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The meting will come to ord order. This is the february 23rd, 2018 special meeting of the San Francisco local Agency Formation commission. I am sandra leigh fewer, chair of the commission. I am joined by commissioner cynthia pollock on my left and hillary rope then on my right. I would also like to thank the staff at sfgovtv, for recording todays meetings. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Madam clerk, can you please read item number two. Item 2 is the approval of the lafco Meeting Minutes of november 30, 2017 workshop, and the november 30, 2017 regular meeting. Thank you. Do any of the commissioners have any changes to the november 30, 2017 minutes . Yes, i do. Under opening remarks and proposals presented by the commission, i recall it says rise chair pollock provided the following two proposals, broad band and revisiting an Affordable Housing study. I believe there was also a third, an expansion of clean power sf. Supervisor fewer okay. Are there any other changes to the november 30, 2017 minutes . All right. Seeing none, i will open this up to Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item 2. Seeing none, item 2 is now closed. Is there a motion to approve the minutes . So moved. Second. Moved by commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner rhenown, those minutes are approved. Madam clerk, can you call item number three. Item three is lafco regular meeting schedule. I believe we have a message from angela calvillo, interim chair officer. Thank you. I wanted to introduce item three. For the first few months lafco meetings were on an asneeded basis. Now lafco is suggesting that we set the next couple of meetings, particular, march 16, 2018; april 20th, may 18, june 15th, july 20th, september 21, october 19, and november 16, we have the room Space Available for the lafco, and this will also assist us in aligning our meetings with the regular board meetings. Thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number three . Seeing no public speakers, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, can we have a motion to approve the regular meeting schedule for 2018 . Great. Moved by commissioner ropenen, seconded by commissioner pollock, the item is proved. Madam clerk, can you please call item four. Item four is nominating two members to the board, ending. I understand we have not received any applications for either of these seats, is that correct . That is correct, madam chair. Commissioner pollock did submit her application right prior to the meeting but it did not make it into the packet. So seeing that, with that understanding, id like to continue this item, but lets first open this up for Public Comment, are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item number four . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. To allow more time for applications to be submitted, i would like to continue this item for the next regular meeting on march 16th. Colleagues, is there a motion to continue . So moved. Thank you move. Seconded. Moved by commissioner ronen and seconded by commissioner pollock, without objections, item number four will be continued to the next regular meeting on march 16th. Madam clerk, can you please call item number five. Item five is a Community Aggregate report and a community report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Michael himes, director of clean power sf for the sfpc. Its a pleasure to be with you this afternoon. Ive got some remarks to update you on the status of program growth, work weve been doing since we last met. First and foremost, though, cleanpowersf continues to serve about 81,000 accounts within the city and county, and to date, our cumulative program opt out rate is 3. 2 . Its been at that level for a while. Probably the last time we reported it, it was there, as well. I guess another way of looking at this is we have a 98. 6 participation rate. 4 4. 1 of our accounts have opted up to our renewable energy, super green, and that is the highest of any cca operating in california. And as well, were also preparing a quarterly enrollment for customers that have signed up for the Program Since january , and that enrollment is coming up in april. Thats a small enrollment of about 250 accounts that have signed up over the past few months. You might recall that in addition to the large enrollment fees is weve been inviting sign ups on an ongoing basis and then conducting these quarterly enrollments to bring those customers into the program on a timely basis. Since we last presented to the lafco in late november , a number of things have happened with respect to our Program Development work. First, on january 23rd, the puc approved some new rates for cleanpowersf. This is a limited rate action focused on two things. First, at reducing our super green premium for participating customers so effective march 1, next month, our residential super green rates will be 1. 5 cents perhour on top of our green kilowith the hour, down from two cents. This reduction will allow the program to remain competitive with comparable offerings by pg e. The other major actions we took were some modifications to our net energy metering. Thats a program that supports customers that have roof top solar. Its a billing credit mechanism that allows customers that own solar to get credits on their bills for any energy they produce and deliver to the grid. Thats tracked every month. Net credits that accumulate in a given month are carried forward for application to a following billing period. And then, every year, we look at whether the customer was a net producer of energy or a net consumer, and they were a net producer, we compensate them for that energy. So we made changes based on our experience to date in managing this program. After about a year and a half in operations, the changes were really to improve is simplify the customer experience, so those changes were first to we eliminated two net surplus compensation rates that we were using. Thats the rates we pay the customer fore Additional Energy produced over the course of the year. Were now just compensating the customers at the higher of those two rates, which is the average super green rate. We also adopted a credit carrie forward at the end of the period at our default mechanism. Customers can also request a check rather than a carrie forward of the credit on their bills. And finally, we have adopted a policy of carrying forward credits for any customers that have been on the program less than ten months, and the intent of that is to avoid harming any customers that may be expected to get additional credits for the balance of the year. So thats a little bit in the weeds, but those are adjustments that have been made to, again, improve the customer experience, protect our koestner mers were any lost value, and also help improve the efficiency of administering the program. Also on january 23rd, the board of supervisors authorized the puc to enter into power supply contracts to support the next phase of program enrollment. That legislation was signed by the mayor on january 26th. And then lastly, the puc