>> [gavel] >> welcome to the february 1st, budget and finance committee. as you have noted, probably that we're now starting at 10:00 a.m. i'm supervisor connie chan as chair of the budget committee. i'm joined by our vice-chair, supervisor mernd oe -- our clerk is brett. thank you. i would like to thank sfg tv, colleen that mendosa for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have

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agenda of february 7th unless otherwise stated. madam chair. >> thank you, mr. clerk. i want to acknowledge that members -- supervisor safai is online. will be joining us shortly in person and i wanted to let everyone know that the way that we're going to go about with the presentation today is limiting all presentations to three minutes and those that actually (indiscernible) with the budget and legislative analyst report, let's have the presentation and the report from the budget and legislative analyst first before we go forward with all the questioning, so thank you and mr. clerk, please call item no. one. >> yes item no. one s resolution authorizing the arts commission to enter into an agreement with treasure island series 1, llc, the developer of a hilltop park at yerba buena island, to construct a foundation for a 69-foot tall

sculpture by hiroshi sugimoto, as part of the treasure island arts program, for an amount of $274,076 for a term starting upon approval of this resolution and ending upon the completion of the foundation; and to authorize the director of cultural affairs to enter into any additions, amendments or other modifications to the foundation contract do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities of the city, or reduce the benefits to the city, and are necessary or advisable to complete the transaction contemplated by this resolution. members of the public who are joining remotely and wish to comment, please call 415-655-0001 and meeting id is 24826174739 and pound and pound again. once connected to the meeting, you need to press star three to enter the speaker line. the system will prompt have raised your hand and once unmuted, you can begin your comments. madam chair. >> thank you, mr. clerk. this agreement is sponsored by matt dorsey which is in his district

so today we'll start off with mr. bryan from supervisor dorsey's office and a verbal presentation by mary chow, public arts program manager from the arts commission. mr. dal, the floor is yours. >> thank you, chair and supervisor mandelman and safai. i'm representing supervisor matt dorsey in district six. treasure island has planned to see approximately eight thousand new housing units and other developments including enhanced open spaces and small businesses. along with these additions, the island will be home to any art installations as a part of the treasure island arts program and with me is mary chiu from the arts commission to speak about the first pieces to be installed. charles sullivan from city attorney's office is also here to assist with any questions. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, bryan and good morning, supervisors. so, this

sculpture is the first of a series of artwork doing installed as a part of the treasure island arts program. the program is funded by one percent for art fee of private development on treasure island in yorba buena island. this is sponsored by the treasure island authority. the sculpture is by international renowned artist heroshi and this is his first public sculpture in the country and raises at 69 feet and composed of glass composed concrete and stainless steel and it's a sun dial of invoking the tower of the sun from the 1939 golden gate international -- po significance the treasure island. we are seeking approval to enter into contract with a developers of the park for the construction of the foundation for the sculpture. based on the

advice of our city attorney, we are bringing this agreement to the board of supervisors because there's an arbitration clause in the subsidiary contract between the treasure island developer and construction contractor hired by the developer to complete the work and city is responsible for paying for the work. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have on this item. >> thank you. >> thank you, chair chan. nick, from the budget legislative analyst office. item one is a resolution approving an agreement between the treasure island development authority and the arts commission with series one llc which is one of the developers for the treasure island master development. they are responsible for building art park and this sculpture will be placed and they have hired a

subcontractor, which we detailed in the report, jensen to pour the concrete foundation, so this contract is for the concrete foundation for that sculpture. it's separate from the art installation that was procured by the arts commission. this is a sole source contract although the arts commission did solicit informally bids from other entities that were capable of doing this work, which we reviewed and were higher than this $274,000 so we recommend approval of the resolution. >> thank you, mr. ninard -- minard. >> thank you. questions. thank you to mr. dorsey's office. >> mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak on this item or joining in person should line up now. for those listening remotely, please call

415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id24826174739 and pound twice and press star three to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue, wait until the system says you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. no in-person speakers in the chambers and no speakers on the line. >> wonderful. thank you, public comment is now closed. [gavel] i move this to the full board with recommendation and mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on this motion with a positive recommendation, vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> the motion has been approved. the item is moving forward. and mr. clerk, please call item no. 2. >> item no. 2 is

resolution approving modification no. 9 to airport contract no. 10072.41, project management support services for the san francisco international airport, courtyard 3 connector project with pgh wong & partners jv, a joint venture consisting of pgh wong engineering, inc., and avila and associates consulting engineers, inc., to increase the contract amount by $10,600,000 for a new not to exceed amount of $27,850,000 for services, pursuant to charter, section 9.118(b); and making findings under the california environmental quality act. >> members of the public wish to go comment, please call 415-655-0001 and enter meeting id of 24826174739 and press pound press. press three to enter the speaker line and a prompt will say you have entered the line. once unmuted, you may fin your comments. madam chair. >> thank you, mr. clerk. here is (indiscernible) from government affairs manager of sof. is she online? >> i'm online. good morning, chair chan. >> good morning. >> hello supervisors. >> good morning. the item before you request approval of

modification number nine to an existing support services contract with pgh wong and partners for the connector three project. the airport agrees with the recommendations and request not to exceed amount by $7,750,000 for a total amount not to exceed 20,000. project management is design and construction services and project controls, contract administration, cost estimating, and field inspection. this contract was from a 2017 competitive request. pgh work was the highest ranked proposal out of four vendors and the contractors modified a (indiscernible) to the board of supervisors in 2020 for modification number five to increase the not to exceed amount to accommodate the scope of work. the budget for project management support services

addressed the remaining project scope of the building interior which includes the planning and build-out of the airport integrated operation center or aioc and it's funded by airport capital revenue. as stated earlier, the airport is in agreement with the bla recommendation to reduce the amount to $7,750,000. we also agree to conduct a formal performance evaluation of the contractor within 90 days and to reduce, and reduce the contract not to exceed the amount of $25 million. this reduction will make the contract not to exceed amount coextensive with a contract term which expires january 2025. these (indiscernible) have been circulated in the city's attorney office and they have been found to be non-substantive and i'm joined by members, i'm joined by claudia who is the director of project management and we're happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> thanks, ms. walock.

>> item two is a resolution approving the modification to the airports agreement with pgh wong and partners to join venture of -- consulting firms providing construction management services as just noted by the airport. the modification increases the term of the agreement through january 2025 and increases the not to exceed amount to $27.85 million. one of the issues we look at when we're looking at a contract modification is how the department is measuring contractor performance. when we last looked at this agreement back in 2020, the airport recently evaluated the contract performance and the contractor scored well but the airport hasn't done the evaluations which occur annually in the past two years. although there's $7 million worth of work, there hasn't been the evaluations over

the past two years. so, that forms the basis of one of our recommendations here. i think the other issue in this report is that the modifications, the resolution is not to exceed amount is built on spending through june 2026 and the agreement is through january of 2025. it's for that reason we have the following recommendations which the airport does agree with. one is to reduce the resolution not to exceed amount to $25 million. that will provide spending through january 2025 which is when the agreement is being extended to and second to request that the airport send the board the performance evaluation that they've committed to do within the next three months after this is approved. and include it in the legislative file for this item. i do think that's important information for the board to

have when reviewing these kinds of agreements but we also recommend approval of the resolution as amended and i'm happy to answer any other questions. >> thank you. i just wanted to say that i appreciate the budget and legislative analyst report. but i have a few comments but i see vice-chair mandelman has questions, so please. >> well, i guess i think they are both for the airport but i guess i'm trying to understand the discrepancy between the 27 million and 850 thousands and the 25 million and since this is an extension of the contract anyway, i don't quite understand what is happening there. i mean, they are fine. you have proposed aligning them back in january for the amount spent in january but we're missing $4 million. are they going to extend it

further and add another $4 million? what is happening? >> so, supervisor mandelman, in line with the bla recommendation, we have lines of the contract budget to the contract term and if we do need to extend the contract for either timing or money, we will come back to the board as required under chapter 9.118. >> okay. are you anticipating it's going to be more than $25 million? >> under current budget estimates, yes but because the contract term went to january 2025 and that was because we're still figuring out timing and schedules, we brought this to our -- to the board knowing a better estimate of the budget, but not as well of an estimate of the timing, but to the bla's recommendation, we do agree we should have it in line with the contract term.

>> okay. i mean, this does have a little feeling of, we're going to keep spending for some unknown period of time and the cost will go to something and maybe it's $25 million or maybe it's more than $25 million and we just don't know. >> we had good estimates and i would like to defer to claudia who is our director of project management to further, exploring those cost that we have set out and the contractor. >> good morning, everyone. claudia, director of project management. (indiscernible) to deliver our projects. we forecast in regard to construction and schedule and budget that we will go until 2026 but due to our methodology and the delivery and the planning for the ifc, we will be

refining our cost and schedule as mentioned but at this point, our request and the recommendation that is coming up from the board of supervisors, we agreed to that and it will allow us to move forward with the project at this time. our process allows us to refine the schedule on the cost of the services needed to support our construction projects, but that is still to be refined as we (indiscernible). >> and just for miet he had fit /* /* -- for my edification, you don't know what it's going to be when it adds up? >> that's a good question. we have a good sense of the cost and schedule but because of the methodology that we use, there's trade packages, trying to align our design and construction and

(indiscernible) since we move along, the final cost is defined as we do the progressive packages and these contracts that is for your review for professional services, those services support the construction schedule. >> okay. >> so we do have a good sense, but it's defined, better defined as we progress on the construction side. >> and we always talk about this with the bla earlier. the airport has relative to? other departments, a relatively good reputation in terms of construction management, i think, but it's and i'm recognizing there was a global pandemic in the intervening period but this contract does seem to have gone -- the project has seem to go over and the contract itselves seems to be going quite a bit over. all right. thank you for that. >> thank you: >> thank you, vice-chair

mandelman. i chair vice-chair mandelman's sentiment. this is the ninth time it's coming before the board for amendment, the eight previous time, that clearly there are not to increasing the exceed amount and the labor rate adjustments, which i can understand to some extent but that's the fact that it's now coming to the board for the ninth time for a contract amendment, that is what -- why we're having those questions. and given the fact that also having received an annual performance audit like it should, it adds up to all the doubts that we have, what's to come in 2025, even with the approval of this not to exceed of $25 million. so, i want to publicly say for city departments moving forward, it's best to conduct and finish the

performance audit in the event that you want to submit for a contract amendment, so that there are clear guidelines and information for the budget and legislative analyst to really evaluate whether this is -- this can be recommended for approval, retroactive performance audit pose a challenge both for the board and put us in an impossible position to hold everyone accountable in making sure the process is transparent. with that, is there any more questions? not seeing no other questions, please, mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. >> yes, madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this item or joining in person should line up now. those listening remotely, please call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id, 24826174739 and press pound press. and enter

three to be in the queue. seeing no speakers in the chamber, and madam chair, no speaker in the queue. >> no speakers, great. thank you. seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. [gavel] i would like to make the motion to adopt the amendment as proposed by the budget and legislative analyst, which is amending the, to actually conduct a performance evaluation with the contractor within 90 days and submit the report to the legislative file and to amend the proposed resolution to reduce the contract not to exceed amount to a total of $25 million. mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on that motion to amend this resolution, to accept the bla's recommendations that airport staff performance evaluation and

reduce the contract amount to $25 million, vice-chair safai? i'm sorry, vice-chair mandelman. habits. >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. and i would like to move to, forward this item to full board with recommendation. >> on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with a positive resolution as amended. vice-chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. the motion passes. so -- >> thank you. >> thank you. mr. clerk, please call item no. three. >> yes, item no. three is a resolution approving an original agreement between department of public health (dph) and the california health and human services agency, to exchange health and social services information, in the amount of $0 for a term exceeding ten years, effective january 31, 2023, remaining in full force and effect until

terminated by the dph or the california health and human service agency; and to authorize the dph to enter into amendments or modifications to the agreement prior to its final execution by all parties that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the agreement or this resolution. members of the public who are joining -- joining us remotely, please call 415-655-0001 and enter id24le 2174739. press pound twice. when the system indicates you have been unmuted, you may begin your comments. >> thank you, mr. clerk. we have a verbal presentation by chief information officer from the department of public health. i assume this is also online. >> good morning, madam chair. i'm here. >> thank you. please go ahead.

