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it, it talks about death. the different diseases and things that people get and you die from it. you die from it. people are dying in my community. you have a health department, you have the malls and i said this to you before, my daughter died two years ago and i haven't got a report of what she died from. three weeks ago, 15 seniors died on third street within two months. people are still dying in bay view hunter's point. are you all caring about what's happening, the air? and you think i'm going to trust anything from the health department, epa, because they all do things for development. i can't do it. how can you all sleep at night when the people are dying. it is sad,
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but you know what, i tell people if it wasn't for the lord i would not be here. god anointed me to try and come to inform you and represent his children. and i'm doing a poor job of representing his children when i talk to you all because you all are not listening. children are -- small children are going to be playing there, and they did a report that you can only be in that area like a year or six months, or one hour at a time. you couldn't even be there no more than five or six hours. you need to check out these sites, what's going on. and ledge, when that young lady got that million dollars, do you know what she did? she left town. she didn't do it the job, but other people did. who was involved with getting that done was maxwell
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who was -- the community didn't get the money. it went elsewhere. it's sad. >> so we do listen. i'm going to ask that the record reflect that dr. jackson's public comment would be placed under the item number 12. i allowed it one time because we do listen. and you always have to balance the interest. this is item number 13. it has been moved and it has been seconded. it's relate today the outdoor education grant, so if there's any public comment on item number 13, let's hear it. >> commissioners, our children should be taken to areas where a lot of thought has been given. so
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we really have to be very careful about this. not too long ago there was associations taking our children to treasure island and saying those play fields were this and that and the other, but we proved them wrong, but in proving them wrong, the children who played on those play fields, you don't die in one or two or three years, you die years after you're close to it, so whoever is giving these grants or this money, you all should personally go to the sites. it behoves you to go to the sites because children will go where ever assaults take them. i've never seen these kashs that come hear
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saying we have this program linked to the san francisco unified school district, whatever, whatever, the san francisco unified school district would not allow anybody with intent to take children to a contaminated site when this great city we have so many sites where we can take the children. take them to golden gate park. they've been to other good sites. they don't take them to contaminated sites. and now, when we, the advocates come here, you look at the nay sayers. that's like the profits when the people heard the profits, they call them nay sayers. they even died. but you have to speak the truth. and i know you commissioners. when you all come up for this
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or whatever, they call [inaudible]. and i'm there which i used to do, i go and testify in your favor. because i want you all to represent, not the devil. not the people that rubber stamp, not the people who have no values, no ethics, no morals, no standards. i say that. maybe for the last 35 years you've seen me. do the right thing. look at our children, look into their eyes, and see if you have the morals to do the right thing for our children. not for these devils who come here just because they get some money. what is money? what is money? >> thank you, francisco. again, on item 12, we authorize general manager. we gave authority
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related to agreement. item 13 is the education grant, k-5 outdoor education grant. it has been moved and it has been seconded. it there any further public comment on item 13. hearing none, item 13 -- public comment is closed on item 13. i'll call for a vote. >> all those in favor say aye. >> next item, please. clerk clerk item 14 is the increase of the construction price of 849,000 420 for contract number wd fire suppression for a cost of $1 million and authorize a general manager to approve future contract modification. >> i'd like to move. >> it has been moved and seconded. any public comment. hearing none, public is closed. i'll call for a vote. signify by
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saying aye. >> aye. >> the motion carries. >> item 16 is electronic signature process in the programs and projects speaker: commissioners. >> move. >> it has been moved. >> second. >> it has been seconded. any public comment on this item? speaker: which one is this? >> 15. >> hearing none, public is closed. i'll call for a vote. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> the ayes has the motion. madam next item. city clerk: item 16, to authorize a revocable license to the town of hillsboro and have findings in the monitoring act. >> commissioners. >> what is this? >> everybody wants to live in hillsboro, what are we doing for that? >> michael, deputy manager. it's a revocable license and
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we're bringing it because it's a [inaudible] as well. i read the item but i didn't understand exactly what we're doing. >> obviously you don't either. >> i apologize for that. >> i apologize for myself as well. >> i apologize for me. it's a revocable license and it's next to our hillsboro tunnel. they have to get a license from us to use our land. it's just like a permit. >> to do what? >> the sewer project. >> for the sue age of hillsboro. >> we're giving them an easement. >> we're giving them a license. >> to have an easement to flow.
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>> just to use your land on a temporary basis to do their sewer process. >> they'll sue age will not go over ours. >> no. >> it has been moved. >> i seconded. >> it has been seconded. any public comment. public comment is closed. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> oppose the motion carries. next item. city clerk: items 17 is a work shop presentation discussion on community choice ago gri gags. >> i'd like to call for a recess.
