Good afternoon and thank you for coming. My name is siri worthington, executive director of the United States Energy Association and this is a us ea briefing on addressing Energy Poverty in the United States, a federal state collaboration. This is a little bit of a different topic for your sca. But one that we are very eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation. Because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking on a degree of urgency. It always been urgent but i think myself that the urgency is growing so thank you all for coming. We have an excellent set of panelists here today. Or our discussion, we hope to have audience participationas well. Moderating todays session is mark will, mark will provide the discussion and moderate the discussion forthe need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist, and is an expert on local andregional energy and housing financing. He is consulted regularly for general
Thank you very much. Any questions, colleagues . A few years ago, we were talking, at least some of the supervisors were mentioning rebuilding your system. The open source . Yeah, what happened to that . That is ongoing. Right now it is more in a technical phase of development, so the technology is leading that project at the moment. The next step will occur in the third week in july, second week in july, when d. T. Will host a Stakeholder Community event to start gathering the specifications and also to create working groups around the development of certain aspects of the system. The next step is next july at the state level. There is bill 1784, which would provide matching funds to the city to develop a Voting System. The bill would allocate 60 million to Voting System development, anyone county would be eligible to receive no more than 8 million. Potentially, we would add meat 8 million in matching funds. The bill went through assembly, and it went through his First Reading at the
Primary being back in the calendar from june to march, we are probably running to elections simultaneously. That will impact planning. September is the beginning of the filing period for the march election and the Charter Amendments going into the next fiscal year, the numbers dont drop for staffing is much as you would expect, and the reason is that it is a president ial general election, and we have had a string of very high turnout elections in San Francisco, and in 2016, that was the highest number of voters in the citys history, and i think 2020 will be the biggest election in the citys history. Again, we look at our different factors, look at our processes and just consider how many people we need to bring in. These are permanent, fulltime positions. No. Okay. They are all all the ones that are in my presentation are temp as needed. They are not people. Im looking at the budget, you went from 49 to 76. Okay. That is different. If you look back in time going forward, one we do the
Is held in hybrid format in person and city hall room 416 broadcast on sfgovtv and available to view on zoom or listen by calling 16699006833. Using the meeting id, 82525267431. We welcome the participation during Public Comment. There is is a opportunity for general Public Comment at the beginning of the meeting and a opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each comment is limited to three minutes. For those attending remotely, the commission will hear up to 20 minutes of Public Comment total for each item because of the 20minute time limit it is possible not every person in the queue will have a opportunity to provide remote Public Comment. Remote Public Comment from those who received accommodation due to disability will not count towards the 20 minute limit. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by video or callin. For each item the commission will take Public Comment first from people attending in person and then people attending
Is held in hybrid format in person and city hall room 416 broadcast on sfgovtv and available to view on zoom or listen by calling 16699006833. Using the meeting id, 82525267431. We welcome the participation during Public Comment. There is is a opportunity for general Public Comment at the beginning of the meeting and a opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each comment is limited to three minutes. For those attending remotely, the commission will hear up to 20 minutes of Public Comment total for each item because of the 20minute time limit it is possible not every person in the queue will have a opportunity to provide remote Public Comment. Remote Public Comment from those who received accommodation due to disability will not count towards the 20 minute limit. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by video or callin. For each item the commission will take Public Comment first from people attending in person and then people attending