$50 per applicant the historic preservation commission reviewed 3 applications and a small business commission also reviewed 3 applications and listed all 3 businesses on the legacy business registration in february we received two nominations, 8 applications and $400 in application fees the historic preservation commission reviewed 3 applications and small business commission reviewed 5 applications and listed all 5 businesses on the legacy business reinforce from the programs beginning through the end of february there reason one and 47 nominations, one and one plaques and 4000 plus in application fees and 73 plaques were reviewed by the historic preservation commission, and 72 businesses were lists on the

registry major accomplishment in january is adding 3 businesses to the registry for the historic preservation commission for review and completing the review of 621 applications receiving approval from the small business commission to pay for the grants submitting rules and regulations for the rent stabilization grant to the board continuing to set up grantees and ventures of the city and county of san francisco and continuing contractor negotiations with working solutions for legacy business program check printing services for a grant grant businesses and investigator accomplishment in february adding 5 businesses to the registry submitting 6 to the historic preservation commission, completing contract negotiations with working

solutions for registry businesses for the printing services and sending the contract to oewd contracts team for processing starting payment for the business assistant grant recipients for the grants for the city and county of san francisco it takes time and providing the training of the legacy business program inform supervisor safai and presenting a training ambassador the legacy business to legislative aide of the board of supervisors and issuing the rent stabilization grant i'll send you links lovingly articles about individual legacy businesses and the inclusion of program and the legislation for the latino cultural district and efforts to protect their beer garden from a shadow into a

development across the street as a reminder only included articles in the monthly report for the legacy business program i won't be including articles about the legacy businesses/e there are so many if their not worthy mentioning they're part of legacy business program press in february is 8 articles about the effort in seattle to create a legacy business program similar to san francisco's individual legacy businesses and inxirwa successful efforts to protect their outdoor beer garden from a shadow from proposed development and the planning department staff report about the legacy business program to the historic preservation commission major upcoming activities for march preventing four legacy business applications to the small business commission today submitting 9 applications to

historic preservation commission for their review in march, providing a training to supervisor sandra fewer receiving overview receiving a grant and making payment to the grantees and progressing the bits grant payments participation - participating in nationwide online training for employee ownership of businesses and issuing a request for quotes for the legacy registry we expect that to happen soon that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> so the recent couple of months i supervisor peskin is very active here i want to thank and congratulate supervisor peskin and his staff for their efforts and success in in the meantime, businesses for the

legacy business rental as you recall in the early phases of this after this legislation was passed and in the period that it took to organize our efforts the staff upped the efforts to get things underway we were subject to public criticism how long it took to start the program well, we're in it now and we are full steam ahead it is time that maybe we published the scoreboard who is in the meantime, and the results of that and to present that to the board of supervisors on a regular basis and get consolidation some offices and new supervisors are not active and should be to the benefit of businesses in their districts and nominate them and get them into the program because the number one, goal of the registry

itself is to promote the legacy businesses to both the people the residents of san francisco and to visitors and so i'd like to stubborn this around and highlighting these who are active and not in prompting businesses in their neighborhood i think that is a way to stimulate some of the active for the nomination has to come from predominantly from the supervisors and the mayor's office. >> and just a that have the information so as you receive a bio monthly update we submit a bio monthly report to the board of supervisors that is - you know nominations that have made

their way through and on the registry and nominees that have come in and where we are in the three hundred so - >> maybe we could position it more like a scoreboard and promote healthy compleemgs staff are interested and about to head into baseball s&p 500 i think more pro 86 prompting this to the supervisors and to the public so the scoreboard can be one on our website and maybe we're celebrating every time we come together as part of preamble; right? this is our flagship program to promote legacy businesses in san francisco. >> you want to say up to this point we've been working to get everything behind the scenes we

have business assistants grant and the resolution grants and the whole nomination and placates process is we're at the point we need to hire a firm to help us with the logo and branding and bring it up to the next level. >> you've done a fantastic job and getting all the gears sort of out and i'd like we appreciate that and we can. >> i have a question about the press i've noticed with the kindly recorded the january and february and what is our interaction as a legacy business with the press do we have press

releases is that appropriate imposing the businesses how it is that the press is made aware of these milestones approvals and businesses kind of up the importance of being a legacy business somehow the communication are we in charge of that. >> that's the fun part i want to bring it up to the next level we'll have this i'm looking how to present this better and bring up to the next level that includes a press release every time the small business commission accepts a new businesses on the registry so right now the press is just stepping from the businesses themselves and sometimes making press releases we've not been doing that but definitely on our radar screen we'll do that very

soon and start folding this into the small business activities like small business week having a special acknowledgement for a legacy business to help highlight the program and the business that we want to particularly highlight fold it into the ventriclar and our general planning for all the small business activities throughout the year. >> we included in the office of the small business commission weekly newsletter but want more. >> i find your work to be a resource and not only for the city and county but for the prettiest to know about the city the level of details and the attachments it kind of a fragment or portion of -- of san

francisco so the question is if i'm part of media and want to find out about the legacy business because i got your press release would i be able to assess pubically your files and kind of get the subsequence that i need to include in my article. >> all the applications you review are on the website for the small business commission under supporting documents are all the applications to august so anyone in the public could a assess those. >> and remain on the site for permanently. >> yes. any members of the public can look at those applications as well and take into account the historical information that sort of thing that kite interesting i was interested to read the story in the application so -

>> the planning department staff they made the report to their commission the historic preservation commission they have a very big interest in having an archiving take the information and expand that into views with owners so they're interested in the press portion of legacy business program so take a more active role and definitely see more existing history. >> this is the first time they've written down the history and put together the information it is time consuming and many people are rolling their eyes but when they have done it you know putting they regularly market their history it is a big organization a lot of money to do that marketing but a small business you know your two busy

worried the day to day and look at the history and up on the anniversary and precious little to document the years around we've been in a time we've been suing stram and facebook and looking at the photos about many of the businesses were you started long before that and have to pull together their archives this is fantastic it kushlgz them to do so in the context of this program and gymnasium okay. let's get it together and do this right so i think that there is a lot of wind for this program and you should take great pride in asked by other cities about your program because it is your effort that has made this program what it is and a program that others want to know about and really i think

you'll be you know able to be a source for best practices help people avoid some of the trillions and tribulations to where you are today that kind of is part of a you're next step helping other cities and not just isn't united states but all over the world when sfmade that finally starred to celebrate their success we got readers from copenhagen and portland a similar initiative for the staff they're like the ultimate sort of pat on the back. >> to close others want to ask questions one of the incentives that our president was mentioning is that we had kind of a list of legacy businesses but we don't have them i'm not suggesting what we should but

kind of it would be nice to track them on the map of the city and that will give an incentive to everyone to kind of you know make - put for the their neighborhood they represent and the legacy business so i kind of - that lumps the legacy businesses are listed in january and february 12th of them out of the. >> 16 plus 2, 1812 come from one district it is lopsided and empty that is also given an incentive inform whomever needs the incentives to look at this plan. >> we set aside fund for the martha efforts inform really brand this logo and a more user

friendly public friendly face so that also goes to you know what does that map look like and to your . point out you know - getting back to my scoreboard district by district a hot spot and hopefully the other supervisors will feel the heat. >> yeah. absolutely and there will naturally be places because of activity going on in those districts so - >> having a map is very high on the priority list and created a map for the legacy businesses and like to do an interaction as quickly as possible technology you know gi

s technology has been around for a while but click it and the information comes out. >> linked to the application. >> right. >> and i - rick and i discussed when we get to really building up the website had a right part of searching will be able to pull up by restaurant, neighborhood. >> different criteria. >> different criteria yeah. if you're coming and have a particular interest in types of businesses you're able to sort and entities like sftravel and any organization that represent that industry ownership type of businesses can utilities it >> once all that is ladder in we'll start a discussion of how do we may be start to celebrate the businesses

