Transcripts For SFGTV LAFCo 12916 20161211

Of lafco minutes from 2016. Okay colleagues, any comments or changes to our minutes okay we can go to Public Comment, Public Comment is open on the lafco minutes seeing no rush to the podium well close Public Comment and a motion to approval of the minutes a motion if commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner avalos without objection and go on to our next item. Item number 3 the communities choice aggregation Choice Committee report. See if this works. Good afternoon, commissioners michael the director of chief of Police Program for the Public Utilities Commission Im here on behalf of the general manager hale. And ms. Hale wanted me to say shes sad to miss that meeting we working closely with you over the years ms. Hale in particular to develop and launch the chief of Police Program and on behalf of ms. Hale thank you for your leadership in getting the program launched with respect to the update on the program the cleanpowersf Program Continues to successfully serve customers we have not stopped operations since the last time we met and we continue to enroll the customers during the moss month of november chief of police enrolled many brotherinlaw accounts in the central parts of the city supervisorial districts 7 and 8 as of this week cleanpowersf is serving many active customers the program opt out rate including the november enrollment is 2 percent. And the clean power sf has over seven hundred supergreen customers enrolled that represents a bit modern 2 percent of Customer Base so we have a raise between supergreen and opt out and supergreen is winning. Good to hear whats our goal for. We have a target of 5 percent. We also continue to receive sign ups for the next sign up in the spring as of this week 200 and 55 new signups and 77 percent are supergreen signups. Will this get us to what percentage. In between. About 2. 3 percent if we account for weve got a lot more work to do but well be focusing on until another major enforcement for that the updates of the 77 plus thousand customers a lot of the potential weve been seeing weekly you understand on the order of 20 to one hundred customers and promoting the supergreen we definitely think we can get there and hopefully next year. Well hold to you it. Sounds good. It is something id like to be held to. And so on the outreach front i mentioned were seeing strong sign up for intra has to do with with the activities you may have seen the cleanpowersf to took over the space point muni station and advertising on muni bus shetland in the enrollment area and focusing on upgrading the supergreen and were also he hosting welcome events and we host your first welcome event on monday night at the africanamerican Cultural Center and the next event will be this sunday at 9 amputee eureka and the goal to be very available for the community we recorded in the past that cleanpowersf and the staff are working hard on a program gross land weve potentially launched phase one and two more months on our Enrollment Period for the november enforcement and were setting our sites to scale the Program Citywide the plan will focus think an examination and better understanding the electricity and our outcome for the next several years our city demand and Revenue Opportunities is going to address and this is really a key part of that the financing needs for the program how were going to scale up our power and they then to establish the operational readiness and support of an expanded program and what were talking about today, were serving 10 to 15 percent of the size of the city and county of San Francisco about it is potentially about an 8 fold increase in size. Im going to move to the regulatory updates unless you have questions about the material and were good thank you. Were approaching the end of the calendar year and what that means for us the cpuc will be issuing the rates in particular the pc i a and filing the comments with the city and joining others. Ccas. Been joint filings together. Given pg e proposal and forecast cleanpowersf may have a small bill increase relative to the pg e service at least until the next pg e change we expect the march to may of next year and expecting to build some kind of a compensation in the rates that bring that increase down a little bit so just to be clear that means that cleanpowersf rates will be lower than pg e generation rates by the overall bill impact to the cca customers maybe higher sth were expecting a final cca decision on the 15 of december and that will support the pg e rates Going Forward. So this activity the cpuc preceding is implementing previous policy and guidance on how to circulate the p cia is a formula with a little bit of ability within the scope to influence the changes how they do that a top regulatory initiate of the cpuc and the cleanpowersf to reform to move changes to the pcia and in response to last years response the puck established a working group that involves the investor and utilities to come together over 6 month period to discuss options for reforming the p cia the staff are participating in the progress weve heard productions ive heard preview conversations where submitting proposals for that process the working group is are charged with presenting a report to the cpuc by the middle 2017 and the idea their proposal will then serve as the basis for the proceeding so it is a little bit of kick the can down the road but this is the cpuc the way the cpuc does business so we are looking at alternatives ways considering legislative strategies as well wraps up my update. You, you, you kind of answered my questions theyre in the process of perhaps can be created to go from a formula to some legislative or policy way of adjusting the pcia from the outside of the cpuc there is an attempt to do that is there in the inside of the cpuc any place for our seat to take hold to find purchase. There is definitely an openness to hearing the cpuc concerns and trying to address them within their statutory restrictions there is a language in the law today that cpuc that guided the actions in the past the question within that existing legal requirement what kind of flexibility the cpuc has to make reform and so i think that the perspective they have and the working group is very much looking at the Technical Details with the cpuc. What can be done one of the Biggest Challenges right now, were on an annual cycle where around this time of year we expect a decision that sets the cpuc for the following year and that volatility is very disruptive so one of the strong proposals i think that quite reasonable to create more of a forecast and create stability year after year instead of the volatility weve seen and there is an openness to that kind of thing when it comes to funneling changing the mechanism that the cpuc used to insure a nonparticipating customer in the process so that the exercises that are not in the system dont bear the costs that and may have to be dlon a legislative action wear thinking of ways to do that. To what extent does the cpuc work for the cca versus major utilities is it set up to provide some level of support for utilities it seems like over cpuc. The cpuc works for the repairs which includes utility rate repairs and the cca commercials were talking about are the same repairs thats one of the message to the cpuc to remember that they also represent the cca repairs. We dont have the ability to influence legislative judges in the commissioners the way that the utilities. We have to do that through the public process and through stronger argumentation and over the history of the p cia the city has not been opposed to the concept of protecting the repairs there are nonparticipating san franciscans out there but clearly what the important to make sure the process is transparent and fair and compliant with the law that kind of standoff can be buried in the details will there are ways to disrupt the projects we need to be aware of its definitely something were knowing the cpuc is watching over the process i think sort of as the cpuc movement is growing statewide i think that is really in our favor when it comes to pushing significant reform either way the policymakers and the regulators have to deal with the fact there are expensive contract that has been signed and so this the tough issue just to be clear and we think there can be positive change and in for the at the cpuc potentially through