believe based on some of the questions and answers provided about the conflicts of interest that you will be able to exercise that caution in terms of if there are potential conflicts. i personally love seeing just a normal regular resident who wants to contribute to our city and who is a rate payer and has experience of that in their job be a part of this. i think my question is i can't believe you want to do this, but really glad you are here and thank you for even considering this appointment. >> thank you, supervisor tang >> thank you, mr. kwan any last comments you'd like to make? >> i'm pumped, i'm very excited. i will put my shoel ter to the wheel for this. i'm only one of five but i look forward to doing this. >> we are going to open this

item for public comment and then move on with our discussion. i have a number of cards and if you can come up in the order your name is called. if we have a line it will be along this wall here. dan flannigan, followed by (calling names). >> good morning, supervisors, my name is dan flannigan, i am coming here speaking as the executive director of friends of urban forest. i know you have looked at a very impressive resume' and has a great amount of experience in managing a large organization here in san francisco but i'd like to speak on behalf of my experience with ike. ike is ana awesome community

organizer. we are working in district 4 to try to reduce as much sidewalks and concrete as possible and ike was very instrumental in trying to organize his neighborhood in trying to get enough people to buy into that program. both my -- two of my staff were working with him in this process, they came back and they elected him the superman of all community organizers because they said he was not only personable but deeply connected to all the people in his district. and so i think he actually brings two very interesting skill sets to this position on puc my experience in the past 3 years in working with the puc is an organization that's deeply committed to the community but also has a very deep commitment to scientific analysis and trying to answer questions in a scientific way in order to plan for the long-term. and having someone who not only runs one of the preeminent organizations not only in san francisco but in

the country that is based on science and that plus his community background really bodes extremely well for this position. i hope that you all support him. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello, supervisors, my name is alex costanzo i want to tell you ike kwan is a man of extraordinary character and integrity. he is a brilliant and creative problem-solver and he's fun. i have 30 years of data because ike and i met in college. we were both a little skinnier then especially him -- just saying -- but i have had the pleasure of watching this man become a devoted husband and father, i have watched him work hard to arrive in his career to lead world

class organizations and i have had the pleasure of watching him remain humble through all these years, truly caring about the people, staying down to earth, being compassionate, sacrificially serving his community whether that meant being in the boardroom or the soup kitchen. i have also watched this xhi native, die hard cubs fan fall madly in love with the people of san francisco and the people in it, from dragon boats to the bi coalition, speaking out in public forums, ike has truly embraced the city and he's always making a difference. i serve on the board of directors for the sunset youth services and i have loved the work ike has been advocating at the academy of sciences. on a personal note, ike has been a wonderful friend to my family and me. even through the difficult parts of my life he's

been there, losing my vision and battling cancer. i can't imagine anyone who is more perfect in terms of representing me as a rate payer and my fellow san franciscoans. thank you. >> thank you very much next speaker, please. >> thank you, rules committee, for hearing us today, david zimmerman, i'm president of the inner sunset merchant's association as well as a resident of san francisco. getting to know ike the last few years has been a real privilege and pleasure. ike is an incredibly enthusiastic and energetic person, every problem we have tackled from small to large in our neighborhood, whether it's concerning his facility or the neighbors or our business district he's shown just a real humility and an interest in getting to know the problem, getting to know the situation. he's taken an incredible amount of time to immerse himself in our district, coming to our sunday

street fairs and just mingling with people and talking to them coming to our events and functions and being a presence has been really important. but that's secondary. ike professionally is an incredible man but personally he's a very likable, energetic, understanding caring person. he really truly wants to get to know a person in front of them and listen to their story and help them if he can and i've seen this in many different avenues and instances. and it shows me and it demonstrates to me that, yes, a chicago native can come into this city and embrace it and love it and call the city his own and want to be an advocate on so many different levels, from fighting with the park alliance, his own employees and the neighbors in his district, he is very passionate in making sure their voices are heard. i don't see

any issues or any conflicts in the sense that ike is a very independent person. just the way he speaks and the way he carries himself, you get a feeling and an understanding this man is not simply out looking for a political position, he truly is looking to improve the situation around him. that's all i have to say. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you very much, next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you very much for this opportunity to speak before you. my name is deborah lee dobers i am here to endorse mr. ike kwan as a superb candidate for the rate payer advocate seat. i want to speak to ike's ethical groundedness, his career at the academy of sciences fully embraces the