>> thank you. good morning. dph is seeking your committee's favorable recommendations to the full board to enter into the four mentioned new data sharing agreement that is pursuant to the passage of ab133, which establishes the data exchange framework or dxf program that will be over seen by the california health and human services agency. as noepted, it's a no cost agreement and before you today because it's a per except ral agreement until dhs decide to end the program, the part of this program is that while dph actively shares information with other healthcare organizations in a digital manner, the framework aims to include social services

agencies and ultimately public health departments, so it would include the public health part of dph as well and health insurers in a robust information sharing framework. that's exciting to all of us at dph and i'm pleased to answer any questions your committee has. >> any questions? i guess we're pleased. very pleased with the data sharing. i look forward to seeing more about the data sharing results. thank you and mr. clerk, please call public comment on this item. >> yes, madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this this item should line up now. those listening, please call 415-655-0001 and meeting id24826174739 and press pound twice and press star three to enter the speaker line. wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that's your signal to begin your comments. no in person speakers

in the chamber. and madam chair, we have no speakers in the queue. >> thank you, seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. [gavel] i move this item to full board with recommendation and mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on that motion for this resolution to the full board. member mandelman. >> aye. >> member chan? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> we have -- we have three aye. >> this motion passes. >> please read item no. four. >> item no. four, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to submit a one-year application for calendar year 2023 to continue to receive funding for the integrated hiv surveillance and prevention programs for health departments from the centers of disease control and prevention, and requesting $7,804,306 in hiv prevention funding for san francisco from january 1, 2023, through may 31, 2024. members the public joining

remotely and wish to comment, please call 415-655-0001 and meeting id24826174739 and press pound twice. enter three to enter the system. one unmuted please begin your comment. >> thank you, mr. clerk. we have nicole trainer, budget and contract and communications manager from department of public health here to give us a verbal presentation. >> great. thank you, good morning, supervisors. my name is nicole trainer. i'm the system of care contract budget and communications manager and the community equity and also known as chest. the hiv and prevention program for health departments from the center of disease control and prevention is a continuation of a grant the board approved in 2020 and 2021. we thank you for your continued

support as we strive to achieve hiv -- zero hiv transmissions stigma and hiv deaths. this grant funds awards -- are awarded to the san francisco department on an annual basis to cover and integrate hiv surveillance and prevention programs for san francisco residents. this particular grant has ten hiv prevention and surveillance strategies which include systemically collect, analyze and interpret and and detect hiv transmission and public health intervention and evaluation health response and identify persons with hiv persons and those at risk for hiv. develop and maintain and implement and plan to respond to hiv transition clusters and outbreaks. provide comprehensive hiv related prevention services and persons living with

diagnosed hiv infection, provide comprehensive related hiv prevention services, full hiv negative persons, also conduct community level hiv prevention activities, develop partners to conduct and integrate prevention care planning and implement structural strategies to support and facilitate hiv surveillance and prevention. conduct data driven planning, monitor and evaluation, to continuously improve hiv surveillance prevention and activities and build capacity for conducting effective hiv program activities. (indiscernible) uses the cdc funding to support critical infrastructure, eph staff need to coordinate planning, community engagement and technical support, director advices ducktail with this grant and supported with the generosity of the san francisco general funds. the priority population for this grant is defined as people living with and at risk for hiv in san

francisco, but we have tailored a grant requirement to include men who have sex with men, african american, latinx communities and trans women and people who use drugs ask those experiencing homelessness, this grant enables san francisco to maintain its strong emphasis on services while also bringing a focus to the prevention need in communities of color and hiv related disparities they experience in new infections and late diagnosis and linkage retention -- i'm happy to answer questions you have and we hope you continue to support dph and moving forward. >> thank you, ms. trainer. thank you for all the success of this grant. mr. clerk, can we call 5, 6 and 7 with this one? >> yes, madam chair. >> 5, 6 and 7. item no. 7

resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to submit an application to continue to receive funding for the ryan white act hiv/aids emergency relief grant program grant from the health resources services administration; and requesting $15,962,602 in hiv emergency relief program funding for the san francisco eligible metropolitan area for the period of march 1, 2023, through february 29, 2024. item no. 6, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant increase in the amount of $386,274 from the california department of public health for a total amount of $1,365,222 for participation in a program, entitled “sexually transmitted disease program management and collaboration,” for the period of july 1, 2019, through june 30, 2024. item number 7 is a

resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $1,616,252 from the california department of public health for participation in a program, entitled “monkeypox response funding award number mpx-012 city & county of san francisco,” for the period of july 1, 2022, through june 30, 2023. and yes, that was items 5, 6, and 7, madam chair. >> thank you, mr. clerk. for time number five, we have bill blum, director of program, primary care and director of hiv health services to give us a brief presentation. >> good afternoon, can you all see and hear me >> yes, thank you. >> hi. thank you, everyone. we decided to opt-out of doing a presentation so, i'll give a brief description. as you all know, we have been receiving federal funds for the ryan white

care act. this is for part a which goes to eligible metropolitan areas which includes a combination of cities, countries states. you can see the amount this year is $15,962,602. we are requesting retroactive permission to apply for the grant. as i've mentioned, for over 30 years, we have been receiving it and it's for us to able to provide hiv care related services to under unsured and uninsured people living with hiv in san francisco county. we're the grantee for marin and -- san mateo countys as well. >> thank you. >> i don't see names on the roster for questions for time number five. can we go to a presentation for item no. six from anthony taylor, hiv, sti

program manager from department of public health. >> good morning, supervisors. so this supplemental funding outlined in this ane was awarded by the california department of public health to augment san francisco department of public health cdph funding, it's transmitted disease or std project grant. next slide, please. so the grant focuses on implementing public health activities to monitor and investigate and prevent transmitted disease and collaboration with organizations. funding for the grant prevents congenital syphilis which is a rare and sometimes fatal illness and this is accomplished with other parts of the san francisco department of public health including maternal child (indiscernible) or san francisco health network primary care clinics and the

university of california san francisco king lilly. so this supplemental funding will support expanding access to std services at san francisco city clinic for lesbian, gay, bisexual and querr identified population and for syphilis prevention. this will expand nonbrick-and-mortar prenatal care to the most vulnerable population in san francisco, excuse me, most vulnerable people experiencing pregnancy and those experiencing homelessness in an effort to prevent cases of congenital syphilis. the reason that the request for this a and a for funding was retroactive is in october of last year, sfdhp was notified by the california department of public health we were receiving a supplemental funding in the amount of 386,274 for our program management and

collaboration project grant. the funding will increase the annual budgets by 193,000 for this fiscal year, from july 2022 through june 2023 and next fiscal year, july 2023 through june 2024 and this is going to bring our total funding for the grant to 1.365 million for the period of july 2019 through june 2024. so thank you and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. seeing no name on the roster, no questions for you. and let's move to item no. seven for the presentation from julia jensen, deputy med crocodile director of sti prevention and control section of the department of public health. >> >> good morning, supervisors. i'm dr. julia jensen, i served as the operation section cochief

within sdph and doc response structure. today we're seeking approval for retroactive and expand grant from cdph to st -- entitled m pox. san francisco responded to the m-pox outbreak in spring of 2022 with expansion to the structure from august to october and reduction to a group through december of 2022. these response efforts allowed to investigate cases and communicate to the public and support large scale prevention activities through on the the city. grant funds would support functions that occurred during m pox response including lab support and providing public health with necessary equipment and supply for testing and supply management and supporting the oversight and logistics for

distributing nsf and vaccination in the community and planning, coordination and implementation of vaccine sites based on data, community feedback and equity. communication with the public, supporting development and implementation of radio ads which is to reach sf resident as well as supporting bus ads along routes that was in low-income neighborhoods and supporting key conditions involved in response efforts. this request is retroactive because sfdph received the award letter from cdph on december 27, 2022, after response efforts begun. thank you for your time and i'm joined by eduardo. >> i have questions. given that we declare public health emergency for moneypox locally

and i believe that was also -- monkeypox and federally as well and i'm pleased to see we're retroactively to receive funding from the state department from the california's department of public health. do we know that, so far, it's 1.6, roughly $1.6 million, do we know that we have received previously more or are we going to see coming months to see more retroactive possibly retroactive grants and reimbursement? >> yes, thank you for that question. i'm going to defer that question to our grants manager eduardo seda. >> thank you, supervisors. at this time, the state of california has not let us know if there's going to be additional funding for the m pox response. in the city of san francisco, the m-pox declaration

ended at the end of october so once we submit the invoices from the grant, they will let us know if there's additional grants moving forward. i hope that answered your question. >> yes. i do expect -- let's track in the next few months to see what the reimbursement rate amount is verses the dollar amount, you know, spent locally, so we can understand our recovery rate. >> okay. >> thank you. thank you so much, thank you both. seeing no more questions on the roster, mr. clerk, could we go to public comment for item four through seven. >> members of the public who wish to speak on items four through seven and joining us in person should line up now. listening remotely, please call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24826174739. and then pound and pound again. once

connected press star three to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that will be your signal to again your comments. no in-person speakers in the chamber, and madam chair, no speaker in the queue. >> thank you. seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. [gavel] i would like to move all items items four, five, and seven to the full board with positive recommendation and mr. clerk, please call roll. >> on that motion to forward items four, five, six and seven to the full board to the positive recommendation and vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. and that motion passes and mr. clerk, please call item no. eight. >> yes. item no. eight is a

resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $316,800 from the san francisco health plan for participation in a program, entitled “calaim incentive payment program (ipp),” for the period of september 12, 2022, through february 28, 2023. members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment, please call 415-655-0001. enter the meeting id of 24826174739 and press pound twice. press star three to enter the speaker line. once -- one unmuted you may begin. >> we have a brief presentation from jeff, let me make sure i say your last name correctly, scarafia, deputy chief informational office from the department of public health. >> thank you, madam chair. >> thank you. please go ahead.

>> these funds come to us from san francisco health plan as part of a state program called cal aim and focuses on improving services for our in-need medi-cal, medicaid population. these funds will provide for temporary resources to support the surge in efforts as we deploy it systems to support the program and resources. these resources will work in tandem with dph, it staff and the long term systems will be supported by dph, it staff who are pcs employees of local 21. we're looking forward to creating a system of closed loop refrls to help our -- loop referrals to help those reach the services they need. with that, we're happy to take questions on these

funds under the cal aim program. >> i don't see any name on the roster, but i do have a quick question that i'm seeing in one of the relevant documents listing on subcontractors $280,000 that is for the consultant to hire epic ways to tops contract and that along with the travel expenses of $36,000. could you walk us through a little bit about what those two, both the subcontracts and the travel expenses looks like. >> sure. those do work in tandem with resources that we have as part of the department but with the surge in work, we're seeking highly specialized resources who know a part of our e hr system called epic (indiscernible), to find those resources is quite difficult and to find them on demand, so those are the

consultants who will be coming in to help with resourcing that project, the travel expenses are to ensure they are able to be onsite, present, working side-by-side with the staff and the community-based agencies who will be using these it systems. >> understood. mr. clerk, let's go to public comment for this item. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should lien up now. listening remotely, our number is 415-655-0001 with a meeting id of 24826174739 and press pound twice. star three to enter the speaker line. continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and it's your queue to begin comments. no speaker in the chamber and madam chair, no speaker in the queue. >> thank you, seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. [gavel] mr. clerk, i would like to move

this item to full board with positive recommendation, please call the roll. >> on that motion before the resolution -- to forward the resolution to the full board, vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. the motion passes. >> mr. clerk, please call item no. nine. >> yes item no. nine is a resolution approving a water purchase agreement between the port commission and mission rock utilities for purchase of water for port-owned parks and open space at mission rock, with a term of 30 years up to a maximum cost of $44,656,545 effective upon approval of this resolution; and to authorize the executive director of the port to enter into amendments or modifications to the agreement that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the agreement or this resolution. members the public joining remotely and wish to comment,

please call 415-655-0001 and meeting id24826174739 and press pound twice. if waiting, press star three. that's your signal to begin your comments once prompted. >> we're going to have the presentation for items for nine ten and they have fiscal impact which includes the budget legislative analyst report. today, we have john king. waterfronts development manager, assistant deputy director from san francisco port. the floor is yours. >> good morning supervisors and thank you, chair chan. this is pretty, a little longer presentation, so i'm going to move it quick. if you want me to go back, please stop me. next slide. so very quickly, we're going to do a high level summary of the mission rock project including the status of where we are today. talk about mission

rock utilities and the black treatment -- black water treatment plant and process that's the subject of why we're here today. and part of the overall sustainability goals of the port and the project itself. and then to talk about the agreement itself and give you the detail that the bla went through in much more detail in their report. next slide. so as an overview of mission rock, it's a public-private partnership between mission rock partners and it is the san francisco giants and (indiscernible). so it has been a long time in the making, ten years this project has been in the making. there's significant action happening but as a quick overview, this is a mixed-use development with up to 1200 units. 40% affordable onsite. significant office of and life science of up to $1.4 million growth square feet and retail space for the neighborhood and activation of the local area.

