mr. ackerman. thank you for your extraordinary service. you are going to be messed around these meeting rooms. this might be the final six moments to speak in my 30 year career. i want to first start by apologizing to the deputy secretaries because you have been brought here as a ruse. you were being used as foil for the conflicting intentions of some people on our committee and others in washington for partisan political purposes. and i'm not here to explain how we can work together more cooperative we as americans to make things better. but my fear is i would leave here that we would become a partisan bickering bunch of old people trying to exploit what ever we can to our own political the advantage. we have become a group of small people with press secretaries. we have become a people that want to exploit any kind of national calamity for our political life advantage of our party. and the public is sick and tired of aid as they should be. we need a viable political parties in this country to make for democracy work. we need to let least

mr. chairman that we do have hydro electricity as part of this and we need to see how that is implemented. thank you very much. >> thank you. i have -- additional cards to name? jessica dur man ackerman and david mccord. >> hi. i am jessica ackerman and conservation staff with the sierra club and i am here to represent the 30,000 members in the bay area. i want to thank the supervisors for talking about the importance of this program and climate change and the importance of the program at for outreach. this is opportunity for economic growth but only if it includes local build out and we're seeing strong benefits and the installation of clean energy, energy efficiency, and leveraging other regional sources and we are concerned that the pln has a stagnant rate of power on the open market and -- dear the duration of the shell contract. a proposal is being delivered right now that will shape or improve the developments and resources and financial modeling and make the economy more sustainable and provide economic benefits to our people and effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. the way cleanpower sf has passed the board of supervisors is as opt out program and the language used in

mr. chairman that we do have hydro electricity as part of this and we need to see how that is implemented. thank you very much. >> thank you. i have -- additional cards to name? jessica dur man ackerman and david mccord. >> hi. i am jessica ackerman and conservation staff with the sierra club and i am here to represent the 30,000 members in the bay area. i want to thank the supervisors for talking about the importance of this program and climate change and the importance of the program at for outreach. this is opportunity for economic growth but only if it includes local build out and we're seeing strong benefits and the installation of clean energy, energy efficiency, and leveraging other regional sources and we are concerned that the pln has a na