commissioner miller: i asked him to come. supervisor mirkarimi: this conversation feels all little incomplete without us being able to talk to the consultant himself. it would not be thorough for us to move on this one piece of paper before us. i understand what you are asking in an incremental way that makes sense. i am bothered by what is being depicted that is all or nothing. if that is true, you lose me there. commissioner miller: i think that is true. you would lose me there. every week, we have had this communication. there is a good-faith effort to move it forward and say this is work that could be and should be done. in either disagreed to or not. supervisor campos: commissioner schmeltzer. commissioner schmeltzer: i have a related concern said. and aside from this. first, i am concerned that we do not have a more specific scope in front of us before we are being asked to approve it. i am not sure i am concerned at local power is here or not given my experience of hearing them advocate for themselves. my other concern

i have to agree with you, miller.nybody in the middle of this intense debate would talk about pam grant that the plants got to get back there when the country has a $14.5 trillion debt. i think we should go to his house and rip up the pomegranate. >> at this point half the pomegranates think he is an idiot, okay? they asked for a balanced thing and the republicans say okay we want a balanced budget amendment and they say anything balanced except that anything but that. we want balanced. not that balanced. >> bill: i don't know. the stuff looks, you know, if somebody were coming here from mars, they would say oh reilly you didn't make that president obama turning 50 tomorrow. and going up to chicago big fundraiser. top picket 335800 to hang with the president in a little birthday celebration and you say, miller? that's the very definition of the innate hollowness of a political life when you moments most personal evenings with donors. that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics. 50th bir

miller? >> yeah, there is a co ponent of the development of green -- component of the development of green jobs that was submitted and is part of task seven and eight. so it's in the body of the -- of the document. it's not a separate line item. it wasn't separately numbered. >> but what i'm saying is it didn't wow me. it didn't wow me at all. we have gone through p.u.c. we've gone through recurrent energy. we've gone through the solar city contracts. we have gone through -- i cannot tell you how many dozens and dozens of hours of debate through the budget committee and board of supervisors and being with the understanding that this would yield green jobs. and i still don't think the city has come to scratching the surface of yielding jobs for disadvantaged communities. it's frankly underwhemming. so in this case what i read beyond the eight key points of this percent speck us to, same thing. i don't see it, i don't feel it. so i want to make sure that if we invest in this, that we're

commissioner miller: yes, we have worked with local power before. we work with them through task order. we would not change that. this action before you is to authorize the entering into of a contract. i would not task that work until we have a specific task. the first task i have listed. the rfp has been provided. we would have them provide that for comment. we would see that work. i say this with the caveat that i have received communications from the advocates and consultants that the entire region that if the $390,000 is not funded, they do not want to do any work at all. supervisor mirkarimi: let's call the elephant in the room. i am also an advocate. this is where i come from in this regard. whatever the relationship is with the advocates and consultant is an intimate relationship. it is one that is often wielded -- has wielded leverage on the spotty thinking it has to be an all or nothing relationship between a consultant and this body, too. i do not think that is clear or accurate. at some point, we have to stand up and say that on work prod

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miss miller, through the chair to miss miller, i always feel like we go three steps forward and four steps back when we get to these junctures of dealing with contracts. so just elaborate a little bit more. i thought there was a bit of a convergence or confluence of minds on this contract with the p.u.c.. why are things glitching? >> i think through the chair, nancy miller, your interim executive officer, this is my speculation, but i do believe that you have some new commissioners that don't have the history of some of the other commissioners. i believe that the program because it has changed since the initial ordinance has led to some questions regarding the phasing and the risk. i do think that the questions that were raised by the s.f.p.u.c. commission evidenced at least to me there had not been a lot of understanding by the commission and that's really all that i can say. i've talked with mike about going -- taking the month of august and briefing those commissioners on the program where we have been, the history to be available to answer questions to them. so that we can figure

commissioner miller: yes, we have worked with local power before. we work with them through task order. we would not change that. this action before you is to authorize the entering into of a contract. i would not task that work until we have a specific task. the first task i have listed.

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commissioner miller: i am asking for $100,000 to do some of those tasks. the $390,000 was provided last february.

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commissioner miller: yes, we have worked with local power before. we work with them through task order. we would not change that. this action before you is to authorize the entering into of a contract. i would not task that work until we have a specific task. the first task i have listed. the rfp has been provided. we would have them provide that for comment. we would see that work. i say this with the caveat that i have received communications from the advocates and consultants that the entire region that if the $390,000 is not funded, they do not want to do any work at all. supervisor mirkarimi: let's call the elephant in the room. i am also an advocate. this is where i come from in this regard. whatever the relationship is with the adves

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commissioner miller: i am asking for $100,000 to do some of those tasks. the $390,000 was provided last february. maybe i am missing your question. it is a lot of money. i think some of the tasks, particularly the risk and financial analysis could be cut down. there are people we have available at the sfpuc internally and through finance that might be able to do some of that work. i am here before you to ask for $100,000 to start the rfp process to leasfor what we needt couple of years to clear in city renewables. supervisor mirkarimi: i am definitely open to the $100,000 portion of it. i would never agree to the $390,000. absolutely not. it looks like it is trying to manufacture work in search of trying to deplete the remaining amount of the funds that exist. i am sorry. that is just wrong. i oversaw a number of those reports in the past. sometimes i was pretty underwhelmed by the analysis provided at a high cost with regard to the fact there was not the level of depth that i was looking for. i want to make sure this is teased in such a way that we're not

commissioner miller: i am asking for $100,000 to do some of those tasks. the $390,000 was provided last february. maybe i am missing your question. it is a lot of money. i think some of the tasks, particularly the risk and financial analysis could be cut down. there are people we have available at the sfpuc internally and through finance that might be able to do some of that work. i am here before you to ask for $100,000 to start the rfp process to leas

miss miller, through the chair to miss miller, i always feel like we go three steps forward and four steps back when we get to these junctures of dealing with contracts. so just elaborate a little bit more. i thought there was a bit of a convergence or confluence of minds on this contract with the p.u.c.. why are things glitching? >> i think through the chair, nancy miller, your interim executive officer, this is my speculation, but i do believe that you have some new commissioners that don't have the history of some of the