unit does. we will be signing up in the lobby, and the tours will be beginning in the elevators. we will also be serving refreshments, which are outside through these double doors. take it away, norman. >> you heard it. there's going to be tours. i need to shout -- you to shout out these words after me. i tried not to cry today because i know how much staff has suffered, and this really is a national dream come true. housing preservation is not as glamorous, maybe, olson, i don't know. but it took a lot of love and hard work from everybody, so i just want to be really thankful, so let's -- let's leave this place with a few words. repeat after me. joy. peace. love. dignity. oh, that's good enough. all right.

thanks. thanks to all the staff getting the food together and everything, too, and you've got to check out the -- the tenants will walk you through. thank you so much.

>> all right. good evening, everyone. first of all, good evening, everyone. welcome to compass family

services. [applause] >> my name is chris wagner, and i'm the board chair of compass family services, and i promised myself i wouldn't get choked up, but today, by far, is the proudest moment of my volunteer career. i'd like to acknowledge our distinguished guests, mayor london breed, supervisor jane kim, who i think is my supervisor. [applause] >> rafael mandelman, assembly member david chiu, and representatives for senator's feinstein and kamala harris, abigail and june harris. thank you so much. so today, we celebrate the official opening of our new service hub for homeless

families and families at risk of becoming homeless in san francisco. [applause] >> we are really thankful for so many of you who have been here with us every step of the way and to create what we see here before us. this facility represents our commitment to san francisco's homeless and vulnerable families, telling them we see you, we are committed to serving you in san francisco, and we are investing in your future. securing a permanent home for compass is a perfect example of private public partnerships and how they can benefit our community. one partner has been the city of san francisco. the city itself was one of the first to recognize the importance and significance of

this project with a lead grant of $1 million. [applause] >> i'd like to thank and express our deepest thanks to joaquin torres for the office of workforce development for not only their strong support, but for their lead support in this project. [applause] >> we gratefully acknowledge the let's make it happen spirit of our partners and the compass board for getting this project off the ground. our next very important step -- you knew this was coming -- is to raise the funds we need to pay for this project. we will be out in the community, you can rest assured, shortly with a major campaign to seek the help of the philanthropic community and

all to assure our service hub is here to stay. he can assured we are part of the solution -- you can be assured we are part of the solution. it's my extreme pleasure to introduce and welcome our city's honorable mayor london breed and invite her to say a few words. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i have got to say i am truly honored and excited to be here today. what an amazing, beautiful facility, a welcoming environment for so many families that we all know struggle with homelessness, and that should not be the case. a kid should not have to do their homework in situations that sometimes are not the best. when i first became a member of the board of supervisors and visited our family shelter in

our district, i was really heart broken at some of the scenes that i saw and some of the frustration that i had for many of those kids that they were in, many of those kids attend schools right here in san francisco. and one of the things that i'm most proud of is working with our late mayor ed lee is to give $2 million to the housing authority to remodel 179 unit to place 179 formerly homeless families in units to call home. but we didn't do it alone. we did it with organizations like compass point because it takes a partnership in order to help our homeless families who live on our streets in san francisco. as mayor, addressing this

challenge is really important to me, finding solutions, finding partners, trying to figure out the best ways possible. when we developed our coordinated entry system, compass point has been there for us, helping to lead the way so that we can produce the types of services that we truly need to make a difference. so i want to thank each and every once of you for being here today to support this great new step. a $1 million grant from the city, and i, of course, deserve $1 million more for the work that you continue to do. thank you all so much for being here today, and i'm looking forward to opening this building so that we can get started on this very important work because we have people who need homes. thank you all so much. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed.

oh . so last fall, erica and i had the pleasure of meeting with supervisor jane kim, and we presented our plan and our vision. i'm delighted to welcome back her -- or welcome here to see firsthand what we've done, and we'd love to hear your thoughts. [applause] >> supervisor kim: actually, you are welcoming me back for the space because for those of you that don't know, i spent six months here in this space back in 2016, and so i'm very familiar with this site. and so i was truly delighted when you both came to my office to say that there might be an opportunity to turn this vacant retail site into a hub for so many of our families and those that are needing services here in the city and county of san francisco. mayor breed talked so much

about the importance of this work and also the initiative that mayor ed lee had begun during his time as mayor, which is for san francisco to end homelessness in san francisco in the next five years. and we talk so much about homelessness as being an issue of single adults but for those of you that are in the field, you know that families are often the fastest growing demographic in homeless counts in cities throughout the country, whether it is san francisco, new york, and l.a. it is the silent demographic that we don't get e-mails from our constituents about, asking us to solve that is often one of the most critical in the issues that we must address here. we know that children who are homeless are more likely -- five times to be more likely to be homeless as adults.

