Transcripts For SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 72616 2016

To the city of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Regular meeting. I would like to call the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Regular meeting of july 26, 2016 to order. Mdm. Sec. , please call the roll. Commissioner moller caen here. Commissioner courtney here. Commissioner kwon here. Here. Pres. Vietor. And commissioner moran is expected shortly. Next item isitem 3 is approval of the minutes from the july 12, 2016 meeting. I have a motion and a second. Minutes of been approved. Your wholesale customers last year were about 36 gallons per day which was very low. Thats about half of what the wholesale customers use on average in less than six times what city shoes. The contract is limited. So limited that they dont know that they can approve the Development Projects within the community. Last week thecity approved a moratorium project because they cant guarantee enough water. I want to be clear its not about the availability of water there is plenty availability within wholesale costs here but i seems unfair and on a and for years the system that they have been in, and we have been in and it needs to be fixed and as a result theaffordable housing is on the back burner in East Palo Alto. Im hoping that you folks can work with boston and others to fix the situation thank you. Thank you. We received quite a bit of testimony and a lot of letters from the East Palo Alto community in support of the issue that you have raised to try to address the water allocation issue. We have directed our staff to move forward as quickly as possible to find some resolutions to these issue because we want to make palo alto hole and make sure the sticks. Also we have a trip to meet with some officials that is right we have a trip to meet with some officials and tour palo alto and meet with the commissioners. Thank you, any other Public Comment or general, comment . Seeing none pleaseitem 5 is communications. We only really of two slides we see that hetch hetchy is about 200 or 300 feet and were seeing this will come down throughout the summer and were meeting that demand with the two Treatment Plants down here and the water bank is about 73 so were still in a decent position regarding the storage but obviously, we did not fill up and that is why we are calling for a 10 reduction in demand by all of our customers. Then, my second slide is the one that is deliveries. That is the one that really is changing during this time of year. As you can see, it appears that the demand is starting to flatten out the summer. I just saw the report for last week and it was down another 3 1 2 million gallons per day about 200 or 300 feet and were seeing this will come down throughout the summer and were meeting that demand with the two Treatment Plants down here and the water bank is about 73 so were still in a decent position regarding the storage but obviously, we did not fill up and that is why we are calling for a 10 reduction in demand by all of our customers. Then, my second slide is the one that is deliveries. That is the one that really is changing during this time of year. As you can see, it appears that the demand is starting to flatten out the summer. I just saw the report for last week and it was down another 3 1 2 million gallons per day to about two 22 million gallons per day and demand is kind of leveled off during the summer and it is well below the 10 reduction dash line that is on there. Again, our customers are still conserving water which is good and our storage is seeming relatively good right now so basically we are going to just ride out the rest of the summer and probably not see much change in any of these things until we get into october or november. So, i would recommend potentially altering the frequency of the reports until we get a into a season where these things would start to happen again in less we get into a change in which we would report that to the commission and that is all thatwe have today. I would be fine with that. Me and the commissioners of what the consumption levels are and keeping track. See if there is any slippage on that that we know about and we can address it at this point i think we should put a memo into the communications further . And when is that . October . October. Any Public Comment on the draft report. Good afternoon Michael Himes i will be speaking on behalf of the power sf programs and be providing an update of our operations forkind enrollments and plans underway for future enrollment. Clean power sf continues to serve we are in our 13th week of service and now there are about 7000 Commercial Accounts and about 400 a residential. As of the beginning of this week the opt out rate for the amine enrollment was 1. 6 . The last time that we were here we reported 1. 