I will ka call the meeting to order. Secretary, please call the roll. roll call . President torres . Here. Vicepresident courtney, commissioner caen, commissioner moran, and we have a quorum the first item is to make announcement that Public Comment on all presentations before the commission will be limited to two minutes since we have so many people that want to testify on a number of issues, so i wanted to make sure everyone knew that. Approval of the minutes. Ill move approval. Alright. Everybody signify by saying aye. Sorry, Public Comment on the minutes. There being none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Public comments . And the first person i always have on the list is the honorable francisco tacosta. Welcome. Commissioners, my name is francisco decosta and you know i come here from time to time to address you on the certain pertinent issues. Commissioners, many years ago, i was appointed by the first people of this area to address the issues on things like the in
[speaker not understood] the secondlargest owner of land in california or something [multiple voices] quoin i dont know its quite that. Noe there is lots of land here. ~ yes, there are cityowned sites that are suitable for solar projects. Were also looking one type of project i really like is inconduit hydro. We can develop bucket 1 resources within our existing water system. Its inexpensive and environmentally friendly. Do you have numbers on how much that could provide . Yes. I dont have them on the tip of my tongue, but weve done some studies on how much we could do with the existing hetch hetchy system. Could you are those available to share with us . Yes. And have you also done studies on how much power could be produced on cityowned land outside of sort of the run of conduit projects . Yes. And, so, you could also share those with us . I believe so. Great. I think that would be tremendously helpful because those i see no reason why those projects, for instance, couldnt be started
Would be fantastic. [speaker not understood] in San Francisco . It wouldnt be ambitious. It wouldnt be as cheap as the power we could get from solar produced in the desert or hydro produced in yosemite. That would be rooftop or that would also include the airport and stuff like that . It would include all kinds of sites. The larger the site the more costeffective it is of course. There are lots of creative financing and leasing and aggregating models with different businesses, solar businesses have been developing that we can take advantage of. And have you guys done any studies on deploying renewables in city and land outside of the city . Yes, there are some states [speaker not understood] the secondlargest owner of land in california or something [multiple voices] quoin i dont know its quite that. Noe there is lots of land here. ~ yes, there are cityowned sites that are suitable for solar projects. Were also looking one type of project i really like is inconduit hydro. We can develo
Studies on deploying renewables in city and land outside of the city . Yes, there are some states [speaker not understood] the secondlargest owner of land in california or something [multiple voices] quoin i dont know its quite that. Noe there is lots of land here. ~ yes, there are cityowned sites that are suitable for solar projects. Were also looking one type of project i really like is inconduit hydro. We can develop bucket 1 resources within our existing water system. Its inexpensive and environmentally friendly. Do you have numbers on how much that could provide . Yes. I dont have them on the tip of my tongue, but weve done some studies on how much we could do with the existing hetch hetchy system. Could you are those available to share with us . Yes. And have you also done studies on how much power could be produced on cityowned land outside of sort of the run of conduit projects . Yes. And, so, you could also share those with us . I believe so. Great. I think that would be treme
Approval of the minutes. Ill move approval. Alright. Everybody signify by saying aye. Sorry, Public Comment on the minutes. There being none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Public comments . And the first person i always have on the list is the honorable francisco tacosta. Welcome. Commissioners, my name is Francisco Decosta and you know i come here from time to time to address you on the certain pertinent issues. Commissioners, many years ago, i was appointed by the first people of this area to address the issues on things like the infrastructure resources, disclosure and so on and so forth. Today, you will see many people come out of the woodwork to address about our resources. The paradoxes, these are the same people that raped this land and way back in 1913, if you read the record act, this city and certain legislators took the right direction by opting and going for and financing clean power, what we call hydro electricity, so you will see today many people come o