10 or 20 years old not yet thirty years old on the path to legacy from my experience and we all have experience 10 years is a long time feels like one hundred years to me. >> be able to beat the odds. >> exactly. >> okay commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> first richard on the jobs especially we have at the beginning and bringing you on board and the job you've done is amazing thank you for that and also in fairness to some of the supervisors like i'll speak for district 9 a lot of things are going on with the national fund so issues that have priority but i think like you mentioned commissioner president dwight our ventriclar this program but behind the scenes we have relationships with the local politicians or district supervisors we have to kind of

push them along and commissioner dooley like our district is amazing i mean, you, take suit i know you know every single visitor so i want to mention our accomplishments to make sure the legacy businesses get recognized i think our commissioners can do that. >> i'll roach and have a featured article about the legacy businesses of the month we can do that for whatever in the marina newspaper and others throughout and even the one. >> we've look at today right. >> anyway ways we can promote the promotion of the legacy business program it is all good; right? >> commissioner yee-riley. >> yes. i also want to thank you for your thank you for all your hard work and the people i

refer to you the business owners they have good feedback you help them out and notice on the january report a lot of the businesses i've spoken to nominated by supervisor peskin so what is the next step does this business send in their applications yet. >> so supervisor peskin is very a great nominator so sometimes often the case of his they've not filled out an application he nominees them before the placates we reach out to them to let them know about the program and let them know we have guidance in putting the application together from a organization if they need to there are a few of them where the application comes in most of

supervisors and supervisor peskin for the application it comes in and they hadn't reached out to the supervisors so giving them direction how to reach out and carbon monoxide they come in together but supervisor peskin we go out and reach out to the businesses to let them know about the program and invite them to submit an application. >> commissioner dooley. >> i wanted to add to a couple of other things that maybe everyone can be doing our merchant associations remind all of our businesses regularly they should apply and frequently one of us on the board will sit down with a business and help them fill out their application and you know we remind the ones that have been nominated they've not filled them out yet and nag

them that's one of the reasons we tend to have - we try to be pro-active in our neighborhoods the business community about they're saying oh, you should do that not only that but we can get our supervisors all the time and suggest other businesses that should be nominated so i think that all those things are good things to get to your supervisor and get this process moving. >> thanks for doing that you saw earlier ocean avenue association they helped the garage with the application a few other businesses that their system instead of working through the nonprofit organizations the applicant worked through ocean avenue association to help them with their narrated narrative and their application and noah

valley application they're helping some of the businesses thank you very much commissioner dooley for the work 0 you're doing great and in north beach. >> any other comments open up for public comment because there are people witting any member of the public that would like to comment? on this item. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you, again for your work it is fantastic. >> all right. next item, please. >> item 7 explanatory document(s): march 13, 2017, draft regular meeting minutes. >> action item. >> do we have any discussion. >> any member of the public that would like to comment? on our minutes seeing none, public comment is closed. a motion. >> i move to approve. >> the minutes. >> the minutes. >> of march 13. >> i'll second.

>> okay >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? >> that motion carries 6 to. >> commissioner zouzounis is absent 5 zero with one absent. >> okay next item, please. >> >> announcements from the mayor, and announcements regarding small business activities. discussion item. >> commissioners so i'm going to start off with the word document so the new business presentation listed them in order we're going to be tackling them the presentation for the airport we hoped to get scheduled soon but because of their schedules they requested to make an official presentation in may or june

and so we'll be firmly up that in the next couple of weeks in the meanwhile sfo during small business week is hosting a working group from 11 to 1:30 so we will definitely get that word out and invite the businesses that are interested in doing business with sfo the trade association and individual businesses you know from contracting construction consensus professional services we'll be covering all of that so we'll appreciative they're hosting that during small business week the next we're working with commissioner zouzounis on developing the abatement theme for cigarettes dealing with dpw and want to make sure we have the opportunity to provide - to draft a document to provide you

some background for the presentation are made to you the next we'll work on the ground floor medical uses and scanners and vacancies. >> can i ask about the ground floor where are we on that i certainly see in any district for example, the medical use taking over a bank consuming an entire block on the ground floor with no retail and i think that we need to really taking a look at that in our mcds to you know see whether if maybe not so suitable so have so many you know retail medical facilities in our ncd. >> so we are working on there is a couple of things i think

that are important items in addition to the land use we need to provide some information around the ada issue so the full context of what is - where medical use is where and how medical use can be and what is involved with them that the commission has the full understanding and background so when the presentation come forward you're fully informed of all the nuances that needed to be considered. >> i hope you'll be looking at formula retail when it comes to those medical uses because currently they're not listed under - >> right we'll - we'll do an analysis for zoning district and things of that sort to have all that information

i'm not going into detail but added the kind highlights of minica and i have been part have to review the small business week commissioner president dwight went through the week last time but have flavors that the union the union square held conferences are take place monday through friday at the sba we'll be having such as the airport workshops will be happening and satellite workshops throughout the week in other locations on tuesday may 16 doing some high-level i shouldn't say high-level - panel and panel presentations that are these items were highly attended different than workshops but we're curating really

informational speakers and presenters motivational. >> a small stories. >> we also have the board of supervisors honorees for that day and many of the affiliate organizations on tuesday evening thursday is a small business award at the at&t park this year and may 20th is shop our neighborhood sidewalk sales. >> so for legislation at our april 10th merge we'll be hearing rehearing the apps is now - you requested some kind

of small business engagement for businesses displaced as a result of what is developed to go along with the housing bonus program and presenting in terms of what we can legally do in terms of assisting small businesses who are displaced by the home sf project you will also be hearing the lacking in the workplace supervisor tang legislation and off-street parking in supervisor farrell work with the definition under the planning code and then we'll trying to schedule the supervisor sheehy has introduced the bicycle legislation dealing with the bicycle shop shops

and so we're trying to get that scheduled and then on the page 3 there - i've provide a list of items recently introduced and that may this is not to say specifically all will come before the small business commission but things i think are of interest looking at micro trenching on sidewalks to deal with installing fiber that will impact our areas of our city that has both sides businesses supervisor sheehy has introduced a cannabis commission a department and supervisor kim will be conducting a hearing on the impacts of automation as it relates to automation taking

over jobs. >> it has not been scheduled she introduced it on the 14th so usually i'll say hearings generally happen unless their urgent generally within thirty to 60 days. >> there's a lot of information in the examiner about this proposed legislation check it out. >> it is something that the stakeholders have brought up supervisor kim's office said she's taking that up as a conversation we don't have a regulation yet. >> and then the other thing that is of very critical to note that was introduced last week is that increasing the minimum

compensation hourly rate for city contractors other than nonprofits to upping the amount of the minimum hourly rate starting at the 1656 starting july one 2017 i don't know how this might impact some of the lbe's but that should be noted it is for businesses engaging business with the city and then 3 items at this state of note i have mention in the past that senator wiener has introduced cycling programs bill and it is scheduled to be harder

in committee this week this i cannot the local san francisco the point out to establishment a mobile recycling center and then he's introduced the cannabis payment bill that may allow city departments to collect for other agencies within their i think local jurisdiction, state jurisdiction and county jurisdiction so simplify the cannabis industry for the taxes they pay and also he is for the night life industry looking at the allowing local governments to extend liquor services between 2:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. those are specific things and as

