and i promise you that will be addressed. we can make sure we ask

residents to engage on three one one to respond effectively as well. it's been an issue in our city since i was born and raised here, it's become a bit more of a crisis over the last number of years, encampments, other issues around it, what we're doing is working, but we need to do more of it in the city of san francisco. we're going to talk about homelessness as it relates to the budget. we're doing additional work in the mission district. back in 2016 when i offered proposition q, when i said then, it was like on a political island talking about it. nobody is getting better sleeping in tents. there is rape, drugs, crime, arson that happens in the camps, they're not healthy for the city of san francisco and the people living in them and they're scary

for people that live near them. so we're doing everything we can to resolve the encampments, but if not, we're going to implement prop q in a harder way. >> to me, it's not a matter of getting tough. they have a tough time living on the streets. but at the end of the day, you can offer services, housing, and at a certain point, as a city we need to draw the line and say this is a service resistant population and we need to take down the camps because they're unhealthy for all of san francisco. and that's what we're going to be doing. >> look, huge part of what we're

doing as a city government. we broke ground a few months mayor of the city of san francisco, a navigation center. we're building more capacity all the time. that is part of the solution. we want to offer individual housing to go in off the streets. we want to get individuals off the streets, on their own two feet, onto better lives. this is not simply moving around from one neighborhood to the next. as we add capacity, we're doing that in the city budget, but again, many of the people behind us are supporting those. director garcia a huge proponent of that as well. while we offer shelters and housing, we cannot allow the encampments. totally unhealthy for the people of city of san francisco.

>> exactly why we are doing what we're doing today and announcing this. we want to be as a city government responsive to our residents. look, that might not have been the case in the past as much as we want to, but as merit is incredibly important to me that we respond to our city residents. we've done that regarding homelessness, we want to do that with 311 regarding needles specifically. >> any other questions? all right, thank you.

you. >> well to the epic center are you ready for the next earthquake did you know if you're a renter you can get earthquake shushes we'll take to the earthquake authorities hi welcome to another episode

i'm the chief resilience officer for san francisco i'm joined by my good friends for the earthquake authority we're at the el cap center for the city and county of san francisco started in 2013 to get the community and talk about the risk we think about earthquake if usual great city you'll see one of the demonstrates we've built the model home and i encourage other episodes we'll be retroactively retrofitting and showing you as property owners to employ you work for the california earthquake authority talk about your role and earthquake shirnls up think the viewers want to know if you're a renter or property owner how the insurance issues. >> i'm the chief mitigation officer or c e a a property line funded pubically managed entity

that provides earthquake shiners for one to four units and mobile owners to come down and renters throughout the state of california. >> what make the c e a deft. >> we work with 19 participates the insurer that sells you, your homeowner policy you're not obligated to buy it but you can buy a policy. >> am i covered with homeowners insurance. >> no california homeowners understand their homeowners insurance doesn't cover earthquake they need a separate policy if you're an shiners you can get the earthquake insurance policy. >> so explain why it is for the c e a is deft if a traditional insurance agency. >> irreverent so in the 80s

the state of california passed a law that requires any company that writes the policies to over earthquake insurance the homeowners are not required by commissioner cranshaw can bye there was so much loss they were going to stop writing the insurance policies for earthquakes they wanted to stop a serious insurance policy. >> we're talking about the homeownership's buying the earthquake shiners but 70 percent are renters what's my opposite. >> the option for renter the earthquake be insurance company is affordable i think people don't realize just exactly what it covers it covers damaged property but loss of use if you have to be under a building they have a quarter main that was broken as well as emergency repair if interests glass breaks in the carpet you need to be in

our unit that's whether earthquake is important. >> you're title you're the excessive mitigation officer for the state of california when i think of insurance i don't think about mitigation. >> so as part of public safety mission the c e a started to put aside mitigation loss fund 5 percent of invested income and when i joined the company 34 years ago we had $45 million to make a difference for moving and incentivizing and mitigation for california homeowners to structure engineering a unique opportunity to cervical homeowners to help them to mitigate the equivalent. >> whether an owner or renter i want to find more information about earthquake insurance where should i go. >> earthquake authority.com not only information about insurance but a calculated

