Commissioners will participate in the meeting remotely to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item. Cachannel 26 andsfgovtv will st. Comments will be available by calling 18882045984. Dial the access code 3501008. Then press pound and press pound again. When you are connected, dial 1 and 0 to be adde added to the qo speak. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. Everyone should account for time delays and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streaming. Best practice call from quiet location, speak slowly and turndown your television or radio. You may have submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email me. If you submit via email it will be in the legislative file as part of the matter. Written comments may be sent through the u. S. Post office to city hall. 1 Carleton Place room 244, San Francisco, california 94102. That concludes my remarks. Thank you very much. Can you please call item 1. Would you like me to call the roll first . Yes, please. Chairperson fewer. Present. Commissioner pollock. Here. Commissioner haney. Present. Commissioner mar. Not present. Commissioner singh. Present. Madam chair, you have a quorum. Thank you. Can you please call item 2. Approve of the lafco minutes from the february 21, 2020 meeting. Are there any callers for this item . Press one and zero now to be added to the list. Checking our Public Comment. Is there anyone in the list . No caller to speak. Public comment is closed. Would someone like to make a motion to approve the lafco minutes from the meeting of february 21, 2020. So moved. Second. Roll call vote, please. On the motion to approve the minutes. Commissioner fewer. Aye. Commissioner pollock. Aye. Commissioner haney. Aye. Commissioner maris absent. You have three ayes. Item 3 Community Companies activities report. Thank you very much. We asked mr. Hyams to present on covid19 on clean power sf. He is klein joining joining us today. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Great. Once again. I am the director of clean powers sf for the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. I want to say i hope everyone is healthy and safe and remain that way as we navigate through this challenging pendemic. As the commissioner mentioned the executive officer asked me for a short update how the clean power sf program is giving given Current Events around covid19. Clean power sf is fully operational. Our Electricity Service will not be impacted by covid19. We recognize that the Society Response has required sacrifice and many members of the community are facing economic hardship. I wanted to take this moment to emphasize we are here to help our community. We have created a covid19 information page on our website. We continue to update this page with the latest information on covid19 response and support service as it relates to clean power sf elect service. You can find it at our website. In addition to making sure that we are communicating efficiently with our members of the community and customers, a number of measures have been taken by the city and county and the state of california to ensure that electricity customers have access to electric service. First, if a customer is unable to pay the electricity bill, power will not be shut off. This is part of the emergency proclamation of march 13th and the governors executive order of march 16th. Pursuant to the emergenc emerger payment delinquency. Flexible payment plans are also available to support clean power sf customers. Customers interested in more information can find that on our website at the page i mentioned before. Pg e is providing Additional Support to medical baseline customers for the next 12 months starting as of the beginning of march. That Additional Support includes suspending all customer removals from the medical Baseline Program. Customers will also be able to recertify excuse me. Not need to recertify eligible through a doctor or other eligible medical professional during this period of time. Customers will be able to selfcertify eligibility to enroll in the medical Baseline Program. For information the medical Baseline Program increases the allotment of Energy Available at the lowest price to qualifying customers. If any members of the public are interested in applying for this program they can find more information on our website. Some customers may qualify for monthly discounts on electricity bills through the california alternate rates for energy or care program. Under care qualifying households save 20 or more each month on the energy bills. The public and members of customers can obtain information on the website about eligibility in this program. Finally, i wanted to highlight clean power sf customers will receive a 35. 73 credit and 17. 87 on their may and june bills respectively under the california climate credit program. This Program Provides credit to Customers Using revenues from the state of california Greenhouse Gas cap and trade program. To help with the Economic Impact of the covid19 response, the second of the two credits which is for october each year is provided this year in may and june. The october amount is split 50 50 across the months of may and june. That is where the 17. 