Would pull that deck back from the edge of the building into a position of where it meets the first angle of the bay to give a little bit more breathing room. The deck is sufficiently large that that wouldnt do a lot of damage. Are you following me, mr. Washington, what im trying to say . So what you would like to see is the deck on the south side moved into the edge of the bay. Thats correct. On the north side, i would put a trellis on the extension of the building where it currently sits. Why on the north side, commissioner . Because its too close. Youre still looking into the bay of the adjoining building. Youre standing out there, youre looking into the bay, youre looking into the large portion of that picture window, as well, and i just think its too intrusive. Okay. So is that a motion to take d. R. . Its a motion to take d. R. And deal with privacy issues on the north and south side with the two moves that i described mr. Washington sketched out. Commissioner moore, were going to bring it in on the south side to the trellis to the edge of the bay, and then, were going to install a trellis on the north side, so essentially, a privacy screen. Is there a second . Second. Thank you, commissioners. Theres a motion that has been seconded to take d. R. And to modify the project to deal with privacy issues on the north end, south sides. On that motion [ roll call. ] so moved, commissioners, that motion passed unanimously, 50. All right. That were adjourned. 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 propriet