act to fix climate change. it is our obligation to do this. so we need to do this as soon as possible and to do it now while we can, while we still the climate to save. this is the most important thing on climate change that the city of san francisco can do is to get cleanpowersf up and running this year. thank you. >> mr. chairman, can i just ask mr. rizzo a question? john, do you know why marin and sonoma launched in may as someone referenced? was there a strategic reason why they are launching or is there a coincidence? >> i don't but someone else might know that answer. >> i will also say that my

previous hat was a founding board of clean energy. i'm no longer on that board. when we launched it was predicated on prop 16 and we actually accelerated our launch time. so it was not, it had nothing to do with the months of the market. >> okay. thank you. >>supervisor john avalos: okay. next speaker, please. >> jeremy had a response to that question. >> one of the things to look at timing is take a look at load analysis. how they are using energy hour and day and month. you don't want it to be more expensive than the rates are more expensive. for example if you are starting in june and you expect a hot july and when the bills

arrive for july they will say this was more expensive than my last pg & e bill. you don't want it where it's more expected by the use of the customer because that will be the perception of it being more expensive. look at the month to month relative same usage to take into consideration. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. i will call a few more cards.

>> public speaker: let's show the leadership that we can and please move with the implementation as you can. let's establish a clear timeline to launch this year. thank you very much. >> public speaker: hi, commissioners. i'm representing 350 san francisco. i would like to thank the puc and lafco for this meeting and the report which our organization was involved in. i want to echo what everyone

else has said and there were many people that had to go bacto work during the public comment period. maybe you can infer from our comments collectively what they wanted to say. 2013, san francisco updated a climate action strategy that listed the counties holistic vision for how we are going to get to what we e need to on climate. that is on 11-19 inches of sea level rise and 30 inches of sea level rise. i happen to know this data is released. the 2015 climate action strategy shows moving to 100 percent renewable energy will actually take care of 46 percent of the

total emissions in the entire climate action energy. from moving to 100 percent renewable energy will take care of that. that goes over 60 percent. we are talking about a plan that will take care of the majority where we need to get to -- by 2030. ultimately doing due diligence is great. artificial timelines are not great. we want do it as soon as possible. the market is right. thank you. >> public speaker: david mccord. cochair of bay chapter's energy committee. we thank the mayor

for calling for implementation of clean power san francisco and especially for calling for robust construction of a new renewable energy sources and energy efficiency retro fits on local homes and businesses. as pointed out by enernex report this will create thousands of local jobs for city of san francisco and local union jobs. we need the commission to set rates in place with clear timelines. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> public speaker: hello,

i'm a sierra club member and an advocate of community choice aggregation of 2006. in 2007 we were promised a program would be up and running. that didn't happen demand -- and in 2012 the board voted for this and now we are waiting again. i feel like a kid on a trip, are we there yet? except this is critically important and the trip is fairly long. we are seeing climate changes globally and globally. please stop dragging your feet. set the rates now. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. i going to call more cards.

>> can you please lineup. >> public speaker: hi, my name is ramsey springel. student at u c berkeley. i can't imagine an issue bigger than this one. even as education, i graduate this year and the skyrocketing cost that is going to be a burden onto my students. i don't see that as an important issue as when we look at the environment when we say 50 percent of the local

population lives on the coastal regions. i don't see anything nearly as important as you protecting our environment many obviously all of these things are completely mixed things together. >> i want to applaud the board of supervisors and thank you very much for going over this. i think cleanpowersf is important now. i'm a little ashamed that we are not first. we should be first because we are leaders and we should lead now. thank you very much. breed thank breed thank you >> public speaker: i'm a resident of san francisco and having worked with the community in san francisco both to shutdown the pg & e's hunter's point plant and polluting plants

that were running over time and having worked with the community, i support a lot of the points that the green jobs creation etc but i want to emphasize and echo what was brought up is the lack of gauge engagement with the local community groups that have worked that have membership in san francisco such as bayview hunters point. and having heard this process for so long and not having them engaged is a huge red flag. i also want to echo the concern about having a token project run by pg & e and having dealt with that company and the pollution for so many years. people do want to see clean projects alternative energy, solar, wind, we don't want to give more money to pg & e, we

are trying to steer off having them monopolize us. but also we don't want to give them the spotlight of being able to say, yeah, we are agreeing, etc when in fact they are just ripping us off and raising rates. so as a community resident i do support this program, however this could be done right and sometimes things are going too fast and they are not done right. i just want to emphasize that as a community member. thank you. >> public speaker: i have a speaker card here. i'm a conservation manager for the bay chapter of the sierra club. i want to say about lots of folks coming here to speak on