7 opt out rate. So a 10 update. I believe we build every customer that was enrolled in may by this time. The super green Participation Rate is currently 3 that was the same that it was the last time that we reported. I wanted to state that we continue to promote the super green offering and we will be sending outa notice soon for existing customers to encourage their friends and neighbors to sign up as well. We will also be doing an Advertising Campaign in the fall to educate and specifically to promote the super green enrollment in the auto enrollment areas that we will be serving. Can forward to our next enrollment we have 551 customers signed up for the august Enrollment Period last month ms. Hale reported that it was 497 so weve had 54 new signups in the last couple of weeks. Customers and they are super green and 28 are super green and we are also finalizing our notice for the next Enrollment Period and we have worked at a little bit differently this time so thatit still informs customers of the terms and conditions of services that were trying to put more emphasis on super green to encourage and opt up. We have also launched a bill calculator on the clean power sf website. And, that is available for both green and super green rates. Id like to thank sfpuc it staff for making that happen in a short order. We are also helpinghave. Customers understand their utility bill and enroll customers started to understand all bill and rate omparison as mandated by sb 790. The comparison shows average rates for residential and commercial customers and provides a comparison of the average, monthly bill. Staff is also in the midst of procuring additionalto meet approximately 30. During planning, assumed a 30 opt out rate that due to the opt out they were seeing we are considering a 20 megawatt reduction megawatt reduction in the fall. What you we viewing later today will allow clean power sf to meet our Program Policy objectives and regulatory requirements consistent with the Commission Adopted business practice policies. Action also set a new limit on the initial size of the program to approximately 75 mw average. This would allow clean power sf to continue to enroll customers to sign up for the program until the next auto enrollment is established this would allow the program to an additional 50 to 20 mw of demand and we expect that to come in in the form of small, periodic enrollments that serve customer enrollments. So not like massive for trying to provide for customers in the fall. We are preparing a growth plan to identify all options to expain cleanpower sf Service Citywide and were working to have that program completed by the end of the year. If the first phase is expanded beyond the 50, this action is intended to allow clean power sf to procure shortterm supplies to meet our customer demand and not delegate authority over multiyear supply commitments which we would intend to bring to the commission. Which we would bring to the commission. Furthermore any supply commitments under this authority would be done in a manner consistent with the power enterprise existing trading and Risk Management policy and the business policy that was created and opted in december. Then finally, related to this action today i wanted to express that now that program is actually operating and not in launch planning mode we realize that it would be beneficial to come back to the commission, again, likely in the next couple of months to layout authority delegated to the manager to meet its policy objectives and regulatory requirements and act at a pace to take advantage of costeffective supplies that we see on the market. But again, bringing again to the commission large supply contracts and multiyear supply contracts distant with what weve done so far. And, that does conclude my report. I just wanted to show you what the bill comparison looks like an any of you that are cleanpower sf should be seeing me soon. I got mine. It looks great. Could you please pass it around . Sure. Commissioners do you have any questions . I have one question. Anybody that signs up by the first will be included in what,november . That is right. And anyone that is interested should sign up . Yes, please sign up and encourage your friends to sign up too. I think it is great news and i think that we will talk about it when we talk about the resolution again but im thrilled that 75 is on the table appreciate the staff and all of the effort that has gotten us this far. And, i am pleased that in the next couple of months we will get more from you from the power agreements authority. I would like to understand better how its going to affect the rollout of the Program Overall and the different components and how they will fit and i know its a moving target but i dont know how that will affect the local buildout schedule or the financial and revenue picture is so if you could continue to feed us the information as you get it in real time and i think that is ambitious just keep us informed in what the implications are that we stay ahead of it and if we need support from a policy perspective please let us know. That is great. Thank you. Our super green is 100 wind . It is 100 wind as of now. It actually changes. So yeah, our super green product will evolve as we employee additional products over time. In the distant future i think we will see a lot more solar, mostly because solar represents the new resource opportunity and Development Opportunity its also the most competitive from a cost standpoint today. What we had to do for this program was to execute a contract with an operating resource and it turned out that wind energy was the most competitive operating resource available to us. So, the 30 we are involved in now what is the composition of that renewable . All of the Renewable Supplies that we are using today are 100 renewables we are also receiving supplies from hetch hetchy and also from the natural gas and electricity through our combine process as well. Where we using the hydro . It is ours. That combined with the lower oi opt out rate will incorporate into our portfolio and to utilize the patch had she resource in the clean power resource. So, this is a commitment that we have made and also based on the information of the contracts that weve had executed. That will be trued up in next years report to customers. It will be a historical summary of our power content actually is delivered in 2016so staff is working very hard to make sure that pans out. Okay thank you. Any