personal add vocation as a steward of the environment. i trust ike. his decisions and actions align with his espoused beliefs, from his position as general manager aacademy to quite frankly growing his own living roof on his daughter's clubhouse. ike, as you noticed, is a very honest and skillful communicator, very comfortable as a collaborator, appreciates different viewpoints, recognizes how issues play out in real life. ike has the personal ability to form coalitions. ike's greatest vested interest really is his family, his two children. if we are to work together to provide a healthy sustainable environment for the future of our children then we

need to walk our talk. ike has a vision the design of a cost-effective clean power san francisco. the commission has the responsibility to design and implement strategies ensuring universal access for consumers. exciting times. ike is prepared. i hope you will forward his nomination to the full board for approval. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. before the next speaker we'd like to call a few more cards, (calling names) please come forward. >> good morning, members, my name is carlos jimenez, i am both a city rate payer and home owner in your district, supervisor avalos. i live in

the crocker amazon district. i have known ike for several years and as i was thinking of what i wanted to say on his behalf i noted a thread running through some of the questions you were asking. it was obviously the intent of those what you were looking for, what your concerns are, and so the one thing i want to talk about ike is both his character and integrity. and i think more than anything else that will determine whether or not he's a person who is going to cave to particular interests or pursue his own self-interest in a public role such as this one. my experience with ike has been in something relatively thankless. we have served together for several years in our church in what is called a parking and traffic team which means that every sunday in the mission district we've been out there in all weathers, in multiple locations, dealing with whatever comes our way. it's not a role that a man in

his position with his professional expertise would naturally gravitate to, but one of the things i see we're looking for here and certainly that i would twoopbt see on the commission is a person who is not self-interested, who will actually sacrifice both time and energy for the task at hand and in that regard working alongside ike for these several years i can say, as alex costanza said, this is a man of character and integrity that i would be proud to have represent me on the commission. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> hi my name is cameron, i've been in san francisco for 22 years, something like that, been here a long time. so i can say as someone moves into the city, as someone who's been

here a long time, okay, is this person going to help us or is he just going to do his thing? ike is someone who really cares about the city. he's really come in and taken on our culture and lifestyle here. i went for a ride in his electric car and he sold me on that one. you know but even just like he was telling me about how, you know, energy saving and the garden on the roof of his daughter's play house and when he talks about these things, you know, when you hear someone talk about their bills on energy saving, it's not normally the most interesting thing in the world, but baes he's so passionate about this kind of thing, i was in it. i was, like dude tell me more. i love ike as a person, i love the way that he treats me and i love the way he treats my children and my wife and i think he genuinely cares about people. there is not a bunch of self-interest involved when

he does things. he wants to know your story, he wants to know about you and like you said, he looks at the facts of things and that's what he does in his personal life and i think he's going to be great in this role. so, yeah ike, love you, man, and thank you for letting me talk and i'm done. >> great. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors, eric burk, san francisco green party and our city sf first of all i want to preface my statements by saying ike kwan is obviously an outstanding individual with a lot of experience and integrity so my remarks later don't have anything to do with ike kwan, and if he were up for the at large seat or the environmental seat of the sfpuc i very likely would be in front of you saying please appoint this man,

especially after what he has made public about clean power sf but i also was one of the people who worked hard in 2008 to pass prop e and when the voters passed prop e it was because the san francisco puc was out of control and that is why it has taken us over 10 years to bring this forward. voters when they passed prop e did not pass a resolution statement, they passed a law which has requirements for the seats. and for seat 2, the requirement is that the candidate must have experience in rate payer advocacy. i believe ike is sincere in his fire for rate payer advocacy, and sincere when he said he would defend it, but unfortunately the voters were clear. i would like to see this candidate come up for

perhaps a future seat on the puc but not this one because we cannot take a law the voters passed and ignore it. the board set a precedent already in 2008 by rejecting an appointee. i ask you to follow the law today, send this to the full board without recommendation and let them, as prop e dictates, make a recommendation. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hello, supervisors my name is jed holtzman. i'd like to thank you all for the robust questioning that we heard here today as well as the robust commitment to clean power sf that we heard from the nominee. as prop e of 2008 reads it does indicate that the seat

