good afternoon again, commissioners. eric brooks, san francisco green party, our city and san francisco clean energy advocates. so, just wanted to first of all thank lafco and thank its staff for the incredible work to actually get this to happen. it's crucial. something that advocates -- this work has been -- advocates have been asking for for several years. it's finally going to be completed work. with regard to cca director malcolm's involvement with the rfp process, i don't want you all to push the envelope on that because we have to remember that ms. malcolm is being hired, was hired and being paid to work on cca. and that's her job. and we want her to come here and do her job and interact with the bidders for the rfp so that we're getting the best bang for the buck out of this program that we can.

again, because it will bring future revenue possibilities to the sfpuc. on the rfp itself, we want to make sure that -- we want to again thank staff for being very good about working with the community and really changing that rfp a lot so we reflected more what the community was looking for and the robustness for the kind of program we're working for. however, i would still say that the advocate community still wants something that pushes the envelope a little more than the rfp suggest, especially on selecting sites. we kind of got word from staff that we would downgrade the necessity of selecting sites beyond those that have already been identified by their sfpuc and sf environment. that wasn't what we were asking for. we were asking for a site selection -- for a site selection city-wide to be completed. that's going to need to be done if we're going to be able to do a proper program. so, let's, as we roll this rfp

process forward, let's make sure that we're pushing the envelope on getting something big enough that will get us 50% clean energy ~. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hi, i will start where mr. brooks left off, which is 50% clean energy, 50% of our energy load within 10 years. that was what was originally envisioned in the work that has been done and we believe that that is demonstrably possible. i would like to also echo lafco's staff, thanks to lafco's staff for working with us. it was definitely a collaborative process and track changes is never fun. i would like to -- i'll also mention that we did send both commissioners and staff some recommendations for folks that we think would be great experts for the review panel. and that did include both commissioner and staff from the sfpuc.

ultimately, having been to many of these puc meetings and having heard the concerns last august with the lack of approval of the rates, i think we heard largely about rates not being competitive to pg&e. we heard about shell and the problems with contracting with shell and a company like that. and we heard about a lack of demonstrable jobs. on the rates issue we are using old rates. i think everyone here knows that, marin and sonoma, especially sonoma recently putting out the bids, that double digit number of bids when we got effectively 0 to 1. i think if we reevaluate this, there is every reason to think that we are going to have a much better rates that will allow us to be launching a program totally comparable to pg&e. third issue, we heard from ms. malcolm and add infinitum that the puc can actually purchase this power in-house. this can actually provide more revenue opportunities for the puc and allow this 19 million

to conceivably be used for something else. lastly on jobs, we need the rfp to show the jobs. and, so, i would really hope that the puc commissioners and staff would be as supportive of this process as possible. this is to answer your concerns and to provide answer to your questions. so, to that end please involve ms. malcolm [inaudible]. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hello again, commissioners, jeff dorian, 350 bay area. i'm definitely the dummy in this group but i can see a few things i'd like to share. just from probably what any member of the public might be able to see, i think the little i do know, i was involved with the meeting last friday, the bay area air quality management, and was told by somebody there that last year there were three members at the community in the audience and this year there was standing room only. i can kind of anticipate the same thing happening with these meetings, especially as the climate issues become more and

more pressing. the thing that i can really see is just as a citizen, when you're talking about the money that people are spending on energy, of course, a new start up is going to be more expensive and that needs to be subsidized until that they can reach an economy of scale, which everybody knows economy of scale, the price goes down. and the other thing that i can see that's important in this issue is what everybody knows that's had any experience in business is diversification. we need to be diversified, especially with the climate issues, again, that we're facing, with the possible droughts that's causing everybody anxiety. and the other issues that are coming with climate change. and this clean energy is diversification and that's whatnot only the city needs, but the country needs. and i'm glad to be part of a community that's probably in the forefront of the country

and a model for the rest of the country. thank you. >> thank you very much. is there any -- [speaker not understood] with the san francisco department of the environment. i just wanted to add that the department is standing ready to assist in the cleanpowersf program and move forward with an energy efficiency buildout. as some of you may know that we are already operating about a $7 million a year program. we have a team of now nine engineers who go out to buildings every day to provide preliminary assessments and do quality assurance checks on contractors' work. we have over 55 contractors working in our program and we believe that we're stimulating 150 to 200 full-time equivalent installation jobs on an annual basis with an additional back office coefficient to add to that. so, we stand ready to participate in this program and help out in any way that we can. thank you. >> thank you very much.

