Chair fewer the meet willing come to order. This is the february 21, 2020 of the local Agency Formation commission. Im sandra lee fewer. I likmadam clerk, do you have ay announcement . Please make sure you silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Chair fewer thank you very much. Please call the item number two. Approval of the lafco minutes from the january 17, 2020 regular meeting. Chair fewer any comments or questions. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members wishing to comment, Public Comment is closed. Like to make a motion to approve the lafco minutes. Could i have a second commissioner mar, we can take that without objection. Item number three, Community Choice aggregation activities report. Chair fewer we have Michael Hyams for a short presentation. Yes, good morning commissioners. Happy friday. Michael hyams, director of the cleanpowersf program for the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. I do have a few slides for you today. Our last presentation was to focus on the Renewable Energy report. I got sort of more of standard update for you. I will cover our enrollment statistics, cleanpowersf enrollment statistic. Ill provide update on key activities from the past few months that we havent discussed in previous meetings recently. Update on items that are coming up, some work that were focused on now. First of all, our service to clean power customers continues successfully. The program opt out rate has ticked up a small amount since our last update where we presented these statistics. Its now at 3. 7 of all enrolled accounts. Thats still more than 96 . Our super green enrollment has increased. Were now serving 2 of our active accounts with 100 california r. P. S. Eligible renewable power. Thats. 2 percentage point higher than the last update. From an energy standpoint, the usage represents more than 4. 5 of annual sales. Thats a 20 increase. The program is showing continued steady progress in this respect were doing a bunch of work to figure out how to bring the numbers up. What has been happening . I wanted to tell you about some Renewable Energy contracting work. Pursuant to our resolution number 18028 and board of supervisors ordinance 0818. The p. U. C. Executed new Renewable Energy contracts. Expanding our commitment to new solar and wind power in california. First in december of the general manager executed an expansion of the voyager 4 wind project. That was initially executed in 2018 for 47 mega watts of wind, power capacity. Increasing the total commitment from clean power up to that project now 110 mega watts. What that means the project will be taking down old turbines that are more than 25 years old and installing new efficient turbines that have environmental benefits to affect Indian Wildlife and theyll be more efficient. That project is going to come online in phases starting in december of this year. Should be fully operational by the middle of 2021. The p. U. C. Executed a new contract for energy from 100 mega watts of new solar from the maverick 6 solar project. That project is expected to start operations in december of 2021. All in all, as this slide shows, thats four longterm contracts of 15 to 22 years in duration to buy Renewable Energy from to be constructed plants in california for our cleanpowersf customer base. That totals 372 mega watts generating million mega watts hours of energy. Thats about one third of our cleanpowersf annual energy needs base the on current enrollment. Were laying the foundation for getting to that 100 Renewable Energy goal by 2030. Just a question on fees reduction about one third of our Current Energy usage. Thats right whats the total just for adding that on to the existing Renewable Energy . These projects are going to be coming oline in a different times over the next several years. We balance those longterm commitments in the market from operating power plants. In the calendar year 2018, we completed for renewable cob tent, we were 48 r. P. S. General renewable for green product. Thats another 15 on top of these contracts. Were procuring more than what these alone represent. Think of it its a portfolio. Each contract is sort of a layer that we add into it. The longterm contracts are really the vehicle that we use to build new projects. Its required for financing. Around these longterm contracts well have shortterm purchases from existing plants. Well be layering in more longterm contracts overtime. This is what weve done to date. We have solicitation that we just brought through the board. Were looking at regional projects right now. With these four new renewable sources, how close does that get to us 100 renewable goal . In terms of capacity delivering in 2030 theres a time element to this. Were at 50 for 2020 in terms of r. P. S. Eligible renewables. That gets up to 90 . Most of those products are acquired under shorter term transactions. The contract expire well before 2030. Thats why were in the market of procuring. These contracts represent about one third of the cleanpowersf obligation for 2030. Ill get to the integrated Resource Plan here in a minute. We can talk more about that. I wanwe reported to about this t fall. Our staff has been working on a cleanpowersf equity project. Actually the lafco executive officer, bryan goebel serves as a member of our steering committee. I want are refresh your memory with the work were doing. Were hoping to wrap it up this fiscal year. The purpose of the project is to develop policy framework that embeds an equity lens