we've seen what it means for children to be able to complete their homework, having a place to call home, calling in sick regularly, having a place to shower. i have to tell you one of the most heartbreaking stories that i heard from some of our young mothers is actually having to bathe their children in a sink at their local church because they have nowhere else to take their children before they get ready for school. and compass family services has been at the forefront of ensuring that we are providing these critical services to families to so many of our clients that need it the most. in order to provide those services, it's critical to have a home and a space to walk into. so i'm so excited that compass family services will be opening here in this district, and i

really want to recognize the leadership of the board chair, chris wagner, and of course to our wonderful executive director, erica kisch, who's been running this century old organization so critically in san francisco. we are making a dent, we are finally reducing the immense wait list that we are reading about in 2015 for families that are sleeping in shelters, sleeping on the streets, sleeping in our cars and making sure that we are addressing this issue. when the l.a. times said that the new face of homelessness is single mothers and children, we heeded to that call. we need to get women and children off the streets, and i am just so proud to be a strong partner along with mayor breed and assembly member david chiu. this is an issue that we all care deeply about. we can end homelessness, and

i'm so glad that compass is going to have a seat in the middle of our city that they can provide the services. i just want to take a moment to thank the staff at compass family services. this work is so difficult to do. [applause] >> supervisor kim: and you are at the front lines of doing this work, and it's always amazing to ask staff members how long they've been at this organization. and i think it's pretty astounding, the tenacity, and the faith of the workers in the field. i was pretty touched when one of our compatriots used to serve, when the chronicle asked him if it was incredibly depressing to work in the field of homelessness over 40 years because it doesn't get better, and he said i don't view hi

work as ending homelessness, i view my work as ending homelessness in the lives of people. for those of you that have viewed the moment, i've been lucky to watch an individual walk into their permanent home for the first time or a family to walk into their permanent home for the first time, we are ending homelessness in their lives, so thank you for all doing this incredible work, and congratulations. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor kim. as you know compass works with the city as a partner in our comprehensive continuum in care of homelessness or to help end family homelessness. for families that are already homelessness, and now i'd like to welcome jeff kosinski, the director of family homelessness

to say a few words. jeff? >> thank you so much for being here today. you know, just a few years ago, one in every 20 students in the san francisco unified school district was experiencing homelessness. it's one in every 20. every single school in the school district had at least one homeless family. some schools had over 10% of the families in that school were experiencing homelessness. but thanks to the hard work of many people including compass, we've reduced family homelessness by 15%. by the end of this year, our goal is to have no unsheltered families at all, and we're very close to achieving that goal, and by the end of 2022, our goal is to have no family experiencing homelessness in the city and county of san

francisco. [applause] >> thank you. we're not going to do that without organizations like compass. compass is one of the anchor institutio institutions in our homelessness response system, and this facility is just absolutely amazing, and what's really -- i came by to visit a few weeks ago right when it first opened up, and the physical structure is really amazing, but what's really just so heart warming is to see all of the families here and all of the staff here using the space. it's just such a beautiful facility, it uplifts people's spirits when they're here, and the energy was just really phenomenal. we had families in here facing a crisis, i can't even imagine as a father or as a parent not having a place for my children to go that evening, but just the vibe here, and the way staff were treating people, and just the attention to detail is really extraordinary and very fitting for an organization as spectacular and committed to doing this work as compass.

i've worked as a nonprofit executive director for many years, and i know that it's often challenging as an e.d. or even as a board member to come up and ask people to support your organization. no matter how much you're commit today it, it's a scary thing, but since i'm not a executive director anymore, maybe it's easier for me to encourage you to please support compass, please support their capital campaign. this is really important work they're doing, it's really life changing work that they're doing, and we're so appreciative to everybody at compass and to all of you as well for being here today. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, jeff. it's now my pleasure to introduce, without a doubt, one of the most amazing and dedicated individuals i've had the pleasure to work with, the executive director of compass family services for the past 24 years, erica kisch.