figures and as of january lots of deductible and 25 percent if a homeowner mitigate their hope up to 20 percent off their premium as an incentive for the work. >> what does mitigate the home mean. >> strengthen, renovate, retrofit through a home particularly older to earlier codes and you put in adding streamlining maybe collar bolts to tie to the foundation or to the wall so it is braced to earthquake can be very, very affordable and really makes a difference. >> thank you very much for being with us i encourage the viewers not only to checkout the earthquake authority but we'll talk about

>> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪

♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four

pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪ ♪

>> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like

nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪

♪ by the power ♪ of your name >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night.

i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food,

you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element into the situation.

>> clerk: madam chair. >> supervisor fewer: oh, thanks, so sorry. are we good? i do it every single time. gavel down. the meeting will come to order. this is the april 20, 2018 regular meeting of the san francisco local agency formation commission. i am sandra lee fewer, chair of

the commission. i am joined by commissioner cynthia pollock on my right and commissioner hillary ronen on my left. also joining me is newly sworn in commissioner shanti singh. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. please be sure to silence any cell phones or sound producing devices. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. madam clerk. will you read item number two. [agenda item read]. >> supervisor fewer: are there any members of the public would wish to comment on item number two? seeing none, public comment is now closed. is there a motion to approve the minutes? great. moved by commissioner pollock

and seconded by commissioner ronen. without objections, these minutes are approved. madam clerk, can you please call item number three. [agenda item read]. >> clerk: there's one seat and one applicant, the one applicant being cynthia pollock. >> supervisor fewer: do we have an update from an interim administrative officer? >> chair fewer, members of the commission, angela calvillo, the interim officer. >> miss calvillo, so sorry to interrupt, because this does pertain to my application, i would just like to excuse myself from the room. >> supervisor fewer: oh, yes. >> as you know, commissioners, cynthia pollock remains in seat six as you know she may do so

until another commissioner is appointed or she is reappointed. now commissioner shanti singh was appointed to the alternate seat to lafco. welcome, commissioner singh. the commissioner was able to participate in commissioner business, and with commissioner singh, we have the necessary quorum to consider item three. given that commissioner pollock has already recused herself and left the room, anthothose conc my remarks. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. let's open this up to public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i make a motion to excuse commissioner pollock. >> great. that was made by commissioner ronen, seconded by commissioner

singh. we can take that without objection, is that correct? and colleagues, can we have a motion to approve cynthia pollock to join lafco in the public seat? >> supervisor ronen: so moved. >> commissioner singh: second. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. there was a motion by commissioner ronen, seconded by commissioner singh. thank you. madam clerk, can you please call item number four. [agenda item read]. >> i believe we have a staff presentation. >> good morning, commissioners, michael himes director of the cleanpowersf program for the sfpuc. i do have a cleanpowersf update for you today, and we also actually have a presentation for you on our enrollment

communications plan, so what i'm going to do is provide some fairly brief remarks and then i'm going to turn the podium over to our puc deputy director of communications for power, tyler gamble. so -- and i'm going to cover a few things today in my remarks. our enrollment activities, our service to customers today, and an update on regulatory activities. with respect to enrollment and service to customers, the program -- i think this is present consistent with what i reported last time. the program's serving 81,000 accounts today. that's about 22% of cleanpowersf's potential service. once citywide enrollment is completed, our opt out rate is 3.2%. it's been at that level now for

sometime, so we've been able to retain 96.8% of the customers we've enrolled. our super green upgrade rate has increased a bit. we're at 4.2%, so a tenth of a% increase, and we've actually been conducting a small enrollment in april. you may recall from previous updates, we are conducting quarterly enrollment for customers that sign up fore the program, so we did that in april for customers that had signed up since january , and there were 230 such accounts that had signed up over those few months. looking ahead, and i think we indicated this at the last meeting, but our next enrollment will be july of 2018, which is really right around the corner for us, which is very exciting. on a related point, i'm going

