final product is so vastly different from the original intent, decision-makers like the public utilities commission need to exercise their oversight role. that's exactly what the commission did in this case and i'm glad they did. another part of the program that the board approved is the state law requirement that any community choice aggregation program be opt out, which supervisor breed mentioned in her question. i believe that any public power program would need to be opt in, allowing residents to make an informed choice about their power bills. i'm committed to pursuing state legislation to allow cca to be opt in and i hope you, supervisor campos, and all the other members of the board, will partner with us to go to sacramento and demand that our residents be allowed to control their own choices. i would be eager to work with you to make this happen at the state legislature as soon as possible. but to answer your question again directly, i strongly believe that the commission did the right thing when it took a look at the program before it which hardly resembles the program authorized by this b

final product is so vastly different from the original intent, decision-makers like the public utilities commission need to exercise their oversight role. that's exactly what the commission did in this case and i'm glad they did. another part of the program that the board approved is the state law requirement that any community choice aggregation program be opt out, which supervisor breed mentioned in her question. i believe that any public power program would need to be opt in, allowing residents to make an informed choice about their power bills. i'm

even now as we're here today at question time, the public utilities commission are upstairs getting an update on the many months and significant work ahead to restore and repair our sierra water and power facilities. san francisco is lucky to have some of the best, brightest and most prepared city employees for situations just like this. i also want to thank supervisor mark farrell for his leadership as acting mayor during the time and i want to thank you, supervisor farrell. for that, let's get started with the questions. >> thank you. why don't we hear from our first colleague, supervisor mar from district 1. >> thank you for being here, mr. mayor. as you know, san francisco has set ambitious goals and i thank you for your strong leadership also in ambitious goals and implementing our climate change efforts in the city. in many ways, our city is making incredible strides in this direction from increasing bicycling to pursuing zero waste goals to hiring our new excellent environmental policy advisor to you, roger kim, who has a strong background in environmental justice and community

to ask why they did not provide the not to exceed rates and i will ask the public utilities commission staff to present their quick response on these questions and i believe they have a draft response that will be a shared with the public utilities commission for the commission to respond on in their own words. but to me, it was important to ask the questions. the answers i'm curious about but i'm not thinking there is real answer in the questions because what i felt like the commissioners had provided in the form of question and direction for puc staff were very limited and not thought out and more like efforts to delay the clean power sf program with very flimsy rational and didn't amount to much. i would like to have puc staff today present their responses to that. i will begin with that part of the update on lafco is to be able to hear on puc staff on the letter of inquiry that we've issued and we'll take it from there without any questions that arise as we move forward. i think miss malcolm will be discussing those questions. >> thank you, commissioners, kim malcolm director of sa

citing the board's role as the preeminent policymaking body in san francisco, urging the public utilities commission to set not-to-exceed rates for cleanpowersf without any further delay, and promising further action if the public utilities commission fails to set rates. >> supervisor breed? >> thank you. since this item is up for adoption without reference to committee, i'm going to try and keep my comments as brief as possible. but this issue really addresses two things. the first is the merits of clean power. the second is the board of supervisors's role as policy maker -- as a policy making body for the city and county of san francisco. on the first point i would argue and i don't think this is an exaggeration. the cleanpowersf is the program is the singlemost important environmental initiative in san francisco. we have the opportunity here to provide 100% renewable californian and union made electricity. that is a major, major achievement. according to the epa production and transition of electricity is the single largest source of greenhouse gases in the country. more than transportation, more