should have some subject matter experience in water and environment and consumer advocacy, but i am not an attorney and i guess that issue would be left up to the city attorney's office ultimately. if we are going to decide that the seat should be available for anyone who would engage in consumer or rate payer advocacy, we should at least view this as the people's seat on the puc of all of them this is the people's seat and we should keep that in mind. also given his focus on rate payer and consumer advocacy it would be the most important of the 5 on moving forward on energy program which i think is one of the main things the puc will be focused on the next couple years. so this appointment is very important and i appreciate your attention to it. i would like to point out given some of the conversation that happened in questioning,

prop b earlier this year was put on the ballot by supervisor weiner, among others, and it was widely reported that the mayor's office contacted the supporters the supervisors who were supporting that proposition, and basically made it clear that their favorite programs would face funding issues if they went against the mayor on this. so in discussions about the funding for the california academy and the steinhart aquarium, i think the nominee should be prepared for that sort of eventuality. >> thank you very much, are there other members of the public who would like to comment? seeing none we will close public comment and we can open discussion about the nominee. i could start it off by just saying that i hope mr. kwan can maintain his love for the cubs but also now you are in san francisco and the giants

are really the team that you need to be you know, going for moving forward. just thank you for your interest in this seat on the public utilities commission and i'm not sure if you knew exactly the intensity of discussion that would be around this appointment but i have actually been very impressed with, you know, with your answers and also your, your experience in san francisco which you have taken to embrace and have integrated into the life of your family and your community and that experience to me, shows that you have a commitment to the institutions of this city and they are institutions that serve the public better. you have also been part of the efforts to expand the scope of work that the city can provide for the people of san francisco as well through your work on the

academy of sciences as well as your work with our parks and your work providing education for marshal arts and your own home and your work in the community and merchants so that to me is really important and speaks to me of your work as someone who is concerned about everyday people and consumers. maybe you don't have the rate payer advocate experience but i think it speaks very much to your understanding and your involvement in making sure that san francisco fits very well with everyday people and consumers in this city and to me that's enough for me to feel good about the language in the charter and your, whether your experience fits that and i'm satisfied with that. i've also been pretty satisfied with your embracing of the big challenge that we face this year about establishing clean power sf and

i was really concerned about whether you would mention community choice aggregation by clean power sf has community choice aggregation which was the program that pg&e sought to destroy on the ballot in california in 2010. and that to me was important to make that distinction, which you made off the bat, so i really appreciated that and it said that you want to look at clean power not just as a relationship with pg&e but clean power sf as a creation of the city and county of san francisco public utilities commission that's providing clean energy for residents and consumers that's really in our city's hands separate from what we could create as a clean power partnership with pg&e. so i think that's something that is going to be a major distinction that has to play out this year and we're moving forward with the clean power program. so i'm supportive and i want to thank you for putting

yourself out here today and being interested in this appointment and i will let my colleagues as well make their comments. supervisor tang >> thank you, chair avalos, i would say that i agree with most of your comments, practically all of it. i would say when i first heard about mr. kwan being nominated for this position actually one of the first questions i asked him was, how would you feel if the mayor asked you to vote a certain way, do you feel like you could be independent? again, as i mentioned earlier that's the level of scrutiny we get as people who may be nominated or appointed by the mayor. he told me privately and publicly today that he can be independent and that was when i believed, okay, he can do this. i would say one of his most fatal flaws is that he is too kind. this is a commission that will be kupb contentious

at times. one of the public commenters said this should be the people's seat. any one member can hold up a program. so i think to me this really is the people's seat and i think that ike, mr. kwan, really represented that. so i know that also there was mention that he might be more appropriate for another seat, the at large seat, and i think right now we have a wonderful individual right now so today i am very happy to forward out mr. kwan's commission. i want to thank everyone who worked so hard leading up to this, this is a really positive time for all of us and clean power and i'm excited to see what's going to come of this. thank you, everyone. >> supervisor president breed. >> thank you, mr. kwan, for coming out today and putting your name forward for the seat and agreeing to serve. i had a

real challenge with this mostly because i am very concerned. i'm excited that the mayor has a real strong desire to move clean power forward this year. i'm optimistic. i know there are a number of individuals who are really concerned that it may not happen this year and so part of my responsibility as a member of this board, as someone who is now the leader of the board and who cares strongly about clean power, my responsibility is to make sure the mayor fulfills his obligation to support clean power moving forward and that the person we have in this seat is someone we can count on to do just that, regardless of what someone may ask them to do to derail that process. and so it's been tough. i've gotten a number of phone calls, a number of emails, from people who i really respect who know mr.

