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Description
San Bruno City Council Meeting March 10, 2015
4. Presentations
A
We
do
have
two
presentations.
The
first
is
to
present
a
proclamation
to
the
bay
area,
chapter
volunteers
of
the
American
Red
Cross,
recognizing
American
Red
Cross
month
of
2015,
and
I'd
like
to
read
a
portion
of
this.
That's
rather
long,
so
I'll
just
do
one
or
two,
the,
whereas,
whereas
we
dedicate
the
month
of
march
to
all
those
who
support
the
American
Red
Cross
mission
to
prevent
into
Libya
human
suffering
in
the
face
of
emergencies,
our
community
depends
on
the
American
Red
Cross,
which
relies
on
donations
of
time,
money
and
blood
fulfill
a
humanitarian
mission.
A
Now,
therefore
I
Jim
dewayne,
the
mayor
of
the
city
of
San,
Bruno,
chew
of
the
authority
vested
in
me
by
the
constitution
and
laws
of
city
and
state
of
California,
do
hereby
proclaim
March
2015
as
American
Red
Cross
month.
I
encourage
all
Americans
to
support
this
organization
and
its
noble
humanitarian
mission
and
I'm
going
to
present
this
to
Betty
Fleming
and
just
before.
I
do
I
do
want
to
say
once
again
how
much
we
appreciate
the
Red
Cross
and
how
much
you
did
for
us
and
continue
to
do
for
us,
especially
during
the
tragedy.
B
Thank
you.
We
do
appreciate
the
sit-ins
and
the
good
city
government
of
San
Bruno
for
all
the
cooperation
that
we
have
and
support.
Indeed,
we
have
been
close
partners,
especially
since
the
tragedy
that
happened
four
and
a
half
years
ago,
and
in
addition,
we
we
continue
to
serve
as
residents
when
they
have
whatever
kind
of
disaster
briefs.
In
this
fiscal
year
alone,
there
have
already
been
five
local
disasters
in
san
bruno
that
we've
answered
and
we're
pleased
to
be
able
to
do
that
and
appreciate
the
support
of
the
citizens
and
the
government.
B
A
C
You
mr.
mayor
members
of
the
City
Council,
we
have
a
member
of
the
team
that
is
working
with
San
Mateo
County
to
evaluate
the
feasibility
of
a
community
choice,
aggregation
program
in
our
county
modeled
on
that
which
has
been
successfully
implemented
in
at
least
one
other
nearby
County
in
California.
I
will
leave
it
to
him
to
explain
the
details
of
that.
C
Dave
birudo
is
also
in
the
audience
tonight
from
supervisor
pines
office
who
will
be
able
at
the
end
of
the
presentation
he
is
he's
here
somewhere
he's
just
not
like
here
right
here,
but
he
will
be
here.
He'll
be
able
to
give
us
a
little
bit
of
detail
about
the
timeline
and
the
process
that
is
associated
with
moving
this
interesting
and
exciting
opportunity
through
the
feasibility
phase
and
can
outline
that
after
the
presentation.
So
at
this
point,
I'd
like
to
introduce
mr.
D
Thank
you
I.
Thank
you
very
much
for
the
opportunity
to
speak
with
you
here
this
evening.
I
understand
one
of
you.
Maybe
you've
heard
this
presentation,
maybe
even
more
than
once.
Okay,
well,
try
and
spice
it
up
make
a
little
more
interesting
for
you.
This
time,
I
don't
can
we
get
the
I
think
is
a
little
yeah
great!
Thank
you.
D
So
what
do
we
mean
by
when
we
talk
about
community
choice?
Abrogation
there
we
go
in
a
nutshell
in
one
sentence
or
less
Community,
Choice
aggregation
or
we
say
CCA
is
a
mechanism
under
state
law
that
allows
local
governments
and
county
governments
to
aggregate
all
of
the
electricity
consumers
within
their
territory.
It's
only
electricity,
not
gas,
to
create
their
own
program
to
procure
energy
on
behalf
of
those
customers.
D
There
are
a
number
of
reasons
why
cca's
have
become
very
popular.
There
are
communities
up
and
down
the
state
that
are
looking
at
Community
Choice.
It
is
a
hybrid
really
between
the
investor-owned
utility
model
like
PG&E
and
the
municipal
utility
model
like
Sacramento
and
alum
city
of
Alameda,
and
that
the
again
is
the
CCA
procures,
the
energy,
but
the
the
utility
owns
the
lines
that
said.
