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and that is it for me, mr. president. thank you. president chiu: supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you. i want to first of all thank all my colleagues for all their comments today. it has been, i think for me, as a member of this board, great to see the level of the the substantive level of discussion here, and the fact is that we, as a body, could have differences of opinion but i think that whatever happens here has been enriched by the substance of the discussion. and with respect to the amendments, i want to associate myself with the comment that supervisor cohen, who i think put it extremely well. i appreciate the intent of the first two of the amendments that were presented by supervisor chu and farrell with respect to pages 5 and 16, but i will be voting against those two amendments for the reasons that mr. harrington outlined, out of deference to him, and in their estimation their ability to make sure that this program is successful, i will respe ....
opt-out issue that we re all in agreement of. you certainly know a lot about it. this particular not situation, but this matter, i spent a significant amount of time listening to all sides of perspectives on this issue. i want to thank again all those involved in this process, even those members that have been blogging and writing about it, keeping our public informed. i believe that we have a unique conundrum here and the challenges as we address community choice aggregation. and just to put a little historical context on this conversation, historically, as you know, district 10 has been the home of our city s power plant. and as a result that, we ve suffered greatly from environmental impact from dirty power generation and that s the lens that i ve been looking through as i begin to figure out where i would be on this item. and i just wanted to highlight that we, as a city, are also encouraged public power in our new development, particularly calling out the examp ....
will consider rejecting rates that do not reflect the policies that i described. i want to mention one other clause that says, unless the s sf puc can ensure that low income customers will be offered rates similar to rates near low income customers served by pg&e puc will exclude low income customers in the initial phases of the clean power sf program. i think this really goes a long way in addressing concerns that we ve heard from our low income and monolingual communities. i have a couple of questions for mr. harrington, if i may. and by the way, i want to just thank you for your leadership on this. i know that it was probably just a year ago that you were taking heated for not moving forward the cca program fast enough. i understand in recent weeks you ve taken heat for moving the cca program too fast. so thank you for that. i also know this is your last week. and i had an opportunity some months ago to help present a lifetime achievement award to you but you ve real ....
was first discussed at the board, eight years since the board of supervisors moved forward, a desire for our city to consider this, over a year with this contract on the table. and from my perspective, i do think it is time for us to move forward. i have supported the concept of cca for the entire time i ve been in public life. but we know that there have been previous attempts to move this forward which i was not as comfortable with what we have today. i think there have been a number of changes in recent months and weeks that have made this better. first, i want to highlight what mr. harrington has stated, the fact that we are seeing potentially 10 times efficiency in how we are investing our public dollars and being able to reduce carbon emissions, that is a very notable fact. i think the fact that we are going to be providing choice to consumers, we none of us can predict exactly how this program will go but i think it will drive the market, both the private secto ....