legislation. Great, thank you. Other questions mr. Fried and jason fried, executive officer just wanted to chime in on a couple of update as the cpuc is doing great work with the Business Plan and looking forward to seeing the final version next year when necessary have the plan rolled out for the process to be done quicker good ideas how to do that and looking forward to that 2015 on the cpuc discussion were up having i potentially are a darker view how the pauksz treats the customers not as fairly as they need to be treated they protect the bundled customers to the disadvantages of other customers we need to talk about there as was stated basically the same customer and should be protected equally we need to make sure we are doing that up to this point the cpuc comments especially some of the commissioners they talk about protecting the customers not realizing we need to do more to cat them to protect the other customers so come next year as lafco stays involved ill be continuing as to write letters or opposition whatever to make sure were protecting the cpuc customers with the bundled customers of benjamin those are my ill be again get a chance to attend the event he encourage anyone that has thoughts or questions you have youll your experts sitting in one room it is great for the public to show up people were fed and will be fed at the sunday morning i encourage the folks to show up this morning will and really ask tour tough questions all the experts will be in the room ill be there and 4re7b8dz a hand to the cause and hope youll attend that thats all i have for any portions. Great no other questions thank you for your report. Mr. Fried and go to Public Comment any member of the public that wants to rush the podium to say. Few words about this. Hello chair avalos and commissioners jeff from the bay area i guess i would say that the idea that some period of time were trying to immoral the customers program that the bills will be higher than pg e for the Standards Services obviously is bad news and were working against i think this illustrates the need for City Government to work aggressively to defend and build and protect cleanpowersf it is great to me as a Community Advocate to continue for lafco Going Forward as this clearly is not a federal issue business cleanpowersf has been launched ultimately all 3 owes is expected to be transitioning to the cpuc and 1 or 2 will be a majority the current chair or president of the cpuc michael ticker has referred to the Community Choices as a collective this was or less while serving in that office you you think from the outside it appears to us the cpuc allows the iou to pass theyre able to reduce their electricity given what is going on in their market they shouldnt be able to be put in a bad position with our rates i want in support of cpuc and the board of supervisors and lafco in taxiing whatever stems necessary to make sure this program succeeds and not get thank you if there are no other member of the public to rush the podium for Public Comment Public Comment is closed. And go on to the next item. Item four honoring john aval avalos. Madam chair. Im the chair now so i did not have anything prepared to say i understand we are at our last meeting with our current chair chair avalos and commissioner mar and commissioner campos we wanted to take the time to honor their work here on lafco and i believe that we have id like to say a few comments ill allow any colleagues to have comments first, i know that chief executive officer jason fried has some thoughts. Yeah. For each of you, we have resolutions and proclamation for you similar on a nature although difference a lot of the work you worked so well as a team it was hard to distinguish youre responsible for one or another part but because of your ability to work as a team thats one of the things that means something to me personally for the 3 of i it was xrefsz maybe a discernment outside of lafco put that aside and understand the importance of lafco working on the cleanpowersf program and some of the other Waste Management in the city or mou how elections get run in the city you put those it didnt make any differences behind when i sat down to write the resolutions i couldnt figure out how to write them on that note he will read some of the individual clauses as to the resolution so youre aware of the individual supervisor avalos served with lafco into 2012 and severed as vice chair in 2012 a good Training Course to become chair lets see you were also the chair of the commission when the citys Aggregation Program was launched youll be the last chair and chairing this body when we started to serve customers thats exactly what lafco was set up to do to get public elected and the cca program implement in the city and county. I appreciate that but the claim of launching cleanpowersf has been done by a member no longer here and thats why i said you were physically chair when if launched the physical launch any differences between each of you so on the noted i wanted to say thank you very much for your hard working and yield to the other commissioners and why not call 5 and 6 together as well. Okay. So well do all at once. Madam clerk call items 5 and 6 youve called 4. I had to ask that. Thats right laughter . You had and item 5 is a resolution honoring david campos and item 6 eric mar. For commissioner campos your individual depictions you served for two consequence years as well as vice chair in 2010 and the chair that the cpuc at the time was Ed Harrington agreed to launch the program and the chair to get the sfpuc to launch a Program Granted hips after that but physically the chair when that action occurred and so with that, we want to say thank you for your your serves services ill give you my personal thoughts i was very a. D. Mirrored how you were able to get the general manager to have a long tedious process over the years you have a problem with that and went to every single item it was issued with the puc. Worked so see how wooul youll get to a Large Program wouldnt have been possible without the to this spot in the program to be launched i give you a lot of credit to get us to the point that sfpuc staff was maybe not supportive but get to the spot we have a program go to the public and say please join this program thank you to you and commissioner mar you get an interesting distinction youre the only lafco commissioner to leave the commission and come back laughter you are the only person to serve on 3 seats and switched to the alternative and left lafco and you missed us and did a different seat and served in 3 different seats at the lafco which is pretty expressive. It is i was looking at and seeing who was here the longest i forgot to mention commissioner campos from the board of supervisors to serve on lafco and but youve served longer than may board of supervisors and commissioner avalos your shortly behind you got a point a month earlier but the election he beat you out by one month. Weve talked about that and will next thursday. So the 3 proclamations ill be happy to give to you when we are done but go back to you folks to have the discussion about each other. Id like to say a few words i think for me in the public seat it has been a learning experience for me on local Agency Formation commission and the 3 of you have been mentors to me i think that lafco is very different from other commissions or id like say the committees that our part of and the board of supervisors because this is like geeky behind the scenes not a lot of fanfare and other stuff its within an honor to work alongside you and want to say a few things chair avalos and you know in addition to being you know a friend and someone that i look up to been a mentor and you know knowledge believing i can be a part of something bigger in terms of cleanpowersf and bringing me into the vice chair role youve never backed down from launching cleanpowersf youve never stopped thinking about the Environmental Review and the benefit of having cleanpowersf in San Francisco and what that meant for the ccas in the state and then youve always looked for opportunity to expand the program listening in the advocates and working with the specifically with ted olsen he discovered the oil field in the community and looking at it as a way to stop the Oil Production and creating a solar farm that would be part of the do you believe the way you blocked for opportunities to grow the program and how your work on