moran, and welcome, vince courtney to the ranks of officers. i'd like to talk about clean power sf. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. barbara hail, assistants general manager for power. this is the first of our regular week -- not weekly, every other week update on clean power sf. at our last meeting we described the board amendment to the clean power sf plan, primarily to incorporate customer notification and education, recovery of security costs and rates. and we had a conversation about how we would use any new survey results in informing our plan. what i have included in the packet for you today is a timeline and some background refresher materials on the two prior surveys we conducted. staff continues to incorporate the board's direction in our plan going forward on november 13th. we intend to come to you with proposals on how we will encourage and allow customers to express their interest in participating in the program. what's been referred to as pre-enrollment. and how we will work that pre-enrollment concept with the statutori

i would like to nominate vince courtney as vice president of the putctiontion commission. >> second. >> moved and seconded. are there any comments? all signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> abstentions? motion is carried. welcome, mr. vice president. >> thank you, mr. president. >> aye guess we'll move to the next item, which is item number 4. public comments. the traveler has returned. >>> commissioners, in the year 2012 it's good to see a transition like this. so, you see a former assembly person bringing his experience and a union man bringing his experience at a time where a lot has to be done in this city. and i would like to thank the president, the former chairperson for what has already been stated. i've known him for a very, very long time and i used to work at the presidio. so, we have a lot to do, especially with the sewer system improvement project. and we discussed a lot about the water system improvement project. and y'all have in this chambers listened to a lot of people from the city and county of san francisco, including a lot of members of the community, disadvantaged m