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[gravel] >> madam secretary, refresh our recollection, which item. >> item 17, work shop and the presentation and discussion on the aggregation operating in california and clean energy power. >> good afternoon, mrs. hale. >> barbara hale, assistant manager for power. and i'm going to do a brief introduction of our topic. we're going to give you real life experiences and share the successes. in today's presentation is going to cover this and where we are with the clean power program. the experiences this two ccaa, marine clean energy and clean power. and then talk a little bit
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about our next steps for consideration. the last time i spoke before you, our focus was on the financial stability of the power enterprise. we had a two year balance -- we have currently a two year budget moving its way through the legislative process. and a financial plan that improves that stability. it includes reserving funds to meet the clean power sf needs under a model that does not rely on the sinna contract. and it includes $4 million for clean power sf and for our go solar sf program. we have some
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financial stabilities to do. we have made some modest changes on increasing our rates and identifying new revenue sources and introducing our projected cost. we have been on pause in the clean power sf program. for members of the listening communities, what is clean power sf? what am i talking about. this program was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2004. it would allow us to under state legislation be the server of power on behalf of san franciscans. it was our platform. to make smarter decisions for san franciscans. when we last presented to you, the clean power sf program was august of 2013. it really was viewed as our key
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method to address climate change. it provides an opportunity for the city to offer green power choices to its residents. most of whom are low -- excuse me, most who are renters with relatively low electric usage and it doesn't make financial sense or they don't have the ability to put solar on their residents, it's not their property. so it allows clean power sf allows san franciscans to participate. we proposed it to start with 50 to 90,000 residents with a goal of reaching everyone. it creates an energy portfolio. the tough part was balancing our policy
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preferences, policy for affordable service, for the most green mix renewable sources possible, and for that local build. our general manager, kelly referred to that as the three headed monster at a recent meeting. it's hard to accomplish all three of those at once. when we presented the rate and the program to you back in august, we heard a series of concerns around the -- around getting that balance right. i just summarized those on slide seven. we've seen recent changes in the cca environment. we have clean energy with a successful track record with low rates and 60 megawatts of plan build out. we have market prices for energy renewable energy which has declined. we're looking at
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increase community -- so clean power has launched. they launch in may of 2014 with low rates and low opt out and able to take advantage of market suppliers that are comfortable with choice aggregation providers. when we sent out our request for supply bids, we had either no qualified bidders or very few who we coax into compliance. what i'd like to do at this point is turn the microphone over to jaime and to cordell. she's the communication director and cordell is the chief engineering manager. >> hi, jaime thanks for being here today. >> thank you for having me.
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i'm excited to be here. i'm the communications direct are for clean energy and i started working on the cca effort in 2007. so i got to see a lot of the process from the early beginning when we were just forming and determining if this would be workable in marine until today. so i'll get started with telling you about more about our program. so our agency was formed in december of 2008. and when we started up, we spent about a million and a half on our initial feasibility studies determining whether or not this was going to be something that was workable in marin and whether it was something that the customers in marin were interested in. when we launched in may of 2010, we needed $2.2 million to get off the ground. today our finances are looking really good. we've got a budget of
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$100 million budget and we're in net position of $8 million. we are providing service to approximately 125,000 customers in our service area which includes the county of marin but the city of richmond. the city much richmond expressed interest in joining marin clean energy a couple of years ago and we started service to richmond customers last summer, so about exactly one year ago. we're assuming 77% of the customers in our area, so in marin and richmond and the other portion of those customers have decided to opt out and stay with -- >> say that again. >> we're serving 77% of the people in our area. and the other 77 percent opted out and remain
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with pch services. we have reduced by 131 million towns. we're governed by a board of directors. there are 13 directors, each representing one of the communities that we serve, so 12 of the directors are from marin communities and we have one director from the city of richmond. they all elected council member and they provide oversights of our rate and policies and customer noticing, and our power sources. we also have to report to the california energy commission and to the cpuc regarding our power sources, and that's the cpc and to the cec. to the cpc, we provide information to them about how we implement our program and what our plan is for roll out and et
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cetera. so you probably have seen a slide or image like this before. this is a recap of how cca works. it's a hybrid approach between your traditional investment utilities like sacramentos or municipal utilities like p jenny. they're responsible for preparing the electricity and producing that power. p jenny do the delivery and the maintenance. they send the electricity over the wire and they do the billing and customer services. the customer has a seamless experience when they transfer to a cca bill. the customer pays that to p jenny and they give our portion to us. >> customers in our service area actually have four choices for their
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power supply. they can choose pg and e which is currently 22% renewable or choose our light green product which is 55% renewable and that's the product that customers are automatically enrolled into if they don't choose another option. we offer degreen, that's 100% renewable and it's verified by green e energy. we have just announced a third option for mce which is shares which is a local solar projects built within our service area that customers are purchase as well. >> can i - sorry. you're going to talk about that local build component. >> yes, i am. this shows our power sources between 2010 and 2013. we have contracts with approximately 12 different power suppliers and we buy our power from all over