we're currently in phase i right now. all four phases are under construction. next slide, please. i'm going to give you more detail of where we are in phase i which is today. those four buildings there, two of these are residential and a total of 537 units and almost two hundred of those are bmr units and the office building which has a life science building that they are working on the negotiations and tenant seeking there but everybody is aware the headquarters of visa is there. we just got with the tco earlier this month so, we're expecting them to move in later this year. with respect to the first residential development, we're expecting to bring residents into the, starting this spring and basically continuously running through 2025 as the next phase comes online as well. next slide, please, boris. and i'm going to mention real quick, we have multiple sustainability

strategies in the project but this is specific to the water strategy that the port adopted and the commitment was all of the nonportable water uses at the site such as irrigation, toilet water, et cetera, it should be supplied from non-portable water that's treated and created onsite. and that comes from portable water that's used elsewhere. next slide. next slide, boris. so on -- it's used onsite. and then as it's collected onsite, it has been treated onsite and used within the site itself for these non-portable uses as a quick overview. next slide, boris. as it was mentioned in the bla report, the operator will be mission rock utilities who is going to be, it's an affiliate through or master developer and they are a nonprofit that will be operating this for the

customers including the port. next slide. and basically what this is, this is an agreement for the port to purchase the non-portable water, so this water is going to be treated on side by mission rock utilities and the port will be purchasing it. the majority of this will be, we will be the biggest user for the park in the first phase of 1.5 million gallons per year and full build out up to 1.9 million per year. one thing to note, this agreement will not take place until the port accepts the parks which will probably happen in early 2024. next slide, please. some of the key material s this and i'm happy to answer more or they will get covered in the bla report but there's an annual cap on exposure on this which is -- it's a total amount subject to annual appropriation, it's based upon a capacity charge which is fixed charges and the flow charge which is usage charge. next slide. although this is an agreement between the port and

mission rock utilities, the intention is the port may not hold this agreement directly because we're negotiating a lease with mission rock partners to manage the open space in the park for the overall development. if that does happen and we come to the board of supervisors assuming the term is ten years or more, we would assign all the obligations and the agreement to the tenant. they would act as the agent and the purchaser here. next slide, please. and in the event that we don't go forward with this or elect to manage this ourselves or the park lease terminates, we have a backstop this is funded by contingent tax paid for by the parcels themselves within mission rock. there's no expected set aside from the port harbor fund, no expected set aside from the general fund, the only reason we do an appropriation at all would be to expend those uses. i moved through that quick. i want to thank nick minard and natalie

from his team from a great bla report and boris for taking us through this presentation and mission rock partners but i want to thank grace park from city attorney's office and wyatt donnelley from my team. did an a hissing job creating this document that we didn't have a testimony plat for and negotiated all the recommendations for the city and port. >> thank you. >> thank you. item nine is a resolution approving an agreement between the port and mission rock utilities, which is a nonprofit form. the agreement is a 30-year agreement not to exceed $44.7 million. and as we detail on page 14 of our report, the agreements is based on the expected ports use of recycled water from a black water recycling plant that is being developed in mission rock but the mission rock developer. the agreement consist of anticipated

capacity and flow charges, which together will find -- will pay for the cost of the port share of the development of the facility as well as the operating cost of the facility. we did note a couple of positive considerations in our report. one is that, excuse me, the original, i think plan was for puc to operate this site. the wastewater enterprise typically doesn't operate these kind of facilities, so they are building one on the westside of the city to serve golden gate park. that plan anticipated the site serving mission bay and mission rock, this facility that's developed by the developer will only serve mission long and due to its size and the need to move forward with the development of the area, the port opted to do the structure that is being proposed now which is having a nonprofit operate a smaller site

to serve mission rock. the other issue is that the cost of the water is three times more than the comparable rate for puc portable water. this is being done as was mentioned to comply with the city's non-portable water ordinance, so i think this is in some ways a classic trade-off between instead of environmental friendly environment, with the benefit of using less portable water at the cost of the treatment. it's possible that a larger facility serving a larger area would have lower unit cost but based on the compliance of the city's non-portable water ordinance and the information we received from the port, we received a lot of engagement, we're recommending approval of this agreement. >> thank you, mr. minar. i thought vice-chair mandelman has

questions. >> a couple. although one of thing i think is probably for the puc. do we have anyone from the puc here or no? >> we don't have anyone here. >> all right. well then, one that you can answer is, so, i'm trying to think about this lease for this park. >> uh-huh. >> what is the lessee get out of running a park? >> there's no financial incentive. part of it would probably be to run it in -- you're coordinating a lot of mixed-use actions that's going there so you can program, you can have special events that are easier coordinated that are tied into the mission rock development. >> so that's a not for profit. >> (indiscernible) as far as that structure could be, it's different but as far as leasing it over in long-term lease to reflect that. >> all right. and the question i

guess i have for the puc that probably can't get answered today is, i mean, i don't feel bad about overpaying for this water because we're probably under paying or or the cost of portable water will probably go up because the climate is changing and we're all going to die and terrible fires and floods and everything, so reducing our reliance on portable water and paying more to build out the infrastructure to -- for water reuse and recycling is a good thing, i think and an investment in the future. i am and will be following up with puc, you know, our water reuse ordinance, you know, has advanced the conversation about water recycling in san francisco to more of particularly projects,

reusing water onsite. and i'm curious and haven't thought terribly much about how moving away from larger scaled plants, and the puc is concerned about the plants that they are very expensive and take a long time and are going to be hard to build out, but there probably is a cost to having all these different projects doing their, you know, reuse just within their project boundaries and i wonder if that's something, how the puc thinks about that but i'll follow up with them. >> yeah. one thing i'll say is, it is your nuke to some level. we're moving toward the district in general but the requirement if they were to -- to comply within their own individual buildings with the mandate -- it's on the continuum of doing individual buildings to a district. very good point. >> i guess for clarification, is that -- one of the reasons why

sfpuc is not involved in this scenario, it has to do with the fact that mission rock, to an extend, mission bay that sfpuc did not invest and build out the infrastructure for utilities delivery, is that correct? >> well, typically, what happened in this scenario like this, i don't know exactly in mission bay, but here, we would build out the infrastructure in a lot of cases and deliver it to the sfpuc through the next acceptance process as far as it goes because it gets complicated to integrate a public delivery within the site. but that's what would have happened most likely here. >> instead of going through sfpuc, we have an entity, a nonprofit entity, so it's to facility utilities need of mission rock? >> that's correct. if this was probably outside of the project site which you may have had to have it outside of the project site to support mission bay, we would have to a -- >> this is an agreement. i think

almost two decades ago. for education and just try to have a better understanding, the difference between gray water and black water, could you just tell us about that? >> yeah. if i could actually, i'm going to bring up maggie kayden from mission rock utilities, she could speak to this you. >> hello. thank you for having us. the gray water system which we have done in other buildings and it's in compliance with the ordinance takes all recycled or all used water, not including solid waste. so the difference is when you have the black water, all solid waste comes into the system. it's of course, filtered out. that sentiment is put into the system. >> it was supposed to do what we were doing and we postponed the implementation of it, given the

cause and given the logistic challenges that downtown has to implement the gray waterman date so thank you so much. i think this is more for mr. king for the question is just -- because i do not have the expertise, what dtco stand for. >> that's the temporary certificate of occupancy. >> thank you. >> which technically means you can occupy the space but it's a lot of work to build it out. but it has met the life standards for occupancy. >> we're going to occupy this space when? >> by the end of this year. it's a quick parcel a which is, got the affordable units on there too. that should be in may. we're targeting to move people in. the park itself will start to open from the summer throughout the fall. they should move in at the end of the year and we'll have a tco for building b in months ahead once

we have a tenant for that. that's the longest time constraint that will determine how much work they are doing on the interior, so they are ready to move in. >> thank you. i want to add to what vice-chair mandelman was talking about in terms of a lessee for that space that you anticipate to identify one, hopefully in the near future, the problem is it's going to be not for profit and after all, this is a public space. and so the question that i have is, i totally understand that in order -- it probably has some kind of vendors, maybe amenities like, i don't know, hot dog trucks, taco trucks are out there or some kind of admission for special events from time-to-time to maintain the operation cost that's required, similar to yorba buena. will they allow for temporary structure to be built on the site or we have yet to

determine? >> there's a chance it could be something like a food pavilion, even more temporary items could be for special events. those would be handled through the ports and it will be defined. it's through the lease itself, it's separate from the development but yes. there's nothing specifically contemplated but that would be it. i want to clarify, the operator would be an affiliate of the mission rock development team so it's not going to be -- we're highly aware of the fact this needs -- this is a public park that needs to feel public while it has activating aspects of it. it is subject to a regulatory requirements with respect to the number of events, port will reserve right to make sure we can have city events, et cetera. >> thank you. >> we'll be bringing that to your consideration, port commission and the board later this year. >> right. (indiscernible). >> what's that? >> thank you. >> commissioner safai. >> thank you for your presentation. you went pretty fast at the end, so i have a

couple of questions here that relate to the amount of money that is paid by the port and the other lessees and how that relates to this contingency special services tax. who pays the contingency special service tax? >> so, if the tax is assessed, it would be paid by the vertical parcel themselves, so basically, the visa as a tenant, they would pay their property owner, the property owner would pay to us. they would pay to the port if the port was in possession of the property. >> any of the people living in the buildings? >> they are going to be rentals. [multiple voices] they are rentals so any expenses of the rentals would be passed through -- it's a component of rent or overhead that's like a normal aspect but i can't imagine -- >> some of these units or 40% of them are affordable, how is that

built with? >> similar to building cost not passed through the tenant, this is one of those. so, in the event you have, you know, engineering or maintenance staff for example that you're adding, those cost are incurred by the building, those don't passed on to the residents of the building so this is a similar type cost. there would be no direct assessments for these contingent special service taxes to the residents directly. all of the 40% below market rate units would have to be in compliance with the limitations on rent set by -- [multiple voices] >> this is only if -- this is only if the payments from the port and other building owners is not realized? >> yes, the contingency special services tax is triggered by the port. do you want to talk about it some >> i can explain part of it. supervisor safai, the port has

the funding source for the operations of the park and other obligations associated such as recycled water agreement so we can assess that on an annual basis. we basically say up to this amount is what we need to budget for our expenses. if there's a lease in place and the tenant is actually just charging, it's hoa directly for these fees instead of this, we would not assess the special service tax because it would be like a double dipping of this. >> that's what i was trying to understand because it says here on page 9 that the ports cap in your wear is $672,000 and special services tax, the maximum for fiscal year is 1.3. and then up to 2.74 for the entire project. that's kind of -- it's not one hundred percent clear. >> basically what it would be, if there was no park tenant, if we were the direct purchaser here, we would build a property on the $1.3 million starting

this year and we would set aside $650,000 or so for the cap amount for this which is our maximum exposure in this agreement and then we would, excuse me, use the other $700,000 for the management of the park itself directly. if there's a park tenant that's going to take on needs be -- to take on the obligations, we would anticipate -- >> who are you anticipated to be your park tenant? >> it would be an affiliate of the master developer and the hoa because it's a fill ain'ted with all the house -- it's affiliated with all the ownership groups there. >> such as? [multiple voices] >> this is an entity formed from the owner of the parcels, of each of the parcels a part of the hoa, they would comprise this nonprofit as to be. >> got it. and they are going to be a tenant for this open space? >> yes, that's correct. that's

what's proposed. >> and are they -- does that dissolve the port from paying the water fee or is it a portion? >> the port, if that lease is in place, we would assign all obligations under this a treatment and all the maintenance of the park so we would have no liability, no, we would only appropriate something as a contingency in the event it's terminated but we wouldn't expect to spend a dollar. >> okay. my next question was, you also kind of went through this really quickly. this was designed, this black water treatment facility and mission rock utilities was created just for mission rock. why was it decided not to serve more of the recycled water needs for the entire area? you didn't get into that. i think that builds on, chair chan's question because of the puc were involved, you would imagine they

would be more invested in creating a facility that would serve a larger area. >> thank you, supervisor. >> we're missing an opportunity here. >> i'm rebecca, deputy director for real-estate and development and i was involved long before josh came along so i wanted to help answer that. project approves in 2017, we anticipated building the sustainability feature for mission rock only. we're using parts of the basement in one of the buildings that was the size of the plant could accommodate, was to serve the 11 buildings which is a really exciting plant. project approvals, we did not anticipate and puc, we didn't have conversations to build a larger plant for all of mission bay which is a 300-acre site. our site is about 16 acres. as the developer started to get into negotiations with puc, there was an effort to try to take the opportunity to build something bigger. as it turned out, they couldn't come to an agreement.

it took up too much space and we, they amicably and they supported us and this developer formed this nonprofit with an experienced black water plant operator to go forward with the sustainability measure for mission rock. >> when you say they couldn't come to an agreement, could you explain what it means? i think that's why again, building on supervisor mandelman's question, it would be good to have someone from the puc here. >> i hate to speak for them, so i agree. we should have another conversation and help bring more issues to bear but i think it was -- there's x number of feet available for plant and we wouldn't go beyond that because of just the balancing of all of the needs for the site. we did visit the plant just the other day and saw -- it's in the basement and saw how all the building functions are going around that site, so we were really impressed with that district scale much we got on one parcel but that's as much efficiency we got through?