rick noted in his presentation so we should be submitting out for an r f q for the legacy business granting program and have two dashboards for the last three-quarters of 2016 and we'll just take a look at the client serviced as grace talked about the tmc the driver for uber's and lyft and any of those types of businesses there was a great effort to bring them on and register them as business registration has to be done by the end of june there was a lot of confusion treasurer cisneros extend that to august to come on board and get registered that created a dramatic spike in the number of individual that we served

and because of that on boarding new drivers as they're coming in we still ton to see an increase in tmc drivers even after the deadline to get information about registering and how does that work and how do they go about it what they need to do. >> we'll see the circulation under the starter is that in startup. >> starter kits specific start kits we've created but in essence most of them are just business not for - they may need to file a fictitious

business name not as much complexity for registering. >> i'm wondering in the even if it is like a starter kit page number one, it is trackable; right? our actually closely tracking categories here and one of the most important categories presently is the driver category because we want to encourage people to rental so having the starter kit a way to get them to you know then you'll know who is looking; right? and it is valuable information we're not getting by saying oh, diminished but having a starter kit that says welcome you tell all your friends they need to come here and make up something like you're trying to get started

like millennial but that's okay we can pitch it you how the driver gets started that allows you to capture that activity i think that is really valuable that is where the feedback that we can give to you know to everybody the supervisors, the mayor and the organizations that are sponsoring these economic activities we're any there in the activities within our office. >> yeah. i know that industry i'm pretty familiar with the demographics we have a lot of middle eastern drivers in uber and lyft in the taxis and i call it the community-based organizations and translated will an helpful and i'm curious that we've talked about this before about hosting the info

sections at the commission for some of the processes would you find it is helpful if we did one for tmc drivers registration and had a way to advertise on in system here. >> most likely it is better to have a big careen to really be able to navigate the website and the rears where we can look at it doing that in another location within city hall or work with some of the entities to host to host an orientation.

>> yeah. i think continuing to get the word out i think that is not obvious to someone hey i drive into the city and go to a couple of fairs and get out is this for real and maybe i have to do it in sacking and san mateo and you know marin county i'm driving cross the border so it is not seriously i'm not going to do that. >> i know that some of the conversations the city is having with the host organizations that that there is some of due diligence on their part and inform those individuals this is a requirement they're having

that contact, with the individual. >> ask for the business registration as part of being a driver with them. >> also i suspect ultimately they should be employing technology to help their office of economic workforce development understand and actually monitoring the time they're spending in each of the county to give them at the end previously a report that is very valuable for an application. >> the city you spend 10 minutes over a day that will counted the day. >> yep. >> you don't need a lot of - it takes 70 minutes in the city and county to registration. >> they'll tell you exactly the minutes i'm saying there is data readily assessable data that someone can be using to

facilitate experience by the people their cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. as we discussed with airbnb; right? using that to encourage compliance not to - as carrot not a stick. >> while the business portal didn't have the kit we're tracking that as a car is coming into the office under comply industry look at september and we have a section called transportation. >> oh. >> you'll see that during that quarter where the business registration they were doing extensive 0 outreach for the driveway arrests and register the businesses you'll see the clients and the next quarter is dropped down 50 percent so we do

track them in terms of the types. >> that's the walk-in. >> that's walk in and phone and e-mail and or the intersect. >> non- - the portal was the starter kit we have those specific starter kits we're able to track those that click on those. >> this is great information. >> so this that concludes my report. >> all right. commissioners any other questions >> any member of the public that would like to comment? on the director's report seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item and make announcements that are of interest to the small business community. discussion item. >> >> my report is brief i attendant the meeting related to getting ready for small business week and attended couldn't have

district merchants i represented the dog patch business association and want to let you know you'll not be here for the next two meetings in april steve adams will be taking over that's all. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> first, i want a panel lift for the century restaurant program hosted by a restaurant and we had several panel lift for the d d g r a this was restaurant and opportunity centers and others and we discuss scenarios through there is not one fix all or

solution this is for employers that have immigrant employees and act on the resources for availability for the employees the next one on april 10th the site is to be department of homeland security but i'll get with regina to put the information available and at least there are resources for employers of immigrants and illegal and undocumented have rights this has tremendous impact with the national complies i'll try to get the information posted and if 0 anyone has questions i do know where to get the answers if i--i don't know. >> yes. >> i have a question those resources that you are talking about they are available to employers and employees. >> yes. >> employers who had

undocumented workers be talking about the rights talking about the employers right autos boo-boo so all the resources and all the leg illicit's and the aclu and the a lot of attorneys i brought a lot of local law enforcement how they serve warranty and the law enforcement liaisons so you, you know you get it straight in the hours mouth so to say. >> a kind of an organization you're talking about an office. >> this is several orchestrates like you clean power and doing workshops they're free and complimentary and good resources to attend attend and ask questions it is focused on restaurant this can apply to everyone. >> they're a transcript of the presentation or a video. >> yes. go to the g g r a that

is r oc that stand for that restaurant opportunity centers so a sanctuary restaurant but all this information can be applicable to all kinds of businesses maybe 5 employees and one is undocumented and what that looks like and a lot of the information it first point of contact a lot of things happening in the community is a restaurant it is afterward they're affecting the community it has an impact on small businesses if they can't find the workers small businesses suffer and - the next thing i want to thank iuoe and the low rider council they're showing

why they have the policies on 24th street saline a national pop star 20 years ago so they'll show her movie on april 8th and there's one a lot of things a local regional cultural event to low riders and hype up the merchants on the 24 and the mission street corridor i want to highlight when the local agencies do things right they've done a lot of effort and worked that departments please let everyone to attend and it is great for traffic for the merchant on this corridor and lastly i want to take a second to recognize the life of shannon the founder of nob hill theatre in san francisco founded in 1960 he was in the theatre industry and very you know influential in

gay rights in the industry and establishing a memg can like the nob hill theatre definitely would be a legacy business but his memorial was in caramel i want to say a phenomenal force of nature and just to shout out to him he'll definitely appreciate that you know thank you. >> any other reports. >> all right. any member of the public that would like to comment? on commissioner reporting seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 10 agenda items for future consideration by the commission. discussion item. >> discussion item. >> none have any new business to recommend. >> i've been chatting up my friends and colleagues in the craft brewing industry and listening to their trials and tribulations with maintaining their businesses this is an

industry we want to be promoting here in san francisco one that is that leaned itself to usher manufacturing not necessarily labor sentence or dense so, so can thrive in an industry that is difficult to hire labor and a mri i cannot of a lot of regulations and rules that surround not only craft brewering but other businesses it outdoor to three and four with aaron starr gets through might be a person that look at this and you know stories like someone comes and says hey we've got this regulation i don't know why we have that that exists we need to go through those steps

and frankly both the business owners and the regular are saying why we need to do it is in the book theory artificially rooishth the enhancements of some of the businesses and a largely around some kind of outdated notions for example, heavy restrictions on bottling and one person i was talking to said they think of bottling operation as a massive things there are bottles clanking and creating noise and broken grass it is from the bottom of my heart for a small brewery is a tavern and the activity and the noise and not diesel trucks in and out of the building those rules are built on kind of some archive uninformed views of what

they do bottling is one of them they do and regulations so i think that it will be a service to a very important kind of sector in our small business community to do a drill down and i say there is a discussion of forming a cannabis commission we have a night life commission but i really question the thought process behind authorizing commissions in industry specific vertical it is kind of okay. well, if cannabis and night life then brewer and discity hall and winemaking you know blah, blah, blah we're the small business commission we're here to support and you that's the small business community and i think that it is going to be redundant if we

empowering the commission just my - i want to put that out there as something for us to think about and for us to maybe have the supervisors think about it before they start launching those efforts and then coming here and having us having something to say about it hey it is we're here you don't have to look future and means we say to educate ourselves on the industry that are have new criteria around them; right? so any other new business none no comments all right. >> well any member of the public that would like to comment? on our new business suggestions seeing none, public comment is closed next item, please. >> sfgovtv can you please show our slides art as our custom, we begin the

small business commission with a reminder that the office of small business is the only to start your business and the best place for getting the answers with your new or existing business. and it is the official forum to voice your concerns regarding policies and projects and issues that effect the economic vitality official forum to voice your concerns regarding policies and projects and issues that effect the economic vitality so if you need assistance with small business matters start here. best of all our services are free of charge so if you need assistance, start at the office of the small business commission. thank you. >> item 11 adjournment action item. >> i move. >> second second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> okay the meeting is adjourned at