Commission Affirmed that the conditions necessary to execute the contracts had been met, and authorized the general manager to move forward with all actions in esto complete citywide enrollment for cleanpowersf. So really a major milestone for cleanpowersf. The elements are really coming into place now for a july enrollment. And towards that end, staff is we are working to finalize our power supply contracts and bank credit agreement. Were targeting execution in early march of our first set of agreements to come out of the solicitations we issued. We are also working on our enrollment plan, taking into consideration the Available Renewable Energy supply in 2018 to support our customer enrollment again while meeting our Overall Program content power objectives. Were providing updated program notices, program collateral and finetuning our Outreach Program for the next enrollment phase, and a lot of that is going to be centered around who we are going to be enrolling in the next phase, and thats something were working on right now. And then, last but not least here, were also evaluating a potential rate action for our green product. The reason why weve separated these rate actions is because we are waiting for pg e to set its rates for this year, and pg e had been delayed. Normally, their rates go into effect on january 1. Last year, pg e issued its rates for 2018, and those will go into effect next month. And what were seeing is you might recall the pcia of the exit fee that cca customers paid pg e. We are seeing that go up by about 14 . The but we are also seeing pg es generation supply rates also go up by about 8 . So the net result is that cleanpowersf rates will continue to belower than pg e after than pg es comparable rates by accounting for the pcia. To the extent we do take a rate action in april, it will maintain that beneficial rate differential, and it would go into effect on july 1. And that actually concludes my update. Im happy to take questions. Supervisor fewer thank you. Colleagues, any questions . Yes, commissioner pollock . Commissioner pollock i just want to excuse me. First of all, congratulations yeah, thank you for your support through this effort. Commissioner pollock i know so many people are so excited to see how it moves forward. I just wonder if we can get a chart, again, of the new dates for the different parts of the roll out and just when we see the big launch and how thats moving along. Absolutely. Commissioner pollock okay. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Be happy to do that. Supervisor fewer commissioner ronen, any questions . Okay. Seeing none. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor fewer lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item number five . Hello. Good afternoon. Commissioners, eric brooks for California Energy choice and San Francisco clean energy advocates. In the entire 14 kbraerz thyea ive been coming before this commission, this is the most important thing that ive ever had to say to you. Warren buffet and donald trump are trying to get ahold of the california electricity grid to bring coal back to california and undermine renewables. The Trump Administration has directed regional grid operators like this one would become under a bill in the state legislature and has directed federal agencies to subsidize coal electricity once this happens, so they will be able to make it cheaper than Renewables Even though its not. Theres a bill thats up last year thats coming up again this year, its going to be rewritten so that its easier to pass. The authors made mistakes last year and thats one of the reason theyre going to be able to kill it. The result of this bill would be to make our california nonprofit electricity grid turn into part of a regional private grid of which the Largest Company acting, and it would be warren buffets berkshirehathaway, who has attacked companies in other states. Once our grid is part of a private grid than state grid, our california electricity grid will be under the control of the Trump Administration. This could Kill Community choice aggregation, and it could kill renewables in general for a decade, possibly more. This is the biggest threat weve ever faced, and its vital that you oppose it. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Hi, commissioners. Jed holtzman from 350 bay area. I just want to say attending the sf meetings, were ready to go full steam ahead. The one thing i would say for lafcos role, as Going Forward, as we discussed in the workshop, the role you could play in cleanpowersf, the puc staff has a tremendous amount of work to do to roll out the program, get everyone enrolled, make sure that theyre happy, make sure that the city, the board is happy with the budgeting and contracting divisions. I think one role that the lafco can play Going Forward is as advocates, we get reports on and i hope mike doesnt get mad at me. We talk with him about this all the time. We get reports on what Silicon Valley is doing. Now im getting reports on what east bay is looking like, and now im getting some reports on the north bay. What id like to do is transmit a lot of those best practices where possible from other cca and kind of just instead of growing at our own pace, not enrollment wise, but Program Development wise, that can he can kind of take the best pieces of the east bay, north bay, and south bay wherever possible, and wed like to talk to lafco at some point in the future. Thanks. Supervisor fewer all right. Thank you. Seeing no further comments, Public Comment is now closed. Theres no action for the commission to take on this matter. Madam clerk, can you please call item number six. Item six is the interim Administrative Officers report. Supervisor fewer miss calvillo, do you have anything to report . Thank you, madam chair, members of the commission, angela calvillo, interim officer. I wanted to provide just a brief introduction to what ive done with the lafcos budget without permission from lafco, but i think its a good thing. Essentially because the budget process for lafco is not on the same timeline as the budget process for the board of supervisors and the city in general, what used to happen is the executive officer would provide me a ballpark figure from lafco that wouldnt be confirmed by lafco until june, so while we are, a city department, submitting our budgets to the mayor and controller as of yesterday, february yeah, thank you, 22nd, i asked the budget committee, and the committee has provided me permission to put in the statutory amount that lafco is entitled to, which is 297,342. So by the time lafco does determine its needs and actually comes up with a figure, if its lower than that amount, then, well just adjust the departments budget by that amount. This will make things a little easier for us in our conversations with the mayors and the Controllers Office, so with your permission, i appreciate your indulgence to do that today. The last thing ill say is that im the interim officer, and all of the work that we have done over the last couple of months is all done with the great assistance of alisa, your clerk, especially the rfq for executive officer. Im available for any questions. