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I think we will start if everybody has their coffee and we are ready to launch this. My name is jacky gillan and i am president for advocates of highway safety. I have the honor of introducing this mornings speaker, dr. Rosekind who is the 15th administrator of the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration and he was sworn into office this past december 2 22nd. I got to know him after he was appointed to serve on the National Transportation and safety board in 2010. We worked together on se...

Bringing to our rate fairness board the not to exceed rate weve proposed for both our basic cca service, if you will light green part, as well as the upscale, do more, be greener part of the program, the dark green aspect of the program. Well be bringing those rates to the rate fairness board, they have agreed to meet on april 17th. Thats earlier in the schedule as opposed to later so we were late on the ledge reform but were early on the not to exceed rates, we heard a lot of interest in advanc...

Now about our Energy Future moving forward, trying to look at one of the ideas thats come forward in terms of what we could use as a region are some incentives to actually move towards new Building Construction that is not just Energy Efficient by also is a noncarbon future for these buildings, so noncombustion heating systems, the boilers wouldnt be boilers any more, they would be Something Else that we could put in place, and thats a place where i think there could be work that we could enhanc...

And jason and the stake holders. Thank you. Great, thank you. Miss hale theres been some activity at the california puc that we wanted to report on. You will recall i have reported a number of times now on their activities with respect to pg es green tariff application. They issued their decision, the cpuc, california puc, issued their decision in late january and that decision was forth the schedule for pg e to file their advice letters, which are the implementation filings that the utilities m...

Because they have a lot of needs for ventilation and other things through that roof top, so theres a lot of competing needs plus the size and the density of the energy needed may mean its difficult to replace a natural gas fired boiler with other technology unless we can find some other source for the gas, like bio gas. Its easier to do in low rise buildings. Thank you. Colleagues, any other comments or questions . Vice chair cruz. Thank you. I just want to thank the department of the environmen...

Little bit of that luxury of time to plan so that when we know the amount of money thats well have a menu of things we can do and depending on how much funding the cpuc allocates to the cca, theres a little bit of argument, as you can imagine, between pg e and ccas between who gets the public good charge money and how much and that hasnt been settled yet. Thats why barbara hale and i have a hard time planning our budgets for additional resources. We know what we have now and as kathleen said wer...

Market rate luxury housing in San Francisco. Im not sure, the majority of these buildings are they going up with systems that are actually noncarbon, are they actually maximizing efficiency, are we seeing solar on these buildings . And if not i think its worthy of putting some requirements on especially the market rate luxury housing that the exploding the city to be able to put these requirements on them and i think the department of the environment weighing in on that would be really helpful. ...

Timeline . So they are currently evaluating at the cpuc having a rolling timeline and not a set timeline. Oh, good. Okay. Were hoping that with our by filing an application during this year well be able to be rolled in to that rolling process. And youre right, historically they did have like a 3 year set time frame where there was a window you would get in and then youd have to wait. And because, from our perspective, and the wonderful thing about bay run, as you know, commissioner mar, is that ...

Rafael just mentioned. Im very, very pleased. Thank you. Thank you. Im curious, moving forward, what kind of action legislatively that might be needed from lafco or the board of supervisors to help strengthen the work that can be done with Energy Efficiency moving forward. Do you have any recommendations that are coming forward for us . Beyond be what director rafael added, yes. Anyone else from staff . Barbara hale, assistant general manager for power at the sfpuc there may be an opportunity fo...

Happened we have seen the fairness board accept the not to exceed rate urge to see a timeline just yesterday supervisor breed at the board of supervisors along the mayor and supervisor avalos as well introduced the language that was need to change how our procurement contract work were excited to see that move forward we need to get that ball rolling in the critical section of timeline it moving f and the main Program Objective is to have the program be affordable were leading that affordability...