good afternoon. i would like to call the regular meeting of the public utilities commission to order. mme. sec., would you please call the roll? may i have everybody sit down? present vietor. here. vice president moran? here. commissioner caen? commissioner courtney here here. commissioner kwon? here. present vietor. here.commissioner kane is expected shortlyand commissioner courtney will not be able to be here today. mme. sec. next item please. item number three is approval of the minutes of august 9, 2016 all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay the motion passes unanimously. mme. sec. can you call item for please? item 4 is gen. public comments. members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission s jurisdiction and are not on today s agenda. now,the way that the watershed is at crystal springs measures are taken to protect it and we have a system, a unique system and we have a gentleman here who has been working o
here. commissioner caen? commissioner courtney here here. commissioner kwon? here. present vietor. here.commissioner kane is the budget in more recent years has actually increased from 2 million to 5 million. expected shortlyand the kilowatts installed remained high. over 2000 kw per year. commissioner courtney will not be able to be here today. on the next slide you can see the total that are impacted by pg&e and on the mme. sec. next item please. left side you can see the item number three is approval of the minutes of payouts on this you see this august 9, 2016 all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay the motion passes more so in the recent years and the participation of the installers is what you see here with the installers this unanimously. mme. sec. can you call item for please? item 4 is gen. public has been very good in the comments. members of the beginning especially with the market share. it is happening in a general public may address the market c
the call to water and [roll call vote] which we ve arrayed done okay item 2. >item 2 is approval of the lafco minutes from the meeting of june 13, 2016. do we have any public comment? unless there is a ghost in here than i don t think they were going to have any public comment. i will close public comment. can i please have a motion and a second? we have a motion and a secondthe minutes of july 13, 2016 are approved. [gavel] mme. city clerk please read item 3. item 3 is that community choice aggregation activities report by barbara hale and jason fried. good morning, barbara hale. this is the lowest top-down rate that we have seen so far. great, do you know any reasons that people do opt out when they do? we have had a lot of interest in the program and we are seeing a lot of commitment to it. the super green participation is also good. the rate of participation in our super green program is currently 3%. we are continuing to promote the super green offering that is
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a pregnancy discrimination case against ups. the suit involves a former driver who said she was told to take unpaid leave because she couldn t lift heavy packages. delia goncalves is live at the supreme court with details. delia, when is this case actually going to be heard today? reporter: the court will resume at 10:00 this morning and that s when they will hear the case. this case certainly has implications across the country and every employer no doubt is saying paying close attention. this decision could decide whether or not employers have to offer special accommodations to pregnant employees. now, this all started with a woman who lives in lorton, virginia. her name is peggy young. she s 42 years old and she says when she was pregnant in 2006, ups discriminated against her because she was unable to carry packages more than 20 pounds. you see, she was a driver and drivers were expected to lift packages up to 70 pounds. she says instead of offering her lie duty, th