to get a bit more into that, but on april 10th, our commission adopted new rates for the cleanpowersf program for the new fiscal year starting in july. these programs are expected to fund the financial reserves while delivering about a 2% -- about 2% savings as compared to comparable service from pg&e. to date, the program has been -- when we've set rates, we've tried to benchmark to a 2.5% discount, which is a really small discount, so we're really excited to be able to deliver something a little bit more material in july, especially when we're gearing up to enroll customers. i do want to comment that today, the rates are about 5% lower, so customers are saving under the cleanpowersf program. the july enrollment will increase the program customer account from the 81,000 i

mentioned a moment ago to just over 105,000, and we're mostly going to be adding commercial accounts in it the city. that's about 25,000 new commercial accounts, and about 1300 net energy metering accounts. and as a reminder, energy metering is the program for the customers that have solar on their roofs. the enrollment will increase our average demand served from about 65 megawatts to about 270 megawatts. it's essentially tripling the program size from an energy demand standpoint. we are also planning to enroll the balance of the city in april of 2019, so that's our

general timeline. we will continue, though, to invite signups throughout the city, and we're also continue to conduct those quarterly enrollments to accommodate those customers that want to get in sooner. so as i've indicated, we're -- we're on track to complete enrollment by july of 2019, which was the goal that our commission set forth for the program. that'll bring total accounts served to 365,000, and our average program demand to just about 405 megawatts, from 235 to 405 come this time next year. it's a pretty steep ramp, but we're on track, so very exciting. on the regulatory front, i wanted to remark a bit on the pcia. so the city's been an active

participant in the pcia proceeding at the california public utilities commission. the pcia stands for power charge indifference adjustment. most folks just refer to it as the pcia. the cpuc's considering forms to the charge, and this is the charge that pg&e levees on customers' bills. for several months, staff from the sfpuc and the city attorney's office have been working with our colleagues from other communities to prepare testimony that was submitted into the proceeding by the california community choice association, calcca. that testimony was filed on april 2nd, and calcca presented a proposal featuring a number of strategies intended to reduce electricity costs for all rate payers in the investor in utilities while supporting the transition to what we're

framing as a new vision for california's retail electricity market that of course prominently features cca's. the existing pcia methodology adopted by the cpuc, it calculates what is called the net unavoidable power procurement costs. you could also think of these as sort of the above market costs of the commitments that approxima pg&e's made to serve customers, and it calculates those costs that are attributable to the customers that leave utility supply service for a cca program or a third-party provider in the direct access market. the calculation has been contentious for sometime now. parties on both sides of the issue debate perceived cost shifts in either direction, and

we're hoping and anticipating that the california puc is going to correct and adopt the fair solution to this issue. i do want to point out that as the city -- this is not a new charge. it is -- forms of it were adopted more than a decade ago. the pcia in its current form was adopted around 2010, i think. and throughout the city as the voice of all of its citizens, including customers that elect to stay with pg&e has advocated for a solution that does not shift costs, and that has been our approach throughout. of course we want it done in a manner that's fair, that does not un -- inappropriately burden cca's and cca programs. so sort of to that extent, calcca's proposals, of course have been influenced by the city and have been guided by

the following principles: first, minimizing costs borne by call customers, second protecting customers from rate shock through stable and predictable rates. this is one of the problems we've had with cca it gets launched once a year and it can get set any rate. when we're endeavoring to set our rates for our service that accounts for those costs, that is he aa big chunk of our overall program costs that we need to manage around, so there are mechanisms that the california puc as a regulator can put in place to regulate and stablize those changes over time. ensure transparency and the regulation to allocate costs responsibly. so make it easy to see that the numbers are correct, in other words. to accurately reflect the long-term and short-term value streams in the commitments that

