Transcripts For SFGTV SF Public Utilities Commission 20240713

Are we set . Okay. Good afternoon or maybe good evening and welcome to the marcl meeting between the San Francisco board of supervisors and the Public Utilities commission. Welcome, commissioners and welcome president caen. So madame clerk, will you please call the role for the board of supervisors . Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] thank you, madame clerk. I will now hand this over to president caen of the Public Utilities commission. Madame secretary, could you please im sorry what . Nothing could you call roll call . [roll call] we have a quorum. Good of my i yield the floor back to you. Thank you. Madame clerk, thank you madame president. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sf gov tv who record the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Thank you for joining us today on this very important topic. Before we proceed, president caen, would you like to make any opening remarks . I will defer any opening remarks because i would like to get to the basics of why were here. And i know that we are moving in concert together. And lets proceed. Okay. Madame clerk, are there any communications . I have none to report, mr. President okay. Lets go to the Public Comment. Yes. At this time the publish may address the entire board of supervisors and the p. U. C. Commissioners for two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. And mr. President , i will state that members of the public, if you would like to have hand sanitizer, there is some right outside the chamber door. Okay. Thank you, madame clerk. I will hand this over to president caen of the p. U. C. For the Public Comment. Yes. To madame secretary, could you call for Public Comment . P. U. C. Calls for any Public Comment on maries to be addressed during closed session matters to be addressed during closed session seeing none sorry. So this is a special meeting, and i am supposed to somehow comment on what you all are going to be discussing. And what you are all going to be discussing will be shared by the City Attorney who is going to talk to you about pg e. So as one who participants in most of your meetings at sfpuc, i strongly feel at this juncture that sfpuc hasnt maintained a standard when it comes to your sewer and your water and also the hetch hetchy hydroelectricity that you all produce. And i find it very difficult that the city has no money. Earlier on the mayor stated so. But somehow now sfpuc has the audacity to now buy whatever pg e wants to give up, which i know from following everything that pg e doesnt want to give up anything that it possesses. Its beholden to those who invest in its stocks and shares. And they have clients that have been investing for over 100 years. And you all know that well. So i want to know if an assessment can be done, if sfpuc really has the capacity, the ability to buy pg e, whether its a small part or a large part of my thats all im going to say. Because i cannot say what you all are going to be discussing. Somebody may have the power to hoodwink you all. Thank you. Tom gilberti. Im not a fan of pg e. It should have been taken over ten years ago. They kept saying that if the city cant run the city, why would they how could they run pg e. Well, i dont think pg e can run pg e. But at the same time, i dont want to take a piece of the city, the pg e part of the city, because when we have forest fires, and they are caused by pg e, the smoke comes down here. I think its a regional matter. And it should be solved regionally. Its like a taylor. You get we can tell something for San Francisco and what needs to be tailored out in the suburbs and woodlands. And i agree, where is the money coming from to buy this . And good luck to all of you. I think this meeting should be open. Im against these private, closed sessions. Thank you. Thank you. Any other speakers . Seeing none, yield the floor back to you, president. I believe that that would be concludes our Public Comment. I understand the p. U. C. Must take action before they go into closed session, before we go into closed session. So i will hand it over again to president caen. Okay. We are struggling here with our script. So what do we have to do here . Lets see. Oh, yes. I need a motion to assert privilege. I most of to assert. Second. Any Public Comment on that . Seeing none, all those in favor. Aye. Opposed . The motion carryies. So now i yield back to you, president. Now that the p. U. C. Has approved their item, madame clerk, please call the closed session item. Scheduled pursuant to a motion number m200200 approved on february 11, 2020, board of supervisors and the p. U. C. Are scheduled to enter into a joint closed session for the Public Utilities Commission Regarding existing litigation regarding pacific gas and Electric Company today, march 10, 2020. Okay. Members of the public, we now ask that you exit the chamber and the sheriffs to lock the doors behind them, and we will reopen the doors, the chamber once we finish with the joint closed session, and the public will be allowed okay. Are we ready . Do i need to do this . No. We are now back in open session. May i have a motion for the board what . That the board finds that it is in our best interest of the public that the board elect not to disclose this closed session deliberations . A motion made by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor safai. For the record we will show that supervisor haney is not in the chamber okay. Then without objection, we will not disclose our closed session deliberations. I will hand this over to you for p. U. C. s action. Commissioners, can i have a motion on whether to disclose. A motion by commissioner maxwell not to disclose s