-- to oun -- on this very important issue. john anderson, kelly >> i also wanted to speak for the youth. i'm 27 and i'm going to live a long time and climate is going to affect my life. i wanted to read a speech that my 17-year-old intern wrote to you. i'm a 17-year-old high school student. as i'm sure you are aware climate change is a huge threat that needs to be addressed now. the decisions you make about this issue will affect my opportunities in the future. in addition i want to read a statement from tiffany clark who is a 22-year-old senior at usf.

san francisco and california is experiencing a climate change. we must change this disruption. climate change is happening right at this moment. it's important that implementation of cleanpowersf happen soon. i strongly urge you that you set rates as soon as possible. we must act now. please act on their behalf. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is sheila hernandez, a san francisco resident. i want to tell a story about the last time i came and talked to the puc was 6 years ago in this building and about 50 residents from the bayview came and said they didn't want community aggregated choice clean

energy. i'm a community activist here in the mission district. i was outside talking to people and they told me that pg & e paid them $100 each to say they didn't want community aggregated choice. we have an election cycle coming up. pg & e has donated a lot of money to elected officials in this city and to the city in general. we want this program launched before the next election cycle. they carry a lot of power, they are a monopoly. thank you. that's all i have to say. thank you.

>> >> hello, i want to say, where there is a political will, there is a way. where there is a will, there is a way. we had a failure of political will 2 years ago when we had not to exceed rates on the agenda. and it failed. i want to thank lafco for it's political will and financing the enernex report which helps to unbreak this log jam of excuses that we are given for not moving forward with cleanpowersf. now we have that demonstrated the case. what i want to call you now to have the political will to not take any excuses and move this thing forward. the sf puc commission, you are in charge of moving this thing

forward. i know there is a vacancy on your board and that's for the members of the board of supervisors can exercise that goal and make sure the next person in that seat is a community activist and that seat is supposed to be reserved. there is the possibility there. it's up to you folks to do what's needed for the people of san francisco and the bay area. thanks much, in advance for exercising that political will. >> thank you. i'm going to call a few names. willie rat cliff

something commissioner campos says which resonates with many of us is to stop using cleanpowersf as football. i want to emphasize with puc in the community advisory community support for supporting clean power for that voice for puc. the renovation. it's clear they have the ability and experience to do this for this program post haste.

we know the pg & e at this moment with it's object. we knew that was coming almost a year ago. based on shawn marshall's statement that opportunity to get the ball rolling now. they should include the business sector. i have heard this that they need lower rates. they have refrigerators running all day long and it's a huge part of their overhead. that dictates them not being able to pay their workers more. customers opting out later shouldn't be different than switching out from cellphone companies. san diego, san luis obispo and others are implementing this program. it's time to move expeditiously. we

want our rates and to get our rates cheaper and want to forget the unreasonable pg & e rates hike now. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. >> public speaker: my name is willie rat cliff. i publish san francisco newspaper and i own rising son investment and rising sun developers. it's about time that we moved on this issue. i'm so proud that we've been out stepped. that's been the problem. but even right now, the oil companies would like to take over what we are doing about solar too. but what they want to do is do it out in the valley where it don't benefit us and

ship it to us. we want to do it right here. and as a matter of fact, we've been talking to some people in china with hanson lee about a plant. we can get that done. i'm just happy that we need to move around because we are a long time with this issue and now we have enough people behind it. one thing we want to look at is what's going on in the streets and we have to

look at inequality to look at the position we are in. but we need to also fix it where move all the obstacles out of the way of the puc to be able to negotiate contracts. that should be for the whole area. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. next speaker, please. >> public speaker: good afternoon, my name is hanson lee. i have been a ratepayer for over 30 years. i have been working as an asian contracting agency wanted the fair share of our work and i was here before as ace tries to help people in the areas and

