All right, madam vice chair. Sorry everyone, for the difficulties. All right. For members of the public, we are on item number two. Public comment has been closed and we were taking action on the july 21st minutes. Madam vice chair. Um, i believe commissioner williams moved to approve the minutes. Oh commissioner preston moved to approve the minutes. Do i have a second . Second . All right. On the motion moved by commissioner preston, seconded by commissioner williams. Commissioner preston. Hi, preston. I commissioner williams i. Williams i vice chair fielder i fielder i. There are three eyes. All right. And madam clerk, can you please call item number three . And the minutes are approved as presented. Item number three is electric bikes for delivery workers. Pilot Program Update members of the public wish to provide comment on this item should line up to speak now or press star three. If you are joining us remotely. Madam vice chair. All right. We will now hear from anna cerrudo and clean the clean transportation specialist for the San Francisco environment department. If you could please keep your presentation at ten minutes, that would be much appreciated and great. Well, good morning, commissioners. Thank you so much for having me today. My name is anna cerrudo. Im a clean transportation specialist at the San Francisco environment department, and ill be providing the update today. Great. Next slide, please. So heres the agenda for today. Ill go over some background on how the project came to be. Ill then spend some time on project updates. Ill spend a little bit of time looking ahead at the next few months to come, and then ill wrap with some q a. Next slide, please. So getting into some Program Background in 2019, sf environment completed its Ev Ready Community blueprint, which established a strategy fauci to help identify near, mid and long term actions for creating a 100 electric Transportation System by 2040. These actions are nested under six categories, which include Public Awareness incentives, expanding charging infrastructure for medium and heavy duty trucks, the grid and emerging mobility. Fast forward to 2022 and sf environment received a 2. 4 million grant from the California Energy commission to implement for projects identified in the 2019 blueprint. One of these projects is the ebike Pilot Program and the other three projects you can see here are on the selected actions under this table. This project was also identified as a priority action in the citys 2021 Climate Action plan. The pilot was largely inspired by lafcos emerging mobility labor study, which found that 39 of Meal Delivery workers said that they would switch to an ebike and 31 said that they might switch to an ebike if an incentive was offered. So were really putting that study to the test next slide, please. So getting into the Pilot Program itself, the pilot will ship shift up to 30 delivery workers from cars to ebikes, and it will be launched in two cohorts each cohort will have 15 ebikers, which is our pilot group and 15 drivers, which is our baseline and control group. The pilot will have a total of 60 participants. So 30 will be on ebikes and 30 will be in cars. Were using a combination of surveys, informational interviews and an app based Software System to track and analyze data on how ebike deliveries compare to those made with cars and some specific data points that were looking at are working conditions, income safety, Emission Reductions and the overall efficiency of deliveries. On ebikes, were hopeful that the pilots findings will demonstrate that ebikes are a faster, cleaner and more Cost Effective method for food deliveries. Next slide, please. So heres our program timeline. The program is a year long and weve broken it up into three phases. So we have program ramp up Data Collection and analysis. We are currently in the Data Collection phase in terms of cohort timing. Each biker cohort will run for a total of six months, which includes one month of onboarding and ebike training. Four months of delivery and Data Collection, and one month of boarding. At the end of those six months, participants will receive full ownership of their ebikes. Next slide, please. So here are our Program Partners sfe. We are the manager of the pilot grid alternatives is our Program Implementation partner, so they are responsible for participant recruitment and individual Case Management as well as equipment procurement at sf. Bike coalition is managing all of our ebike Training Programs for participants, which are a requirement of the pilot drivers seat. Cooperative is our Data Collection partner, so they have an app that allows delivery workers to actually track their data delivery. Lafco thats you all. Youve been really instrumental in helping us form up the pilot, including providing feedback on our Implementation Plan and all of our surveys. So special thank you for your continued collaboration. Were also working with the puc to ensure that our Pilot Program is aligned with their upcoming ebike rebate program. And then finally, the hub bicycles is our equipment provider. Next slide, please. So now shifting over to some more Program Specific updates, we began our participant recruitment in march and the response to the program was extremely encouraging. We received 173 eligible applications across 21 zip codes. We saw a cluster of high quality applicants around the mission tenderloin and downtown San Francisco. Our first cohort of 15 bikers launched in june, and our second cohort is actually launching this