we did not want to take the chance that the c.c.a. rvice could be suspended or harmed in any other way. just to be clear, as i said in my remarks, we are operating under the agreement. >> yes, catherine stefani? >> even if we weren't -- if we did not approve it today for some reason, or if we wanted more information, you would still go on and carry out the agreements, since it is retroactive anyway, he would not stop supporting -- performing your part of the contract, or our part of the agreement, correct? >> certainly not. we would not stop reforming our part of the agreement. the agreements does govern that relationship which includes things like remittance of payment to the program and to the city to continue operation, so it is a critical agreement. i do want to highlight that. i will turn it over to the a.g.m. >> thank you. i just wanted to emphasize that under the city's rules, we need your approval to be a fully executed and recognized is recognized as an agreement. we are -- where p.g. and e to file for bankruptcy, we want to b

line, you see how our community choice aggregation program receives service, and to the c.c.a. model as required by state law, the city takes responsibility just for sourcing the electricity. we have chosen clean and reliable sources of generations. when this clean power is produced, it is delivered onto the high-voltage system, operated by the california independent system operator, and then it is distributed locally by pg and e. to our end-use customers. the community choice aggregation program is a partnership program the local jurisdiction, that assess, san francisco, partners with a the local investor-owned utility, pge -- --dash pg andy isn't responsible for ensuring the low local system and performing the metering, billing services for our clean power s.f. program. with that, is a little bit of a background, i will dive more deeply into the clean power s.f. program. under the community choice program, local governments purchase electricity on behalf of their community members. the whole opportunity for community choice aggregation was authorized by a california assembly b

this agreement is to allow the operation of the c.c.a. program pick we briefed the committee last week on this item. we had your concerns about the term of the agreement, and issues related to p.g. & e's circumstances today with potential impending bankruptcy. after further discussion with the city attorney's office, we feel comfortable with the city's writes on the agreement, it does provide provisions that allow for termination if the city were to end the c.c.a. program. for example,, to become a municipal utility. with that, i'm happy to answer any other questions you may have >> thank you. do we have any questions, none back thank you very much. so we heard the report from the b.l.a. last time, is there a request to hear at this time from colleagues? no, thank you very much. let's open this up to public comment. would any members of the public would like to comment on item number 1? public comment is now closed. i would like to make a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation as a committee report. can retake

the exit fee is a method this cpuc uses to ensure those unavoidable costs are shared with c.c.a. customers. the p.u.c. took a rate action. the san francisco p.u.c. took a rate action that is before you today because it pg nd was forecasting that it's rates would be changing early this year, specifically, their exit fees are expected to increase for commercial customers, and decrease for commercial customers. the generation rates are projected for all customers. the results, were we to take no action is that clean power s.f. customer cost would be higher than pg nd service. that is why we are here with you today recommending that you take the action to ensure that our customers have competitive rates with pg nd and are protected from these exit fees that they implemented. influencing these changes is the decision of the california p.u.c., which change the methodology for calculating fees in october of 2018. the most recent decision was recent -- was really front of mind for san francisco and many other communities that operate or are planning to operate c.c.a. this past fall, a som