a pg & e substation. there is a lot of utilities that come right into this area. part of what we have down here is pg & e, which is future connections they want to have. this red area is showing where they have another one there where we have another tree. that tree, we had to remove as well because we could not fit it into there. as you go up the street, there is additional construction that happens as part of phase 3. as a part of that, this will be the entrance to the garage here. as you go through here there will be construction that happens at this point. this will be in a part of the garage entry right here. part of what has happened here is we are expanding the sidewalk. so the original curb line was this line along here and that gets moved out as we move down the street at different phases. that last tree was in the way of the garage entry and also future construction. so ideally, our intent and what weed like to do is install the trees that we can. but as we've gone through on 8th street we find we can't

&e where the partners here are preventing pg&e. >> a cc a program is a partnership with the incumbent utility, we work with pg&e to provide service to customers, customers in our territory continue to get their bills from pg&e, we ever been working in partnership for the last three years and i must say it's been going well over the last year and a half and we have a good working part ner ship that's meeting the needs of customer ins a cooperative way. >> it didn't sound like cooperation from the previous witness. >> i would echo the sentiments of the first speaker in the words that i used just now is that in the last year and a half, we've had a cooperative relationship with pg&e but the comments made earlier is accurate, we had a difficult launch, nrfs a lot of misinformation nufp of what i'm hearing today, kind of getting some flash backs, a lot of misinformation that is not grounded in fact that can make it difficult as a decision-maker to make a clear decision to move forward, the ceqa concept that's being brought up, the job loss at substations doesn't make any sense as i describ

we know pg & e is going to fight you and you need to fight pg & e. >> your time is up. >> next speaker please. anyone else would like to comment? seeing no one. public comment is closed. >> next item. >> schedules of rates and charges of the san francisco public utilities commission power enterprise for phase one of the clean power sf community choice aggregation program for renewable power procurement within san francisco. >> today i can like to talk to you about the history of the program, just a few reminders. talk a little bit about the program and how it's designed and how we vision it and how we have revised it and made a change to make it a more viable program than it has been in the past. first, as you all know in 2004 the board of supervisors voted to implement as part of it's energy resource program and a way to decrease in-house gases and initiate efficiency. more recently in september, the board voted to authorize the general manager to sign a contract to shell energy and go ahead with the program subject to the usual regulatory authorizations that we require including auth

is something you were looking at. i thought i heard a mention of that rate. >> it would be below 11 cents. pg & e's rate is 9 cents that would be adopted. >> you don't have an estimated rate below 11.9? >> the latest we have is about 10.9 cents and we are working with shell and i'm still trying to cut back our budget. >> i know there is a lot of folks that have worked on this before i became a supervisor and there have been a lot of hours on this and this is a significant project and of course we want this program to be a huge success so of course the rate is going to be a huge success to that rate. thank you. >> i do want to say, i want to put a pigeon for the marine county which they have had a successful program for the rate but they have not had like san francisco with the puc and the resources. we are very lucky to have that kind of business environment for this program. >> i know there was a proposed fee for opting out and now there is no fee. finally the job component definitely i think is really something that could be really significant. i want to make sure that we have a clear plan

became basically had to get competition and i just want to say that this is an amazing program that provides competition and i think pg&e will move forward in a more aggressive way to attaining renewable goals and this is just fantastic, it's a platform to move forward in a very -- as a foundation to add in best and quest features like feed-in tariffs, we can look at marine energy authority and all the of things they've done and i believe this program will enable that. i also am a supporter of full disclosure and transparency, [inaudible] i believe the father of one of the commissioners and i wonder if that's a conflict of interest. i have no idea if that's fraou or not, when it's the alliance of jobs for sustainable growth by [inaudible] is that a conflict of interest i guess is my question. and one quick other -- >> are you asking for a legal opinion? >> i don't know, i'm just wondering -- maybe i just wanted to point out -- >> if you want to make a charge, i want to know what it is. >> it seems to me like it may be a conflict of interest. >> you're going to throw it out anyway. >> to me, it seems like a conflict of