across cleanpowersf policies programs and business practices. The idea here is that systematically applying equity lens will help us ensure factors, race, income, gender, language employment status, for example, do not determine access to the quality of Clean Energy Services within our community. We have a working group at the p. U. C. Thats been developing a draft policy framework. They are also planning outreach, an engagement with stakeholders to get feedback on the proposed framework once it is ready for circulation. After incorporating stakeholder feedback, we end to bring the policy to our commission for approval. We talked about this in the past. This duck tails with some of the things weve been talking about here at lafco that are on the lafco work plan related to clean power equity. I want to remind you, we have this going on. This is something our team is working on. This is sort of first of its kind. Were hoping that it will be a model that can be replicated across the p. U. C. Business lines. Also serve as model for other communities. Were excited about this. Whats coming up here . When we presented to you last november, we indicated that we anticipated a cleanpowersf rate action to address impending pg e rate changes. Pg e changes its rates frequently. They typically do it at the beginning of the year but increasingly over the last years its been delayed. We now have more clarity regarding pg es 2020 rate changes impacting is cleanpowersf customers. As a reminder here, we have sought to deliver value to our cleanpowersf rate payers by managing our Electricity Generation rates that are at or below pg es generation rates. After accounting for are the exit fees that pg e charges customers and cleanpowersf customers. That fee is called the power charge indifference adjustment or p. C. I. A. Were now expecting for 2020, 4 decrease in pg es rate. With no cleanpowersf Rate Adjustments we estimate that our customers will be paying 4 to 6 more for their generation cost than we would with pg e. To help our customers manage these changes, we have been preparing a rate action which well be bringing to our Commission Next week on the 25th of february. The action will be consistent with others that we taken around cleanpowersf rate and of course, if approved by the commission, it will go to the board for the customary rate making process. This action will ensure both Cost Recovery for cleanpowersf but also ensure competitiveness in affordability for our rate payers. This is sort of last area i wanted to discuss. Weve been talking about this for quite a few months. Just as a reminder has been working on cleanpowersf Resource Plan. I. R. P. Evaluates demand and supplies over a 20year time frame. To identify supplies that will deliver reliable low cost energy while meeting the citys policy objectives. Cleanpowersf is required under state law to prepare an i. R. P. Every two years. The plan must be approved by our commission and submitted to the california p. U. C. For certification. Weve had some schedule changes since the last meeting where we shared our timeline with you. I wanted to bring to your attention. First the california p. U. C. Extended the due date for the i. R. P. Submission requirement from cleanpowersf from may 1st to july 1st. That will give retail additional times to incorporate final guidelines coming from the California Public over th p. Over the next couple of months. There are guidelines we need to follow in our plan. They provided couple of extra months to account for them and file follofollow the plan. The slide here summarizes key action items over the next several months. The p. U. C. Adopted our budget including cleanpowersf First Capital plan at its last meeting. That was informed by the local Renewable Energy planning work that we presented to you the last lafco meeting. That will next be submitted to the Mayors Office soon for consideration in the development of her Budget Proposal that will ultimately go to the board of supervisors for approval around june. We will be delivering a draft of the written Renewable Energy report to the Commission Later this month. We did share an initial draft with the lafco executive officer prior to last meeting and have been doing some additional cleanup based on internal feedback and editing and thats almost complete. The california p. U. C. Is expected to issue its final guidelines in late march. We will then make any changes necessary to our plan based on those guidelines and are planning stakeholder engagements starting next month through may. We shared some of the plans at the last meeting. The timeline for that, we added another month there to make it as comprehensive as we can. The i. R. P. Will be adopted by the sf p. U. C. In late may, june time frame. We will submit the i. R. P. To the california p. U. C. By the required due date. Which is july 1st. That concludes my update. Im happy to take any questions you might have. Chair fewer any questions . Lets open the Public Comment. Are there my members of the public that like to comment on item number three . Thank you chair fewer and commissioners. I guess in addition to just kind of being the representative here decry the fact that our fees going up another 20 . It will be great to see a slide of the pcia charge maybe since cleanpowersf launched. I know that some years weve had over 100 increase, you add in 20 increase to a few years in the past, that might have been 50 or 100 increases, thats a big 20 . I think it would be great to see i know they have