the utilities made for customers. generally speaking, the -- the proposals that we've seen from the utilities have overemphasized short-term evaluation, so it's something that we hope the puc will consider. encourage prudent utility resource procurement and portfolio management so that they actively manage those resources and go into the market if they need to to sell them at the highest rate possible. that reduces the fees that departing customers have to pay. on a voluntary basis, provide access to the resources in the utilities portfolio. so to the extent a cca formation results in a utility like pg&e having excess supply that the utility makes those available to the community to purchase on a voluntary basis. and enable california to continue its progress towards

achieving its environmental and climate goals. pretty important one there. so the cca is preparing a written briefing on the lafco for this topic, and i believe that was be sent to your attention very soon. we're almost done with that. so with that, i'll pause and take any questions you might have on at least what i discussed. >> supervisor fewer: so colleagues, any questions? >> supervisor ronen: just out of curiosity, have you done any research why customers are opting out, the ones that are doing so, given the savings that are available to them. just curious. >> yeah. actually we have. whenever the customer opts out, we present them with sort of a questionnaire to identify from a select set of options the reason. and there are two -- two of

those sort of stand out against the others. the first is a distrust in local government providing these services, and the second is a -- a dislike of the auto enrollment mechanism that is part of the cca statute and cca program. those, i would say, with the two -- two main issues. >> supervisor ronen: got it. >> yeah. >> supervisor ronen: that makes sense. the other question i had that given the mayor's announcement this week of being climate neutral by 2022, how much is cca going to play a role in that or does that change role or strategies or plans? >> at this point, i don't think it changes our basic strategy, which is to deliver carbon free electricity to san francisco citywide no later than 2030,

right? so our program is procuring power and planning long-term to develop a set of resources that will make our electric supply ghg-free. i think the related element is there are other components of the city's overall greenhouse gas footprint and climate footprint that cleanpowersf may contribute to solving, like transportation, for example, switching fuels from burning, combusting gasoline, combusting natural gas to using clean electricity? and you know, that's happening a lot. there's work being done in the city. the department of the environment is working on initiatives to address that. the puc is, as well, but you know, electrifying

transportation is going to be a one, and that's balancing the city's overall goals with respect to transit. but an electric vehicle that can plug into the grid and get ghg-free power from the city is going to be the solution. >> supervisor fewer: commissioner pollock? >> commissioner pollock: thank you so much for your presentation and thank you to the commission for appointing me for another four years, and i'm happy to serve on this body. i just wanted to thank you for the work that the puc is doing and you know, the climate action strategy that the city presented to the public and has really geared our programs around that strategy echos all of our thoughts, which were that claenl power sf was the number one way that we could

achieve the city's climate goals. so i want to make sure that we're always echoing that and supporting that, and hopefully, they move forward quickly, and i can't wait until april 2019. >> me either. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. do you -- >> so i know i have another component. i did have a few slides. do we have time for that? >> supervisor fewer: sure. >> so if no other questions, it's my pleasure to introduce tyler gamble. he's been at the puc for six months? eight months. i knew it's been around there. mr. gamble's been with the puc for eight months, came to us from the great city of new orleans. he's going to present some slides on our communications plan. >> hey, good morning, commissioners. how are you? i will run through our communications strategy that we

have so you guys kind of know the tactics that we're taking over the next few weeks and months to enroll these customers and as we look forward to 2019, as well. so as mistake just talked abou we've got a great opportunity. this year, we're looking at enrolling 25,000 power customers in san francisco. our goal is to educate customers about the program. that's why we're taking a multifaceted approach here. the message cleanpowersf gives you the power to choose cleaner energy options for your business at a competitive price. so the number of strategies we're looking at, we have our required mailings that give us an opportunity to put our messages on them. we're going to leverage local and regional media outlets,

we're going to target high energy user customers of that 25,000, engage business organizations, and launch a paid digital media campaign, as well. and so for starters, talking about the enrollment notices, we've cleaned them up a little bit. they look a little bit more modern. we're focusing on imageery. the first notice goes out on may 7th. they're the first of four. as you know customers get two ahead of the enrollment and two after, and for the first time we're going to separate those enrollment notices, so we have some customers that have opted in early, so they'll be opted in in july. we'll have separate notices for business customers and residential customers that can really highlight the benefits, based on the kind of customer you are. next leveraging media outlets, we're going to leverage our relationships with the media to tell that story. we'll focus a lot on the business media for this up