investment of 150 megawatts of a wind turbine farm, the supplier must bid generation rate that is will current pg&e generation rates for each rate class, that's not what we have before us today. what was proposed, what was initially voted on, what the board initially supported is a very different program, so while i think staff has made strong strides to get to that, that's not where this initially started and we do feel that there has been a bit of a bait and switch on that, we are concerned about moving forward with a plan that doesn't respond to the earlier requirements of local generation. in addition, i think it's important to note enrdc does a report on the top energy providers in the country and they categorize that by pollution and by megawatt hour, pg&e is the cleanest for c02 of any investor of utility in the country, it seems strange it's doing all this effort to move away from that. thank you. >> commissioner vaoet -- vietor, you had a comment? >> i wonder if you could just respond to that earlier goals and the initial comments that mr. [inaudible]. er >> were you here at the time tha

other forms in the works right now, there is the senate bill for additional green power, 43, thank you, i was looking for the number, and also we have pge -- pg&e that is going to start their program, so my feeling is something different i wanted to suggest. i learned that with 19.5 million dollars, we could set up a ppa similar to the solar we have on sunset, we can set up a megawatt, taking those monies and putting it into build-out instead of going into this power program, so at this time, until it is reworked, my feeling is i cannot vote today on this. >> thank you very much, commissioner. i wanted to thank the staff of the puc and also i want to thank the staff of the board of supervisors and lafco for all of your hard work and of course to the advocates who are here and labor who are here as well. i think it's very important that we're grateful for all the participation that you've provide and had the input you provided. but i said before that this program has to be a clean energy goals articulated listi'

what my bill is, my electric bill is 103 dollars and some cents, now i'm not -- yes, you will see it when it comes around to you. you know, i don't represent or get paid by pg&e, but as you see, you all when i got my solar -- >> god, i wish i had your bill. >> so, what i want you all to do is please, what you continue with, i think 7 years, years ago, they were talking about bringing pfrs into my community, you know, and that failed, you all voted it down, and this is what we have solar, and the thing of it is, is that the's the reason when i spoke in the beginning is i'm here to support solar for all of san franciscans, thank you so very much. >> thank you, doctored, eric brooks? >> good afternoon, commissioner, eric brooks, san francisco green party, local grass roots organization outer city, i've been working on this for about 9 and a half year, i think most of you commissioners if not all of you, all of our ally supervisors, eric mar, john avalos, all of you are staffed and all of even my environmental group allies can tell you that over the last 9 and a half years, because i've been pushing so hard on the local build-out making sure it happens, i've be

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dpw's perspective is we don't want to eliminate some of the trees but also respecting pg & e. i think there is still plenty of room for access to the driveway. i think it's important to note that this is a really expansive vast sidewalk now. if you walk by it. i should have brought you a photo taken today. the sidewalk is already built out with no greenery. i think that is not in keeping with the city's plan policy. even though you might end up with an -- alone tree. i hope that you grant the authority for an allowing to assess rather than the planting of a quantity of the required trees that we would try to work closely with pg & e and the developer that would get the trees would be assessed, but if you would be willing to grant a little bit of flexibility that you were not able to compromise with pg & e, then perhaps to remove these would be assessed. i really believe there is room for one tree. the other thing is these were larger tree replacement requirement as you may recall the department we reversed our opposition for the removal of the trees because they were already da

is a very strong way to do that. look at building behind the meter and building in revenue stream in that manner. pg & e says 50 percent of this can be achieved. yes on this. thank you. >> thank you very much, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners, my name is may. i work in san francisco. i'm testifying against the clean four sf program because it is not culturally competent. i believe it will force my family who has never heard of this program to participate without their consent. this is automatic enrollment that requires those who are unwilling to participate to opt out. immigrants tend to not change their -- my family and other immigrant residents are likely to have to figure out how to opt out of a program they don't understand. this means that the automatic rolement requirement would force the residents to comply with a program they don't even understand. in sho

