[Sustain] Community Choice Strategy Meeting Today - City Hall North Light Court - 1:15pm

[Eric Brooks]

Hi again all,

I will be in City Hall's North Light Court (on the first floor) by 1:15 
pm today to touch base with any of you who want to strategize about 
today's LAFCo meeting on Community Choice.

peace

Eric Brooks
415-756-8844

previously I wrote:

Community Choice (the already passed project meant to get us to the 
first 51% clean energy mandate in Prop H) is suddenly in serious 
trouble. There is a crucial hearing Friday (tomorrow) and we need to 
turn core clean energy organizers out to speak at that hearing in a big way!

The short version of the problem is that the San Francisco Public 
Utilities Commission (SFPUC) has just hired an inexperienced, former 
PG&E manager (who administered PG&E's bogus 'energy efficiency' projects 
for the last three years) and who has never before overseen a major 
public works project, to direct the entire Community Choice program; and 
worse, the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) which in the past 
has been our strong ally on clean energy, may simply defer to this even 
though it has the legal power to take over the process, and it is even 
considering slowing down Community Choice overall. This could kill the 
project - most importantly by killing our chances to get Obama 
administration funding for it because it won't be in motion soon enough 
to be considered 'shovel ready'.

We need you Friday (tomorrow) at 2pm room 263 in City Hall to testify at 
the LAFCo hearing during public comment on item 5; and state to the 
LAFCo that we must stop waiting for the SFPUC to move forward with a 
Community Choice 'Program Basis Report' and Request For Proposals (RFP) 
and that the LAFCo should instead -immediately- award its own contracts 
to the -most qualified- bidder available to complete those and other 
critical tasks.

If you can attend, please call or email so I can give you more detail 
and we can coordinate.

This is a really big deal. Please do everything you can to take part.

For basic information on Community Choice go to 
http://our-city.org/campaigns/whatiscommunitychoice.html

Eric Brooks
415-756-8844

Here is the City site for the hearing details:

http://www.sfgov.org/site/lafco_page.asp?id=97002

*Special Meeting - LAFCO*

*January 23, 2009, at 2:00 p.m.*

*City Hall, Room 263*

Chairperson Mirkarimi,
Members: Commissioners Campos and Schmeltzer
Alternate: Bornstein

SPECIAL AGENDA

(There will be public comment on each item)

1. Call to Order and Roll Call

2. 
<http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/lafco/meetings/materials/012309item2.pdf> Approval 
of Minutes for December 12, 2008. (Discussion and Action Item)

3. Elections of the Chair and Vice Chair of SF LAFCO for one-year terms. 
(Discussion and Action Item)

4. 
<http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/lafco/meetings/materials/012309item4.pdf> Overview 
of SF LAFCO’s Activities for New Commission Member. (Discussion Item).

5. 
<http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/lafco/meetings/materials/012309item5.pdf> Review 
Proposals from Consultants Bidding to Perform various tasks to related 
to the Implementation of CCA plan and Authorize the Award of Contracts. 
(Discussion and Action Item)

6 Report from SFPUC on the status of CCA activities. (SFPUC Staff)

(Discussion Item)

7. 
<http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/lafco/meetings/materials/012309item7.pdf> Discussion 
of SF LAFCo’s mid-year budget. (Discussion and Possible Action Item)

8. 
<http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/lafco/meetings/materials/012309item8.pdf> Report 
on Status and Authorize the Executive Director to hire two staff 
positions for CCA Implementation, Coordination and Outreach. (Continued 
from November 21, 2008) (Discussion and Possible Action Item)

9. 
<http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/lafco/meetings/materials/012309item9.pdf> Presentation 
by Local Power of Final CCA Program Report. (Discussion and Possible 
Action item) 

10. 
<http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/lafco/meetings/materials/012309item10.pdf> Consideration 
and Approval of Contract Extension between SF LAFCO and Miller, Owen & 
Trost. (Discussion and Action Item)

11. Executive Officer Report

12. Public Comment for Items not on the Agenda

13. Future Agenda Items

14. Adjournment

    * _Items continued to the Call of the Chair

      _Report on status of SJVPA action against PG&E before the CPUC and
      denial of SFPUC petition to participate as intervenor (City Attorney)
    * Hearing on the current Mayor’s solar proposal and how or if it
      relates to the implementation of the CCA.

    * Report from SFPUC Staff regarding the Component of the Contract
      for Solar that is related to the CCA Program. (SFPUC Staff)

    * Report from SFPUC on the status of the Peaker and its contract.
      (SFPUC Staff)

    * Discussion and Direction regarding Awarding Contract to take all
      actions necessary to produce a draft RFP to solicit bids for fully
      implementing CCA. (Commissioner Bornstein)

    * Report on Status of contract with Local Power, Inc., for Analysis
      of Existing SF Energy Programs: Portion of Task 5 and/or Task 8 in
      RFQ: Draft Program Management Plan/Draft Program Report.
    * Report from SFPUC Staff on the status of the Solar Incentive
      Program. (Commissioner Bornstein)

    * Report from SFPUC on Status of hiring CCA Program Staff. (SFPUC Staff)


    * Review and Comment on CCA Brochure.
    * Potential contract for CCA tasks.

    * Report from SFPUC on Status of RFQ for Implementation of the CCA
      Program: Award of Contract. (SFPUC Staff)

    * Presentation by Local Power of Draft CCA Program Report.

-- 
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara

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