D
Cca's
have
become
a
very
powerful
tool
because
they
can
help
communities
really
achieve
their
local
environment,
local
environmental
economic
goals,
most
importantly
to
many
people,
is
that
it
offers
a
choice
where
none
currently
exists
so
right
now,
pge
is
the
only
option
for
electricity
generation.
This
provides
CCA
provides
an
option.
It
is
completely
ratepayer
supported,
not
taxpayer
subsidized.
That's
very
important
and
we've
seen
in
both
marin
county,
where
the
first
CCA
was
established
and
in
sonoma
that
the
rates
are
actually
lower.
Yet
the
mix
the
energy
mix
has
a
higher
percentage
of
renewable
energy
content.
D
So
it's
helping
facilitate
the
the
accelerated
switch
to
greener,
cleaner
power
power
sources
and
what
I
think
most
interesting
about
CCA
is.
It
really
provides
a
laboratory
to
try
interesting
and
exciting
new
initiatives,
particularly
that
are
developed
on
the
local
level.
Energy
storage,
EV
charging
stations.
That
kind
of
thing
we
say
a
CCA
is
the
biggest
change
that
you
will
never
notice.
We
say
that
for
a
couple
of
reasons,
one
is
and
I'll
just
actually
skip
to
this
slide
and
I'll
go
back
the
CCA
customers.
D
If,
for
example,
the
city
of
San
Bruno
joined
with
the
County
of
San
Mateo
to
establish
a
CCA
program,
all
the
residents
and
businesses
would
still
get
a
PG&E
bill.
It's
hard
to
see
in
this
slide.
But
if
you
look
at
your
energy
statement,
you
have
it's
divided
into
generation
and
transmission
and
distribution
or
delivery.
So
the
generation
charge
would
be
the
only
line
item
that
would
change
in
your
bill.
D
The
delivery
portion
is
still
with
pge
and
when
the
power
goes
out,
you
still
call
PG&E,
so
most
people
get
switched
over
and
they
don't
even
realize.
There's
there's
a
difference.
Yeah
there
go
it's
very
important
to
note
that
CCA
SR
opt-out
programs.
What
that
means
is
that
again,
if
local
officials
decide
they
want
to
set
up
a
Community,
Choice
Program,
all
right.
D
D
It's
used
to
serve
the
load
in
those
communities,
so
we
that
in
the
carbon
footprint
calculation
of
a
city-
and
that
is
why
a
CCA
is
again
assuming
here-
that
you
have
our
new
l'énergie
mix-
that's
at
least
similar
to
more
in
clean
energy.
The
first
one
that
launched
you
have
a
big
big
climate
impact.
D
There
I'll
skip
over
this
slide
very
very
quickly,
but
the
we
estimate
that
the
startup
CCA
be
somewhere
between
1.3
1
point,
five
million
for
all
the
technical
studies
and
all
the
public
outreach
and
other
fees
that
are
associated
with
setting
up
a
program.
Those
fees
are
typically
recovered.
Sonomas
CCA
launched
a
couple
last
year
they
spent
1.6
million.
Most
that's
been
recovered
through
the
rates
cca's
have
public
bonding
authority
and
can
initiate
local
power
projects.
D
They
are
also
one
of
the
reasons
why
we
think
that
the
rates
are
somewhat
lower
than
PG
knees,
because
CCA
is
a
very
low
overhead,
no
shareholder
profits.
That
kind
of
thing
the
last
line
there
I'll
just
mention
is
in
terms
of
the
volume
of
funding
that
we're
talking
about
here
or
money
that
would
go
through
a
CCA.
We
estimate
that
over
350
million
dollars
is
spent
on
electricity
generation.
D
Only
in
the
Counting
we've
seen
again,
I'll
go
you'll,
see
the
rate
comparison
in
a
minute,
but
with
because
both
Marin
and
sonoma
have
had
lower
rates,
not
hugely
less
five,
eight
percent
or
so.
But
if
you
add
that
up
it
has
of
being
a
lot
of
money,
so
MCM
ring
clean
energy.
Their
customers
have
saved
six
million
in
2014
the
Sonoma
County
one,
which
is
launched
in
phases
only
the
phase
one,
which
included
just
the
commercial
customers.
That's
save
customers
about
six
million
dollars
and
city
officials
are
always
interested
in
municipal
operations.
D
What
the
savings
could
be
there.
You
can
see
there.
San
rafael
richmond,
the
West
Contra
Costa,
Unified,
School
District
to
all
saved.
