yes, sir, >> my name is ryan thomas i work with the sf puc [?]. >> are ehere for ed's item, that's on the agenda, so, please hold off until then. any other public comments not on the agenda today? okay, thank you. communications? we have several vip reports before us. i think, any questions or comments from the dmition? okay, any public comment on the communications? okay, thank you. other commission business? >> i did want to inquire about the joint pc environment commission meeting and if we're moving forward with that. i have another inquiry about that. if they want to talk about that or make time to talk about that? >> i didn't have any further information. maybe staff has information on that. >> that's correct sir. >> maybe by our next meeting staff could coordinate with the staff from the environment commission and come back to us with a proposed date and proposed agenda items and we can discuss them? >> great. okay, item 6a. madam secretary, would you called item. >> reading. pursuing the san francisco charter, 8b,... between san francisco

i want to mention one other clause that says, unless the s sf puc can ensure that low income customers will be offered rates similar to rates near low income customers served by pg&e puc will exclude low income customers in the initial phases of the clean power sf program. i think this really goes a long way in addressing concerns that we've heard from our low income and monolingual communities. i have a couple of questions for mr. harrington, if i may. and by the way, i want to just thank you for your leadership on this. i know that it was probably just a year ago that you were taking heated for not moving forward the cca program fast enough. i understand in recent weeks you've taken heat for moving the cca program too fast. so thank you for that. i also know this is your last week. and i had an opportunity some months ago to help present a lifetime achievement award to you but you've really done yeoman's work and i think this is a testament to what you have been trying to achieve in government over your decades of service. but my first question is, i heard from constituents of mine i

and then, second, we want to ensure that puc will exclude low income customers in the initial phase of the clean power sf program allowing additional time for outreach and also for people to hear more about the program as they learn from customers that are already in the first phase. as i mentioned before we are directing puc to give priority to low income power sf customers for eent of energy frgs and undertake an aggressive outreach campaign to reach those customers. and we also wanted to actually extend the opt out period to at least six months. and that was some of the amendments that have come forward. i am certain that some of my other colleagues will want to speak to some of the amendments as well. thank you. >> president chiu: thank you. supervisor kim, i understand, has introduced a series of amendments that are supported by myself, supervisors cohen and mar. seconded by supervisor mar. why don't we hold that. i know there are other amendments that will also be offered. supervisor chu. >> supervisor chu: i want to thank colleagues for their thoughts and comments. this item came before the budget

her continued service to the sf puc is also critical to further our city's efforts in water conversation and recycling so that the -- river is protected and can maintain healthy populations of fish and other wildlife. on behalf of the sierra club bay chapter please approve the reappointment of francesca vietor. thank you. >> chair kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. eric brooks, representing san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization, our city. and just here to reiterate what a lot have said about keeping this entire team in place. and i'll focus primarily, since others have focused on other things, on clean power sf. this commissioner team is the commissioner team that successfully delivered clean power sf to us, after eight years of battling to get it off the ground. we need to keep that team in place because they know what they're doing, they know how this program works. commissioner moller caen is going to be important because for her entire tenure she has had a laser focus on finances and getting them right and also on common sense. i talked to her

finally, to the ordinance, section 3, and the resolution, page 9, the sf puc will include in the clean power sf rates a component to begin recoveringy reserves required in the program in the contract period so customers of clean power sf will bear the cost of the program. again, in that phase in terms of the recovery of the reserves there is not an indication of the level but it is sending a message we would like the program to become sufficient over time. those are motions i'd like to make. i want to thank the puc staff and ed harrington. they've done a great job of shepherding a program through that they thought they could bring to the board and we simply have a few amendments and changes we'd like to suggest. thank you. >> clerk calvillo: to supervisor chu, the clerk's office does not have a copy of those amendments. hopefully your staff is bringing them to us. >> supervisor kim: we will do that. >> president chiu: is there a second in seconded by supervisor farrell. and i wanted to ask, mr. harrington, have you had a chance to see these amendments? i think many of our colleagues wo

that is something that i think the sf puc is looking into. so certainly water itself is absolutely delicious, pure, pristine and fabulous and water is really the new oil. water is extremely important to us. but also it gives us energy. we have hydropower from our water source, a lot of city, if not all of the city is powered, sfmta, possibly the city buildings is powered by the hetch hetchy and i don't want to give that up either. >> thank you. i will remind the candidates that if at any point they wish to jump in on a question they may do so using a time card. the next question is for miss breed, mr. johnson and miss selby. please explain whether you think sit/lie is working to address public safety as intended across the city and how you would reform it, if indeed you would reform it? miss breed? >> i did vote yes on sit/lie. i had a number of issues in the upper haight that were just really unfortunate situations and i thought there needed to be some sort of solution to the problem. unfortunately it hasn't worked. we still have some real p

