ome of these tools and in a different setting we've had a very important milestone around the green building ordinance for existing buildings. we recently sent out notice requirements to about 1900 affected buildings that they need to comply with our benchmarking and auditing notice and we sent noticed that you might have been below the radar in the past but now we need you to comply but we don't stop there. we have the energy efficiency team to help them take advantage of what they get in their audit and follow up with those 1900 businesses yes, you must comply and save money as well it's a wonderful partnership. you may be aware that the housing authority is going through a huge transition right now where we're

privatizing public housing and now we've got an interesting opportunity where we're not necessarily dealing on only with the housing authority but dealing with these nonprofit developers taking ownership and doing retro fits to the housing stock so our toolbox i xics reduction team is holding training specific to those developers and we had about 40 members of those developer's organizations come and did a day long training on how you deal with housing without the use of chemicals and has given us a very interesting entree entree into the public housing world and we had the medicine take back and i'm incredibly proud that it was an 11 nothing

vote and i'll tell you it did not start with all 11 supervisors thinking this was motherhood and apple pie our team did a tremendous amount of work and seen as a credible voice and at the end of the day got 11 nothing and also got interesting cosponsors and of course president breed is the lead author but we also have mar and yee and kim as coauthors as well and it's very exciting to see where it's going and five other counties now are looking at adopting similar ordinances from santa barring santa barbara to marin and it's a great thing lead by example [applause]. >> we had two huge milestone awards of understanding and of how far we've come on the

climate we were named by the white house a climate leadership award they gave that designation to 16 other cities and it's an interesting award it gives us access to resources and they said all right you 16 cities you are the climate leaders so we're going to put you at the front of the line for technical assistance and grants and it's a clever way of rewarding good behavior if you will and it's enabling the leaders to even go a step farther and it's exciting to see where this takes us it's in the early days and the other thing it got third party verified and we're talking about it but we exceeded our greenhouse reduction goals and we're below 1990 level and see just to give you a sense of how significant that is the kyoto protocol asked for 7 percent

below 1990 levels and ab 32 is asking for parity and we're we're at 23.5 percent below. >> wow. >> [applause]. >> and with cca coming on board which you will hear about later this evening, we're going to get even farther so this is wonderful. there's obviously a long way to go to get 80 percent which is our ultimate goal, but we're working towards that so the other thing i just want to make note is in our clean transportation program we're very much reaching out to ensure that the benefits of our environmental successes reach beyond the usual suspects. how do we get them to the larger community and commissioner commissioner arce that's when you were talking about the sun shares program that was the implication how do we make sure to reach all of our san francisco businesses and we

have been awarded -- i don't know what other word to use -- the use of a city hall fellows program we're getting five city hall fellows and their job is to do the research and create a proposal for bringing electric vehicles to low income communities so how do we get the charging stations in the right place and what kind of incentives do we need for people for people to be able to afford the vehicles because obviously once you own an electric vehicle the cost of maintenance is much lower so who needs that more than low income people and this is really the way to go and the mayor is super excited about this. this warms his heart whenever we talk about it and you will learn more about it at the meeting and we're going to be distributing 860 $860,000 into the community and we'll come back to you with the end

point and we'll be sure to have the recipients here so you can address them directly. so with that, commissioner arce mentioned that he may not have a new employee but he has a new member of his family and if he looks a little tired, that may be why and so in honor of his new addition on behalf of the department of the environment -- i don't know if you can hear the frog [laughter] and i just want to do a call out to my special colleague, ryan who did the wrapping for the last gift we bought and it's inspired by a diaper and it's un tied so commissioner in honor -- can can you tell us your son's name. >> my son -- they say five names is the new 3 names -- we

couldn't think of a 6th name so thank you very much director raphael. should i open it. >> maybe at the end. whoever is left. it's your prize for staying throughout the whole meeting is the the unveiling of what's in the box. >> thank you and thank you rya n. ryan is amazing. >> all right that's the end of my directors report. >> let's give it up for the director that's an amazing report that's really incredible [applause] commissioner king? >> public comment first? >> we could go either way. thank you very much that's phenomenonal report and as mr. wolf said and director raphael talked about the passing on the

11-0 vote safe drug disposeal was not easy i saw it i mean there's a lot of stuff that had to get worked through and to see more counties coming on it's phenomenonal so members of the public that want to comment on the director's reports? >> i'm going to wear another has that hat this is from from the haight-ashbury council. haight street will have wider sidewalks and currently talking about more efficiency lighting for the street and pedestrian lighting which we feel is really important but talking about electric vehicles this is a great opportunity to see about putting curbside which charging and there's products

out there now where you can integrate car car charging into the street lamps and i'd urge you to find a pilot somebody who can sponsor a pilot to get them going would really help and highlight really what we're trying to do here in the city thank in the city thank you. >> good evening again commissioners eric brooks san francisco green party sustainability chair our city of san francisco and other groups it was a great report and shows that this department is doing great things and this commission is doing great things i want to push your envelope a little bit on a couple of the items though and i'm with one of of the coordinators of san francisco clean energy advocates and we