these figures and they sometimes report them to the commission how much money is getting shipped out of San Francisco into pg es coiffures just from this fee. Its enough to make your blood boil. Related to that, theres been drama with c. C. A. Programs currently. Because of the p. C. I. A. Charge, were kind of already paying for Diablo Canyon open. Theres an issue of can pg e give us some of that energy that were already paying for so that they can get some of the nuclear off their power content label and give it to c. C. A. S. I know east Bay Clean Energy and others in the region are considering that. Ive yet to determine whether sf p. U. C. Is interested in that. Advocates do not want Nuclear Energy because of the scam of the pcia, were already paying for it. Last thing, were very interested to see the local Renewable Energy plan and i. R. P. But continue to think that theres a continued need for comprehensive plan. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. Doesnt require an action today and so madam clerk, please call item 4. Approval of resolution authorizing the First Amendment to the agreement with bryan goebel. Chair fewer we have an attorney here. Thank you. Good morning chair and members of the commission. Today im here to present to you a resolution that would authorize your chair to sign an amendment to bryan goebels contract with lafco. His original contract was entered in may of 2018 and allows him to get paid 75 an hour with not to exceed amount of 312,000. There was no Expiration Date in that original agreement but at this point, were running out of the not to exceed fun. Were asking you to extend his agreement to september 20, 2020 and increase not to exceed amount 65,000 which would be total of 377,000 for the total two years nine months hes been under contract. That reflects basicallial 40 hour workweek. Im here if you have any questions. Chair fewer iany questions for questions . Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members like to comment on item 4. Public comment is now closed. I wanted to refresh the memory of my colleagues that mr. Goebel is on contract with us as a consultant. Were extending this contract to september 30th to ensure theres some lead time were putting in a proposal a Budget Proposal that was heard at the Budget Committee to actually make this position now Civil Servant position. Thatch. I thin thank you very much, ie this a oh, i said that. Public comment. Any members like to comment on item 4. Public comment is now closed. I like to make a motion to approve this resolution and second commissioner mar. Thank you very much. Please read item 5. Approval of the resolution to accept an extended grant from the Ford Foundation in the amount of 150,000 for lafco survey on demand workers chair fewer mr. Goebel . Thank you, good morning commissioners. This item would authorize the lafco to accept and extend grant 150,000 from the Ford Foundation. This will fund the data gathering. The survey itself which is under way and Communications Plan surrounding the release of the final report in june. We did work hard to secure this grant. Im grateful for everyone who made it happen. I said this at the last meeting, it was a team effort. I like to thank the Ford Foundation for airline their help and support. I would recommend your approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any discussion . Lets open up to Public Comment. Seeing no Public Comment. Public comment is closed. I want to say, thank you to everyone who worked on this. This is no small feat. This is going to help our labor study. Thank you mr. Goebel for your hard work. Like to make a motion to approve the resolution. I can have a second with commissioner haney. We can take that without objection. Item number 6. Update on the request for qualifications for Renewable Energy expert. I like to provide a brief update on your r. F. Q. For Renewable Energy expert. Were close to announcing prequalified list in narrowing scope of work if a consultant or consultants. We did receive total of seven responses but got only one response for the service area that will provide general advice to the lafco and Renewable Energy issues. We. Wanted to give all seven firms a Second Opportunity to apply to that service area since it seem like most of the firms were qualified to do it. We reopened that process and encouraged all the firms to apply to that service area. The deadline was yesterday and we now have a total of four responses for that service area. The next step would be to issue a prequalified list of firms for each service area. Again, those Service Areas are providing general advice to the lafco on Renewable Energy issues. Developing programs for communities of concern, the disconnections and equity issues that were working on and studying potential Renewable Energy projects at affordable and Senior Housing sites. Which we discussed. At that meeting, you did approve the scope of work. Im in the process of putting together a more comprehensive scope of work for each service area, i have a meeting next week with cleanpowersf to talk about that. I do expect the process will move quicker. We can hopefully get the consultants in place the next few months. I will be coming back to you with contract proposals. Chair fewer any comments or questions . Lets open up for Public Comment. My members like to comment, Public Comment is closed. List make a motion to no action needed. Great, please call item 7. Executive officers report. Partnership with the university of San Franci