other questions or comments . I have a comment. I just want to say again that the work that you are doing is Pretty Amazing and also given all of the background that we have had i know we deal mostly with the workforce. I did have a conversation with jason earlier today. I still want to stay very much on top of the employment items and staffing and whatnot as we go down that road just so we have a kind of deliberate not necessarily conversation but that we just keep touching on that as we go. But, even materials they think are impressive and i think its a Job Well Done up into this point. Thank you very much and on that point, i want to emphasize, or clarify, that the staffing the staff resourcing will be a major part of our growth plan because we need to have strong staffing to meet the needs of this program and meet the needs as we expand citywides and to make sure that it meets all the comprehensive needs ofour service and that will be part of the conversations we will have as we develop that plan throughout the year. And also to actually identify resources and positions to cca as we roll out the program. Thank you very much. Any Public Comments . Jason fried,executive officer for San Francisco lascaux. We just had Rain Forest Network encouraging them to join super green so theres a lot of buzz and effort out there to get folks into the super green projects. That is what we want to get everyone into. Were very excited when we get them into supporting the program as well. Hopefully over the next few weeks or months we will see those emails but if you are not on their email list you wont get those emails but if you are you will get that type of female. I am also happy to hear the working towards expanding the program and seeing how we get the program enrolled in a quicker way i think going from 50 to 75 is a very positive way to go. I dont see them getting up to 75 because the policies in place that will keep them from getting to that 75 number right away i think its a good step in the right direction instead scaling back to residential just figuring out how to get that same amount of numbers while building more into this mix. The staff has figured out how to address that and get some of the hetch hetchy power to help supplement the needs your water team will tell you that you never know if next year will be a drought are not. You never know if you have that drought have that energy available. I think that your staff is an excellent job and i congratulate them on doing so. Tany other Public Comments on this item . Thank you. Anything else from the general manager . Next item is theall matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the San Francisco Public Utilities commission, and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or the public so requests, in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. 8a,approve amendment no. 1 to agreement no. Cs1007, Structural Engineering services for 525 golden gate, with soha engineers for continued Structural Engineering support during construction of building modifications; and authorize the general manager to execute this amendment, increasing the agreement by 60,000, for a total nottoexceed agreement amount of 160,000, and with a time extension of one year, for a total agreement duration of four years. how b award job order contractno. Joc60. Approve amendment no. 1 to general engineering alicense for San Francisco, san mateo, santa clara, and alameda counties, for a nottoexceed amount of 5,000,000, to the lowest, qualified, responsible, and responsive bidder, cal state constructors, inc. , to perform general Engineering Construction tasks for all San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Enterprise operations and bureaus. how c accept work performed by Michels Jay Dee coluccio, joint venture, for contract no. Wd2531, Bay Division Pipelines reliability upgrade bay tunnel; approve modification no. 48 final , decreasing the contract amount by 401,175, for a total contract amount of 217,619,067, with a time extension of 319 noncompensable consecutive calendar days approximately 10 months , for a total contract duration of 2,252 consecutive calendar days approximately six years, two months ; and authorize final payment to the contractor. how d accept work performed by jdb Sons Construction inc. , for contract no. Wd2779, college hill learning garden; approve modification no. 1 final , increasing the contract amount by 57,252, for a total contract amount of 580,652, with a time extension of 119 consecutive calendar days approximately four months , for a total contract duration of 189 consecutive calendar days approximately six months ; and authorize final payment to the contractor. how e accept work performed by shimmick construction company, inc. , for contract no. Ww490, Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant 620 digesters sbr tpad conversion and facility improvements; approve modification no. 11 final , increasing the contract amount by 158,021, for a total contract amount of 19,034,533, and with a time extension of 167 consecutive calendar days approximately five months , for a total contract duration of 1337 consecutive calendar days approximately three years, eight months ; and authorize final payment to the contractor. how f authorize the general manager to negotiate and execute, on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, a memorandum of agreement moa with the California Department of fish and wildlife cdfw , for an amount not to exceed 585,000, and with a duration of 12 months, which will allow for the sfpuc to provide funding to cdfw for the design, procurement, and installation of a temporary W