kwan and know of his integrity, know of his work, and i personally know of his work. i respect mr. kwan tremendously and i appreciate how he is not only moved to san francisco to work but he has really become a san franciscoan in every sense of the way in terms of his involvement in the community because i've experienced it personally. i know that you care about the community, i know you are very actively engaged, and i know that you are definitely an asset to this city and i truly appreciate that. so, with that, i am going to actually support your recommendation. i am going to support it and i am going to make it loud and clear that if we do not implement this program this year then we are definitely -- and if the

commission derails that in any way, we are going to ballot. we don't have any more time to waste. clean power is really the most important thing that we can do in san francisco to deal with the impacts of global warming. we all know the arguments and why this is important so i just want to make it clear that that's important to me and i am going to be watching the puc very, very closely and if necessary using other means to address what i believe has been a program that has been stalled for far too long. so it is really going to be important for you to take on the role similar to the role you have taken as the person who is responsible for shepherding all the incredible programs that exist at the academy of sciences. you take those things on you make great things happen, you are very involved in the community, and

i want to see the same effort as the rate payer advocate commission on puc so, with that, i am very appreciative of my colleagues' comments and also the individuals who have come here to speak today, but i am very confident that we are moving forward someone who i believe who can help us get the job done. so with that i plan to actually, surprisingly, support the mayor's nomination for this seat. thank you. >> thank you. it's not very often that approval of a seat on a commission looks like marching orders but i think there are marching orders that come with this. but we also have a relationship that is built here as well. we want to work closely with you to make sure we can address many of the needs of the public utilities commission but in particular we're very interested in moving forward with the clean power sf

program. i appreciate your willingness to work with us on that. colleagues, can we have a motion to move this forward to the full board? >> so moved. >> mr. chair, you need to amend the motion first to either approve or reject. >> we will amend the motion to approve the motion for mr. kwan to the public utilities commission and move it forward to the full board. >> approved. >> pass on the underlying resolution without objection. congratulations. next item, please. >> item 2 is a hearing to consider appointing one member term ending march 19, 2019, one seat and one applicant. >> okay, great. we have the

applicant here. mr. pemberton, welcome. >> good afternoon, it's a pleasure to be here. nice to see you, president breed, supervisor tang, supervisor avalos. i am a san francisco resident went to public school here, attended preschool here, and i'm very excited to be nominated for the child care planning and advisery council. i come with 10 years of experience in the out of school time world and am very excited as the planning council has been attending the meetings for the last 3 or 4 months now and the council has done a lot of great work and has started to incorporate the out of school time world. i'm excited to

bring my experience and contribute to that. i also am the father of 5 1/2-year-old 29s so -- twins so i have a lot of experience with sleepless nights and trying to make sure my children are in a safe place so i can go to work. i am very excited to see how we can afford to maintain the quality we have and at the same time afford to be able to pay for our staff. one of the things my staff and i are currently trying to figure out is we already pay $15 an hour for the most part and if we are to stay competitive how do we keep our rates up. i know that's an issue that the early childhood world has to tackle as well. i'm also very adamant about trying to work with the mayor's proposal that we get access to all 4-year-olds in the city. i

think as a city we can do better, however, i think it's a great first step and again as a renter in san francisco trying to send my kids to preschool i know the difficulty of being able to afford that and i look forward to trying to work with cpac to develop solutions to make sure we can get access to all of these in the city. thank you very much. >> great, thank you. colleagues, any comments or questions? supervisor tang >> i actually don't have any questions because i worked with mr. pemberton, he is my nominee so obviously i support him. he has not only grown up in the district gone to public schools but he's spent his whole career working with children, youth, families. now in his