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[gavel] good afternoon, welcome to the board of supervisors meeting tuesday, september 10, 2013. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll . Yes, mr. President. Supervisor avalos . Avalos present. Supervisor breed . Breed present. Supervisor campos . Campos absent. Supervisor chiu . Here. Chiu present. Supervisor cohen . Cohen present. Supervisor farrell . Farrell present. Supervisor kim . Kim present. Supervisor mar . Mar present. Supervisor tang . Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener absent. Supervisor yee . Yee present. Supervisor campos . Campos present. Mr. President , you have a quor...

Today. And thinking back, i guess one of the big reveals youre looking at doing a change to the program, youre investigating to do work in which shell buys the hydro power. Im guessing thats going to impact the potential or potential not of rate setting next week. Or is that something youre going to have answered to the satisfaction of the commissioners at the sfpuc . I dont expect that we will have any kind of confirmation from shell about specific resources by then. What i can say is that our goal is to have a portfolio with shell where every resource from which they purchase power is Greenh...

If we sacrifice the future, do we really take care of all the past cleanup . We hardly do whats necessary, even with current funding. And so i think its a perfect example of where the sequestration process is so counterproductive and moves america backwards. We have very imperfect choices here, and actually very dangerous choices that we are being forced to make. I think the majority would be much better suited to come back to us with a budget that allows us to do the job that the energy and water subcommittee is charged with doing. We simply cant try to solve the problem internal through the ...

Theres most confidence about this product and program. I see. Second part in terms of community hours, im new to this, but i heard a lot about it, did some research. Ive been going to committee events, our constituents in chinatown, especially those that live in single room occupancy, its really hard to reach out to them through internet or by mailing maybe. A lot of contra specific education on this population to help them understand what is going on and what are their choices and what department do you have to reach out to these kind of communities . Yes, good question. Weve gone out and mad...

Degrading the quality of greenness of the energy that the cca offered. So, instead of bundled energy and firmed and shaped energy, the commission was presented a contract to buy certificates from shell. They did the right thing then and they rejected this program and these proposed rates. Your question, supervisor chiu, is about my objections. Well, let me answer directly. The program as it evolved year over year moved too far from the Good Environmental policy and fair treatment of our citys diverse electricity rate payers. Let me tell you, then, and what i think Good Environmental policy is....