supervisor randleman hi randleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sartor sartor i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chen chen i supervisor chen chen i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio either are lebanese. >> thank you madam clerk. without objection the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. let's go to the consent agenda items one through nine items two through five, mr. president. >> absolutely. items two through five. >> yes. these items so much these items are on consent. they may be considered routine if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. all rights i don't see well does anyone want to remove anything from the consent agenda? i don't see anything without objection these well madam clerk can we take that same house and call if you could, mr. president. >> okay then let's take that same house, same call. without objection, these ordinance ordinances are finally passed. >> and with that, madam clerk, let's go to the regular agenda unfinished business item six ite

commissioner randleman. randleman absent. chair melgar i. melgar i vice chair sadr sadr i . commissioner cheryl cheryl i. commissioner walton walton i there are ten eyes the motion is approved. >> thank you so much madam clerk let's go to item number three place item three community advisory committee report this is an information item. >> okay. we have chair kat siegel, cac chair to give the cac director's report. >> hi. good morning. chair melgar vice chair sauder and commissioners. at our january meeting the cac voted to support the proposal allocations for five requests. you'll also be considering today the 2025 2026 transportation fund for clean air local expenditure criteria and the state and federal advocacy program. on the latter item members reiterated concerns from several previous meetings about the difficulty in getting safety data reporting from autonomous vehicles. we also had to high interest information items that generated a lot of discussion. the first was a detailed update on the state of the regional transportation revenue measure that several members inc

now president randleman that led to a local housing development corporation member to purchase a building when tenants with the rent control excuse me were threatened with evictions and displacement. we plan on meeting with development corporations and tenants rights groups to collect information on how to best do this when needed. afterward we'll provide a town hall to share information that we collected. this photo is from the recent successful efforts near dolores park preventing evictions and saving rent control units in the neighborhood. >> next we have jen rech. >> hello and thank you so much for taking your time to consider supporting our chess report. >> we're very excited about how it reflects the ongoing work of the cultural district as well as guiding our future work. >> so the first goal i'll discuss is focused on place keeping and placemaking. and the report contextualizes this recommendation since the massive community losses during the aids epidemic and during the two technology booms in san francisco. >> land use changes in the castro have typically benefited a wealthier,

and i just also want to thank president randleman for your tenacity in making sure that this doesn't get fall through the cracks like so many things in san francisco that we just don't want to touch because it's a little bit controversial. so we just let it be and things get worse. >> so with that i don't know if you have some wrap up remarks president made before supervisor chen makes a motion . thank you chair melgar i did again just want to thank all the folks who who came out to express their concerns on on on from various different perspectives. i do think that some of the issues have been raised about the inter-departmental coordination between dpw and public works that doesn't go away whatever happens with this legislation and i think it's worth us on the board of supervisors continue to talk to both of those departments and try to figure out how to make it easier to make to make businesses more accessible. and i think this legislation does create a framework for the board of supervisors again to check in after some of these conversations have happened and see if there is a ne

and i just also want to thank president randleman for your tenacity in making sure that this doesn't get fall through the cracks like so many things in san francisco that we just don't want to touch because it's a little bit controversial. so we just let it be and things get worse. >> so with that i don't know if you have some wrap up remarks president made before supervisor chen makes a motion . thank you chair melgar i did again just want to thank all the folks who who came out to express their concerns on on on from various different perspectives. i do think that some of the issues have been raised about the inter-departmental coordination between dpw and public works that doesn't go away whatever happens with this legislation and i think it's worth us on the board of supervisors continue to talk to both of those departments and try to figure out how to make it easier to make to make businesses more accessible. and i think this legislation does create a framework for the board of supervisors again to check in after some of these conversations have happened and see if there is a ne

. >> with that i'll also note that we have been joined by vice chair randleman and are there any other communications ? >> seeing none. >> your next item please. all right. next item directors is item four board of directors new and or old business. >> if i may, i want to take a moment not only to welcome everybody to 2025 but only take a moment to thank our directors that have served and have gone on to other adventures and other things they may think i said last year. this board is owns the salesforce center and the detox project and that's a tribute and honor to the board members that have served. and i want to thank director siad director tomblin, director john baptist for their commitment to the city and county of san francisco to the jpa and toward making a difference in the region when it comes to public transportation. it is a tribute to where we are . having closed out the project, having gone into engineering and it's a combination of our staff, the leadership and this board and i want to say thank you to those three directors. i just want to share that as a token of our appr

my name is henry director and i'm a legislative assistant for president randleman. >> i'll be speaking on his behalf today before introducing the puc to speak on the item in more depth and answer questions in 2022 the board of supervisors established section 2143 of the administrative code to delegate authority to the general manager of the s.f. puc to purchase and sell electricity while also waiving contracting requirements that are generally not applicable to power contracts. this was amended in 2023 to increase the annual expenditures or limit the space c must continually procure power from multiple suppliers in an expedited timeframe consistent with state regulatory deadlines. >> in order to meet these deadlines board approval of every power and related service contract is not practical or possible. >> the authority granted in section 2143 sunsets in june of this year. >> the ordinance before the committee today extends this essential authority through 2030 and raises the purchase and sale caps consistent with changes in the power market. >> the puc provides regular updates to the

that was we developed that in partnership with board president randleman office to provide clarity on the chain of operations. the rest of page seven has additional clarification of leases language page eight line four beginning their allows for the tolling of the 40 five day requirement for instance that's where the board is on vacation or if the planning department is making a secret determination and continuing down on the authorization to accept and expend donations online. 11 we added in the one year sunset date to that on continuing on page eight, line 19 and 20 these are clarifying that a transfer of funds must happen within a department not between departments and adding a sunset date to that pay page nine lines eight through nine this is requiring reports on contract and leases used under this this ordinance every three months. so quarterly reports to the board and public and all the way on page 16 is a 16 line seven is a clarifying that in a previous version of this ordinance there was a reference to charter section 6.76. this is clarifying that that has been that has been r