Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
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Look on those who joined us on our heritage. Org website as well as those joining us on the cspan network. For those in house we ask the courtesy to see the mobile devices have been silenced or turned off to avoid any unnecessary distractions. For those online youre welcome to send questions or, at any time by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Will post the program on the heritage homepage for your future reference following the presentation straight. Leading our discussion i want from our guest is fred rico, fred is a policy analyst for defense budgeting in the center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation. Please welcome fred. [applause] think everyone for making the time to come here in this first day of congress being back into which i assume is busy for everyone. First, i will introduce her guest and then explain that if youre here by accident and dont know what this is, i will give you a twominute introduction to make sure the audience knows as well while talking of the
Potentially at the board . Are there any other approvals to allow us to be able to go and do this Feasibility Study . [multiple voices] i would have to yield to the City Attorney or to the city process because as a lafco representative, i dont represent the city on this step. I would yield to them to say what the process is. My understanding is this would go through the board process. Depending how many votes it gets, the mayors approval or not approval, that would be the [speaker not understood]. It would still have to come bag before any program is launched. [speaker not understood]. It would go through the board and the sfpuc would have to at that point both agree to do moving a Program Forward if we were to go down this model. But the Feasibility Study would give us an idea of what it would take to actually do that. Umhm. And so, then, in terms of the marin side, was there any sort of approval that has to take place on their part for us to be able to do the Feasibility Study . I wo
Im also an environmental scientist. Im frustrate that had ive lived here since 1999 and ive heard about cleanpowersf for i believe 10 years now and that we still dont see a Clean Energy Program in the city. So, im very glad to see the board looking at pursuing all means of moving this program forward. Clearly we need to offer power to San Francisco citizens that is cleaner than pg e at the same price or cheaper and marin has shown that thats imminently possible. However, San Franciscos program has long had a primacy on new generation and local generation. So, i think as we go forward, we just want to ensure that San Francisco has local control of the parameter of our program so that we can accrue the cobenefits like thousands of local jobs that we have seen from previous planning documents. Particularly in light of the legislation which president chiu just pushed forward in the previous item, as you are funding strategy for the next five years, a coherent plan for all workforce service