Hi all, just re-sending this as a reminder of today's and Friday's vitally important public meetings on CleanPowerSF. Note: For those interested in more info on what's going on, we are having activist strategy sessions at 3:30pm today and 1pm Friday at Celtic Coffee (near City Hall) so that we can go into the meetings well prepared for action. See directions for Celtic Coffee at: http://www.celticcoffeecompany.com/ previously I wrote: CRUCIAL CleanPowerSF, Public Meeting This Wed, May 19, 4:30pm, SFPUC, 1155 Market St, 6th Floor Hi all, First some good news. The LAFCo staff has -finally- contacted Paul Fenn and Local Power in order to hire Local Power to work on the final CleanPowerSF contract that will be made with Power Choice LLC to initiate and build the project. This is -huge- because it means we will finally have a qualified ally who we can trust -in- the contract negotiations which, up to now, have been held in secret between Power Choice and the SFPUC staff, City Attorney staff, and the LAFCo staff attorney. These closed, failed negotiations are what led to SFPUC General Manager Harrington's absurd statements opposing the project's viability. Now we will need to push -hard- for Local Power to take a -strong- lead role in the contract negotiations to guarantee a contract that will ensure large scale renewables and efficiency, and that will be signed before the June 8th vote on Prop 16! (Note! This Friday May 21st, at 2pm in SF City Hall Room 250, the action item for hiring Local Power will be heard in a special LAFCo hearing and it will be very important for as many of us as possible to be there to argue for Local Power being given the lead role in the contract negotiations, so that those negotiations will have any true hope of succeeding.) But this Wednesday is also crucial! IMPORTANT!! The SFPUC staff has just called a community stakeholder 'Clean Energy Stewards' meeting for this Wednesday, and it is absolutely -VITAL- that we fill up that meeting room with strong clean energy advocates to demand that the SFPUC staff and General Manager Ed Harrington- 1) Stop attacking the project with bogus claims that clean energy is too expensive to work, and 2) Insist that SFPUC staff, because of their failed negotiations over the past few months, must now fully defer to Local Power to take the lead role in the contract negotiations so that we have a signed contract by the end of this month that can withstand PG&E's attacks and Prop 16. Here is the announcement from the SFPUC for the Clean Energy Stewards meeting (if you have questions, call me, Eric Brooks 415-756-8844)... BBroome@sfwater.org wrote: The SFPUC invites you to the next Clean Energy Stewards meeting on Wednesday May 19th at 4:30pm. This Stewards meeting is being convened to discuss CleanPowerSF and is scheduled on a Wednesday due to our tight timeline for community choice aggregation. Unfortunately, the short notice for this meeting could not be avoided. What: Clean Energy Stewards When: Wednesday, May 19 from 4:30-5:30 pm Where: SFPUC offices, 1155 Market Street , 6th Floor The agenda will be as follows: 1. Service Agreement with PG&E 2. Implementation Plan 3. Progress on the Supplier Contract with Power Choice - Balancing Rates, Risk, & Renewables We hope to see you on May 19. Please reply to me to RSVP. Thank you for your time and commitment to clean energy in San Francisco . Bart Bart Broome San Francisco Public Utilities Commission 1155 Market Street , 11th Floor San Francisco , CA 94103 Tel (415) 554-0706 Fax (415) 554-3424 bbroome@sfwater.org www.sfwater.org