>> the matter will come to order. >> just a moment. sfgtv is catching up. >> here we go. >> the meeting will come to order. this is the march 22nd, 2017, special meeting of the local

agency formation commission i am the vice chair of the commission, i am joined by ronen to my left and fewer to my right. and i would like the thank the staff of sfgov tv for bringing us live, madam clerk do have you any announcements? >> yes, be sure to silence devices, speakers to be included part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. >> madam clerk, could you call item number two. >> item two, approval of the lafco minutes from the december 9, 2016, regular meeting. >> do any of the commissioner vz any changes to the december 9, 2016, regular meeting minutes? e seeing no comments, i would like to call public speakers.

>> does any member of the public have any changes to the meeting minutes? >> no? seeing no public speakers, public comment is closed. can i have a motion to approve the minutes? >> so moved, by commissioner rohnen and a second? >> by commissioner fewer. and these minutes are approved. >> madam clerk, could you please call item three. >> election of the chair person and vice chair person for 2017. >> great. >> do any of the commissioners -- before taking nomination foz the chair and vice chair, let's open this up for public xhenlt, are there any members of the public that wish to comment o iment it em three. >> no. >> seeing no public speakers, public comment is closed. could i have a motion to elect -- could i have a motion

to elect the chair and vice chair for 2017. >> move. >> oh, can i make a motion, may i? sorry chair, this is my first meeting. may i make a nomination at this time? >> yes. >> i nominate hillary ronen to be the chair person. >> are there any other nominations? >> wait, are we calling these together? >> you can call them separately or together. >> would i like to call them together chair if that would be permissible. >> i would like to nominate hillary ronen for chair person and cynthia for the vice chair. >> okay. >> are there any other nominations or second foz that motion? >> second. >> seconded by commissioner ronen. >> and do we want to take this to -- i can't -- so moved.

>> yes. >> and nomination rz approved. >> the nominations are approved. >> congratulations, chair, ronen and to myself to continue to serve this body. >> could you call item four? >> consideration and approval of the proposed lafco budget for fiscal year 17, 18. >> i believe executive officer jason frieed will be providing an overview and direction on this matter. >> direct, executive officer for lafco. in your packet you have a proposed budget that goes over what the spending will look like over the course of the next fiscal year. as always we look to the state amount of 297,342. because we have access to another fund of money outside of our general fund, we normally do

not need to use that full amount in that he given year, at some point we will. what i would recommend is that we will continue to keep our rights to that money, but that to the degree possible that we return what we can as is the tradition of lafco and take what we need and give back the rest of it to the city and county so that they can ko do all of the functions that they need to do as well. on that note, we did since a couple of you are new, normally in december, the borz comes and say what do you need for the following year. this is much earlier than what the state requires to us do or responsible to do by the state law, we are covered by the state rules not by the city and county of san francisco rules. our budget process is by may 15th. we need to pass a proposed budget, by may first, we need to pass, and by june 15th, we need to pass a final budget. what we are doing today is that

proposed budget not the final budget whashgs we do is we transmit whatever actions we take today will transmit to the city and county of san francisco and here is what we are looking at and opens it up for any comments that they choose to make or anyone else choose to make and at our next meeting we will pass the final budget. one of the things to keep in mind since this is our first meeting of the year, and we have for the most part a brand new commission. we have, and thank you for returning to this body and being the one lone body that was returned from last year. we were not sure exactly what this body was going to be doing this year. because last year's body most of them were termed out and left. and so what we transmitted to the city and county, was what was the very basic status quo budget? if we did nothing different than what we are doing exactly today whashgs would that budget look like? and what that budget looked like at the time was we would need about 144,000. since december, we have gotten

new updates and that number seems to be consistent, the reality is that we are going to hold a discussion about the future agenda items, if we take on a new item, depending on what we take o there could be the potential of needing additional money, what i did do is i looked back for the discussions today, when have we used outside consultants outside of the cta, they are expensive whshgs we have done those project therz large and bigger than what we would need to do for the next calendar year, based on the sug matter discussion that we have it, i look to the report that we did on how the garage collection is done in the city, we spent did $50,000 without sult ant and i will put that report together. so i used that as if we did one of the reports oefr the course of the next year, we would need to add that amount to budget in order to make sure that we have the correct amount to do things. >> and that amount comes under the 297 number and so what i will be proposing today is at a mun mum that we approve a budget

that we know where it is going to need the 144, based on fsh further discussions between today meeting and the next meeting we, may need an additional 50,000, we are retaining our rights to the 297 number, but that we are figuring out what that exact number is less than that, and i don't think that we are going to need that full amount and we are trying to full out the exact details given that it is the first meeting of the year and commission. and we need a little more time and i am hopeful that the city and county will be understanding of that and give them a range of here is what we think is going to be needed for the budget and on that i will if you have any questions on that part or process, i am happy to answer it, and miss miller is here to answer any legal questions of how the budget process itself works, if you need it. >> great. and just to clarify for the new commissioners, is that the state regulation is that or the state

legislation says that we must ask for the same amount that we asked for last year, which is the 297342. could you, do you remember the amount that we paid for the report which would be a more robust report than the garage collection? >> the report was more than one fiscal year, the entire report itself ended up costing us, i want to say $200,000, but that is a much different type of thing that anything that we are looking at right now at doing, outside of the cca so i don't know if we will need to get that level for that report. and we might want to have that discussion and we to have a much different budget as that will eat up the entire budget just to have that one report done i want to keep that in mind if we talk about the future items going forward. because there is a difference between 250, in the budget that is small, and if we were for do an indepth report based o you

know, an item that this commission wants to we want to mindful of that if it is a prelim report this year and something larger that we would have to go to the board of supervisor foz funding. >> the thing to remember is that it is not -- it is a final product report, you are looking at something that is multi year, we may not issue an official like report t was a specialized report. >> right. >> i would view what we are doing as something that is not, it is detailed but not in the same way and not with the same level of expertise, but i do agree with you, that they can range widely and what, i think that we more need would support for at least the next year would be more like outside the legal tech support of exactly how to do the stuff that we are looking at doing and maybe, an expert here or there might be needed as well. >> okay, great. >> i have one question. >> chair, thank you very much.

