the certification programs is the caveat that the firm's revenue meet the size and standards established by this commission. so with the clearinghouse program is an example, the california public utilities commission program, there is not a size limit to that. so we confirm/affirm size and standardss by looking at and requesting their three-years' tax returns, so we can take the average and ensure it meet ours size and standards. >> it used to be a long time ago, we used to be certified by the city and then we started our own. i don't know why we can't do that now? >> certainly if i may, through the chair, it's more than just a lack of resources. for the small business, whether professional services or construction, that small business or micro-lbe/dbe would be certifying many, many times, producing tax returns for the city and county of san francisco and producing that same set of certifications to get certify the feds. same documentation to get certified with state and on top of it, we were asking for that. we have found also through the feedback, yes, we used to do certification and quite burdensome from owners, who said they just produced that information from the city and county an

the certification programs is the caveat that the firm's revenue meet the size and standards established by this commission. so with the clearinghouse program is an example, the california public utilities commission program, there is not a size limit to that. so we confirm/affirm size and standardss by looking at and requesting their three-years' tax returns, so we can take the average and ensure it meet ours size and standards. >> it used to be a long time ago, we used to be certified by the city and then we started our own. i don't know why we can't do that now? >> certainly if i may, through the chair, it's more than just a lack of resources. for the small business, whether professional services or construction, that small business or micro-lbe/dbe would be certifying many, many times, producing tax returns for the city and county of san francisco and producing that same set of certifications to get certify the feds. same documentation to get certified with state and on top of it, we were asking for that. we have found also through the feedback, yes, we used to do certification and quite burdensome from owners, who said they just produced that information from the city and county an

the certification programs is the caveat that the firm's revenue meet the size and standards established by this commission. so with the clearinghouse program is an example, the california public utilitiesssion program, there is not a size limit to that. so we confirm/affirm size and standardss by looking at and requesting their three-years' tax returns, so we can take the average and ensure it meet ours size and standards. >> it used to be a long time ago, we used to be certified by the city and then we started our own. i don't know why we can't do that now? >> certainly if i may, through the chair, it's more than just a lack of resources. for the small business, whether professional services or construction, that small business or micro-lbe/dbe would be certifying many, many times, producing tax returns for the city and county of san francisco and producing that same set of certifications to get certify the feds. same documentation to get certified with state and on top of it, we were asking for that. we have found also through the feedback, yes, we used to do certification and quite burdensome from owners, who said they just produced that information from the city and county and you.

anyone who switched to solar energy just about an hour ago, the california public utilities commission voted to keep the current solar incentives programace. that program allows solar users to sell back unused power to utility companies. >>> might have some trouble getting solar power today. not a lot of sunshine. >> not a lot. we continue to see the clouds in the area. let's check in with the weather watcher. at this particular time, several people checking in it. i want to see this one right here because the storm is first going to bring us some rain to the north. willie in sonoma says no rain as of yet. and, in fact, he said this morning, he was picking up a beautiful sunrise and the now gray skies. 59 degrees. that's charlie in vallejo. hi, charlie. no rain, he said, there. but according to our hi-def doppler radar, we have some light precipitation in and around our microclimates. john hanson sent me this picture minutes ago rain on pine mountain in willits about 120 miles to the north of vallejo. closer to ukiah. he has wind and rain. that's what's coming this way. our hi-def doppler radar picking up light precipitation around val

range looked like and the time i understand you have to look at contingencies i'm not what that means illegally how our program is considered by the california public utilities commission but in terms of their decision making but i get nervous when i hear the word pause it feels like all the work you've done and the puc has done could seriously be a waste of time so, please let me know what you mean by pause. >> to what i mean by pause staff has been given direction to launch this program assuming we're able to over service at a rate that is affordable they've defined affordable as being a rate that is zero 25 below pg&e. >> i heard that. >> yes. and so we will know what pg&e's recreate is on january 1st, we'll know we've been estimating our costs; right? using the bids we've received from the suppliers those - the approach we're taking consistent with outing how things work in the electrical market they've over us a best and final price wherever we ask for that we will when we know in the pg&e rates are that supply is 70 percent of our costs of the overall operation of the program is it it is a fundamental piece of our cost pie reporting or; right? once we know what t

