Transcripts For SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 8916 20160

Transcripts For SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 8916 20160822

Good afternoon, commissioners ive come here before you before and asked for a report on a number of things that effect our community id like one page report on the following what exactly has the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to address lead in the water linked to Public Housing a paragraph on what is intention of the commission the mayor, and the Southeast Community facility commissioners linked to the building your short term goals and long term goals i would ask to have an understanding how the Public Utilities commission understands the demographics of southeast sector i want your understanding so i can reveal to you what i know great ground zero i widow did signed project agreement between local 261 and i believe the city the mayor was there and other socalled dignitaries and always the public is left out i want on understanding why it is we had the first label agreement with local 261 with the water system Improvement Project which was a long term known as is water system improvement the one water water system improvements and sewer system improvements and this commission not all of you all but one who can be a whiff witness to what i say they decided to go with the water system project and now the sewer system improvements over 6 billion project with the local 261 and im kind of confused if that so much stipulated a lot of Mechanical Engineering how that that you may have a reason some of i live in parenthesis call you genius but present to the public what exactly is happening with the second project agreement i have 3 seconds thank you for your time. Thank you i have another card from deless than hello good afternoon. Good afternoon commissioner im from abrogate line a nonprofit in San Francisco im here putting together a sustainability from it in the hunters. 0 on wednesday, september 67 from 11 to 4 00 p. M. With length officials and other Key Stakeholders to talk about the workforce issues in the neighborhood and so far we have 6 nonprofits and Service Providers to sign on as partners with the Mission Hiring Hall and the asian neighborhood designs and Young Community developers and the Salvation Army Community Facility and the summit will be on the southeast facility and bayview Hunters Point as we look to heathen the community the Assembly Member david chiu is to speak and love the sfpuc to be involved in the endeavor a great opportunity to bring visibility to our workforce in the southeast sector of the city if you have any questions you can contact me or eddy at bridled line thank you send the information to the secretary and thank you very much. Any other general Public Comment on items not on the agenda today hearing none next item. Communications. You should have before you the Communications Items a there g any questions or comments from the commission yes. I wanted to address first of all, the real estate update it is excellent and nice to get the update we dont have to think about it in our heads you read that that i appreciate it it caught any attention what the poll circulations that we have we have so many pending and wondering why that is the cased as opposed to to having them in actually outlet. Thank you barbara hale for power the system Licensing Agreements we have involve the licensed and others working before the licenses and transactions that are complete so i think what youre seeing is evidence of that work effort that it takes time as part of the progress yes. Thank you i was curious. I have another comment. Yes. Please the peninsula water shed recreation improvements this used to be a great discussion for us many years ago and i dont think we have discussed this in meeting correct me if i am wrong but i think that should come before the commission i know that read back the material is pending and not going to be perhaps for another year id like to request that before anything it done it comes before the commission. Thank you good suggestion. Any other commission comments any Public Comment on communications . Haggle next item. Please. Item 6 is other Commission Business with the recognition of well, its my great privilege to honor her on behalf of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission after 10 Year Anniversary of the a. D. Park so if youll come up here please isabel. clapping. do you know i have talking points but looking at the resolution it is wonderfully crafted and reflects everything youve done and brought to the Farming Community and the city of San Francisco but ill go ahead and read the resolution if this is okay. Thank you. Whereas is a bela driving force in the Food Movement for decades and whereas is a bell has for over 25 years and whereas her work as a project developer has brought together the go healthy local good and agricultural in the bay area and beyond and whereas it was her vision as a founder the urban education about the ashen that gave rise to the Farmers Market in 1992 and called upon the city to embrace the connection to the food and whereas her automatic stage in 2006 whos primarily mission for the agricultural where farming can thiefl and be celebrated on the same page 0 entered into an agreement to lease 18 acres of land near the temple known as the a. D. Park an organic farm that promotes the agriculture protects Natural Resources in the water shed and communitybased organizations as well as businesses Civic Leaders established to advise on achieving the goals of the academy and whereas supported the work and education and farming as well as the farming operations the conserve the following organic practices and whereas the park has held 21 farming accusations that grown 20 crops in any given year and whereas 2006 the park farms are two tons of produce and crops that was donated and whereas in partnership with the sfpuc on the same page developed education of over 72 hundred students about the history of stewardship and protection of our water sheds whereas nearly of thousand Community Members participated in the a. D. Park including job training for youth and volunteer opportunity for Community Members and workshops whereas the president of on the same page is a bell has the linkages for the agricultural 9 to 5 now therefore, be it resolved that the sfpuc hereby celebrates the 10 Year Anniversary of the park and be it therefore resolved that the sfpuc horns the tireless work of her and her contributions to the park and the Food Community in general and therefore, be it resolved that the sfpuc recognizes her efforts to promote the urban u urban agriculture and help the children about the farming and making connections to Agricultural Land and be it therefore resolved the sfugsz acknowledges her legacy will continue with the a. D. Park through the Education Program that on the same page established in partnership with the sfpuc and have become part of the foundation the proposed alameda water shed center is built congratulations and thank you so much. clapping. would you like to say a few words please. Thank you so much commissioner vietor and puc staff i appreciate this accolade and all the support and trust youve shown over the past 10 years when we came before the commission and the general manager i dont know you knew what you were getting users into and we didnt know either but you might have suspected this is a passionate project that was first brought to your attention this land and opportunity but the passionate folks from the movement and glad to say theyve been engaged in the project and seriously the sfpuc sore in the a. D. Park concept and goals they were consistent with the water shed plan and also going to help to advance the preliminary landscape sea Recreation Plan those goals as mentioned will deliver the farming and enhancement of Public Education and together