>> mr. fried, just for clarification, so i pdz that the 297,000 that is in the lafco budget. >> correct. >> if we don't, if we actually are looking at a budget proposal of like we might spent, $144,000, and retain another $50,000 in case we need to hire an consultant, but dwoe have the remapder of the funds that we can access if we should need to; is that correct? ? >> no. we get one bite at the apple. >> once we give it back that is it. >> once we do the -- not today's budget, once we get to the budget we approve in may, we get one time to say yes or no to our money. that is it until the following fiscal year. just as for those of you that may be familiar with the board of supervisor these like to put money on reserve. they cannot, we are separate agency, they can't say that we are going to take that $50,000 and put that on reserve, it is

one time that we get to do it. there say provision for some reason we spent more money than we had, we couborrow money off the next year, there is language that allows for us not to be insolvent but to be able to pay the bills. would i never want to get in that situation, i always have a little bit left over, a small amount, this year we will end up with 5 or $10,000 left in our account, little bit of wiggle room not too much. >> then i would say, it would be my preference to be more cautious. if we decide that there is something that we would like to investigate and do a report o that could be more extensive. than 50,000 is the minimum amount that we would put aside.

>> sorry. thanks. nancy miller council to lafco. i just wanted to say just a couple of things because this process of where we adopt the budget at 297 and we don't use the 297 is has a historical context. which is we used to have a very large reserve, close to million and we would not have to take from the city general fund every year. because we had our own reserve that was set up years and years ago. we have spent that down and we have also received funds from other sources such as the sfpuc account that was set up to help us monitor and work with the sfpuc. so what we are trying to do is say, well, the revenue will come from other sources. and then the city and county of san francisco. so we have this accounting that we go through, which is we adopt the budget for 297 and we

actually say that is our budget, but we are going to give back to you, a certain amount and only keep what we really need for that year. >> that is, the the one time that jason is talking about. we do have to figure out what that amount is. >> you are entitled to the same budget and so if the other sources of funds go away, our reserves are mlu, and you would still have funds to continue to do what you want to do with respect to the activities of the commission. so, we do have this one time, where we talk about it, but i want to be really clear that we talk about it in terms of we are starting with 297,000 and then we are deciding how much of that, where that is coming from, and only so much of that will come from the city and county each year. >> correct. >> i hope that that is --. >> sure. >> so, what i think we should do now, since the final budget

won't be decided until may, is if i could make a motion where we sort of estimate the range of what we will probably end up using and to p that we will return the rest to the city and county of san francisco for other needs and then while we are figuring out sort of what the focus of lafco will be going forward and refining that and having a better estimation of the budget when we need it and if we are indeed going to have contribution from other source and then we can revisit this at our next meeting and perhaps give a more exact figure, does that make sense? and i can make a motion to that effect? >> sure. >> sure. >> i think, so let me just clarify. you are saying that you would ask for the 297, but not include a number that we would return and just leave that part open? >> so ask for the 297,342, and

reserve our right to request that amount going forward. but it suggests that we are going to keep amount lesser than that. within a range. and then when we further flush out the role and sort of the focus of this body and that at our next meeting or in the future meetings, certainly by may. we will settle on an exact figure. >> okay. >> sure. >> and i just also twoont say i think that is fine, i agree. personally, i know that there is some maybe, some political things we should consider, but personally, i don't mind spending the 297,000, the full amount even though it has been practice to rush some of comblont to the city. and i know thatvy been in this position for two months,vy seen the city spend money. so i think that really if we should need it then we should

use it. because it is what allocated for. and it is not a huge amount of money. when i have seen what has come before the board and what we have approved, the million and hundreds of millions, of dollars. actually this money, very little amount of money for the work that it does. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> so with that is it okay if i make a motion? >> i want to clarify one more thing and we should open it up for public comment before we entertain a motion. so just to clarify with miller, do we have to specify today the amount that we will return? or can that be left open until may? >> we do not have to specify the amount that we will return, you can estimate it today and come back it may and finalize it or june whenever you choose. >> okay, great. so like to open this up for public comment. is there any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? >> hello commissioners, eric

brookz. i am representing san francisco, the coalition for san francisco clean energy advocates. which has been working on clean power sf and community choice. also, california for energy choice which does that kind of work on the state level. i didn't speak to your previous item because you are all great and it didn't matter who was president and vice president. i just want to get that out there. and we are not dising you, and on this budget issue i kind of like would launch off of and amplify which is what commissioner fewer said. we now as council miller pointed out. we have burned through our reserve, and this lafco is going to have important things coming up like public broadband is something that we have talked about in the past year. and that is going to be on the horizon and it is going to be big this year, especially with the trump trying to privatize the internet. we need to get that on this year. that might require more studies

if we find that the department of technology does not get off the dime and do what needs to be done to set up public broadband and then with the clean power sf, we are finding that, you know, sfpuc staff has done a great job of moving the ball forward when in far in the past that was not happening, but we are finding that because the sfpuc is an enterprise agency that is focused on the rate and pair and protecting the rate pairs and the things like getting a local build out plan, are dragging a little. and in the past things like that, that would be on the level of the expanse or maybe even the report were needed to get the vision of clean power sf moving for ward. we might need the lafco to create a build out of a local build out plan like sidny australia, for san francisco. and in that case, not only do

you need your whole 297 budget but you might need to do what was done before and which is request from the board and the mayor's office, some added funds >> are there any other speakers? >> public comment is closed. >> can i have a motion to approve the proposed lafco budget for physical year, 17, 18? >> moved. >> sure, i am going to make a motion to approve the proposed budget for fiscal year, 17, 18, at 297,342 dollars and reserving the right in future years to the full amount of $297,342 that is receives in the city and county of san francisco to keep between, $144,000 and $200,000 for use in the next fiscal year and return the unneeded portion back to the city. and that staff should make needed adjustments to the final

budget in may. >> could i have a second for that motion. >> second >> seconded by fewer. >> seeing no objections, the motion is passed. madam clerk, could you call item five? >> community choice activities report, status up date on the clean power sf program, status up date on the proceedings of the california public utility commission and up date on the state legislation. >> all right. i believe that we have presentations from general manager bar bra hail and executive officer, jason fried? >> thank you. good morning. assistant general manager at the san francisco puc. welcome, i am pleased to be here to present the status of clean power sf. i will also address, if it aappropriate, chair, all of the

items that the secretary read together before turning the microphone over to executive officer fried. snaechlt is great. thank you. >> and just to kick things off i wanted to introduce the support team at clean power sf at the puc. that you will be seeing over the course of the year. making presentations responsive to your questions here at lafco. i introduce myself, i'm bar bra hail assistant general manager for power, with me is mike heinz, if you would stand. the director day-to-day director of the clean power sf program and the clean power sf staff report to him at the puc. charles, our acting communication's director at the puc is here. and his staff person, pasaro and we are happy to welcome, this is what? week two? and marina report to charles. she is the communication's lead for power enterprise at puc and as i say she only just joined

us. so you will be seeing us as a team responding to your inquiries. so i wanted to take our first meeting as an opportunity to introduce the team. so now move og this to where we are at with the program and if i may i would like to switch microphones. so by way of making sure we are all understanding the program opportunity here, san francisco program is enabled by statute that was passed in 2012, excuse me, 2002. >> go ahead. >> yeah. did we receive a powerpoint for this? >> i am happy to get you copies if you you like, i thought that you were able to see them. >> yes. >> in the future, and miss hail, i think that i work bet we are a hard copy, and it is difficult to see it on the screen, quite

frankly. >> we have some 1980s technology here. it is a little fuzzy. >> thank you. >> no problem. so there is some hand copies there. so we were authorized as a jurisdiction to implement the program through this assembly bill, 117 in 2002. and by statute cca is the program that allows an injures jurisdiction like san francisco to take over the supply and responsibilities to delivering electricity to residents and businesses. cca customers by statute are enrolled automatically and are noticed about the program four times. during that noticing period, they have the ability to say, no thanks, you know, i'm opting out. so when the board enabled the puc to go forward with the program, it basically said,