[applause] >> good evening, everyone. thanks. this is such a great turnout, it feels very great to be celebrating with you all here tonight. about 400 days ago, i toured this building. it was kind of a shell, and a former gym, and i imagined it as being the new permanent home for compass family services, a service hub for san francisco families facing homelessness. it was centrally located, easily accessible, just a block from city hall and very closely located to other locations in the city for other families facing homelessness. little did i know that 37 grove would turn out to be so much more. it's a safe and welcoming and healing environment where families experiencing the

trauma of homelessness can access a myriad of interrelated and complementary services that address housing, support, stability, jobs, child care, legal, and i could go on and on and on, all under one roof, and all with the ultimate goal of helping families to achieve economic stability, self-sufficiency and economic well-being. so we stand here tonight not in front of but beside so many of our friends, our partners, our colleagues, our supporters, who join together to help make this project come to life and who have been committed to this every den and committed to this effort to end family homelessness in san francisco. first and foremost, i want to thank nafir and namidi.

they're somewhere way in the back. [applause] >> so they and the sun hill corporation, they had an amazing vision, amazing generosity, amazing vision, and without them, we would not have this project, we would not be able to get it off the ground, and hopefully they'll make the way up to the front for the ribbon cutting. i'd also like to thank compass's board of directors who had the vision to address our real estate need head on in their 2015 to 2018 strategic plan. every one of them has been supportive in this project and has supported it financially as well. and on our board, i especially need to call out brian

mcenerny, who's also way at the back. brian really spear headed and guided this project. he was here night after night for months, and without him, we would not be here today. i also want to thank especially our board chair chris wagner and our board vice chair allison engel. [applause] >> both of them put in many, many hours over the past year, and i joked to chris over the last year that he was going to lose his day job because he was always at compass. i also want to mention equity community builders, opportunity fund, chase, and the low-income investment fund and our quality board. i want to thank --

[applause] >> -- first republic bank, the northern california community loan fund, the world's greatest real estate broker, paul pechani. [applause] >> our brilliant architects at t.e.f. design who turned this building -- as wonderful as it is, it's a strangely shaped building. they turn it had into something really amazing. ken white of glazer wild, who always has our back, and our fun dl fun-tastic staff. we just heard tonight that j . jpmorgan chase has awarded us a grant of $25,000.

most recently, chase provided the equity investment through our new markets tax credits deal for the building. thank you, j.p. morgan chase and mike kimball, who i think is here with us tonight. [applause] >> so next on our agenda, we're going to cut this ribbon, and after that, we invite you to explore the building. you can go back that way, you can go down, you can go up, and we'll have staff that are wearing compass name tags that are scattered throughout the building who can give you more information throughout the programs and the services we offer here and answer any questions, and then we've got refreshments on the second floor in the conference room. so thank you again for celebrating this and it's time to end family homelessness in san francisco. thank you. [appla

five, four, three, two, sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online,

it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bill.hya tor

[ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: the meeting will come to order. this is the september 21, 2018 special meeting of the san francisco lafco mission. the clerk of the commission is alisa somera. i would also like to thank the staff at sfgov tv, jim and charles, for today's recording. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and any documented should be submitted to the clerk. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. madam clerk, can you please call item number two. >> clerk: item 2 is the approval of the minutes of the lafco meeting of july 20, 2018 meeting. >> supervisor fewer: do the commissioners have any changes to the july 20, 2018 meeting. ? seeing none, i will open it up to members of the public. is there any public comment on item number two? seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: is there a motion to approve the minutes? moved by commissioner ronen, seconded by commissioner pollock. without objection, these minutes are approved. madam clerk, can you call item three and nine [agenda item read] [agenda item read] >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe we have ms. barbara hail, the assistant general manager of cleanpo power. and also our executive officer, are you presenting on item number nine? oh, doing both. miss hale, thank you very much. >> thank you very much for having me. so today, i wanted to address a number of issues. hydrohe el--

source. >> large hydrois not considered renewable, so for example, the generation that we produce under our hetch hetchy program, that generation is not

