That could push back whats the long state for cleanpowersf. I know there are members of the public who have concerns about that, but before we dive in, i just want to acknowledge that we have made tremendous progress on cleanpowersf this year. Weve actually had an rfp that successfully drew in many respondents. We didnt have that many respondents the last time we issued and rfp and indicated some really good choices to move forward on. I want to move forward and i believe this is shared by all the commissioners here. We all want to move forward as quickly as possible. So today, we really want to see how given the circumstances that we are operating under how we can do that and how we can stay as close to our timeline as possible. The thing that is looming more quickly before us is the approval of the contracts now that weve had a successful response to the request for proposals, and i would like to make sure that we can actually sign those and do whatever we need to do in terms of appr
Please stand by. Local Agency Formation Commission Good afternoon and welcome to the special joint Committee Meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. I just created a new word. My name is john avalos, the chair of the lafco. We are going to do our roll call right now. I will introduce the clerk for lafco and the president of the Public Utilities commission which is the clerk of puc and they will do their roll call as well. Our clerk for lafco is lisa. Clerk, please call the roll. Commissioner avalos, present, breed, present, campos, present, commissioner crews, present, mar, not present, lindo, present. We have a quorum. Public Utilities Commission roll call. President king, courtney, commissioner moran and commissioner quan. We have a quorum. City clerk please silence all cell phones and any devices. Supervisor john avalos we are being broadcast by sf govtv staff. Item no. 3 opening remarks and discussions of expectations for the joint meeting. Supervisor john avalos
Public speaker david mccord. Cochair of bay chapters energy committee. We thank the mayor for calling for implementation of clean power San Francisco and especially for calling for robust construction of a new Renewable Energy sources and Energy Efficiency retro fits on local homes and businesses. As pointed out by enernex report this will create thousands of local jobs for city of San Francisco and local union jobs. We need the commission to set rates in place with clear timelines. Thank you, next speaker, please. Public speaker hello, im a Sierra Club Member and an advocate of Community Choice aggregation of 2006. In 2007 we were promised a program would be up and running. That didnt happen demand and in 2012 the board voted for this and now we are waiting again. I feel like a kid on a trip, are we there yet . Except this is critically important and the trip is fairly long. We are seeing Climate Changes globally and globally. Please stop dragging your feet. Set the rates now. Supervi
Course of about 9 years. Im happy to say with the unanimous vote with the city of petaluma in december we have the full compliment of all the eligible cities in the county of sonoma participating in sonoma clean power. The three cities out in operation what they liked what they saw and they all voted to join. Sonoma clean power launched in may of 2014. Its renewable qualified energy in its power mix. Its 34 percent lower in Greenhouse Gas emissions than pg e and rates that are 58 percent below pg e rates. Thats an apples to apples comparison. All of the recs, definition and Renewable Energy is apples to apples. Im here today is that it . Im here to encourage you to proceed in your efforts to launch a well designed program. A lot of what i did plan to say has been said. So just here to encourage you to do that and a senate for climate protections stand that they are ready to share our experience and in the 9 years led to launch sonoma clean power. Supervisor john avalos thank you. Next
For calling for implementation of clean power San Francisco and especially for calling for robust construction of a new Renewable Energy sources and Energy Efficiency retro fits on local homes and businesses. As pointed out by enernex report this will create thousands of local jobs for city of San Francisco and local union jobs. We need the commission to set rates in place with clear timelines. Thank you, next speaker, please. Public speaker hello, im a Sierra Club Member and an advocate of Community Choice aggregation of 2006. In 2007 we were promised a program would be up and running. That didnt happen demand and in 2012 the board voted for this and now we are waiting again. I feel like a kid on a trip, are we there yet . Except this is critically important and the trip is fairly long. We are seeing Climate Changes globally and globally. Please stop dragging your feet. Set the rates now. Supervisor london breed thank you. I going to call more cards. Can you please lineup. Public spea