coming july enrollment, and it's going to help customers signed up in july early, or they'll be enrolled in 2019. we've created a digital press kit that includes faq's for business customers, for residential customers. it's going to include social media posts, newsletter, copy that organization ones who maybe don't have time to meet with us in person can use that same material to educate their -- their membership who in turn will be those customers. of course we're going to use the mayor's communication assets, the board of supervisors communication assets, and sfgov, and then sfpuc has digital copies of everything that goes out to our customers, as well. moving onto clean energy influencers, so throughout the year we partner with

stakeholders who are part of this movement. we do a lot of phone banking recentlies with them to upgrade customers to super green. we're going to share that information, we're going to attend events, we're going to attend more of those sound banking nights, and we're going to attend more panels as well to have a little bit more discussion about why it's important to go super green, why it's important to have this type of energy in san francisco. it's also important to meet some of these customers face-to-face, so we're looking at a very diverse customer base. we have small mom and pop shops, but we have large customers that don't even manage their own energy bills, they have a party that does that. so we did get some information from other cca's across the state, where third party customers prefer to have that face-to-face. so we are going to have meetings with face-to-face

customers, and let them know what the perks are. and we're engaging business organizations, so we've worked really closely over the last few weeks with the mayor's office of economic and workforce development. we've got a number of organizations that we're going to hit. if nothing else they're going to get our information in the press kit, but ideally, we'd like to meet them at events that they have, at meetings that they have, and any way we can hit them to help spread this message. and we have a print and digital media campaign as well. starting in may we're going to roll that out with targeting digital print. we also did a rehit of our website, so cleanpowersf.org, we -- we own the url for that,

but it goes to the sf water website, but we wanted to have a website that was very clean, aligned with what our other notices looked like, and people would be able to look at that, get information, and we're going to have a bill claytonor, and people can type in their electricity use and find out what their bill would look like. and then, there'll be big button options, enroll right now, a lot of direction where they need to go. we're looking at local newspapers and just other simple places to hit the customers that we want to. we really ramped up our outreach this year. we've hired more communications staff that's focused on power communications both on the cca side and on hetch hetchy power, as well. we're attending more events this year so far, we've hit 20 event. we're going to be participating in earth day, we're a sponsor of small power sf week.

as i mentioned earlier, we partner with our advocates, so we've done two sierra club phone banking recentlies this year that resulted in multiple opt ups for the super green product, and we've increased our social media increase on twitter with regular posts and interaction with customers and other influencers and we're leveraging our local sfpuc audience. that was the update i wanted to give you. do you have any questions, thoughts, comments that we haven't thought about? >> yes. thank you for presenting this. it's really exciting to see things moving forward. i know that over the last couple years that lafco has echoed concerns from advocates that cleanpowersf wasn't separating itself from -- from water in the ways of how it's presented to customers, and so

it is exciting to see that a lot of the feedback is being incorporated into the communications plan. i know that it was for me a source of some frustration, and so it's exciting to see it moving forward. i really want to support the social media post that you're doing. i know that they're still maybe just trickling in a bit, but i'm excited to see the ramp-up, and if we could hear some -- some reports at a later time on how -- how you notice this reaching customers, what type of impact, the types of budgeting that you're doing towards communications and how that is actually presenting -- sounds exciting out there. and how that's sort of fruitful a in getting more sign ups and opt ups to super green. >> yeah, happy to do that.