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions . No. Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item. Yes. Supervisor fewer oh, im so sorry. [ inaudible ] so eric brooks again, San Francisco green party, local grassroots organization, our city, californians for energy support, which is a statewide organization for Community Choice aggregation and Clean Choice Energy advocates. I would just urge you real quickly to make sure in light of what happened last year, lets make sure lafco has full leverage on its own budget and can and so make sure you retain the power to not allow any shenanigans to go on in the future like we saw last year. Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you very much. Seeing no further Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. There is no Commission Action to be taken on this matter. Can you please call item seven. Item seven is a discussion on lafcos Strategic Plan. Supervisor fewer thank you. We have discussed a range of things worth exploring, but until we have an executive director, i propose we suspend any further discussion until our march 16th meeting. Colleagues, does that sound okay to you . Great. Now lets open this up to Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item seven. Surprise, surprise. Eric brooks, californians for Energy Choice and all the other groups that i mentioned before. So the weve heard from the interim executive officer that the bids that came in on the request for qualifications are proprietary, and theyre not allowed to be released. The public, of course, really would like to see the applicants and who they are, and so that we can weigh in on who we think would be the best person, but we cant really do it without that information. This is a question for the attorney and for the executive interim executive officer, but if we can even get the names of applicants, then, we can look them up themselves and decide what we think and then maybe make comments before your next meeting. I dont know if thats possible, but anything you can give us so that we can, as the public, weigh in on the process, that would be great. Thanks. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any other public speakers . And do we have a response for mr. Brooks . Thank you, madam chair. Supervisor fewer thank you. In in in discussing this issue with mr. Eng, who is working in conjunction closely with the office of the city attorneys on this, unfortunately, because we are still in the determination process about whether or not the named individuals that you were speaking about actually meet the minimum qualifications, we are not yet ready to present that information, but we will definitely provide the public that information relatively around the same time we provide that information to the commission. Okay. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Seeing no other public speakers, San Francisco<\/a> local Agency Formation<\/a> commission. I am sandra leigh fewer, chair of the commission. I am joined by commissioner cynthia pollock on my left and hillary rope then on my right. I would also like to thank the staff at sfgovtv, for recording todays meetings. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Madam clerk, can you please read item number two. Item 2 is the approval of the lafco Meeting Minutes<\/a> of november 30, 2017 workshop, and the november 30, 2017 regular meeting. Thank you. Do any of the commissioners have any changes to the november 30, 2017 minutes . Yes, i do. Under opening remarks and proposals presented by the commission, i recall it says rise chair pollock provided the following two proposals, broad band and revisiting an Affordable Housing<\/a> study. I believe there was also a third, an expansion of clean power sf. Supervisor fewer okay. Are there any other changes to the november 30, 2017 minutes . All right. Seeing none, i will open this up to Public Comment<\/a>. Are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item 2. Seeing none, item 2 is now closed. Is there a motion to approve the minutes . So moved. Second. Moved by commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner rhenown, those minutes are approved. Madam clerk, can you call item number three. Item three is lafco regular meeting schedule. I believe we have a message from angela calvillo, interim chair officer. Thank you. I wanted to introduce item three. For the first few months lafco meetings were on an asneeded basis. Now lafco is suggesting that we set the next couple of meetings, particular, march 16, 2018; april 20th, may 18, june 15th, july 20th, september 21, october 19, and november 16, we have the room Space Available<\/a> for the lafco, and this will also assist us in aligning our meetings with the regular board meetings. Thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment<\/a>. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number three . Seeing no public speakers, Public Comment<\/a> is now closed. Colleagues, can we have a motion to approve the regular meeting schedule for 2018 . Great. Moved by commissioner ropenen, seconded by commissioner pollock, the item is proved. Madam clerk, can you please call item four. Item four is nominating two members to the board, ending. I understand we have not received any applications for either of these seats, is that correct . That is correct, madam chair. Commissioner pollock did submit her application right prior to the meeting but it did not make it into the packet. So seeing that, with that understanding, id like to continue this item, but lets first open this up for Public Comment<\/a>, are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item number four . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is now closed. To allow more time for applications to be submitted, i would like to continue this item for the next regular meeting on march 16th. Colleagues, is there a motion to continue . So moved. Thank you move. Seconded. Moved by commissioner ronen and seconded by commissioner pollock, without objections, item number four will be continued to the next regular meeting on march 16th. Madam clerk, can you please call item number five. Item five is a Community Aggregate<\/a> report and a community report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Michael himes, director of clean power sf for the sfpc. Its a pleasure to be with you this afternoon. Ive got some remarks to update you on the status of program growth, work weve been doing since we last met. First and foremost, though, cleanpowersf continues to serve about 81,000 accounts within the city and county, and to date, our cumulative program opt out rate is 3. 2 . Its been at that level for a while. Probably the last time we reported it, it was there, as well. I guess another way of looking at this is we have a 98. 6 participation rate. 4 4. 