range looked like and the time i understand you have to look at contingencies i'm not what that means illegally how our program is considered by the california public utilities commission but in terms of their decision making but i get nervous when i hear the word pause it feels like all the work you've done and the puc has done could seriously be a waste of time so, please let me know what you mean by pause. >> to what i mean by pause staff has been given direction to launch this program assuming we're able to over service at a rate that is affordable they've defined affordable as being a rate that is zero 25 below pg&e. >> i heard that. >> yes. and so we will know what pg&e's recreate is on january 1st, we'll know we've been estimating our costs; right? using the bids we've received from the suppliers those - the approach we're taking consistent with outing how things work in the electrical market they've over us a best and final price wherever we ask for that we will when we know in the pg&e rates are that supply is 70 percent of our costs of the overall operation of the program is it it is a fundamental piece of our cost pie reporting or; right? once we know what t

the underground utilities. >> thank you. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> okay and now i'd like to ask kenneth bruno from california public utilities commission to join us and the program manager for gas safety and reliability branch thank you for being here today. >> thank you president breed and fellow supervisors so thank you for the introduction i am ken bruno safety enforcement division and i have a team of approximately 34 specialists and pipeline safety inspectors and civil engineers and electrical engineers and general inspectors and we're responsible for over 100, 000 miles of transition pipelines and our jurisdiction is really on the infrastructure and we don't oversee you know sewer projects and stuff like that. that said, it's very important that the regulated entity in this case pg&e have good damage prevention efforts and you know conduct outreach and is clear with sort of following their part of government code 4216. the other thing i want to say is that of these incidents the only one that the california public utilities commission investigated is the one on july 29th and we'd be happy to provide the report. i can't speak on findings if you would like o

as an example, we do accept certification that is certified by the california public utilities commission wmbe clearinghouse programrtification process that takes place there and we do accept certification through the department of

the underground utilities. >> thank you. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> okay and now i'd like to ask kenneth bruno from california public utilities commission to join us and the program manager for gas safety and reliability branch thank you for being here today. >> thank you president breed and fellow supervisors so thank you for the introduction i am ken bruno safety enforcement division and i have a team of approximately 34 specialists and pipeline safety inspectors and civil engineers and electrical engineers and general inspectors and we're responsible for over 100, 000 miles of transition pipelines and our jurisdiction is really on the infrastructure and we don't oversee you know sewer projects and stuff like that. that said, it's very important that the regulated entity in this case pg&e have good damage prevention efforts and you know conduct outreach and is clear with sort of following their part of government code 4216. the other thing i want to say is that of these incidents the only one that the california public utilities commission investigated is the one on july 29th and we'd be happy to provide the report. i can't speak on findings if you would like o

the underground utilities. >> thank you. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> okay and now i'd like to ask kenneth bruno from california public utilities commission to join us and the programanager for gas safety and reliability branch thank you for being here today. >> thank you president breed and fellow supervisors so thank you for the introduction i am ken bruno safety enforcement division and i have a team of approximately 34 specialists and pipeline safety inspectors and civil engineers and electrical engineers and general inspectors and we're responsible for over 100, 000 miles of transition pipelines and our jurisdiction is really on the infrastructure and we don't oversee you know sewer projects and stuff like that. that said, it's very important that the regulated entity in this case pg&e have good damage prevention efforts and you know conduct outreach and is clear with sort of following their part of government code 4216. the other thing i want to say is that of these incidents the only one that the california public utilities commission investigated is the one on july 29th and we'd be happy to provide the report. i can't speak on findings if you would like on

excited about that i do want to call out the energy watch program within the staff was at a merging and left hand to commission from the california public utilities commission peter man give a talk about and our staff person was motivated she went to up to the commission and love to tell you about our program and said, of course, and took her on a tour that i think pretty much blew the commissioners mind that is possible to do with energy efficiency and helping lower-income neighborhoods taken to an affordable housing facility and a local market that and the ordinances and is project sponsors gave tare testimony of appreciation that was powerful for that commission to understand that public goods charge money or whatever is in good hands the other milestone i'll give you a head up supervisor mar and the board of supervisors adapted or put in place a energy efficiency coordinating committee run by the sfpuc with us providing the technical assistance nothing has happened for various reasons we step up to the plate and now anthony here and now we'll have capability and told supervisor mar we will take it so the first meeting is in march we can't do