>> we missed that opportunity if there were one? >> and i don't know the history of mission bay and why -- if there were discussions about where that site gone on that three hundred acres verses this project that came along. >> my question is at this point what we're being presented with is the only option? >> correct. correct. >> i'm going to ask a bla question, were you able to have considerations with the puc at all on that issue? >> yes. we were -- we also reviewed some documentation. i think part of the issue is that this happened several years ago. but there's not much, i think, this is water under the bridge, the developer is already building this, the debt has already been issued. you're kind of beyond the decision point. >> got it. okay. or maybe water under the building. [laughter] okay. thank you very much. thank you. >> thank you.

>> madam chair? >> thank you, supervisor safai. i think, well, if my memory serves me correctly, you know, that as former maxwell at that time, like bordering her district with mission bay and now mission rock, it wasn't really in discussion then back in 2006. i think there were a lot of conversation back and forth about infrastructure build-out, black water, i think even to date, it's something to be contemplated but i don't know as a reality even for our sfpuc since we have problems with gray water. that's challenge we face but i think it's a worthwhile conversation to be had. no more name on roster, mr. clerk, shall we go to public comment.

>> yes, madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this item or joining in person, please line up now. please call 415-655-0001. and meeting id, 24826174739. press pound twice. press star three don't the speaker line and those in the queue, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that's your signal to begin comments. no in person speakers in the chamber, mr. lamb, can you unmute our caller, please. >> let me begin with the vote dealing with public contract which our supervisors must have not read the public trust act. the vote is also an enterprise

department. we show climate change and everything that goes with it. so what's the problem if the (indiscernible) is doing the same thing and the (indiscernible) center is doing same thing. what is the problem that this (indiscernible) could not do the same thing. you're making, like, a joke, you know, water running under the building. the city, the city cannot advance climate change. our department of environment cannot address climate change because of less funding. you, supervisors are clowns. you read the public trust act, read about

climate change, and ask yourself, you, the city and county of san francisco, what have y'all done in order to conserve water? or to deal with the situation like this. and let's go to sofie maxwell. she told out the community. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comments. do we have anyone else in the queue. >> that completes public comment in the queue. >> public comment is now closed. [gavel] i would like to move this item with positive recommendation to the full board. mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> yes, on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with a positive recommendation, vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. the motion passes. thank you so much. mr. clerk, please call item no. 10.

>> yes, time number 10 is a resolution approving port commission lease l-16848 with autodesk, inc., a delaware corporation, located at pier 9, suite 116, and bays 1-3 for approximately 30,590 square feet of office and shed space and license area for solar panels and public improvements for a term of one year with one option to extend the term for one year, effective upon approval of this resolution at a monthly rent of $124,508; and to authorize the executive director of the port to enter into any additions, amendments or other modifications to the lease do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities of the city or port and are necessary or advisable to complete the transactions which this resolution contemplates and effectuate the purpose and intent of this resolution. members of the public joining remotely and wish to provide comment for this, please

415-655-0001. meeting it is 24826174739. when the says -- when the semester testimony indicates you have been -- when the system indicates you have been unmuted, you may begin. >> we have rebecca from san francisco port, thank you. >> thank you so much, chair chan and supervisor safai and mandelman. before you is a one-year lease with a one-year option for this site at pier nine which is on the embarcadero north of broadway. auto desk have been there ten years and their rent is $81,000 for the 30,000 square feet they occupy and this includes office space and shed space. the new lease would bring them up to the market after these ten years to $124,500. they have been and continue to be a tenant in good standing. we're pleased to

continue their occupancy at this market rate lease. i want to note that the new release replaces the existing lease as of february 1st. auto desk agrees if we approve lease and sign it, they would start paying that new rent as of today so we do concern with the bla's recommendation to amend the lease to make clear if it's approved by the board in the coming weeks t would be retroactive to february 1st. that concludes my remarks. thank you. >> thank you. >> excuse me. item ten is a resolution approving a new lease between the port and a private company auto desk for approximately 31,000 square feet of office space. the lease is consistent with the perimeter rents set by the port for this

type of space. we detailed the lease on page, the fiscal impact on page 19 of our report, which shows that over the two-year period, this would generate approximately $3 million in rental revenue for the port and as stated, this, because of the effective date of the lease on file, we do recommend clarifying an amendment to the resolution that it's retroactive. >> thank you. i don't see questions on the roster but i want to say i think we have gone through in the last budget cycle with san francisco port in terms of tenants management, injure strategy and approach and i want to make sure it's equitable but feasible for ports and our waterfront. i would want to advise to see in the coming months before -- having budget conversation is for the port to perhaps to come to either brief

our office, myself, or the committee members here especially, supervisor safai who is really good at leases, negotiations, i want to say, to sort of help us understand your strategy and your approach in the coming months to both support existing tenants, such as auto desk. i think this is a good negotiation but moving forward, how do we, in the event that there are tenants with expiring leases, what are our approach to keep them or to identify new tenants, just look forward to some of those conversations in advance before you come back for a lease agreement approval. thank you. and seeing no questions from colleagues and mr. clerk, please let's go to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak on this time or joining in person should line up now. listening remotely, please call 415-655-0001 and meeting

the meeting id of 24826174739 and press pound twice. continue to wait until this system says you have been unmuted. no person speakers in the chamber and madam chair, no speakers in the queue. >> thank you. no more public comment. public comment is now closed. [gavel] mr. clerk, i would like to move this item forward with positive, to the full board with positive recommendation, please call the roll. >> chair chan, do we want to amend the resolution for retroactive. >> my apologies. yes. do i actually need to do the roll call or can i make the motion with a second to adopt, to adopt -- never mind. i'll make a motion to adopt the recommendation from the budget and legislative analyst budget and legislative analyst and amend the proposed resolution to state the approval is retroactive so that's dated back to february 1st which is today

to allow this lease to move forward in the events full board approve. mr. clerk, please call the roll for the motion to amend and adopt. >> yes, on that motion, to amend the resolution to state the approval is retroactive as offered by the bla, vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. and please let's make, i make the motion to move this amended item to the full board with positive recommendation. >> and on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended, vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. the motion passes. mr. clerk, are there any other business before us today? >> madam chair, that concludes our business. >> thank you. the meeting is adjourned. [gavel] (music).

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the high school students. thank you for the chinese association every year. and before the lion dance you might have heard master wong, entering the city hall. is also a beautiful chinese instrument and we are happy to have david wong and line dance to kickoff our celebration. get them a round of applause. now i like to say a few word in chinese. [speaking chinese] [applause]

good evening i'm claudine chang pedestrian heritage foundation the heritage month in may is our priority, throughout the years we always look for know opportunity and special occasions where communities are coming together. and this evening is one of those occasions. at the beginning of this year, we are all so very excited welcome the now year. this january is spchl we have 2 new years to celebrate aside from the regular january first, lunar new year is early this year. we would be excited 2 bragzs throughout the whole among.

however, before long, we found ourselves saddened by one tragic news after another. whether the loss of life from monterey park to half moon bay and more recently in memphis. it did in the matter had the victims were the color of their skins there was loss of life approximate affected all of us. >> we pause during the lunar new year celebrations to pay tribute to the victims to remember all those who lost loved ones. we pause to think about what can we do as a community, as a city, as a state, as a country; to address all the issues that surfaced in the first 20 days of the new year. and we paused to think about heeling how we can better come

together. it irrelevant has been a very sombering 2 weeks. however, we are here tonight and together tonight because i believe all feel we must carry on. we must carry on and celebrate as a community. i remember the first day of lunar now year where we were chinese of chamber's event, and there was the day after the tragedy in monterey park took place. i vivid low remember mayor breed's words reflecting am the tragedy and our mayor said, this is the time the community should get together. this is i time where we need to treat each other with mercy, with kindness and love. mercy, kindness and love. that is the spirit of this evening's celebration, we thank

the mayor and the city officials are bringing us here and without further adue, welcome mayor london breed. [applause]. >> good evening, everyone. i must say, that it feels so good to be here. and it feel it is good to be here because not only do we have a packed house but we have so many people from so many different places around san francisco, around the bay area and around the world. i want to start by thanking claudine chang for her words and reminding us of challenge this is persist in our country. but also highlighting how we continue to come together.

we continue to come together to support andup lift one another in san francisco because we know that although the tragedies have occurred and although we know that there was losdz of life and sadness. we also recognize the significant cans of the resiliencey of the various communities who have been faced with various changes. i applaud our diversity and strength and how we come together and celebrate lieutenant area new year today in city hall. we celebrate black history month on friday in city hall. come together toup lift one another, that is a part of why san francisco is so spchl i want to thank claudine for her work and bringing a community together and thank my cohosts for the celebration. including people you will hear

from later carmen chew. our city attorney daved chui. our public defender. our sheriff paul miyamoto and connie chan, thank you to leaders for being hosts tonight to celebrate ap i heritage in san francisco through lunar new year. [applause] >> now i know upon it is the year of the rabbit, which represents kindness and mercy. and my hope is had as we celebrate the year of the rabbit and for those who are in our vietnamese community the year of the cat, we remember the trait and how we work together and how we do things here in the city and county of san francisco. when you talk about togetherness i want to take this opportunity to appreciate our chief of

protocol mir miriam and the council core people who represent the world including our counsel general from china the philippines, japan and singapore being, indonesia and korea can you stand. thank you for your work and partnership in san francisco. san francisco has amazing sister staechs i want to acknowledge those manila and seoul can you please, stands the chairs of our sister city committees. mrauz so many amazing people who care about the community located in various parts of san francisco but how they connect

to the rest of the world. san francisco and our asian community has a rich history. the so ma with the filipino community. japantown a known japantown. or events we celebrate in china town and especially our lunar new year parade. san francisco brought together the communities and traditions over the years to make sure we never forget the tradition and huwe celebrate and support one another. i want to thank all of you and appreciate the chinese association. the chinese chamber and the various members of our asian communities who show up and to celebrate and come together during the challenging times. as well as our elected lead and department head and officials. tonight, it it is irrelevant a celebration. and it started with lion dance

me. because the challenges of the world what we are not -- what we should not do is allow it to dampen our spirits. to dampen our opportunity to celebrate. to come together. and to uplift. tonight you will see various performances from a number of people. you will have various uplifting speeches. you will see elected officials what it boils down to is the despite our difference, we still come together to celebrate one another and culture and history and togetherness. on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, thank you all for being here and i want to take one quick opportunity carmen chu will acknowledge the elected leaders later on today. i wanted congratulate and thank our treasurer fiona ma for the state of california. thank you for your service and

the work you do and for joining us tonight. and thank you, everyone for being here to celebrate. [applause]. >> all right. i do have another responsibility today. again i want to thank everyone for being here and at this time to complete the program and introduce our various elected leaders and officials is -- oh . i thought you said introduce carmen chu. >> at this time according to claudine i am going to ask the members of the councillor corps to come forward so we can take a photo with me and other elected officials part of our host

committee. thank you.

>> thank you, mayor breed and members of the councillor core. notice a very special performance for you from the students from gordon jay lou elementary. let's go golden jay lou! [applause]... ... ...