i mean, what is the competitive pg&e? if it's easier and we can get through it, we can say that we have concerns about the current design of the program and its progress towards the city's local and renewable energy generation and local job training and placement goals. and if need be, you know, it's no mystery we have the vice president of the commission with us tonight. he's heard all of this. everything can be conveyed. i can be at the commission. and if they want to endorse some of this stuff, i can lay it and some of the stuff we're looking for. but all this stuff, you know, what is the future dependency on recs? do we want to have a conversation about how long we've got to get off recs? what is the future dependency, a week? you know what i mean, we're selling the weeds on all this stuff. the road to having certain of these things. >> sir, in all honesty, i won't do this another 10 minutes. i will not. as a representative of this city and of people that i think are represented on this thing, i would rather just go t

the san rafael shot shows the blinking lights is pg&e crew this morning, a van plowed through a tree power pole and they are trying to get the pole repaired. traffic is light in the area and moving at the limit. we will watch it. >> in develop news, all lanes of highway 101 in san mateo are back open following a fatal crash that happened after 11:30 last night on northbound 101. the authorities say one person was killed. a sig-alert was in place if two hours while crews worked to clear the seen. in word on identity of the person who was killed and the cause of the crash is under investigation. >> developing news from the huge wildfire burning near yosemite national park tourists are leave chased away by the blaze that more than tripled and quadrupled in side in 24 hours. katie data has more. firefighters must be frustrated. >> the fire is hard to get to and it is out of control. so frustration and, finally, evacuation order. the sheriff says some people must leave the area now because there is an immediate threat to hive or property. the fire has burned more than 6 63,000 acres which

and here is the shot we have promised, cars are there on the side of the road and that is the pg&e crews trying to fix the power poll and traffic is light through the area right now, southbound 101 approaching the parkway. >> new developments in the san diego mayor sex scandal and a deal may have hit a snag. >> it appears the fight to save san francisco city college will be waged in the courts and san francisco city attorney has filed a lawsuit. first, the america's money report. >> the nfl season has not started and super bowl ads are 85 percent sold out at $4 million for 30-second ad. they $3.8 million last super bowl. pandora is ending 40 hour a month listening limit saying the users will again have unlimited listening that starts september 1. they started the limit six months ago and did not say the reversal is being made. or why, anyway. windows phones are boarding the next delta flight. attendants will now use them to process inflight transactions. the whiskey market is doing well for jack daniels because they are expanding to keep up with global demand and make sure every drop of

. >> the city is paying pg&e 20, 000 a day to make up in part of the fire. in san francisco david stevenson ktvu channel 2 news >>> i want to give you another perspective of how large this fire is and mark you were showing me that something is disappearing from the satellite now. >> we have the storms and the rainstorms, not today, picking up once again of the big plume outside and you can see it is extending into nevada. this is the direction of the huge rim fire right now. fact, the smoke behavior picks up over the afternoon hours and once again we are expecting that first thing tomorrow as well as the fire backs off a little bit over night. we have this, the fog is hogging the coastline right now and the low clouds of the half-moon bay. around the bay itself. once again this is a constant out of fairfield. and some neighborhoods for you winds out of the west of sfo and right about 18 miles per hour. the time lapse looking out for the bay itself, there is evidence of the low clouds deck out of the distance. this will be a factor pushing back into the bay o

can you tell us what progress is pg made towards reconciliation. know there are elections next month, aren't there, in former war zones? >> it is not enough. reconciliation is a wider process. the conflict itself is for a long time it has sought independence from this conflict. this conflict today as you see, the south african order has to be implemented, the victims have to feel confident they're participating in the reconciliation process. at the moment what's happening is government is implementing things and importing things and these aren't being treated as reconciliation process. there are a lot of constraints in the process. part of the problems, and as for the country, the war in there, they're not included in this reconciliation process at all. it is not a transparent process at all. the heavy presence of the army in the north and east, what kind of a reconciliation process can take place there. the government is basically boosting its image by trying to say that it is basically involved in the development process. that is the only thing th