A corporation that is just for profit, felon, and has broken the agreement for over 100 years. As a part of extinction rebellion, we are extremely excited about this move forward that we can really have a public system that is for clean power. No more nuclear, all of those things are gone. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Its wonderful to appreciate what our representatives are doing in this way. Supervisor peskin thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. Eric brooks with californians for energy choice, San Francisco green parties and the local grassroots organization. It would clearly be better for this city if we had public power. Some folks might remember back in the day, the San Francisco guardian did a study that showed we would get 200 million more per year, by not throwing money at pg e. With that said, weve got to be mindful that we are in a climate crisis. Getting a bunch of extra money every year does not necessarily solve that. Los angeles, the biggest public utility is dismal on Renewable Energy. Sacramento, one of the best leaders on Renewable Energy is not doing as well as a Community Choice programs. What that means is that we must have mandates. Whatever we passed here or at the ballot, that we have 100 local Renewable Energy master plan baked into that thing, like the document i sent to you, that showed you sydney, australias master plan. That is number if it doesnt have that, climate activists will not support that, especially community activists. All we need is a democratic electric elected board. Most consumer advocate are going to be deeply concerned about another agency that is ran by five people appointed by the mayor. Whether the mayor is good or bad is not the issue. We need democratically elected representation. That means we need to set up municipally elected board for this thing. Lastly, we wont even get a chance at this unless we amend ab 1054, and ab 11 that just passed in San Francisco. It makes it much more difficult for us to get public power. Those of us that are advocating need your help to push for those amendments and in sacramento, next month or next year. To end, with regard to ab 1054, this board is on the record and very clear, i think we indicated that we would oppose it if it was not amended, and indeed we opposed it. Next speaker, please. I am robin david, i am a retiree, i am retired from ibew 1245. I was also very active in the 2,001 campaign for public power. I am extremely designed delighted and excited that the seeds we planted in 2,001 are beginning to bear fruit. It is important to note, that not only this report, to my knowledge is secondhand, but as i understand it, not only does it take note of the fact that public power is concerned with the environment, but its also concerned with rates that are at least as good as better, and better than pg e. I would like to specifically address two issues. The first issue is that adopting this reports, and going through the whole process, is not the end, but the beginning of a very long process. When sacramento voted to institute smiled, pg e dragged on the battle for 22 years if memory serves correctly before smud was established. We have to be aware that we are in for an expensive battle, and be proud paired politically prepared politically and financially for a period the second issue, the report takes up the transition of the pg e labor force into the city workforce. In 2001, the labor moved in on the whole, was very much behind public power. The city union, the biggest local, and lead was chomping at the bit and salivating over the pg e workforce. Supervisor peskin wait one second. Number one, its good to see you after all of these years. Your time has expired, i would like to ask you a question about pg e, the city, and the workforce . Go ahead. Okay. Its a very important, despite whatever connection supervisors have to the city union that the pg e workforce remain a 1245 bargaining unit. A unit that has use to working together, without a lot of divisions, craft, trade and department. Whatever divisions come up are settled within the union, rather than dragging city officials, and managers into it. I think also, from a political point of view the city unions have nothing necessarily to gain out of this. 1245 has significant to lose. If they face losing it they become a formidable enemy, as they have been in every effort for public power since 2,001. I think it is very important that not only did the transition be smooth and generalized way, but that it remains a 1245 bargaining unit. Supervisor peskin thank you for those comments. Ms. Hale, i suggest you might talk to mr. David. Good to see you again. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors, a Community Organizer with the sierra club. The sierra club supports the takeover of pg e infrastructure, only if the city would commit to dramatically increasing the local build up pace since the new Renewable Energy, and efficiency upgrades. We urge that San Francisco makes the creation of new Renewable Energy resources part of the takeover proposal. Thank you for the opportunity to comment. Supervisor peskin thank you, next speaker, please. Thank you. Senior policy analyst for 350 bay area. It is surreal to be having this conversation having voted on public power every chance i have had since 1999. The whole city family is isnt working together towards this, and having reviewed the preliminary report, have thank you very much for the analysis. The quality of pg es infrastructure, as ms. Hale mentioned, looking at a deeper analysis on the quality of the infrastructure. I know none of us want to spend billions of dollars on a lemon, or infrastructure