the board of supervisors and the city and Just Environment and commissioner campos i wanted to say i learned a lot from you in terms of the way you cross examine people you are youre like a gentle bulldog as Agency Attorney that experienced really pulling things out and the details out taught me a lot how to work with someone that i may not have the same end goal but how to find that Common Ground and put them on the spot to answer the questions that are important not in you bad way but transparent and accountability what it means to san franciscans so have someone that advocates for them thank you for teaching me that and commissioner mar ive always, always can count think on you to look at the social and Racial Justice youre always thinking of the world that were creating more your daughter youre thinking about the legacy we leave behind were thinking of people who may not have a voice in that room thank you for that for always doing that you can say curse words in the nicest way i super appreciate that. laughter . But all of you have really taught me what that is like to be a part of something bigger and cleanpowersf was my segue into lafco working on what that meant with the other reports like the elected officials and thinking about the things that lafco dont see it ripples out it starts as a seed in the community and can be bigger that changes the way we do things in the city and the way the rest of the country looks to San Francisco so San Francisco lafco can be a generate our i appreciate the work and if no one is on lafco come january you guys have to show up somehow. So that might not actually be legal i want to thank you so much and happy to be a part of honoring you and allow you guys to say a few words commissioner mar youre next on the roster. Let me start by saying it feels good to say chair crews and want to appreciate our leadership from the voters and the young voters and all the communities efforts to nurture other people to step up and hold government accountable im going to show this little pamphlet but it is about love i love you guys and avalos and i spent jail in oakland in the last 90s and for mayor and i think that was over the youth. Criminalization of youth and others were in there dan from the Global Challenge a number of us. James. And Peter Martinez an incredible experience being in jail with you john laughter . I see lafco as pretty much the government body that sherz that cleanpowersf was not going to be blocked by the mayor and others and john made sure that was happening and john your brilliant Legal Counsel as we were a dealing with the balance of africanamerican and other students all the complexities but really how i remember affidavits ability and total people skills in addition to what cynthia or chair crews is saying about the ability to cross examining but an ability in using the people skills to really help negotiate the best for especially our most vulnerable citizens in the School District and continuing on as champion with lafco on our board i want to do my best to say i hear if the puc district quan and others but cleanpowersf wouldnt have come about without tom ammiano and others on the lafco before us we follow in neither footprints and not just in the lafco elected but michael from the sierra club before that was laura and others and john and so many others but also the Community Alliances that were formed i want to thank you to eric brooks and others that are persistent in gathering information to be better at what we do we wouldnt have cleanpowersf without the Community Coalition and lastly wanted to say because the per assailants of the community and jason fried in 2008, you were noted as the best political mind you know where the bodies are buried the best power analysis what goes on in city hall and outside and i met you when you were a working and timed to give you a special thank you for being an maliciously director for lafco and hearing about not only the Environmental Justice but how everything fits together and thank you for being a good friend and actually, i wont miss lafco but others will moved on the important struggles with cleanpowersf and so many Environmental Justice and been a pleasure to serve he wont miss it. laughter . Commissioner avalos. Thank you president. God you know, i think that for the three of us and john and eric and i that will be a weird next couple of weeks or so as were you know finally comes to i mean weve come to the terms were leaving this place and you know being on the board of supervisors has been an amazing job the best job ive ever had and being a member of lafco has been an important part of it i was redundant do join lafco wasnt sure what that entails and lafco has been a critical part of the Progressive Movement in San Francisco and so many people over the years made that happen in the end my commitment to lafco came from the Progressive Movement and specifically to the issue of clean power and larger cleanpowersf irks that brought lafco to into existence and there are people players that are no longer involved in the way they were before it was a different scraper and the San Francisco bay guardian was a big proponent of lafco and redd man and other folks made it happen and saw that lafco would be a tool for members of the board of supervisors and eastbound members of the public to push forward the issues that for whatever reason were difficult to push through the regular process through the board of supervisors and the Mayors Office over the years the relationship into lafco and city agencies has viewed i wanted to thank the california Public Utilities commission and their staff for putting up with us over the years we started out being contentious and challenging and difficult and at times you you know tough meetings were had and you know if there is any word that i think describes lafco to me that lafco has been relentless even has the political scraper changes and the political Progressive Movements up and down lafco has is the little you know engine that could and keeps on going and has it is interesting to see what happens i hope the moo new members of the board who by the way, talk about progress many of them are women joined this body and continued this work thank you to the puc and to general manager kelly, thank you to all the previous general manager and to the staff that worked with use it is greatly appreciated to the extent weve been going you have to go right with us whether or not you wanted to at times so greatly appreciated the lafco staff i mean wouldnt have been possible without the staff and i think jason in particular i dont know that a few years back you remember thinking i was going to become the chief executive for lafco you feel into and it happened youre a quick study and hit the ground running and been a pleasure for me to serve with you not only when i was there but as a member i know you have been someone who has learned the ropes pretty quickly and not afraid to work and we wouldnt have been possible without the you. So the big kudos to you and your energy what youve done and then to any colleagues we wouldnt have a lafco figure enough of us hadnt chosen to make that a priority and commissioner mar and commissioner avalos didnt have to do this they choose to do this consistently when that was easier were doing so many things and fighting on so many fronts at times the last thing you want to come here and fight on this front; right . So thank you for your commitment and thank you for doing that and thank you to the staff for the work that came with doing that. To commissioner and commissioner avalos comes that added responsibility and not only for you but also your staff you really have played that role here for many years and it is not easy and so you know thank you for that and for in the just doing that but doing that well. It to jeramy and every staff member that as staffed you over the years. And you know im proud of the work we should, collectively proud of the work and thank you to all the people that had a part to play in all all of that i hope it continues i actually think we have learned from lafco you can think outside the box lafco didnt have to focus on clean energy and who knows what initials were going to have to deal with i mean, we have a sense from the new president elect trump but have a full plate at lafco my hope the Community Elected members of the board of supervisors will choose to continue to be on this