okay, we will have a program that allows san francisco residents and businesses to make the choice. so we are enabling that through the clean power sf program. and again we just provide the supply portion of the electric service. our goal for the program have been defined through our commission and board processes. we really want this to be an affordable program for san francisco residents and businesses. providing comparable or better service to pg& e through cleaner electricity and making choices for the electric supply that serves our residents. and emphasizing local, we have defined, local as within the 9 bay area, counties and we are looking to take that revenue stream, that would otherwise have gone to pg& e and make the local investment choices with

it. and all focusd on having a sustainable program. >> we have these three or four, we have these four objectives that can be competing against each other at times and depending on where the market priesz are and the local development costs are and so we are in needing to balance those objectives we are offering two services, the first service is the default service, when you move to san francisco and want to initiate electric service now, you don't automatically get enrolled in pg& e, program we get enrolled in our program, so we are the new default provider and that provision is at the green service offering. and we are providing 40 percent, california compliant, renewable content that exceeds the renewable content of pg& e

default. and it is the premium product, what is referred to as bucket one, or pcc one. in the energy lingo. and it is where we purchased the kilowatt hours and the attribute foz a california provider. we also offer a super green service and that is if you wish to take 100 percent renewable service, you pay a little more for that. but it is 100 percent renewable for ghg free product and we have had quite a bit of success with customers signing up for that. ze been operating the program since may of 2016. we have had an additional enrollment in november. and we offered the program city wide for anyone who raises their hand and says that they want in. they are enrolled. and we have also performed some auto enrollment the power enterprise, at the sfpuc supported the launch of the program with the working capitol

from our operations with a commitment to pay those funds back. the program has been operate with 15.5, full time equivalent staff and a reserve requirement, excuse me, a revenue requirement and by that i mean, the total cost of the program for the year of about, 38 million dollars.

that total, and that combination of our rates, and pg& e's fees that influence ours customer's bill. and so we have designed our program, as have the other operating ccas in california. and in recognition of the fact that there is this additional charge that pg& e makes on our customer and so we try to set our rates to buffer our customer's bills from that impact. and in april, we will be bringing our next rate adjustment to our commission through the city's statute or rate making process, which

imaging that you are familiar with. and it begins with the presentation to the rate fairness board and they make advisory recommendations to our commission. and our commission then through a 30 day noticed hearing process, adopts those rates. and that it sees fit. and those rates then fit before the board of supervisors for 30 days. if no action is taken, they become effective. so we will be bringing to our commission, for rate consideration, some recommendations in april. so stay tuned for that. and we will be reporting at a future lafco commission meeting on that item. >> miss hail. >> yes. >> i just wanted to ask really quickly, i think that this is maybe the first time that commissioners are hearing about the pcia which was a big topic for us last year. do we anticipate any changes to pcia in with the pg& e new rates

that they put forward. >> yes, so they adopted new rates, excuse me, the california puc adopted new rates for pg& e, that is effective on january 1 and they increased their fees and rates. so we saw an increase in the power charge and adjust sxment i should take a moment to explain that and i will. the effect of that is that right now, from january 1, until we adjust our rates, the effect on our customer's bill is that they are paying, a tad bit more for clean power sf service under the green program they they would if they were a bundled utility customer. the power charge is the california puc implementation of the state policy, that says, rate payers in the electric system, should not have to bear

the cost of long term commitments. the invest on the utilities made. and when those costs were enkured on behalf of a larger set of customers. so, when cca customers leave the invest in the utility electric supply portfolio and join a cca, urndz this state, statue need to take a share of those long term commitment costwise them frshgs a policy perspective, i think that actually the city agrees with that. that makes, a good policy sense to make sure that everybody pays their fair share and as the members of the commission, who are also supervisors know you are representing cca customer and pg& e customer and so you have an interest in protecting both of those sets of rate pay sxerz this say policy that treats them fairly. the implementation of that

policy, at the california, puc is where they establish this methodology named the power charge and different adjustment, they go through an annual revision process that begins with an application from pg& e in june and that application then is in the public setting and, there is opportunities to comment on it. and it is really just a calculation proceeding, and it is not a proceeding that allows to us argue about the methods. and that has been one of our challenges because we do have problems with the method in november, that projection, of what the pcia should be, that pg& e, they typically issue a decision in december. pg& e takes that decision and revises the calculation, posts if as final, on their website. on p the december 31st, and then

it becomes effective on january first. now i described to you, that our rate setting part of our effort is to buffer our customers from that charge. that process i just described where we find out what it is on december 31st and, it becomes effective on our customer's january first does not really allow us much opportunity to buffer. and so here we are in this period, where there is no buffer, our customers are seeing a little bit of bill impact as a result of pg& e cost increases and we are hoping that through the rate making process. that is schedule for april, we will be able to make some adjustments. >> great, and i just also want to ask one thing thanks if you could just clarify, i know that some san franciscans have seen a dramatic increase and that has nothing to do with clean power sf. >> right. and so the pg& e rates have changed for the electricity as

has the gas costs. and i think that some folks, we saw the inquiries come across our desks about why is my bill so high? and for some of those customers that was actually gas increases that made the bills dramatically different. so we have been taking calls and trying to help folks understand their bill, when it is an electric charge issue. you know, we talk them through the clean power sf rates. and the effect of the pg& e charges. we have not seen a mark, you know, really, a change at alln how many customers are opting out of our program. and so, i think that the work that we are doing and helping folks understand the bills, is helping them to see that there is continuing to get a good value, or from the clean power sf product, especially since it is so much more renewable than the pg& e product, thanks for clarifying that. >> you also asked for activity on the pcia going forward and i

will dress that during this part and, i think that it was con the agenda. okay? >> great. >> and we are really, you asked the questions about the bill, we are really looking at the clean power sf program as the seamless customer experience, the customers receive the same pg& e bill that they have in the past, there is an added page and the summary of the bill is shown here, and you can see that there is an additional item there, the clean power sf electric generation charge which replaces the pg& e, electric generation charges on the bill and the extra page included in the bill prosides the detail on the charges. >> so as a mentioned we began enrolling customers in may. we are continuing to enkwurage preenrollment where customers let us know on our website or through other less computer

oriented methods. that they are idnterested in participating in the program. and we also contact automatic enrollment in phases. i mention that had we had a phase in may and in november. and what we are seeing, is about 75,000 customers, participating in the program. today. and we have a very low opt out rate, just 3.percent and it seems to be steady around that 3 perng level and we are very excited to report that 3.4 percent of our customer vz said, sign me up for 100 percent, demonstrating an interest in both the better product and a willing nsz to pay a little more on their electric bill to achieve that 100 percent renewable and that ghg reduction. >> miss hale? i am sorry i just want to jump in here about this super green enrollment. this is great, i am just looking

at the december minutes, and it looks like we had a 2 percent enrollment and so this is a good bump. >> yes. >> moving for ward to the 5 percent goal, could you break down which super green enrollments were in district five and eight. and verses what is in the city wide, because i know that super green, any one of us can and should join the clean power sf, super green team, and get clean power sf even if their district has not auto enrolled in it. and so, i just want to ask, does this report, include city wide? >> yes thanks is city wide. >> okay, great. >> and i neglected to mention at the top of my presentation, that charles will be making a presentation for you, about our out reach today. so before i surrender the microphone to executive officer fried he will come up and do a

deeper dive and how the out reach is influencing enrollment. >> great. thank you. >> we are also doing additional work to determine what our next phases of enrollment should be. and we are characterizing that work as a growth plan. >> and our growth plan covers these 6 topics. really focused at this point on completing the growth plan where we are intending to make a presentation at our commission in the april, may, time frame. and we will come to lafco as well. to share the results of our growth plan analysis. and it is really an effort to hit those same goals that i mentioned at the top of the meeting. in a, you know, a financially responsible way. growing our program from the 75,000 or so, account wez currently serve, to the 320,000 or so, accounts that are active