You
know
the
many
tens
of
thousands
of
dollars
in
2014
alone.
Now
where'd
you
can't
guarantee
that
the
rates
will
stay
are
no
CCA
should
say
can
guarantee
that
rates
would
stay
lower
forever,
but
this
is
just
a
lust
rative
of
what
we've
seen
so
far
so
launching
into
Marin
clean
energy
a
little
bit
again.
I'll
go
I'll,
go
through
this
fairly
quickly.
D
The
point
here
is
they've
they've
launched
a
really
aggressive
local
build-out
program,
so
they're,
both
marine
and
sonoma,
are
working
very
hard
to
build
as
much
local
renewable
generation
capacity
as
possible.
Marines
got
177
megawatts
in
the
pipeline,
believe
sonoma
has
70
or
so
in
the
pipeline.
That
has
translated
into
well
program.
So
far
as
translated
into
over
a
hundred
thirty
million
pounds
of
carbon
dioxide
reductions
to
date,
the
all
that
local
generation
capacity
has
created
a
number
of
jobs.
You
see
there
about
1,800
jobs.
D
So
it's
a
it
really
made
efforts
to
make
this
a
local
economic
development
program,
as
well
as
an
environmental
improvement
program.
They
have
each
member
of
the
JPA
has
a
seat
of
the
board
of
directors,
and
it
includes
all
the
cities
of
there
in
marin
county
as
well
as
the
city
of
richmond.
They
are
soon
be
adding
the
cities
of
san
pablo
and
el
cerrito
and
unincorporated
napa.
I
believe
so
that's
marin.
D
You
can
see
here
that
their
rates
are
while
the
the
default
product
is
a
little
bit
lower
than
pge.
This
is
for
a
typical
residential
customer.
Maroon
actually
has
a
number
of
products
that
people
can
choose
from.
The
automatic
default
is
50%
renewable
energy
content
compared
to
PG
knees,
22%,
that's
just
a
frame
of
reference,
so
they
are,
you
can
see
their
delivery.
Charges
are
the
same
because
that's
from
PG
needs
the
generation.
Charges
that
we're
looking
at
here.
D
Marine
also
has
a
hundred
percent
of
the
call,
a
deep
green
program
that
customers
can
voluntary
voluntarily
opt
into,
and
that
includes
some
renewable
energy.
That's
not
locals
from
out
of
state
include
some
renewable
energy
certificates,
so
they
have
another
option
which
is
a
bit
more
expensive.
That's
a
hundred
percent
local
solar!
What
that
means
is
that
if
you
sign
up
for
that
program,
you're
buying
electrons
that
come
from
represent
your
demand
from
that
facility.
D
So
if
you
consume
500
kilowatt
hours
in
a
month,
you
know
that
that
will
program
that
that
local
solar
plant
500
kilowatt
hours
of
that
will
be
charged
to
you
and
it
represents
your
consumption
from
that
facility.
It
doesn't
mean
that
the
electrons
actually
go
into
your
house
because,
of
course,
doesn't
generate
electricity
at
night,
but
that's
that's
the
basic
principle.
D
So
here
this
this
is
for
a
typical
commercial
customer.
You
can
see
that
both
the
light,
green
and
deep
green
are
lower
than
pge
the
light
green.
It's
fairly.
You
know
it's
not
a
huge
difference,
but
over
time
again
it
adds
up
and
I
know
a
lot
of
business.
Customers
are
I've,
been
interested
in
this
because
you
know
they're,
perhaps
more
concerned
about
energy
costs
than
the
typical
homeowner.
D
Here
I've
kind
of
mentioned
this
there's
a
number
of
local
projects
that
that
marine,
clean
energy
is
developing
one
notable
one
is
actually
on
the
property
of
Chevron
building
a
solar
plant
there.
They
have
a
one
megawatt
solar
facility
on
the
San,
Rafael
airport
and
others
that
are
scattered
around
the
county:
a
Sonoma
clean
power
again
they've
just
phased.
They
just
phased
in
the
residential
customers.
They
started
with
their
22,000
commercial
customers.
They
have
actually
there's
one
point
up
the
roach
I'll
mention
and
they
have
a
very
low
opt-out
rate.
D
That
means
that
only
whatever
seven
point,
four
percent
of
the
people
or
the
consumers,
energy
consumers-
I
should
say
when
they,
when
the
program
launched
only
seven
point,
four
percent
of
them
opted
out.