we're certainly evaluating in real-time, and we'll do some evaluate after. i think the coaleolest part ab the new website, first, it's mobile friendly and secondly we're going to be able to do a lot of tracking on who's coming onto the website and how long they're spending, so we'll be able to present that to you in the next few months. >> supervisor fewer: any other comments or questions? just one question. are you doing this in multiple languages? >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: and are you interested in participating in my district's health fair which we're having hundreds and hundreds people come to the richmond district. >> yes. absolutely. when is it fewer fufr ju. >> supervisor fewer: just wanted to invite you to the event. >> what's the date on that? >> supervisor fewer: it's may 4th or 5th. it's the 11th annual health festival that we're doing. you can reach nicholas brusky

for more information. >> thank you. >> supervisor fewer: mr. himes, are you done or is there any other components of your presentation? >> no, i'm done. >> supervisor fewer: mr. himes, thank you very much. yes. let's open this up for public comment now. come on up. you have two minutes. >> thank you, chair fewer, and commissioners. i'm jed holtzman from 350 bay area. i just want to say to supervisor ronen's comments about the climate, definitely moving to 100% renewable energy. it was 50% of the climate action goals and cleanpowersf is obviously going to be the vehicle that does that for us over time. we also support it being a hub of programs and services like energy efficiency electric vehicle programs and things to

incentivize distributed energy, all of what will be moving beyond that goal other than just consuming 100% renewable energy from somewhere. we had made comments some years ago about the super green imageery and messaging and branding, and it seems like all of those are moving forward now and it's great. saw a bus ad from the sfpuc about how our tap water is powering the bus, and i feel like something about cleanpowersf should be in that location starting new in perpetuity, and i'll just use a few of my last seconds to say that 350 bay area is a 501-3(c), and climate action organizations like ours have

started all over the world, many of which work on local policies and actions to ke keep emissions in the ground. 350.org really just serves to turn people onto the climate movement and get them mobilized. so pretty sure that 350.org hasn't been contacted. it's been us, so i just wanted to point that out. >> supervisor fewer: okay. >> thank you all. >> hello, commissioners. eric brooks, san francisco green party, our city sf, and san francisco clean energy advocates, and californians for energy choice. first of all, it's nice to see the new commissioner sitting in that seat, commissioner singh, that's great. so the only thing i would add to everything that's been said is just the state, what's going on at the state level. i had thought that you were going to agendaize aba 13, the

grid privatization bill. that's going to move at the beginning of this month, so i don't believe this body will be able to take action on it in time, but the board of supervisors could do an adoption without committee reference, and i would highly recommend you do that. if that bill passes, and it's been rewritten to make it easier to pass, instead of california running its electricity grid, donald trump and warren buffet will run our electricity grids for profit and for coal interests, and so if that happens, all bets are off for californians -- californians' ability to compete with pg&e because it'll have access to a subsidized energy choice that will allow them to compete with us more on

price than they have. that brings up an issue that the board of supervisors needs to make action on. for the most part -- besides the bill that i just mentioned, for the most part, the state advocates have been able to stop most of pg&e's bills at the state level, so what pg&e has shifted to the california public utilities commission where they're starting to win incrementally and a death of a thousand ket strategy, we need the board of supervisors -- >> supervisor fewer: thank you, mr. brooks. anymore public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. there's no action for the commission to take on this matter, so madam clerk, can you please call item number five. [agenda item read]. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i'd like to recognize our legal

counsel, teresa strickler, who i believe has a presentation for us. >> good afternoon, chair fewer and commissioners. i am teresa stricker, the general counsel for lafco. staff had requested that we provide an overview of some options for the lafco to study hospital community benefits. and the first thing that staff requested is that i clarify what is meant by the term community benefits. that term can mean many different things depending on the context with which you're using it, so i'm going to go over a few areas that local government frequently use the term community benefits and then focus us on what we're looking at here today. sometimes agencies and other cities will in negotiating a development agreement, will --

with a private developer, will agree -- have the developer agree to include certain projects that are often referred to as community benefits or public benefits, such as the development of a park or another public amenity. for example, california pacific medical center development agreement requires the development of a variety of different public amenities. so that is not what we're talking about today, so i just wanted to clarify that. additionally, the term community benefit is often used in the context of talking about a community benefit district. san francisco has a number of community benefit districts the districts can be created under state law by a city or a county according to certain procedures and subject to the approval of the property heard within the district. if approved, there's a special assessment that goes on the property bill that can be used only for limited purposes for providing public improvements,