sf. it item 7, appropriating 19, 500,000 of hetch hetchy fund balance at public utilitis to support the clean aggregation program regarding the authorization to the san francisco puc and board of supervisors and adding code 10.10037 2 and 3373 to establish clean power sf fund and clean power reserve fund. * >> thank you very much. colleagues, we have these two items before us. i think these two probably have traveled a long road before coming to us here at the budget and finance committee. we have a number of speakers here today. of course we have ed harrington and his staff from the puc. we will hear from the puc, then office of economic analysis and then our budget analyst report. before we do that i will ask my colleagues if anybody would like to make any opening comments. supervisor campos? >> thank you very much, madam chair. thank you members of the budget committee. my apologies to you and members of the public for being late. i appreciate the brief recess. supervisor wiener and i have been coming back from the metropolitan transportation commission, where we ready the city and county of san francisco. first in terms -- there are some amendments to the reso

amendment of the ordinance of section 3 in the resolution at page 9 stating the puc will recommend the inclusion in clean power sf rates a component to begin recovering reserves required for this program, et cetera, roll call vote. >> clerk calvillo: president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, no. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor olague, no. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos, no. supervisor campos, aye. >> clerk calvillo: there are eight ayes and three nos. >> president chiu: the motion to amend passes. now discussion on the vote on the underlying items as amended. supervisor farrell. >> supervisor farrell: thank you, president chiu. colleagues, i respect everyone's decisions. with that however i'm not going to be supporting the underlying items, but what i would like to do, the one thing i want to make clear is again, as mentioned before, everyone supports our green economy in san francisco and any job creating measures to that effect are something i want to support so i'd like to divide the file for item 16, the $6 mi

puc. >> good morning, board members. i'm general manager of sf public utilities commission. thank you for your opening comments, supervisor campos. i will try not to repeat those, in the interest of efficiency. with me is barbara hale, in charge of our power, todd is in charge of finance and mike campbell has been in charge of the community program for a while. as a note mike campbell will leave us to go to work for the california puc as a manager in the rate payer advocacy in the future but they are here to answer questions. i thought i would cover most points and make it easier but if you have detailed questions, we are available to answer those. the presentation today, first start with the big picture, obviously. we don't just do this because we think it is a fun idea. we do it because there is climate change, there are things happening and san francisco has to respond to that. this is the single biggest program on the horizon with the city and county of san francisco to make any difference toward any of the goals toward the greenhouse gasses and climate change in san fra

puc mr. campbell used his experience in the energy generation field to guide community choice aggregation to the creation of the clean power sf program and for those who have been working on this for so many years they know that -- i think all of us recognize that taking that job was a very courageous ookt on the part of mr. campbell. he crafted several proposals to ensure that the program had technical assistance and service provider in order to launch. he lead the negotiating team to acquire contracts for energy supply as well as back office services, critical launching to the program. he lead countless meetings between the puc and community advocates and the commission and reflected not only what we needed to see as a city agency and address the needs and concerns outlined by the advocates. mr. campbell's monthly updates to this body were instrumental in letting us know what was happening and we especially appreciate the fact that he always took the feedback into consideration and we wouldn't be here without his ability to do that. mr. campbell's commitment to clean power sf ensured a viable program that met all of the req

page 5 the initial phases of clean power sf will -- to those customers with desire to be included in the initial marketing of the program and added to page 16 puc shall not commit to buy power from shell unless customers to ensure the viability of the program as decided by the puc commission have indicated desire to be included in the initial marketing of the program. that to me, colleagues, is something that i think is super important, absolutely does it shift the burden onto the puc to do the marketing, as opposed -- and to get people to voluntarily want to be part of the program as opposed to an opt out. i'd love to have a debate with anyone about an opt out and whether that's a real chie choir consumers. we debated last year about the yellow pages. that was a big deal for a lot of people. if we provide consumers the initial ability to indicate they want to be part of it i'm for it. if people want to spend more money like supervisor avalos indicated he wanted to do to buy green energy from sf, we should allow people to do that. but to cores the coerce them int program to me is the wrong approach and something i can't support. i will offer th

puc to become the first utility in the nation to establish a community benefits policy, an environmental justice policy, obviously today you are leading our city in helping to move forward our clean power sf program. you led the transition to a more sustainable headquarters at 525 golden gate avenue which is considered one of the greenest buildings in north america, representing a significant long-term investment in san francisco's environmental and economic future. and i just want to say from my perspective, i am going to miss you. i think everyone in this room is going to miss you. i hope you will visit often, although i have a feeling after all the work you've done over the last couple of months, at the end of this week you deserve a significant vacation. but i just want to thank you for that service, and congratulations. >> [applause.] >> president chiu: supervisor, we have a lot of supervisor on the roster who want to speak again. supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: i knew we would be doing this again at the full board and i spoke at the budget committee. in large part my support for this complicated policy measure came because i knew this was your leadership and you had spent so many