body ill advocate for them their decision in the end youll have you know folks ready to go and hit the ground running so that is exciting ill ended who people talk about lafco 10 or 20 or thirty years from now not just a Community Thing but focus on the work thank you. Chair avalos oar im not i think im vice chair. So that is really hard to put in words what im feeling not only at lafco but in general on my service on the board ; right . I served with eric but more than anything i want to say i have a tremendous gratitude to work with i and learned itch from you along the what you actually i needed to watch and to observe and to experience our work david to be able to actually feel confident at the board of supervisors and lafco so you know, i appreciate your coming in and your brilliance at doing the difficult work of taking down and trying to find the truth of what were saying thats been a significant experience and thank you for that. And eric you know, i just everything you do you do with our heart and do with a serious understanding of all the decades of work before to be where were at today and i admire you are for that and appreciate for your work and being here and our sense of service and judicious that drive and motivate i know you bring you know all of your self to bear and i know through the work we have to do and i know behind you are incredible life issues that i you know manage just to get to where you are today and do to fine job appreciate you for that and your humanity and thank you. I have to pause i want to say crews i was it was a dlierlt for you to come and work on lafco with us youre a geek laughter . I say that in the most you know life affirming way i remember you had in the board of supervisors i dont know worship i saw you at city hall you came and spoke and havent lost my attention you have had a shirt with fetish this is pretty cool what it said and it is great that you and jeremy got married and you guys are meant for each other and, of course, jeremy pollack any legislative aide has been great to work with and learned to which from him really the perfect aid i do a lot of things by improve and he gives me me the best information to work off i want to shout out to jeramy pollack wouldnt have been possible without the backing me up but in our climate it has been our passion as well and thank you to well start with mr. Fried if you for staffing us and being the director all those years and its been great to work with you and thank you for always having to use the crowbar to get any attention at times were working on a million things and every minute my head it is filed with on the projects youve kept things moving through lafco i want to acknowledge you know how much knowledge youve been able to bring and work with to its to bring institutions this year focused so, so many things and kept you know the work ann around cca Going Forward and lafco youve served us well and thank you for that. And then for staff ms. Hale is not here i remember the contentious years the problem went through my head probably not the most appropriate thing to say if there wasnt so much contention going on i think that ed had a shot at being intern mayor he actively was in a position to do that having being the controller and director but that was a thought that went through in my head but Environmental Impact report pathway here probably people are ready to like support him and be a different aide who knows maybe cca done 40 years earlier and mr. Hymn thank you. I appreciate our reports like i said earlier today, you answered the questions with the presentation and didnt anticipate that and not easy to work with cpmc. Juliette thank you for your work and i dont understand lafco youre really great to work with and brought resources to our district and really worked the Community Groups looking to get a better outcome to make sure for the work and been strong so i want to say thank you and eric mentioned members of the public that have been structural in the work through the schools and sierra club and i know 350 bayview thank you for your work and helping to keep us being a member of the public watching all the time i know there are many more but our work is helpful to keep the bathroom, going and our ideas led us to you know moving forward with the report what was the report calls the enernex report that led to finally coming to the cca program we have now so with that, ill not say anything else. Thank you mr. Fried. I realize i forgot to apologize for ms. Miller couldnt be here she was instructed to be in court for one of her clients in Southern California you you know when the judge says you have to be here she was sad and upset but pass on her thoughts and thank you for your years of service shes been here the longest she wanted to apologize and saw thank you for your service and reaching out of this service and let you you know her thoughts and im going to turn it over to sfpuc to make a few comments themselves. Thank you i did not expect this meeting to be like its been my brain is like coming home a week or to i was tgeneral manager and opm lik was the same pollack i have no idea laughter but here to thank lafco and especially thank the outgoing commissioners for all your work with the puc to really focus on cleanpowersf and getting that program launched as as you may know i taught a class called policy in action in europe and i think that the work is lafco has been to do is a great example the best is the best not the policy on the books or as people forgot it has impact i hope that each of you take pride including the staff around that entity has been able to do to get things done that benefit the san franciscans i know your proud were proud i think as we think about the times of struggle that there were years of that i think that what i was left was that the puc and the lafco was not really that far apart with a common goal and set of values around green house clean Accountable Energy weve struggles for many years that was a principle struggle and ended up in a place with 57 thousand customers thank you to the supervisors coming out for your tenacity commissioner mar will not miss lafco when we came to the staff stuck with that and have this concrete forum we wanted to have acknowledged commissioner i quantum is here to show his gratitude and representing the commission really were all of you on lafco and want to thank you to jason fried, executive officer and to nancy again, while we have differences jason would come over to the puc and play bodies and help us get to Common Ground thank you for that and then we brought along some guests and after we saw the framed proclamation that jason brought wow. Ours have better laughter . Oh, my god so. We very specific plaques that really acknowledge the commissioners laughter and forgot the bowtie we apologize for that commissioner campos but have a bunch of other San Francisco puc things hoodies and hetch hetchy hats and mugs, etc. We hope you guys wouldnt forgot us and ill ended saying our general manager harlan kelly couldnt be here with another meeting but appreciated 24 process and i think when he became general manager questions where is he and will he become familiar with lafco and the leadership to get it launched hes provided amazing leadership and out there i think he is proud with the leadership and appreciated the leadership of the organization weve struggled he was one of the first people saying and invite them in and sit down and i know he wanted to be here today and ill end with that. Thank you very much just as were appreciating all of the people that have been part of cleanpowersf and lafco he wanted to bring the news of the principle in the room convincing and Carolyn Babbitt i feel sometimes that especially women they dont get their names out there and not the people that come to the meetings but instrumental in moving cleanpowersf forward thank you all so much i want to give an opportunity for the members of the public and commissioner quan so say things. Oh, were open up for Public Comment. All right. Good afternoon xhoolz and commissioner mar and vice chair avalos and commissioner pollock and commissioner mar and commissioner campos i really talk about riding on coattails i bear witness to this effort and very, very honored to be a part of it but to see this come to fruition has been a momentous year and describe the collective efforts and tenacity is top of the list without the