1 of our accounts have opted up to our renewable energy, super green, and that is the highest of any cca operating in california. And as well, were also preparing a quarterly enrollment for customers that have signed up for the Program Since<\/a> january , and that enrollment is coming up in april. Thats a small enrollment of about 250 accounts that have signed up over the past few months. You might recall that in addition to the large enrollment fees is weve been inviting sign ups on an ongoing basis and then conducting these quarterly enrollments to bring those customers into the program on a timely basis. Since we last presented to the lafco in late november , a number of things have happened with respect to our Program Development<\/a> work. First, on january 23rd, the puc approved some new rates for cleanpowersf. This is a limited rate action focused on two things. First, at reducing our super green premium for participating customers so effective march 1, next month, our residential super green rates will be 1. 5 cents perhour on top of our green kilowith the hour, down from two cents. This reduction will allow the program to remain competitive with comparable offerings by pg e. The other major actions we took were some modifications to our net energy metering. Thats a program that supports customers that have roof top solar. Its a billing credit mechanism that allows customers that own solar to get credits on their bills for any energy they produce and deliver to the grid. Thats tracked every month. Net credits that accumulate in a given month are carried forward for application to a following billing period. And then, every year, we look at whether the customer was a net producer of energy or a net consumer, and they were a net producer, we compensate them for that energy. So we made changes based on our experience to date in managing this program. After about a year and a half in operations, the changes were really to improve is simplify the customer experience, so those changes were first to we eliminated two net surplus compensation rates that we were using. Thats the rates we pay the customer fore Additional Energy<\/a> produced over the course of the year. Were now just compensating the customers at the higher of those two rates, which is the average super green rate. We also adopted a credit carrie forward at the end of the period at our default mechanism. Customers can also request a check rather than a carrie forward of the credit on their bills. And finally, we have adopted a policy of carrying forward credits for any customers that have been on the program less than ten months, and the intent of that is to avoid harming any customers that may be expected to get additional credits for the balance of the year. So thats a little bit in the weeds, but those are adjustments that have been made to, again, improve the customer experience, protect our koestner mers were any lost value, and also help improve the efficiency of administering the program. Also on january 23rd, the board of supervisors authorized the puc to enter into power supply contracts to support the next phase of program enrollment. That legislation was signed by the mayor on january 26th. And then lastly, the puc Commission Affirmed<\/a> that the conditions necessary to execute the contracts had been met, and authorized the general manager to move forward with all actions in esto complete citywide enrollment for cleanpowersf. So really a major milestone for cleanpowersf. The elements are really coming into place now for a july enrollment. And towards that end, staff is we are working to finalize our power supply contracts and bank credit agreement. Were targeting execution in early march of our first set of agreements to come out of the solicitations we issued. We are also working on our enrollment plan, taking into consideration the Available Renewable Energy<\/a> supply in 2018 to support our customer enrollment again while meeting our Overall Program<\/a> content power objectives. Were providing updated program notices, program collateral and finetuning our Outreach Program<\/a> for the next enrollment phase, and a lot of that is going to be centered around who we are going to be enrolling in the next phase, and thats something were working on right now. And then, last but not least here, were also evaluating a potential rate action for our green product. The reason why weve separated these rate actions is because we are waiting for pg e to set its rates for this year, and pg e had been delayed. Normally, their rates go into effect on january 1. Last year, pg e issued its rates for 2018, and those will go into effect next month. And what were seeing is you might recall the pcia of the exit fee that cca customers paid pg e. We are seeing that go up by about 14 . The but we are also seeing pg es generation supply rates also go up by about 8 . So the net result is that cleanpowersf rates will continue to belower than pg e after than pg es comparable rates by accounting for the pcia. To the extent we do take a rate action in april, it will maintain that beneficial rate differential, and it would go into effect on july 1. And that actually concludes my update. Im happy to take questions. Supervisor fewer thank you. Colleagues, any questions . Yes, commissioner pollock . Commissioner pollock i just want to excuse me. First of all, congratulations yeah, thank you for your support through this effort. Commissioner pollock i know so many people are so excited to see how it moves forward. I just wonder if we can get a chart, again, of the new dates for the different parts of the roll out and just when we see the big launch and how thats moving along. Absolutely. Commissioner pollock okay. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Be happy to do that. Supervisor fewer commissioner ronen, any questions . Okay. Seeing none. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor fewer lets open this up for Public Comment<\/a>. Are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item number five . Hello. Good afternoon. Commissioners, eric brooks for California Energy<\/a> choice and San Francisco<\/a> clean energy advocates. In the entire 14 kbraerz thyea ive been coming before this commission, this is the most important thing that ive ever had to say to you. Warren buffet and donald trump are trying to get ahold of the california electricity grid to bring coal back to california and undermine renewables. The Trump Administration<\/a> has directed regional grid operators like this one would become under a bill in the state legislature and has directed federal agencies to subsidize coal electricity once this happens, so they will be able to make it cheaper than Renewables Even<\/a> though its not. Theres a bill thats up last year thats coming up again this year, its going to be rewritten so that its easier to pass. The authors made mistakes last year and thats one of the reason theyre going to be able to kill it. The result of this bill would be to make our california nonprofit electricity grid turn into part of a regional private grid of which the Largest Company<\/a> acting, and it would be warren buffets berkshirehathaway, who has attacked companies in other states. Once our grid is part of a private grid than state grid, our california electricity grid will be under the control of the Trump Administration<\/a>. This could Kill Community<\/a> choice aggregation, and it could kill renewables in general for a decade, possibly more. This is the biggest threat weve ever faced, and its vital that you oppose it. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Hi, commissioners. Jed holtzman from 350 bay area. I just want to say attending the sf meetings, were ready to go full steam ahead. The one thing i would say for lafcos role, as Going Forward<\/a>, as we discussed in the workshop, the role you could play in cleanpowersf, the puc staff has a tremendous amount of work to do to roll out the program, get everyone enrolled, make sure that theyre happy, make sure that the city, the board is happy with the budgeting and contracting divisions. I think one role that the lafco can play Going Forward<\/a> is as advocates, we get reports on and i hope mike doesnt get mad at me. We talk with him about this all the time. We get reports on what Silicon Valley<\/a> is doing. Now im getting reports on what east bay is looking like, and now im getting some reports on the north bay. What id like to do is transmit a lot of those best practices where possible from other cca and kind of just instead of growing at our own pace, not enrollment wise, but Program Development<\/a> wise, that can he can kind of take the best pieces of the east bay, north bay, and south bay wherever possible, and wed like to talk to lafco at some point in the future. Thanks. Supervisor fewer all right. Thank you. Seeing no further comments, Public Comment<\/a> is now closed. Theres no action for the commission to take on this matter. Madam clerk, can you please call item number six. Item six is the interim Administrative Officer<\/a>s report. Supervisor fewer miss calvillo, do you have anything to report . Thank you, madam chair, members of the commission, angela calvillo, interim officer. I wanted to provide just a brief introduction to what ive done with the lafcos budget without permission from lafco, but i think its a good thing. Essentially because the budget process for lafco is not on the same timeline as the budget process for the board of supervisors and the city in general, what used to happen is the executive officer would provide me a ballpark figure from lafco that wouldnt be confirmed by lafco until june, so while we are, a city department, submitting our budgets to the mayor and controller as of yesterday, february yeah, thank you, 22nd, i asked the budget committee, and the committee has provided me permission to put in the statutory amount that lafco is entitled to, which is 297,342. So by the time lafco does determine its needs and actually comes up with a figure, if its lower than that amount, then, well just adjust the departments budget by that amount. This will make things a little easier for us in our conversations with the mayors and the Controllers Office<\/a>, so with your permission, i appreciate your indulgence to do that today. The last thing ill say is that im the interim officer, and all of the work that we have done over the last couple of months is all done with the great assistance of alisa, your clerk, especially the rfq for executive officer. Im available for any questions. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions . No. Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment<\/a>. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item. Yes. Supervisor fewer oh, im so sorry. [ inaudible ] so eric brooks again, San Francisco<\/a> green party, local grassroots organization, our city, californians for energy support, which is a statewide organization for Community Choice<\/a> aggregation and Clean Choice Energy<\/a> advocates. I would just urge you real quickly to make sure in light of what happened last year, lets make sure lafco has full leverage on its own budget and can and so make sure you retain the power to not allow any shenanigans to go on in the future like we saw last year. Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you very much. Seeing no further Public Comment<\/a>, Public Comment<\/a> is now closed. There is no Commission Action<\/a> to be taken on this matter. Can you please call item seven. Item seven is a discussion on lafcos Strategic Plan<\/a>. Supervisor fewer thank you. We have discussed a range of things worth exploring, but until we have an executive director, i propose we suspend any further discussion until our march 16th meeting. Colleagues, does that sound okay to you . Great. Now lets open this up to Public Comment<\/a>. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item seven. Surprise, surprise. Eric brooks, californians for Energy Choice<\/a> and all the other groups that i mentioned before. So the weve heard from the interim executive officer that the bids that came in on the request for qualifications are proprietary, and theyre not allowed to be released. The public, of course, really would like to see the applicants and who they are, and so that we can weigh in on who we think would be the best person, but we cant really do it without that information. This is a question for the attorney and for the executive interim executive officer, but if we can even get the names of applicants, then, we can look them up themselves and decide what we think and then maybe make comments before your next meeting. I dont know if thats possible, but anything you can give us so that we can, as the public, weigh in on the process, that would be great. Thanks. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any other public speakers . And do we have a response for mr. Brooks . Thank you, madam chair. Supervisor fewer thank you. In in in discussing this issue with mr. Eng, who is working in conjunction closely with the office of the city attorneys on this, unfortunately, because we are still in the determination process about whether or not the named individuals that you were speaking about actually meet the minimum qualifications, we are not yet ready to present that information, but we will definitely provide the public that information relatively around the same time we provide that information to the commission. Okay. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Seeing no other public speakers, Public Comment<\/a> is now closed. I would like to continue this item until our next regular meeting on march 16th. Colleagues, is there a motion to continue . Thank you very much. Great. Moved by commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner ronen, without objections, item number seven will be continued to the next regular meeting on march 16. Madam clerk, can you please call item number eight. Item number eight is an update on obtaining executive officer services for the commission and possible direction to staff. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I want to invite our interim Administrative Officer<\/a> to give an update on the rfq process. Miss calvillo. Thank you, chair. So at the direction of lafco our Office Issued<\/a> an rfq for executive officer services. The deadline was extended to february 13th, 2018. The anticipated not to exceed contract raid is 75 an hour. The panel deliberation was scheduled for this morning, and we will issue a notice of intent to prequalify, were hoping by february 27th. At this time, the details of the respondents are confidential in accordance with the administrative code chapter 67. 