commissioner mar. >> chair avalos, can i just ask mr. bloom head, if you could comment, we had a short discussion of potential cpuc funding to the tune of 800 million statewide for energy efficiency use and a letter coming from the board of supervisors to urge access to those funds. do you have any suggestions of what we as a city could do to access more of those funds? well, cleanpowersf is a way of accessing those funds. there's a tremendous amount of money that is devoted to -- that is generated from san francisco rate payers. we're currently getting, as i said, about $7 million a year of that. we believe we could get a substantial amount larger and do more work here in the city. >> thank you. other than that, we participate in the regular proceedings at the cpuc which if any of you know what that regulatory process is about, it's very tedious and complex

and ever more complex. the other thing is that we're not compensated for that work and so we get that money out of our overhead and a little bit out of the puc work order and it's a very difficult task, but we've been very successful at working with local governments across the state, and particularly in the nine bay area counties more recently in leveraging these funds. >> thank you. any other member of the public would like to comment? and seeing none, we'll close public comment. [gavel] >> commissioner breed. >> i just wanted to thank the advocates and thank barbara hale for putting this rfp together and you, too, jason. i see you. [chuckling] >> yes, i apologize. i'm looking dead at you, too. [laughter] >> but thank you all so much for putting this together so

quickly. i think the point of this, as had been mentioned, is to make sure that a lot of the concerns that have been brought up by both the commissioners and the puc staff, we wanted to make sure that we try to address those concerns and put together a comprehensive plan that could actually effectively be implemented and work for the city. so, we're looking at, of course, the bigger picture in the long term and how do we do this and how do we do this thing right and address those did herxctionv. ~ concerns. i, too, got many of the complaints about shell and complaints about how this might impact the city as a whole. we listened and heard those complaints. i think if we continue to work together, we can continue to provide clean power and do it in a cost-effective way for the residents of the city. i think we owe it to san franciscans to go this route. i think we owe it to future generations to go this route.

if the folks at hetch hetchy would have stopped when they were told to stop with hetch hetchy, we wouldn't have this incredible water system that we have now. and at that time it was unpopular and costly. and, so, i think we need to look at the future and look at what this means for future generations. it's an important program, and i hope we can put it together in a way that effectively can be delivered and cost-effectively more importantly can be delivered, and hopefully as has been stated by many of the folk here today, be something that could assist with some of the financial needs of the puc. so, thank you, everyone, again and sorry, ms. miller, for that comment, and look forward to moving forward with this. thanks. >> thank you, commissioner breed. and thank you for your leadership on the rfp. it was your office that pushed this forward, so, appreciate it. thank you.

okay. so, colleagues, we can go on to our next item which is i think is general public comment. >> yes. item number 7, general public comment. >> so, the microphone and the podium are available for any member of the public who would like to comment on any item related to lafco and the public utilities commission. thank you. sorry for keeping you an extra two minutes. i just wanted to provide a little bit of context for those not on the board of supervisors who maybe don't have me talking to them as often. my background is i am a trained environmental scientist. i got a master's degree from the yale school of forestry in environmental studies. originally was working on species conservation and essentially as the data came in, it became clear that we no longer necessarily have time for species conservation except conceivably for our own species. mr. dorian who had to leave mentioned the bay area air

quality. ~. and i know some sit [speaker not understood]. that the the agency with binding regulatory control in the nine bay area qualities, that includes greenhouse gases and 350 bay area along with some other advocacy organizations have successfully gotten the air district's board of directors to commit to lowering greenhouse gases below 89% by 20 50 which is the internationally agreed upon goal necessary to provide, you know, time for our society to adapt a climate change, et cetera. what this means for you guys is that as the air district works on implementing that goal and that's not just a goal, but actually a him. so, there is rule making process he already underway. over the next couple years working out their clean air plan, rules are going to be issued which will bear on these two bodies. and, so, essentially as time goes on, the hammer is going to be coming down and we are all going to need to be kicking in

and committing to reducing emissions where we can. so, we are coming here to you as kind of the vanguard of this, but eventually this will be a very mundane and tedious rule making process pushing you to have more clean power, have more local power and reduce emissions. we're trying to get this started sooner than later [inaudible]. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon again, commissioners. eric brooks. so, i just wanted to encourage the lafco in any energy endeavors that it goes forward with to definitely -- since he spoke today, you probably know that one of the recommendationses we made to you folks is to use department of environment staff as well. we've seen that they have been ready to go on program like cleanpowersf and doing other renewable energy projects and efficiency projects and their involvement will be key. along the same lines, in a

little bit of a critical vein, it would be good to know what's going on with the climate action plan that was recently put out because originally it mentioned cleanpowersf, among other things, and now it's not the same. it would be good to find out when we're going to have a hearing on that and maybe in lafco if necessary. and then finally, one of the thing that will make it possible to fund the clean energy is to develop a public bank and we hadn't heard much about that. so, just wanted to get the status on that from chair avalos and perhaps staff. thanks. >> thank you very much. we will have a hearing on march 31st related to the climate protection plan, and that was also something that my pdf, the original pdf that went out on that, jeremy pollack in my office searched for the words cleanpowersf in that document