week. So were excited about that. Next slide, please. So here are some photos from our first cohort launch. Each launch is spread out over two days. The first day is a classroom based training where participants learn about their bikes. They learn charging best practices, Theft Prevention plan and the rules of the road. The second training is then on the bike. There are a number of skill tests that participants have to go through, and the training ends with a five mile bike ride around the city, which emulates delivery like specific situations. Next slide please. So Lessons Learned so far is weve learned a lot since launching our first cohort. At first at our Program Recruitment has indicated strong interest from sf delivery workers to switch to ebikes. This is promising as we start to think about expanding the pilot and biking infrastructure in the city more broadly. The second thing weve learned is that bike trainings have increased participants biking comfortability. We 90 of participants surveyed said that they felt more comfortable biking in San Francisco and making deliveries in San Francisco after participating in sf bike coalitions bike safety trainings. Third, weve seen that there is a backlog of participants getting on food delivery apps for the first cohort. We did not require participants to have prior delivery working experience and as a result we saw that some participants that were signing up for apps for the first time were waitlisted, and that caused delays in getting them onboarded. For the second cohort, we are making delivery experience a requirement to avoid any further delays. Lastly, weve seen that there is a need for more secure long term bike Parking Options throughout the city. The map on the left here indicates where participants have felt unsafe making deliveries on their bike. This could be because of a lack of bike infrastructure concern over personal safety or in some cases fear of bike theft, which we have seen in the program. Next slide, please. So looking ahead, as i mentioned earlier, we are wrapping up cohort one this month as part of the wrap up, we will be transferring ebike ownership to participants. Well also begin our preliminary data analysis, including a comparison of delivery and survey responses between the ebike pilot and driver control groups as cohort one wraps. We are also launching cohort two. So we had our classroom based training yesterday and we will continue with our on bike trainings tomorrow. I also wanted to highlight that we are finalizing a new grant award with the doe to expand the pilot. We are still confirming the details, but we expect that the doe funding will double the number of Program Participants. This, i believe that is my last slide, so im happy to take any questions and thank you again for having me. Thank you for your presentation. Colleagues any comments or questions . Commissioner preston thank you. I just want to thank you for the work on this. Im very supportive of this. This pilots great to see some of the results and the fact that were gearing up for the next cohort with potential funding to scale up further. So thats really excellent news. And looking forward to trying to tackle some of the logistics issues just around bike parking, storage and some of the other things. So i did i was curious if you could just speak a little, you referenced a wait list and some trying to kind of limit the time for folks being on a wait list. But im just curious, more overall how the demand looks like. We have the original study showing a lot of a lot of drivers, delivery drivers interest in this. We have apparently a wait list for folks to get in. But can you can you quantify to some extent like im just wondering if we had and my thought and ive raised this before is like with additional funding, is this the kind of thing where we just scale up as much as we can, the demand is there and its just a matter of like, how many of these can we get out there or is it more finite . What the demand were seeing is, yeah, thats a good question. So we opened our recruitment back in march and thats when we did receive almost 200 applications. And since then, i think more folks have actually applied for that waitlist. And so from our preliminary recruitment and looking to expand the pilot, we definitely see that theres a need for this. And this pilot is relatively small. You know, its 30 participants with the doe funding. Were hoping to double the number of participants, but i think the demand likely goes beyond what well have funding for. And so is it is it 33 . And then 30 more or was it 15 and 15 more . Because were in were in cohort two of the first funding round. Correct. And each cohort has 15 bikers, 15, 15 bikers and 15 drivers. So its a total of 30 bikers in this California Energy commission grant. And if we get these additional funds, is there an estimate of how many additional participants that would allow . Yes. So were still finalizing the details, but were anticipating to double the pilot. So it would be an additional 30 bikers as great and sorry current waitlist is approximately how many current waitlist is approximately i would say 100 folks that are eligible and interested. Great. Thank you. Thats really helpful. And look forward to continuing to work with you on this. Yeah, thank you. Appreciate your comments. Commissioner williams. Yes. Thank you for thank you for all of this work that you and the program and all the folks that all the folks that are helping out. So, i mean, i can definitely see the benefits i wonder