considered renewable for purposes of renewable portfolio standard compliance. but it is greenhouse gas free. >> supervisor ronen: right, right. >> and so it still has that value. we don't have any small hydro in our portfolios at this point. so what you see on the screen is our power content -- it the front of the power content label for the green service in 2017. and it identifies a customer's choices. you can stay with the pg&e service and receive 33% renewable. if you take cleanpowersf service, that bumps up 10% at 43% renewable, and our supergreen content is 100% renewable. and then, the backside gives more detail about where that

energy's really coming from, what kind of technologies, and it compares it to the statewide resource mix. that's the extreme right column there. and you'll see here that our green content is 43% renewable and 57% hydroelectric, together providing our customers 100% greenhouse gas free service for -- in 2017. and then, of course, our supergreen product was also 100% greenhouse gas free, was also 100% eligible renewable. so these are products that really have some serious climate benefits, right? and last year, san francisco hosted the global climate action summit. the summit brought together, as you know, state and local

governments, businesses, residents from around the -- and citizens from around the world to showcase how climate action is taking place, demonstrating local communities taking action, really turning the tide in the race against climate change and inspiring deeper national commitments in support of the paris agreement. and in honor of the summit, we thought we'd take a little time to highlight some of the activities we've pursued that have mitigated climate change. over just two years of operation, the cleanpowersf program has already provided significant greenhouse gas footprint reduction benefits to san francisco. we're increasing the amount of renewable and carbon free energy supply to our residents and businesses. we estimate that cleanpowersf has reduced san francisco's electricity related greenhouse

gas footprint by 82 metric tons. that's the same thing about removing 17,000 cars from the road for a year. our long-term goal for cleanpowersf is to eliminate greenhouse gases entirely by our supply by 2030. that target which was adopted by the board of supervisors several years ago is a full 15 years faster than the state's new target adopted by senate bill 100, and that was signed into law earlier this week by governor -- or rather last week by governor brown. so now, i'm going to turn to outreach and communications update. are there any questions so far? okay. the p.u.c. has really played an

active participate in the summit. we sponsored the green film festival screening of point of no return. we

programs. we had quite a bit of media coverage. you know, abc 7, the chronicle. coit, sf fund cheap, and others. we had quite a bit of social media opportunities on twitter and facebook, which we're continuing, and we'll be conducting a follow up campaign

showing our success and encouraging cleanpowersf sign ups in the next few weeks, so you'll be seeing more of us celebrating that. and with that, i'm going to turn to our regulatory update. >> supervisor fewer: miss hale, i have one question. when you're doing your outreach, do you have any idea about the demographics of the people that are signing up for clean energy and supergreen. for example, are we also looking at people who speak different language, socioeconomic diversity, and also ethnic data? >> yeah. so we do have some information that we'll be able to present at our next gathering with you, when we bring some of the touches that we understand from our different campaigns. we can bring in some of the that data, and we should be able to share some of that with you. with you definitely -- just anecdotally, we can see through the snow cones event quite a bit of diversity, and of

course, we have multilanguage pamphlets and information that we handout to try to make sure we are reaching communities in the languages that they're most comfortable speaking in. and certainly, our call center also directs people in various languages, so i think we're -- i think we're touching folks. we're reaching out in the right way. i can bring more statistics as to who's actually signing up in response to that, supervisor, when we meet next. >> supervisor fewer: that would be great. it's just when i'm looking at some of this, the media, linkin, salesforce, lyft, spur, so these are organizations actually that we judge adequately to other communities and communities that speak other languages. i just think it's one thing to

give out snow cones, it's another thing to educate people and do active outreach. so passive outreach, is having materials in different languages. active outreach is having people who speak the language and are culturally sensitive to this group of people so that they fully understand it. and actually, in your presentation here, i see a huge gap in that. i just have to call that out because i'm also thinking of my own community in the richmond district also, but even the chinese speaking community that i think a lot of times, we forget that they have very, very active press presence, and that some of our ethnic media news outlets actually, this is what people who speak different languages wholly depend on, that they are not reading any of the english press, and they are not -- and quite frankly, they don't trust sometimes some of the english press, and so they rely heavily on ethnic