and he found that it was actually embedded in there in meta data. you could cut and paste the section where it was in and put it in the word document and it revealed that cleanpowersf was part of the climate protection plan and it was within the plan, a goal -- actually two goals one residential and one for commercial. the residential goal was to have 100% renewable energy on a residential side by 2030 and it was 80% for the commercial side. that information was redacted from the climate protection plan, i assume, while it was being, you know, [speaker not understood] before it what released. the data plan [speaker not understood] we didn't get it issued until 2014. and last i heard, 2014, its was not 2013. okay, any other member of the public who would like to comment? seeing none, we will close public comment. [gavel] >> and do we have any other items before us? >> actually, chair avalos, can i just make a comment --

>> commissioner mar. >> what mr. holtz man said about the role of 350 bay area. i'm one of the members of the bay area air quality management district and have been for several years ~. i would just caution you about speaking of yourself and your organization as a vanguard. there are many environmental justice groups that have been working on issues of climate change and climate justice for many, many years. i think 350 bay area is a critical organization that's really been taking a lead on many levels and i would just caution you to speak in those terms of yourself. the young people that have been at the white house and were today protesting the key stone excel i think are really taking a lead. and my hope is that the whole environmental movement can really embrace younger people, environmental justice groups, native american nations and others as we all move forward together. but i really appreciate all the work of [speaker not understood] strong and really better commitments from the bay area air quality management district and the leadership

that you guys show, but also in the interest of building a broader environmental movement for the future of all of our communities, but thank you. >> okay. do we have any other items before us? and did you the public utilities commission have to do their own close out for this hearing? so, if there are no other item before us, we are adjourned. [gavel]

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that's truly an inspiration and greeting president chiu and supervisor cowen and greeting, of course, to all our board of supervisors as well as department heads and elected officials >> our honored guests and especially to our european folks for being here today (clapping) and all our hardworking men and women for welcoming us to this morning into your job site. i wanted to come here and talk about the state of the city this shipyard links our past to our promising future. behind me soon hundreds of

thousands of home for middle-class families are under construction. like taking i didn't see story the shipyard is our remarkable progress for the city recovering from the great recession. it represents the challenges that san francisco still is a place for working families and teachers our firefighters and our seniors can call home. a year ago i declared the state of how city to be vitality and strong with san francisco moving in the right direction. thought 2013 because of our rent also prostitute for our people all of the robust recovery continues. last year san francisco was the nations number one large

community for job growth adding jobs in every sector. yes, from technology to health care to construction and merchandising. and unemployment today stands up at the 5.2 percent down from 9.5 when i first took office (clapping) my fellow san franciscans that means 42 thousand plus of jobs were created since 2011 and resident are back to work. as a result, the height budget refers our cities credit rating is the highest in history (clapping) and at the dawn of this new year 2014 our city is virtually and a strong indeed strong financially and economically as never has

been 90 in our history. we must recognize there are infarction in this economy we must not reserve our economic growth. our economic recovery has left thousands behind our neighborhood are revitalized and new construction is around us but still folks look to the future and where is the hope for them. too many of our reinstate men and women squarely in middle their dream of starting a family or ownership a home falls further out of reach. the rising cotton and the

financial geese in our madly those are the fundamental chafrngz channels of our time not only for our city but for cities around the world and to sustain our economic recovery and the renewed conversation we must confront these in a san francisco way clear hearted. in the chinese zodiac this the year of the horse they tend toward strengthen and financial success but their among the most compassionate and quick to protect those who can't fight for themselves. those are the challenges before us because it is that same

economic strengthen and renewed conversation in our future it provides us with the resources and the resolve to do. my fellow san franciscans this is the agenda for the priority of the year ahead. and that affordability agenda starts with making sure every one of our receipt from the young or old from the southeast or a new immigrant has a good job and can access the skills and training to get one. there's no wider income gap between those who have a job and those who do not. there are 24 thousand san franciscans out of work with perhaps twice that under employed and that's why we must

never relent in our efforts across technology and bio tech and international trade and tourism and film and video approximate and construction and health care all growing part of our diverse economy growing jobs in every background. i don't know about you but i haven't forgotten double digit unemployment. but incredibly it's become fashionable for some lately to dismiss the board based recovery they speak of it only in terms of the negative. perhaps the first time in history the creating of good jobs has been criticized. my friends we must not take those better times for granted.

building when he me when i tell you there's not a city on the planet that would review refuse to trade places with us. all this comes in spite of our resident by politicians in washington where congress refuses to pass comprehensive a migration reform and i say shame on them (clapping) and that's why modern ever we here in san francisco must and will continue to invest and work towards training and a invest in people like rodney who's here today. he recently