>> i'm asking the public utilities commission to please not let them take my community's water. do not support the 45-year contract. please protect us, thank you, luke. >> with one young fryeburg resident testifying, you have people tweeting us from fryeburg. >> we have nick, he's concerned about the conflict of interest. who knows, i don't know the laws, but shouldn't it be tightened to even serve on a water board? we have nicki, talking about the public utilities commission, and no one spoke out about the contract. so the people of fryeburg are asking a lot of questions. mike, what are you thinking? >> mike, hang on, before you jump in there, i want to give thomas a chance to talk here, because we're talking about the public utility commission, and i want to explain the conflict of interest issue that a lot of people are talking about. we mentioned at the top of the show, an advocate, all of whom have ties to nestle. and thomas, you've not decided whether or not to recuse yourself yet. two people already have, two are left. and why have you not decided and what are the consequ

solar only delivers an unbundled rec is there is a puc provision that says -- a california public utilities commission be, not confuse things. california public utilities commission provision that says the owner of the solar panel for rooftop solar owns the rec, not the utility. so, the utility takes the legislate. the customer owns the rec. so, at that point by its nature, it is now an unbundled rec by the nature of the puc rules. the reason why we set those rules up that way is to give the more economic value to the people putting solar panels on their house. if they own the recs, the idea is hopefully some day they would be able to sell those recs into a market just like anybody else and that would give additional value to the solar panels. >> and, so, if san francisco were to do a lot of local buildout of solar power plants, they would not be able to count those -- that power as bundled or -- how -- >> that's an interesting question that i can't answer. as i said, that's not a california public utilities commission rule. that would be a clear issue for pg&e since we directly regulate them. our reg

the new headquarters of the san francisco public utilities commission at a5 25 golden gate avenue is more than just a 13-story building and office ablation. instead, city leaders, departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest office buildings in america. that's more than a building. that's a living system. ♪ ♪ when san francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state office building. >> this was an old eight-story brown building the state owned and the workers' comp people were in that building. it was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. when i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadn't done anything there and the mayor thought the same. >> if an earthquake happened, the building was uninhabitable. it sat there vacant for quite a while. the city decided to buy the building in 1999 for $2. we worked and looked at ways that we can utilize the building for an office building. to build an icon i can building that will house a lot of city departments. >> the san franci

and the public utilities commission, the puc, has worked along with the department of public health to educate residents to drink as much tap water as possible. i think [speaker not understood] and different efforts at the community level have been really beneficial, but we absolutely need to increase the ability of people to use their own refillable water bottles. and unlike bottled water, hetch hetchy tap water costs less than a half a penny per gallon. so, it's almost like costless in some ways. it's quality tested over 100,000 times a year and it's highly regulated by the environmental protection agency or the epa. i think the fear of drinking tap water often has been caused by slick and really misleading campaigns by the bottled water companies and over the years there is a certain fear. but i think the countering with a strong public education program, community education, has been critical. and many of you know that my work to work with christina and others within the department of public health to combat childhood obesity has been a passion of mine. but drinking tap water and l

citing the board's role as the preeminent policy making body in san francisco, urging the public utilities commission to set not-to-exceed rates for clean power sf without any further delay, and promising further action if the public utilities commission fails to set rates. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you. colleagues, i would like to ask for a continuance for this item to next week's board meeting. >> colleagues, supervisor breed has made a motion to continue for one week. seconded by supervisor avalos. if we could take that motion to continue without objection. that shall be the case to the 17th of september. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you read the in memoriams? >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor mar for the late ms. susan heron zib ot. on behalf of supervisor tang for the late young kevin john mcguire. on behalf of the full board of supervisors for the late ms. gail bishop. ms. evelyn wilson. and ms. christine vandemere. >> and is there any more business in front of the body? >> that concludes our busin

that were approved at the environment commission, and that we encourage the san francisco public utilities commission to work with the san francisco department of the environment to craft a program that is acceptable to the commission. >> would you mind to repeat that one more time? >> well, i wrote down that what he said was the program as we heard about it tonight does not meet the original goals and we encourage the puc to work with the san francisco commission to craft a program that is acceptable to the commission. i have two problems with that, i have to say. i don't think it's politic to say that they should work with us to get a program that's acceptable to our commission. i just don't think that's politic. and then i have to go back to what i said about the goals originally. we can't -- i don't want us to talk about these goals if they can all -- >> not to interrupt, but you may not have to even express that because the motion doesn't have a second. [speaker not understood]. okay, can you read it again? >> the program as we heard about it tonight does not meet the original goals, and we enco