24 for mr. Brooks, but may be subject to disclosure once the panel scoring and the issue of the notice of intent to prequalify has completed. Respondents are not gasuarante a contract if they meet the qualifications because it is on lafco for the qualification and certainly as the chair as she was authorized to conduct this r 23 q process, and the respondents ability to complete the necessary administrative requirements in order to become an approved city vendor through the General Services<\/a> agency. Respondents who are prequalified will remain eligible for consideration and Contract Negotiation<\/a> on an as needed basis for five years from the prequalification notification date. We look forward to keeping you apprised on this issue, and im available for other questions. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Thank you. Supervisor fewer colleagues, any comments or questions . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment<\/a>. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number eight . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is now closed. Do we have a motion to continue this item to our next regular item on march 16 . So moved. Thank you very much. Moved by commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner ronen. Without objection, the panel will continue item eight to our next meeting on march 16. Item nine. Consideration to approve the agreement with renne sloan holtzman and safai. Supervisor fewer i wanted to allow teresa tristricker to present on this item. I am speaking here in my individual capacity and not as your Legal Advisor<\/a> as the contracts before you pertains to the firm that i am currently affiliated with and the firm that i will be affiliated with starting next thursday. Our firm that has been providing Legal Services<\/a> to you is splitting. The firm will be splitting into two firms. A new firm is being created called renne public law firm, and that is the group that i will be affiliated with, starting on march 1. We will be located in the offices that are currently located in, and have a similar name, but it is a brandnew firm. In order to allow me to continue to provide Legal Services<\/a>, we have made the request that the lafco agree to an assignment of the existing contract with the existing firm under the same terms and conditions without any additional extension from the old firm to the new firm for Services Beginning<\/a> on march 1. Any services that are provided between now and the end of february , including, for example, my attendance here today, will be provided on behalf of the current firm, and the current firm will eventually submit a bill for those services for anything between now and the end of february. And so with that, im going to go ahead and defer to your interim Administrative Officer<\/a> for any additional questions, but if you have any questions about the split of the firm or how that is going to work or what this means for you, im happy to provide that information. But as far as from my perspective, you will not see any change. The only change will be the name of the firm that im affiliated with. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Yes, miss calvillo . Yes, thank you, miss stricker. The other point that i wanted to make is we had the City Attorneys Office<\/a> review the terms of the assignment agreement, and they have signed off on all of the language. Were happy to provide that to you, as well, members of the commission, and that beginning march 1st, the assignment agreement will take place, and we will have all of the files transferred from the hyde, miller, owen and troste to the new renne law group. Supervisor fewer okay. Colleagues, any questions, comments . Okay. Lets open this up to members of the public. Are there any members of the public wishing to comment on item nine snoo seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Do we have a motion to approve the contract for renne law group, llc. Great. Moved by commissioner ronen, seconded by commissioner pollock, so approve the contract for the renne law group, llc as our law group. Madam clerk, can you please call item ten. Item ten is Public Comment<\/a>. Supervisor fewer this is the time for members of the public to address items on the panels jurisdiction and not on the agenda. Are there any members of the public that would like to speak. Yes. Eric brooks. This time ill speak on behalf of our city, San Francisco<\/a> and the San Francisco<\/a> green party. As you move forward and start working on Affordable Housing<\/a>, theres a desperate issue thats not being addressed in San Francisco<\/a> and that is Small Business<\/a>es, local Small Business<\/a>es. They are going out of business as if theres a wildfire going through the city. The costa hawkins repeal bill and ballot measures that are in planning are not going to solve the problem. In my neighborhood, weve lost micanos possibly the best greek restaurant in the united states. Polk street produce went out of business because of increased rent. The gangway bar, one of the most historic bars in San Francisco<\/a> for the Lgbt Community<\/a> is going to have to go out of business or move. In commissioner fewers district, she knows theres a natural food business thats being driven out of the district because of the decision by the building owner. We are losing key businesses so fast in this city that San Francisco<\/a>s not going to be recognizable in the next decade if we dont do something about this. So as you move forward on supporting Affordable Housing<\/a> and the homeless, we also need to think that some of those homeless may be Small Business<\/a> owne owners that went out of business because no one can cap their rent. And that in turn is replacing all of our businesses with formula retail. Its just were not going to have San Francisco<\/a> unless we solve this problem, so id urge you to put that on your future agenda. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Seeing no other public speakers, Public Comment<\/a> is now closed. Madam clerk, can you please call item number 11. Item number 11 is future agenda items. Supervisor fewer are there any future agenda items that my colleagues would like to comment on or discussion. Seeing none, lets open this up to members of the public. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number 11. Seeing none, item 11 is now clerk. Madam clerk, are there any other items of business before us today . That concludes your items of business for today. Supervisor fewer there being no further items of business, we are adjourned. Good afternoon the clerk well bring the commission to order and ask the sector to please call the roll. [roll call] second item is the approval of the minutes of february 2018. So moved. The clerk so the minutes are before you and theres been a motion to accept the minutes. Is there a second . Second. The clerk are the re corrections . Those in favor as written say aye. Opposed . The minutes have been adopted. Our next item please. Item three is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. The president did sign a continuing resolution for a twoyear budget framework into law and that will allow us to not have a Government Shutdown<\/a> until fiscal year 2019. There are specifically in the measure the funding for extending the Childrens Health<\/a> Insurance Program<\/a> for an addition four years. Reauthorizing funding for more than 7 billion to Community Health<\/a> centers that includes the departments dollars for homeless services. It provides 6 billion dedicated opioid treatment and Mental Health<\/a> service and funding to National Institutes<\/a> of health and the child Home Visiting<\/a> program. We are still tracking the 340b issue as well as the fact we know potential of cuts and future cuts in Services Including<\/a> in cdc, samis a, nih and other areas and keep you informed as we know. Senator scott wiener announced a new conservatorship for addiction and homelessness as part of the definitions. We hope that we are in support of this with the senator and we can do a press conference the last week on that. Part of the legislation allows us to continue and weve been positive in being served versus being in locked facility. The Prep Campaign<\/a> ink to address hiv disparity by reaching out to African American<\/a> there was a new campaign in the fight against hiv to end the disparities impacting African American<\/a> men and the focus is to prevent hiv infection and a new campaign launching will help close this gap by engaging black san franciscans to support in prep messages. Gender health recognized an event and i kind of see them of them in the audience. We want to acknowledge them and the mortality rate of black infants is more than twice of white infants and a growing body of evidence shows stress may be among black women caused by Racial Discrimination<\/a> and as you saw in todays report some work is finding better results by focussing on those kinds of issues including working in the community and managing individual stress from the African American<\/a> community. I do want to make sure we recommend the staff today. Director, i had one question off the present i guess the continuing resolution it then would not have the let it of another shutdown im trying so information how that works. I and tis we could have another shut down but this allows us to go forward with the initiatives. And on the report our congratulations for all those who have been recognized at the event. Thank you for the report and the next item. Public comment and ive not received any requests. Could i ask karen to come up to acknowledge her . Surely, please. I know you have experience now and if you can give the commissioners a little bit about your background and the work youve been doing for us. I did hiv prevention back in 1999 and have been working there since 2017 and looking for the transgender community. We want to acknowledge her for her award at the hearts and heroes. Congratulations. Thank you, sir. Item five is from the commit from today. President and members of the public, the Community Public<\/a> Health Committee<\/a> met this afternoon. We had two very specific items on our agenda in the child and adolescent health. Theres three items discussed in detail. Preterm birth and childrens oral health and child abuse. Next item was Food Insecurity<\/a> in San Francisco<\/a> and talked about hunger in the Faith Community<\/a> and over the next few months and later in the year, data will be provided on the ethnicity and perform level and we look forward to hearing from them as a competition. That con cloud my report. Thank you. I was able to be present at the Committee Meeting<\/a> and was struck with the presentation on Food Security<\/a> which i understand will be expanded and be available for presentation to the full commission and understand the importance of food as one of the sociodeterminates of health and what the department is and as a Strategic Plan<\/a> working on in order to move forward on that as an important pillar. So we will be agendizing that for a fuller presentation as part of the departments overview. Thank you, commissioners. The clerk item 6 is the budget and today youll vote on the issue. If you recall this with us introduced at the last meeting february 6. Very briefly and then ill turn it over to our budget director. As you know we had a hearing in our last Commission Meeting<\/a> with a set of initiatives proposed for the budget. This is the second hearing well be requesting a vote to forward to the mayors and comptrollers office. The budget we submitted to you was roughly balanced, however, as we noted during the hearing it was uneven between years where we were over balanced in the first year and under balanced in the second leader and while we hit a target it created an issue because when were short in the second year it carries forward to the future budget and affects our ability to hit our longer term Financial Planning<\/a> goals. So what weve come back with today for you is a second set of initiatives that introduced the items we were not prepared to bring to the last hearing, but furthermore corrects the balance to were hitting our target in each of the years and we should be in a good position for our ongoing to meet our ongoing general fund target. Ill turn it over to jenny with the initiatives. [no audio] hopefully members of the audience can follow along until we get a larger screen. So commissioners, as mr. Wagner said in the last hearing, weve submitted our base budget overview. We committed a number of proposals that didnt meet target and the concern on the initial proposal is we were very lopside in how we spread out our savings and how we met the target over two years. At this Commission Hearing<\/a> were bringing forward a complete balancing plan. One that actually corrects for the lopsidedness using appropriations and prefunded appropriations for project in year one. That should hopefully address that issue as well as an additional handful of issues wed like to bring forward for your consideration. Most significantly is the Electronic Health<\/a> Records Initiative<\/a> we brought forward and we have paper copies here. Let me walk you through this table. The first line is an updated projection of what we feel the project will cost from 17, 18 through 1920 and from mr. Kims presentation last year when he updated on the project basically the bulk of implementation has begun for 1920. The numbers were updated after we finalized the contract with epic and enabled us to figure out what were the services we were getting from epic and other services and were expecting well have 247 million worth of costs related to i mplementatio and this is the updated number from the fall and winter once we finalized the contract. The second set of numbers you see and so many commissioners may remember over the last several years weve tried many strategies to fund this Program Given<\/a> we were progressing 377 million over 10 years when it was something we cannot do overnight. To summarize we did a combination of some base project funding. We did some onetime appropriations and project funds and additional infusion of base project funding and also had a mechanism we started in 1517 and we were able to capture the onetime revenues youve seen in the Financial Statement<\/a> relate to costreport issues favorable costreport issues that were able to recognize its not money we feel comfortable budgeting or baseline budget but it is a revenue that we see fairly often but not always in our Financial Statement<\/a>s. And we believe we have 244 million in appropriations available for expenditures which is a couple millon million shy of what we had and the project expenditure and work in the baseline were things done before the budget. And last week we had an issue with our funding with the affiliation agreement where they believed in several years ago they could actually hold their affiliation agreement flat to help support the procurement of the Electronic Health<\/a> records but recently this fall with updated projections they didnt feel they could maintain that agreement with us anymore and so theres a 10. 