Marine
was
much
higher
for
reasons
I
can
go
into
marines
like
twenty
percent
or
so,
but
as
ccas
become
more,
I
think
more
established
more
well-known,
we're
seeing
that
the
opt-out
rates,
the
number
of
people
are
consumers
they're,
choosing
to
go
back
to
pge,
go
down
somewhat.
D
D
D
We
think
that
there
are
some
structural
advantages
that
local
community
choice-
programs
have
I
mentioned
them
for
or
that
you
know
small
staff
nonprofit
status,
that
kind
of
thing,
but
it
is
possible
that
overtime
rates
can
change,
and
you
know
when
cca's
go
to
the
market,
to
procure
the
power
and
to
start
building
facilities
to
generate
their
own
power,
that
that
rates
could
change.
If
you
have
a
rates
rate
rate
rates
are
not
as
competitive.
D
We
have
seen,
though,
that
the
one
way
I
think
we're
woulda
mitigate
this
risk
is
that
in
a
sense,
pge
and
bring
clean
energy
Sonoma,
they
are
going
to
be
procuring
power
from
the
same
sources
and
we
believe,
especially
with
the
much
much
lowering
costs
that
we're
seeing
for
renewable
energy
can
be
great
competitive
into
the
future.
But
the
point
is
to
have
good
staff
they're
qualified
and
really
can
understand
the
power
markets
and
can
procure
power
out
there,
just
like
the
investor
owned
utilities.
D
Can
the
second
major
risk
I
would
say
is
that
there's
always
some
political
and
regulatory
risks
so
there's
a
number
of
different
sort
of
more
arcane
procedures,
procedural
actions
that
are
going
on
with
the
public
utility
commission
that
can
have
an
effect
on
the
overall
competitive
of
a
CCA.
So
just
because
things
are
good
today
doesn't
necessarily
mean
that
things
are
going
to
be
just
as
rosy
tomorrow,
but
both
Marin
and
Sonoma
and
lean
energy,
I
should
say,
have
representation.
They
go
up
there.
D
They
they
talk
to
the
legislature
and
they
talk
to
puc
staff
and
just
recently.
Actually,
there
was
a
bill
that
would
have
made
CCA
and
opt-in
program
stead
of
an
opt-out
program.
It
died
in
the
in
the
senate,
but
again
those
are
the
things
that
one
has
to
think
about
when
setting
up
a
Community,
Choice
Program,
we
have
been
encouraging
communities
that
are
interested
in
looking
at
this
to
act
now.
D
One
of
the
reasons
why
we
think
that
that
the
CCA's
have
been
able
to
have
lower
rates
is
because
they've
able
to
procure
power
the
wholesale
market
at
times
when
the
power
markets
are
pretty
cheap,
the
utilities
are
having
fully
resourced
through
2020,
so
there
seems
to
be
excess
power
available
on
the
market.
Gas
prices
are
very
low,
so
the
non-renewable
portion
of
the
community
choice
programs,
energy
mix,
which
is
usually
gas,
is
has
been
able
to
come
in
pretty
low
and,
of
course,
there's
affordable
financing
available.
D
We
don't
know
how
long
that's
going
to
last.
So
we
think
that
the
next
few
years
are
good
to
walk
in
some
strong
pricing,
some
good
contracts,
we
don't
know
what
the
future
will
hold,
but
that's.
These
are
some
of
the
market
indicators
that
further
that
we're
seeing
so
far
I
guess
you've
already
done
this,
so
this
slide,
maybe
a
little
bit
out
of
date,
but
one
of
the
things
that
we
need
to
do
from
all
the
cities
is
to
get
letters
to
authorize
the
collection
of
low
data
which
you
have
provided.
D
D
D
E
C
E
It's
much
easier
and
he
was
saying
the
bottom
line
is,
if
it,
if
it
all,
fails,
you're
no
worse
off
than
you
are
now.
So
that's
another
piece
of
it.
Yes,
there's
risk,
there's
always
risks
for
anything,
there's
risk
for
Pete
using
pge2.
So
it's
an
interesting,
I
think,
and
worthwhile
study
to
go
through,
and
I
am
looking
forward
to
hearing
what
the
outcome
do
you
actually
know
when
that
studies
going
to
be
finished,
the.
D
Rfp
for
the
study
is
going
to
be
issued,
I
think
in
a
matter
of
a
few
weeks,
I
think,
and
usually
it
takes
two
to
three
months
to
conduct
the
study.
We
have
to
get
the
load
data
from
pge
and
that's
an
8
to
12
week
process
there.
