Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180112

Expected to arrive later. There will be no closed session today and well move to item three. Approve after of the minutes of december 12, 2017. Do i have a motion to accept the minutes . Approval. Second. Commissioner kwon any discussion . Any Public Comment . Ok. All in favour aye. Commissioner kwon opposed . All right. It carries. And now to item number four, the time for general Public Comment where members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Do we have any public general comment . Ok. Item five. Communications. Any discussion on communications . Ok. Any Public Comments on communications . Going easy on us. All right. Item number six. Other commission business. Any discussion . Commissioners . We have one real quick. I did want to quickly report to my colleagues that we managed to launch our first class of 2018. [feedback] at the at the academy out there at [feedback] in connection with the massoud, todd and the Young Community developers, the Human Services agency which granted necessary extensions candidates as well as the Mayors Office of i. P. O. Interim, predict and organize, we had a total of 18 signups. 13 participants started at 6 30 in the morning in the dark and the rain yesterday out at the academy. A number of support person fell was on hand. Personnel was on hand. I wanted to make you aware of the fact that additionally the sixweek curriculum has become an eightweek curriculum and now includes a component in connection with asphalt, which is intended to put folks into a better position not just employment seekers opportunities in the private sector, but also in connection with the sewer system Improvement Project and ill just continue to report. There is a dispatch piece that im working internally with staff on. Thats supposed to commence within the next couple of weeks. But i felt really, really good about how everybodys kind of come together on this. I can tell that the students feel really good about it. We were also able to put together a lastditch effort before the end of the year to provide certifications pursuant to request made by hope s. F. , a number of individuals from bayview community. We received a number of certifications and that will be going ongoing with help from oewd and city built. So, i think were doing what we said we would do. We were keeping the promises that we all made together and we should be proud. Commissioner kwon great news. Thank you. Anyone else . Any Public Comment . Ok. Moving right along. I think we have item seven. Happy new year to everyone. And hopefully this year will be better than last year. So, the first item i have is clean power s. F. Update. Barbara hill. Thank you. Happy new year. Assistant general manager for power. I have updates on our clean power assess programme with respect to enrollment and service, contracting for our growth. And legislative and regulatory activities. On the enrollment front, our clean power s. F. Programme has grown since i talked to you last. We reported in december. Were completing our small enrollment just this month so right now were currently serving about 80500 sites. So, it is up 500 from the last report. Our optout rate is the same. 3. 2 . So, were steady eddie on that front. Our super green upgrade continues to exceed that. And were at 4. 1 now. That is a. 1 increase since my last report to you. So, thats a snapshot of who were serving today. Looking ahead, our next small enrollment will be april of 2018. So just a couple of months away. That enrollment will include folks on our wait list. We have 230 customers on the wait list now. And that will about 65 of them are seeking super green service. So if you want to be part of that enrollment, go to cleanpowersf. Org enrollment before january 21 and well be able to include any additional customers in our april service. But, of course, the big next enrollment is for july. Right now were very involved in a number of activities to support that citywide enrollment. Our goal, of course, is to enroll all of the city by july of 2019. Were expecting to have about to get about halfway there with our july 2018 enrollment. The work that were focusing on right now is procuring supply and the related Financial Support. So, the Financial Support comes in the form of a bank credit facility. Ive reported to you before that our finance team is working to finalize those contract terms with j. P. Morgan. Were on track to bring that to you for a vote of approval at our next meeting, january 23rd. On the supply front, we are actively negotiating and finalizing those contracts with the short listed counterparties. We intend to present the Programme Risk management, portfolio assessment, and proforma results to the commission on february 13. So that is two meetings from now. At that time, well propose updates to the business practice policis that weve been operating the programme under for your approval as well. You initially approved those in december of 2015. And so with this next big enrollment, well refresh those and bring them back to you for approval. On the legislative front, consistents with your vote in november, i believe it was november 14, an ordinance was introduced at the board requesting the board provide a limited delegated authority to the p. U. C. To enter into our supply contracts and that will support the completion of our programme enrollment. The delegated authority would include annual expenditure limitations and conditions imposed by you at that november meeting on the general managers authority to sign contracts. That