how much of the how much personal use of the bike is being done because i can already see that being less cars. And then very exciting to see the data that will ultimately, i think, support the need for more bike lanes and we love more bike lanes. I i immediately was like, wait, what was the top zip code . Where the request came from . So i saw russian hill in chinatown, north beach was district three. The second zip code, though i didnt catch. So i wonder which one that was. And then as far as tax write offs, when these bikers are probably purchasing their own helmets, is that part of the training when doing their taxes and wondering also what the Eligibility Criteria is . So zip code, taxes, eligibility, those. Yeah. Thank you for those questions. And the zip code i would need to refer back to the slide, but for the other two questions. So were actually in terms of equipment, were providing all the baseline equipment for participants. So not just the bike, but were also providing helmets, locks, lights and then also delivery equipment. So theres a rear basket that folks can use. And then we also provide them with an insulated food bag that they can either put on their back or in the basket, and then the last question around eligibility, a few things that we looked for were folks needed to be 18 years or older. They needed to be able to commit to working an average of 20 hours a week on the delivery apps for that four month period. They had to be San Francisco residents. And then we also looked at financial need and prioritized lower income individuals. Thank you. Um, thank you, commissioner williams. My question, so to be eligible for the program, are all of the applicants on the waitlist eligible for the program . Thats a good question. I would need to go back and look and confer with our Program Implementation partners, but the 173 number that was on the slide, those folks were all eligible. Got it. Thank you. Um and then lastly, could you talk a little bit about im not sure that theres i, i didnt see anything about the actual feedback or if this is in the analysis around, um, the bikers and their thoughts on, on, you know, bike lanes as, um, dangers on the street etcetera. Yes. So were still currently in the Data Collection phase. So cohort one will be wrapping later this month, at which point well have all three of their surveys. So we take a Baseline Survey before they get their bikes amid Program Survey at around two months and then a final survey, at which point well transfer the ebike ownership. So at that point, once we receive all of that data, plus the Data Collected through the drivers seat application, well begin to do that preliminary analysis. Anecdotally, i think the map that was in the slides is there are some intersections that folks have felt unsafe biking on for a number of different reasons. Some feedback that weve heard is that the bike green arrows or the bike green lights are too short, so theyre unable to make it across the intersections in time, which often forces them to basically do a pedestrian cross across one street and then a pedestrian cross across another one, which can cause some delays. But were looking forward to doing a more in depth analysis as cohort one officially wraps later this month. Thank you so much. Looking forward to seeing the results of core two. Thank you. All right. Seeing no further comments from commissioners, ill open this up for Public Comment. Speakers will have three minutes. All right, members of the public who are joining us in person, if you would like to provide Public Comment, please line up to speak on your right. Seeing no one get up to speak, we are going to the remote Public Comment line. We have susanna from dbt running the Public Comment line. Susanna, can you let us know if theres any speakers in the queue . There are no callers. Madam vice chair seeing no public speakers, Public Comment is now closed. There is no action to take on this matter. Madam clerk, can you please call item number four . Yes. Item number four is a clean power sf updates including clean power sf activities and lafco updates on clean power sf activities. We will now hear from Deputy Assistant general manager for clean power sf michael himes. Please keep your presentation at ten minutes. Thank you. Good morning. Lafco commissioners, im mike himes, the Deputy Assistant general manager for the power enterprise responsible for clean power sf and our power resources. Im also joined today online by peter galata, our Power Marketing and Communications Manager whos available to help answer questions if you have any. If you could bring up the slides, thatd be great. Thank you. And feel free to advance to the agenda for our report today. Ill be providing an update on our clean power customer enrollment and service statistics. Ill be reviewing recent Community Events and activities that weve completed and provide an update on our customer programs work. Next slide please clean power continues to successfully serve its customers and participation in the Program Remains stable. Since the last update we provided to you on these statistics in february, weve seen our overall opt out rate tick up slightly. From 4. 4 to 4. 5. Thats rounding to the nearest 10th of a percent. We have also seen our enrollment in super green, our voluntary 100 Renewable Energy service has increased from 2. 1 to 2. 2 of all active clean power accounts , due partly to strong commercial customer interest stemming from the citys Renewable Energy ordinance. Super Green Energy Sales