87 comes from. Shifting gears to our staffing and operations. Our staff is now mostly working remotely with only Staff Members reporting to the Head Quarters to support department mental Emergency Operations or complete tasks that must be done there. For example, receiving mail and sorting and distributing it. Staff are reporting to the office or Field Operations are following personal safety and using protective equipment. On the power supply side. We have had no problems with our supply of power or our solvers ability to operate. However, shelterinplace has impacted construction schedules and disrupted disapply chains for supply chains for new development. We are in communication with clean power sf. I am happy to report that neither of the two projects under construction this year have reported delays. These projects are expected to begin operations and deliver the power in september and december of this year respectively. On the demand side of our business, as you might expect, the shelterinplace order was issued on march 17. We have seen a reduction in clean power surge of 7 to 9 relative to preshelterinplace usage. As for the specific customer groups, we are seeing trends similar to what other Community ChoiceEnergy Programs in the bay area are also reporting. With most households in place we have seen an increase in residential customer usage of about 12 , and with only essential businesses open we have seen when a 20 to 25 decrease in nonresidential customer usage. We will be tipping to track and analyze the customer usage and demand to understand the impact to our business and also to individual customer groups and will share further information as it becomes available. That concludes my prepared remarks for the meeting. I am happy to take questions from the commissioners. Thank you very much. Commissioners, any comments or questions . I see commissioner marhas joined us. Any comments or questions for mr. Hyams . Seeing none, i have a question. I will go after you. Thank you. Please go ahead. Thank you so much for the report. One of my questions had to do with whether or not customers would be sent back to pg e for nonpayment. I am pleased to hear that clean power sf has decided to take the stance of not returning customers to pg e and no shutoffs. That is all good news. I wanted to ask the decrease in usage. What do you attribute that to or do you . Yes, the principal thing that i attribute it to is some businesses are closed. All nonessential businesses are closed for the time being. Just the reduced traffic in our Office Buildings and other businesses throughout the city as a result of the shelterinplace. The figures that i shared, we are seeing a pretty significant reduction in commercial customer or nonresidential usage as high as quarter of normal usage has disappeared. As we know, people are working from home. We have seen residential usage increase. It hasnt compensated one for one. There is more commercial demand reduction than residential demand growth. That makes sense. I wanted to ask not included in your report is there a Recovery Plan . Do you know in the city or if you have a sense of how economically we recover from covid19 . Is there something built in, you know, future planning for Recovery Period whenever that should be . I think that planning work is being under taken right now as we speak. I think that we are coordinating clean power sf Recovery Planning with sfp citywide planning. That is coordinating with the city and mayors office. I know the regular budget process is suspended for the year so there is work done to forecast the expected impacts on the economy and what that might mean for the budget. We are similarly making our own sort of projections as we get what have been sort of realtime information about changes in our customers usage. The big challenge, of course, is uncertainty. We know what demand is now under shelterinplace, but shelterinplace will, we expect, be lifted in some way over time. We will start to see people go bacback to work in some form or fashion. From a clean power sf standpoint we do expect that demand will start to pick back up to normal levels. We just dont know if it will go all of the way given the Economic Impacts and what the pace of recovery will be. I know that doesnt directly answer be your question. I think the direct answer is we are working on plans right now, and we are also still trying to understand the magnitude of the impact that we will see as a result. Are the plans connected to the irp and capital plans . Absolutely. Our budget in capital planner are connected. Those will be going together to the board of supervisors for approval, my understanding as of now that will be late summer or early fall, but i imagine there will be more information on that coming fairly soon. We are looking at what those impacts may be or what the impacts may be to those plans. We will have more information soon. I dont have any at this point in time to share any new updates. I read that the irp was delayed from may to july. Do you think it will be pushed out . I do have news on that. It has been postponed by the california p. U. C. From july to september. We continue to work on our power irp, integrated resource plan. A really big challenge we faced has been uncertainty around what the california Public Utilities commission is requiring of us. There was a decision voted out by the california p. U. C. A couple weeks ago that set in place the more or less final direction for the i rp. That decision extended the due date from july to september. It also identified midmay delivery of final guidelines from the california p. U. C. Energy division staff. Those final guidelines will shape what we will need to submit to the california p. U. C. In the meantime we are getting ready to quickly do analysis, modeling work after that time and prepare a report to the stakeholders and run through the approval process. Commissioner maxwell had asked about who was present for the roundtable in terms of the irp process, meeting with stakeholders. I know that is probably delayed as well starting in february and everything hit and is pushed out andy layed. Do you know if you will be inviting some of the lafco stakeholders like 350 bay area and seand those groups to the rd tables . They are on the invitee list. We have delayed that engagement on when that is going to happen. I am happy to share