potentially conveyed directives of clean power but the appropriate amount of emotion over the course of the effort many large sobrieties and didnt come to the city until 2008 and saw one of them but to let everyone know that cleanpowersf is virtually is important and people want it and not let it fade and die away to keep it alive impressed with the San Francisco public works on the level of selfdiscipline and inclusiveness it move forward and expressed with the feel of getting ahead mr. Fried a pleasure and brought rigor too this process thank you very much and honored to be bear witness to this effort thank you. Thanks jed from the bay area i guess ill really echo all the comments they were lovely there is no way to prove or disprove thank you for your service over all the years and like supervisor campos said i didnt have to do it in theory as cleanpowersf is implemented this will be the single largest step San Francisco takes through the green house at least the production vera dick it is true we have work to do to make that a reality but to get the ball rolling down the hill is so critical and you know id like to represent the organization that are here and your organization and permanent as a long time san franciscan thank you all for stepping up and doing this because you saw it needed to be done i cant really fathom working in policy without you being here if we were not facing you know simple huge electoral losses i feel this will break my brains but it is already broken i have complektsd feeling about everyone i feel like this is something i didnt know i had but really want to thank you for your everything youve done and hope very much that we will continue to see ion this side working to make sure that program is a reality ill not give any statements to jason but since i as a san franciscan and am counting on this body being here next year thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners eric brooks i should mention all the groups that come forward over the last 12 years for lafco San Francisco clean power and public net and San Francisco and just thanking the 3 commissioners for leaving for their service on the Commission Im not going to repeat did you make that city liveable and clean power off the ground we still need lafco over the years it has not been rosy and the public you might not realize it ill hit it weve had our detests in strategies sometimes issues with trust at times but in the end it boils down to lafco its a group of people and advocates working with those people who saw that stuff needed to get done the executive branch of the government was not going to do that tom ammiano wisely tom ammiano wisely understood we need to create an agency to make that happen lafco gotten stuff done we always could have we always had a super majority on the board of supervisors with clean power but we needed a bodies that was empowered and funded to get studies like the internet studies, etc. So thats why that body needs to continue but once again i have so end with thanking everybody that has been mechanics and especially the 3 commissioners that wont be returning after their seats are filed they can run again maybe you can encourage them to do that. Thank you. Next speaker. None rush Public Comment is closed. Not sure what to do. We have the resolutions; right . We have a motion to approve the resolutions. So moved. Second. Okay without objection they are approved and the next thing on the agenda is item no. 7 the executive officers report report. Jason fried, executive officer ill keep this report short and sweet over that meeting were going to have a celebration to thank and honor our commissioners in room 270 finger foods and things i encourage you give us 5 or 10 minutes after we bank the a gavel so we can continue to celebrate our 3 commissioners, thank you thats all i have. Thank you very much well have Public Comment on our executive directors report anyone wish to comment to bum rush the podium seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Our next item, please. Item number 8. Public comment. Good afternoon, commissioners andrew yip politely e political leaders have management wondering Martin Luther king must apply kindness on the existence of timely trends one that promotes the strategic plans and programs in response to the mental process o progress for local regions and on the accomplishment of twoway real virtues one must make great publication with true benefits for the government and for the people political leaders must work on peace of wellness in great harmony for the for the virtues in the principles and on those issues be full on nonstop as one should be maintained without intervals one state of mind with Public Integrity or passion and destiny one course of achievement and having a mission for worldly rescue. Thank you anyone wish to comment no one well close Public Comment and next item. The further agenda item since threequarters of us dont have a future here maybe go on to the next item Public Comment on the further agenda items okay. Im sorry. For that the gallows in my mind Public Comment on future agenda items seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And go to our last item. Adjournment. As we adjourn colleagues again been a real hon welcome all of im more and more reign the ceo of had been coat in the city of San Francisco and ill be your mc today calling names im super proud to be an equation part to sfmade to help keep homes in San Francisco i served as the president and ceo of goodwill in San Francisco one of sfmade long standing work patrons before that i came to know and love sfmade work when i feels regional Vice President of the foods the leading measures of heath foods for kids in the bay area and reaching millions of kids across the United States everyday calling names so with xooichlt and appreciation of the value of having a strong moufr that or manufacturing that creates worldclass products and thousand of jobs for us in the bay area an honor to be our host for today, this is an exciting culmination of work we sfmade in partnership with the San Francisco surfacing and fremont and oakland to highlight 89 facilities and talk about ways to be work more diligently look around were in a building with bones were built from manufactured and manufacturing is programs for the future as part of the work at pier 70 thank you forest city for providing 2, 3, 4 space today as i look out i see dozens of Community Partners whove made this possible from government leaders to nonprofits panders to our media sponsors the San Francisco businesses a private sector partners that is an few minutes ago and releasing and technology and so many of the manufacturing that themselves together you represent the eco system in the bay area that can drive a powerful Manufacturing Sector in doing so create a platform for more inclusive and equitable economy to start our program im so pleased to bring to the stage one felt presenting sponsors the Vice President of Community Service for pg e. clapping. the Vice President of Customer Service for the operations for local customers and Customer Service and Customer Relations in addition oversees Customer Account management and other sales as well as nonproducts and Services Welcome deb. clapping. hi, everyone id like to echo more and more reigns comments and welcome and thank you for supporting sfmade states of regional manufacturers in our world event im honored to be part of todays program and excited to continue the collaborative effort to support the bay area in the development of manufacturing jobs in california as more and more reign alluded to my role of Vice President of pg e has given me the unique opportunity to see the contribution of the bay area Manufacturing Sector bags or beer and tesla electrical cars bay area manufactured are not only making but making a difference by drinking jobs, resources and innovation to our Community Since the 1970s pg e has worked to help Companies Save money by saving energy per Capital Energy consumption staying flat and increased by 50 percent in the rest of the country we know that companies that save energy that translates into more turned out for businesses and their future committees down the road pg e working closely with all of our customers to design and implement Energy Efficiency programs and policies that allow businesses to do more with less Energy Saving money and helping to protect the environment we