so, in terms of better safer streets for pedestrians, so mode shift covers all those transportation infrastructure actions where demand management covers the more getting people just to not drive in the first place. >> in the report, this will be on table 2. >> great, table -- >> page -- aye ~ italics -- roman numeral 8. >> which of these are we -- are we sort of falling furthest behind -- on which of these strategies are we falling furthest behind in terms of being able to achieve our goals or strategies? sort of if you look at that pie chart, in which of these areas are we falling furthest behind in -- >> we've only -- we're just announcing these strategies. it's hard to establish a trend

for any of these things. we could go through them each and talk about the market barriers or the barriers to each one of them and what we might do to overcome them. and if we were to focus on 100% renewable, that's a topic that you've become very familiar with. energy efficiency, i could talk about that probably for a couple of days. transportation would be harder for me -- >> okay. >> i'm not a transportation guy. one of the things i would point out that cal was just saying, you've got the demand management side and then there's the making muni better side. and we're not going to be able to get a mode shift if muni doesn't get the resources it needs to improve and expand its services. if it stays limited and you want to get on the bus it's packed and the buses are bypassing you, you know, you can't shift mode.

so, if muni is going to be a strategic part of achieving our mode shift goals. >> thank you, commissioner. director nutter. >> so, thanks, cam. i was wondering if you could talk a little about how the current drought will affect the renewable energy mix in 2014. obviously we won't have that data for two more years, but what does that do specifically to the hydroelectric profile [speaker not understood] drought and the anticipated impact? >> statewide there will be a problem having enough hydroelectric power as we have. that will be reflected in the spring. more particularly in the summer. it will effect hetchy and it will affect all of the

utilities, particularly pg&e which has a lot more hydro than other utilities in the state. and they still want to produce the power, gather the power. the question, then, is what are they going to buy. the nice thing about hydro is that you can kind of turn it on and turn it off and have control and use it to balance your other renewable resources like wind and solar which are more intermittent. so, what are you going to use as a balancing strategy is certainly something that's facing all the utilities. it's not a simple thing to answer. obviously we've got santa nofres down and the california public utilities commission is very concerned about how they're going to keep the grid stable in southern california with that resource off line. >> commissioner wald? >> i just wanted to observe

that, with cal's help at the last meeting of the policy committee, we gannon effort which will be continued at our next meeting to develop some recommendations for priorities for the department to pursue among the various strategies that will be laid out in the document. and we voted to recommend that the number one strategy that be pursued was achieving 100% renewable energy. and like i said, we're going to be continuing that conversation at our next meeting with the notion of helping the department focus its resources

going forward on a limited number of the very long and excellent list of options that are available to us. and to all of us, commissioner gravanis unfortunately had to leave. but to those of us who remained, commissioner arce and myself and josefowitz, it was clear from the pie chart and other materials that y'all have provided us, excellent materials, i should say, that, you know, that investing in that single strategy is where we're going to get the biggest bang for the buck if we're really serious about achieving our previously established goals. >> one of the things that came up in that conversation, if i remember correctly, was that if we put solar on the rooftop of every single building in san francisco to the maximum

possible, we will achieve 7% of our electric load. so, what are we going to do about the other 93%? and hopefully with efficiency and some behavior changes and better maintenance and better equipment, et cetera, maybe we can get that -- maybe we can cut our energy use in half, which would get us to 14% solar. so, we still have -- we'd still have 86% to go. so, we've got -- we're up against it. we have to figure a way through this very challenging situation. >> is that 7% of peak, cal? 7% of peak? >> 7% of giga watt hours. so, it's not peak. it's total -- total usage. >> um-hm, um-hm. one thing to the point that commissioner wald had raised was that monica, because she's super diligent about all this stuff and she's amazing and we

don't thank her enough for everything that she does, was able to get the communication and worked on it with cal, got the communication over to sfpuc commission. >> thank you. >> just in time before their meeting in which i think we had this really direct statement. dear sfpuc, we believe that 100% renewable energy is the number one climate change discussion topic of the year, and that was received well. i understand that the commission discussed that and wants to put that front and center when we convene next month on february 25th for our joint sfpuc commission on the environment meeting. i talked with sfpuc president courtney directly. he wants to have 100% renewable energy. what are we doing? what is our collective plan around that to be front and center on the agenda, particularly as it impacts our greenhouse gas emission