we have remarkable achieved that goal as commissioner vietor outlined a few minutes with thousand of School Children and members out there and dozens of farmers that came from diverse backward and some have used the opportunity to discovery maybe they didnt want a farm thats part of value the adas park contributes and throughout the process the land is more fertile and the populations of birds and policy nartsz have thrilled many, many sfpuc staff and commissioners have helped contribute to the success over the past decades and francesca and others betsy and joe and amy and many more have many times gone out of their way to resolve the issues for the a. D. Park to become what it is today and im so happy the adas park we create out of ideas and a great opportunity has a very fertile future and delighted the adrc long partners will manage the a. D. Park in 2016 and the water shed center will think an extremely place four education for the public about the water shed and the lowell high schools and the Sustainable Agricultural and more broadly the a. D. Park is a model for public agricultural and others public land in Santa Clara County so it thank you and the residents of the community and your support. Thank you, very much. clapping. good afternoon. Thank you commissioners im mary im chair of the board of Sustainable Agricultural and education we want to commend briefly thank you and the entire puc staff for taking a risk with a small nonprofit 10 years ago and launching this amazing project i want to say a as a form director the municipal district i understand how seriously commissioners and board of directors in the wart district take their responsible about the water shed and i understand you took a huge risk steps away in Alameda Creek for the local farmg on the water shed land youve really demonstrated the forward thinking of commission and more importantly any view is expressing the best of how a local pub water agency can express its commitment to stewardship by supporting the Water Management including the local farming and benefiting the community on behalf of the entire board thank you. Really presenter you coming today. Additional Public Comments on yes mr. Da costa. For the most part let me commend sage my hope is that once tribal chairperson rosemary the ancestors minding there the Hearst Family bought a lot of land lock stock and barely with the tribal people we have recently tried to establish a relationship between the Muwekma Ohlone the first people of San Francisco who also have links with sin oil so that we can endeavor to as i said establish a relationship but also continue things that are linked to plans more home shareal plans and things like that so that we have harmony i call upon the characterize person to cack sage so many rosemary the tribal chairperson what work with them to see how she can have her own tribe to think outside the box you know commissioners as with the golf course the leads with sage, not very far away the leads with the acquire im the tribal liaison for San Francisco but correct the Empirical Data you can sit down and discuss this is a gotten opportunity to work with the Muwekma Ohlone the first people of San Francisco with real links to synol to take us to a better place thank you very much. Thank you any other general Public Comment if not id like to invite heres one more comment but like to invite mary and others first Public Comment is this on that item so if you like to come up and present you with the resolution and congratulate you in person. This way. Thank you. Sorry. Great, thank you next item. Please general manager report. Item 7 the general manager report. Good afternoon, commissioners i have a little lengthy report lets get started by giving an update of sf and barbara hale. Hi commissioners barbara hale assistant general manager for power our clean Power Services the consumers and surveying 7 three hundred actively at this point our total opt out is one. 8 percent last time one. 6 it is increased and our participation has increased to 3. 1 percent another increase those are go increases serving the customers from the third party cal pine and she low and hetch hetchy power were generating some were providing grafting water so were generating some and the cleanpowersf is benefiting meanwhile were presenting for the next enrollment our preenrollment with 4 hundred and 47 supergreen 71 supergreen sign ups and the procurement for the service for those engrossment of approximately 20 megawatts worth of customers that is our original plan and you endorsed sticking with that this is assuming staff is able to get sufficient Renewable Energy resources to meet the objectives and regulatory requirements consistent with the best practice that the Commission Adopted in december of 2015 you also authorized the general manager to negotiate and execute additional contracts for Energy Supplies to serve up to 75 megawatts of customers and finalizing a purchase in a renewable project that allows us to meet the conditions assuming we close on that deal we will precede with enforcement notification for our next enrollment of customers those 2340z will be mailed on september 13th i want to give you a headsup those 2340i6gsz will occur before by the see you that assumes were able to close the deal wear very close to closing and now talk about the sets of operating issues were addressing as we finally lists that transaction well turn our attention to two other procurement efforts to meet the regulatory requirements one is to meet a Resource Adequacy requirement we received the notification from the california Public Utilities commission what our resources for the cleanpowersf program being procurement for that probably in in conjunction with the hetch hetchy needs theyll have adequacy requirements to meet might be more costefficient for us to do one transaction that serves was protocols and the other item to meet the long Term Contracting requirement of state renewable protocol standards that requirement excuse me is a 10 year or more requirement cleanpowersf has to execute the long Term Contract by the end of this calendar year and were working together with the finance staff and at the puc and the City Attorneys Office on a long Term Contract for new Renewable Energy projects and we are also in discussion with a couple of the short listed bidders from the solicitation to meet that regulatory requirement more as our attention turns but about heads up the next issue well be talking about has we get back together in september and in addition in september well be talking about how were proposing to integrate our cleanpowersf program and the go solar were commissioner moran youve asked for that and been patient with the contractors that are active in the program weve got a lot more work to do in those conversations but ready by the september 13th meeting ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. The Resource Adequacy plan is that to make sure we have enough power to provide to the customers. The Resource Adequacy capability requirement that the state has to make sure that all entities low serving entities have enough to keep the system reliable so as theyve become more and more active low serving entities in the marketplace the california Public Utilities commission tagged their level of responsibility we got tagged wed like to meet the requirement okay thanks. Thats correct. Any other questions Public Comment on the cleanpowersf sf report next item. General manager. The next item is the session planning update juliette and to point out this is one of the actions in our Strategic Plan and this is something that is really important to the agency and so would like to definitely present all the good work as it relates to the session planning and great Juliette Ellis assistant for the affairs and glad to be here to talk about this issue that presentation i

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