help local businesses mediated the Energy Challenges maximizing the return on their Energy Investment thats why we believe so strongly in the Bay Area Urban Manufacturing Initiative linking together san jose San Francisco oakland and fremont that will be a critical driver of the future of the bay area manufacturing and the jobs it provides in our business when the Community Thrives and grows our companies has opportunity to thriving and good grow along with that we dont succeed unless you succeed pg e is proud to creating a more sustainable through local manufacturing i look forward to seeing all the great things that sfmade will bring to the by way of with that, i thank you for your suppo support. clapping. thank you deb and not were not able to bring all the bay area manufactured were excited to see what is happening in manufacturing and the leaders that are shaping it take a look at this so my vision for this region is a recentury equitable thriving region we have to have all types of jobs all types of people we have to have an inclusive equitable economy we have all sorts of opportunities we will not concealing chief this vision unless we grow and support our Manufacturing Sector when were all thinking about how to make sure that our diverse populations get a chance at sharing prosperity in the region it cant be solely a discussion about the Technology Industry it has to be about what people not once you enter into the diversity you understand there are different groups and countries a lot of them of immigrant but fantastic people that understand how to make things the bay area urban manufacturing is the next step in the evolution of our Regional Manufacturing system theyll harness the collective pour across the regional each working to help manufacturing start grow and stay in their communities. Employers a recognizing the proximity between manufacturing and seeing a lot of this in manufacturers trying to take advantage of that. You know fremont is not unique in the sense many all the employers want a well educated workforce ive seen first hand the College Changes the curriculum they partner with the larger employers and basically is a what do you need our skills our students need to make sure they can work in Great Companies like you. With manufacturing it is to the best of my knowledge the workforce training is critical and that didnt happen in one decide but across the entire region. We are interimmigrant region so i really enjoyed working with my mayor in a fremont and san jose and San Francisco we rails when is if job balance and transportation and infrastructure and just making sure that our reason as a whole is competitive on the International Scale we have to Work Together. I know that is important to know how connected we are several companies have a factory in one city and corporate in other places and in another city not seeing the aide boundaries you and i see validated. You think there is a reputation in the world ive had people come off of their planes from china what do you make here he want to buy there theres a sense of high quality it is a reflection of the, fact that our reputation is as San Francisco in the bay area is world recondones our innovation and quality there are many challenges for every city in a transmittal it make sense for us as we hear about companies from by the way, braid for us to be engaged with one another and important to Work Together we are offering the best in the bay area to employ our residents. Were in together join the bay area urban manufacturing and help us create a more equitable and Prosperous Bay area clapping. next im very exciting to welcome to the stage bob the director of City Community development and inclusive finance. Bob leads the partnership with the global and National Organization in support of inclusive finance and Community Development through Economic Empowerment focusing on assessable finance financial coaching and sf this and Neighborhood Revitalization sees to College Education and Small Business micro development with the citys micro finance and corporations and municipality working across the citys groups to expand access to Financial Services city was sfmade first institutional partner in 2012 and consisting been one of the lead partners manufacturing of accelerate programs as a presenting sponsor and incredibly amazing guy i i know you e bring you bob proud to support the region. clapping. i left it on my desk and can you hand media that Times Partnership hello, everyone it is a pleased to be here fantastic location thank you. This wonderful venue we was taking with adam from new york and thinking brooklyn would be jealous of the potential to develop here in San Francisco i wish you a lot of luck the city is involved in supporting sfmade and the whole urban Manufacturing Movement for some years and it is an exciting movement i know many of us watched the elections so alcohol know the loss of manufacturing job is not only one of lost jobs give you a political issue and within that concerns many, many of our community and how we replacing manufacturing jobs and not likely to be replaced in the forms they were like Ben Rosenfield steel supporting the navy arts but what can can be think internal work of many difference from small to Medium Enterprises the engines are growing and the way weve seen stunt and this region not just in the bay but we as a new yorker he speak about the bay area i speak about what city but we have four Mayors Offices an area that many of us look at the bay area will think of is h as progressive and entrepreneurial and this is what is so important that is a period of change were we worried many of us in terms of jobs and loss and creation this is a success that many of the entrepreneurs bring to our city is exciting for the jokes you create and exciting for the job recreation but for the stimulus you bring to the city and the ability to leverage so much creative talent in the areas that are specialized electronics to fashion to the micro brewery across the spectrum you work at to be part of glths one area we work on immigrations and again your cities all of them have a significant population of Dynamic Investment courses of immigrants a labor force but also nationally immigrant are amongst the largest suppliers and started Small Businesses that is a Dynamic Force that is combined with the internal work in the bay cities been involved since we met with kate i think in 2010 with my colleagues and since 2012 and it has been a number of years and an exciting growth funded as partners i think of investing sfmade nearly one Million Dollar and this last year putting the money into the work and the resources around the bay Area Initiative one and 50 thousand and like to call think many of you other companies that invested in the area similarly to make an investment today we launched another one hundred thousand dollars for this bay Area Initiative clapping. we think it is so well sports by the evident of having mayor ed lee and the other mayors an example representing mayor schaaf the municipalities here are amongst 9 months repetitive in the country thats an amazing combination to have expresswayship in the city and include the progressive mayors and have neighbors like sfmade i would say many years weve worked on sfmade a partner here adam from me man in building out the urban manufacturing natalie think that the citys work that is done in the bayer is being look at it and replicated in other cities were involved in we call on more of you to be supportive and best of luck to the entrepreneurs and look forward to seeing this space recreated as a manufacturing place once again thank you. clapping. thank you so much bob and next we would like to welcome to the stage the president and ceo of the irvine applied the Grant Making Foundation for the focus on keep that in mind the opportunity for the people of california don joined the foundation in 2012 after years of serving at bridge group and became irvines cross executive and led the organization to a change of focus breath making strategies hell share more about welcome to the stage don howard. clapping. good morning, everyone what an awesome space great to see familiar faces ooze others great to discuss the role of manufacturing as an engine for Economic Growth it is relevant to the work at the foundation were a private Grant Making Foundation on expanding the opportunity for the people of california you may not have