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[applause] another round for gordon jlau elementary school! [applause] i don't know about you, we are sitting there i was next to our city attorney and threatening he will do a routine. a dance routine. i can't wait until he puts on

bunny ear and does hopping around. we are waiting for this, david. hello i'm carmen chu and i'm pleased to be here today. seems like the celebration grows skoal many people are here. feels like we are multiplying like rabbits! that will be the only joke i will tell. i do want to a very happy new year to everybody here. it has been a challenging time as many of you know the past few week and seen this in communities. and really the reason why events like this are so important and why i thank our mayor london breed for hosting the heritage event and making sure that she brings us together is it is know tounlt for us to recognize the diversity in our city and how special that makes san francisco. thank mayor breed and all of the folk who is helped to coordinate

this. claudine chang we could not do this without her help. lion dance me and other when is came together for this. i want to say, happy new year to everybody. [speaking chinese] [applause] i will recognize some wonderful guest hos share their time with us today. before i do that i want to invite my cohost to come up, of course we brought our city attorney we want to hear from our sheriff paul miyamoto. public defend are mano raju and connie chan, please, come on up.

>> happy new year, everybody! so, i am the audience i think of that -- san francisco we often have said we are truly the asian-american capitol of our country. this is an event that show cases it as we do every year. i want to thank you for being part of the incredible per of our culture, history and our community of activism. and it it is true during this lunar new year season, this has been a challenging time. but as our mayor said and city add administrator said, in the year of the rabbit this is i time where we will leap xup stands for peace and prosperity and moving on to hopism thank you for that. the last thing i say is carmen did mention we were ways persian gulf as the performances were happening i want to say, that i

heard a recent joke about lounar new year that only in san francisco could the following people walk in a bar. the japanese-american sheriff, the indian public defender. your chinese city attorney and our chinese elected officials because represent the world. i will tell thank you next year mano raju and sheriff are dawn what costumes to dance with the kids. i'm committing that now. if my fellow electives will join he. i will turn it over to supervisor connie chan wrochl it is grit to be here. i'm honored to be one of the 2 members of the board of supervisors representing the chinese-american and ap i community.

i obviously am one sdpt the other is chinese supervisor representing china town, aaron peskin board president. and we are so glad to be be all of you here today and honor to be part of this effect. i must say i had the honor and privilege this last thursday to visit the white house where president biden hosted the pifrpt historic lunar new year celebration at the white house. i'm grateful to represent all of you. to join that event. i have to say, madam mayor you should be very proud. i say that united states, we, in city hall of san francisco; have a glorious dome, better lion dance and better community gathering in this place and should all be proud about that.

better than the white house i'm a witness to that. >> in awe seriousness, i am grateful to see that you know, having our mayor, having our colleagues here together, just bringing everyone together beyond the ap i community bum the communities of color come together to celebrate each other. and to thank our foreign partners from over access the asian communities joining the asian-american communities in san francisco and the bay area to come together at the end of the day, we say that this it is our culture together that we want to celebrate together. thank you for joining us and i'm honored to be with you here today. thank you and here is our sheriff, paul miyamoto. >> good evening.

everyone i'm -- very happy to be here. this is a celebration for the lunar new year, year of the rabbit. i want to point out i was called out to wear rabbit years for next year. every year when we have the parade the lunar new year parade i make it a point to perform and participate with the lion dance team and carry a dragon head i challenge to you come with me on the parade route and take part in our lion dance team. which represents sfpd, sheriff, different law enforcement agencies. i want to take a mobile home when we speak about the lunar new year of the rabbit, signifying kindness, patience and responsibility is our responsibility in law enforcement to keep people safe. and as mentioned by the mayor and others, we stand here in celebration during a time with mixed emotions as we celebrate

together and truly together we do this. there have been instances which affect us together. hate and instances of transgender deal and i want to make sure we reassure everyone, public safety the police department and sheriff's office; we are as frustrated with the behaviors we have seen. i want to reassure all of you in the communities that we are one here with everyone. our responsibility to protect people and defend people against dang and harm. our responsibility this is we don't take lightly and hope to hold and perform with high standardses of integrity and he honor. have you that come myself, chief scott and awful us in law enforcement in san francisco and stand with you in sharing the pain we saw together. we stands with you in keeping us all safe in celebration as we

move forward tonight and the days to come and protect everyone in san francisco. thank you. [applause] one of our partners in the justice system and public safety and public defender mano raju. >> thank you. sheriff, happy new year. you know as a defense attorney the thing i think about is often timeless the best defense is good offense when we whispered the city attorney you got called out by our city add administrator and of course hearing that, city attorney got here first and called us out observe we got a chance to responded. you know -- my first legal internship in san francisco was at the asian caucus in the civil

right's division we worked on bringing together communities and rounds tables to facilitate collective understanding. last weekend, i was at the beautiful event in the bayview y, which was celebrating lunar new year and african-american history month. and black history month. when is caused me to think about even though i know with the events a lot of communities are going through trauma and a lot of the trauma is upon generational, we also in this country and the city have a tremendous amount of inter~ generational resilience. events like this and last saturday are that kind of demonstrate that. every time i come to city events like this and see that i'm reminded of the resilience and the beauty in the city and excited celebrate this new year

with all of you so thank you so much. [applause]. thank you very much to everyone. i will ask them to stay up i like to invite all of our elected officials to come up and i will say your name come up. as i mention you. our treasurer of the state fiona ma. >> bill ching. jose cisneros. brook jenkins. nancy pelosi. gavin newsome and supervisor aaron pes pechls supervisor mandelman. supervisor walton. supervisor engardio. supervisor dorse. gent lamb, a lita fisher. lisa weissman ward. have i got everybody? recorder joaquin torres.

now college trustees come on up. now you are probably wondering my goodness are all of the folks going to say something. what can they say? but we are not going to do that we will do a big group picture and group chant. okay. all of you electives up here say, our greetings can you say [speak chinese] that was not good enough, louder. [speaking chinese]. carmen is the best. kidding happy new year, everybody! [applause] [applause]

>> now a very special treat for you. our dancer from indonesia, it will be a special treat.

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>> let's give i round of applause. thank you for this performance. every year we are trying to feature different performance. if you are interested to participate next year let us know. >> and now -- um -- we have a couple of community speakers with us. representatives from the chinese consolidated organization and representatives from the chinese chamber of commerce. please, join me. together they are over 2 huh human years old the longest standing organizations in san francisco china town. and we like to invite the presiding president of the

chinese benest lan association president to give you new year greetings. [speaking chinese]. [applause] [speaking chinese].

thank you and next we have the president of chinese chamber of commerce. [speak chinese] >> thank you. [speak chinese] madam mayor. thank you for hosting this event. every year. every year is better and bigger.

congratulations. and member representatives of asian-american from asia, thank you for being her to celebrate lounar new year with us. greetings. emyear of the rabbit or cat for you many blessings. at the chinese chamber of commerce set brills now year we reminded of the tragedy in monterey park and i'm sorry. in half moon bay. asian communities throughout the state. again condolences to the victim families, may they be comforted and find peace. i will go back to history of the choin ease new year parade in the 1860s chinese american started lunar new year to show

case our traditional and our people and the culture against a challenging back drop. fast forward it today we as a community are facing challenges. most reasonable antiasian hate and the challenges recovering from the pandemic. from this humble beginning the parade is the largest event in the region and the biggest chinese new year parade outside of asia. it is part of upon also part of the asian-american community parade. it is part of the fabric of the city. and asian-american in san francisco pride. this celebration is the most significant economic evenly for china town bringing a third of the annual ref now to china

town. also to the surrounding neighborhoods. with the opening the central subway we are hopeful that more people will attend the parade through the new subway stations and more individualors throughout the year. this year i'm happy to announce that -- coming saturday this weekend we have in the street fair 100 vendors and in the parade we have over 120 units 26 of them will be sold. 5 will be community and this year we have more community than ever before. finally, mayor, i am and law enforcement chief -- sheriff, thank you for very encouraging word about additional security for the upcoming winninged

parade. thank you, mayor, thank you. [applause]. >> we are not following this we are getting out of the script a bill madam mayor would you like to join us we have a special presentation and like to invite the volunteers that have participate al perez the produces the show. and commissioner al perez. thomas li. and kevin chan, please, join us. mayor. new year -- [inaudible].

[applause] make surety city is

blessed with good fortunes the know grand final welcome back sing here for us before. floora will sing 2 songs to sends us off and here she is. [applause]. hi. everyone. how is everyone doing? doing good? i like to wish everyone happy new year. i'm grateful to be here at the mayor's lounar new year celebration. it is my honor to sing for you

tonight. because it is the new year i want to share with you a chinese song called [speaking chinese] music, please. [music] [singing] clap your

hands. there we go! [music] [singing] thank you.

everyone having a good night? time to have a dance move am here are you ready to dance! yea. i would love for you all to stand if you may. and let's get this dance party started. this it is i want to dance with somebody. here we go. of [music] [singing] [music]

[singing] thank you.

everyone. happy chinese new year. thank you so much! thank you for coming i hope you have the best time on your way out pick up your own fortune cookie! happy new year, thank you, everyone!

>> the meeting will come to order. good morning. welcome to thursday january 26, 2023 of public safety neighborhood service committee of the san francisco board of supervisor. i'm supervisor dorsey. thank you to john carroll of clerk's office for staffing today's committee meeting and thanks also to sfgovtv and matthew igno of the sfgovtv team for broadcasting today's meeting. >> thank you acting chair. the board of supervisors and committee are convening hybrid meetings. the board recognizes equitable public access is essential and will

take public comment as follows. public comment taken on each 4 item on today's agenda. those attending in person room 250 will be allowed to speak first and then we'll take public comment from those on the telephonic line. those watching 26, 28, 78 or 99 or watching the meeting through sfgovtv.org the public comment call in screen is streaming across your screen at this time. the number is 415-655-0001. when you are prompted enter the meeting id for today's meeting that is 24846961927. press the pound symbol two times. when you are connecting you will hear the meeting discussion but your line will be muted and in listening mode. when your item comes up on the agenda and we call public comment on that item, those joining in

person should line up to speak along the curtain wall here in room 250 and those on the telephone line should dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. if quou are on the telephone remember to turn down the television, radio, streaming devices whatever you may be using to access today's proceedings. as i said we will take public comment from those in person and then go to telephone line. you may submit public comment in writing. you can e-mail your comment to me the public safety neighborhood services committee clerk. my e-mail is john.carroll@sfgov.org or snd written comments to the office in city hall by u.s. post, city hall address is 1 dr. carlton b gootlet place, san francisco california 94102. if you submit public comment in writing i will forward to the

members of the public safety neighborhood service committee and include your comment as part of the file on which you are commenting. finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of february 7, 2023 unless otherwise stated. mr. acting chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. i like to excuse today vice chair stefani and supervisor melgar. mr. clerk, can you please call item 1? >> i'll take a roll call to excuse. there is a motion on the floor to excuse mr. stefani and melgar. on that motion- [roll call] mr. chair, two ayes. no opposition. >> thank you mr. clerk. please call item 1.

>> agenda item 1 is hearing to consider the transfer of type 21 off sale general beer wine distilled spirit liquor license to postscript collective llc at 499 jackson serve the public convenience or necessity of city and county. members who wish to provide public comment call the call in number which is 415-655-0001. the id, 2 (484) 696-1927. press pound twice and dial star fallowed by 3 to enter the queue to speak. one last thing, i'm in receipt of a memo from there desk of vice chair stefani requesting the item be considered as committee report which means we can forward to the board of supervisors meeting of january 21, 2023. >> thank you. i would

like to now welcome officer (inaudible) from san francisco police department abc liaison unit. >> good morning members of the board. you have-you have a report for postscript collective applied for type 21 license to operate off sale. zero letters of protest. zero letters of support. located in plot 14o a high crime area. census tract 6101 considered high satchuation area. central station has no opposition and alcohol liaison unit recommend approval with the following condition that the petitioner actively monitor the area under control to prevent loitering of persons on property adjacent to the premise.