item is was heard at a special meeting of the board, budget and finance committee on december 12 and i was moved out of committee with full support. And so right now, today, its at the board for its first reading. At the capital, cal c. C. A. Is preparing for a lobbying day that we were participating in later in january. And that is to educate and raise awareness about Community Interest and local Energy Programmes like clean power s. F. We want to make sure we keep our legislative folks aware of our interests. Then on the regulatory side, we are continuing to. A lot of action on the exit fee tpcia. The annual adjustment will be delayed until march. It usually happens in january. I reported in december that it looked like it wasnt going to happen january 1. Weve gotten additional reports from the cpuc. Theyre saying march 1 is when they will authorize adjustments. Were also going to be participating in workshops on january 16 and 17 in a general reform to get to some agreement. Well be participating as San Francisco and also as part of the cal c. C. A. Coalition. The staff at the cpuc surprised us in december by issuing a resolution on Resource Adequacy. That staff draft resolution was issued for comment. It would result in delaying c. C. A. Expansion. And start up for at least a year in california. The stated objective was to avoid cost shifts from departing customers to remaining customers. Associated with Resource Adequacy obligations. And what the Commission Said they were trying to do is align the c. C. A. Expansion and startup dates with their planning process for resource, for assigning resource obligations. Comments are due in that proceeding january 11. They were actually due like a very short amount of time after the resolution was ish used and we petitioned for more time as did others. They reluctantly granted that and were grateful that they did. Theres been a lot of coordination activity on how to participate in that proceeding over the holidays and many legislators and local elected officials have written the cpuc expressing their concerns about the process that the cpuc is undertaking. Including our board president and acting mayor breed, sending in a letter. So, stay tuned on that front. Well see where that goes. We see it really as a Cost Allocation issue, not an urgent drop everything and Pay Attention to this matter. The kind of matter that the cpuc takes time through a rulemaking process, with comment and possible hearings, discover. A lot of opportunities to understand viewpoint and get input. We thought the process alone was reason to be alarmed about the approach the cpuc was taking. Well see how they respond once they see folks written comments. And then finally, pg e has filed for at the cpuc for revisions to its solar choice and green tariff programme. That is the part of the Programme Offerings that competes with our super green offering and we will be addressing comments on Cost Allocation issues to make sure that the costs of that programme with are being borne by the right rate payers so the competition there is fair. With that, im happy to take any questions you may have. I have a question about the enrollment. Can you remind me. The 80,000, that was by district, right . Didnt we shift strategy now, focused on business as well . It was district and we did shift strategy to focus on some districts so it was business customers in district 10. All customers in five and eight. The smaller enrollments that weve been engaged in have included net energy metring customers in those districts and customers who have been on the wait list. And then the next enrollment in july, it is going to be targeted at who . Well well continue to work that those details out. It is going to be about 150 megawatts of customer load. Were pretty much going to be serving customers in all districts between our auto enrollment and our wait list signups. It would be great to get the optout rates are still so low, but it would be great to get a better understanding maybe at your next presentation briefing on, you know, a little more on the daem graphics of the enrollment. You know, are the small businesses, are they big businesses sure. How many of the supergreens with individuals versus businesses. Kind of a little bit more of a profile . Happy to do that. Happy to do that. Quite interesting as we move into the big push here. Sounds good. Thank you. There was a piece in the paper this morning or yesterday about pg e proceeding to shift customers to time of day rates. How does that affect us . And refresh my memory. We do not have time of day rates, is that correct . No, we do have time of use, time of day rates, seasonally adjusted rates for both our clean power s. F. And our hetchy customers. Yeah. So, our rate design mimics pg es. So, those same time of use periods and seasonal periods apply to our customers. Ok. Thank you. Thank you. Great, thank you. Any Public Comment on this item . Ok. Item 7b. Commissioner kwon actually, i have no other announcements and that concludes my report. Thank you. Short and sweet. Thank you. Very short and sweet. Any Public Comments on the general managers report . Ok, madame secretary, the consent calendar. Item e is the con sent calendar. All matters are considered to be routine by the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these item fls a member of the commission or public so requests in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. Id like to make a motion to improve the consent calendar. Second. Any discussion . Any Public Comment . All right. All in favour aye. Opposed . Carries. Item