michael himes, director of the clean power sf program for the san francisco public utilities commission. the agreement with pg&e before you is a service agreement for clean power sf that is required under state regulations to allow the city to operate the program. under the agreement, pg&e continues to provide distribution services, billing, collection of payment from our customers. the agreement -- the clean power sf was operating under an existing agreement which expired on december 31 of 2018. puc staff had negotiated a new agreement leveraging the existing terms and conditions after some discussion be the city attorney's office, decided to bring it to the board. we had not initially anticipated bringing it to the board given the fact that this agreement can only be entered into with pg&e and the combined term of the agreement would exceed 10 years. it was concluded this required board approval. that agreement was -- or that determination was made in the fall. the san francisco public utilities commission approved execution of the agreement at the meeting and given the recess of the