in san francisco. by the time we complete that, that enrollment, just to give you a perspective, we will be serving more accounts than the water department serves. and we will be an enterprise fund with a revenue requirement larger than the waste water enterprise at the puc. so that just gives you a sense of how big a change this is for the city. and how impactful the program can be. so some of our challenges in the opportunities looking ahead. and key challenges, clearly financing, financing constraint and our trade off foz growth and, how quickly can we grow? how much electric market risk are we willing to take on in order to achieve the positive impacts that the clean power sf

opportunity presents. is there a lot of unpredictability and the instability in the rates and in particular the influence of this power charge and different adjustment, and this exit fee that we talked about, it really, it is really quite, it swings, dramatically, that we have seen. and so we are spending quite a bit of time working with the legislature, and the california puc on educating them about our program. and about the influences that the pcia has on us. and looking for methods that they can adopt to make it a more stable, less volatile and more predictable component. because as i said we are not looking to get out of our customers getting out of the responsibility for paying their fair share. we are just looking for it to be a cost that is more predictable and fair. >> and a key challenge as i mentioned already is the fact

that for this period, between january and july, when the new rates would go into effect, we expect our rates to be higher excuse me, our bills and impacts on our customers tore higher than pg& e and i say that we expect, because we know that pg& e is going to have another rate change, probably in the may to june time frame, the puc will issue another decision. and wher not exactly sure what the influence that have one is going to be. but, we do expect to get our rates back into alignment, after our rate making process goes before our commission, in april. >> in terms of opportunities, the market place and the electric sector is getting familiar and comfortable with the idea of community choice arrogators which is great. we now have banks that are indicating new interest in providing financing, you know when we started our journey, on cca, we would have to explain to

all potential counter parties whashgs it is, what the state's foundational statutory foundation is for it. you know whashgs is the opportunity is. we had to do a lot of explaining. and now we have folks knocking on our doors and saying, hey we would like to provide your cca service, which say much better place to be. we are seeing expanding cch community readiness within regulatory and legislative environment to really push on these key issues like the power charge and difference adjustment. and we have been at the forefront of organizing a trade association, among the operating ccas and the local government communities that are interested in embarking on a cca. and in fact, i am the president of the trade association. we have done a lot of work this past couple of months. educating legislators, and engaging with the california puc commissioners and we had two new

commissioners come on in january, and so we have what i would characterize as meet and greet, opportunity tlz that we took advantage of, and really helping to emphasize for them, that we are sort of the new kids in town, as a cca community and the electric sector, but we have a lot of work to do with them. and looking to influence their decision making. and then when we looked more internally, the key challenge and the key opportunity is to really finish that growth plan and identifying what our sort of charting our course forward from the 75 counts that we are serving to the city wide service. and on i am going to pivot now to talk more about the legislative activity and unless have you more questions about the presentation. >> i do. >> if we could just ask a couple of questions and i want to allow commissioners to ask questions before we move on to the

legislative up date. could you just remind me, or the next roll out is that city wide or additional, or just the incremental districts? >> yes, so we have a small enrollment that is happening in may. and that is to, take on into the service offering, everybody who raised their hands city wide already, so the waiting list we are bringing the waiting list into the program. and we are also going to bring in to the program, some of the net energy metering customers in districts, 5, 8, and 10, and because this is a good time of year, to enroll customer whose have solar on their roofs. and so we are going to take that is and those customers again that is a small enrollment and then he after we get direction from our commissioner on the growth plan s when we will be able to answer the question of what is next? the whole rest of the city, some increment of the city? you know?

what is the pace of enrollment going forward? and that is what the groerth plan is intended to answer. >> great. >> when do you present the plan to the commission? >> yes, we are presenting the target is to present the plan in late april and, early may and then we will be looking to work with your executive officer to get on the agenda here to make the same presentation. >> great. >> and i just with the opt out rates so, low, it seems really positive and encouraging that we would move forward with the city wide roll out. sooner rather than later. and so, if your commission and lafco obviously support that growth plan, then when or what is the ramp up that you would need to move from this 76,000, to 323,000. >> so looking at the plan slide here, you can see the topics

that we need to make sure that we are addressing in the growth plan. i would say key to kwet you are asking, is we know that the customer demand is thereof from the low opt out rates and i say that recognizing the areas of the city that we new would be most amenable. and the districts that we continue to enroll in the san franciscans we would find the. and higher through, and with such a low number, manageable amount for us. and the key question is whether there is supplies, in the market, to service, at a cost effective rate.

i think that we put in the problemry and the thanks and the words like that and words like that in front of it until we actually put out a request for an offer and see the bids come in, we will not know that for certain. >> and then the financing needs is a key issue. you know, we will need to have the capacity to transact the business in the market. and the more capacity that we will need, could we get that cost effectively, letters of kred sxit we have a $40 million with morgan stanley right now and, we would likely be able to get another letter of kred fit we needed it, but those are again, we will put out a request for offer, for the financial support for the program and perhaps the one that is the most in our control, but challenging is the issue, and what is the

additional staffing need? we have identified what we think that our ad dishing staping needs are. but the pace of being able to hire within the city may be one of the constraining factors for us. we are working with the hr, and the dhr, and every position that i request to fill, even if they are already authorized in the budget needs to go through sort of a gauntlet that takes some time and so that operational readiness issue, is a key factor in being able to make the judgment of how quickly could we go in we can take off all of another questions. great, i know that at the time president breed had moved for the, or moved through the board

of supervisors that contract that you needed to procure, is that something that we will do again? >> so we have authority to contract without coming to the board again. >> great. >> so it would depend on what particular form of contract we do. but we do have because of that good work that the board was very supportive on, we do have some discretion to contract for additional power, subject to the budget utility's commission approval and not having to go to the board. i think that we have good readiness there. super. >> commissioners do have you any questions before we move on to the legislative up date? >> no. great. >> thank you. >> you bet. >> so on the legislative front, i already mention that had we have been doing quite a bit of education and out reach. and we do have a bill senate bill, 618, sponsored by senator brad ford that we are concerned

will under mind the community in the community choice ago agree gages, and specifically, it requires that any community choice aggregate perform an integrative resource plan thanks was actually part of a prior piece of legislation that we supported. it is a good utility practice to take a look at what your resource needs are and to have a thoughtful plan put together. and to take that integrative resource plan in this new bill and require it to be reviewed and approved by the california puc. so instead of that plan being subject just to our local jurisdiction review and approve ashlths senator brad ford's bill 618, would require the california puc to review and approve. and we are officially now opposed to that piece of legislation.