nine, authorize the general manager to execute a memorandum of understanding with the San Francisco recreation and Park Department to establish authorized entry and access to recreation and Park Properties by s. F. P. Representatives in other words to inspex, install, modify, repair, remove, replace and test a temporary overhead power line in mclaren park. Id like to move the item. Second. Any discussion . All in favour . Aye. Public comment . Public comment. Forgive me. All right. All in favour. Aye. Opposed . It carries. Item 10. A proven increase to the existing contract cost in the amount of 7,635,800 and any future modifications to the contract. Second. Any discussion . Any Public Comments . All in favour . Aye. Oppose . Ed carries. Item 11, please. Item 11 approved the selection of Kennedy Jenks consultants a. G. Joint venture, a. E. Com Technical Services incorporated and stantech engineering incorm rated and award dpraoems number pro880076a through c and authorize a general manager to execute three professional Service Agreements each with an announcement not to exceed 4 million and each with a duration of five years. Id like to move the item. Second. Discussion . Any Public Comment . All in favour . Aye. Opposed . 12 , please. Actually, we have no closed session items. So we go straight to item 23 and 24. Any new business from the commissioners . Ok. I think this is a record. [laughter] wow. The meeting is adjourned. I told you it would be a good year. Have a good one. To be. Hi, im average im a personal analyst that the Human Resources examining and recruitment unit and suffix i started my career as a San Francisco State University and got my bachelors in psyched and orientational psyche if they had we have a great relationship that the San Francisco Unified School District i exploded for American People interim Shopping Mall and become eligible for a permeate job. Okay. Perfect. I love working for our Human Resources services because of the agriculture were laidback with a professional mindset although Human Resources is a challenge were light a hearted started as a intern guided through the process eventually one day a a Deputy Director or staying with the puc is where i love it in 2017 weve had the lowest number of fatalities on our streets in our history. We still have a lot of work to do. And doing this work is a team effort. It is of course working with the department of public works and the sfmta to discuss infrastructure issues to make it safer for pedestrians and bicyclists who are vulnerable to vehicles often times sadly going too fast. Were working with the San Francisco Police Department, doing everything we can to crackdown on those individuals speeding and breaking the law and doing things that could create these kinds of accidents. No one wants to see the accidents on the side of the road, no one wants to experience going to a crime scene on the road knowing your loved one has been hit by a car or sadly tragically killed. I remember years ago on turk street and laguna, when a lot of us were hanging out and just kind of enjoying the weather, it was a really nice hot time, like in the fall and my god son was crossing the street on turk at the intersection of turk and buchanan where theres no stoplight and he was hit by a car. We watched as you flew in the air and thought oh my god, oh my god, just to see it, and had no control over what was going to happen was devastating. And luckily he had minor injuries, luckily he survived, and i just really felt strongly, we have to do better as a city. We have to do better with the vehicles that are speeding on our streets. We have to do better with our infrastructures and when people push back on me about the improvements and bike infrastructure and all of those things we need to do, we have to make our roads safe. Its not about catering to a particular group. There are a lot of the bicyclists riding in our city, theres a lot of pedestrians walking in the city, we have to make sure that people know this is where bicyclists ride, this is where pedestrians walk, this is where vehicles are supposed to be, so that everyone behaves responsibly on the road and knows the infrastructure, it helps them to understand exactly where everyone is supposed to be. Our ultimate goal is Public Safety. We want everyone to be safe on our roads and everyone to make it home to their loved ones at the end of the night and that what this is about, this is about a team effort, working with our mta, the Police Department, department of Public Health, department of public works and families for safe streets, this is how were going to change the behavior of whats happening on our roads and get to the zero, the vision zero that we are promising San Francisco. This is an important thing we must all participate in. So, again, i just want to emphasize that i have been in Constant Contact with the chief because enforcement, enforcement is going to play a key role in helping us address those issues. Pulling over those vehicles running stop signs, pulling over the bicyclists who are sometimes doing the wrong thing, if you are breaking the law on our street, then there will be consequences for that behavior. Its not because the city wants to add another layer of bureaucracy or ticket you or collect that money, its because we want to make sure that people change their behavior so that theyre safe on our streets. Thats what this is about. This is about bringing the number of 20 in 2017 down to zero. We dont want another death on our streets because of human error, because of anything we can avoid. If we change our beha