3 million issue we had to contend with to make sure we continue to support the services that you it provides for us. So that 10 million issue basically combined with our shortfall and our deficits over the last three years results in a 12 million shortfall in just looking at the issues. And then as we mentioned before, in addition to this issue we also had the issue of being lopsided in terms of our balancing in our initial budget proposal. So what we are proposing to do here is to shift the funding of the project earlier into fiscal year 1819 instead of 1920 and allows us to move dollars and enables us to reduce year two by 10. 3 million and reduces an additional 10. 7 million of ongoing costs for the h. R. Project because weve already prefunded the e. R. H. Project in the future im sorry, earlier. So what this does is overall all see we will actually have a balance of money for the next two or three years we expect to fully expend by the end of 1920 but we do believe we can provide the appropriation of 247 million over the next three years. This is something that we are going have to watch because we didnt reduce our ongoing appropriation and it does make that project a little bit tighter because we are projected to be at zero at year three but its something at this point we believe we can manage. I know i threw a lot of numbers at you. Do you have specific questions on what i just walked you through . In regards to the ucsf changes, has there been a review with ucsf in terms of what the affiliation agreement is expects in the future to have made assumptions or hope for promises and then to come in at the budget time to say that we actually cant fulfill that and there may be very legitimate reasons would seem to be a shortsighted type of process rather than one that should have had a more continuous dialogue that allows us because this is a longterm project, to understand and Work Together<\/a> to manage all the sources of funding recognizing there was good will in coming in to say they would participate in the h. R. Process. Yes, thank you for the question. We have been work myself along with a Hospital Executive<\/a> team, dr. Erlach on her staff and what the directions entail and youll see the funds removed from the project from the affiliation agreement and in addition we discussed at the prior hearing theres an assumption in the mayors deficit projection we will fund the nonphysician staff on an ongoing basis and between the two sources we believe that there is efficient funding that we will not sufficient funding we wont have to come back for an ask. It will be a process well have to work through and already started with u. C. So that process is going to be some added layers of oversight and collaborative financial management. So well be looking at enhanced process to evaluate whether those need to be refilled. Well be looking at opportunities both now and through the e. H. R. Revenue process and the fees woul offset the need for an affiliation agreement. We are going to be looking at whether theres opportunities to streamline consolidate, identify efficiency in the affiliation costs and the below the line items in the agreement. Theres layers in this but theyll be putting in plis a process well put through the next 18 months and beyond to make sure were including the same level of i guess certainly or oversight in the projections for the affiliation agreement that we are in other items were bringing before the commission and the Mayors Office<\/a> and fiveyear Financial Planning<\/a> process. So im confident its going to be work but confident everybodys on board between the Central Office<\/a> and Hospital Administration<\/a> and the deans office that you see everybodys committed to continuing to work through this to make sure that we can live westbound the appropriated dollars. Commissioners, any further questions . We felt it needed some explanation. Director gars yeah garcia, do you want to make comments on this . We know about their commitment and asked for an audit on the costs so we ensure what we are providing will be sufficient. I think its the same as any other organization as well. I think well work through that and as you know we are very dependent on these services and we want to make sure theyre qualitative. We will continue to provide the oversight. Theres actually codependents here. I wonder if anybody from either the hospital or ucsf would like to make comments concerning this . Good afternoon, commissioners. We have worked closely with the university to look at the costs and revenue opportunities. Weve been doing that ever since i got to the hospital actually two years ago. So i feel very confident that Going Forward<\/a> well be working together collaboratively on costs and revenue to make sure its all controlled and maximized as appropriate and im happy to answer any questions. Commissioners . Thank you very much. The clerk youre welcome. Thank you. Well move on with the presentation. If the commissioners have questions even related back to the h. R. , we can take them up again as we move forward with the remaining changes in the budget. The next initiative is also an i. T. Project relate to the Controllers Office<\/a> of Financial Systems<\/a> project also known as f. S. P. The went live july 5 and as the system has a lot of capabilities as youve seen with the different ways to report on the budget theres also been challenges and the implementation of the new system. Most significantly for us was an interface between the Financial System<\/a> and our procurement system. We were the only city to implement the procurement module and upon implementation we saw many links were broken, essentially. So we lost a lot of our automated capabilities so theres the shortterm issue of keeping the trains running and making our payments and making orders on time and reconciling systems and its requiring extra staff and weve been work with the Controllers Office<\/a> to understand the i. T. Issue but we feel well need to create a new interface between the two systems to be able to automate it in the future. Obviously we are not interested in doing manual reconciliation moving forward. 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