heard of us a tag line your work is 85 years in length and giving away resources to irvine that owned a portion of california we firmly believe that economic and political opportunities both a chance for living wage job and the chance to be heard in the applied process are defining ordinances of our time i think that last week made that important penthouse and for Californians Working and struggling with poverty as mentioned we refocused on the issues of economic and political opportunity and working for californians that one in 3 california families will fall below the federal poverty line and one of the 3 people in the Community Live in poverty and their paying together jobs and pay checks and living one unexpected bill emergency away from a financier burden i think work that many of us are trying to change that has embroiders and leader or government leader we at irvine are investing in organizations that are improving peoples skills and strengthening their pathways to good quality jobs so to support families and allow the workers to participate in their community and supporting organizations that bring the workers together so they have a voice in the economic and political decision that effect their lives with the new work were doing has a job agenda and workers agenda we hope we can serve in some preview way for collection between those two communities were just Getting Started on our work gouged and see an Important Role for us to play for 09 philanthropists to play one clear lesson one publicprivate partnerships are essential earlier this year we at irvine recommended kate and sfmade oemsz with our annual Foundation Leadership award wro what stood out great the public and private sectors to help local manufacturers to create more good jobs for san franciscan the leaders your are about to hear from on a bigger scale we live in a region that is leading california and the nation in innovation, entrepreneurship and other areas yes many californians are isolated and struggle on a margin the economy so one of the reasons were excited to see the leaders mayors and public representatives heel are pressuring challenges i look at the list and wonder if this is a good week for them to be here and great to see them come to talk about how manufacturing can play a greater roll in steel the economy and expanding opportunity for workers each of them warrant a Panel Discussion of their own it is a privilege to have them ladies and gentlemen, my distinct pleasure to introduce this outstanding panel joining kate this afternoon the honorable mayor edwin lee mayor of the city and county of San Francisco. clapping. second the honorable bill harrison mayor of the city of spring. clapping. third the honorable sam the mayor of the city of san jose. clapping. and the honorable annie advice mayor of the city of oakland. clapping. ill bring to the stage the amazing ferocities the one and only visionary from sfmade kate. clapping. great all right. Everybody so we made a great movie together were all done here laughter thank you, thank you all for joining us so you know really today, this is the beginning of work that we know lives on after we walk out of this incredible building this is the beginning of a sustained misrepresent Year Initiative to take the work that is already happening in each of the 4 cities in oakland and san jose and fremont and San Francisco that collectively represents the 4, largest manufactured citys in the bay area what we really want to reveal for you today what is happening and more so how we can amplify the work weve all been doing to create more jobs and more opportunity, more diversity in honor rfp workforce and make sure the bayer is 289 forefront not just vicinity but made here so with this panel we want to take a few minutes and hear a little bit more what beer doing in the cities and hear idea what we may be able to do together ill start with you next to me tell you a few thoughts what is special about oakland and what youre most proud of that oakland has been doing for the manufacturing. Absolute thank you so much kate and sfmade for the opportunity to be here im representing mayor schaaf in the city of oakland the thing that is excited about oakland is how divided our manufactured sector is in oakland what youll see even today in or neendz our one and 10 Year Old Company ab fundy that applies 200 people in oakland and food and o who candy and food youll see Metal Fabricators and what im excited about in oakland right now is the opportunity that we have to build real carrier pathways for our young people in oakland last week, i violated two Manufacturing Companies with one and 50 young people this is the 6 Manufacturing Company in oakland last week to expose them to what it looks like to work with the Manufacturing Sector right now how can we go ahead exist and see that right now these are jobs that involve technology their creativity and can build things with their hand and how can we can build the gives me economy were talking about. Thank you, kate great to be here and real estate on amazing site with mayor ed lee and supervisor cowen really their leadership in making this happen i know there are big plans ahead but in the meanwhile great place to hang and meet and offers a low cost option for the manufactured working with free air conditioning we had a strong position manufacturing stand today and really around initiative products a century ago it was around food and sfos invented the ego waffle if you didnt think san jose was cool but ask your kids we are, of course, much more focused on vance manufacturing well hear from Companies Like western residual around the havent technologies theyre doing a lot of prototypes and eventual at some point that process will be offshore we know that a significant amount can be made here and benefit enormously from obviously all that is happening in the valley 5 thousand people in the city of san jose that are engaged in manufacturing today and a great resource of highway jobs out on the average and a great pathway for middleincome so well bullish on our tech great and a pleasure to be up here and mayor ed lee that looks like the beginning of every one of my sons video games it is existing im waiting for the killer to come out of one of the walls keeping an eye on on this i think the thing that makes me proud of our fremont with the manufacturing road is not where we are right now but where we were a few years ago just a few years ago 4 seven hundred people lost their jobs businesses closed their doors it is growing and producing those autos you may have heard of testing last and 6 thousand people working in that manufacturing this shows where the manufacturing is strong. clapping. my friend daniel from tesla were very proud is to be the home of tesla those numbers make that the largest manufacturers in the state of california but not just that the companies that are around that exciting into the tesla phenomena we have golden gate youve met them this is the companies that are feeding into the tesla and produce the jobs of future talked about numbers in fremont one out of every four jobs in fremont is connected to manufacturing this is huge that is good paying and middleclass jobs income grow were excited about one of the things that makes us unique is that that ability to grow we done a pretty good job of preserving Going Forward pressure on that i know my colleagues did the same one of the things Going Forward we cherish and have that room to grow to make sure you can solve tomorrow problems with stricken out ways to so jobs. Great to follow bill i was told in i came here each of us mayors and x mayors will get a tesla laughter daniel has the max ma kate thank you for being part of this i want to add my thanks to the sponsors that are here putting this together and acknowledge supervisor malia cowen is malia still here all right. clapping. how. Now shes the mayor of district 10 i can say that has a second term mayor change the title i want to say thank you to every single mayor this is the first time weve literally broken bread together. But anyway, and for good reason when i been these mayors i think about urban savings account i will say that were all going both struggling and vanls the cities when it comes to job creation and manufacturing in particular i think were not building citizens and villages it is job creation it is about people and i look around this room weve got the people in