Big Stuff! A key hearing to make sure that we launch the Community Choice renewable energy project this month and no later, is happening this Thursday morning. The supervisor appointments for the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) in that hearing are critical to making sure that enough progressives are on the LAFCo to make Community Choice happen. To see why, go to http://our-city.org/events/index.html The Supervisors have set this special Rules Committee hearing for this Thursday, February 12, 9am, City Hall, Room 263, to, as organizers asked, decide on the full LAFCo member appointments of both Eric Mar and Bevan Dufty, and the appointment of John Avalos as an alternate LAFCo member. The appointments will be items 1, 2, and 3. It is a big deal for us to turn out to this hearing because it gives us our one golden opportunity to ask each of the LAFCo appointees to firmly commit to stop accepting any more SFPUC delays and immediately contract through the LAFCo, this month, all tasks necessary for the single best qualified lead contractor to rapidly complete a Community Choice Request For Proposals (RFP), and thereby launch the project. We need to stress that the LAFCo received a report nine months ago that there was no reason not to proceed with a Request For Proposals for the Community Choice project, and that critical dates are imminent on Obama renewable energy stimulus funds, state stimulus funds, closing the Mirant plant, the need for a -big- green jobs new deal (which Community Choice IS), the Peak Oil & Natural Gas Crisis, and the incredible danger of an exponentially expanding climate crisis that is hitting much faster and harder than predicted even a year ago. (And that since SFPUC staff doesn't seem to understand these realities and is not ready to move ahead immediately - that the SFPUC staff must adopt a -support- role for the LAFCo and its contractors, instead of a lead role which that staff is clearly not qualified or prepared for.) Any of you who can attend and speak please do, and bring others with you! NOTE: Remember that chair Daly will likely ask us to keep remarks oriented on the appointments themselves, so couch your remarks as a *request to each appointee to commit* to x,y.z, etc. RSVP me if you plan to attend - brookse32@aim.com peace, Eric Here are the hearing details: http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=98276 February 12, 2009 - Special *City and County of San Francisco* *Rules Committee* */City Hall, Room 263/* *_Meeting Agenda _Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:00 AM Special Meeting* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */Members: Chris Daly, Carmen Chu, David Campos Clerk: Linda Wong (415) 554-7719 /* *1.* *090053* *[Appointment - SF Local Agency Formation Commission, Supervisor Bevan Dufty]* Motion appointing Supervisor Bevan Dufty, term ending February 20, 2011, to the San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission. Supervisor Bevan Dufty, succeeding Jake McGoldrick, seat 1, must be a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, for unexpired portion of a four-year term ending February 20, 2011. 1/22/09, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Rules Committee. *2.* *090164* *[Appointment - SF Local Agency Formation Commission, Eric Mar]* Motion appointing Supervisor Eric Mar, term ending August 27, 2009, to the San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission. Supervisor Eric Mar, succeeding Matt Gonzalez, seat 2, must be a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, for unexpired portion of a four-year term ending August 27, 2009. 2/6/09, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Rules Committee. *3.* *090163* *[Appointment - SF Local Agency Formation Commission, Supervisor John Avalos]* Motion appointing Supervisor John Avalos, as an alternate member, term ending February 4, 2010, to the San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission. Supervisor John Avalos, succeeding Aaron Peskin, seat 5, must be an alternate member of the Board of Supervisors, for unexpired portion of a four-year term ending February 4, 2010. 2/6/09, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Rules Committee. *4.* *090056* *[Appointment - Association of Bay Area Governments Executive Board - Supervisor John Avalos]* Motion appointing Supervisor John Avalos, term ending June 30, 2009, to the Association of Bay Area Governments Executive Board. Supervisor John Avalos, succeeding Supervisor Chris Daly, resigned, seat 1, must be a member of the Board of Supervisors, for the unexpired portion of a two-year term ending June 30, 2009. 1/23/09, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Rules Committee. *5.* *090057* *[Appointment - San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission - Supervisor* Motion appointing Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, for an indefinite term, to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, succeeding Aaron Peskin, seat 1, must be a member of the Board of Supervisors whose district includes within its boundaries lands lying within the San Francisco Bay (Districts 1, 2, 3, 6, and 10), for an indefinite term. 1/23/09, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Rules Committee. *etc.* -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara