and while we should not be an island grid, storage is essential especially with these fires that are going on that can be problematic for transmission lines that serve our great city. so, seeing we re a densely packed city, we should put batteries in and solar panels to help and be able to ride through difficult times as well as be able to store electricity that you can purchase in the overnight when it is inexpensive and send it out to the grid for our customers when market electricity is much more expensive. so continue the acquisition of renewables as we work toward a 100% renewable power, all electric san francisco and keeping the value proposition commercial utility power. thank you. thank you, caller. next caller commenting on item number 4, you have two minutes. thank you very much. good afternoon, president caen, member of the commission, protection alliance. i ll speak further about the peer review that mr. nelson and the other caller discussed. i think they ve g
president caen? here. vice president vietor: here. commissioner moran: here. commissioner maxwell: here. commissioner paulson: here. and we have a quorum. president caen: good. will you please read the announcement? during the covid-19 health emergency and given the public health recommendations issued by the san francisco department of public health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. this meeting is held via teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. for those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. on behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i.t. staff for their assistance during this meeting. if you wish to make two minutes of public comment on an item, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 146 087 5808, pound, pound. and star 3 to speak. i m going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if
please press star 3 to be added to the public comment queue. you will have three minutes to provide public comment and six minutes if you re online with an interpreter. you will hear a bell go off when you have 30 seconds remaining. please standby. once again, if you have joined this meeting, we are currently on agenda item 7. discussion of monthly staff enforcement report. you will have three minutes to provide public comment and six minutes if you re online with an interpreter. there are no more callers. chair ambrose: public comment is closed. thank you mr. pierce. i will call agenda item 8. discussion of executive director s report an update of various programmatic and operational highlights of ethics commission. that will be executive director pelham presentation. thank you. thank you chair ambrose. i won t recap the budget information i highlighted here in case this is where people look for the budget updates. there s some information there. quick update on the publ
commissioner moran: here. commissioner maxwell: here. commissioner paulson: here. and we have a quorum. president caen: good. will you please read the announcement? during the covid-19 health emergency and given the public health recommendations issued by the san francisco department of public health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. this meeting is held via teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. for those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. on behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i.t. staff for their assistance during this meeting. if you wish to make two minutes of public comment on an item, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 146 087 5808, pound, pound. and star 3 to speak. i m going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if they have not already done so. madame president, the f
teleconference. this meeting is held via teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. for those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. on behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i.t. staff for their assistance during this meeting. if you wish to make two minutes of public comment on an item, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 146 087 5808, pound, pound. and star 3 to speak. i m going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if they have not already done so. madame president, the first order of business is item 3, approval of the minutes of august 25, 2020. president caen: commissioners, before you you have the minutes of august 25, 2020. are there any additions or corrections? seeing none, madame secretary, could you open it to public comment. secretary: members of the public who wish to make two minutes of public comment on item