talk about a lot that we have to get passed the 80 percent number because it's no longer accurate not to correct but just to suggest it's time now to start what the scientists are saying we need to get to a hundred percent replacement of our energy use by 2035 right? so that means we need to start saying that number and the other one is on transportation -- we need to really get outside of the box on of the box on transportation and need to get mta to get on board with this and we need to stop talking about a transit first city which clearly did not work that was decades ago that we decided we were transit for the city and didn't accomplish much at all but basically say we're going to be a transit only walk bike only city and the cars people drive need to be car shares and i'd encourage you to if you are going to expand electric vehicle use if

we get a lot of individual homeowners to buy their electric cars that takes a lot of money and resources out of building a much more efficient electric transit system so we need to ask the authorities to build us a system and fund the system that will be a hundred percent 24-hour 7 days a week coverage for for the entire city that's free to the riders we need a free public transportation system citywide and if san francisco does this i believe it would be the first major city in the world of this size to do it so i'd like to start that ball rolling and i planned as pushing for that myself as an environmental organizer as as soon as cleanpowersf is off the ground and i want to put that bug in your ear to start pushing for a

free transit city 100 percent for san francisco thank you. >> other members of of the public? seeing none public comment is closed thank you for your comment. can we hear number 7 please monica? >> timeline for program launch cleanpowersf a proposed aggregation program to allow san francisco customers to pull their purchasing power to buy or generate their own electricity from renewable sources and draft or adopt a resolution and in your packet are documents and a presentation actually that's going to be is shown on the screen. you have received a link to the enernex document

and deborah raphael and speakers are geof syphers and barbara hale of sfpuc commission and the department of the environment energy program. >> thank you monica. this issue is probably one of the most important issues this commission will be thinking about certainly in the next year. this is it. this is big. this is incredibly important for us to consider. i am deeply grateful to the people who came tonight to speak. you are going to hear from four outstanding speakers, people who bring tremendous credibility and expertise to their jobs and we have a variety of perspectives because

we want to take a look at this issue from different viewpoints the last time the commission heard this issue before i started, there was a lot of controversy and a lot of drama and the advantage now is that we have a lot of lessons learned. we have sonoma clean power up and running and we can learn from their example as well as from marin clean energy and a a puc that has been through this once and learned from that experience and is doing it again and lafco issued a phenomenonal report and able to take a look at the situation on the ground now different from a year ago and talk about what the future holds and we have a department, my staff, who has been thinking a lot about how does the world look different to them from an energy efficiency perspective under cca compared to how we

have it today? you are going to hear lessons learned from sonoma and a big picture from lafco and what are we doing here in san francisco from puc taking the lead and you will hear from the department of the environment what is our piece and how do you see the future it's going to be a great presentation. i'll let you decide how you want to handle questions whether you want to do it after each speaker or until the end. i just want to make a comment about geof. geof has been such a generous sole with me personally i came to this job not knowing much at all about the energy system and both barbara hale and geof syphers have taken me under their wing and gain from their incredible knowledge and you will see how smart geof is and

how lucky we are he wants us to succeed and he wants to help us to do so. >> thank you you are too kind. thank you for inviting us here director. . sonoma clean power serves about 200 thousand this summer as we roll out service to the rest of the county and so it will be a little smaller potentially than the san francisco program but still good sized and one of the things we learned that's been very successful is our population cares about the environment and wants to do something about the climate and a hundred percent of people care about rates and that's a really good thing to remember because we as we said all right we need to make sure we

offer something that competes on price and we pushed as hard as we could on greenhouse gas emissions bringing them down as low as we could on a product that only has 33 percent qualifying renewables so if you are not familiar the state doesn't count large hydro as qualified renewable it is a zero carbon resource so that product competes on price right now that product is available to our customers depending on the type of customer and so people are saving a fairly significant amount of money getting that product but it's also more than 30 percent lower in emissions because we're using a fairly good amount of hydro to actually build up that resource and we wanted to make sure we didn't leave out the crowd that

was willing to pay something for 100 percent renewable and even local products so we went down a path we haven't tried before so we have a product called evergreen and made in sonoma county we're now building solar to add to that so 50/50 geothermal and solar and 12 percent more than pg&e is offering and we're seeing increasing interest in that and more and more people starting to talk about it and if you charge your electric car on evergreen you can run about 18 nissan for the same as one prius. there's tension and one of the tensions is cleaner more

local and cheer cheaper and i'd encourage you to embrace the tension and think about not trying to have perfect answers think about inviting the hard conversations and using that as a way of educating the public about things that we often in the advocacy community might say solar is the answer and a few years ago wind and before that solar thermal and next something else and the reality is we don't know the answer there isn't an answer and efficiency and conservation get forgotten and so setting expectations at a level that is really truly achievable quickly makes a lot of sense in in

embracing that tension and one of one of the sorest points is the default provider changes instead of pg&e in this case it becomes the community choice program the local provider and what that means is customers are automatically enrolled if they take no action and that became a sore point with minority customers they were pretty upset that somebody would make a choice for them and the analogy though is in any other public service the government makes a customers choice and there's no ability to opt-out. there is no opt-out provision and government makes those choices but what really helps even more the idea that lancaster now