zip code. now i'm excited to be here to see the leaders with us to build this community together. we are excited to build this community with the local jop. local good paying job with the green community and with green business. thank you. >>supervisor london breed: thank you very much, next speaker, please. >> public speaker: daniel castillo. i speak as a private citizen. my only concern really is as far as saving the planet i feel it's more like save yourself. the planet if you are gone, it won't feel it. it's gone. i also feel san francisco should

take advantage because people will always like to come here. it's a beautiful city. the fillmore which has a lot of jazz clubs people would come there because of the vibe. not many people came because people were wondering where the clubs are. people would kick them out because they want to be there. i feel with this energy plan as it goes through, it will only benefit the city as well . also concerns to us campos out, i'm not quoting correctly. it's what i got out. it's pretty much watch out for the hidden hand to make sure you have a water down verse -- version of what they will in the end benefit from. also to commissioner breed, i believe clean power is not dead. it makes no sense. the sun was out there last time i

checked. if not, ask china, i'm sure they have a better view. one other thing i wanted to point out the sign, it says "support community choice". that's about it. thank you very much. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, next speaker, please. i will call a few more cards. whom ever else, these are the last cards that i have. if there is anyone else who hasn't had an at some point to speak, who would like to speak, please lineup to my

left. >> mr. brooks? >> okay. good afternoon, commissioners. i feel like i was going to say some other thins that are important and i can probably bring them up in another item. but now i think i have to focus on timeline because i'm a little bit concerned about some of the things that i'm hearing about delay and i want to make clear that that delay is unnecessary. just to amplify on what others have said. sonoma and marin county have already set their not to exceed rates. a couple years ago. we were ready to go forward. tim malcolm, the director, cca director who just resigned, by the way, to speed things up, the first thing we should do is hire her back and that will save time than to go on a new search for a new candidate because she was

doing a great job and one of the things she was showing that pg & e's projected rate was 12 cents a kilowatt hour and at that time even under the shell contract she was showing how we can get 9 cents per hour and it was hundred percent green to all resident. now we are talking about a split rule, light and green. what was whas in sonoma is something that can be developed later. the if sf puc rate could have set the rate not to exceed today. what i'm going to call on the commission is to set the not to exceed rate at the next meeting at

the pg & e rate and after that then we develop the program. we need to set the rate immediately. >> public speaker: thank you. my name is rebecca evans. i would like to thank you all for this. i'm not an energy expert. i have been a san franciscan for almost 50 years and over 10 of those years i have watched this process. i hope you get aggressive about it. i have read that scotland is now clean energy. we heard from enernex that there are more jobs for this project than there are for

the keystone pipeline. i think that's good news for the city and for the region. i think it's really important that you do that. the climate crisis is here. we can look at what's happening in the east with the snowstorms and the tides. san francisco is supposed to be the city that knows how. we need take that mantra and make it real. thank you very much. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. next speaker. >> public speaker: i'm cindy aragon. in september of last year we passed the resolution overwhelmly to support cleanpowersf and asked the commission to go forward with this program. it made no sense to us that san francisco should be pushing the envelope on the issue of environment one of the last cities in the bay area to be moving forward with this. it made no

sense to us that green energy was being used as a political football and after 10 years and $4.1 million that we were still arguing over this. when i was appointed to the cac by my supervisor eric mar, i was appointed because he believed in. we passed it overwhelmly. we asked that it should be moved forward. we are not the only ones talking about this. we've seen the report. we know it's a viable program. all of the obstacles are gone. to think it going to be a year before we roll this out is inexcusable. i wanted to see clean power within my term as chair of the cac and i will be seeing it at the end of my term. that's a two year term. so i think it's really important to rule this out.

i'm asking you to roll this out much sooner before an election. i don't think this should be a political football. i know my members of cca agree with this. please move forward with this today. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, next speaker. >> public speaker: hello, i'm kiara babt with the club. it's a lot of work to be here at these meetings. i appreciate it. thank you for talking about the enernex report today. especially today i feel like i have learned so much and as things sound so much more possible as they did last night. i came here to ask you to move forward with setting the not to exceed rates and establishing a launch date by the