reduction targets. so, i expect that will be a really good discussion in just about one month's time from now when we meet with the puc. >> can i jump ahead of you, commissioner gravanis for a minute? thank you for saying that. not only do i want to thank monica and cal for making that communication possible, i want to thank a member of our public, jason freed for encouraging us to take a position in what seemed to me like the wee small hours of the night at our last meeting. jason, your attendance at our meeting -- meetings has been extremely constructive. so, i hope you'll continue to come. thank you. >> all right. commissioner gravanis. >> so, i just wanted to mention

that had i not had to leave policy, i certainly would have reported and endorsed making this item renewable energy a top priority. and just to remind everybody, i'm sure everybody knows, for the past seems like many years, but i think maybe only a year and a half, we've had lots of different hearings and workshops, both at policy and the full commission about renewable energy goals. and we have said repeatedly that there's no way we could meet them without getting involved in some form of cca. and i just want to express my impatience that we have been saying that for so long without really tackling what we as a commission can do next to move that along. i think what's in the works now with our joint meeting at the puc is a fabulous step and we should not let this drop. >> if there is anything that we

can do to prepare for that meeting that you have ideas, please let us know. >> and it's helpful, monica, i would suggest looking through my e-mail to see exactly how we communicated that just so colleagues know how we communicated that statement to sfpuc. you don't have it handy, do you? >> i did not bring it with me. >> okay, i've got it somewhere. but it's pretty much to the point. and i think it was well received by the sfpuc commission. so, we have at least one member of the public, jason freed, from lafco to speak on this item. thanks, cal. thanks, cal. hi, jason freed, lafco staff. first off i wanted to start with a comment that chair avalos who is the supervisor wanted me to pass on to you today at the board of supervisors. he introduced a hearing request to find out why this report has not been issued yet, why it is

still not public, why we cannot review it and also to start getting into some of the meat and bones of what's in it is part of the hearing request so we can start moving this forward. i think he was a little frustrated that we have been waiting at least now i believe two or three months for a report that has been done and been sitting there on the shelf ready to go and not been issued. i personally would love to see it issued this week so ms. nutter who put so much time and effort into what actually be part of the proceedings. hopefully she'll come back whenever it is released to celebrate that. getting into some of the comments specifically, the only part of this report that's actually available is what looks like table 2 of the executive summary. some of the things you might want to add to your puc commission meeting discussions is when you're looking at the 100% renewable as 45% of your overall goal, we've had that discussion at the policy committee and you i think took a very good stance there. the other party want to bring up is 15% is energy efficiency. currently today the cpuc has $800 million, i believe is the estimated amount, in energy

efficiency funds that's available throughout the entire state. pg&e is allowed to apply for it. a cca program can also apply for it. now is san francisco has a cca program. unfortunately we have yet to serve any customers as the commissioner earlier mentioned. that does not mean the city shouldn't be applying for those energy efficiency dollars. my personal guess is you can put together a small program it as a pilot to show you could do good work to get you [speaker not understood] energy efficiency in the city as soon as the application process goes forward. that is something you should be talking to the sfpuc about. it is my understanding through city attorneys' discussions it would be the sfpuc that would have to apply for that monday soy part of your discussions is why they not applying for this money as an asterisk or side note to that, my personal guess might be the cpuc might say no to this application because we're not serving customers yet and do not have a plan to serve customers but it doesn't hurt to ask as a cca program can we

have access to that money. i believe between the sfpuc staff and your staff at the department of the environment you could probably put together a very good program that could utilize that money and start working on that 15% of the goal that's going forward. i would also add in on the discussion of bart to achieve 100% [speaker not understood] the joint hearing from them they are having -- the power enterprise in the very near future is going to have a budget shortfall and needs to try and find customers to sell energy to. guess what, you have bart, you want to get them to 100%. you should be encouraging the sfpuc commission to tell their staff, start those negotiations, start talking to bart. see if they're interested in buying energy. i'm willing to bet the puc could put together a package that would give bart the ability to buy energy cheaper than what they are currently buying energy from whoever they are currently buying energy from. so, you should really put that package together ahead one other item, but i guess i'm out of time. >> can you summarize the last item?