mayor lee has signed an opposition bill that has been transmitted to sacramento. and it will be heard on april four and this we will be at the first read and so stay tuned on that. i imagine that you will be hearing more about it. that is the primary legislative activity. turning to the regulatory activity. we have participated and the various proceedings and the most unique for this setting would be what they called an on bonk hearing. they had a hearing before all four and all five seated, commissioners. to talk for the full day just about the cca programs in the state of california. and how they influence electric service provision, and the

ability for the state to achieve its goals. so we spent a day there and they have a large auditorium that was full, the spill over room, hearing room was also full. they reported that they had over, 800 participants on the video line. electronic feed of the meeting. it is probably one of the best attended meetings that the california puc has held in a decade or two. so there is definitely a very strong interest. and the growth of community choice ago gages programs across the state, and programs at a future meeting we can take a little bit of time, more on my cal cca role to describe what the other ones are doing, and i think that our very positive aspect of the attention, and the industry sector is getting, is the ability to identify all of the interested parties who want to see this type of programming really succeed. and so we are finding a lot of

strong partner to work with, and make sure that in getting best practices and learning new things that we can bring to the san francisco customers which i find very positive. we are very active on the proceedings that influence our cca program, pcia being the biggest, and the general rate case that the pg& e has before the cpuc, and the pg& e, resource plan and the plans to retire deablo canyon, the nuclear generating station. and their interest in replacing that resource was additional resources that they would then charge not only their customer foz, but also their cca customers for. so, those are all areas that my

staff, together with city attorneys office, collaborating with like minded individuals, are participating in at the cpuc, it is really quite an active area of work. very complex and technical as well. >> and so, i would like to conclude my remarks and move to the communications up date, if you are ready. >> sure. >> i just want to ask, i think that it might be beneficial. this is such a huge topic. it would be great if you or someone from your staff could take a moment and even a couple of hours to talk about you know, just where we have come from, where we are, pca in a nutshell, how we compare to other ccas, and maybe a basic primer on energy and how we procure energy for the commissioner's staff who will be staffing them on lafco just moving forward i think that

it would help just to have a general understand and maybe the executive officer, fried could do a review of the report and how we got here and not today. >> i understand. >> but sort of moving for ward, but for the next meeting would be great. >> we would be happy to provide that kind of support to you and your staff. we did a similar presentation to legislative staffers in sacramento. and we could add on a little bit to that to fill every topic that you just mentioned, chair. and happy to do that when you are ready. >> great. i just want to add one last thing which is that senator brad ford is my favorite senator in california. he has kept me on my toes in terms of watching legislation every year for how he tries to destroy clean power. and cca and so, i thank you and p v the other ccas for the hard work in keeping an eye on his

legislation and trying to neutralize anything that would you know, take away from the hard work that we have done here, thank you. >> thank you. >> i think that also, when you meet with our legislative aids, just the political relationship between the california puc and the cca. >> okay. >> that would be great, too. >> sounds good. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> p good morning, commissioners charles shen director of communication for the san francisco public utility's commission sxishgs moved some things around and i am glad to be here and a poll guys for the confusion yesterday. and i am here to talk a little bit about some of our out reach initiatives and specifically how they track with super green up grades, and super green, sign ups throughout yeert. and so i am going to just kind of jump right into it and i am certain that you may have questions.

on the first slide, the line on top the blue line that is those are our up grades with the super green and so those are customers that we enrolled or customers that we have had since the beginning of the year that we are already serving clean electricity to, that have proactively elected to upgrade themselves to super green. the line below that are the customers that we have not enrolled, those are the sus mers that have siendz up early and raised their hand and said that i want to be a part of your program in the next enrollment phase and so that is the line below that, that is mostly yellow orange. >> and before i walk you through some of the events, because when i put in there was some of the big ticket items that we have done throughout the year to both, encourage those early sign ups as well as the up grades.

and i want to preface my comments and state that we do activities throughout the year. and so, so you are always seeing this constant weekly increase in up grades and in sign up and so you see that, like we are kind of always above zero and we are always working with our 350, sf partner and represented in the room today torques keep the information going and, keep the clean power sf in front of people at fares and festivals and sets and, we have done a good job at making sure that there is a steady green for the up grades and sign up tluz out throughout the year. and we see a lost success around the times when we are actually enrolling customer and so i am going to jump into the chart here. and so you see in the green bar, represented below the chart thanks is the time period when we were enrolling our first customers back in may 26016 and, it was 7,000 business customers in district, five, 8 and 10, so

at that time we are spending the enrollment notice and being enrolled in the program and, presumably they have heard from us from the out reach and etc. and you can see automatically, the difference in activity between the spring enrollment which is a smaller enrollment and focus on the business customers which was focused on the residential customer and it was enrolled around 75, 8,000 customers. >> i think that the earth day events in 2016, were kind of a water shed moment for us. we worked with our 350 sf advocate and we staffed numerous events throughout steet and the big earth day festival. and we got like 50 sign up frz that one weekend and we all just stood back and said wow thanks was a good event and we need to do more things like that and we need to partner with 350, sf more and so we have got more

aggressive on that front. and society earth day event that i have note there had, you can see the spike and there say correlation of the nuchl sign ups, and that reinforced the need that we need to do more of these. >> the second item is our business times ads. and we did those because we were enrolling businesses, and we wanted to make sure that again, all of the businesses knew the business community knew, the businesses boekt that we were enroll and the businesses that may have wanted to sign up throughout steet and so we did the business times advertising, we saw a little spike, it was not as dramatic as the, you know, earth day that i just mentioned. but going forward, there will probably continue to be a resource for marketing out reach when we are enrolling business customers. and the next item were the linked in ads, this is our first time that we had advertised on linked in for clean power sf and it kind of came right at the tail end of a spike that was

probably from, the out reach activities that we were doing. and we did not find them as effective as facebook. we were targeting businesses because that spriet mare customers that we were enroll and so we may revisit them in the future, but i am going to talk more about the facebook ads later. definitely, i found facebook to be the most compelling on-line form of advertise thag we have done. we do want to branch out and do other forms of advertising as well. and the faflt forward a little bit. we did a phone bank in partnership with the see-er ra club, where they provided us a list of members in san francisco that we called and, explained the program to, and encouraged them to sign up, we had the club volunteers in the office and we had volunteers from 350 sf and it was a big effort and we saw a spike over the next couple of weeks, kind ever like a reverbation effect that continued to reverb brat and so

we found that to be effective and we want to do more of those volunteer phone banks and again with the club and, the league of vote sxerz there is probably other like minded organizations that we want to partner with. and so all of that leads up to our fall enrollment, which is mostly residential customer and this is our first large, you know, 80,000 customer enrollment for the first big residential enrollment and so it is going to be different than the business enrollment earlier in the year and we kind of prefaced that with the ads that began, in september, october, time frame. and that is right about when our enrollment notice started going out and what we saw immediately when the enrollment notices went out and they kind of go out on a rolling basis and, so it is like 2shgs 0,000 for the first week, and that is about 80,000 and then 20,000 for the next month fer week and, so you are mailing about 160,000 mail pieces before you actually cut the customers

over for service and we started seeing huge spikes in super green, up grades for these customers is that were enrolling and so it kept getting big sxer bigger each week. and we had always suspected that the enrollment would be our best vehicle to advertise the program, to market the program and to create a buzz in the communities, because there is one thing to talk to someone and they, you know t may not be on the radar, you are talking to them about it but you are not going to enroll them so they may not take action, the enrollment, kind of the people stand up and notice. they are getting enrolled. and so, you know, they are going to make a decision, do i want to stay with the program? do i want to opt out? fortunately we have a low opt out rate. but they also commit to the opportunity for the decision to upgrade the super green and we saw that throughout that entire enrollment period and we would like to think that we were kind of fanning the flames of that desire to upgrade and we have the lead stories and the outdoor

advertising. and we have the welcome events for the new customers that we invited everyone to and we have seen a surge in the super green up grades, and you can see that during that enrollment period. >> i have a quick question. just to clarify, we are looking at page 2 of the presentation that you are giving us, this chart that is, let's see comparing super green sign up and up grades with the out reach activities. if you could just have that back on the screen. thank you. >> sfgov tv, so we are looking at the period between say, october 31st 2shgs 016, and december, 31, and so i see that spike that is spike is only between, 200 and 250 customer snz >> no, i think that it is probably more than that. because this is not cumulative. and i just don't have the cumulative number. >> but that is the spike numb