>> thank you officer. no questions. >> any representatives from the applicant who wish to make a statement? >> just morning. (inaudible) congratulations to both of your appointments today. here with postscript seeking pcn for new special grocery store. it is a work sited to come into the neighborhood principally permitted use and the jackson historic district with significant controls what can and can't go in and with this being principally permitted excited for this to move in and activate the neighborhood. with that, i'll turn it over to ben from postscript. >> hi. thank you very much for having me. thank you officer for coming. my name is ben muglauclen opening up a specialty grocery store and hoping to serve wine and beer. we are going to activate a space that hasants

really done anything in about 3 years. we will have food, wine, coffee, roast coffee on site so hoping to activate the neighborhood and create a good buzz there. thank you very much. >> thank you. i have no question or comments. mr. clerk, can you please call public comment? >> thank you mr. acting chair. reaching out to room 250 to see if we have anyone here available to provide public comment on item 1. seeing no one stand up, let's turn our attention to the remote public comment call in line and see if we have callers who wish to provide comment on item 1. there are two callers listening to the meeting and of them there are none who wish to provide public comment at this time, mr. chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. i like to make a motion directing the clerk to prepare resolution determining that this license will serve as a public convenience and necessity and send the resolution

forward to full board with positive recommendation. >> second that motion. >> thank you. through the chair when we have a committee with only 3 members the second isn't necessary here, but i will record your second on that and also restate the motion before we take a vote. for clarity one quick issue, did you wish to forward a resolution as a committee report for next tuesday's meeting? is that a yes? so,

mr. acting chair, if i have it correct, you are asking now by motion that i prepare a resolution that finds the public convenience necessity would be served by the ish suance of the license to the applicant and resolution be recommended to the board of supervisors as committee report for january 21, 2023? >> that is correct. >> very good. on that motion- [roll call] mr. acting chair, there are two ayes and no opposition. >> thank you mr. clerk. the item will be forwarded with positive recommendation. thank you to the applicant. mr. clerk, please call item 2. >> agenda item 2 is hearing to consider the person to person premise to premise transfer of type twin off sale general beer wine distilled spirit liquor license bar agricole

at 1540 mission will be serve public convenience and necessity of city and county. members who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001. enter the meeting id, 24846961927. press pound symbol two times and dial star fallowed by 3 to be a added to the queue and like the previous item this item is requested by the vice chair to be recommended as a committee report to january 31, 2023 meeting. >> thank you mr. clerk. once again officer, the floor is yours. >> thank you. bar agricole type 21 license and if approved allow them to operate a general premise. two letters of support, zero letters of protest. located in plot 204 considered high crime area, in census tract 177 which is considered high

saturation area. no opposition and alcohol liaison unit recommend approval. >> thank you officer. any questions from my colleague? i appreciate the participants. neighborhood businesses. this is my district and also my neighborhood and know this is a well regarded business as well as the folks who endorse this were-well regarded neighborhood businesses. are there-mr. clerk, can you please call public comment? >> would you like to see if we have the applicant online? i understand we do have beth (inaudible) here in order to represent the applicant. connected remotely beth or sad

vogueler could you please address the committee now? and yes, can you hear me? >> we can. >> this is beth (inaudible) i'm here with sad vogler, the principal of bar agricole requesting finding of public convenience or necessity to allow bar agricole to open a small retail shop selling primarily specialty wines and distilled spirits to complement their restaurant bar program. we are-have the support of the neighborhood and of the police department and would hope for a positive recommendation from the committee. sad vogler is here and would like to address the committee. >> hi. thanks so much for your time. was lucky enough to open

the first version of the bar agricole in the neighborhood in 2010. sadly we closed doors during covid and are lucky to open in the same two block radius. we made a name for ourselves selling a certain kind of spirit, generally farm to table producers, very much in the spirit of a lot of places of the bay area. we always served them on premise and with the new location there is always been a demand for people that would love to be able to take some of these products home so we wanted to try to have a small shop to serve that audience. thank you again for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you. mr. clerk, can you call public comment? >> very good acting chair. do we have anyone here in

room 250 who wants to provide comment on item 2? seeing none, turn or attention to the remote callers. we still have two callers listening to the meeting and none who wish to provide comment on item 2. >> thank you mr. clerk. i would like to make motion directing the clerk to prepare resolution determining this license will serve as public convenience and necessity and snd the resolution to the full board with positive recommendation as a committee report for june 30 meeting. >> before we take a roll call vote on the motion could you close public comment? >> sure. public comment is now closed. >> very good. thank you. i have heard a motion from acting chair dorsey that i prepare a resolution finding the public convenience necessity served by the application and that that resolution be recommended to board of supervisors as committee report january 31,

2023 consideration. on the motion- [roll call] two ayes and no opposition. >> thank you mr. clerk. now i like to-officer the floor is yours. sorry, mr. clerk please call- >> i'll call item 3. hearing to consider that the issuance of a type-48 on-sale general public premises liquor license to sinombresf llc, doing business as sinombresf, located at 312 harriet street (district 6), will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. members of the public who have public comment on item 3, of course we'll hear from you first in 250 but if you wish to connect remotely call 415-655-0001 and are enter today's meeting id, 24846961927. press

pound symbol twice and dial star 3 to enter the queue to speak. mr. acting chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. officer, floor is yours. >> thank you. sinombresf applied for type 48 license. zero letters of protest, zero letters of support. located in plot 268 considered high crime, census tract 180, high saturation. alcohol liaison recommend approval. actingly monitor the area to prevent loitering of persons adjacent to the premise and number 2, entertainment provided shall not be audible at residence or consideration point. >> thank you. any questions or comments from my

colleague? seeing none. any representatives from the applicant who would like to say anything? >> good morning, john and (inaudible) members sof the public. david (inaudible) cla consulting representing sinombresf. actually, this is a post pandemic recovery project. it had been a very popular destination in san francisco for a number of years but the previous owners were forced to closed due to economic hardship so we are really excited opening the doors back up again with new investors and we hope to keep the doors open for a long long time. i can tell you the new owners are extremely responsible business owners and hope you will support the project. thank you so very much for your time. >> thank you so much. mr. clerk, would you please call public comment? >> do we have any public

comment from anyone in room 250, the board chamber? seeing none, if you have connected to our meeting remotely and wish to provide comment on this item dial star 3 to raise your hand to speak. i am seeing --acting chair, we have no callers in the queue for this item. >> okay. thank you mr. clerk. public comment is now closed. i would like to make a motion directing the clerk to prepare resolution determining the license will serve as public convenience and necessity and send the resolution forward to full board with positive recommendation. >> on that motion- [roll call] two ayes, no opposition. >> thank you mr. clerk. item forwarded with positive recommendation. mr. clerk, please call item number 4. >> agenda item 4 is,

hearing to consider that the transfer of a type-21 off-sale general beer, wine, and distilled spirits license; the transfer of a type-42 on-sale beer and wine public premises license; and the transfer of a type-86 educational tasting license to california wine and spirits llc, doing business as total wine & more located at 1750 harrison street (district 9), will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. members who wish to provide comment call 415-655-0001, the meeting id is 24846961927, pound twice and star fallowed 3 to be added to the queue to speak. mr. acting chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. officer, the floor is yours again. >> thank you. let's see-california fine wine spirits llc applied for type 21 license and type 42.

allowed them to operate off-sale where they sell beer wine and distilled spirits. there are two letters of protest under review with alcohol beverage control. zero letters of support. located in plot 405 considered high crime area, census tract 177, high satchuation. mission station has no opposition and alcohol liaison recommend approval the petitioner monitor the area under control in a effort to prevent loitering of persons adjacent to the premise depicted on abc-253. >> thank you officer. i have no questions. can i ask my colleague if any questions? seeing none, any representatives from the applicant who like to make a statement? >> good morning. justing zucker on behalf of total wine and more. we are excited for

the use. as noted thin opposition can be challenging at time. that said, having a activated site with ongoing business will help reduce the public safety and with quality of life issues referenced in the opposition letters from the neighbors at rainbow grocery. office max left the site last year. it isn't beneficial to have a vacant site filling with a tenant is challenge. the site has challenges due to zoning control. it was built in 1996 for a single commercial tenant but now controls restrict the future use to single tenant. the space cannot be broken down into multiple tenant uses. with 23 thousand square feet of space it is rather challenging to find a single tenant. we appreciate the opposition letters sent from the neighbors, but in terms of offerings from rainbow grocery target and food, total wines has a significantly different offerings list and with that i turn it over to phil

arm strong to pgive further detail to that. >> good morning. phil armstrong head of real estate. we signed a lease on the 1750 harrison street property with intent of opening a store. total wine operates 35 stores in the state of california, 9 in the bay area. the company is privately owned family run with our original owners david tron and robert tron and operate in 27 states around the country. the harrison street property was of interest to us and met our site selection criteria. the closest store is daly city. we thought customers from san francisco would come to the daly city store and felt there was a good opportunity for us to locate. the site meets our site selection criteria. the square footage of 23 thousand square feet is very typical

for us. it meets the second generation space of retail that we like to operate and reinvigorate. site has ample parking, loading dock, it is near other retailers that we like to be located nearby, target, best buy, rei, costco, and the store will employ approximately 60 people. 80 percent of the jobs are full time so we offer full benefits and always differing then some retailers always focus on full time employees and trying to provide good sustainable jobs. typically shift will be approximately 12 to 15 people up to 20 depending on the busiest days so that space will be active, it will be busy, it will be monitored and we think we are really good fit for that facility

and are for the neighborhood. thank you. >> thank you mr. armstrong and express approximation to concerns in the letter and make a commitment to address those. any comments from my colleague? okay. mr. clerk, can you please call public comment? >> very good mr. acting chair. do we have anyone in room 250 who wishes to provide comment on item 4? seeing none, if you have connected to the meeting remotely and wish to provide comment on item 4 please dial star 3 now to be added to the queue. we still have two listeners but of them acting chair no callers who wish to provide comment on item 4? >> thank you mr. clerk. i like to declare public comment now closed. i would also like to make a motion directing the clerk to prepare resolution determining the license will serve as public convenience and necessity and we send

the resolution forward to full board with positive recommendation. >> on the motion offered by acting chair dorsey, the resolution be recommended to board of supervisors finding the pcrn- [roll call] two ayes, no opposition. >> thank you mr. clerk. mr. clerk, any further business? >> there is no further business. >> thank you mr. clerk, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

the meeting come to order welcome to the meetingly of the lafco commission. i'm vice chair jackie field and joined by commissionerings preston and williams. clerk is stefani cabrera and like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting the meeting. do you have announce ams. >> yes, thank you. local agency formation commission allow in person attendance and public comment and providing remote access the commission recognizes public access is essential and will take public comment taken on each item on the agenda. for those on channel 26 or sfgov.org the public comment call in in is streaming across

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the official file. you may send written comments u.s. postal to the office at city hall in 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california 94102. thank you, vice chair fielder. >> thank you. i wanted give my colleagues a reminder to put your name in the chat if you would like to speak that is the official roster don't raise your hand when you request to speak. thank you >> can you call roll. >> vice chair will fielder. >> present. >>. member williams. >> present. >> member preston. >> present. thank you. you have a quorum. >> thank you. i like to make a motion to excuse chair connie chan from the meeting. commissioners can i have a second? >> second. >> madam clerk, call the role.

