Thank you. Thank you. Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city thats on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. Our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. After all, were at the meeting of land and sea. Our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and worldclass style. Its the birthplace of blue jeans, and where the rock holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. Our 28,000 city and county employees play an Important Role in making San Francisco what it is today. We provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. Our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. But most importantly, working for the city and county of San Francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the citys future. Thank you for considering a career with the city and county of San Francisco. Was asked to do is Water System Improvement Program and one thing i looked at is about the 4. 8 billion dollars wurthd of work and a lot of the work was regional. We looked at how can we make sure that we provide opportunities for san franciscans and people in the region and so we looked at ways we can expand our local San Francisco lb program. So, we thought about it and worked with general manager at the time to form an advizry committee to talk about how to include local businesses in the region. I was on the First Committee back about 10 years ago and the job changed over time. In the beginning, we just wanted people to know about it. We wanted to attract contractors to come into the system which is a bidding system and bid on some of these projects. Our second job was to help the sfpuc to try to make themselves more user frndly. I like that they go out of their way, have contractors trying to teach and outreach to Small Businesses and lots of creative ways. Help the community as well. There is so much infrastructure going on and repair, new construction that i think is helping to get construction back on its feet. My faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many Small Businesses. [inaudible] Women Owned Business to come in and [inaudible] sfpuc. It is a great opportunity because some are so small they have been able to grow their companies and move up and bid other projects with the sfpuc. Everyone i was talking about with any contractor [inaudible] and super markets and things like that and i realize the transition was on the sfpuc. He got that first job and knows about the paperwork qu schedule and still works on this type of job, but he works with general contractors that also did other things. Pretty soon it is like he did that one and that one. It completely changed his business. My name is nancy [inaudible] the Office Manager and bid coordinator for [inaudible] construction. Worked on 10 plus puc, lbe contracts. Today we are doing Site Maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. In order to be success you need to work hard, bid low and keep a look at the sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity. This is a Successful Program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. The sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot of Capital Program that span over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. That is what warms my heart. My name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. Bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. Small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of San Francisco we can also perform services. This program had tremendous impact to the region. In fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. This has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded 50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. And, i significantly helped the business. It is one of the major contributors to our success. Good afternoon, everyone. Madame secretary, will you take the roll . [roll call] and we have a quorum. Well not have closed session today as an announcement and well review or approve the minutes of october 24. Commissioners do i have a motion . So move. Second. There any Public Comment unrelated to the agenda today . Mr. President , can we call for Public Comment on the minutes . Yes, im sorry. Public comment on the minutes. Forgive me. Ok. All in favor aye. Opposed . Ok. Passes. Ok. Public comment unrelated to the agenda. Welcome. My name is steve yetzer and i wanted to speak. Im a resident and native of San Francisco on the issue of privatization of public spaces. I believe that the people of San Francisco have had enough of privatization of Public Resources. The drive in San Francisco to build more Million Dollar condominiums has to end. We have to stop it. Workingclass people are being driven out of San Francisco. They cant afford to live here. Their children cant grow up here and public spaces should be for the public. So we believe that we have to stop the transfer of all Public Resources to private entity, private developers wherever they are and also we have to build working class housing for working people. And the city should do that. Weve had enough evictions, weve had enough workers being told they have to drive two or three hours to get to work. That is destroying San Francisco. And the people of San Francisco are fed up with it and angry. We have gridlock in the city. All these uber cabs, people come in from hundreds of miles into San Francisco. Its like blockaded and this is a social crisis. It is a political crisis. And the boards that represent the city of San Francisco, the public boards have to take a stand that the interests of San Francisco working people are first before the developers, the billionaires and speculators who want to turn every location into a condo. They would like to close the streets and build condos. That is where theyre and we have to put a stop to that to protect the working people of San Francisco, the future of San Francisco. Right now working people, there is signs up for working people to come. They cant even come to San Francisco and work here because of the cost of commuting. It is time we take a strong stand and say enough is enough. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Any other general Public Comment unrelated to the agenda . Ok. Next item. Wireless communications. Ok. Well go through the advanced calendar. No, its the commission has any comments and we do have a comment for a Public Comment. Ok. All right. Any Public Comment related to communications . Ok. With that, next item. I believe you have a card. Video actually here. This is for item number five. And it is mr. Mike ferreira. Are you here . Welcome. Thank you, commissioners. Im the conservation chair for the loma chapter of the sierra club. And we, in unison with the San Francisco bay chapter have been following this ridge Trail Program for a few years now. And i do want to start by saying that all of us, sierra club, audobon society, native plant society, committee for green foothills, theyre involved in unison on this. Have a great appreciation for the transparency that weve been getting from your staff. It is exemplary. I did want to say that. Were also pleased with the level of personnel that were assigned to do the e. I. R. For this. Ok . We feel like San Francisco has put forward some of its very best minds for that. 50. [phone ringing] oh, ok. There have been several outreach meetings about this. And as you are aware, there is the existing road north of highway 92 and a proposed new trail south of highway 92. And the e. I. R. That is in process now is trying to deal with that. We are quite concerned that its that there isnt a discussion about how you get across highway 92. It would seem that to have the two trails, without answering that, is equivalent to an atractive nuisance. I commuted can on highway 92 for 25 years. Im a former member of the Planning Commission and council, etc. ,etc. That road cant be a surface crossing from one trail to another. There has to be some better solution, go under it, go over it, whatever. And that really should be understood before we create this new trail to the south. I can understand some resistance to want to do that because that is a big problem with big dollars associated with it. I would pass the information to you that about 14 years ago, the county took a look and cal trans at an overpass at the intersection of 35 and highway 92. I dont think it encompass or it thought of bicycles or pedestrian, but going back to whatever that is, and modifying it might solve that problem. It would also direct the trail to highway 35, which is yet another consideration im running out of time, sorry but we also support the idea that the study should look as much as possible at an alignment closer to highway 35. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Any other Public Comment related to this item . Im curious about is that alternate being analyzed and where are we with that . Thank you. Or i guess steve. Or steve. [laughter] sorry. Hi, steve. Thank you. Natural resources and lands management. The short version is we agreed that that highway crossing is particularly troublesome. It has been a big problem for cal trans for a number of years and theres been confusion about our proposed project and how it relates to the current situation. Were not proposing to solve that problem or to build anything to cross the highway. But we are planning to have enough of a staging area on the south side so people can use the trail were planning to build and not have to worry about trying to get across the highway. That will be clear, i think, in the document when it comes out. All the work that is being done now still needs to support the potential for risk that would be created by having more people going up to our new trail and using the highways and that is whats made it a little more complicated and taken more time. Great. Thank you. I appreciate that. Any other Public Comment related to this item . Moving on. Other Commission Business. Any other Public Comment yes, sir. Thank you, commissioner. I just wanted to make a comment about the number or the amount of paper that we just received that we try to get, you know, electronic versions of the agenda out on thursday before the meeting so we have a chance to look at it. I think it would be much more respectful to our time if staff can make a point of getting the final version of the materials to the Commission Secretary on time for her to distribute it with a regular package on thursdays. Thank you. Any other Commission Business . Ok. Next item. Item sevens report of the general manager. Good afternoon. I definitely agree with you on making sure that we get that package together so ill work with donna to make sure that that happens. The first item is clean power s. F. F. Thank you. Barbara hill, assistant general manager for power. It is our usual time for an update on where things are for clean power s. F. Were continuing to serve 80,000 customers. Im happy to say that our opt out rate remains a low 3. 2 . We have 3. 9 of our active, enrolled customers signed up for super grain. That is all great news. Were cutting another set of customers over to our service in january so we wiped the waiting list clean a few weeks bag and we already have a waiting list of 62 in that short amount of time. Later on the agenda, well be talking about our growth plan and it would be useful to take a moment to talk about what else is going on in the c. C. A. Space in california just to give you some context. You know, were not alone out there with the program that is trying to expand and we are all in the same market so i thought it would be helpful to take a look at some slides if folks could put the slides up. We have california if i could get the slides, please. There we go. Oh. Well. Imagine the shape of california. [laughter] what you see here is the state. There are a number of colored portions and there are some that show gray. Hopefully they show appropriately gray on the screens that you have on your desks, commissioners or in the paper handouts. There is paper handouts on the table for the folks in the room. Im sorry that the visual doesnt come out as intended. But the main point here is San Francisco is a little spot near the bay there. And all that other color are communities, counties, collections of communities who are actively pursuing Community Choice agregation. The communities that are actually serving customers are noted one through nine on the righthand side there. And if we just go from the top of the state down, you see humboldt county and served by the Redwood Coast Energy authority. You see mendocino and sonoma counties served by sonoma clean power. You see napa and marin and parts of solano served by m. C. E. You see San Francisco. Clean power s. F. Then you see San Mateo County no, San Mateo County is the next big color there. Showing in yellow and that is by beautiful clean energy. Santa clara county is being served by Silicon Valley clean energy with the exception of the city of san jose. Who is exploring Community Choice. They have an Implementation Plan. Certification is under review with the california p. C. And they have designate add new director, a former member of our staff. And then we have the go a little inland to lancaster, the city of lancaster, serving customers through Lancaster Choice Energy and the cities of apple valley and pico rivera served by apple valley Choice Energy and prime pico rivera innovative municipal energy. Those are the communities actively serving customers through a Community Choice agregation business structure. Unfortunately what you cant see because of the presentment on this slide screen are counties that are gray, which are a number of inland coins where they are activically exploring and exploring the Feasibility Study and pursuing the idea pretty aggressively. The other colored counties in areas that i didnt specifically call out, like st. Louis obispo, they are actively pursuing it at a higher level. So, maybe they have their Implementation Plan, like east Bay Community energy. Serving alameda county. They have their Implementation Plan certified they just havent started serving customers yet. But they are out in the market, making the arrangements they need to make to be providing service to customers as early as next spring. So well be expanting our program at the same time and that means were in the market at the same time. That means it is challenging but also means theres all those communities with their voice in front of the California Public utilities commission, in front of the legislature. Side by side with us with like interests, like perspectives and that is the upside of that. To put our program in a little bit of context, the next slide gives you the information about where we are today relative to the bigger operating c. C. A. S. As i reported, 80,000 accounts, 65 megawatts average demand, our annual revenue is about 38 million and our supply costs about 25 million. And then you see the m. C. E. , sonoma peninsula and Silicon Valley figures. As we grow, that 80,000 accounts becomes 360,000. And that average demand goes from 65 to 420. That puts us on par with these other larger operating programs. So that is the that is the growth that we are talking about. That is the item later on in the agenda. Where youll get a little bit more of a chance to talk about the supply issues. But this puts it in some context for you. With that, im happy to take any questions you may have. To the chair. This is great. T