So
you
have
those
two
together
I
would
say
we're
looking
at
probably
fall
I.
D
We
have
actually
a
very
set
timeline.
I,
just
don't
have
it
memorized
in
my
head,
but
I'm
you
do
bring
up
a
good
point
in
that
is
that
the
one
of
the
costs
of
setting
up
a
CCA
program
is
a
bond
that
helps
cover
the
costs
of
switching
customers
back.
So
if
a
CCA
fails
again,
you
know
the
worst
thing.
Estate
law
provides
for
customers
simply
to
be
returned
back
to
pge
service
right.
A
D
C
Mr.
mayor
and
members
of
the
council,
I
might
Dave
bruto
would
be
able
to
give
any
additional
clarification,
and
the
council
may
want
in
terms
of
the
process
here
in
San,
Mateo
County
I
would
just
say
that,
having
heard
this
presentation
at
the
city
managers
group
a
month
or
so
ago,
and
in
knowing
that
supervisor,
pine
and
some
other
persons
in
the
county
are
very
actively
working
towards
this
feasibility
study.
C
C
faroush
indicated
note,
that
provides
no
obligation
to
the
city
of
san
bruno
and
even
if
the
feasibility
study
were
to
generate
a
positive
result,
there
are
still
a
number
of
decision
points
for
the
City
Council
to
consider
once
the
information
is
available
and
the
steering
committee
on
the
that's
working
on
this
within
the
county
can
render
a
comprehensive
recommendation.
So
it's
my
understanding
that
we
would
be
in
the
time
frame
consistent
with
what
you
just
heard
roughly
a
year
from
now
before.
Any
concrete,
go/no-go
decisions
would
need
to
be
made.
F
Mr.
mayor
members
of
the
council,
David
Burton
supervisor
Pines
office
a
pleasure
to
speak
with
you,
the
time
frame.
You
know,
there's
a
couple
of
tracks
that
we're
pursuing
now,
so
we've
fortunately
received
the
load
data
from
every
city
in
San,
Mateo
County,
which
was
really
critical
for
us,
because
it
provides
us
that
the
data
it
necessary
to
really
see
what
we
use
and
how
we
use
it.
F
That's
gonna
really
help
us
shed
some
light
on
what
this
you
save
may
look
like
and
how
you
go
about
procuring
power
and
look
through
the
fear
of
doing
that
for
casting
as
necessary.
As
South
said
you
know,
for
the
city,
is
there
really
is
minimal
risk
in
that?
Yes,
we're
bonded
it'll
be
its
own
entity,
so
the
city
of
San
Bruno
is
never
on
the
hook
for
anything
it's
the
entity,
it's
the
CCA,
not
the
city.
F
One
of
the
tracks
were
pursuing.
Now
is
the
set
up
a
steering
committee
that
will
consist
of
all
the
cities
plus
some
other
interested
stakeholders.
So
we
would
of
course
welcome
a
member
of
the
council.
Perhaps
a
staff
alternate
to
sit
on
that
steering
committee.
Will
contact
you
soon
about
that,
once
we
get
the
load
data
which
again
we're
requesting
now,
which
will
take
maybe
six
to
eight
weeks,
then
we
can
also
then
hopefully
meet
that
timeframe
for
getting
the
consultants
on
board.
The
RFP
is
going
out
shortly,
so
hopefully
have
them
by
early
summer.
F
That
study
takes
maybe
a
couple
of
months,
so
perhaps
by
August
will
have
that
feasibility
study
done
at
that
point
will
return
and
start
having
a
larger
dialogue
about
how
we
want
to
proceed.
But
again
we
want
you
on
that
steering
committee.
Even
before
that,
so
you
can
have
your
input.
We
can
start
designing
what
this
will
look
like
it's
covered
in
structured.
What
what
the
vision
is
for
the
future
happy
to
answer
any
questions,
anything
for
David,
Oh,
Irene.
A
E
F
You
for
queuing
that
up
again,
yes,
you
know
the
cat.
We
envision,
that
the
county
will
absorb
those
costs
so
that
one
and
a
half
million
dollars
to
do
the
study
and
do
something
early
work
again.
The
cities
are
not
going
to
be
asked
to
do
that
and
we'll
hopefully
recover
that
in
the
right
structure
so
again
for
San
Bruno.
This
is
really
again
when,
if
something
you're
not
really
going
to
notice
very
much,
if
you
choose
to
do
it
pretty
easy.