finance, city, foundations that are trying to help us with our vision and youve got people who are trying out things and companies that are but making things as the Maker Movement but to put them in the context of more than manufacturing how to support each other and more and more us mayors in the entire bay area will be working closely together we have to understand the skies of supply change of manufacturing not do everything in one city anymore but require a bay area approach what we recognize i cant manufacturer cars i have no room unless a really, really small car. laughter but were going to be proud of our breweries and our chocolates and proud of our tie im wearing in particular because blue is mustered and designed and made here in San Francisco and we could be selling products as i said in the video that the people around the world would love to have when we put our city label that are on things made here an international constituency i think some of the other brands out find europe 19 are meeting their course and people buy something here that has San Francisco made label on it theyll feel proud of that is high quality whether the fashion industry that we are trying to resurrect we used to have a lot of fashion here it didnt disappear but gone on hiatus were doing not mass manufacturing but designs with fashion like the accessories movement sincerely erratics and worldclass stuff made very we have over 6 hundred Manufacturing Companies in San Francisco theyre looking for the talent that can coming out come out not net of the university but talent from the college and city college where were making tremendous invests of people that dont have to have 4 year degrees job creation is about a village coming together to make sure it happens land use issues we have to deal with were going to go into more detail thats a great cigarette way at the end of the day my whole staff and most of my partners thinking about manufacturers are the opportunity for people it really comes down to the people the people that work in those companies it is the possibility of shared ownership and diverse ownership of those Companies One of my farther i love sharing when i travel east for the belt where im from more than 50 percent of the manufactured in San Francisco are owned by women and i think outside the box as a bellwether. clapping. thats a well weather inform what were capable of in the bay area one program i heard about im excited to learn more as we talk about sharing mayor is the San Francisco works one of the real opportunity and challenges in the data we collected ask that we both struggle with Legacy Manufacturers whether environment or food having amazing workforce and not net the next generation coming up behind them and manufacturing with a skill so tells you more about what you guys are trying to do to address that. Actually certainly i think we recognize the economic issue how we address the growing gap between rich and poor not more acute with the cost of living here in San Francisco for the opportunities to provide a path with jobs and manufacturing we launched an effort with la jolla partners and with the future being a key participate and, of course, your manufactured our employers and seeing how we can focus on both retraining adults and getting to our for them not cool to be a manufacturer and we need to demonstrate to them there are great opportunities and great careers not just about amy there is cool stuff out there and so far weve had Great Success like some have participated in hiring over the summer and ultimately offering some of the young adults permanent jobs that is great for them for the future work Program One Hundred folks trained and employed in advanced manufacturing and really know that requires great and greater skills not the manufacturing line they need to have advanced skills around understanding computer and using advanced technologies and their skills are demanded at the Assembly Level so we wanted to partner with a Community Private sector to get folks on the Assembly Line or folks into the Assembly Line the skills for the advanced manufacturers there is Significant Growth one of the things we also learned even if we talk about the work of Assembly Line it is different than it used to be and working on an Assembly Line is working with 20 people not necessarily 2 hundred people one thing that is similar across the city a broad range for the two and three person shop and old oakland is a better example of having that in the same city i know that you have done and personally as the leadership in kind of external lists the Food Manufacturing and connect it back to the community as we think about how to make it easier for folks to understand whats that journey been like. In oakland the food and beverages industry has allowed us to what i think we all need to do is make this an enticing field for everyone to understand how different the industry is now so weve used it as a creativity marking tool to fill the notch around the food and beverages in oakland and created a food trail along the waterfront to have a mc2 over 50 sites that people can come and ride their bikes how many people have done that. By the next time next year. Were on it. laughter . You can bike along the food trail 50 sites and see food and visit our urban wineries a trail as well and it allows us to market oakland in this very specialized way and also talk about what a restauranteur industry we have in oakland been a creative way i think to talk about the Manufacturing Sector in a different way. This whole initiate wouldnt have been possible selfwe hadnt had the blessing of our own mayor sfmade is progressively in San Francisco and a leader that hadnt only spider us but gourjd us to see what we can do collectively across the region why would you do that laughter . First of all, i grew up in a family were any mom was a seamstresses used to someone as a head of the 40ur8d making things seeing the delight in her eyes she used to do sky jackets with the do you think she was proud of stitch if you got the right stitches that dont cough the details like that effect our whole life i paid attention to a lot of the details because you train hand to use coordination with the speed and when theyre sold their seed well, you take pride in the brand thats what the workforce in the Manufacturing Industry feel they feel they own the product where it is sold and resold they get this product so a personal aspect of that kind of drove me to Pay Attention particularly when it came to fashioned so many other things are happen that cause our space to be reused in a productive way when you think of obesity when you think that i know restaurant theyre doing skateboards now the overlay of Technology Cat boards are not made with just a material but an overlay of Electronics Like at circa in the film you look at that Assembly Line and the neat part of it they have new types of machineryy that guide provision of cutting, that provision helps because when you have a whole piece of laefrp and youre making a belt there is a lot of center unused leather with the machinery they can position that belt design into the leather to get twice as much out of one piece an overlay computerized accuracy of that belt so switching 19 stitching it is still part of manufacturing of that apparel but overlayed by great level of technology that helps with quality with the design, with the environment for the use of those materials there are incredible tributes of state of mind we have to wrap up id like to hang out but how often do we get four cities together it is looking at we need to connect each other capabilities together we have garment manufactured in oakland and San Francisco but not the Electronics Manufacturing and scale for example, you might have in san jose thats one opportunity so the workforce which resides all over the bay area and we are excited about the bart station in fremont i think is one of the countries First Transit oriented industrial elephant taking the development to a whole new level and, yes we can clap for that. clapping. so let me ask in conclusion, this may be one the harder requests of the recognized people in 3 words not possible. Each something that you would most be existed about as we looked at a few years together. In manufacturing. 3 words mr. Mayor. Build be talent, pipeline. Internet of things. laughter . Wow. Its about the young people for me support support more people. Thank you