sure, on your electric vehicles, the thing to remember is yet electric vehicles are cleaner than fossil fuel base vehicles but they're only as clean as the electricity provided to them. so, you still have some dirt that comes outs of it unless you get to 100% electricity renewable electricity. and then the other part on that is your renewable portfolio centers is under state action. that's what happens if you do absolutely nothing. item a on that list goes away completely if you get to 100% renewable. that becomes a nonstarter. thank you. >> thank you. all right, thank you, mr. freed. any other members of the public? ~ like to speak on this item? and monica, as we said -- and we can't say enough -- how amazing she is found the letter that we sent from the policy committee of the commission on the environment to the sfpuc. you want to read it to folks so we know? >> [speaker not understood] the number one priority for the

civic climate action strategies for 2014 to be making significant progress toward 100% renewable electricity. the commission on the environment looks forward to discussing this topic and related issue with you at the joint meeting february 25th and it's signed commission president joshua arce on behalf of the commission environment policy committee. >> and might be later on folks want to put topics when we have that meeting. so, any other comments, thoughts on this one? >> did you get all of jason's items? >> did i get jason's items on the last piece? >> yes. >> i'll have the question. the 100% renewable energy, does that include any sort of -- to what jason said, does that include the rps mandates or is that in addition to the current statewide rps mandates? >> so, have you seen a copy of

the climate energy itself yet? we will get you some. those three different pathways that we calculated, the rps is included in the first two. if we get to 100% renewable, we of course will far exceed the rps standard because all our residents will be on the 100% renewable power. that is taken out so we're not double counting it in our calculations. the part we point out the larger chunk depends on us gets tog 100% renewable [speaker not understood]. there are multiple factors in therein term playing benefiting on whether we get to the 100% renewable electricity policy. >> that answers my question. on the solar stat 7%, you know, if you could send me -- i would be interested in looking at that. >> sure. >> some back up for it, that

would be great. >> yes. >> thank you. >> great. thanks, cal. commissioner nutter. >> i wanted to thank jason for his comments. it's true that i have spent quite a bit of time during my tenure on this particular project, but the two key people who have spent so many hours on this are in the audience, it's obvious. i wanted to point out cal and cal who have done so much work on analyzing the different strategies, working with all of the other city departments who have had a lot of input into this -- into these certified strategies. everybody from the san francisco public utilities commission to the mta, to rec and park and i just really want to thank the two of you for the four years that you've put into compiling these strategies. and i just again want to thank the commission for, as commissioner gravanis said, asking a will the of questions, being very interested in it,

keeping this topic front and center. ~ lot i think it's pretty obvious now the information is there and really the next steps are about analysis of those strategies and action. so, just wanted to thank, again, the amazing staff and the commission for your interest. (applause) >> thank you. >> i'd also like to thank [speaker not understood] and pansy gee who along with cal put in and donated extra hours to the city doing the data collection, running the departmental climate action plan program. it's been very time intensive and really appreciate all of the extra work that they put in above and beyond their paycheck. >> and also in abstentia, donny oliviera who spent 6 to 8 months on this project as well.

>> all right. before we go to the next item, did we do possible action -- no, no motion. just, colleagues, before we go to the next item, we know we have melanie through friday as our director and david osman will become our acting director. but i think there was a little bit of a discussion about maybe the rest of the meeting for david to be our acting director to get us through some of these items. we kind of talked about be comfortable with that. melanie is sufficient with us through friday. if that's okay with melanie. so, before we formally do that, though, i said there were going to be a couple of surprises -- maybe one good one -- on the

way over to the meeting, got a call that there was someone who wanted to send regards and send something nice to the commission. so, i bee-lined over to the mayor's office where there was something from our mayor for you, and it's framed. and it reads, that, proclamation that says, whereas the city and county of san francisco traditionally recognizes the achievements of notable individuals and the dedicated work of melanie nutter as executive director of the department of environment has represented san francisco values at their best and whereas melanie nutter was appointed to lead the san francisco department of the environment but then mayor gavin newsom in august 2010, and whereas under the direction of melanie the department of the environment has championed leading urban environmental policies and programs, helping san francisco get closer to its zero waste goal and making

significant greenhouse gas reductions -- after the glare -- and whereas during melanie's tenure san francisco reached an 80% waste diversion rate and successfully implemented the plastic bag ban to all commercial retailers in san francisco and whereas melanie has advanced the sustain ability of our city and communities with her diligent leadership and tireless efforts raising awareness ~ of reducing energy consumption for small businesses city-wide, and the community through the energy watch program and the green business program, and whereas because of melanie nutter and her exuberant enthusiasm, san francisco is well positioned to continue its visionary programs that have helped make our city the greenest city in north america. now therefore be it resolved that i, mayor edmond m. lee, mayor of the city and county of san francisco in gratitude for her service to the residents of our city and the environment and in wishing her the best in all her future endeavors do

here by proclaim today, ~ january 28th, 2014 as melanie nutter day in san francisco. (applause) >> can we all get a picture together maybe? >> yeah. >> we did that before over here, right? we have a nice camera. [multiple voices] >> where should we look?