>> thank you. member williams. >> present. >> aye. >> preston. >> aye. >> fielder. >> aye. >> there are three aye's. >> thank you. >> madam clerk call item 2. >> 2 a resolution adopting findings to allow teleconference meetings under section 54953e. number who is wish to comment call 415-554-0001, access code: 2499 048 6443 ##. and press pound twice. if have you not done so press star 3. the system will prompt you raised your hand. wait until the system says you

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>> you have 3 aye's >> thank you without objection this is approved. can you call item 3. >> item 3 is approval of the lafco minutes from december 9 of 22 special meeting. members of the public who wish to comment on this item should call 415-554-0001 when prompted enter access code: 2499 048 6443 ##. then press pound twice. dial star 3 to are added to the queue. the system will indicate you raised your hand wait until you have been unmuted and then begin commenting. when we go to public comment. >> do commissioners have changes for the minutes of the december 29, 22 meeting? all right. seeing, sorry. no. we are good. >> seeing no changes i will open

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adopted. can you call item 4? >> item 4 is a hearing on safety over sight investor owned utilities and the golden state energy act senate bill 350. member who is wish to provide public comment call 415-554-0001 then access code: 2499 048 6443 ## press star 3 to enter the speaker's queue. i like to recognize that commissioner singh joined us. thank you commissioner singh and to introduce this hearing we'll hear from antonio diaz from the power coalition then california

auditor and then mary turac from clean power. thank you for join happening us and you have 5 minutes to present. >> good morning antonio diaz with people organizing to demand environmental and economic voice. we are part of the reclaim our power utility justice campaign. we have a slide deck? >> yes. i can share it now. one second. >> i will get started. thank you lafco commission members and lafco execute arive officer pollock for holding this hearing. the san francisco based environmental justice organization. has been active with reclaim our power utility justice campaign because we recognize the deadly

failures and corporate malfeesance of pg and e and the need for accountability. most catastrophic impacts of pg and e failures has been the destructive wild pyre this is causeded damage to land and property but deaths. pg and e killed over a handled people. and one the 2018 camp fire and the speaker says their negligence destroyed a communities paradise. >> pg and e failures cost all of us as customers. their so called public safety power shut off put vulnerable the elderly, disabled. the medically vulnerable at the

highest risks. it is clear instead of invest nothing public safety the -- utility priorities are their investors. also rates have escalated because of the corporate actors passed their billions of wild fair mittgation costs to the rate payors. members that latin x families in san francisco who have been affected by the covid-19 pandemic have been hard hit by the rising bills. all this while pg and e boss got a pay package of 20 million dollars in 2021. >> besides hurting our pocket book pg and e failures hurt our health. we remember the day in 2018 looking at the sky and thick smoke due to the fires caused by

the corporations lack of taking care of equipment. and obviously that is huge public health impacts given amongst the most vulnerable given the air quality occurrence. also all of you are familiar with the delays that we experienced in san francisco because of pg and e costly dragging of their feet on public projects from affordable housing, parks and other community space. this kinds of corporate behavior indicative of -- pg and e approach to servicing the region. >> basically what we are here to say is point out there is a huge lack of accountability. the state whether it is the office of energy infrastructure safety or the cpu c, they keep

approving this investor utility mitigation plan and safety certificates. all this fires of destruction continue to happen. >> and therefore obviously we need the governor to act. you will hear in the moment about the state auditor's report. from -- spring of the past year criticized the state's inability to address the failures we appreciate of san francisco leadership not only in pointing out pg and e's inadequacies and calling the corporation and the govern to task to bring about real change. we are here to ask lafco to ask the board of supervisors to act on the state auditor's recommendation and demand accountability from pg and e. of the >> thank you.

>> thank you. antonio and the reclaim our power coalition. we will take questions after the following presentation. they work always, thank you for your help and we are lucky to hear directly from the california state auditor. staff and the california state auditor's office. senior auditor and john klein to present on the audit of the safety and oversight safety oversight of investor owned utilities. thank you bothed for being here to present. keep your presentation to 10 admissibilities and commissioners will have questions at the end. >> over to you. >> good morning. i'm john klein i was project manager for the auditor report on electrical system safety. i'm joined by aaron fellner and

we are here to describe the audit related to the california utility's commission. office of energy and safety and california sick investor on utilities. there are 3 main issues from that report we like to highlight today. first the investor owned utilities have 40,000 miles of power lines in areas great threat for wild fires. the utilities use power shut off 67 times. from 2013 through 2021 asciiing millions of customers. the agency's process don't hold utilities sufficiently accountable. we like to encourage to you look at other findings in the report on the website. and graphic we created so you review whether there are bare, covered or under grounds distribution lines in your neighborhood. aaron was the lead on the project and describe details about the state of california's electrical grid.

>> thanks, john. >> so i will describe the state of the electric at grid and the improvements that can be made to lower risk of wildfire and power shut offs. 75,000 miles of distribution lines in the state are located in high fire threat areas. those are areas by cal fire and the cpu c to be extreme risk of wildfire and 50% of miles are bear power lines they are a concern they are less effective than other power lines preventing issues that cause sparks and half of fires reported the last 5 years caused by power lines coming in contact with vegetation. now there is a number of improvements they make to the grid to reduce the risk wildfire. first thanksgiving managed is under grounding. utilities estimate it cost 3 million dollars per mile.

and installing covered power line system another managed that cost 700 thousand dollars per mile. utilities slow to make improvements. in 2020 they had 1500 miles of power lines. they don't report where they conducted that work. we don't know if that was in the areas of highest fire risk. if it was this would institute 4% of bare line in thes high threat areas. because replacing power lines represents a huge cost. we focused to ensure they are targeting the high risk areas. and one way of identifying areas that need to be approved is look where utilities shut off power in the past. that really shows where the lines are on risk of wildfire. there was 67 power shut offs from 2013 to 21. deenergizing thouz know arounds of circuits. of the individuals lost power

for upon 37 hours and april 270 circuits experienced 3 our more power shut off in thes same year. over 85 mores of the power shut off in high fire threat areas. now our report did not recommend power shut offs as a tool we reported after 15 power shut offs and found in in 11 of the reports, they described wind damage and vegetation coming in contact with power lines could caused an ignition had the power not been shut off the damage illustrates hardning in the areas to prevents the need for power shut offs when weather conditions occur again. >> state law requires utilities to identify circuits during power shut offs and the measures utilities have taken or plan to take to reduce the need in the future. >> based on the impacts i

described our report recommended the law change to require utilities to identify in the plan improve ams necessary to prevent power shut offs on deenergized lines. we recommend to prevent power shut offs not just reduce the need. >> several reported than i anticipaterousing the number of power shut offs in the coming years. this decrease may be legalityed utilities adjusting settingos equipment rather than improvements to the power grid x. that brings us to utilities altering unplanned outages to reduce the likelihood that vegetation causing a fire in concern conditions and locations. utilities alter settings so the power is not turned on after a default this . is effective but has adverse impact on the communities inform 2021pg and e

triggered 600 outages affecting sick00,000 people occurred with no notice and affected an average of 1 thousand customers per outage for 17 hours in duration. and unlike planned shut offs customers receive no notice of the outages before their power is interrupted. although this may be an effective method but there is no requirement utilities identify the lines that are affected boy the unplanned outages or address how they will reduce the need going forward. that is why our report recommended the law change to include circuits as a result of power set being measures and that this would expand the scope of the law to include shut offs and equipment settings that trig are unplanned outages. now i will turn over to john to discuss the reports other

findings and recommendations. jools we had a number of concerns with the oversight mechanisms that apply to investor owned utilities. concerns with cpu c audit process. they conduct audits of equipment to ensure that the utility is complying with general orders and this should be an important part of cpu c's oversight. we found 3 problems with their use of the audits. first, cpu c does not audit all districts consistently it audited fewer than 70% of power line districts the last 5 years and secondly, did not audit several districts that contain elevated or extreme fire risks. notablely the last 5 years they did not audit the district where the camp and dixie fires start. they state use risk factors audits but could not provide evidence of how it prioritized

the district its did review. third we found they don't penalize use when audits uncover violations. they have never issued a penalty as a result of an audit. indicates that it only issues penalties through investigation process and significant issues when individuals were hurt or killed or buildings destroyed. alternate they have found same issues through audit its penalized utilities for after investigations penalties don'ts increase the compliance. however, if they are useful when a person or injured or dies or building burns down it is not clear why they are not useful when they find problems before the disaster occurs. we recommended the legislator require the cpu c to do 2 thing. first impelement a better audit plan and second, a schedule of penalties for violations identified through the audits and impose those penalties.

we reviewed the energy safety office approval of mitigation plan and safety certifications. activities related utility wildfire mitigation transitioned from cpu c to office of energy infrastructure safety in july of 2021. because the staff and responsibilities other same we refer to both activities conducted at cpu c and the new office as energy safety. one of the energy safety office responsibility is issuing safety certifications to utilities that dem strit they meet criteria required. having approved wildfire mitigation plan identifying activities utility under take to mitigate wildfire risks is a legal requirement. the law requires the utility impelementing the most recently approved mitigation plan. however, the impelementation of

the plan is occurring at the same time the safety certification was injury issued and energy safety cannot assess whether the plan implemented before the safety certification. most critically the state ludoes not include utility impelementation of a prior year's plan criteria for issuance of the certification. when the office issued the 2020 safety certification. it noted it had concerns about pg sxeshgs implementation of the prior plan. it issued the certification because they met the requirements. we woulded the law be changed to require the safety office conclude that the utility has implemented the prior mitigation plan before it issued a safety certification. >> the review of the 2020 certification issueed pg and e and others found weaknesses in

process for issuing them. the energy safety office identified aspects of the 3 largest utilities mitigation plans missing or flued. it approved the plans anyway. the energy safety office issued conditional approvals. is this is a sterile not defined in law. of all 3 utility plans. the director of energy safety stated they were required to submit remedial plans through ajs was not a condition of approval. the energy safety office advised the process for plans and now requires them to address issues before it approved the plans. if use of approvalless called in question the appropriateness of the plans and safety certifications for 2020. we are happy to answer questions i know it was a lot of material in a short period. let us know if you have

questions. >> thank you. i really appreciate it and -- commissioners to put names in the chat if they have questions. i have a question. i hear that the buck stops at the state legislator that is where a lot of this can change. requiring the cpu c to have higher standards for their audits and obviously robust audits. what has the response been? have you had conversations with the governor about this? >> so we made recommends to the state agencies office of energy and infrastructure and safety and the legislator. in some cases we made our recommendations to the legislator because the -- agency in question indicated they were imposed to making certain

changes. we have not had conversations with the governoror. to the best my knowledge there has not been legislation introduced to date. >> this evening >> commissioner williams. >> thank you so much for this presentation. i'm os litting with nausea and anger. talked about unknown 4% of the changed power lines and the upon 37 hours on average without power. the fires i met members in the community who -- the resilience and what they are up against is astonishing. i wonder are you planning any future at it? >> our work is assigned by joint audit committee. we do follow up on a

recommendations so at 60 days and 6 months and a year we request the we made recommendations to provide a response. after the year any recommendations not implemented we obtain a report. so the nature of our primary follow up the audit committee assigns our work. i'm not aware of any additional if you mean planned at the mobile home. anyone can request through that committee and we will follow had they approve. jools i have a question. >> the penalties that you talk b. how much are they? and on average? off the top of my head the pens this were imposed the result of investigations in some case in the millions of dollars. but i could not tell you for

sure when they were. but to date in term it is of penalties and imposed as a result of the audits there have been none. >> thank you. thank you for your questions, commissioner preston? >> thank you, chair fielder and thank you to mr. klein and fielder for the work on this and the presentation. i am curious about if you can expand a little on the comments around the cpu c not having -- not consistentsly auditing the districts. and i just wondering -- and that also include the high risk areas, what response if any was provided on this? is that lack of resources is that they claimed do those.

or other form of methodology there is a method to the approach? what did you get back from them? explaining that? >> so it has been awhile sings the audit. >> i do, absolutely. thank you. the cpu c maintained that they did have a process by which they evaluated. they were unable to demonstrate that to us. so when we ask for that documentation to show how they would designate high risk and prioritize the auditing they were unable to provide that for us. that's why we recommended to the legislator directly for thome prioritize districts. >> and just i 19unable or unwilling? i'm were they claiming a

proprietary or other thing they were barod a privilege or. >> no, no. >> or they refused to turn it over. >> was not they refused they were indicating that what they had done was how they prioritized it. that the way they had conducted the audit was evidence of how they prioritizing the work. of and so, you know we were unable to see methodology to show why they were selecting certain districts at certain times or go back to a district. >> well, glad to see it. to say -- doing that we can't tell you managed is look how we did it. in the managed and draw your strange, and unsatisfactorily way.