that will immediately require huge Capital Investments on top of the bio. To that point because, it was mentioned that the buyout would cost a few billion dollars. I just want to highlight, since 2013, advocates for Community Choice on Renewable Energy have been pushing for a citywide local build outs of, efficiency and demand response that was originally estimated at 100 million per year for ten years. Which adds up to 1 billion area that got laughed out of the room, every single time it was mentioned. That would have resulted in 50 local Renewable Energy, and 50 nonrenewable local energy for 1 billion. Estimated. The idea that we would be buying potentially faulty, and garbage infrastructure for a few billion dollars while i am not opposed to that, i think we need to put into perspective, what we would consider spending money on what is considered a laughable idea. Lastly, we really do need some kind of public oversight, besides a an to appoint a board if to have a system like this. That was mentioned before. I want to back up supervisor haney that we want to see governance change. Supervisor peskin thank you, next speaker, please. First of all, youre not going to get first dibs on becoming an owner of equipment of pg e. Pg e owns their Insurance Companies multi quadruple billions of dollars, is that clear . That is why they might want our money . No, the persons in the Insurance Companies get first dibs at the property. The best way to take care of this problem, yall ready you all are ready on the right track, you have to build your own system to distribute your own electricity to the city and county of San Francisco. Get rid of pg e altogether. How many more examples do you need to demonstrate that pg e is not dealing in good faith, and by the same response never had intentions of reaching a legal agreement on this matter. About this contract agreement that you referred to, in may, if that contract was signed by pg e and they made a deal with the city, that is a breach of contract. If they pulled out and did not keep up their end of the bargain, understand me. That is an additional lawsuit that should be filed against pg e. Pg e has been busted by investigator that showed that well over several years ago they were told about their defective equipment and the electrical wires, and the electrical poles could cause a fire hazard. They did not do a damn thing about it. That is further proof. A minimum of 89 people have lost their lives in that fire, that took place, on the other side of the bay. Its disgusting. About you, talking about you want to take over their system, and their defaulted equipment is a waste of money. You can start by going and gathering god damn new semi get that 21 billion that he put in, and stop rebuilding and build your own system to distribute electricity that you already didnt it demonstrated that you can generate on your own behalf. Also, sorry. Your time is up. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors, i am a resident of district one. I am also an electrical engineer, retired, a graduate of davis and berkeley. I think i am probably the only engineer, graduate engineer in this room, of the presenters we saw today. I appreciate, mr. Peskin, you are a person with with attention to detail. That is what engineers do. Supervisor peskin i think the general manager of our puc is an engineer, but go ahead. Many people who talk about being an engineer, there are many with different flavors. My degree is in Electrical Engineering specifically. I wanted to speak to the risks, and challenges, little bit and say am probably in favor of the option that nobody wants. One of the things pg e has now is what they call a scale. The city will lose some of that. It costs that the city wont increase almost certain because of that. Im not going to go into details, but i think you understand what the scale is. Things like distribution facilities, maintenance facilities, all of the things that needed for infrastructure to support the operation are distributed along its territory and can be shared within the territory. We will lose out in San Francisco. Supervisor peskin we have some of that upcountry. May be some, not all. Not to the extent that pg e in terms of responding to largescale things like how many power lines down. Im not going to get enough time to speak. In terms of the cost, we just talked about the park escalator canopies, and the unexpected high cost, and that is typical. It is a very common thing. Im not going to go into that any further. Finally, about the employees, it has been reported the employees already saying if theyre only in San Francisco they will lose the ability to transfer out. They will be competing with tech employees for their salaries. Supervisor peskin thank you. No, sir. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this informational hearing . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Ms. Hale, general manager kelly, godspeed. Any additional comments from Committee Members . We will be hearing from you quarterly about the red, yellow and green lights of which i think around that long list you last furnished us which was pages long. Everything else was predominantly red, little bit yellow. If anybody out there, from pg e is watching and they have legions of lobbyists, Governmental Affairs people, would you at least be decent to the city on that issue. This is amounting to extortion. This has nothing to do with the rest of the conversation we are having. Why dont you stop that nonsense with that. We are adjourned. Clerk is there a motion on the item . We will continue the item. My name is naomi kelly the singlestory for the 775 i started with the city and county in 1996 working for the newly elected mayor willie brown, jr. Not only the chief of staff a woman but many policy advisors that were advising him everyday their supportive and nourished and sponsored United States and excited about the future. My name is is jack listen and the executive director of a Phil Randolph institution our goal to have two pathways to sustaining a family here in San Francisco and your union jobs are stroen to do that i have this huge way to work with the Community Members and i think i found my calling i started in 1996 working for willie brown, jr. I worked in hes Mayors Office of housing in the western edition and left 3 years went to law school of San FranciscoState University and mayor brown asked me to be the director of the Taxicab Commission and through the process i very much card by the contracting process and asked me townhouse the city purchaser and worked with me and i became the deputy administrator and. Having trouble struggling to make ends meet folks will not understand what importance of voting is so we decided to develop our Workforce Development services after a couple of years offering pathways to sustainable jobs. clapping. weve gotten to a place to have the folks come back and have the discussion even if participation and makes sense we do Public Services but we also really build Strong Communities when i started this job my sons were 2 and 5 now 9 and 6 i think so the need to be able to take a call from the principal of school i think that brings a whole new appreciation to being understanding of the work life balance. clapping. i have a very good team around me were leader in the country when it comes to paid and retail and furiously the affordablecare act passed by 3079 we were did leaders for the healthcare and were in support of of the women and support. In my industry i feel that is male dominated a huge struggle to get my foot in the door and i feel as though that definitely needs to change this year needs to be more opportunities for i dont know women to do what tell me dream i feel that is important for us to create a in fact, network of support to young people young women can further their dreams and most interested in making sure they have the full and whatever they need to make that achieveable. Education is important i releases it at my time of san mateo high ii come back to the university of San Francisco law school and the fact i passed the bar will open up many more doors because i feel a curve ball or an where you can in the way cant get down why is this in my way we have to figure out a solution how to move forward we cant let adversity throw in th all right. Good morning, everybody. Is this working . What a Beautiful Day in San Francisco. You know, if you go to city hall, it is so packed. Everybody is celebrating 88. Were here and going to be celebrating this new project. I am the director of public works here at the city of San Francisco. I want to thank you all for coming out our chief and mayor for coming to celebrate this milestone. This facility will be a facility that will serve our First Responders and we are very excited about it. Just last week around the corner we celebrated the new deployment facility and that is a project that will be completed in 2021. That project also is going really well. Then today we are celebrating another Capital Infrastructure project here in the bayview. This job is not only about serving our First Responders, but will also give a lot of people from the community jobs. It will be able to give a lot of our contractors an opportunity to participate in bringing supplies. Of course make our city more resilient. Its also been one of several projects that the southeast sector of our city has been benefitting from. Just in the last two years or so we finished the medical examiners building, the two shops for large and small vehicles are right around the corner. Coming up soon is the new Southeast Community center. So a lot of good opportunities here, and its great that the partnership that we have with all the contractors and all the city departments, that were all working together to really improve San Francisco. As you all know, today is very, very special because its the Traffic Company and Forensic Services division that will be in this site. The building itself is going to be over 100,000 square feet and 100,000 square feet is huge. Its two storeys as you can see. More than three quarters of this lot will be a building with a twostorey building. Were invited about that. Inside the building will be many labs that would be used to help solve crimes. Also our Motorcycle Police department, they will have their vehicles here but well also have offices for them so that they can do their administrative duties, which is highly essential because now theyre spread all over the place. This building will change that. This building will also be a hightech building. Our crews have been working very hard. As you see this pile of dirt behind us, right after this ground breaking, next week well be levelling it out. All that dirt actually is going to be on site here. This area is a little bit of a low land, so were going to be increasing it by 2 or 3 feet high. So were keeping the dirt. Were recycling. As you know, our city leads the nation in recycling. Were following a lot of the building technologies. With that said, the team that has been working on this, i would like to say a huge thanks to clark construction, our architects, h. O. K. And m. I. I. Have been on this contract. Some of our subcontractors, i just want to say thank you because this new facility will make San Francisco much safer and put us into the 21st century building. Isnt that a great oppor