>> look both ways. >> wow, thank you so much. can i just say thank you so much to our mayor ed lee for this wonderful honor of getting my very own day and for this proclamation. as i said before, it's really been a fantastic honor to serve and be part of the city and county of san francisco. and, again, thank you to all the commissioners, but really thank you to the mayor. this is really a really fantastic surprise. so, thank you. (applause)

>> okay. so, where do we go? >> so, thank you all. >> thank you. >> carry on with the rest of the meeting. thank you so much for the surprise. [multiple voices] >> i second that motion.

>> melanie is the only person i've ever known who got a day. >> whos was the first person? >> john [speaker not understood]. [laughter] >> what day is it today? >> melanie nutter day. >> we tried -- we got i think in 2009, we got [speaker not understood], we had one of the days under gavin, and it was late at night. and we used it -- my board and i -- to see if we could get a free beer from one of the local establishments since it was our day and it didn't work at all. [laughter] [multiple voices] >> and thank you also to the staff for the beautiful flowers.

>> all right. so, again, i think there's a couple other things we'll be together on stuff. dave is going to work us through the last pieces on this, on our agenda, which are number 13, if we can move to item 13. >> 13, public notice of 2014 subscription and renewal of commission on the environment and committee notices and agendas as required by the commission on the environment bylaws. and in the packet is a copy of the subscription request form, and this is new information and discussion item. the notice was issued pursuant to the commission on the environment's dialogue article 13, request for notice and agendas as follows. request a member of the media or public to receive notice of the agenda for agenda packets for commission or committee meetings must be in writing [speaker not understood] what the person would like to receive and whether e-mail is

preferred. such request shall be valid until the following january. january of each year the commission will ask each person to reaffirm their desire to stay on the list for another year to a notice on the commission's january agenda so that requirement has been met through the notice on this agenda. >> okay, thank you. >> could i ask a question about this? remind me, do we have to have this requirement in our bylaws? and if we don't have to have this requirement in our bylaws, perhaps we should consider not having it in our bylaws. but i don't -- i think we've talked about this before, and i don't -- i don't remember. monica or tom, is there some kind of city-wide requirement

that obligates us to ask people who are on our mailing list who can, after all, unsubscribe at any time they want to annually affirm if they want to be on our mailing list? >> i see that the good government guide is being consulted. >> i mean, you've got it down now, monica, so, it probably doesn't take that much of your time. but it still takes time. >> it does, and i just want [speaker not understood] there is no requirement to send it to the mailing list. it just appears on the agenda. the agenda goes [speaker not understood]. there is no requirement to send the form itself to the mailing list. >> go ahead and read it. >> it's a real good word, commissioner stephenson. it's superfluous. so, we may not need it?

no action here today. >> no, i know. but if we don't need it -- >> we do it every year. >> i still request that at our next meeting we have a proposal to amend our bylaws to eliminate this requirement. >> if i may. >> or article. >> commissioner gravanis. >> while looking it up, quick question off the top of your head, roughly, how many people want to get information through snail mail as opposed to e-mail? >> two. >> two, okay. [multiple voices] >> 200 or two? >> two. >> it's the same people for 10 years. >> so, is it the will of the commission at a future date to look at removing this from the bylaws if deputy city attorney ellen says it's okay? >> yes. >> yes. >> okay. he'll find out for us. he's diligently looking it up.

maybe we can then deal with that and is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, any other discussion? all right. [gavel] >> can we call item -- this is where we now have item 9. >> department of the environment director search process and candidate qualifications. sponsored speaker is commissioner joshua arce. this is a discussion item. >> okay, colleagues. so, david osman is our acting director for this meeting, but melanie is still with us through the end of the week. we wanted to use this as an opportunity to bring the commission up to speed on the process of searching for our next director of the department. and for those that have been involved in the past search that led us to melanie and 3-1/2 great years of working with her, it's going to sound familiar because in many ways it's patterned after t