>> demonstrates not a lack of seriousness around the prevention side opposed to the more punishment and response -- side. but and i appreciate the recommendation to have a schedule of penalties and more clarity. i guess i am i do want to clarify one thing to recommend this going forward but i want to be clear on what the existing tools are. well is no actual barrier to them issuing penalties or is there. any reason they could not do this now? and -- it changes necessary. they can do that now

>> they have the authority since 2014 to issue penalties. they have not done so. >> for example, cpu c issued a 2.5 million dollars penalty in 2021 for 55 upon,000 violations of a general under. required inspections of distribution poles. we found they identified the same issues in distribution audits. they identified 200 violations of the same general order in the audits. and 2400. violations in another one but did in the issue penalties. so we were finding the same issues in the investigations and the audits the audits not resulting in any penalties. >> thank you for highlighting that. it is a key finding and recommendation. the same about the other issue upon around the audit what

explanation do you get backs why they have not issued if any a single penalty of stemming from an audit? >> the argument was issuing a penalty would not necessarily increase compliance. they did not feel that would have an impact on the agility's compliance with the general orders we disagreed. and they gave you that explanation in writing or in person. in person i'm curious if they kept a straight face. in writing or person? >> i got it right here. indicated the penalties may be viewed punitive method for gaining compliance but don't ensure an increase in utility compliance. >> all right. that's really like i think -- offensive to anyone in the state harmed by this and anyone who is

serious about addressing the issues understandses if you allow business practices that take money to fix to just continue unregulated until the damage and find the -- penalize the company for the actual damage. they were always continue to not proactively prevent the harm in the first place. it is pretty shocking that anyone in an agency would will suggest that penalizing people based on problems in safety audits does not help protect and safety and prevent damage of i appreciate the you all spelling that out and thank you for your work. >> thank you. commissioner preston thank you mr. fellner and kline for your work and presenting here at lafco i appreciate it. >> at this point we will hear

from mar frereclaim our power. thank you for joining you have 5 minutes to present. >> thanks, commissioners. it san honor to be here and to hear directly from the state auditor's office as well as leadership from the san francisco antonio and [inaudible]. i do have slides. can this be pulled up? yes. i'm sharing here. >> i share commissioner williams nausea and anger and commissioner preston's shock. reclaim our power is near low 90 organizations and we other people who are surviving these

fires and the shut offs. it pollution and then the rate hikes and so much this is has real impacts for people and health. we are looking how to ghet out of this mess that created by pg and e. and -- seemingly not -- held accountsable by the agencies that are supposed to. so -- i'm here to present why we think lafco has a role. in -- getting [inaudible] and studying alternative to pg and e. from last march auditor report haplodiplonticed since in we see the massive failureos all levels of pg & e? the legislator passed sb84 thursday 100 billion for pg and

e sketchy under grounding plan add over time will get to an additional 400 a year increase on customer bills who's rates just went up 30% in the last couple years through 2022. the cpu c removed pg & e from the one of the mechanisms for over site and enforcement. and removed them from that process with no action on the

fires wildfires. and just last month pg sxeshgs fired safety workers the workers that are trying to prevent trees from hitting lines. all that stuff they fired thousands after they were let out of probation. then the wildfire mitigation plan that is supposed to mitigate fires, but through you know planning they pass it again despite the massive failures and rather than funding community microgrids governor newsom cut the solar tariffs folks depends on to like pay for solar system and lawmakers voted to keep diablo nuclear power plant opened committing us to the dangerous form of energy. >> what we are seeing is the very top governor newsom let's pg and e off the hook. reclaim power campaign tart in the 2020 and this is the major moves we have seen like -- govern newsom not commit to changing pg & e. in 2019 passing ab1054 this is

where the safety certificates the sham process come from and bail out legislation in 2020. newsom promises but enabled them to return to exit that bankruptcy. no big change in 2021 the wildfire plan approved by the governor and the cpu c despite 60 document failures as odd tors report was setting as well and last year pg and e and office of energy. to keep them in operation. next slide. so, how do we get out of this mess? so reclaim our power has been trying to figure out how far we,

we -- get out of a corporate monopoly. senator jerry hill offered the state golden state energy and 350 was a plan b if pg and e fail today e merge from bankruptcy or failed again to operate the gas and electric services in a safe and reliable manner. golden state energy has been collecting dust when we could try to figure out how to create a replacement for pg sxeshgs and the next slide. where san francisco come in. we need to make golden state energy a reality and that we are asking you all to take that leadership with the board of supervisor for an alternative utility with needs at the center.

you could we are asking to you recommend a study golden state energy act and how it can benefit san francisco's grid. because we continuing is time to have the rest of the service territory the municipalities can -- can -- get better service. get become safe and actually put energy in the hands of the people. next slide? >> and so antonio talked about the san francisco puc report we know this pg & e is preventing affordable housing from being built. they are preventing health facilities from operating because as we reclaim our power and energy folks are saying energy is a human right and

should not be privately owned. because there are things we need to live that are powered by electricity and so the our energy system and our utilities should be in the hands of the public. not the wall street folks who control pg and e and this we cannot change their ways. and so i just you know, i am new to who life lafco is but you were created through voters and residents who wanted to create a municipal utility district. that have been prevented from doing so. we think that is pg and e is a barrier but think you can still pursue your mission. you tried wrestle your way out of their strangle hold offer to buy out the grids.

we think that san francisco's freedom from pg and e can liberate other municipalities and customers that suffer under pg and e. so, we think that -- san francisco is probably the most powerful city in pg and e service territory. can help us the rest of us accomplish this move for alternative utility under and we can do that under the law under golden state energy. >> and yea. reclaim our power. >> hear when we are organizationed and willing to partnerow in that path way to succeeding pg and e. thank you. >> thank you. i really appreciate your work and everyone in retlaim claim our power's work to keep drumming on this.

you know, pg and e as you said, it is headquartered i believe in san francisco. just blocks down from me. here in mission. and -- i do want to look at you think about pg and e and decarbonization separate issues here dealing with the cca. i'm seeing increaseingly in the city and supervisor ronen lead a hearing on this almost a year ago. is that pg & e is holding up dozens of projects. having the housing and schools and having to do with the different, important infrastructure projects. and holding up a lot of progress in decarbonizing our buildings.

you know -- they are requiring ridiculous amounts of transformers across the city like enough housing transformers. this is an issue with the city attorney and a lot of progress made. in the courts related to perk and you know -- [inaudible]. but pg & e is -- as a distributor of our power a crucial aspect to decarbonizing our city. and so i want to say, thank you for your work and -- i'm curious to hear if others have questions or anything they want to share.

commissioner williams. >> i think i don't have to ask anymore questions. just -- thank you it --s these things are an uphill battle and appreciate your resilience in this and the work you do and bringing this forward. i look forward to seeing you again. that's all. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner williams and commissioner preston. >> thank you, and i think my colleagues have summed it up. i will not repeat what but i do thank all folks involved in reclaim our power and other activists who are continuing to push. these fights that are so

long-term against entrenched inaction by many state leaders. are the hardest fight there is is not the -- until there is the fire or the price gouging or the shut offs or thing that gets peopleup set in the moment rightfully so, can be harder to organize around the longer term infrastructure changes that lafco is committed to. i'm sure i speak for other in saying that we welcome your engagement with lafco staff. and appreciate your activism very much. >> thank you. commissioner, preston. are there can we open public comment and members of the public feel free to lineup upon to share thoughts on this item. >> thank you. if there are members of the public had would like to comment on item 4, dial star 3 to be

added to the queue. for those on hold continue to wait until you have been unmuted. we have 6 callers with low in the queue. mr. lamb can you forward the first caller? >> hi. i'm shanea and i cemetery the reclaim our power campaign. thank you to lafco and the state auditors for and reclaim power to shed light on the critical issues presented on today. reclaim power raising issues with pg and emitgation plan and safety certificate for over 2 years. neither process leads to safety and the includers in energy safety apointed by the governoror have not done enough. seeing the certains echoed by life landfall and the staid auditor gives me hope to finding a solution for the pg and e problem.

golden state energy act to allow near receivetory take over pg and e creates not for profit alternative who we know prioritizes share hold and profits over safety. the time for asking pg and e to change is over. time for a new utility to serve and break the monopoly on the energy system. and allow localities like san francisco to implement solution toes meet the needs of our communities in the safe compounding climate and economic crisis. vote yes on the resolution asking the governoror to follow the recommendations of auditor's report and allow lafco to feel study golden state energy and what impacts would be on san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. next caller. i'm brian employmented to thank

the commission for work. it is obvious you care about san francisco rate payors and [inaudible] and appreciate the [inaudible]. pg and e raised rates 20% the last 2 years. 18% this year and what tell do? they will pay back dividends. really, what they care about is wall street and do the catch up. you know they tried duck and cover and we will if i can everything. but had they get a chance all the money goes from california and san francisco to wall street that is wrong. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments next speaker, please. >> good morning commissioners. i'm eric brooks with the local grass-roots organization our city san francisco and the state wide coalition california for

energy choice. i wanted drill down in more specifics about hat solution would look like. so, golden state energy i think the best fit for this to allow local communities to be better for their local community on local benefits is for the state to just take over the [inaudible] the state take over the wires pg and e owns and would still leave in place a local community choice programs and municipality utiliies like in sacramento and allow communities in the 40 to do either with the state controlling the wires. it is like the pg and e wagz now where local communities do municipal or community choice. and that way, if the state takes over the scombiers it does in the do what it takes to help local communities do microgrids and protect communities and make

sure renewables in communities and all the local benefits, the law would allow local approximate upon communities to do it themselves x. that would make it so we can do a mublg faster sack sag was the last city that did municipal utility under pg and e had to fight them in court for 20 dwroers get control of the wires. we need to build clean energy before we can't be in a battle with them in court for 20 year before we build local clean energy and microgrid network. that is what that would look like and we did a coalition did propose this to the state awhile ago but did in the take it up. that's and we can do that on the ballot if the legislatedors will not do it and very likely will not a lot most of them are bought by pg and e, frankly. i wanted to put out there. and another key solution

regardless of the state level is to pursue the local build out of a clean energy network that i sent you an all right about that was signed by 18 organizations. we need that plan to move forward this year. and00 eye will be contacting you all in the future about getting that rolling. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. we have 7 callers in the queue with 2 in the speaking queue. next speaker, please. >> hello this is [inaudible] i'm in district 5. i echo everyone's saying and reclaim power. hoping lafco can pass a resolution. to fit their business model is all about really making money. i think this is the highest paid

ceo in 202150 million dollars. [inaudible] the whole model from investors to business is trying to save moncompetence not invest in solutions and they raise rates but -- you know the rates are just going to -- executives or investors and it is in the providing solutions or safety and things will get worse hopefully lafco and the city can step up. [inaudible]. thank you. >> thank you very much. that was the last speaker. >> thank you very much, madam clerk. thank you to the commenters. thank you reclaim our power and

sharing your work. really, really thankful for it. and seeing that there are no members in the queue folks in the comment line public comment is closed. of now -- commissioners, there hen no action to stand up you know, make these audits robust and to fulfill the vision of golden state energy i'm concerned about the impacts on electricity services to san francisco as pg and e still continue its operate the way they are. i would love to make a motion directing jeremy pollock to work on a brief study out lining what would be needed for a comprehensive study of enacting golden state energy and out lining the potential impacts on electricity service in san francisco of transitioning to

golden state energy. can i have a second for this motion? >> second. >> thank you commissioner williams. moved by myself and seconded by commissioner williams. madam clerk, call the roll. >> thank you on the motion vice chair fielder. >> aye. >> member williams. >> aye. >> member preston. >> aye. >> there are 3 aye's. >> great. thank you fellow commissioners. and the item is approved. can you call item 5? >> item 5 the community choice aggregation cca activity's report. members who wish to provide comment on this item call 415-554-0001, access code: 2499 048 6443 ## then press star 3 to enter the speaker's queue.

wait until the system indicate it is you have been unmute exclude begin your comments thank you. >> madam clerk we'll hear from general manager clean power sf. it you can keep your presentation to nenlts that would be much appreciated. >> thank you. chair approximate vice chair fielder good morning lafco commissioners i have a presentation thank you very much. can you see the presentation now?

>> yea. as, there we go. great. thank you vice chair fielder. >> once again i'ming mike hinze the department assistant general manager for the puc power enterprise responsible for the cleanpowersf program. before i dive in here first, i wanted thank you for your last. item in amplifying the state safety odd and i challenges we had with pg and e. i wanted to address the lafco mou we heard at your december meeting. and lafco puc meeting that addressed us on january 10th. at this meeting, puc staff, myself presented the mou with our staff recommendation. that the mou be approved and the commission authorized the general manager to execute the

agreement. of during the discussion of the itemful the commission identified areas of concern. and commissioners indicated that they would loishg more time to consider the mou before taking action on it. of so my understanding at this point is there are conversations on the matter that will determine next steps. of course, we'll continue to stay in touch with the executive officer on this topic and we will -- have more in the future. >> with that i will jump in my presentation with the 10 minute in minds. for the bvenls my update i will cover our service statistics. new cleanpowersf generation rates. activities related our development and operation of customer programs and power supply procurement. our cleanpowersf program

continues to successful low serve customers and participation in the program is stable. we seen anup tick in customer opt outs the past year. our opt out rate is now 4.4%. this is rounding to the near ef10th of percentage. and that's about a 10th of a percent year over year. and -- even though our super green participation rate is 2.1%, that participation and product is increasing, most low due to xhshl opt outs. and most of these opt ups have in in response to the stele's renewable energy ordinance. requires all buildings greater than 500 thousand dollars square feet to take service from a renewable energydu