. >> seeing no objection i would like to welcome the commissioner shanti singh to join us right now. >> before we skip ahead here, i wanted to mention a couple things pending before the board. we have a service agreement that is before the budget and finance committee. that service agreement is required for the operation of the clean powers program. we are seeking retroactive approval of execution of the agreement executed at the end of last year for continue nowty of operations. another pending agreement that will come before the board shortly is a short term renewable energy contract for the program to support our renewable energy content goals for 2019. happy to provide any more information on those two items if you are interested. as i think commissioner pollock indicated at the last meeting there are a number of questions the commission raised. >> reporter: to local investment for the program. we prepared material here for that discussion including information about progress to date, but also what we are planning on doing to further our progress on local investment in the near a