more information as it becomes available. I am also happy to share through the executive office our stakeholder list. That would be great. If mr. Gobbel could be brought in. I dont know if it started in february due to all of the shifting priorities, but if he could be brought in to identify the lafco stakeholders to be included and have those stakeholders and mr. Gobble be included in the report review early to report out to lafco after your commission has been updated. Yes, absolutely. That is wonderful. Thank you. I know that i was on Maternity Leave in january. I know that the build out plan agenda item was continued to the call of the chair. You know, those items are tied together, obviously. When you start to do that Recovery Planning and the irp and how that looks and i think i would be interested to know if part of the Recovery Plan includes making some of those sites identified as a better site, if those might be shovel ready as part of the Recovery Plan. I am not asking the question now. I realize you are sort of on the spot and things are shifting and moving and pushed out. When the item is called again, i would be interested in hearing how that dovetails with recovery from covid19. I know there is talk of getting the country back to work and those are essential jobs. That would be wonderful to be able to work, especially with building and trades and construction and electrical workers, just howther work within the city and that whole process. That would be great to sort of include in your report out on that. That concludes my questions. Thank you so much. Thank you. Any other questions or comments . Seeing none. I have a couple questions. The relief measures. What are we doing proactively to let customers know there are these things available to them . Are we instead of asking them to look it up, are we putting things in mailings, sending emails out to Customer Base to let them know about not forgiveness but these efforts . We have not well, we have not been using physical mailinglers yet. Although i will take that suggestion back, commissioner. We have been prepared a newsletter electronic newsletter to distribute. These opportunities will feature prominently in that communication. We are also using or intend to use social media messaging to try to direct some traffic to our website so people know it is available. You bring up a good point about making sure that folks know where they can get information to provide assistance. Of course, we are arming our call center with this information. If our customers reach out to our call center looking for assistance, they will be able to get that information through the call center as well. I will take back this idea potentially for proactive physical mailinglers to direct attention to assistance measures. Also, are we contacting any sf media to make sure the nonenglish speaking customers are aware of these relief efforts available to them . I will follow up on that as well. The status of our media coordination. I have heard from the chinese folks that they arent reading newspapers but they are on the radio and, of course, seeing ads and Public Service announcements on television. Television viewing has gone up dramatically. You might do a public announcement on the ethnic media. I think a lot of customers who may need these relief packages or opportunities might be the nonenglish speaking customers. Yes, thank you very much. I will definitely take that back. Those are great suggestions. Thank you very much. No commissioners, no comments or questions . Anyone who would like to comment on item 3, please get in the queue and press 10. Could you please check to see if there are any speakers waiting. There are no callers wishing to speak. Thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. We dont need action on this item. It is informational. Madam clerk please call item 4. Item 4. Consideration and approval of the proposed lafco budget for fiscal year 20202021. If there are any members of the public to speak please press 1 and 0 now. Bryan goebel, i believe you have a presentation. I do, thank you madam chair and good morning, commissioners. I hope you are coping well during this crisis. Thank you for your leadership right now. I do have a presentation this morning on the lafco budget. Today i am proposing a status quo budget that is based on the latest city projections of a growing deficit. The status quo budget we are required to pass a budget, a draft budget by may 1st and final budget by june 15th. The budget i bring you today includes no increase in the amount requested from the city. It maintains the level of funding the city is required by state law to provide from the general fund. It is the same amount provided to lafco over the past 10 years. This slide is our work order balance with the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission for lafcos oversight of clean power sf. It outlines the balance through the years and the current fiscal year. We have spent minimal funds. We spent to pay interns and Research Associates like mr. Parsons who produced the report. We will be ending this fiscal year with a balance close to 200,000. We are very close to bringing on a consultant to help us with oversight. In fact, that r. F. Q. Process is wrapping up. I hope to bring a recommendation for a consultant to you at our may 15th meeting. This will be providing expertise for oversight of clean power sf and help us analyze the local buildout report that you heard in january, and also providing feedback on the capital plan and the irp as discussed earlier. The process was disrupted because of the crisis. Under your direction, i do anticipate a lot of work on clean power sf in the next fiscal year. This shows the amount of funds lafco was able to raise this fiscal year for the survey of on de