excited about that i do want to call out the energy watch program within the staff was at a merging and left hand to commission from the california public utilities commission peter man give a talk about and our staff person was motivated she went to up to the commission and love to tell you about our program and said, of course, and took her on a tour that i think pretty much blew the commissioners mind that is possible to do with energy efficiency and helping lower-income neighborhoods taken to an affordable housing facility and a local market that and the ordinances and is project sponsors gave tare testimony of appreciation that was powerful for that commission to understand that public goods charge money or whatever is in good hands the other milestone i'll give you a head up supervisor mar and the board of supervisors adapted or put in place a energy efficiency coordinating committee run by the sfpuc with us providing the technical assistance nothing has happened for various reasons we step up to the plate and now anthony here and now we'll have capability and told supervisor mar we will take it so the first meeting is in march we can't do

message by sending the communication to the california public utilities commission to reject those two proposals from pg&e so we can actually see our clean power programt and our goals for compliment action take effect next year colleagues he urge tour support. >> madam clerk call item 49 a resolution for the california public utilities commission to reject the pg&e companies promoted increase to the power charge emancipation proclamation difference the p cdc cia in the application and support alternatives that will mitigate the impact on the cca customers and prospective cca and respect for the reexamination how the pcia is calculated and applied to pg&e consumers and colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolutions are adopted anonymously madam clerk item 50 please. was considered by the rules committee at a rescheduled meeting open december 10th and forwarded as a committee report and recommended with a new title to appoint the following 11 members to the cannabis task force terms enld august 31st jessie eric micro sarah john barbara tom ambassador laura terrance and daascy. >> supervisor wiener

message by sending the communication to the california public utilities commission to reject those two proposals from pg&e so we can actually see our clean power programtart and our goals for compliment action take effect next year colleagues he urge tour support. >> madam clerk call item 49 a resolution for the california public utilities commission to reject the pg&e companies promoted increase to the power charge emancipation proclamation difference the p cdc cia in the application and support alternatives that will mitigate the impact on the cca customers and prospective cca and respect for the reexamination how the pcia is calculated and applied to pg&e consumers and colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolutions are adopted anonymously madam clerk item 50 please. was considered by the rules committee at a rescheduled meeting open december 10th and forwarded as a committee report and recommended with a new title to appoint the following 11 members to the cannabis task force terms enld august 31st jessie eric micro sarah john barbara tom ambassador laura terrance and daascy. >> supervisor wie

message by sending the communication to the california public utilities commission to reject those two proposals from pg&e so we can actually see our clean power program start and our goals for compliment action take effect next year colleagues he urge tour support. >> madam clerk call item 49 a resolution for the california public utilities commission to reject the pg&e companies promoted increase to the power charge emancipation proclamation difference the p cdc cia in the application and support alternatives that will mitigate the impact on the cca customers and prospective cca and respect for the reexamination how the pcia is calculated and applied to pg&e consumers and colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolutions are adopted anonymously madam clerk item 50 please. was considered by the rules committee at a rescheduled meeting open december 10th and forwarded as a committee report and recommended with a new title to appoint the following 11 members to the cannabis task force terms enld august 31st jessie eric micro sarah john barbara tom ambassador laura terrance and daascy. >> supervisor w

message by sending the communication to the california public utilities commission to reject those two proposals from pg&e so we can actually see our clean power program start and our goals for compliment action take effect next year colleagues he urge tour support. >> madam clerk call item 49 a resolution for the california public utilities commission to reject the pg&e companies promoted increase to the power charge emancipation proclamation difference the p cdc cia in the application and support alternatives that will mitigate the impact on the cca customers and prospective cca and respect for the reexamination how the pcia is calculated and applied to pg&e consumers and colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolutions are adopted anonymously madam clerk item 50 please. was considered by the rules committee at a rescheduled meeting open december 10th and forwarded as a committee report and recommended with a new title to appoint the following 11 members to the cannabis task force terms enld august 31st jessie eric micro sarah john barbara tom ambassador laura terrance and daascy. >> supervisor w

the certification programs is the caveat that the firm's revenue meet the size and standards established by this commission. so with the clearinghouse program is an example, the california public utilities commission program, there is not a size limit to that. so we confirm/affirm size and standardss by looking at and requesting their three-years' tax returns, so we can take the average and ensure it meet ours size and standards. >> it used to be a long time ago, we used to be certified by the city and then we started our own. i don't know why we can't do that now? >> certainly if i may, through the chair, it's more than just a lack of resources. for the small business, whether professional services or construction, that small business or micro-lbe/dbe would be certifying many, many times, producing tax returns for the city and county of san francisco and producing that same set of certifications to get certify the feds. same documentation to get certified with state and on top of it, we were asking for that. we have found also through the feedback, yes, we used to do certification and quite burdensome from owners, who said they just produced that information from the city and county an