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california, from oregon and washington state. we currently have 54 megawatts of new renewable energy that's being built for our customers in california and that doesn't include the local renewables that we have being built for our customers and i'll talk about that in a couple of minutes. this is a slide that shows the break down of the power resources mixed between pg and e, between our light green, 50% and our deep green, 50%. one thing that they're required to do every year in partnership with pg and e is to sent out a mailler. it has our logo and it includes a cost comparison, a break down of the power sources and also admission compare -- comparison. we just sent this out two weeks ago to our
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customers. we get our renewable resources. we purchase some large hydro and we use system power as well in addition to the greenhouse gas free power that we buy. we had 39% system power unspecified as shown on that slide. all electric utilities by this unspecified power and the reason why we're buying a large portion because we said we won't enter into a contract for nuclear energy, so to make up the other part that's not renewable or large hydro, we use the young specified power. you can see on the very bottom, there is a greenhouse admission comparison. it's cutting off on the bottom of the slide. but it's the mega watt hour. you can see the pg
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and e is at 445 and light green which is at 380 and 0 for deep green because it's 100 percent renewable. the question i get asked is what is it going to cost me if i switch to mce. the exciting thing is even with the highest percentage of renewable energies, it's lower. this year we're expect to save our customers $5.1 million. this is showing what the average monthly bill would cost for a customer. light green is a little bit cheaper than what pg and e would be charging. deep green is more expensive. we charge our customers an additional penny per kilo watt. and then whole shares, the 100% local solar project which is going to come online later this year is more
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expensive. it's linked to a feed and turf program that we offer. so the cost of shares is the cost of what we're paying the producer in our service area to build that. it's a rate that is locked in to a 20 year term because it's directly connected to this contract so it will never exceed that amount and there's a possibility that the cost of solar shares will increase. one thing i want to point out, we're breaking the charges out between generation, delivering and pg and e. pg and e still charge delivery, so that part doesn't change. the generation part is what changes. and pg and e adds on exit fees to our customer's bill. they're charged on a monthly basis based on the amount of electricity you use and they charge those to make themselves hole for contracts
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that they entered into for customers who have switched to a cca. that's important to keep in mind and when i'm telling you the total cost difference, we're keeping -- taking into account pg and e added fees as well. this is a commercial cost comparison and you can see light green and deep green is cheaper than pg and e for our average customer. and one of the other things that i think is really great about a cca program and it's a wonderful opportunity for local communities to utilize is the fact that it's a revenue generating entity and we're a public not for profit agency so we can reinvest our rate payer dollars instead of paying it to shareholder and dividends. we invest in a variety of different projects and programs. so far we've dedicated just under
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$40,000 towards customer rebates. anything that we offer to our customers are an addition to anything that p and g offers. if pg and e was offering a rebate, we would offer that too. we have a really great net meter program for our customers. if you want to get the most money back for the electricity that your solar panels are giving out, you want to choose c -- we thought it was fair if we were charging customers 100% renewal, we should pay them that. we have an annual cash out. anyone who has a $100 credit or more will get a check at the end of the fiscal year and we recently gave tens
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of thousands of dollars in checks back to our customers. i mentioned earlier the -- it's a standard offered purchase a greem so anyone in our service area who wants to build a solar project at one mega watt or less can enter into a contract with us. we're offering really generous incentives so 1 kilo watts. those are pictures from the airport, and we've got several more in the pipeline for the tara. we have seven new local projects under way that's going to be built in marin and richmond totaling of 11 megawatts for our customers. we have a one mega watt carport
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structure that's going to be built for our customers. that was an addition to a contract we negotiated for 30 mega watt in the central valley for our customers. as apart of our negotiations we were able to get this company to build on one mega watt in our solar area. we have four new terrace in the pipeline which is exciting. one thing i didn't mention about deep green, our deep green customers who pay a penny per kilo watt -- it's put into a development fund and we're using that for the initial cost of our local project, so we've got two local projects. mc owned and they would be partially funded by deep green customers. and there's a description of those there. some other local programs that we offer our customers are a very
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robust energy efficient program. the energy efficient program that we offer to our customers is funded through the public goods fun. that program was authorized to us by the california utility commission. pg and e offers the same and we're offering something as well. we offer rebates, technical assistance and we're offering an on bill repayment program for our customers who want to implement energy efficient upgrade. that's unique because we've partnered with local bank and they're offering loans for the upgrades and they pay the loan back on our customer bills so increase a direct tide. we also have paid for the fund -- for the installation of
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electrical vehicle charging. we're offering a battery storage program to our immediate yaum and large commercial customers. we partnered with an organization called bidgley. and those are basically tools that give energy -- it can tell you how much the appliances are costing you. we help fund the marine green business program. it's apart of the bay area green business program. finally i want to mention that pca create local jobs and that's something we're proud of. more than 1300 california jobs have been created through mce since we started service in 2010. i have some