so, we are now on item 7, lake merced memorandum of understanding with public utilities commission. >> commissioners, [speaker not understood] tag teaming you here. the item before you is discussion of possible action to discuss the memorandum of understanding between the san francisco public utilities commission and the [inaudible] to address maintenance, operations and recreational program at lake merced. first, a bit of background because it does have a large background here. as you know, lake merced is a 300 acre freshwater lake which sits within a larger tract of property known as the lake merced tract. it serves multiple purposes including acting as emergency water supply in case of disaster and has a destination for outdoor weighter based recreation such as boating and fishing. in 1950, the public utilities commission adopted a resolution giving the rec and park department the right to "occupy, use, and improve for park and recreation purposes the lake merced tract." your predecessors on the rec and park commission accepted this offer and for the last 53 years rec and park has

meal amelia cruz of the san francisco public utilities commission. >> thank you, commissioners, my name is emilio cruz for the public utilities commission. the puc thanks you for this tonight. project pool is established by two men robert kelly and robert mason. the idea of the program is to reach to some of the our less advantaged high schools and employment to high school students. the point was to give them employment to help themselves and families and exposures to careers throughout the city. 32 you that program it grew through the years and this year the public utilities commission under the general manager has hired 140 students from local high schools to participate in project pool and through its investment and our partners we hired a total of 640 youth this summer to give them exposure to units. [ to opportunities. [ applause ] the last thing i will say that there is so many other reasons to support diversity. as we bring these students into puc and as they commas high school students and college interns, they see the diversity within our organization. they see an african amer

determined by the public utility commission and some language should be strictly and on page 3 line 6 there's a refers to the san francisco water department it should be for the public works commission. so those are technical amendments i'll move when we go to public comment. >> great is there any public comment on to me number 1? seeing none, public comment is closed. i'll forward this to those the board >> so first could we move the technical amendments. >> yes. >> and i'll move this for the full board tomorrow. >> item 2 is an ordinance for the use of self-prethat he would to permits the projects to the city of san francisco. >> supervisor kim is the leg legislator and they want this to be turned to the call of the chair for rehe scheduling at a later time. >> i'm happy to support given that supervisor customs not here it's solicited an interesting conversations. over the last twoou hours i've heard that the industry is trying to found a better way to muffler the sounds out of their planes. okay. is there any public comment on item number 2. i have two cards. before we take public

i'm holding in my hand here a copy of a resolution that was made by the public utilities commission back in december of 2011. this is a commission that consisted of all the same members that are currently on the commission according to radika fox of the public utilities commission. one person was absent. that was commissioner cain, but all the rest of the commissioners were present. this is a resolution that approves the shell energy contract. it approves the general manager going into negotiations with the shell energy contract. the mayor said that the shell contract was a sole source contract, but we know that these contracts were contracts for providing clean power to the puc and consumers in san francisco. it was competitively bid. there was a lot of discussion over and over again from the mayor's responses that the board of supervisors had approved by resolution an ordinance a certain energy mix of 95% clean power and only 5% recs. there is nothing in the resolution ordinance that says that you would have that energy mix and there is actually in this resolution that comes from the p

i want to acknowledge our public utilities commission. we take for granted the water we get throughout san francisco and we take for granted the electricity and other functions we get from the puc. the fact we didn't have any interruption and we continued to get clean water and the electricity they found a way to a make sure there was no disruption to our electricity entry. it speaks volumes of the puc to delivery those critical utilize services. i also want to streets how thrilled so many people are that the camp was a saved. many san franciscans may not even you know what the camp is but it's an absolute jewel of the city and so many families have been going there. so many of us were terrified. once you lose it, it's hard to get back. but i'm very, very happy that generations which san franciscans about continue to be able to use the camp. and a supervisor. i don't want to belavish the point but i said to sober myself with the comment of supervisor farrell and wiener. i'm also very impressed by the work with respect to the puc are i kno