about a year in advance they are inviting people to get in early by opting in and i really think that's that's brilliant because it says everyone is going to have default service a year from now but if you want to call us and start early and take advantage of these lower rates for cleaner service you can jump in sooner and that reframes the whole question and i have to give them huge credit for innovating on that and we have fairly high participation right now up around 88 percent of our population has decided to stay with the program and we think it will trim down to 85 percent over time but we think it's largely due to good outreach we have a lot of media billboards and radio and have

done public events so far and i think that matters a lot so people feel they have had a chance to understand the issues . i think that you know outreach matters and being in front of negative campaigns is really important. i don't think what pg&e or the electrical union might try next time san francisco does this, but they they can be an ally and they can also fight and i think it's really up to them to decide which path they want to take but i think if you can engage your customers directly and make sure they understand that that pg&e doesn't lose profit because of this that you have a really close nexus to your customers and you can design the programs they are asking you for when pg&e pg&e might be more limited you can do things that are taylored to your city and you have more flexibility you can use data in

ways that pg&e is restricted on because of puc rules and that can actually help your customers you can target customers with very high electric bills and do direct outreach as long as you are not engaging a private company to to do that outreach for you that's allowed and pg&e pg&e has prohibitions around that and i would encourage you to you to think about the possibility of a partnership and we've enjoyed that that in sonoma county and it is possible. we want you to succeed we're routing for you the public and the climate benefits this is the single biggest action sonoma county has taken on climate change and producing tremendous reductions and emissions we've save that much across the customer

population already and that number is going to grow dramatically next year. and i think the key the key here is to think about local control so by june we'll be producing revenues close to 150 million a year in a very small county and the net on that is clearly a small percentage of that number but in the many millions of dollars and using that to leverage local programs and activities is tremendously valuable and looking forward to rolling out customer programs but that control -- you get to set your rates and your customers get to talk to you about what those rates are or sfpuc or whoever is ultimately administering this and so it's hard to get in a bigger utility you get to design your programs

you get to pick your power sources and you get to accelerate the use of cleaner sources including some sources that might have advantages in today's chronicle there was an article about the wind farm east of here and the repowering project that would save a lot of birds interestingly enough that's really close to you and it's in a constrained load area so you would be helping birds and reducing emissions and supporting local jobs potentially being a win-win and the last thing i want to say and i'll sit down the timing is unbelievable. the wholesale market is more favorable now than it's been in 7 years. so it goes up and down and for the next roughly 2 years things look good and get a lot harder potentially in the future and

eventually the wholesale markets will get worse again too so the water is warm and love to take any questions if you have any. >> thank you very much geof. you know just to maybe to avoid musical chairs impact of our guests in case there's questions later maybe we can just ask questions before we go jason is next. director fried. any questions for geof? all right thank you very much geof thank you. welcome mr. fried. >> jason fried. executive officer of lafco. overhead please? i'm going to start off first just with a broad based discussion of where lafco got involved. after the sfpuc meeting where they stopped all work on the cleanpowersf program there were a lot of

remaining questions and the answers were in it the staff reports and available all we needed to do is bring them out flush them out and have a discussion about them and what we did with community advocate support was put out an rsp and answer all the questions people were having about the program get solutions to them and address put into a report and we came up with enernex winning the bid and it's over 200 pages i hope you have all read it by now especially you commissioner arce you have plenty of time now to read reports i'm sure. >> cover to cover. >> i'm going through the presentation that they presented you can go and watch that on sfgtv if you want to go back and read the whole thing i'm going to skim over it but i wanted you to have the full presentation so if you have questions on any of the slides

i can go ahead and pull them out but otherwise i'm going to skip on their selections here. first off they looked at a whole bunch of reports and meetings and part of the meetings were with the department of environment staff to make sure they were getting the best information on the work you guys were doing here so they could incorporate that that into the report as well and given 12 basic tasks the first one how to utilize sfpuc staff to run the program the first was using shell energy and doing a lot of the contracting and realized that puc staff actually does all the work that shell was talking about and they came back and said yes they could do this very well and we should utilize the staff more and get rid of shell which is one of the

things the staff is doing at this point and looked at timing and benefits of local build out and one thing they did was the discussion around small scale the behind the meter work energy efficiency they were able to go through all the reports the puc put together a lot of reports to talk about all of the big scale projects available in the city and also property it owns outside the city the airport going all the way up through the water delivery system sites up there potentially available for solar and wind projects and scouring all of those things out and coming up with the average cost of doing work throughout the entire project and they came up with averaging of economic impact so we can understand how many jobs could be created and they listed here the sites they

had throughout the system that we considered regional and we took the local hiring ordinance and said anything falling within the local hiring region would qualify as a local or regional job it's too hard from an economical scale san francisco being so small you can't do an economic report that's really san francisco based you have to look at a broader based area and they are two different models but similar in nature and you will see numbers missing those were projects that actually fell outside the regional jurisdiction and they took those out of this particular slide here and went through energy efficiency strategies that could be used emphasising the work and the city has the avai