media. and i think it would actually be worth an investment to actually reach out to some of the ethnic media outlets to make sure they're included in press conferences and we might even put some advertisements into the -- or hold gatherings that are exclusively maybe all in one native language. so any way, just thought -- but next -- next -- the next meeting, i look forward to seeing those statistics and maybe work on something like -- report on something like that together. >> and this presentation is centered on sort of the global climate action summit piece of the outreach we were doing. when our communications director comes to present on the statistics on what we've been doing on our outreach, you'll see that we do have a much broader look when we're talking not just about the global climate action summit, in terms of media buys in the

ethnic media, in terms of our distribution of materials when we do issue press releases and have social media. that's all happening, so we'd be happy to come and bring that forward to you at the next -- next session. >> supervisor fewer: that would be great, and also see the impact of those efforts, that would be really helpful. >> right, the data piece. something to reach out. it's another to find out if we're being affected. >> supervisor fewer: it's another piece. thanks much. >> great. great. so then, on the regulatory front, i know that you've all been following what we've been doing in terms of trying to protect the c.c.a. community interests and our rate pair interests, both the bundled customers that continue to receive service from pg&e for their supply as well as the cleanpowersf customers. the cpuc is currently

considering two proposals. the first proposal was issued by the judge assigned to the proceeding on august 1. the second proposal is an alternate that was issued by one of the commissioners, and that was on august 14. so broadly speaking, the judge's proposal is better for ccas. it's a balanced proposal that draws from a detailed record in the case that was presented by various parties with different points of view. in terms of results, it's essentially neutral on the competitiveness of the c.c.a. program. by contrast, our assessment of the alternate proposal is that it will shift cost to c.c.a. customers. the alternate proposal will deliver c.c.a.'s ability to deliver a product atloer or equal cost to take service from

pg&e. we worked with the c.c.a. trade association, calc.c.a. to prepare and file comments on the judge's proposal on august 21 and on the alternate proposal on september 4. reply comments were -- on both proposals were due on the -- september 13 and provided, and we also participated in an all party -- what's called an all party meeting that was held on september 7 at the california p.u.c. where the commissioners all had an opportunity to hear from the parties on their views on the proposals that are before them. it's expected that the p.u.c. -- they announced, on september 7, that they intend to make a decision on their -- at their meeting on september 27, and that meeting will be held in sacramento as opposed to here in san francisco,

across the street at their headquarters. so through our external affairs team, the p.u.c. hass engaged with our mayor as well as the board of supervisors and other communities impacted by these pending decisions. last week, mayor breed joined the mayor's of oakland and san jose in issuing a joint press release that urged the cpua to adopt the proposal in this case. the mayor's letter urged the cpuc to make a decision that does not shift cost to customers and could dramatically roll back the positive efforts of the local communities with respect to climate change. we also worked with state legislators to send a letter to the cpuc which has been signed by 17 assembly members.

>> commissioner pollock >> any of our representatives, san francisco's representatives? >> yes. >> all of them? >> yes. >> and finally, cal c.c.a. put a full page article in the chronicle for publication. that happened on thursday that has been endorsed by more than 120 local elected officials. that was a letter that was asking the cpuc to adopt a balanced proposal that meets the requirements of state law while promoting and not destroying competition in the market. and all 11 san francisco board of supervisors members signed onto that, as well. if anyone wants to express support for c.c.a.s with respect to this proposed decision, you can participate by sending a letter to the california p.u.c. i have found the center for climate protection's website to be a nice resource to help folks locate, you know, the

right addresses and such, so i put that on the screen for folks that might be interested in following through on that. and then, this slide just gives you a print out of the article -- or excuse me, the ad that was posted in the chronicle. >> supervisor fewer: did our lafco send a letter of support? okay. thank you, ray. >> yes, thank you. i thought it would be good to give a brief update on some of the pieces of legislation that we were paying to over this cycle, starting with senator hertzberg's sb 237 on direct access. so the direct access is a program that allows commercial energy users to contract for their power directly. it had been historically capped

as to how much participate could happen in the state following the energy crisis. direct access has the potential to take large commercial customers out of the pg&e portfolio, out of the cleanpowersf portfolio, so that's part of the reason why we were paying attention to it. [please stand by]