 30 megawatt start-up to prime the pump for unprecedented in-city build-out of renewable resources. previously a number of us wrote to you stating that -- i will read below. the gle ball crisis of collapse demands all communities rebuild local infrastructure on rock-solid foundation of

strongly localized, strongly and renewable electricity and energy efficiency through employing large and able workforce required to construct and install that infrastructure within the next decade. worsening and extreme weather conditions and wildfires in the u.s. and high unemployment rates in california and nationwide have made it clear san francisco will take a strong leadership role in putting our community to work and replace outdated fossil fuel with locally installed clean power as rapidly as possible. it is vital you strongly support this legislation. we have a broad range of support from environmental, xhaounlt and labor group. sierra, green peace, local exchange *, clean energy alliance, post carbon, bay localize, defense project, sf green, our seniors action, panthers, advocate.org, andrews and andrews, clean coalition, venl heights -- >> thank you.

>> haight ash bury, wild and the san francisco newspaper and the bay view boom. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> that was very fast reading. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, i'm ms. vila. this is ki. i'm here to support green power. the things i will be really happy to pay more for my energy bill. i don't have a lot of money. why, because i will be doing it for my son, for his future. i'm speaking long-term. unless you think climate change is a joke you will agree we need 100% renewable energy now. this will bring 100% renewable energy so