san francisco public utilities commission. this is a discussion and possible action item. >> and really quickly, colleagues, thank you. malcolm for being here. we have a new commissioner, relatively new commissioner and we've been working on this program, staying on top of it, becoming aware and there was interest from a number of us on the commission to hear the status of the program, to have a check-in, and to find out more of what's the status and where things are at going into what we know is a decision that's before the san francisco public utilities commission next tuesday. so, thank you very much for being with us tonight. >> thank you for having me. i'm pleased to be here. i was able to brief your policy committee i believe in may at hauled's invitation. actually a number of things have happened since may. ~ commissioner wald i want to give you a history on a program, which is quite long for a program that hasn't been launched yet. and tell you about the kinds of policy issues we've been trying to address recently and

. >> the san francisco public utilities commission has an important job.provide clean, pristine public drinking water to 2.6 million people in the san francisco bay area from the hetch hetchy regional water system. with also generate clean renewable energy for city services like public buses, hospitals, schools, and much more. and finally, we collect and treat all the city's wastewater and stormwater making it safe enough to discharge into the san francisco bay and pacific ocean. >> in 2006 the puc was planning a record number of projects. >> the public utilities commission is a very infrastructure-rich organization. we're out there rebuilding the water system. we've budget working on power generation in the country. we've been doing sewer for the city. we're looking at a brand-new rebuild of all watt systems in san francisco and we haven't had a home that's been other than mental. >> they staff over 900 people. the puc is in two office locations. >> you know, this is such a great place for a building. if the puc owned that building and we could make that

of the california public utilities commission. >> there's another issue, this one is happening behind closed doors during a meeting with san bruno's mayor and the city manager. offer chief investigator with more on a growing conflict and the controversy as well. >> witnessed something like that before. >> reporter: it happened inside the san francisco offices of the california public utilities commission. >> his behavior was highly unprofessional and inappropriate. >> reporter: at a meeting between san bruno leaders and puc president michael peavy. >> we sat down and the first thing he said was, this is your meeting, you called it. what do you want? >> what was that tone? >> the tone was arrogance. i was a little surprised. >> reporter: san bruno's mayor and city manager called the meeting last december to discuss pg&e's penalty and safety plans. it was two years after the deadly san bruno pipeline explosion killed eight people, injured more than 60 and leveled an entire neighborhood. >> he said, what you did in front of my building was bull [ bleep ]. and i was taken aback. he was re

i continue to be grateful for their services to our city on the public utilities commission along with commissioners moran and deter. i have been very clear in publicly stating my concerns with the community choice aggregation program for many months, including the compulsory participation, the higher electric rates, the lack of a real plan for local jobs and local renewable energy. but it's not just me. our friends and labor movement have also been vocal in their concerns. they voted back in may to formally oppose the cca program. and if you read their resolution as i did, you'll notice that their rationale for posing the latest version of the community choice aggregation is exactly the same as mine. first and foremost, they want to see a program that actually creates jobs in san francisco by creating city-owned sustainable energy sources. this could include building wind farms, installing solar panels on municipal buildings, doing energy retrofits to existing residential or commercial buildings. supervisor, the voters are the ultimate policy makers of the city and county of san franc

major utilities and government agencies such as pacific gas and electric, our san francisco public utilities commission, our california public utilities commission as well as the environmental protection agencies. we are now home to more than 35 solar companies and five of the top 10 solar module manufacturers in the world have their offices here in san francisco. we're home to energy major developers and installers, including sun run, sun edison, teetion energy, basse electric, [speaker not understood]. so, to the solar companies already here in our great city, thank you for investing in our great city. ~ teague as those who are not yet located in san francisco, we welcome you. ~ with open arms. (applause) >> please consider joining your great colleagues in being part of the world's most innovative and dynamic solar clusters in the world. we continue to be a great city. we're very proud of our partnerships and our solar companies and our service providers, out of their work. we're not stopping here with these milestones. we're going to heed the call of our governor. we're going to get to goals yet to